Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 312, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 August 1985 — Page 3

Everyone's trash others'treasure at social dump c. 19H5 N.Y. Times News Service WELLESLEY, Mass Summer is the time when residents of the historic Boston area show off the special sights of Massachusetts, and so when Joseph J. Incandela and his niece got back from Martha’s Vineyard he took her to the Wellesley dump. “She’s visiting from Syracuse,’’ explained Incandela, the president of an electrical wire and cable manufacturing concern. “I said, ‘Laurie, you have to come and see this place.’ ” And so they loaded five bags of sorted household garbage and the Incandelas’ enormous black silky Newfoundland show dog, Alex, into the family’s shiny automobile and drove down the wooded whitefenced approach road into the dump. “This is fabulous,” Laura Canessa said, looking around at the manicured grounds, the green benches in the shade of locust trees and the neatly lettered individual bins, one for each element of household trash. “This is really nice.” It is, in fact, remarkable: a dump to which people not only gladly take their garbage but also take their friends from out of town. It happens all the time. Its more formal name, one reflecting the town’s elevated approach to trash, is the Wellesley Recycling and Disposal Facility. But “the dump,” fondly spoken, it commonly remains. It is, as Incandela discovered when he moved here in 1984, one of the first things new residents hear about. To a verifiable extent, life in this highly educated, highly affluent college town of 27,000 people in the suburbs of Boston revolves around the dump People go there to leave things but stay to swap and socialize, picking over one another’s trash and the events of the day. That morning Mrs. Thomas Kennedy, as she gave her name, dropped off a well-used badminton set in the “Reusable Items Corner” next to a microwave oven and an airconditioner Ingrid Morrison saw it, pictured summer afternoons around the net, and took it home. “It’s a remarkable part of life," said the Rev. John Fallon, a Roman Catholic priest who lives in Wellesley and works as a chaplain at a Veterans Administration hospital in Boston. “Everybody is very cheerful, here,” he said with a ruddy smile. “It’s the one place on a Saturday morning where you can meet the largest number of people. ” Inevitably, such cheer in such large numbers draws politicians seeking votes. The dump is a regular forum in town selectmen races, but its influence reaches higher, too. When Elliot L. Richardson, the patrician former United States attorney general, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate last year, he took his candidacy to the dump. But more routinely, this being Wellesley, it draws residents rummaging for a good book. On any day, young professional people, purposeful, whip-straight Yankee women and graybearded professorial-looking men can be seen browsing the shaded bookshelves set up at the dump. They deposit what they have read and take home what others have. The shelves that day contained several hundred hard-cover offerings, including “Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose,” “Money and Banking: Analysis and Policy” by Whitlesey Freedman Herman, two sets of the “Outline of History” by H.G. Wells, a novel by Saul Bellow and several volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. When Mrs. Albion and her husband. Professor Mark Albion of the Harvard Business School, moved to Wellesley almost four years ago, the bookshelves of their house proved more capacious than their book collection, and Albion filled the empty space with selections from the dump. “They served nicely,” she said. The history of those bookshelves is a sample of the evolution of this dump, at once as sensible and sophisticated as New England itself. Wellesley has never had a garbage collection system, so its residents or in an earlier age, their servants were accustomed to conveying their own trash. But when the town’s incinerator at the dump was shut down about 10 years ago, unable to meet new federal emission standards, and an environmental group in town began lobbying for trash recycling, the rudiments of the present system came into being.

VA probing kickbacks from drug companies

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - The Veterans Administration is investigating more than 75 of its employees who have been accused of accepting money and gifts worth as much as $50,000 to $60,000 from Smith Kline & French Laboratories Ltd., sources close to the investigation said Friday. The employees under investigation include pharmacists and physicians who sit on the hospital formulary committees that determine which drug products are bought; one or more directors of VA hospitals, and personnel at the central office of the agency’s department of medicine and surgery in Washington, the sources said. Donna St. John, a spokesman for the veterans agency, acknowledged that an investigation involving a single major drug company was under way, but she declined to name the company or any of the agency's employees under investigation. Alan J Wachter, a spokesman for Smith Kline & French in Philadelphia, acknowledged that the company’s records had been reviewed by VA investigators but

