Monday or 23 98 THE HER Rescuers pessimistic lover birds in oil spill 50 percent expected to die Associated Press PORT ANGELES The gentle care given to hundreds of gummed. up birds that got caught a wrek. end oil spill off Port Angeles might not be enough to save them, experts say. Only a handful of deaths were re. ported among the 277 ml soaked birds brought Sunday to an emergency center that continued its work today at the Port Angeles High School gym.
But stress alone might be enough to do in many of the survivors when they return to the wild, said Sequim veterinarian Brian Marts. who estimated 50 percent of the birds would die despite rescue efforts. The ol-coated waterfowl were the mitiat wildlife victims of il tanker spill that put about 117.000 gallons of crude oil into Port Angoles Harbor and the Stran of Juan de Fuca UtI Saturday. As the birds were carried into the high school for washing. Marts daubed ointment around their eyes to protect against irritation from the detergent.
On their way out to be dried. Marts force-fed them a mix. ture of honey, kaopectate, activated charcoal and other ingredients to provide energy and counteract I no poisonous quality of the oil. "The oil is toxic." Marts said "If it coats their intestines. they can't absorb food.
A.m it they inhale it. it causes terrible pneumonia in their Leaking OIL. from Page 1 slime. "They were all crying. Some had their heads IF the sand and some were upside down." At the emergency bird clime set up at the city pier by the Wildlife Care Unit of Everett.
51 birds were Volunteer Jeanime Farr of Port Angeles lungs and ear sacs." Volunteer coordinator Jules James sand the birds can also die from drowning. because the the all makes them too heavy to float: by hypother. mia, as the oil cuts through their protortive coating: and by starvation, if the oil makes them too slow to catch their regular food. "You have some birds that didn't have a lot of oil on them. and some that were really wiped out." said Bob Stcelquist, director of the Arthur D.
Feiro Marine Laboratory in Port An. tanker threatens treated by 4 p.m. Sunday by volun. leers in a gentle assembly line. Birds were logged in.
washed in detergent. fed charcol for any oil ingested. dried and placed in warm boxes. Some of the oil spread to Seafarms of Norway. a salmon-rearing operation.
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Steelquist estimated. "The only ones you can get sour hands on are the ones essentially ed." Audubon Society member Dory Smith said species hurt by the spill include three types of cormorants. four types of grebes. two types of scoters. seaup, or bluebill.
harlequin ducks and three types of loons. wildife lems feeding the salmon. Pearson said. The ARCO Anchorage was bound for the ARCO refinery al Cherry load Point. north of Bellingham.
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Associated Press Meanwhile. officials said the spill apparently had minimal effect 011 Port Angeles' budding aquaculture industry. John Forster, general manager of Sea Farm of Norway's salmon-rear. ing operation, said "the fish are basically OK" in the seven pens currently being used. Some of the "smolt" or baby Atlantic salmon died because they jumped through the oil in a search for food, getting the oil into their at Dungeness to ports in Puget Sound or the inland waters.
ARCO spokesman Scott Loll. who arrived from Los Angeles at the spill site Sunday, said the tanker pulled into Port Angeles because a barge was still unloading al Cherry Point. The ship was under the direction of a Puget Sound pilot when the accident occurred. he said. Wind and tidal flows concentrated most of the crude oil 011 the south side of Ediz look.
along the north edge of the harbor. Pearson said. In Seattle, Coast Guard It Tamera Goodwin said the tanker ran aground on its left side Saturday at 4:30 p.m.. rupturing the hull oser two 16 tanks. The vessel carried about 34.1 million gallons of oil.
about 820.000 barrels. The brown. smelly slick spread about 21 miles. from Angeles Point to Dungeness Spit. Pearson said.
The vessel was moved to deeper water. the hole plugged and booms placed around the tanker. but those eltorts were too late to contain all the Reagan 8 signs bill for record farm aid 3 mills. he said. But most of the company's estimated 15.4000 fish 10 the bottom of the cages." which are 10 to 14 feet below the surface.
