''Look at that eyesore, that firetrap,'' said Otis Nelson, the Mayor of nearby Eureka. State and local agencies are pressing Federal environmental officials to finally bury the little town on the Meramec River and demolish the more than 400 sagging buildings and house trailers that were evacuated by residents in 1983, after dangerous levels of dioxin were discovered along Times Beach's streets. It is a ghost town of empty, tumbledown houses and vacant stores, wildly overgrown with weeds. More than seven years after it was pronounced dead, a casualty of toxic contamination, Times Beach still haunts the rolling hills southwest of St.
