European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday april 19,1939 the stars and stripes pages Yousf has doubts but oks Oil cleanup plan Valdez Alaska a the coast guard Comman Dant monday App Raul Exson s plan id scrub at Lea to 305 Miles of Shoreline fouled by America s worst ail spilt hut he demanded the company also target Oil tainted beaches outside Prince William sound. My. Paul a Yosl or. Also had reservations saying thai Exxon s draft plan was Loo optimistic. The plan released monday Calls for Kuon to hire 4.000 people to clean most of the soiled Shoreline by the third week in August. The cleanup run he be completed by August if a hot water cleaning method that can damage Beach life issued aggressively or by mid september if environmentally safer methods play a larger role those who de. Vised the plan claim. Those projections were disputed by a state ecologist. Who said after reviewing the plan that Only about 150 Miles or half the number specified in the plan could be cleaned before Winter and the top state environmental official called forthe plan to be broadened to include areas where the Oil has spread outside i Ricc William sound. It ,start." said department of environmental conservation chief Dennis Kelso. It needs More -. Yost under orders from president Bush to hasten the cleanup approved the draft plan in a letter to Exxon s general manager in Valde Otto Harrison. But Yost immediately demanded that Exxon Bron Dan inc plan by May i to include Oil tainted beaches. Outside the sound. Zihich stale officials say May num Ber in the hundreds. Yosl who revealed his plans at it news conference. Monday night also ordered Exxon to say How in in tended to Manatt and Dispo so of the Ucli. Harrison said Exxon s first fully equipped Landing Barge would he deployed saturday a prediction Yost said he found encouraging. Bui tie wrote i have serious reservations about Jour ability to Mobili a resources As quickly As you describe in your plan and to sustain that lie said Exxon would have to give him a schedule with milestones and Slick with it. I m concerned thai the level of activity be Kepi up throughout he summer. Harrison assured me he can do that Yost Lold reporters. The plan estimates that by june i the company will have 2,500 Alaska no work ing on. The Shoreline with 1,500 Oiler people in support roles. 11 barges.28 Landing vessels 150 Utility ships and is Wash vacuum ships will i lived. -. According to the plan the total Shoreline in Prince William sound Attivie d by the March 24 Exxon is a Jet Miles Abou the distance from new a worker us h Lii Jih Fri sure his to water to Imp Oil off a Rocky so Rulli of Shi Ireon Block Island. York City to Norfolk a. Concentration of Oil on the Beach runs from 1.260 Gallons to 12,600 gallon per mile with an average of4,200 Milc. The Oil company said. The plan said Exxon so far has recovered 92j, to i Gallons or 0 percent of the spilled nil. J the plan proposes to clean up 305 Miles. It Esti mates that 54 mites lire heavily oiled ,86 Nykl brately. Oiled and 165 lightly covered. Al assumes that needed permits will be promptly issued and thai no additional Oil will Wash ashore. Steve to Haavig of the department of Environ mental conservation estimated after reviewing the plan that Crews would at Best be Able to Serape or otherwise remove emmy Black slip do from Only Aboul one mile of each per Day Ami caday . At most there Are 150 Days from the t it workers and gear arc Mobili de two or three weeks from now. Until Winter descends in september. Meanwhile wildlife officials brought grim reports Rorn the nuke Island and nuke Lay area on the Kenai Peninsula about 175 Miles southwest"61. Where the Exsah Val Ducj smashed into a Holt reef part of inc herring grounds Ai the North end of the Kodiak islands remained closed monday because of nil sightings. Ii was feared inc More important herring fishery at Kamisha not be Able to begin As scheduled later this week. Exxon official minimizes spill s effect on Price Rise Washington ies were other contributors to higher prices he said Mcmillan testified a for the Senate Energy subcommittee on Energy Regula Tion and conservation which is trying to find out if there has been Price gouging by the Oil companies following Exxon Smarch 24 Accident which result cd in 10 million Gallons of Oil being spilled into 1 Rince William sound. Mcmillan said the deduction was legitimate business loss allowed by the government. He also said Exxon was paying people to help with inc cleanup and the taxes they pay on those wages should make up most of the difference. You will be milking the taxpayer for a third of the Cost of the cleanup Ohio democratic sen. Howard Muei Shaum , merry Rcd a Nev. Has Infra. Ducco a Bill to prevent the do Duclion. Tanker traffic in Prince Willum sound was interrupted for five Days be cause of Fth Accident. Full Oil production in Alaska resumed by april 5, Moore the three week following the spill gasoline prices jumped 10 cents to 30 cents a gallon across the country. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago 19, a South korean president sync Man Rhee confirmed reports that ills government Vii for he Early withdrawal of american occupation troops from South Korea 30 years ago today. April 19. 1959 president Eisenhower named Christian a. Her tar. Tinker set re tary of stale since 1957, to replace John Foster Dulles As Secretary of state. Swift confirmation Ein Clud in the Senate. 20 years ago foe a. ,. April 19, i9fi scientists from the red Cross Laboratory and Montefiore Hospital in new York announced they had established that aspirin could cause changes to . Of blood platelets. 10 years ago today. April 19,1979 Tennis stirs Chris exert and John la Jed were married in foil Lauderdale Fla. Nine months after they were introduced at Wimbledon you can still love . But you la have of pay Albany . A new York stale after years of allowing manufacturers free use of the "1 Loe new York logo will Marl charging Roj allies this j car. People who print the logo on sweat Shim key chains pens or other consumer goods w ill be forced to give new York stale percent 10 10 percent of the Money they make said Stephen Mosillo. A stale Deputy commissioner for economic development. The slate has spent More than $ 100 Mil lion advertising it Wolf 10 tourists since launching the j l Une new York Advertis ing Campaign in 1977, lie said. The state registered the motto with a red heart Symbol in place of the word though the Symbol Lias been adapted for a variety of bumper stickers and other Pic the slate Only holds the trademark for Lov ing new York state official have arched with great interest the Success of the California raisins advertising Campaign which has branched o t into lucrative records touring cartoon characters and other products he said. A licensing agent will be hired to help Market the logo which tourism officials refer 10 in news releases As up unlit now the slate has allowed manufacturers to include i Lov c new York in unit Lime deemed appropriate figuring it s helping the state
