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Sewer source of poison, M.D. says
United Press International
)UST()N — The doctor who
piagnosed cyanide poisoning
nself and 11 patients said
day the substance is coming
the city’s sewer system
the poison is mixing with
•and other chemicals,
br. Tim Oesch said his most
nt blood test revealed he has
ute case of cyanide poison-
nd he and his wife are leav-
beir home so they can re-
Health was set up to aid the city in
investigating the cyanide cases.
“The committee will provide
additional expertise and objectiv
ity to the cyanide investigation,”
Bridgewater said. “It will review
all lab results, analyze data and
prepare a statement to be issued
within 24 hours upon receipt of all
data.”
[need to go and recover a little
[Oesch said Tuesday. “This is
hreatening. ’
lealth Department spokes-
iShirlene Bridgewater said
day a committee of live
leal experts from the Univer-
Bf Texas School of Public
The committee will be headed
by Dr. Marcus Key, professor of
occupational medicine. Commit
tee members will be given the lab
results when they have been com
pleted by the Harris County
Medical Examiner’s office.
However, Bridgewater said she
did not know when the results
would be ready.
Oesch thinks a nearby company
that uses cyanide in its electroplat
ing process could be responsible
for allowing the substance to seep
into sewer lines. When the
cyanide mixes with water, he said,
it turns into hydrogen cyanide, a
poisonous gas.
However, officials at the Gener
al Electric Co. plant said their
facility has been checked and re
checked by the city in recent
weeks and no cyanide leakage had
been found.
cyanide is leaking. He said be
cause his home is not air condi
tioned, air containing the poison
has been circulating inside his
house.
When he goes to air condi
tioned buildings, he said, his
symptoms seem to get better.
The symptoms of cyanide
poisoning are nausea, lethargy,
burning eyes and a scratchy
throat.
Oesch said earlier this week
that some of his patients may have
contracted the poisoning from eat
ing pecans from trees that grow in
the near downtown neighbor
hood. He explained the trees
breath the air and use the water
from the environment, and the
chemicals are transmitted into the
Public Works officials said their
records show General Electric’s
inspections showed no cyanide
leakage, said Dan Jones, spokes
man for the city.
Oesch said his home and office
is about 50 feet from a sewer line,
where he thinks the hydrogen
Oesch said one of his patients
has been hospitalized. Shirley
McGee, who had been tested by
Oesch positively for cyanide
poisoning, was hospitalized Mon
day at Hermann Hospital. She
said additional tests were being
run at the hospital, but no results
were available.
nuts.
Bridgewater said she was wait
ing for the results of tests per
formed by the health department,
and she urged citizens not to be
come hysterical.
She said her office is being
flooded with calls from citizens
who think they may have the
poisoning. She said the first 23
blood test results performed by
the city proved negative.
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I United Press International
IRT WORTH — Backers of
Peyton McKnight, D-Tyler,
ed up the fiddles, kicked up
heels and opened their poek-
Iks to the tune of Texas’
It fundraiser ever for a
cratic gubernatorial candi-
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Iby Willie Nelson, a score of
lion’s top county and west-
jecording stars entertained
5,000 two-steppers who
d across Billy Bob’s Texas, a
iVorth nightclub. Those pre-
Monday wished McKnight
phis57th birthday and in his
unseat Republican incum-
ill Clements.
Knight, characterizing Cle-
as “a man who likes to play
nor, but doesn’t like to pro-
was at center stage and un-
red by announcement ear-
lat retiring Land Commis-
Bob Armstrong would also
eking the Democratic nomi-
“I’m not surprised,” McKnight
said. “I expected it. I always ex
pected him to be in the race. This
doesn’t change my plans at all.”
McKnight deferred other com
ments about his Democratic oppo-.
nent, but chided Clements for his
“lack of knowledge about state
government.”
He said Clements was “essen
tially a man who has not per
formed or carried out his cam-
:ing Ai
semi®'
.1 to
musten
ithers'l
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paign promises.
He said the governor’s plan to
fire 25,000 state employess and re
turn a billion dollars to* taxpayers
in a state with a growing popula
tion of a half million people a year
were just two examples of Cle
ments’ shortcomings.
“I’ll grant you, he’s a smart
man, and he knows a lot about big
business, ” McKnight said at an in
formal gathering at the Americana
Hotel, “but he just doesn’t know
anything about the operation of
state government.”
McKnight said he wanted to
clarify any misunderstanding
about his candidacy should for
mer Gov. Dolph Briscoe or ex-
Attorney General John Hill enter
the Democratic race. .
He said an earlier statement
was misinterpreted giving the im
pression that he may withdraw
should Briscoe or Hill make bids.
“All I said was that it would be a
big fight. But I see myself as a
bridge builder and instead of get
ting out, I will be staying in,” he
said.
A third candidate — Prentice
Tomlison, a Houston oil and gas
operator — has said he is contem
plating entering the challenge for
the nomination.
Members of McKnight’s staff
said the fundraiser would be the
biggest in the party’s history
Texas. They said the event had
grossed more than $750,000
through Monday afternoon, with
more donations to be added.
Nelson, who made . a late
appearance at the party in the
uclcnr commission
mference on Black
to hold
Fox site
1 1., United Press International
; l c ® ILINCTON — Supporters
^ ^ | opponents of the proposed
Fox nuclear plant site near
Okla., are expected to
a federal conference ex-
ing whether hearings into the
should be reopened.
be Nuclear Regulatory Com-
on has scheduled the confer-
for next Wednesday at the
al courthouse in Tulsa,
, to determine whether to
1 new hearings on the con-
rsial plant. Site work at Black
Fox was approved after considera
tion by the commission in 1978.
Hearings on radiological health
and safety issues were held later
that year and in early 1979, but the
commission did not make a deci
sion before the nuclear spill at
Three Mile Island in Pennsyl-
The government issued a group
of nuclear plant standards this Au
gust, inspiring the move to reopen
hearings into Black Fox, officials
said.
Applicants seeking permits to
build the plant are Public Service
Co. of Oklahoma and Western
Farmers Electric Cooperative.
Representatives from Citizens
Action for Safe Energy, a group
opposed to construction of the
nuclear plant, will attend the con
ference, officials said.
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