KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Thursday, June 18, 1981 Vol. 91, No.149 USPS 650-640
Contractor contests OSHA's asbestos citation
By TIM ELMER
Staff Reporter
Allegations to the R.D. Andersen Construction Co. mishandled asbestos at Marvin Hall have been contested by the contractor. The representative for the company, Stewart Entz, opuses lawyer, said yesterday, "We don't believe that we were any violations of the federal law."
The citation is being contested on three issues, Ents said. The issues are whether Marvin Hall is within OSHA's jurisdiction to issue the citation, whether OSHA's procedures in filing the citation were proper and whether there actually was a legal violation.
In early June, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Wichita issued a citation against the Andersen Construction. Colleging that the company violated a federal law regulating the handling and disposal of asbestos at the Marvin Hall renovation project.
Entz said the most significant of the three issues being contested, was whether a health safety violation had occurred. He declined to elaborate.
"I don't believe I should go into detail about the issues," he said, "because we don't want the other side to read about it in the paper."
Lee Eberng, industrial hygiene supervisor at
the MSA Safety asbestos had been identified
as a carcinogenic substance.
"If the old asbestos material is not disposed of
The contractor failed to take proper precautionary steps in handling and disposing of
OSHA's citation alleged that the contractor "willfully" violated OSHA regulations.
Enberg explained that "willful" means that OSHA thought the company was aware of the potential health hazard created by the violations.
"A citation is a list of allegations against the company and proceeded penalties," he said.
THE CITATION ALLEGUES that the Andersen company did not place caution signs in areas where asbestos may have been in excess of safe limits, that caution signs were not placed on articles or containers of asbestos at the site and that asbestos levels were not monitored.
Because asbestos levels were not monitored,
the citation explained, excessive levels of the material were found at the site and waste materials contaminated by asbestos were not properly disposed of.
In addition to the specification of violations, Enberg said, the citation ordered an end to the violations and imposed a $2,000 fine on the company.
The Andersen company had 15 days to resend
to the citation. Entz said a letter of contest was filed this week with the OSA office in Wichita
Ella said the booths and the large openings in the floors had been removed from the site and that the asbestos remaining in the floors had been sealed and encased.
"The elevator shaft and the air ducts are there and they have all been sealed," he said. "The
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George Thorogood & The Destroyers.
"Wherever we play,we turn it into a dump!"
BY CHRIS MORRIS
You've seen the shirt, right? Then what's the need of an interview? George Thorogood curls his lip as he says this, revealing a set of large, dangerous-looking teeth. "Fangs" may be the better term, considering Thorogood's apparel. Clad in a scintillating skinskien jacket (identical to the one worn by Marlon Brando in The Fagin Kinn) and matte black leather gloves, he strikes a battle. As Thorogood half-scoops and pushes another cracker into his mans he eyes my tape machine. I begin to wonder if it's next on the menu.
it I have to explain it to ya ^_^ . Thoroughly reexamine the words on the subterranean dress she wore. "I am preparing for it, he is preparing for solo out evening show. He continues. I mean, you must have a general idea of what you're going to wear."
Thorogood bristles like a corpse if you request any deep thoughts about his music. It's dirty, man, it's dirty', he replies. "We just play it, man. We dig it. If it's too loud, we turn it down. If it's not loud enough, we play it over it anyway. It's entertainment, period. Some of it's funny, some of it's ... out of tune. That very funny."
Responses like these shave years off an interviewer's life span, but Thorogood may have a point. The Wilmington, Dellaware singer guitarist's music drawn from such diverse sources has been called "Hound Dog Taylor," the rock 'n' roll of Chuck Berry and Bob Diddley, and the country and western of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash — is loud, rowdy and direct, better felt than explained. Thorogood's live concert features a variety of some George I or her orchestra riot as the Destrovers — drummer Jeff Simon, bassist Billy Bleigh, and saxophonist Hank Carter — lay down a barrethouse roar behind him, the guitarist does a slow dance with his fingers tapping to dip the neck of his guitar over the heads of the crowd like a roadhouse Pope blessing the masses. If it's a club show, Thorogood will dance across the ringside table tops, all the while wring amped-up shrieks and sawmill bottleneck noise from his Gibbon shuts down and the feet start moving.
Although Thorogood greets most questions about his career as churlish as master journalist blaster Frank Sinatra, a rough outline emerges. He first danced with the band at around 10 years ago listening to a band whose repertoire bears a marked similarity to the Destroyers — the Rolling Stones. At the same time, he got a chance to hear the black greats of the style in person, in concerts in New England and the Northwest.
