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' muiiuu it ye.n, U.W..1 i .. --> worth 5233 million and has 4.WO paid employes. officials said the company didn't have two former SEC chiefs and possibly tyjo Oi-: Aid like many bureaucracies, this one has any plans at present to build such a era of President Nixon. 'f 1 inund it -difficult to change quickly to me w demands --specifically that it pay more ,.n- llon to,poor children. Perhaps partly because of that, the scouts arc also finding that neither contributors nor youngsters are coming to them as willingly as they once did. Scouting nevertheless has soaked deeply i,,io America, It has been an inspiration to the kind of American imagery celebrated by Nor man Rockwell in his paintings of bright-eyed Imys in khaki uniforms for the scout calendar. cility. Libya is thinking of cuttii _ crude-oil production to prop Its high auction prices of as much as $20 a bar rel. (Story on Page i) *** A prime rate reduction to O'n from 91 ifo became widespread in the bank ing industry. A further drop to 8'U'o was seer possible if the downturn in The Ir-niiiij candidate to succeed ian ] Burch ,i:j federal Communication* Coma-1 don Chairman is Richard E. Wiley, 39. wlaa 1 1 a member of the agency has favored inerted i! competition, especially in the area of corron i arriers. Bur. h, 46-yeai old former aide ton I ' Barry Golduater and ex-chairman of the ip National Committee, udi become a presin-- tial counselor. ** i- '1 Scouts are still trustworthy, loyal, helpful, money-market rates continued, Tito Seeret Sendee ended its protection^! friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, (Story on Page 33) former Vice President Spiro Agnew, fir1 thrifty, -brave, clean and reverent. "Some *** months after his resignation The Treasury I- things," the scout literature says, "never change." Fifty-two of America's 65 astronauts were scouts. So were 40 current members of the Senate and 157 members of the House. A Code for Boy* The movement didn't start here. It began in England when Lt. Gen. Robert S. S. BadenPowell, hero of the Boer War, wrote a book in 1008 called "Scouting for Boys.'' Using hi* own childhood experiences of trekking and canoeing Gold's price rose to a record $150 an ounce in London yesterday, up $1.10 from Friday afternoon's setting. The U.S. dollar dropped sharply in relation to most European currencies. London bullion dealers said the gold price could go even higher if it remains around S150 for a couple of days, (Story on Page 5) partment, of which the Secret Service Is a pa:, acted following a General Accounting Off!? ruling last week that the protection was ideg;. ** ` Hemispheric foreign minister* opened a ; conference in Mexico City ,u which Mexiris Emilio Rabasa, elected chairman, called r Latin American unity and a meeting "onan : equal footing" with Secretary of State Kisinger when he arrives later this week, Cuba ms as well as his soldiering career, he devised a ** * program and a rode for boys. By 1910, scouting Cerro Corp.'s Cerro de Pasco sub had spread to Continental Europe, Australia, Latin America and the U.S. Now 150 countries have scouting groups with a total membership of 12 million scouts and volunteers. But nowhere has scouting become more popular than in this country. There are cur rently 4.9 million scouts and 1.6 million adult volunteers here. (The only other countries where volunteer and boy membership total over 1 million are Indonesia and the Philip pines.) Since scouting arrived in the U.S. in 1910, 53.3 million people have joined the move sidiary, nationalized Jan. 1, will be al lowed to send back to the U.S. as much as $67 million, the Peruvian govern ment said. The offer, however, is con ditioned on other payments by Cerro. (Story on Pag* 10) ** * Ciba-Geigy said it plans to make a tender offer for Funk Seeds Interna tional common stock at $16 a share, or as much as $54.4 million for all shares ment. The scouts say that one of every two liv outstanding. Funk warned its holders ing American males has at one time or another not to act "hastily." been a scout or an adult volunteer. (There are (story on Pag* t) 3 9 million Girl Scouts and volunteers In the country, too. but they haven't any connection, ** * National Alfalfa officials ate trying with the Boy Scouts, and their organization to sort out claims against the Kansas isn't quite so awesome.) company resulting frbm dealings over The sheer size of scouting, if nothing else, the past year by ousted president has made another American institution its Charles Peterson. The total is already model-corporate business. Alden Barber, the 155,000-a-year chief scout executive, refers to the expanding explorer program, for instance, as a "market opportunity." And it is from busi ness that scouting gets much of its leadership. Mr. Barber's volunteer executive committee believed to be nearly $6 million and could go higher. (Story on Page 16) ** * Vinyl chloride, a widely used indus trial chemical, is termed the cause of a Includes Norton Clapp, chairman of Weyer "new occupational disease" by a gov haeuser Co.: Edwin H. Gott, chairman of U.S. ernment health official. Scientific evi Steel Corp.; Louis W. Menk, chairman of Muck dence is mounting that the chemical Trucks Inc.; Robert W. Sarnoif, chairman of! causes cancer in workers exposed to it. RCA, and Thomas J. Watson Jr., chairman of] The evidence of hazards means that a IBM Corp. Of the committee's 21 members, 20] are businessmen and 16 are either chairmen or| major change in manufacturing prac presidents of large corporations. (The lone ex tice will be necessary to reduce work ception is James E. Johnson, assistant Secre ers' exposure to the chemical. tary of the Navy.) f$ory on Paqe 7) * ** the only Latin American nation that wasn't nvited. * British cn.il miners asked the pay board |o ; approve wage increases larger than guidelines 1) permit, arguing that the danger