Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1981 [National Homeowners ticketed for having bathroom carpet United Press International LINCOLN, Neb. — A city councilman is sponsoring an ordinance that would make it legal for homeowners to carpet their bathroom floors. Councilman Bill Danley proposed the ordinance when city housing code inspectors be gan citing homeowners for hav ing carpeting instead of linoleum on their bathroom floors. Inspectors said they are well within the law to hand out such citations, since the city’s mini mum housing code now pro vides that a bathroom floor should be “reasonably imper vious to water. ” They contend carpeting is often used to cover defects in construction of homes and apartment buildings. They also said someone using an electrical appliance while on wet carpet ing could suffer an electrical shock. Children win millions in lead poisoning suit GRODUnTIIIG CHEmiiRL & mEmnnicni United Press International TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Billie and Marlene Yoss’ three children millionaires, but the family ERGinEERS Find out why we call ourselves SUPERIOR lives on a $622-a-month welfare check in a run-down house with peeling plaster. The Yoss home near Tillamook has no telephone, so it took three days for them to hear the news that an Oct. 23 landmark out-of- court settlement from a Kellogg, Idaho, smelting company made the children millionaires. The settlement from the Bunk er Hill Co., the nation’s largest Superior Oil is generally regarded as the largest independent oil and gas producer in the United States. That doesn’t mean we’re famous—just good! We’re good because of our people. 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If you’re ready to commit yourself to a standard of excellence with an industry leader, let's talk. refiner of lead, zinc and silver, came near the end of a six-week trial in Boise. It could amount to $8.7 million in the children’s life time. The children, 11, 9 and 8, are millionaires on paper, but they probably will not receive any of the settlement until after they are 18 — meaning there is little hope it will allow the family to escape the poverty in which they have lived since Yoss was fired from his job with Bunker Hill. “If we have to go on plugging along like this, we can do it,” Mrs. Yoss said. “I’ve done it for years. But it’s hard. I wish I could go to a store and buy them brand-new clothes off the racks instead of from a secondhand store.” The lawsuit brought by the three Yoss children and six chil dren of Edward and Janice De nnis, now of Kennewick, Wash., is the first U.S. case in which dam ages have been awarded to the vic tims of lead poisoning resulting from industrial pollution. Depending on how long the nine Yoss and Dennis children live, the settlement will total be tween $6.5 million to $8.7 million, officials said. Medical experts testified the children were poisoned by lead emissions and lead deposits in the soil from a smelter near their home. The lead, which will be in the children’s bones for the rest of their lives, causes brain cell dam age, abdominal pains, headaches, muscular aches, urinary problems and may also cause sterility. It also can shorten their lives. A record 35.3 metric tons a month of lead emissions were re corded in the air above Kellogg in October 1973, the year Arlene Yoss was an infant. The next August, testing by the U.S. Center for Disease Conic showed Arlene’s body measws 17.4 inicrograms per liter of bLj — one of the highest concente tions ever measured in a and four times the limit scientii consider dangerous. The level in Arlene’s sistc Edna, measured 12.2 mi®, grams, and the level in Raymoni then 3, measured 11.1. “The doctors in Chicago said.* had three walking dead babis. Mrs. Yoss said. More than seven years afterjj “walking dead baby’’ diagnosj the children are suffering !e; head and stomach aches. Aries and Raymond have poor bladii control, a frequent symptomf lead poisoning. Their intelligence is in the® mal range, but psychologists,t tors and scientists say the 4!. dren’s brains do not properly pc cess some information they c ceived from their eyes and®. They also show signs ofhyperj tivity and poor memory functa Yoss, 50, said he would libet use a little of the money to buyb family a decent home and setaps small business, and he would! to teach his son a trade. Weather only concern at space shuttle launch AME Ret MSC TEXA 1C tun lob! MSC Rue ACC- ring ASET RECI Fra AME1 GII Oil MSC« in 3 POLL Ele. in 1 AMEI (AS will F00E . Hall ETAS MS< BETM SIEVE Muc INTERVIEWS ON CAMPUS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 To arrange a campus interview, contact your Place ment Department. If you are unable to interview with us on campus, forward your resume to: Jeanne Buchanan, Superior Oil, P.O. Box 1521, Houston, Texas 77001 SUPERIOR Superior Oil is an equal opportunity employer United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Columbia countdown proceeded smoothly Monday with the loading of extra oxygen for Wednesday’s second launch. Weather was the only un certain factor. 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