Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 25, 1995 TAG: 9508250097
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-7 EDITION: METRO
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WASHINGTON - A hazardous-waste recycler in Pennsylvania will spend up to $40 million on pollution controls under a settlement with the federal government.
Horsehead Resources Development Co. and its parent, Horsehead Industries Inc., also agreed to pay a $5.65 million fine, ending a 31/2-year-old lawsuit that accused the company of discharging hazardous materials from its processing plant in Palmerton, Pa.
Horsehead, which admitted no wrongdoing, resells zinc it extracts from the hazardous materials left from steel-making operations elsewhere. Lead and cadmium are among the waste products of the zinc-recovery process.
- Associated Press
Modeling classes to include disabled
WASHINGTON - Sears, Roebuck and Co. agreed Thursday to open its youth fashion-modeling courses to disabled children and teen-agers in order to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
The settlement resolved a complaint filed by Summer Nicole Peavy, an 11-year-old Seminole, Fla., girl who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair.
Summer's mother said the girl was told by a Sears instructor she could not participate in a four-session course in fashion modeling because the class used a runway that was one foot off the ground. The instructor allegedly said she thought Summer would be out of place with the other children and suggested her mother consider individual instruction.
- Associated Press
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Federal marshals raided three more makeshift garment factories in Los Angeles and took 55 people into custody, many of whom authorities think are immigrants repaying the professional smugglers who brought them to the United States. It is the second time federal agents have uncovered sweatshops in California this month.
Contel Cellular's three-day reprogramming event for cellular telephone users who haven't yet had their phones adjusted for the new 540 area code continues today through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., at Valley View Mall in Roanoke. Customers get free pizza and drinks while the phones are reprogrammed, which generally takes about five minutes. The new area code becomes mandatory in January.
Varsity Transfer of Roanoke will offer long-distance moving throughout the mid-Atlantic region Sept. 15, President John Lugar said. The company received a license from the Interstate Commerce Commission on July 11 granting it rights to operate nationally, but it will limit its operations to a 400-mile geographic radius for the time being.
John J. Sweeney, president of the Service Employees International Union and self-described reform candidate for the AFL-CIO presidency, has received a six-figure second salary from his former New York local, according to Labor Department documents. Multiple salaries are neither illegal nor uncommon in the labor movement, though they are frequently criticized by reformers. Teamsters President Ron Carey has made eliminating multiple salaries a priority in his campaign to clean up the union.
by CNB