European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday september 4, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7boston Harbor cleanup plan criticized Provincetown mass. Apas far As lobster Man Billy Souza is concerned he a looking Down the barrel of a gun 9 Miles Long and 24 feet wide. Souza is among those fighting Boston Harbor cleanup plans that include Flushing sewage through a giant pipe 9 Miles into Massachusetts Bay. A a they re sending their problems into our Back Yard a a said Souza. Irate Cape coders Call the $6 billion pipeline project already under construction the worst threat Ever to their tourist whale watching and fishing industries. It is expected to be in operation in 1995. A they could be putting a big chunk of the Cape out of business not that they care a says Alix Ritchie vice chair marrow the Cape cod commission. Residents Are especially angry that scientists done to know precisely How the sewage will affect the environment. Up to 1.2 billion Gallons a Day of treated and untreated sewage will be dumped a few Miles from one of the Northeast a most productive fishing grounds the Stell Wagen Bank. A there Are things we done to understand 100 percent perfectly a said Wendy Smith Marine studies project manager for the Massachusetts water resource authority which is building the pipeline. A on the other hand we re confident it wont be worse than what we re doing for years sewage has been dumped right into Boston Harbor making it one of the nations most polluted Waterways. George Bush focused on the Harbor to attack the environmental record of his 1988 presidential rival then gov. Michael s. Dukakis. Boston Harbor is in Massachusetts Bay. Some experts say the project is a crap shoot. A behind closed doors the scientists who Are working on this project Are saying something that they re not saying to the Public they re calling it the Massachusetts Bay Experiment a said Karen Steuer director of conservation programs at the Center for coastal studies in Provincetown. To save an estimated $2.1 billion the water resource authority wants to postpone full treatment of the sewage. If the environmental Protection Agency approves. One protester carries a sign while another gathers signatures on a petition on Cape cod Bay. The group is protesting the building of a giant pipe that will carry sewage from Boston Harbor into Massachusetts Bay. Up to 600 million Gallons a Day of raw sewage could be dumped into the Bay on Rainy Days or during heavy water use beginning in mid-1995. The water resource authority plans to put 25 percent of All discharge through two treatments by december 1996 and gradually increase that amount to 50 percent. The pipeline s foes plan a blockade of boats spaced 80 feet apart around the Cape this month to symbolize their opposition. Stop the outfall pipe a coalition of fishermen environmentalists and other residents has gathered 13,000 signatures on petitions opposing the project. However the group realizes it will be a Tough fight because the pipe already is being built. The pipe is to sit at the Bottom of the Bay but Little is known about How the water circulates there. Studies of surface water show it flows to Cape cod Bay rounds Provincetown and sweeps out to an Ocean area now fished by lobster Man such As Souza. Such dumping elsewhere has been blamed for red tide which occurs when decaying algae Poison shellfish and strip the sea of oxygen that fish need to live. Toxins associated with red tides have to the deaths of at least 16 whales in Cape cod revive girl choked by car window Olathe Kan. Apr two firefighters who just happened to be nearby saved a 2-year-old girl who was being choked by a parked cards Power window. Joanna Granzow was unconscious by the time the firefighters reached her but they managed to revive her. Capt. Ken Keiter and firefighter David Dock of the Olathe fire department were soliciting contributions for the muscular dystrophy association on saturday. A we heard this couple scream a hey that Little girls got her head stuck in the car window a a Keiter recalled sunday. A we ran Over to the parking lot from the inter Section and it was scary. This Little girl was All Joanna apparently touched the window control switch with her leg when she put her head out the window of her parents car. The Glass came up and choked her. Her father Lyle Granzow was in the front seat but did not hear her. A my eyes were closed and the next thing i knew she just kind of looked like she was dead with her eyes looking up in the Alfand All Glassy a said Granzow. The firefighters lowered the window got Joanna out of the car and began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A it seemed like it was going on forever and she Wasny to responding to it at All Quot Keiter said. A so we just kept going. Then she started coughing and gasping and the color started coming Back into her Joanna was taken to Shawnee Mission medical enter and released later saturday. A i can to thank those firemen enough a Granzow said. Quot who knows what kind of damage Joanna might have if she had to wait for the paramedics to arrive. These Guys were right there. They re heroes. They saved her a bed is a bed is a bed a except in a hospitals by Bill Mcallister the Washington Post Washington it took a War to do it but the Federal governments largest Hospital system now knows what a bed is. Until the persian Gulf War came along the 172 hospitals run by the department of veterans affairs had various often conflicting definitions of the number of Beds in their facilities. That made it impossible for the department to Tell the Pentagon How Many Beds it could make available for War casualties upsetting a Secretary Edward j. Derwinski who has issued a mandate for using a Clear English in his departments operations. But within the a there were a authorized Beds a a operating Beds and a unavailable the hospitals agree on which Beds were which. Perplexed Derwinski directed the Hospital system to agree on some Basic definitions. Earlier this year it did and the result Derwinski said in an interview is that the a has lowered by about 10,000. The number of operating Beds it claims to have in its system. The a says it has 58,894 operating Beds Down from the 68,492 Beds that it listed a year ago a spokeswoman said. The difference is a result of a new Derwinski approved definition which declares that any bed in a veterans hospitals must be a staffed and available for admission of patients to be claimed As the rules bar administrators from declaring As operational Beds that Are a temporarily closed a a practice some administrators had used to inflate their bed mistake on tractor sows a crop of woes the new York times Gladstone to. A Wayne Kuhl Man a. Lawyer occasionally uses his 1945 tractor to help with Odd jobs around Bis 3-acre property but he hardly thought the Rusty machine was Worth the $9.6 million assessed last year by Clay county officials. Kuhlman had no problem getting the error corrected on his tax Bill and he promptly forgot about the incident. But the North Kansas City school District did not learn of the error until after adopting its budget this Spring based in part on $350,000 in taxes from the tractor. A they just did no to notify us that the error happened a said Don Nelson the school districts assistant superintendent for business and finance. A a we re going to have to under run this budget As much As mistakes often occur in property tax Bills. Usually about eight of every 10 mistakes Are caught before the tax Bill is mailed said Shirley Quick Clay count assessor. A it was a simple mistake Ash it said of the tractor assessment. The City of Gladstone had expected $50,000 from the tractor but the finance director caught the mistake before that City approved its budget. The school District is planning no Bud get cuts because teachers have Alread been hired and supplies purchased of the districts 15,000 students. It is plan Ning to delay for a year purchases o buses equipment and school books. A at this time 98 percent of the Budge already is committed a Nelson said a a we re telling everyone not to buy any thing unless they absolutely have referring to his tractor Kuhlman said a i did no to know this was going to become something of a he added a i walk Down the Street and people will say a Arentt you the Guy with the tractor a a
