The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 14

(The Simes ShreveportBossier 14-A Saturday, Feb. 25, 1984 eavenly searcir Times photosLEE SHIVELY Lily grease treatment facility gets light use By LARRY BURTON The Times Shreveport officials banked on steady business from commercial waste haulers after a temporary facility was opened Feb. 15 to dispose of excess grease from restaurants. They based those predictions on the backlash from haulers and restaurant managers when a liquid waste pond was closed last month at the West Shreveport Industrial Park. But since its premiere, only about two truckloads of grease a day have been deposited into treatment tanks installed at the city's Lucas Wastewater Treatment Plant a system which is expected to cost some a month to operate.

And Plant Director Charlie Harrell is wondering what gives? "We have just not been getting the closed the West Shreveport pond after the state launched an investigation into alleged toxic dumping there. Since that time, some haulers have jacked their prices for emptying restaurant grease traps to counter a per-load disposal fee required at the Lucas facility, said Billy Pace, owner of AAA Sanitation Service in Greenwood. "We just have to pass the cost on to the customer. We can't absorb it," said Pace, who is considering raising his price for the service from $30 to $45. "I had a couple of other haulers tell me they'd lost some customers." The cost of maintaining the tanks at Lucas, which are to remain in operation for six to nine months, is being borne largely by Caddo Parish and the city of Shreveport.

Meanwhile, officials are to try to determine what size a permanent pretreatment plant should be. volume that the haulers themselves said we would," Harrell said Friday. "Hopefully, all the businesses with grease in grease traps are having it picked up and brought down here." Harrell said he fears the "possibility" that some restaurants might be "dissolving the grease" with caustic substances and pouring the mix directly into the sewage system. "If the grease is allowed to go on down, our checks will detect this," he said, explaining that random inspec-, tions are made to enforce a city ordinance governing levels and types of discharges into the system. "I seriously doubt there would be any cases where we have to disconnect sewage service to anybody.

In every case in the past where we've had waste that was potentially damaging (to the system), we've had cooperation." The Caddo Parish Police Jury i mil- 1 KzJ HT 1 a if I Ik ter) and Eric Newman (as John F. Kennedv) Performers (left to right) Aundrea Harris (as Joe Deloney), Jamie Lunsford (title charac take the stage. Voter sign-up deadline nears; Bossier, Caddo rolls increase IIIIIIWIWWMWIWIl .0 if previous. That eclipsed the record 116,551 voters registered to cast fcallots in last fall's governor's race. According to Elections Commissioner Jerry Fowler, the 2,144,332 voters counted statewide last Dec.

31 were the most in Louisiana history. Fowler said that fact is apparently attributable to the keen interest generated by the governor's contest. A breakdown in Bossier Parish shows that 29,750 whites and 4,911 blacks were registered as of Dec. 31. In Caddo, the figures were 84,814 whites and 32,351 blacks.

Caddo residents can register to vote in the April 7 elections at the registrar's office in the Caddo Courthouse. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Bossier residents can sign up weekdays at the registrar's office at the courthouse in Benton.

A voter-registration office also operates Monday through Wednesday in Bossier City Hall, 635 Barksdale Blvd. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Absentee voting for the April 7 races will be held March 19-31.

March 7 is the last day to register to vote in the April 7 elections and recent figures show the rolls in both Caddo and Bossier parishes have swelled to record levels. Registration in Bossier reached a high point in December with 34,661 residents signed up to vote, according to Registrar Billy Johnston. By comparison, Bossier voter registration in December 1982 was 32,718. Likewise, the figure in Caddo as of Dec. 31 117,165 residents marked the largest number of eligible voters in the parish of any time Guardsmen going to Panama 1 amie.

and SearcVi fc All four battalions of Louisiana's 225th Engineers will work on the road. Louisiana adjutant general, Brig. Gen. Ansel Stroud, said 550 Louisiana Guardsmen volunteered for the project. About 1,200 engineers will serve 300 at a time, with about 160 Louisiana Guardsmen in each group working to build the road, Stroud said.

Partin said the units will be deployed in increments, starting in early March. The 527th will be the last increment to go. They will be back May 6 and the road will be complete before they leave, Partin said. Equipment is en route to Mobile and is to be shipped to Panama, Partin said. The Guard members will be flown from Barksdale Air Force Base into the site.

Although Louisiana is spearheading the joint exercise, Puerto Rican and Florida Guardsmen are participating. The trip to Cdntral America is considered a "very low threat" for the group, Partin said. The State Department, Department of Defense and National Guard Bureau considered the exercise carefully, he said. The majority of the 527th's training has been in Louisiana, the commander said. The Guardsmen have built air strips, roads and ball fields and will do that again at annual training, Partin said.

