TUESDAY JANUARY 18, 1983 104th Year No. 146 Seymour, Indiana L522-487! "Train up ehiU in the way ie thould go, and walk there youneV once in a while." ---John Billingt Freedom Newspaper 25 Siiiff in Prosecutor an eye' on cleanup at SRC keep by DAVE SCHULTE Staff Writer U.S. Environmental Protection. Agency official Beverly Kush told a pivic group Monday she wants 'to keep an eye-on the Seymour -Recycling Corp. clean-up to "make sure it is done' properly." Kush, the on-site coordinator in Chicago, said the EPA usually 8 doesn't monitor private cleanups but will do so in Seymour because of the size of the site.
The work will Xv'fA (it I take nine Another speaker at the meeting, state Board of Health official Jim Knoy, said he is concerned about pollutants reaching houses and wells in the Snyde Acres subdi-vison. Knoy said, "(It) may be six years or it may be sooner or it may be later. The drums deteriorate. It goes right through to the (under) ground water." Kush, 31, and Knoy, 31, spoke to Seymour Rotary Club members about the work at the 13-acre Freeman Field site. The EPA and the state Boardof Health are monitoring the work of Chemical Waste Management an Illinois firm hired by a group of 24 corporations who generated toxic waste at the plant the 1970s.
CWM on Dec. 3 began removing and disposing of an estimated Former Seymour CommunityiSchool Tribune photo by Dave Schulte Kush, and state Board of Health official Jim Knoy after they spoke at Monday's Seymour Rotary Club meeting. Superintendent Dr. Conrad Galloway, left, talks with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency coordinator Beverly B'town's clerk discovers economic insomnia cure by MARTIN ROSS Staff Writer Brownstown Clerk-treasurer Pat Forgey discovered' the cure for at least one man's economic insomnia Monday.
She reported leftover 1982 funds may keep the streetlights on, Brownstown Park spruced up and the fire hydrants primed. "I'll be able to sleep tonight for the first time in a long time," said trustee Gilbert Speer, long concerned, by a state cut of $43,000 from the town's 1983 street budget. "I think we'll make it," contended trustee William Riley. "I'm ready to run again." the wEATHEii Tonight clear and cold. Lows around 5 above.
Wednesday most- lysunny and cold. High in mid20s. fl D.WU. m.n,it umper.ture i. for Moritz is named by DAVE SCHULTE Staff Writer Jennings and Lawrence County judges Monday appointed Salem attorney John Mead as special prosecutor in the bribery and theft-case against Christopher Moritz, mayor of Seymour.
rMead7377was appointedspecial prosecutor in Scott and Wa shing-ton counties last week. He will prosecute four of the five cases. Brown County prosecutor Tom Barr will handle the case as spe- -cial prosecutor in Nashville. A court spokesman said Lawrence County Judge Linda Chezem had appointed Mead in Bedford but that he had not accepted in writing. The spokesman said it was "her understanding" Mead would accept.
Judge Chezem appointed Lawrence County Prosecutor Donald "Hickman "Janr6rbuthe declined because of a heavy, caseload, A court spokesman in- Vernon said Jennings Judge Larry Great-house had appointed Mead. Mead previously served as prosecutor in Salem. He has a private law practice. Moritz, in his second term as mayor, has pleaded innocent to bribery and theft charges stemming from the Indiana State Police's 1981 investigation of chemical purchases in Jackson County. The cases were moved from Jackson County.
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Rush's slides showed aerial and interior views of the site while Knoy's showed the flow of pollutants, location of test wells and chemicals found in wells. Kushr who has been with the EPA six years, outlined the work at the site including safety precautions, site preparationsampling of drums and disposal. r- Kush said, "They have been working four to five They had problems with the water! That is pretty well taken care of." Knoy, who has been with the board of health six years, told about state efforts to monitor the work, future plans for tests and further cleanup. Knoy said the level of con-' tamination flow is northwest of the toward Hangman's Crossing and Snyde Acres. "The upper aquifer moves at 300 feet a year; It is our main concern." He said $3.5 million has been pledged by a a second group of 171 firms who generated waste At the site.
The next phase could include checking 27. wells, removing soil and erecting underground clay walls to prevent pollutants from leaving the site. Knoy said 58 drums of chemicals were removed from the site Forgey reported her search for monies turned up $30,473.64 in the general fund, $25,376.28 of which may bereappropriated; $11,980 in the park fund, with $6,928 transferable; and $25,910.03 in the street fund, $18,193.29 of which may be reappropriated. "Now, we're looking better," said Riley. The board planned to advertise for transfer of $17,000 into the town's streetlight account, which held a balance of only $5,000.
Trustees earlier proposed shutting off some of the lights to conserve funds. Of the remaining street funds, 3 arrested 1, Three men allegedly stole items frm a (arm home Monday night after asking to use the telephone. arrested by Jackson required by statute but not confidential," Cardwell said. the other problem, Cardwell said, is that the law makes it diffi-. cult for the average citizen to win a lawsuit enforce his legal right to see public records.
