European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes August 1985 City hails car bid a City officials tuesday praised Union carbides response to its third chemical leak this despite a company spokesman Ini tial description of hydrochloric acid As not about pounds of Hydrogen Chloride mixed with water leaked from carbides South Charleston Plant company officials said the chemical was contained within the and the Public never was in when mixed with Hydro Gen Chloride forms hydrochloric Carbide spokesman Mike Lipscomb said he described the poisonous Chemi Cal As not dangerous because Only Small amounts if the Cloud of fumes had left the he residents in its path would have Felt minor at the concentrations that we experienced would have posed no threat to the comm he most of the leak was contained in a Plant stateside sewer but a Small amount of diluted chemical washed into the Kanawha according to he said fish and wildlife in and along the River would not suffer As a officials in Charleston and South Charleston said they were generally pleased with the company they notified us within minutes of the and they let one of our people into the said Charleston Public safety i Kent but Kanawha county officials said they should have been notified As the plan said Libby a Kanawha county commis Sion but we still had conf with residents calling the county to get she said Union Carbide officials had agreed to Call the county in each county emergency services director Bill White said even though his staff want told of the the company officials responded better monday than they did during a Poison Gas leak 11 at Institute or an 13 leak of Hydraulic fluid components at South it took workers More than an hour to Tell doctors and emergency Crews How to treat victims of the Institute after each of the three the firm initially said the chemicals involved were not As dangerous As they eventually proved to Carbide originally said the pesticide ingredient Aldi carb oxime made up most of the Institute which sent 135 people to the company later acknowledged that most of the Poison mixture that reached Homes was methylene a potential cancer causing two weeks the company described the Hydraulic fluids in the 13 leak As but both Are listed in the firms documents As potentially on the hydrochloric acid was called not with almost no almost every thing at the Plant is company spokesman Thad Epps said tuesday there May have been errors of omission but there was no attempt to mislead any Epps said the company is following plans Laid out by Carbide chairman Warren an Derson after the first South Charleston leak that workers notify emergency Crews immediately and worry about ramifications there will be a significantly greater number of minor Epps weve made a Basic decision were not going to be guilty of sitting ii our hands and not being up such a has advantages and he theres probably a Good feature in that probably the Public needs to know More about whats going Epps on the flip its that people can become unnecessarily concerned and that May become so routine that they do not Oklahoma governor reaffirms decision not to run for Senate Oklahoma City a Oklahoma George nigh has announced he will not Challenge Republican Don Nickles next the 58yearold two term Democrat said he was Reaf firming his previous stand that he had no interest in the Senate and Felt his election As governor was the top Politi Cal goal he could James Jones has said he would seriously consider challenging Nickles if nigh does not when nigh ran for a second term As governor in he said it would be his last political in he left the door slightly ajar for a Senate race at the urging of democratic party officials who see Oklahoma As a crucial state in their bid to recapture control of the Man stuck in phone Booth rescued after Call to state police a a Man Hung up for 20 min utes in a Telephone Booth with a stuck door hinge was rescued by a state trooper who kicked open the he was just standing looking embarrassed when we trooper Bill Mcguire the trooper said the hinge on the phone Booth door apparently was Bent the wrong preventing the door from folding i just kicked it a couple of times and the door Mcguire the Man called state police Barracks Here at about sunday to say he was stuck in the the Man was in a real hurry once he left before the trooper could get his Mcguire the door now works on the but Mcguire said he wont Send a repair this one was on he kids find liking computers Doest Survey finds up1 this May be the computer but most kids dont like them and think those who do Are says a psychologist who surveyed University of California psychologist Steve Pulos says his research suggests that being a computer Whiz constitutes As much of a social stigma As getting straight winning first prize at the science fair or Reading shake that the kiss of Pulos its just not Cool to be Good its like youre the teachers taking sides with adults against Pulos surveyed 140 kids 8 to 13 years old in the Berke Ley area and found 61 percent of them think Only the most unpopular the least Likely to Date or hang out with their like the researcher said schools Are ruining interest in computers with Dull classes and by putting too much emphasis on computer a prospective buyer takes a Freyhoff thebout Yugo for a test drive in at yugoslavian Auto taking Market by storm Boston a a Square Little car called the Yugo has arrived on the United states and dealers said tuesday that demand for the yugoslavian import is so High that customers Are putting Down Cash without even a test dealers in Florida and Massachusetts said they have been bombarded with requests for the 137inch Long the cheapest new car in the United it Sells for about less than its nearest com the a minibar from Ive been in the car business 25 and this is the most popular car Ive said Richard Loehr a dealer in people Are just buying it from a picture in a weve never had a car like Loehr said that he has received deposits on orders for 124 which will take him six months to and that hundreds of customers have visited the showroom to look at photographs of the in Winter Luke Potter Dodge has sold 11 Yugo and has a waiting list of 140 custom when people see the they find it a Little hard to said sales manager Bill Jonas senior vice president of Yugo America said about Yugo will be shipped to 160 Deal ers nationwide in the next 12 the Cre ated by american Malcolm Hopes to deliver Yugo to 277 dealers by hundreds of Yugo have arrived at Eastern dealer ships from Massachusetts to we got 10 of them and not a single one is said Bruno a dealer at Lannan Chevrolet and Oldsmobile in the Boston suburb of we have people putting Down deposits for our shipment in everyone wants the Yugo has a four Cylinder front wheel drive and steel belted it comes equipped with a full size spare rear window Washer wiper and but no its just Basic said no the Yugo is not without its its acceleration is at the very end of acceptability on the said Arvid an Independent Auto Industry analyst based in car driven by John Dean hits woman a a Mercedes driven by John who was an adviser to former president Nixon struck and critically injured a woman who had been thrown into the cars path when her convertible Over police said Nona who was travelling South on interstate was ejected from her car and tossed into the northbound lanes monday after her vehicle collided with a said California Highway patrol spokeswoman Paul she was struck by the Mercedes and dragged for about 100 said a police dispatcher who asked not to be of Costa was taken to Fountain Val Ley Community hospitals trauma where she remained in critical condition tuesday with leg and Pelvic a Hospital spokeswoman a an 46 of and the truck Driver Keith of were uninjured in the Accident 40 Miles Southeast of downtown los Wolverton tried to change lanes in front of the Ana the which also was trying to change clipped the bumper of her said the mean was an adviser to Nixon during the watergate scandal that led to Nixon resignation in