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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1964 DOC JMA119 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION CertainTeed on Selikoff Publicity Newspaper Article & Letter "" "" Certain Products Corporation O. BOX 113 AMBLER PENN^ YLVANIA 04-01 60 04-01160 Private & Confidential May 4 1964 Mr. Clifford Sheckler Manville Corporation 22 E. 40th Street New York 16 New York Dear Cliff I am enclosing this review of Dr. Selikoff's paper on the assumption that you have not seen it You can imagine the re- action to this article at our local plant Sincerely CERTAIN PRODUCTS CORP LDII ap | Enc Leon D. Horowitz Supervisor of Safety ee 4 * ty . a . . ace noe. bei nde ny Vig PN Fo, tow uye | r0e te Bulletris Phola - April 30,1964 30,1964 DoctoDrosctors Say Working With Asbestos American Cany e station porno cormi cormi sy3 it was hin you porno porno porno on than 420,600 smokers smokers last ae o>. reage May Cause Cancer After [= Detecter that produced & ma- inuitameninutitameint nuitament cigaret smok- - BY KARL ABRAHAM Of The Bulletin Staff 1 Asbestos one of industry's Imost Imost important and widely used raw materials was placed under additional suspicion here yesterday as a possible cause of cancer Here is some of the evidence New lealth Research Institute offing offing a heslin hazard by that was presented a Self Fairleigh Dickinson University Microscopia firs York physician Dr. I. J. recently had reported creating Ashcator is mineral a class koff to meeting of the Ameri- of chafhave chafchahveafhachvafheave chafhave different can Industrial Hygiene Associa cancers in hamsters thhye ilnijneicntg chemical chemical compositions but share we tion in the Sheraton Hotel | ling asbestos into the property of being made by Dr. Selikoff's medical re jaround their lungs the hazard of nature in the of tightly form as- search team has studied all of He said that the have become mem malignant diseases of the lungs packed : fibers Pulverized bestes fitues can be of micros- the men who hers of the New York Now- of asbestos workers engaged in size reported micros- 4 reported ark N. J. locals of the Interna specific industrial operations copic Desiclin Desiclin Desiclin that of at i tional Union of Heat and Frost such as mining and asbestos the lung cancer victims studied Insulators and Asbestos Work processing had been reported 30 New York all had been ex- ers AFL since Dec. 31 years ago . York area building posed to asbestos at least 22 1942. They are building trades The New was years This he said indicated workers trades workers however little that if their cancers were relat- Research Report a group with relatively edito the asbestos then it was a : asbestos exposure said Dr. slowly dejeloping very At the end of a year per- Selikoff the exposure of these ind as of Dec. 31 1962 report- So formidable were the InDr. ers In building trados i ed Dr. Selikoff the researchers plications of this study said would would be than prostor prostor noted the following Selikoff that of the build the none population hi - - They selected records of ings trades workers workers in the much master it was would 632 men who had been exposed United States and and workers in hard to any without considera considera to asbestos for 20 years On the selected other industries should more torcarch a basis of general population be subjected to the the widest pos bly The note that researcher ; in mortality statistics 203 should sible study so that that this and working South Africa had the have died However the actual some other materials under under sus studie lundgs of a large death rate in the group was 255. picion could be proven or laid cipeople cipeople there and found The difference was almost en Lo rest group to contain asbestos perant tirely attributable to death from Products amounts 3,000 partpiclerian rticpalrticlerein srmialnl cancer He said he estimated there.l -_ or,Tae 0? i oe ene said 1 Itnhis group there should three million build- have beenbeatcwcoeredninsigx taondgseenveen rliangltraadbeosutworkers in the nation averagebsecause of cancer in the In addition he said there are deaths lungs or the pleur~ a sac sur about 3,000ianssbuelsattoisonptrooduacuttso lungs Actually from pipe rounding the such cancer of there were 45 vic brake linings to floor tile with - undetermined number expcct- tims They would have an that modern ed less than rteecntcuamncebrust ofthtehree workedrosubt indus- without asbes- colon and We try could survive without Bronchingenic carcinoma carcinoma tos World production has | Bronchingenic for almost one grown from 30,000 30,000 tons in 1900 responsible into than three million tons every five deaths an into more said Dr. Setikoff seven times that ex in 1960 with Dr. Sclikoff are ; In the general t tion Hamsters popula Working Dr. Jacob Churg and Dr. E. Cuy- of Mt. Sinai in ler Hammond all Hamsters Cancers in New York Dr. director of -: Dr. Selikoff pointed out that Hospital Hammond also is . : Cancers Dr. William E. Smith of the Hammond