The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, October 24, 1979-Page 5 I Chemical clean-up to cost Hooker Co. $20 million LANSING (UPI)-Attorney General Frank Kelley has called a news conference for today to disclose details of a $20 million-plan clean-up agreement with Hooker Chemical Co., settling the biggest anti-pollution suit in state history. Scheduled to attend the news conference along with Kelley were state Natural Resources Director Howard Tan- ner and Donald Baeder, a vice president of Occidental Petroleum Corp.-Hooker's parent firm. IN ONE OF THE major environmental controversies of recent years, Hooker has been charged with responsibility for the discharge of chemical contaminants into Muskegon County's White Lake as well as seepage from a dump site near its plant. Fish from the lake tentatively have been ruled unsafe for human consumption as a result of tests indicating toxic chemical contamination. Questions also have been raised about the safety of swimming in the lake. Kelley filed a 40-page lawsuit against the firm in February. Hints that a settlement was near have been growing in recent weeks.r THE AGREEMENT would require Hooker to dismantle a building where pesticides were manufactured and scrape up roadside dirt near its Montague plant. The dirt and building parts would then be placed in a 10-foot-thick, clay-covered vault. Inaaddition, Hooker would have to provide fresh water to Montague families with contaminated wells either by pur- chasing bottled water or paying to connect them to city water lines. The DNR would be barred from further prosecution of Hooker but private persons and organizations would not be. bound by that restriction. DEED RESTRICTIONS would prevent construction of homes or stores on the site at any future date-a clause in- spired by the Love Canal incident in New York in which it was discovered several hundred homes were built on a toxic waste dump once owned by a Hooker plant. The proposed agreement has some opponents. Representatives of a Swartz Creek chemical disposing firm which handled Hooker wastes have asked for a tem- porary restraining order blocking the agreement. ASK THEM WHY Hitchhikers assault Ann Arbor motorists 1' A y Drawing power A satellite receiving antenna was installed this morning atop the LSA build- ing for WUOM use. All National Public Radio affiliates are receiving the antennas, and by 1980, all public broadcasting programs will be carried via satellite. RSG president stays on; council vacancies remain By TIMOTHY YAGLE Ypsilanti Police said yesterday that a woman who is recovering from stab wounds at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital is a prime suspect in two armed robbries in Ann Arbor Monday night. Though Ann Arbor Police are han- dling the case, officials would not comment on the Ypsilanti police theory about the woman. Ypsilanti police are involved in the case because they inter- viewed the woman when she was ad- mitted to Beyer Memorial Hospital in Ypsilanti early yesterday morning. THE WOMAN, who Ann Arbor Police Sgt. Walter Lunsford said is in her twenties, entered the hospital with a knife wound in her chest and cuts on her arms. She was later transferred to St. Joseph Mercy., Earlier, Ann Arbor police were notified of two armed robberies which Moratorium is defeated b advisory commission (Continued from Page 1) is not making a stronger statement on the future of nuclear power. "They apparently are not able to say clearly that either the program is safe and can go ahead or that- it is not safe and has to be reformed," said Peter Franchot, a spokesman for the Union of Concerned Scientists. CARTER APPOINTED the pi'esiden- tial panel last April to probe the nation's worst commercial nuclear ac- cident near Harrisburg, Pa., and make recommendations on safety issues. According to several commission sources, the panel will call for a broad reorganization of the Nuclear Regulatory - Commission, (NRC), saying it has not paid adequate atten- tion to safety matters under its present structure. The panel reportedly will suggest the current five-member panel be replaced by a single administrator and that licenses for nuclear plants be subject to review on a regular basis. THE NRC currently makes decisions by a majority vote, and a power plant now is licensed only once. Ypsilanti police believe may have been carried out by the female and a male accomplice who is still at-large. The first hold-up occurred at 11 p.m. Monday when a motorist picked up a couple hitchhiking at the corner of Liberty and South Division Streets, police said. After the woman held a knife to the driver's throat and deman- ded money, he stopped his car in the 200 block of South Ingalls Street. Twenty-five minutes later another motorist also offered a couple a ride at the corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Hill Street. When the car stopped, the woman held a knife to the driver's throat and demanded money, Lunsford said. When she struggled with the motorist over the knife, the woman was stabl;ed. The woman's accomplice hit the driver over the head with a bottle, police said. The driver was shoved out of the car and the couple drove away. Ask Peace Corps volunteers why they travel to Africa, Asia and Latin America to work with farmers, teachers, and trades people. Ask VISTA volunteers why they work for a year organizing poor people in their American neighborhoods. They'll probably say they want to travel, help people, see new places and meet different people. Ask someone who's been there. PLACEMENT CENTER OCT. 30 - NOV. 1 STUDENT ACTIVITIES BLDG. hITA. Y COMPUTERS HEWLETT ,* u f .4 l-hP- INSTRUMENTS PACKARD By CHARLES THOMSON Bob Milbrath, president of 'the Rackham Student Government (RSG) last night officially withdrew the resignation he submitted to the RSG Executive Council earlier this year. Milbrath told the Executive Council that in light of the fact that no one had applied to replace him in the upcoming RSG elections, he would stay on as president. The council unanimously ac- cepted the withdrawl of Milbrath's resignation. A TOTAL OF three persons have ap- plied for the ten vacancies to be filled in the October 30 and 31 elections, accor- ding to Milbrath. One person, Patricia Carstensen, has definitely applied to represent Physical Sciences and Engineering on the council. Two people have apllied to represent Education, according to Milbrath and council member Nancy Tucker. But RSG of- ficials neither knew the names of those possible candidates nor confirmed that they were running.~ By October 22, the filing deadline for elections, no one had applied for the position of president, vice president, or represenative from either Humanities, Social Sciences; or Biological and Health Sciences. The council last night considered ex- tending the filing deadline for the elec- tions, but decided against it after coun- cil member Susan Van Alstyne claimed that such an extension might damage the council's credibility. The council also decided to table until after the next election an amendement to the -RSG by-lawys, proposed by Milbrath, which would have altered the way in which council members are elected. The amendment would have established an assembly of ap- proximately 120 representatives who would have been selected from depar- tments within the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. 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