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Hie Newt and Observer, Raleigh, H. C., Sun., Oct. 10,1982 PCB landfill protesters to march-to Raleigh By LYNNE THOMSON pected to hold rallies at churches not have the unanimous backing of trucks from carrying the contami- road just before the dumping ot staff writer along the route today and Monday, people who have participated in al- nated dirt along certain rural the dirt began l^st month, Edel- Fifty to 100 people protesting a Marchers planned to reach Ra- most daily protests since the state- roads. stein said. . Warren County PCB landfill began leigh Tuesday for a rally at the began trucking contaminated soil The suit, filed in Warren County The suit contends that when the a 55-mile march from Afton to Ra- Capitol, said Golden Frinks of the. to the landfill Sept. 15. Superior Court, alleges that Board of Transportation gave the ? leigh Saturday, a day after leaders Southern Christian Leadership Joyce Lubbers, one of about 10 weight limits for the roads were in- state transporation secretary pow* \ of the protest met with Gov. James Conference, a member of the pro- people who met with Hunt, said creased improperly last month by ers several years ago to restrict I B. Hunt. Jr. test. Saturday that she was pleased transportation Secretary W.R. the weight of vehicles using roads, f Kenneth Ferruccio, leader of Hunt told protest leaders that with Hunt's response. Roberson. Roberson could not be it did not also give him the power 1 Warren County Citizens Con- the dumping of PCB-contaminated "I think that we got just about reached Saturday. to raise the weight. j cerned about PCB, said that after dirt would be completed at the all we could get, and clear-think-Steven R. Edelstein, a Raleigh The three couples Edelstein rep- { talking with Hunt Friday after- landfill. He pledged measures to ing individuals feel that," Mrs. attorney who filed the suit, said resents are Joyce and Lawrence noon, the protesters' decision ensure that the facility would not Lubbers said. "I didn't know any- that his clients hope to get a tern- Lubbers, press secretaries for "was the dump must go, and the become a health danger and said thing about this march until a few porary restraining order to bar. Warren County Citizens Con- decision was that we would march his administration would back leg- minutes ago, and I'm very dis- heavily loaded trucks from using cerned about PCBs, Florence and today." islation to block future toxic turbed about it." S.R. 1604 and S.R. 1625, which lead Edward Somerville, and Helen The group was spending Satur- dumps in Warren County. Meanwhile, three couples who to the dump. . and Durwood Patterson, day nightinLouisburgandwasex- The marchers apparently did live along rural roads leading to The designation was changed to But the suit comes near the end --------------------------------- ------: --------! the dump site filed a class-action allow vehicles weighing more that of the dumping. About 231 miles of \ suit Friday to stop heavily loaded 13,000 pounds per axle to use the the 243 miles of highways cohtami- nated with the chemicals have been cleared, state officials have said. PCBs, found to cause cancer in laboratory animals, were dumped illegally on roadsides in 14 coun ties in 1978. Three New York men were convicted of the dumping. j There have been 507 arrests dur- I ing demonstrations against the / landfill. Opponents say the landfill I will leak and that the site was cho- l\ sen because the county is predomi- . nantly black and without political/ . clout. j The state maintains the landfill was the most economical way to clean up the spill and that Warren i County was chosen because it best fit the need for suitable soil arid t available land. : , i 35A1 years ago from Washington, where he was an engineer. They operate a hog farm near Afton. He 1 has followed construction of the 1 landfill and helped to develop the j group's technical arguments ' against it. I Larry and Joyce Lubbers, the ] organization's press secretaries. 1 Four generations of her family [ lived near Warrenton until her 1 mother moved away. Upon retire- i ment, the Lubbers moved back I from Washington, where he had I been a cartographer with the Navy 1 i and she had worked for the Atomic J Energy Commission. Vicki Lehmann, Deborah Fer- , ruccio's sister, came to Warren I County four years "ago. An art I teacher at Warren County Hifu 1 School, she works on graphics i the group. Blaine Tharrington moved to . Warren County with his family eight years ago, when he was 17. A i student at Vance-Granville Com- | munity College, he makes j speeches and does research for the I ; committee. ! a Henry Pitchford Jr., a textile j worker who heads the Warren I County chapter of the NAACP. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Somer ville, both 54, who are lifelong resi dents of Aftort. Clara Roberts, who grew up in the county, a nurse in New York i City until she moved back several! years ago. PCB-ARCH-EXT0378530