The asset of an out-of-country trip is that it is "an exercise for the staff as well as troops," Partin said, explaining that there is a lot of preparation for such a trip. "It is a different training operation for us," he said. From Staff, Wire Reports Over 100 National Guardsmen from an engineering unit in Bossier City will be going to Panama soon with other citizen-soldiers from across the state on a training exercise to build a road near Llano de MariatO, officials announced Friday. The announcement followed two months of rumors of some Central American assignment for the Louisiana Guard. Lt.

Col. Charles Partin, commander of the 527th Engineering Battalion headquartered in Bossier City, said the 7-mile road will be in a rural area. He said it will help upgrade the northwest part of Panama. Of the 780 people in the 527th, "something over 100" will go, Partin said. Jennifer Brown displays some angelic behavior.

The playhousefort at T.L. Rodes Elementary School in Bossier Parish was transformed into "Heaven" Friday as second-graders presented a play honoring late football star Joe Dclaney. Dclaney, who was from Haughton, died last year while trying to save three teenagers from drowning in an amusement park pond. The play, "Jamie and the Search for the Greatest American Hero," was written by Marti Childress, a teacher at Rose. Hero'l American Teotes ISports hero "Babe Didrikson" (second-grader Melinda (NAcGowen) peers out over the gates of "Heaven." FOLLOW-UP Jones' candidacy passes test BvllVlARY ANN HINES term as president of the U.S.

Jaycees," the effects it would have or By (MARY ANN HINES the effects it would have on him and Juror Gockrell has operation Caddo Parish Police Juror Bill Cockrell, 58, was "responding excellently" Friday afternoon after surgery performed hours earlier to remove a tumor from his brain, his private physician said. "He is awake, alert and talking," said Dr! Albert L. Bicknell. "He is carrying on a conversation just like you and I. We anticipate him doing well." The surgery was performed Friday morning at Willis-Knighton Medical Center by Dr.

Donald R. Smith, a neurosurgeon. Smith could not be reached yesterday to comment onCockrell's illnessv'''-; The tfi ree-term dis-trict includes northwest Shreveport, was admitted to Willis-Knighton on Feb. 15 and spent some four hours undergoing tests in an emergency room. Talking from his hospital bed earlier this week, Cockrell said he awoke at his Pines Road home that morning with cramps in his right leg.

Subsequent tests revealed brain tissue swelling, he said. Cockrell was recuperating yesterday in Willis-Knighton's intensive-care unit. his family. But at the same time, our entire system is based on laws. We're here to decide where his 'actual residence was." Fayard said Jones knew he had to reside in Tulsa if he became president and added that Jones leased his home on Yale Place in Bossier City during part of his term.

"I feel like he had a residence at 504 Yale Place, 425 Waller at a lake home and in Tulsa," Fayard said. Wellborn said he hopes the courts never have to interpret the charter "piecemeal" again. He said the court action is "tantamount to finding a loophole in something written in the Constitution." Wellborn added that he has not decided "not to vote for Donnie Jones." Jones said he was pleased about the decision. When asked if he thought the publicity generated from the lawsuit helped or harmed his campaign, he answered, "It gave the people in Bossier City an opportunity to examine the candidacy and campaign, and if they have been able to examine all the facts of the case, then I think it helped." the ruling said. "Jones' expressed intent was clearly corraborated by his frequent visits to Bossier City and by actually retaining his Bossier City job, voting registration, business, religious and social connections," the opinion written by Judge Jasper E.

Jones said. "Jones' temporary absence from Bossier City did not affect his status as a resident of Bossier City, which he had possessed for many years before he qualified as a candidate for mayor," it continued. In his 15-minute argument to the court, Jones' attorney, Ed Greer began, "This is a case involving intent. Intent is the key in determining residence. All roads in Don Jones' life lead to Bossier City.

"The irony is he was in Tulsa representing Bossier City," Greer said. Greer also explained that Jones had an arrangement with his parents to use their Waller Street home when he visited or that and their lake camp when he returned. Wellborn's attorney, Rick Fayard, said in his 15-minute argument, "We realize the gravity of the situation and Th Times Ftor the second time this week, Don Jones, a candidate for mayor of Boisier City, got word from the courts that he is eligible to continue running for the office. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal Friday affirmed a Bossier District Court runng issued Tuesday that said Jones meet the residency requirements for mayoral candidates as set forth in thi Bossier City Charter. James Wellborn, a Republican activist, filed a lawsuit against Jones, claiiming that Jones did not meet those requirements because as U.S.