"I saw 'em play, not a lot, but anytime I heard they were playing anywhere within 3000 miles, I went to see 'em play," Thorogood says. I ask him if he ever saw Hound Dog Taylor, the late Chicago blues and boogie king whose "Just Can't Take" it appears on Thorogood's third Rounder Records album. sure, he replies. Where? Oh, Washington, D.C Philadelphia, Cambridge, in Connecticut, Ann Ar
Thorpeod began his professional career about seven years ago. The current members of the De stroyers joined up along the way — Simon early on Bough about two years later, and Carter, whose leather-toned sax playing enliven Thorpeod's recent release, Move George Thorpeod and the De
sorrowly, two years ago, of OL. Carter, Thirredous who he likes to drink. I like to drink. It was a question of whether I should drink.
Two other records — 1978's Move It on Over and last year's Move — followed. Goddard himself refers to the vinyl trilogy as "A Fault of Dollars for A Few Dollar Mints and The Good, the Bad, and The Light." A good measure of the Destroyer's appeal is the band's success with the 1979 release of some 1974 demos cut by the band for the label. Thorogood, incensed by this rather cheap move, took the group off the road for seven months to avoid indictment pains in court. This helped much, much the lavish coincided with the baseball season.
The Destroyers original trio line played every bar in New England in their early days, one such gig featuring a pair of saxophonists and the group to his friends at Rounder Records, a small folk specialist label headquerartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Rounder went on to release the hit "Dancing With the Devil," featured Thorughood's raucous talking blues version of John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch." The band hit and a sales dream come true for tiny Rounder.
"I embarrass myself in the infield." Thorogood says of his playing as second baseman with the semi pro Delaware Destroyers. The band doesn't tour during the baseball season (diamond Simon is a teammate), but Thorogood makes light of the music press coverage accorded his baseball mamba they've got along this thing with. "He's it," he says, "actually I have." About asked about reports that he is going up baseball for music, he replies. If I'm gmna give it up for something, she's gonna be good lookin', at least.
The sports-oriented conversation turns to professional wrestling and Thorogood's mood moment in "Bulls," where he is a bit browning and Indian Billy White Wolf. he concludes. I bring up the name of Handseme Jimmy Valance, a perused pro 1 used to know in Chicago when his brother was a little pendant that Elvis Presley gave him? I am about to say George himself with his bulls, but I'd never make a mistake, but bad guy. I think of better it.
The talk returns to music, and the relative scarcity of original material in Thorogoad's repertoire (one instrumental, 'Kids from Philly', is credited to Jorge Thorogoad). ThorogoodReply earnedly, 'I've been doing original material off the stage, but the songs aren't any good!' If they were as good as those, the band would have just played it even let these guys (indicating the band members) hear some of the stuff, it's too embarrassing
So the DoTreaters will continue to record and play bar band tough covers of roadhouse rolls in roll and blues. At the wind, roadhouse rolls give groves a rhythm. In some cases I heard all that music, I didn't really think it be longewed that I didn't think it belonged in a band. But it did. What we listened to it, he points to his gleam ing boxes and says, "It's like sax in dig snaresak books, nobody's gotta get me where to wear em or not."
With pride, he continues, "Besides, wherever we play, we turn it into a dump. Whether we're playing or not, it becomes devastated. It's the five-man trio, that our act."
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Averill said there was also a possibility he would have a paid fund raiser next year.
He did not know the status of the touring subsidies given by the KAC at this time Averil
Under this program, any school or art center in Kansas has to pay only half the cost of having the Seem-to-Be Players perform or conduct any event that matches any funds paid by the school or art center.
"WE'VE GOT THE gracious support of a lot of different people, broad-based community support," he said. "In and a couple of years to come, I hope we can get some good, strong pledges from local businesses because the slack is going to have to take up some of the slack."
The Averils also work together at the Apple Valley Farm Theatre. The Ric Averil Players perform adult melodramas at the dinner theater on Friday and Saturday evenings.
"The productions are so stylized with a really broad style, a lot of getting out of character and playing around with the audience, hissing and cheering and people getting beer and pop peanuts," he said. "It's a real relaxed, fun run atmosphere, just an incredible release for all of us."
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MARTIFRUMHOFF/Kansas Staff
theatre director, jokes with some youngsters while
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