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"Safety first" is the slogan of the Jefferson County Highway Department — but sometimes they get a little rushed. This warning sign is on the approach to a county road bridge about 15 miles north of Lawrence.
Shrimpers file suit over oil slick
Shrimp, oyster beds threatened
Mar. 17
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NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — Louisiana shrimp fishermen filed a federal pollution suit Monday against Chevron Oil Co., claiming $70 million in damages from a giant oil slick that broke in half and began to circle an island home of migratory birds.
Nine shrimpers filed the suit in behalf of 2,000 of their fellow fishermen. They sought to pin liability for the oily hazard on Chevron, owner of the "Charlie" platform which has spewed crude oil into the gulf for a week.
A group of oyster fisherman filed a similar suit last Friday for $31.5 million in potential damages.
The oil slick, shoved toward the Louisiana coastline by southerly winds, began dividing and sliding around Breton Island Monday afternoon.
The Coast Guard said each arm of the slick was about 10 miles long and both arms were fragmented. One was moving about half a mile off the western tip of
The shrimp-rich coastal waters lie a few miles to the west and southwest of the island.
Breton Island and its wildlife refuge, and the other a mile off the eastern end.
A forecast for a shift to north- erly winds would move the oil toward the young shrimp crop. A Coast Guard spokesman said, however, normal tides would be enough to keep the slick from the shrimp beds unless the winds were very high.
Women employes sue Newsweek magazine
- NEW VORK (UPI) — Forty-six women employees of Newsweek magazine announced Monday they were suing the magazine under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, charging discrimination against them because of their sex.
The 46 released copies of a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington in which they charged that "women at Newsweek are systematically discriminated against in both hiring and promotion and are forced to assume subsidiary role simply because they are women."
The letter was the initial step in the women's legal action against the weekly news magazine. Their demands included the immediate interagence of men into the research staff, where
most of the women are employed, and the "opening of correspondence, writing and editing positions to women."
Before moving toward the island, the slick had floated offshore and had been watched carefully by the Coast Guard observers.
They charged that although many of the female researches held "impressive credentials," including degrees from prominent colleges, academic honors and valuable work experience in other areas of journalism, "News-week's caste system . . . relegates women with such credentials to research jobs almost exclusively and interminably."
The slick, which has been floating in the gulf for one week, had not yet damaged coastal oyster beds or the young shrimp crop Monday.
But easterly winds pushed the huge slick toward the oyster and shrimp-rich area near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
"The slick is not more than 10 or 15 miles offshore," said an observer who flew over the slick. "If the wind comes out of the north, it is likely the slick would move into the Delta National Wildlife Refuge within 48 hours."
The weather bureau predicted the winds would come out of the north by Tuesday.
Workers shut off the flow to
the No. 1 well aboard the platform Monday and a Chevron spokesman said only three wells ran uncontrolled. One of those, however, was the No. 6 well, which has produced most of the oil pollution.
"Well No. 6 has to be killed from below," a Chevron-spokesman said. "The damage to the pipes is so extensive that it has to be killed from below—sort of like going in the back door."
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