Jayeee president from July 1982-83, he lived in the Jaycee White House in Tulsa. Wellborn, who said he was disappointed with the latest ruling, said he 11 not appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court. After studying briefs and hearing sfi ort arguments Friday morning, the 2nd Circuit judges affirmed the case aJ ter 20 minutes of deliberation. "Jones had always expressed the into nt to return permanently to Bossier ty at the expiration of his one-year Walsh: Posters cultists' work on the front door and walls of The Times Building. The Rev.

Thomas Barberito, pastor of St. John's, called the posters "silly" and speculated that the anti-Catholic messages could be due to the recently established diplomatic relations between the United States and the Vatican. "It must be the full moon," Barberito said. messages were found on the doors of both St. Joseph's and St.

John's Catholic churches, he said. "I always think, 'poor people, there just must be something wrong with them; Walsh said. Four-color posters first began appearing last week along North Market and more were discovered Thursday and Friday. Some were affixed to a SporTran bench and more were found Shreveport police are attempting to determine who printed and distributed anti-Catholic posters and other materials warning that television networks and several magazines are controlled by the Vatican. Monsignor Walter Walsh, vicar general of the Shreveport Deanery, said the signs were probably the handiwork of "cultists." Last summer, spray painted Police major wonH give up Syedrfi KEEN AN GINGLES The Times I Flanked by his attorney and observed by several news media representatives, Maj.

James Stanley pledged Friday that his three-year fl ght with the city to be promoted to A ssistant chief isn't over and said he ill take the case to the Louisiana Su-p reme Court if necessary. I Stanley's vow came during the same ay that rumors fan rampant in the 4 epartment about a major shake-up involving the transfer of two high-r anking officers and the promotions of si svcral others. i Members of the department have een the target in recent months of an BI investigation looking into allegations of payoffs. Those allegations transferred out of the division to the new job of patrol divison commander. Burns has the reputation of running a tight division and officials have said there have been problems with discipline and morale in the patrol division.

The officers who allegedly made allegations concerning gambling were all assigned to that division. Sgt. Doug Perdue is being transferred to patrol as an administrative assistant to Burns. Capt. Robert Merolla is being promoted to major and transferred to Burns' old job.

Lt. Roy Tabor, assigned to detectives, is being promoted to captain and will take over Merolla's job in charge of narcotics, vice and intelligence officers. Burns declined to comment on the changes, saying it would up to the chief of police to make any comments about such moves in the department. ment makes Tisdon the highest ranking black in the department. Hammons said the appeals court decision is referring the matter back to the civil service board for that body to make a determination of whether the city wanted to abolish the assistant chief slot.

"Obviously, by appointing Maj. Tisdon the city has confirmed that the position of assistant chief is a valid and needed position," Hammons said. The attorney said it was he who had advised Stanley not to retake the examination for assistant chief during the last testing cycle in June 1983. Tisdon was selected from the elfgible applicants taking that exam. Hammons said it was their position that, legally, Stanley was already assistant police chief and taking the test would be admitting that he wasn't Stanley, who has been on medical leave from the department since undergoing open heart surgery last year, said his not getting the assistant chief's job amounts to harassment on the part of Police Chief Cliff Heap and Mayor John Hussey, as well as former Mayor Bill Hanna.

Hussey said Tisdon was appointed because he was the most eligible under civil service rules. While the legal rumblings over the assistant chief slot continue, reports of planned promotions and transfers were shaking the department Heap was out of town and could not be reached for comment, but several officers interviewed yesterday confirmed the promotions and transfers. Maj. Sam Burns, who has been chief of detectives since the days when Kenneth Lanigan was police chief and who has been assigned to the detective division for several years, is being determine if the officers who made the allegations violated any police rules and regulations. In his press conference yesterday, Stanley's attorney.

John Hammons said his client will ask the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal to reconsider its decision handed down Tuesday. The court sent the matter back to the Shreveport Municipal Fire and Police Ciyil Service Board for a partial rehearing of the Stanley case. In July 1981, the board voted 3-2 to appoint Stanley to the post, but the city appealed the decision to district court. The district court then ruled Stanley should be named to the post and the city appealed that decision to the circuit court. Hammons disagreed with Mayor John Hussey's position that Tuesday's appeals court decision reversed the district court.

After the appeals court V. Mai. James Stanley decision, Hussey announced the promotion of Maj. T.C. Tisdon to the rank of assistant chief.

That appoint roved groundless ana me uepan- nent is conducting an inveaugduuu iu A i.