Tainted cheese recalled

WHITE PLAINS, NY. (AP) General Foods Corp has announced a nationwide recall of its Liederkranz soft-ripened cheese because it may be contaminated with the same bacteria that tainted some Mexican-style cheese, causing 61 deaths in the West earlier this year A company spokeswoman warned Friday that some of the Liederkranz cheese believed to be contaminated with Listeria bacteria had reached retail stores. “Some cheese at the retail level is contaminated,’’ said spokeswoman Kathleen

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John Carper browses through a selection of books displayed on shelves at the popular Wellesley, Mass., dump. Residents of the college town of 27,000 not only leave things at the dump, they stay to swap refuse and socialize. (N.Y. Times photo)

The mill to which the dump sold recycled newspapers found hard-cover books, with their glued bindings, were indigestible, so the dump’s managers set out a separate barrel for the books. People began to sort through the barrel, crowding one another, so the dump replaced the barrel with a small shelter, something like a tool house. Its floor filled with books and people, until finally, someone thought of shelves. Like the bookshelves, the dump is actually a collection and sorting depot around the old incinerator building, a system of bins and bays for recyclable material that is sold as salvage. The “Clear Glass” bin is littered with labels of good Scotch whiskies and the “Green Glass” bin with Vermouth and white wine bottles. There are bins for cardboard, for newspapers, for magazines, milk cartons, paper bags, aluminum foil and plastic bottles of certain sizes and colors There is a Goodwill Industries trailer for old clothes, a bin for old tires and lastly, a bin for simple household garbage. The dump brought in $78,0(X) in sales of salvaged goods last year, said Pat Berdan, the retired Navy officer who is director of public works. And a telephone survey conducted this year by the business department of Babson College, down the street, showed that 80 percent of Wellesley’s 27,000 residents use the dump (those who do not pay private carters to haul away their trash); 73 percent of those who use the dump said they recycled materials frequently and 98 percent said they thought the dump was well-managed. They liked the fact that it was so clean and neat. What cannot be sold is hauled out of town to a commercial landfill, which accepts it for $14.82 a ton, a fee that is to rise in November as a reflection of rising pressure on landfill operations, to $25 a ton. The dump’s employees try to sift what the residents have not, and one day, in going through some cast-off boxes, George Barry, the dump’s manager, found $8,500 in negotiable securities. He delivered them to the door of the woman who had thrown them out, a kind of reverse curb service. “Oh, my God,” she said, “I’m glad my husband's not at home.”

denied that any honorariums or gratuities had been paid to agency employees in an effort to influence them to buy Smith Kline products. Speaking for the Smith Kline Beckman Corp., the parent company of Smith Kline & French Laboratories, Wachter said: “We are aware of the ongoing VA investigation and, for more than a year, have cooperated fully with the agency in its review of our documents. Our activities have been open, above board and consistent with traditional practices and applicable law.” The investigation, which has been quietly under way since the spring of 1984, was brought to the attention of government doctors in the Thursday issue of U S. Medicine, a Washington-based newspaper for federal physicians. The full implications of the investigation, which was reportedly initiated by a tip from a Smith Kline employee, are not yet apparent. One high official familiar with the findings said he believed they indicated an organized effort to influence purchasing

MacDonough. “What we re saying is all Liederkranz is being withdrawn from the market.” So far, no consumer has reported becoming ill after eating the cheese, the company said. It announced the recall Thursday. The cheese was made by the Fisher Cheese Co. of Van Wert, Ohio, and distributed nationwide by Otto Roth and Co. of Moonachie, N.J., a General Fods subsidiary.

decisions throughout the agency’s decentralized system of 172 hospitals. “Some people were bought and sold.” he charged. The official asked not to be identified. Dr. Donald L. Custis, former head of the VA department of medicine and surgery, said he knew nothing about the details of the investigation but added that it “could be very, very serious.” If up to “100 senior people could be so so gullible” that they accepted gratuities from a major drug company, he said, then “it could be a heck of a scandal.” However, some of those under investigation are said to have received little more than tickets to sporting events or stage shows or free meals and drinks. In other cases, investigators are said to have found that cocktail parties or retirement parties for employees of the agency were paid for by the drug company. In some extreme cases, a knowledgeable official said, some employees received honorariums and fees totaling $50,000 to $60,000 over a period of two or three years. Those under investigation face disciplinary action ranging from coun-

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Deadend murder probe Authorities still baffled one year later in search for Hoosier housewife's killer

