JULY 23, 1988- -3-BW Drilling, wildlife can co-exist, Hodel says THE PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY, 1 By ELIZABETH SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER The debate over whether to open 1.5 million acres of an Alaskan wildlife preserve to oil and gas drilling came to Cleveland yesterday. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Donald P. Hodel told about 150 lunchtime listeners at the City Club that it was a good gamble. He said the potential for return was rich and the chance for environmental damage slim.
Hodel said it had become a hallmark of the Reagan years that competing interests can share use of federal land. We feel that you can have both, that you don't need to choose." he said. But questioners challenged the OHIO BRIEFS Law enforcers tendent Thursday Franklin night's Smith school said board at asked 10 libraries meeting. Charles Hughes, a staff reprefor reading lists eral sentative of State. for the American and Munici- FedASSOCIATED PRESS County pal Employees, said that unless WELLSTON Directors of 10 the schools revised an offer of Ohio public libraries, responding salary three-year increases contract, in each a year strike of by a to a survey by the Ohio Library Association, say law enforcement unions non-teaching representing workers the 1,700 officers have requested informa- ble.
was possition have about "excited patrons suspicion who by might the He said the non-teaching workers wanted raises similar to those books they were granted teachers in a recent conThe librarians made their report to trustees of Ohio Valley tract over two years and Area Libraries Thursday night. third year. of wages in the renegotiation In every instance, officials were reminded that the information No strike date has been set. they sought is privileged and they were advised to seek a court Piggyback tax proposed order, Ted Despres, State Library WILMINGTON Clinton the liaison, OLA told the questionnaire trustees. had He been said County commissioners may sent to 90 libraries in Ohio.
impose an additional half-percent sales tax to forestall an Aug. 5 layoff in the Sheriff's Department. Stuck sofa causes flood Commissioners President David COLUMBUS A discarded liv- Stewart says. ing room sofa wedged against a The piggyback sales tax drain pipe was blamed for flood- increase would raise about ing an apartment complex and $700.000 per year and ease the washing out a temporary road on county's financial crisis, Stewart the far north side. said Thursday.
The sofa washed down a creek He said most county departalongside apartments at the inter- ment heads favored the proposal section of Shrock and Karl Rds. during a meeting with commisduring a heavy rainstorm Thurs- sioners Thursday. The commisday. It became wedged against a sioners increase can without impose voter the sales tax drain pipe leading to a culvert approval. under a temporary bypass on Another option under considerSchrock that is being ation is a request by Sheriff widened.
Patrick Haley for a 3-mill police washed out the tem- levy that would raise $921,000 per porary road and flooded about year from property taxes, Stewart 100 apartments in the complex of said. 364 units. The county will have an estimated $278,728 less in 1989 than it had in 1988, according to the Dayton plans for strike county auditor's preliminary cerDAYTON Dayton public tification of funds for the coming schools administrators say they year, Stewart said. The decrease are preparing for a possible in funds is due to a drop in carstrike by non-teaching workers. ryover, the reserve fund from one "We will have school," Superin- year to the next, he said.
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SHOWCASE LIVINGROOM SHOWCASE 8381 Pearl Strongsville WHITNEY RD. 9 Between Sprague 234-8686 Whitney Rds. The Plain Dealer is on the ball when it comes to sports coverage. 1 He said it had become a hallmark of the Reagan years that competing interests can share use of federal land. idea that resource exploitation and conservation could Kuper of the Northeast Ohio Sierra Club called Hodel's talk "halftruths and Harry Antel, 71.
of Olmsted Township. said the Interior Department's own studies showed drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could sacrifice of a local caribou herd for a likelihood of finding oil. Hodel said the study showed only that up to of the 180.000-head herd might be displaced from part of its breeding grounds. That's not the same as destruction, he said. The forum was the first of a new City Club.
series devoted to environmental topics, endowed with a $25.000 gift from Hope and Stanley of Pepper Pike. Mrs. Adelstein listened politely to Hodel's presentation but put on her "Dukakis for President" button afterward. Although Hodel supports opening part of the Arctic refuge to oil drilling. the matter must be decided by Congress.
A House bill Il that would open the 1.5 million acres about oneeighth of the wildlife refuge to oil-leasing has been stuck in an Interior Committee subcommittee since May. The chairman of that subcommit. tee, Rep. George Miller. has accused Hodel's department of suppressing a report that said environmental damage from oil drilling in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay had been far greater than predicted.
Prudhoe Bay, where oil drilling involves BP America is about 65 miles from the wildlife refuge. Hodel said yesterday that the report was a staff report that represented the views of "one staff member" at the U.S. Fisn and Wildlife Service and was not supported by others at the service. "We do not feel (it) fairly represents the situation," Hodel told a City Club questioner. He said "a better factual basis" was required.
He did not elaborate. Hodel, who took the Interior job in 1985. drew guffaws when he said his research showed the Interior secretary's position had been controversial from its inception in the 1840s. The second Interior secretary lasted only 11 days before he determined his delicate constitution couldn't handle it, Hodel said. "It was the greatest consolation of my life to find out that this job has never been a stepping-stone to anything." Hodel said.
Four are arrested here in U.S. cocaine sting Four men who investigators say sold drugs from a nightclub across the street from East High School were charged yesterday in U.S. District Court with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. An arrest warrant has been issued for a fifth man on the same charge. Charged were three brothers.
Michael Nelson, 35, the bar owner: Stephen Nelson, 32: and Demetrius East Cleveland. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Joseph Parker, 25, of Superior Cleveland. The men were charged after an investigation of activities at Vices. a nightclub at E. 79th and Superior by a federal drug task force that included agents of the FBI and the IRS.
An FBI agent's affidavit says the source set up and made drug buys cocaine, worth $27,000, was set for Wednesday, the day agents raided the club and confiscated records and some drugs. Agents also confiscated a Mercedes-Benz. a Nissan Maxima, a Lincoln Continental and a motorcycle belonging to the men. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth McHargh said the government was particularly concerned about the operation because of its proximity tunek set preliminary hearings for 2 p.m.
July 29. The men were held pending posting of bond. McHargh asked that they be required to show the source of any bond money that is posted. Vices was the scene of the fatal shooting of a man by an off-duty Cleveland policeman last February. In September 1987, a narcotics raid there led to the arrest of nine peo- Nelson.
26, all of E. 79th and on several occasions beginning in to the school. ple and the seizure of cocaine, Curtis Davis, 42, of Melbourne May. A buy of two kilograms of U.S. Magistrate Joseph W.
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