Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more modest level, the district is annexing land in Chicago suburbs to build small flood basins. These will only begin use about 20 days a year, Bacon says, and can be used for playgrounds the rest of the year. The project raises an eerie image of a little league game, postponed because the diamond is under 15 feet of water...
Even more serious than the sludge dilemma is Bacon's inability to clean any doorsteps except his own. He points with great pride to the district's record of not adding a drop of pollution in recent years to Lake Michigan, but ten blocks above the district's northern border sits a treatment plant which daily dumps half-cleaned sewage into the lake. And in Gary, Indiana the huge U.S. Steel plant continues to empty its industrial wastes. U.S. Steel has been ordered to stop by the end of 1968, but Bacon doesn't think the date can stand...
Despite his squabbles with the board this summer, Bacon seems to be getting along with his trustees better than ever before. That's what he says, and the record backs him up; his 10- year program was approved by a 9-0 vote in July...
...tension is still there. Bacon still wants to rule with an iron hand and still thinks his autocratic personal style necessary to the district's well-being. Asked about one of the trustee's criticism that the ten-year program might cost more than twice Bacon's estimate and might not get his promised federal support, the superintendent snapped, "What the hell does he think it will cost? He ought to say or keep quiet--this is just nitpicking. With the kind of help we've been getting from him we may have trouble getting from him the federal money...
...Bacon says, "It may sound immodest, but unless there's somebody in here willing to fight to keep the district clean, it could slip back (into corruption) in six months. Everything is still here--the money and the power to misuse...