The News-Messenger. Fremont, Ohio, Saturday, November 13, 1999 At A Glance Workers attempt to seal gas leak Associated Pre WORKERS for Chisholm Exploration of Abilene, Texas, were using this drilling rig Thursday morning to look for oil when they hit a gas pocket, causing a blowout in rural Morrow Couny near Marengo. Workers hoped to cap the leak Friday but there's still a five-mile area that's considered off limits to residents. a low number, blamed on declining prices. Thursday night.
Shelters were set up in a church in Marengo and a school in Delaware County but most of the evacuees found places to stay on their own. On Friday, three schools in the area were closed, affecting 2,500 pupils. The weather improved through the day, so some evacuees were allowed to return to their homes. Authorities threatened to arrest people who returned to closed-off areas to check on pets or live stock. No confrontations were reported and the animals were not considered in danger.
Attempts to seal the leak were delayed because up to 42,000 cubic feet of gas that spewed from the leak per hour was too much pressure to get close. The average home uses about 10,000 cubic fqet of gas a month. i Tom Tugend, chief of the Ohio Division of Oil and Gas, said the company filed the proper permits "and appeared to have followed procedures during the drilling. "There's nothing to reflect they've done anything wrong," he said. The drillers were targeting a gas formation 500 feet deeper than the pocket they hit at 2,660 feet, causing the blowout.
He said he Aitociatad Pitt MARENGO A Texas oil company worked with state regulators on Friday to seal a gas leak that spread potentially explosive fumes over parts of two counties, forcing 2,500 people to evacuate. There were no injuries, though a handful of people said the fumes, smelled miles away throughout the day, made them nauseous. Workers used heavy salt water and mud to attempt to stop the leak, about 30 miles north of Columbus. An area of about a square mile wide remained off-limits Friday evening, keeping about 80 residents away from their homes. Pat Tuttle, the Morrow County health commissioner, said there was ho danger beyond the initial evacuated area, though people with respiratory problems were urged to avoid heavy exercise.
Workers for Chisholm Exploration of Abilene, Texas, were using a drilling rig Thursday morning to look for oil when they hit a gas pocket, causing the blowout. There was no explosion. At first, there was little wind to make the plume of gas dissipate, raising concerns about a possible explosion. So authorities ordered 2,500 people from 500 homes on FALL SPECIAL 3 i has not seen a similar blowout in the past 10 years in Ohio. The company is new to the state, so it does not have a safety record here, he said.
Charles Schroeder, president of Chisholm Exploration, said workers tried to warn people in 10 or 15 nouses downwind from the leak right after it happened. But only about half were home, so the company contacted authorities in the afternoon to help find the neighbors and warn them not to light fires or cigarettes. "They got in there and kind of blew it out of proportion," he said. "It's a perfectly safe situation as long as they don't do something to ignite the gas," he said. Ohio has about 64,000 oil and gas wells.
This year, about 470 new wells will be dug, considered T- deputies and asked them to look at Carpenter's house because the two had been dating. Ms. Walters' father, John, said he was upset his daughter was removed from class and taken to the principal's office where she was placed in handcuffs. "My daughter's just doing the girl a favor, the way I see it, and now she's going to pay the price for it," Walters said. The boy's mother, Deborah Bailey, said what her son did was wrong, but he should not be treated as a criminal.
Besides, she has her own plan for disciplining her son. "He may be 18, but he's grounded," she said. Man indicted in 18-year-old slayings CINCINNATI A man who was sentenced earlier this week for trying to hire a hit man to kill his fourth wife and her sister was charged Friday with four counts of aggravated murder for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill his second wife and her friend in 1981. Albert J. Schuholz 66, of West Chester, had been sentenced Wednesday in U.S.
District Court in Covington, to serve 10 years in prison. lie had pleaded guilty to a charge of traveling in interstate commerce with the intent that a murder be committed. He was arrested in July 1998 after traveling from his home in suburban Cincinnati to Kentucky to discuss the murder plot with a would-be killer who then went to police, investigators said. The plot to kill Norma Schuholz and her sister, Martha Schomaker, was not carried out. However, on Friday the Hamilton County prosecutor's office announced indictments against Schuholz that had been sealed since April.
They accuse Schuholz of hiring a hit man to kill his second wife and another woman. The bodies of Marie Schuholz, 54, and Starla Burns, 57, were found in their Sharonville apartment on May 8, 1981. Their throats had been slashed and their skulls were fractured. Schuholz is to be arraigned on the new charges on Thursday. Wire reportt Thefts reported at BMV offices P1QUA At least four break-ins have been reported at Bureau of Motor Vehicle deputy registrar offices in western Ohio in the past two months, the State Highway Patrol said.
The latest break-in was Friday in Urbana, said Lt. Terry Schultz in Piqua. The office's telephone lines were cut, disabling the security system, and a door pried open, Schultz said. "What we have here are resourceful thieves who know what they're doing," Schultz said. The patrol is investigating whether the break-in is related to others in Sidney, Troy and Springfield, he said, Other offices have been broken into, but Schultz said he did not know a specific number.
In Sidney, a safe was broken open and its contents stolen. Safes were stolen at the other offices. "It's really strange because offices of deputy registrars normally don't have a lot of money in their safes," Schultz said. BMV spokeswoman Andrea White said she was not aware of the investigation. 2 arrested for helping girl skip school MEDINA Helping a 15-year-old girl play hooky from school landed two seniors in jail.
Medina County sheriffs deputies arrested Lindsay Walters and Anthony Carpenter, both 18, on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. They were released on their own recognizance and face up to six months in jail. The girl was not charged. Authorities said Ms. Walters drove the 15-year-old schoolmate to Carpenter's house Tuesday morning, shortly after the girl's mother dropped her off at Buckeye High School.
Carpenter, pretending to be the girl's father, called the school and said she was sick. School officials called the girl's house because they didn't think Carpenter sounded old enough to be the father of a 15-year-old. The girl's mother then called sheriff's cmory wan oyw Compulvrixd Sewinn now ju $588 Vjlue Mom, baby doing well after 152-day 'arrested labor' Tanome 1 free wiih puiduK Tanome Jem Nowjua $248 MyLock 134D Trim. um md oioun in one vrp F. main in the womb and develop, Blunt said.
"It's not labor in the sense that most people think of labor," he said. Dr. Kim Brady, director of obstetrics at Good Samaritan Hospital, supervised Mrs. Feitl's care, i Blunt said doctors had thought that Jared's chances of survival were slim after the twin's premature birth. But Jared turned out to have almost a full-term pregnancy.
Feitl and her husband, E. did not return a telephone message left at their home Friday. The baby that died was delivered i in May at 15 weeks. The longest previously known delayed labor that resulted in a successful birth was 143 days in 1992, according to a May 1999 report in the Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey, a medical journal. The earliest recorded example of the delayed-labor process was one in 1983 that lasted 54 days, according to the journal's findings.
The mother was technically in labor for 152 days, but the labor was delayed by drug therapy and surgical intervention to keep the cervix closed so the baby could re Associated Press CINCINNATI A mother who spent 152 days in a medically delayed labor gave birth to a boy almost five months after his twin died of premature birth, a hospital spokesman said Friday. The woman, Debra Feitl of Er-langer, spent 152 days in the "arrested labor" before giving birth Oct. 14 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. Mrs. Feitl and her son Jared are doing well, hospital spokesman Jeff Blunt said.
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