European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 researchers testing toxic breakdown process Moffett Field a the Navy is looking for a few Good the kind that can turn deadly Industrial chemicals that contaminate groundwater into harmless if an Experiment this week by Stanford University civil engineers and the environmental Protection Agency at the naval air station is it could mean vast savings in toxic leak cleanup costs for Industry and the officials in the first Field test of a process developed by Epa the engineers will try to turn toxic Tricolo or into Carbon dioxide by exposing it to a kind of bacteria found naturally in if we can demonstrate that this process works in the Well save a whole Bunch of said Jack chief of research at Pas Laboratory in Industry and the government Are spending Bil Lions on cleanups All Over the and we May be Able to save a lot of in really confident this will the engineers will encourage millions of the bacteria called Methyl trophy multiply More than a thousandfold by feeding them methane and nutria said Stanford project Doug then the engineers will intentionally leak an Industrial solvent used to remove grease from Metal and other into the 40foot Square test site at 10 to 20 times the hazardous level of five parts per Epa scientists believe an enzyme produced by the bacteria will break Down the the and release harmless Carbon the engineers would then Stop pumping food to the which would return to Normal num the process was developed by Epa researchers John and Barbara Wilson last year at the but Only recently Keeley the process is proven theres no doubt about but we must be because theres a big Dif Ference Between doing something in the lab and doing it in the the Epa gave to Stanford civil who selected a test site at the naval air station because theres less question about Legal liability on Federal said even if the Experiment Doest work and the bacteria dont turn the the into Carbon Well be Able to flush it he test drilling was to begin later this and officials said they didst know How Long the Experiment would Mackey said samples of groundwater will be sent for analysis to the Epa lab in with the first results expected in late in the the reaction seems to be quite fast a few Days to a few Mackey about 50 percent to 90 percent of the the disappeared in he the same process May be used for other toxic Chemi cals similar in Structure to but would not be useful for All Industrial Keeley school enrolment changing As baby Boomers grow up Washington up elementary school attendance dwindled Between 1970 and 1981 and College enrolment swelled As the baby Boomers grew the census Bureau said the total number of people Between the Ages of 3 to 34 attending any level of school fell by 3 percent to million in those the Bureau said in a study based on figures from the 1980 College enrolments among people 14 to 34 years old increased by 45 the census from million students in 1970 to million in much of the increase is attributable to the population increase caused by the pos world War ii baby which lasted until the Early and part was due to to increases in enrolment the study there were students in Elemen tary schools in compared to in according to the census largely because birth rates began dropping in the late 1960s and Early by the study those born during the Peak of the baby Boom years were almost beyond the Peak College attendance in the report the number of persons in the 18to 21yearold age group began to decline in 1981 while the number in the later 20s kept growing preschool population in percent change 198084 i under 5 years of age chica90 Tribune graphic source census Bureau study safety system failures admitted from 1970 to the number of older College students 22 to 34 years old increased More than the number of Young it the number of older persons eligible to enrol in College increased More than the num Ber of Young eligible and the enrolment rate for older persons increased while the rate for Young persons did this the study in the proportion of the College student population under 22 years old dropping 10 percentage Points in the decade to 54 percent of All if we include in the million students Over 34 years then students under 22 years old were Only 48 percent of All Stu dents in the study also found that the number of women in College had greatly in according to the census there were 46 percent More men than women among College but by 1981 about equal numbers of men and women attended for for which data first began being collected in the number enrolled in school increased Overall by 40 the report from million to it said elementary and High school enrol ment Rose by one in part due to rapid population growth which was caused by Immi Gration and High Sands of time Carbide halts production of leaked Gas a Union car bide announced tuesday it is temporarily suspending production of Aldi carb the Poison Gas involved in a chemical leak that injured 135 and acknowledged its computerized safety system never was programmed to track the a nontoxic chemical leaked tuesday night at carbides South Charles ton Plant five Miles driving some Resi dents from their Kanawha county emergency services paramedic Jerry Brown no health threat was a Carbide spokesman the tracking system erroneously told workers that sundays leak was contained Over the Institute Plant Carbide has blamed the tracking system for a 20minute reporting delay that allowed a toxic Chemi Cal Cloud to Settle on nearby Homes before warning sirens i am sure if we had used the system it would have worked Carbide spokesman Thad Epps we substituted a chemical with close to the same we got reasonably Good the production halt was announced As a delegation of top Federal including environmental Protection Agency adminis Trator Lee inspected the the company has acknowledged in an internal report that Aldi carb oxime is Capa ble of causing and irreversible nerve but company officials said tuesday that residents were exposed Only to Low Levels of the Gas during sundays leak and disputed reports that the chemical is As toxic As Methyl is Ocya the Gas that killed people last year at the Institute Plant also is the Only producer of Union Carbide said it was halting the use of Aldi carb oxime until officials know How the Accident Aldi carb oxime is a component of the pesticide widely used by Temsik production can continue for a Short time because it is made from and some supplies of that Are still in foe of Salazar Dies Lisbon a Manuel Antonio Vas Salo e the colonial governor who de fied his government and surrendered Portu Guese India in has died at Vassalo e Silva disobeyed an order from Portugal righting Antonio de Oliveira a to defend the territory with his Garri son in he was immediately stripped of his rank and expelled from the said Plant spokesman Dick nearby residents exposed to the Gas need not fear Lon term health said Vernon Houk of the National Center for disease control in but reaction remained critical of both the company and Kanawha county emergency warning Bob said tuesday that 57 percent of the Institute residents contacted by his office in a Doort door Survey said they were exposed to the Gas before they Ever heard a warning Epps said the leak occurred in a Small production unit that was being phased out of he said officials believe steam entered a steel jacket surrounding a storage touching off a heat induced reaction that raised pressure inside and blew out the Epps said the company has ordered an Independent investigation by a five member Board that will be chaired by Russell president of the world wildlife at the South Charleston the re lease of the unidentified chemical did not pose any health but produced a Strong chemical odor in South Charleston and across the Kanawha River in North Henderson in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today 1945 Japan has surrendered president who announced the surrender in the United states revealed that Macarthur has been named supreme commander in charge of occupation forces and would receive the 30 years ago 1955 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has informed the soviet Union that a discussion of German Unity and of the release of germans held in Russia is necessary during his impending trip to 20 years ago today 1965 new Waves of Day Light looting and sporadic violence continued on the fourth Day of the nations worst Black riot in two the official death toll stands at los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty has asked president Johnson to de Clare the City a disaster area to qualify it for Federal 10 years ago today 1975 thousands of socialists marched through shouting for communist backed Premier Vasco Dos Santos Goncalves to
