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The Red and Black • Wednesday, April 11, 1990 • 3
Friendly ‘Chick’ welcomes Soviets to Alaska
The Associated Press
t NOME, Alaska — Charles
“Chick” Trainor has what he
thinks is the ideal job for an
Alaskan in the age of glasnost.
Since February, when he be
came the nation’s northernmost
Immigration and Naturalization
Service officer, Trainor has enjoyed
what he sees as his dual role of fed
eral agent and one-man welcome
wagon for Soviets coming to
Alaska.
“My intention out there at the
airport is to let them know we’re
happy to have them here. None of
this ‘Let me see your papers,’ ”
Trainor said.
With cultural, educational and
scientific exchanges between
Alaska and the Soviet Far East
burgeoning in the last year, Nome
has become a principal contact
point for citizens of both countries.
Whenever a plane load of Soviet
Young Pioneers (roughly equiva
lent to Boy Scouts), artists, educa
tors or others visit Nome, it’s
Trainor’s job to examine their pa
pers and stamp their passports.
Although Trainor works for the
INS, his duties also include those
of a customs inspector. He must
watch for the illegal importation of
whale ivory, animal furs and So
viet reindeer or any other meat
products possibly carrying dis
eases.
The 45-year-old former Marine
has a different background than
most federal agents.
Since coming to Alaska in 1966,
he has owned a saloon, scratched
for gold, driven a truck, run a local
housing agency and worked on the
trans-Alaska pipeline. He has also
been a guard at a local mental hos
pital.
Flights between Nome and the
Soviet Far East are strictly
charter, so Trainor drives over to
the Nome Airport only when sum
moned.
Soviets who visit Nome, a com
munity of 3,600 with boom-town
roots dating to turn-of-the-century
gold-rush days, arrive wide-eyed
and often gawk at the stacks of
consumer goods in local stores,
Trainor said.
Many return home carrying
computers, stereos and other items
hard to find in the Soviet Union —
especially in the Far East.
Air pollution foes battle in Savannah
The Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Environ
mentalists are feuding with Savan
nah’s business community over the
extent of the city’s air pollution
problem and whether cleaning it
up would hurt the local economy.
Citizens for Clean Air, an envi
ronmental group, is pushing for a
local anti-pollution ordinance. But
the Savannah Area Chamber of
Commerce contends that a local
crackdown on air pollution is un
necessary and would hurt man
ufacturing, a major sector of the
city’s economy.
The environmentalists, firing
the latest shots in the battle, ar
gued at a news conference Tuesday
that the coastal city can have both
clean air and jobs.
“We acknowledge the impor
tance of manufacturing industries
to our present economy, but our fu
ture economic growth depends on
the ability to attract a diverse
group of industries,” the group said
in a statement.
It said a five-page chamber re
port last month, which described
manufacturing as the backbone of
Savannah’s economy and warned
of lost jobs if a pollution ordinance
were passed, was a “scare tactic”
that “has been used repeatedly,
and often successfully, to divert at
tention from air quality stan
dards.”
‘The air is dirty in Chatham
County and someone must do
something about it,” said John
Ross, vice president of Citizens for
Clean Air.
The chamber’s document, re
leased March 14, also argued that
state and federal regulators are
doing an acceptable job protecting
the county’s air.
Citizens for Clean Air has
pushed for a local air quality ordi
nance for years. The campaign was
renewed last fall after state and
federal officials decided not to re
quire Union Camp Corp. to install
a sulphur dioxide “scrubber” as
part of a $375 million moderniza
tion program under way at the
paper mill.
The improvements will reduce
discharges of "total reduced sul
phur” gases but will create sulphur
dioxide, a respiratory irritant. Fed
eral regulators say the mill’s sul
phur dioxide discharges will
increase, but will be within regula
tory guidelines and will present no
health threat.
Man waits for funds
The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - An At
lanta quadriplegic whose federal
aid ended Tuesday is moving
from an Alabama nursing home
to a special care facility, still
hoping for a presidential ruling
to extend his financial support
from the government.
Larry McAfee, despite getting
permission from Georgia courts
last year to turn off the ventilator
that keeps him alive, has spent
several weeks learning how to
use a voice-activated computer in
hopes of landing a job.
Meanwhile, he will be moved
Wednesday from Briarcliff
Nursing Home in Alabaster, Ala.,
to the Gerry Fullan House, a
transitional house for people
with severe disabilities, operated
by the United Cerebral Palsy
Center in Birmingham.
The Washington-based United
Cerebral Palsy Association sent a
letter last week to President
Bush, asking for a presidential
waiver of federal health care reg
ulations in McAfee’s behalf.
Medicare has paid McAfee’s
bills at Briarcliff Because the
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage
Act, which provided extra cov
erage, was repealed in No
vember, his Medicare will expire.
That will place McAfee under
Medicaid, the health insurance
for the poor, but Briarcliff does
not take Medicaid patients who
require ventilators.
McAfee, 34, has been par
alyzed from the chin down since a
1985 motorcycle accident.
Brenda Carson, employment
specialist with the cerebral palsy
center in Birmingham, said
Tuesday she will "continue my
work with him on the voice-acti
vated computer and in nego
tiating employment."
She said she had heard from
some interested employers in the
field of computer-assisted
drafting and that McAfee, a me
chanical engineer, has had one
interview.
“He will be on a portable venti
lator, Ms. Carson said. “I see no
reason why he can’t do it. I have
full confidence in his abilities."
She said that McAfee has de
cided to remain in Alabama
rather than return to his home
state of Georgia because of the
employment support he is re
ceiving in Birmingham.
Ms. Carson said it will cost
$400 a day to keep McAfee at the
Fullan House. “We need that
Medicaid money out of Georgia to
support him,” she said.
Tooth fairy saved
The Associated Press
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - The
state and federal governments
were on the verge of putting the
Tooth Fairy out of business, until
Michigan’s dentists came to the
rescue.
The problem was the Environ
mental Protection Agency had
listed extracted teeth as medical
waste to be pulverized and steril
ized, not stuck under a pillow so
the Tooth Fairy could replace it
with money.
But the Michigan Dental Asso
ciation and dentists successfully
argued that teeth should be ex
cluded from the state’s own haz
ardous medical waste list, and the
EPA went along.
A Plainwell dentist, Dr. Robert
Tisch, brought the problem to the
attention of state Sen. Jack Wel-
born.
“I said, ‘Do you guys realize
you’re outlawing the Tooth Fairy?"*
Tisch said.
Dentists across the state joined
the protest.
William Burke, assistant exec
utive director of the dental associa
tion, explained that dental schools
need teeth for study. Because fluo
ride has cut the number of cavities
youngsters get, schools have a hard
time obtaining decayed teeth, he
explained.
Michigan opted out of a two-year
EPA pilot program to track med
ical wastes and adopted its own
package, which does not include
teeth.
The EPA, before adopting its
final rules as to what constitutes
hazardous medical waste, also de
cided to drop teeth from the list.
‘There aren’t too many things
we can save in the Legislature, but
thank God we can save the Tooth
Fairy,” Welborn said.
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