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City official says EPA
ignored high lead level
United Press International
PORT ARTHUR — A city
health official says the Environ
mental Protection Agency last
year failed to take effective ac
tion against high lead levels in a
drainage ditch near an oil drum
refurbishing plant.
Port Arthur Chief Sanitarian
Theodore Jefferson said Mon
day lead levels as high as 32,600
parts per million, 160 times
higher than the safe level of 200
ppm, were found in soil in a
ditch outside Port Drum Co. in
1981.
Jefferson said the EPA in
1981 and early 1982 ordered
Port Drum to draw up plans for
more testing, but a staff reorga
nization in Dallas apparently
caused the agency not to follow
through. Jefferson said that
when the EPA did not send
orders to clean up the ditch, Port
Drum officials considered the
case closed.
When complaints surfaced
about the plant, Jefferson said
the EPA was contacted but had
no information on Port Drum.
Officials learned of the 2-year-
old EPA tests from the Texas
Department of Water Re
sources.
EPA officials were not im
mediately available for com
ment.
Jefferson said city officials
have given the company a June
24 deadline for correction of 15
health violations, and it is re
sponding well. City and state
officials took air, water and soil
samples from the site May 17.
“So far they seem to be doing
everything we have asked them
to do,” Jefferson said.
Officials said EPA testers also
found 27.9 parts per million of
polychlorinated biphenyls, or
PCBs, at the site. The official
safe level of PCBs, considered
cancer-causers, is 50 parts per
million.
Rangers criticized in search
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ST. LOUIS —The father of a
young man who disappeared
three weeks ago in Big Bend Na
tional Park is critical of the
search conducted by park ran
gers.
“I want to find my son,” said
Dr. Valgard Jonsson, “and I
have run up against callousness
and indifference, especially by
the rangers in the park.”
Jonsson, in an interview
Tuesday with the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch, said the rangers did
not exercise good judgment in
the way they handled the search
for his son.
“I think that their hands are
tied by a bureaucracy they can
not control,” said Jonsson.
“They told me they were under
staffed and underbudgeted.”
Craig Jonsson, 20, dis
appeared from a campsite in the
Chisos Basin area of the park
about 8 p.m., May 16. He had
arrived that day on a desert ecol
ogy field trip with a professor
and other students from the St.
Louis.Community College.
Dr. Jonsson, who took part in
the earlier searches for his son,
said he planned to return to the
park Saturday. He said he will
return in July if necessary.
Benjamin E. Liles, chief ran
ger at the park in west Texas,
said the 740,000 acres of park
are well staffed. He said Dr.
Jonsson was very distraught and
the family was desperate for a
clue to their son’s whereabouts.
Liles said several aerial
searches and a grid search were
made. Even a local psychic was
consulted.
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Use of drug questioned
Jury investigates coverui
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SAN ANTONIO — A San
Antonio newspaper Tuesday
reported a grand jury is inves
tigating the possibility that
adminstrators and staff per
sonnel covered up an abnor
mally high infant mortality
rate at the Medical Center
Hospital.
The San Antonio Light
quoted several sources, in
cluding one “high level source
close to the probe,” that said
some officials within the hos
pital district may have known
about the deaths as early as
the fall of 1981 and did no
thing.
Dr. William Thornton,
chairman of the Bexar Coun
ty Hospital District Board of
Trustees, Monday denied
charges of a coverup.
“In looking back, I think
that (possible coverup) is a
question that needs to be
answered. We’re going to do
what it takes to find out,” he
said.
volved in the deaths of Medic
al Center patients.
Heparin is an anti
coagulant which if adminis
tered in overdoses can cause
fatal internal bleeding.
The newspaper reported
that a source familiar with the
Bexar County grand jury in
vestigation said the panel had
expanded its probe to consid
er the possibility of a coverup.
The sources also said the in
vestigation is centering on the
drug Heparin as the agent in-
A Kerr County grand jury
has already indicted vocation
al nurse Genene Jones for the
murder of 15-month-old
Chelsea Ann McClellan, alleg
ing that McClellan and other
babies who did not die were
injected with a muscle relax
ant at the office of a Kerrville
doctor.
Jones left the Medical Cen
ter’s pediatric intensive care
unit and went to work for Dr.
Kathleen HollandinKet
in 1982.
Dr. The )inton saidikl
pital district has ca
f ully with the Bexar (
grand jury and prioril
criminal investigation,4
erything possible to ('
the reason for the highJ
ber of deaths in the[
care unit between
1982.
Jeff Duffield, aspolfl
for Medical Center I
said three in-house inva
lions have been conduct
tween late 1981 andlaifl
into infant deaths ai|
facility.
Incriminating letter from son
used in mother’s murder trial
United Press International
ANNISTON, Ala. — The de
fense in the Audrey Marie Hill-
ey murder trial, shaken by the
introduction of a letter in which
her son accused her of poison
ing her husband and daughter,
continues its case Tuesday.
Defense attorneys called Hill-
ey’s son, Mike, to testify Monday
about death threats made
against his mother after her
arrest for the attempted murder
of her daughter, Carol, in 1979.
But the strategy backfired
when Calhoun County Assistant
District Attorney Joe Hubbard
used the opportunity to intro
duce into evidence a letter from
Mike Hilley written in 1979,
saying he believed strange
things were taking place.
“It is my belief that my
mother injected my father with
arsenic as she apparently has
done to my sister,” Hilley wrote
Calhoun County Coroner Ralph
Phillips.
Mrs. Hilley is charged with
killing her husband, Frank, in
1975 and attempting to murder
her daughter, Carol, in 1979 by
putting arsenic in their food.
Hilley later told reporters he
exaggerated in the letter to draw
attention to the situation.
Defense attorneys attempted
to prove Mrs. Hilley fled the
state after her arrest for attemp
ted murder in 1979 because she
feared for her life.
Mrs. Hilley, 50, eluded au
thorities nearly three years after
leaving the state. During her
flight, she was charged with the
murder of her husband.
He died in 1975, but police
had his body exhumed after dis
covering the mysterious illness
affecting Carol Hilley in 1979
was the result of arsenic poison
ing. An autopsy then showed
Hilley also had been given
arsenic.
Authorities say Mn
assumed an alias
Alabama, then mar
Fort Lauderdale,
moved to New Ham_
ter, Mrs. Hilley is saidJ
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Surplus police patches found
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MIAMI — Enough police and
fire department shoulder patch
es to decorate the uniforms of an
army — more than 100,000 —
have been found near a canal in
a remote section of the Everg
lades.
Dade County police say
they’re not sure how they got
there.
“We’re baffled,” police
spokesman Kenneth Christ
opher said Monday. “I think
somebody was littering.”
More than 100,000 patches
bearing the insignias of police
and firefighters from Dade
County, Chicago, San Francisco,
Los Angeles and Houston were
found in the everglades Sunday.
There were even patches in
dicating the wearer was a mem
ber of the “U.S. Supreme Court
police” or an official of the Ten
nessee Department of Driver’s
Licenses.
“To us picking them up, it
looked like a huge mountain of
them,” said Dade County police
Officer Larry Neill, who found
the patches on a dirt road near
the canal.
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