Currently, the burden is on the citizen to justify why the record should be disclosed. The bill shifts that burden to the government, requiring the agency denying access to justify why a record should be The committee rejected an amendment offered by Hellman that would allow a judge to deny access to a record if the disclosure would intrude on privacy interests or if there was a valid public policy for keeping the record secret. "If you insert that language in the bill, then you have put a hole in the bill big enough to drive a Mack ruck through," Dellinger said. The measure starts out with the "ii, philosophy that public records are presumptively open, then lists ex-v ceptions. Among the records that can be kept private are law en-Coot, on oak page, his section Monday.
Forty-one were new drums or "overpacks" from pre $500 will be earmarked for surveying and $693 for the street and "alley account. All available park funds will be reappropriated for playground equipment arid maintenance at Brownstown Park, while general fund reserves will be transferred for use when needed. One possible use for the general fund could be to pay a rate increase affecting 56 town fire hydrants. Trustees maintained, however, an ordinance to keep businesses, out of residential neighborhoods in Brownstown proper is presently in farm I and several other small items they had allegedly taken, but they de-, nied -having stolen anything, Eggersman said, Mark W. "Galbraith, 18, and his brother, Terry L.
Galbraith, 19, and a 16-year-old male juvenile, all of Seymour, were booked into the Jackson County Jail. Mark Galbraith, charged with public intoxication, was released at 10:30 a.m. today, fined $100 and $36 in court costs and placed on six months probation. Terry Galbraith, charged with sludge and 18 empty bulk storage tanks. sell Martin to consult with Nierman about its removal.
"I'll do everything in my position here to get that pile of junk out of there," said trustee William Sweeney. When the original home burned, reported Martin, owner Phil Wool dridge moved a trailer from Medora onto the lot. The mobile home had also burned at one time. Martin said the resident plans to leave a portion of the home as a garage and remodel the mobile home for occupation. Meanwhile, the chief explained, Cont.
on back page, this section A. Landers 9 Family 9 Bridge 4 Heloise 9 Briefs 3 Horoscope 4 Classified 6 Hospital 5 Comics 5 Markets 3 Crossword 5 4 Deaths 8 Sports 14 John Cougar was named favorite male pop vocalist at the 10th American Music Awards. Story on page 16. Tribune columnist Jeff Hauers-perger writes about the origin of the Seymour Sports Club. See page 14.
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i Whether additional charges are 11 p.m. today 24 filed is up to the county prosecu- High Monday .27 tor's office, police said. Low Monday 9 At. 7: 11 p.m. Monday, Harold Rainfall 00 Eggersman, Seymour R3, con-River an a.m.
today tacted the police reporting that he 3.2 feet and falling was holding the men. Sunset today 5:47. He had told them he would let Sunrise Wednesday 8:03 them go if they returned the watch vious cleanup work. Also removed were 13 20-yard loads of solidified Speer said board attorney Jeffrey Nierman told him such an ordinance would require the establishment of a town zoning board and the payment of an engineer. The lawyer told Speer the ordi nance might prove ineffective, as well, maintaining litigation could easily overturn zoning decisions.
The zoning question arose as an -offshoot of discussion of a burnt home and the burnt trailer now parked on its lot. Trustees termed the trailer, at Elm and Walnut streets, an "eye-, sore" and asked Police Chief Rus resisting law enforcement, was also released at 10:30 a.m. today, fined $100, $45 in court costs and placed on a year's probation. The juvenile, charged with public intoxication and escape, remains in jail. Whether he is released is up to the county proba- -tion officer Larry Spur geon, police said.
The fourth man, Johnny Elkins, Seymour, who stated that he was driving the car when it broke down Cont. on back page, this section fa Nesting boxes members, from left, Pat Top- Judiciary Committee OKs bill INDIANAPOLIS (AP) An "open records" bill that spells out what government information is off-limits to the public and what must be disclosed is on its way to full Indiana House. The measure? sponsored by -Rep; Richard Mr Bellinger, R-Noblesville, cleared the Judiciary Committee on an 8-1 vote Monday. The Iflne dissenting vote was cast by Rep. Robert Hellman, a fresh-'man Democrat from Terre Haute.
"This bill, from bur standpoint, is not perfect," said Richard Card-well, general counsel for the Hoosier State Press Association who worked with Dellinger in drafting the bill. "Amost every line of the bill represents compromise." One of the problems with Indiana's open records is that it takes a narrow view of what constitutes a public record, Cardwell said. The law only applies to records re- quired to be kept by state statute or regulation. "It has the effect of creating a vast no-man's land of records not Ed Wagner, Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge PC Judy Havlik with son Jonathon, Lyn Alexander and outdoor recreation planner, installs an American Jeri Correll. The club donated several boxes to the re-bluebird nesting box on a refuge tree Monday, watched fuge.
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