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FILE NAME: Asbestos Cement Pipe and Sheet (ACPS) DATE: 1968 Feb 21 DOC#: ACPS052 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Health Board to Review Asbestos Water Pipe Use -THE NASHVILLE BANNER, W*d., Feb. '!, 1963 Health Board To Review Asbestos Water Pipe Use The Metro Health Board on a,caiisins agent when inhaled." motion by Dr. David Strayhorn Dr. Bistowish said, but added' Sr. voted today to reconsider that sufficient information is not jits stand on the use of asbestos* available concerning its use as concrete pipe for water lines, a water conducting material. ! i The board voted Jan. 17 to] Thc u.S. Public Health Serj"not approve the use of thei vice is initiating a study into jDipe" until sufficient tnforma-j asbestos pipe, probably as a re ition could be obtained to prove | Sl,u 0f an inaui,-v to them from ?" "The service told us we were j' the first municipal health board l ,to raise the question concerning [ithe safety of the pipe," Dr. Bis- would reconsider any informa`Ci|towRiesphressaeidn.tatives of an asbes tion concerning the safety of the. tos-cement pipe producer spoke pipe. "'Ashbjesctfonsc is a kIrnnomwvn coancer,.''to the board to explain their po- -Isition. The spokesmen said thev objected "to being guilty until proven innocent." ' produce THS NASHVILLE TENNESSEftM.'-Thutydav, Eeb. 22. 196* " PRODUCED M g 'i f ,<V- \It \ * / ^ r f i : + * - - n s' VS ' tv , , , , i i x r I Sv * i\ // I t * . * *4. .^r r ****^ %, >w i *v> e i / ' .. t ... ^ . .--I.- j1 ^ ^ *'*<< -* TV*l . ; - : V / - vvV' t<. *-* ., w .,',.il -*4m. A It's Cast Iron vs. Asbestos in Council Squabble *-S(lt iM I* by Jack Car Metro councilmen hslen Intently as spokesmen for cast iron and asbestos rc in c n t pipe firms argue the i d a ti v e merits of their products, 'the piece of pipe in the InrcgrouiHl is c as t lion. It was taken from an old city waterline a f te r serving without any breakdown for nearly 75 years, Metro w aterworks officials said. The councilmen, front left, are Tandy Wilson. Thurm an Drooks and Itichard Taylor.