ARGOS, Ind. (AP) All the tips have been tracked to deadends, and police say they’ll need some luck to find the killer of a woman beaten and abducted from her home one year ago. The investigation into the death of Darlene Hulse nevertheless remains open. “We haven’t given up on it, and we have no intention of giving up on it,” Sheriff Richard Tyson said recently. “We’ll keeping work on it as long as it’s out there.” Despite having a description of Mrs. Hulse’s attacker and his car, and despite special efforts to encourage the public to contact police with tips, police and forensic experts agree the case is growing cold A faculty member of the Indiana University Department of Criminal Justice says police investigations follow a “decay curve” in unsoved cases. “The longer they can’t pin it on anybody, the less chance they will eventually be able to solve it,” Cathy Spatz Widom, a former chairman of the department said in a telephone interview from her Bloomington office. Bomb ignites as officer reaches in BOSTON (AP) A bomb placed in front of an office building Friday exploded in the face of a police officer trying to dismantle it, seriously injuring him and wounding another officer, police said. A short while later, a second device thought to be a bomb was found in a mailbox in neighboring Cambridge, but it was safely taken apart. The officers were injured at the city dump ns police tried to disarm a 9-inch long, 3-inch diameter cylindrical device found on the front steps of the building, which housed an Arab interest office, said Police Commissioner Francis Roache An anonymous telephone caller claiming to represent the Jewish Defense League said the group had planted numerous bombs in the area to fight “the Arab threat.” A JDL official denied responsibility, and condemned the bombing. Officer Randolph LaMattina, 40, was reaching into a trailer to remove the bomb from the heavy steel pod in which police transported it when it exploded, said Deputy Superintendent Joseph Saia. Police knew of no motive for the bombing or of any bomb threats before the device was found, said Superintendent JohnE. Barry. The building houses an office of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. Suhair Abberrazzaq, a worker in the AAAC office, said the group had received no bomb threats or threatening calls before or after the incident. The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald said they received telephone calls after the bomb exploded from a man who identified himself as a member of the JDL, a militant Jewish group, and claimed responsibility for the bomb.

seling or admonishments to suspension and, in some cases, dismissal, the veterans agency said. The investigation has already provoked a strong warning to employees. Dr. John W. Ditzler, the agency’s medical director, sent a message to employees a few weeks ago expressing “deep concern” over the acceptance of “gratuities, gifts and honorariums from drug companies and individuals seeking to do or currently doing business with the Veterans Administration.” He said the VA’s regulations prohibited any activity that might be construed as “a conflict of interest,” and also prohibited employees from accepting anything of monetary value from a company that did business or sought to do business with the agency. According to the transcript of a con ference call among agency officials ob tained by U S. Medicine, those found tc have conflicts of interest are being removed from hospital formulary com mittees.

Saturday, August 17,1985, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

Mrs. Hulse was attacked Aug. 17, 1984 in her home just south of Argos by an intruder who posed as a deliveryman. Her body was discovered the following day in a wooded area several miles from the Hulse’s home. She was 28 Police circulated a description of the killer and his rusted green car coaxed from Mrs. Hulse’s stunned children Tips and leads flooded in Officers checked them out, but got nowhere. The torrent of tips slowed, and then, for the most part, stopped After a few months, the only Marshall County sheriff’s detective who had remained fulltime on the case turned his attention to other matters as well. Investigators do not know, with any certainty, whether the assailant lived in the area; whether he knew the Hulses, or at least knew of them; whether he planned the attack or simply picked the Hulse home at random. “I don’t know what to think anymore,” Tyson said. Police can only hope that the assailant will make a mistake. “If he gets involved

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in something else, or gets picked up on something else, this would probably be our only chance at the present time.” Tyson said. Last fall, police thought they might have a suspect in a Logansport man shot to death by police in Texas several weeks after the Hulse slaying. But blood samples taken from the dead man did not match blood stains believed to be from Mrs. Hulse’s attacker. In January, the case was publicized through the Crimestoppers program in which television stations and newspapers provide accounts of unsolved crimes. South Bend police Sgt. Sam Walsh says 484 felony arrests have been made following tips given police in Crimestopper cases. But in the Hulse case, the publicity generated only three tips, all of which proved to be dead-ends, Walsh said. Still, Crimestoppers is willing to take another crack at solving the mystery, he said. “As soon was we get word from Marshall County, we’ll run the Hulse case again,” he said.

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