Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, September 25, 1991, Page 8, Image 8

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Lack of spare parts killed workers
KALKICH. N C
(AP) A shortage
of spam parts at a
poultry plant
where a fire killed 25 people
forced workers to repair worn
hydraulic lines that should
have !>ecn replaced, four former
employees said in a report pub
lished Tuesday
The Sept :i fire at the Imperi
al hood Products chicken pro
cessing plant In Hamlet, about
<♦(> miles southwest of Kuletgh,
began when a hydraulic line
being repaired ruptured and
sprayed flammable fluid on a
gas fired fryer, state Investiga
tors have said
I (inner maintenance worker
David Andrews said he repeat
edly told plant manager fired
Roe, whose father owns the
plant, th.it the lack of spare
parts and equipment created a
safety hazard
' He would always say it was
going to get bettor, we would
gel some parts later on," An
drews said "But, It never got
any I Milter
In separate interviews with
The News Ht Observer of Ha
Icigh. Andrew*, and fellow for
mer maintenance worker. Bill
Billingsley. Johnny Locklear
and Robert Long said they fre
quently had to repair hydraulic
lines because they leaked or
broke away from fittings
A fifth worker. Roger Hall,
who Was Imperial’s mainten
ance manager for six months
last \< .ir. agreed that the high
pressure lines leaked hut said
thev were properly maintained
Imperial bought spare parts
when they were needed, he
said.
"If something had been bust
ed. il something was real un
safe. I feel Brad Roe. instead of
risking lives, would have shut
the plant down and had it
fixed." said Hall, whose wife
was an Imperial supervisor un
til the fire shut down the plant.
Imperial spokeswoman Kelly
Roe in Atlanta said she was un
aware of any complaints about
span* parts She wouldn’t com
ment further
Hall said he fired Billingsley
and Long because they were
unreliable and failed to show
up for work several times
Billingsley said ho quit be
cause he was fed up with the
plant The News & Observer
had no comment from Long,
and the only Kofrort Long listed
in the telephone book never
worked at the plant, said a
woman who answered his
home phone Tuesday night
Locklear, who worked at the
plant for about six months last
year, said he also was fired. He
said maintenance workers fre
quently were asked to work (>
or 7-day weeks and he was too
tired to work the day he was
fired.
The four former workers told
The News Kc Observer the leaks
occurred as often as once a
week.
Hydraulic fluid "would go all
over the side of the machine
and on the floor,” said An
drews, who worked as a main
tenance worker at the plant for
about six months starting late
last year. The newspaper didn’t
say how Andrews’ employment
at the plant ended. There was
no answer Tuesday night at the
listed number of a David An
drews in Hamlet.
JJL.
Government delays sexual study
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tho government is
delaying a study of adult sexual beliavior that
was to assist in AIDS roseurt :h bec ause of wor
ries that it may draw opposition from tho
White House and Congress, an official said
Tuesday
"We full that the climate wasn't right," said
Wendy Baldw in, chief of the Demographic and
Behavioral Si iont e Branch of the National In
stitute of Child Health and Human Develop
ment
The National Institutes ol Health had award
ed a St million grant to the National Opinion
Keseuri h Center in Chicago to conduct the
study.
Last week, however, the researchers were
told that tiie mooes was lieing held up, accord
ing to report in Wednesday's editions of The
Washington Post, which first reported the inci
dent
Ms Baldwin said the institute had planned
to ask for money for the study this fiscal year
hut now plans to hold off until ufter the start ol
the next financial year. That happens next
week
"It didn't seem to he an ideal time to go
ahead with the study," Ms. Baldwin said in u
telephone interview from her suburban Mary
land home.
The said the results of the study could have
helped AIDS researchers hut there has been
opposition from the White House and Con
gress over similar sex surveys
Health and Human Servii.es Se< rotary Louis
Sullivan stopped a S1B million survey last July
that was to look into teenage sexual practices
Missouri: Center of the nation
WASHINGTON (Al*) Tho nation's center
of population is near tho small southeastern
Missouri community of Steelvide, tho Census
Human confirmed Tuesday
Tho bureau calculates the country’s center of
population once a decade, following the cen
sus
Kep. Dill Emerson, K Mo . said the new cen
ter has been pinpointed on a wooded plot 9.7
miles southeast of Steelville, a community of
nearly 1,500.
A Census Bureau spokesman confirmed the
Missouri site and said it would he officially
announced later.
In 1980, the population center was near De
Soto, a Missouri community a!>out 50 miles
northeast of Steelville
‘Senator’ Bono?
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Bono
said Tuesday he was reconsidering a run for
the U S. Senate.
Bono, half the Sonny and Cher pop duo in
the 1970s and mayor of this desert resort town
since 1988, said a Senate hid was a possibility
"if we get all the ducks lined up the way we
want
Bono, a Republican, said lie will make an
announcement next week
Both of California’s Senate seats, held by
Democrat Alan Cranston and Republican John
Seymour, are up for grabs in 1992.
Cranston is retiring and Seymour was ap
pointed by Gov Pete Wilson to succeed
Wilson after the gubernatorial election last No
vember.
Bono announced in January that he would
not he a candidate for the Senate and would
run for re-election as mayor.
He said a statewide race would put too
much strain on his family. His wife, Mary, was
expecting the couple's second child at the
time Since his daughter Chianna's birth in
February, his home life is more settled, Bono
said.
Henson gets his star
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Muppots" creator
Jini Henson was honored posthumously Tues
day with a star on the Hollywood Walk of
f ame during a soml>er ceremony.
Actress Daryl Hannah, comedian Ruth Bu/./.i
and "Barney Miller" star Hal Linden joined
200 people for tho Hollywood Boulevard un
veiling on what would have been Henson’s
55th birthday Henson died in May 1090.
If Jim were here, he would have said, ‘This
is neat,"’ Henson's longtime ugent and friond
Bornte Brillstein said at the unveiling of the
1,938th star along the walkway.
No music was played and none of the "Mup
pets" characters appeared.
A double-decker bus bearing a "We miss
Jim" sign rolled past, and green, helium-filled
balloons were released, apparently in reference
to the song "It’s Not Easy Being Green” by Ker
mit the Frog.
Henson is best known for his Emmy-win
ning 1*V series "The Muppet Show,” the ani
mated series "Muppet Babies" and HBO's
"Fraggle Rock.”