Port Angeles fishermen sand they expect no immediate effect on the na: tive fishery. Effects most likely would be lanted to bottom and rock fish species. along with shellfish. Don Bakker. area agent for the state Department of Game.
sand fish and shellfish experts were scheduled to assess the situation. Spit 01l. A skimmer from Anacortes. about 33 miles to the northeast. had collect.
ed about 19.250 gallons of escaped oil by Sunday morning. Pearson sand. Fitzpatrick said ARCO accepted fi. nancial responsibility for the spill and contracted with Fuss Tug and ('lean Sound of Seattle for the cleanup. Although l'ort Angeles 15 only 18 miles south of the southern tip of V'ancouser Island.
there appeared to be little chance the spill would affect any British Columbia beaches. The spill angered environmentalIsts. "This is terrible." said Bet l'inne. war. spokesman for the Vancouver branch of Greenpeace, which protested against supertanker testing the Juan de Fuca Stran four sears ago.
It 15 a terrible blow to the marine habitat." The spill occurred exactly one sear after an ml spill killed 1.500 to 2.0000 marine birds on Whidhes Island 111 Puget Sound. Associated Press WASHINGTON President Reagan today signed into law a farmi bill that 15 likely to houst federal sub. sidy spending to record losels while It tries to buffer farmers from the dust of restoring health to U.S. ex: ports. But despite reservations about the high spending and some provisions the administration regards as detrimental.
Reagan said the legislation 15 "on balance a step forward for American agriculture" that will mose farming closer to the industry he has sought. The president, 111 a ceremony at the White House. sand the bill 15 "moving away from the failed poli: dies of the Reagan was surrounded by farm: state lawmakers. Agriculture De. partment officials and farm lobby.
1sts. The president also signed a rescue. package for the lancially strained Farm Credit System. the $70 billion banking network that is the nation's largest farm lender. The president then went to the Au.
riculture Department tis hold a brief. closed television news conferenco with farm-state reporters in an effort to demonstrate concern for atriculture's problems. Senate Majority Leader Robett Dote of Kansas praised enactment of the two bills as "essential first stops 111 restoring hope and confidence rural The farm bill reauthorizes for five vears a long list of programs ranging from crop price supports and income subsidies to foreign tame relief of. forts, food stamps and agricultural credit. research and extension programs.
At the heart of the bill are proxi. sions lowering federal price supports. for major commodities, including. wheat. corn.
rice. cotton and beans. The action designed make the crops more competitive in world trade and restore U.S. market share lost in recent vears to an over. valued dollar and excessive support levels.
In a gesture of concern over the badly slumping farm economy. the bill replaces income lust to lower price supports with income subsimies. Anchorage misses a white Christmas Associated Press ANCHORAGE For the first time 111 35 sears there may ho no white Christmas 111 Anchorage. National Weather Service forecasters say. A Christmas weather forecast is.
sued over the weekend calls for continned cloudy and warm weather. Anchorage has had a snowy Christ. mas every sear since records about that sort of thing started being kept In 1950. said meteorologist John Hoag. Jury rejects family's claim against tobacco firm SMOKER, from Page 1 The surt was the first of 45 similar pending actions to to reach a jury.
A federal judge in Knoxville, re. cently dismissed a $55 mullion liability suit against Reynolds, saying a bi. sear-old amputee had not proved the company's cigarettes were "defective and unreasonably The judge thanked the jurors for their participation 111 the case that began Nov. 21. "'You had some disa.
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They asked to review parts of the testimony from George Fisher, the doctor who treated Galbraith. Belli argued Reynold- Wis to blame for Galbraith's death because its warnings of the dangers of mg were insufficient. Reynold-' attorney. Thomas Work. man.
told jurors Galbraith "smoked because he loved it. he knew the risks involved and took them." He suggest. ed that Galbraith died of hereditary illnesses. including his heart disease. rather than smoking.
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