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February 24, 1983
Warped
by Scott McCullar
Buy-out pleases residents
Poisoned town purchased
United Press International
TIMES BEACH, Mo. — Resi
dents are happy the f ederal gov
ernment is putting up S33 mil
lion to move them out of dioxin-
contaminated Times Beach but
some are saddened by the death
of a “town where kids could play
in the streets and mothers never
had to worry.”
“It’s very sad. It’s almost like
someone died and you’re visit
ing the grave,” Evelyn Zufall
said Tuesday after the buy-out
plan was announced. “This was
a nice place once, and now we
have to bury it.”
Residents broke into ap
plause and cheers when Anne
Gorsuch Burford, Environmen
tal Protection Agency adminis
trator, announced the buy-out
at a packed news conference in a
motel in nearby Eureka. The
$33 million plan marks the first
time the federal government
offered to buy an entire town
threatened by toxic waste.
While regretting the demise
of her hometown, Zufall also
was relieved.
“This is the answer to all our
prayers. It’s what everybody
wanted, except for very few peo
ple who don’t realize the dan
gers we’re in,” she said.
Harold Goodmon, a member
of the tiny St. Louis suburb’s
board of aldermen, agreed.
“We’re happy we have a chance
to be bought out. We’ve been
told something now. Now we’re
not being held in the unknown.”
Burford said the $33 million
was an estimate by the Federal
Emergency Management Agen
cy. She said the money would
come from the federal Super
fund program, with the state re
quired to provide an additional
$3.3 million.
“I am as upset as all of you
have been over the uncertainty
you have had to live with,” Bur
ford told the more than 100 resi
dents at the news conference. “I
think we are fulfilling our com
mitment to the people of Times
Beach.”
Officials said the first govern
ment offers wall be made to resi
dents in about three weeks.
Times Beach had about 2,000
residents before the problems
with dioxin contamination and
record flooding last fall.
Officials confirmed the latest
round of tests taken in January,
one month after record flood
ing, showed contamination of as
much as 300 parts dioxin per
billion parts soil under the
town’s streets.
One part dioxin per billion
parts soil is considered a signifi
cant health risk.
NAACP upset;
police blasted
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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — A coron
er’s report shows actor
Raymond Vitte did not die from
a police beating in w hich he was
carried screaming from his
home, but the NAAGP blasted
police for brutalizing a man it
said was under emotional and
physical stress.
“Superficial injuries consis
tent with a struggle were found,
but they were not responsible
for his death,” coroner’s spokes
man Bill Gold said Tuesday fol
lowing a five-hour postmortem
on the body of the actor, 33.
It may take weeks before tox
icological and other laboratory
studies are complete, Gold said.
But even as the autopsy was
under way, celebrity friends,
family and the local NAAGP
officials accused police of using
“excessive force” in arresting
Vitte.
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