of their work; makes them a special case. The union's secre- i tary said miners want a top basic wage equiva- i lent to about J105 weekly, estimating that it \ would require a 24 4% boost. But the govern-, ' ment, which has offered a 16.5% incheaee, said t meeting miners' demands would require a.30%!; to 35% raise. Meanwhile, nomination* for the i: Feb, 28 election closed, with about 2,000 candi-! i dales seeking the 635 seats in the House of; Commons, ;> * * *x , Tlie U.S. abolished a debt of 33.2 billion ; owed by India for 20 years of food and other as- J. sistance. The dept had become a political irri- ; tant and paying it would have cut deeply into India's monetary reserves, so U.S. Ambassa dor Daniel Moynihan negotiated an agreement to end it last December. India will use much of the money it would otherwise have had to pay the U.S. In a fivc-vear program of agricultural, social and economic development. *** Pakistan will recognize Bangladesh, which was East Pakistan until the 1971 war, as a sep arate nation, the semiofficial Pakistani news paper Nusawat reported. It said Bangladx.i Prime Minister Sheik Mujibur Rahman would clear a key obstacle to recognition by dropping plans to try 195 Pakistani prisoners as war criminals, Indonesian Foreign Minister Adair Malik, in Lahore, Pakistan, for a 30-nat:on Is lamic summit meeting to begin Friday, san' Bangladesh had assured him it would solve th' prisoner problem. The corporate mood suffuses scouting's na- 1 Markets-- ** tional headquarters, u $3S million office com US. ei unties and commodities exchanges An Army private who crash-landed a stole: plex in North Brunswick, N.J. Here "support were closed yesterday for Washington's P.irth helicopter on the Whit" House south lawn ear' services" are provided for the country's 168.000 1 dtr- Sunday was returned to Walter Reed Arm- cub pack-i (boys eight through 10 year- old), Sp.cks - Volume Friday 12 640,900 -.hares Hospital for further psychiatric evaluatio; .-emit troops ill through 171 and explore: ports > Don Joi'o- industrials 820.32. up 10 40, trails, Pfc, Robert K Preston appeared briefly in fed (young n cn uml women 3 5 through 20' Com pon.v.i"!'. 1 rt.77, up 2.20. utilities o.l 24. up o 15 oral court where federrt charges against hr puter bunks keen Lack of the membership si i- Bends 'lO'C Jones |0 bonds 73 11, up 0 12 were dropped, but he iruv face court mart!,- ti.-tics: t''c coniiounieations group tend- to 2,- ('nmmodities Dow Jones fiiiuics index . Asked whether his midnight stunt had anyth-," OuO publu ;tions the engineering service drafts Jin r ip , 25. spot Index 350.32, up * 15 to do with his washing out of Army the plans for Joe, scout ramps In all, 950 penrde chool Preston replied 'Could be." spend $14 5 in.limn foi ihe headquarter, in u year, most at them working in North ilri.r wick's broad, imputed oftii cs, divided irid/.c- TODAY'S INDEX A t f, q V*p t mq Briie#s Portion fcxchdriqe Bone v ir*et s 33 Fore*9fl MrtrkcU, - -* 36 A man in Fayette, Mins., shot to death 36 'lelatnes as they were sleeping including 1 like by MHjmluib:,orbing partitions. 1 cDU ^Crit; ,'livn.'.rrvl `*r VS 34 Money Rates n Securities Mkf$. 3J 35 10 ] wife and daughter, police said. They arrest Here, too, la the supply division winch sells <_ At; LUv r.st . '.flitrfdi$ Pluuc Tutu lo Ptn/r ;o, Cohcun .' 1 f -.,;KJP5 C.JS. 30 7 ax Exempts 20 Who'S News 30 n Ft ankle Lee Lias, 20, who fold them "a Bibln 29 1 voice" h ol told him what to do. 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An initial government step will he to survey THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Tuesday, February 19, 1*974 n i other vinyl chloride plants, particularly those , Among Workers at Vinyl Chloride Plant <s- involved in conversion of vinyl chloride to poly vinyl chloride. A cluster of such plants occur in Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. In addition, government specialists point out - . *. ip**-. MAXIMIZING OPPORTUNITIES PHANpl., By Jonathan Spivak Alexander Reis, an official of the Occupa that an examination should be made of con- I Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON - Scientific evidence is mounting that the widely used industrial chem ical vinyl chloride fcausss cancer in work tional Safety Agency, said the decision on emergency . regulations would be made only after additional information from current gov sumers' exposure through the use of products 1 containing polyvinyl chloride, although there I currently isn't any evidence of risk in this area. "We are talking about levels (of expo ers exposed to it. , ernment and industry studies was available. sure) at present that are achieved only in the The public health and industrial implica "About the only thing that is clear is the exist industrial environment," points out Dr. Clark tions are serious and substantial, government ing standard will have to be changed," Mr. Heath, chief of the cancer and birth defects di experts say. "We are faced with a new occupa- Reis said. 1 vision at HEW's Center for Disease Control. 1 tiona! disease. There is no sense denying it," The HEW Institute Is urging that the Labor states John O'Neill, chief ' of the division of Department act as promptly as possible by health standards in the Occupational Safety issuing rules requiring vinyl chloride manufac and Health Administration. turers to operate under a so-called "closed sys ProbfemandGppdi1iini!yu,v ,, . ................... .. Our nation isjft the midst obanenergy crisis-rj#&w necessary' for all of trs to share equalfyahd-aceept <s But ali probleins.-^even thiSeenergy crisls.-^alsiyfcrdj for longer term, innovative, constructive ehangettAVp^., in government ^d'Jndustry to'Tnaximizgk'ftieiiijbjige The evidence of vinyl chloride's hazards tem." This means that workers would be folly means a major change in manufacturing prac- protected against any exposure to the chemi -, In the cotire^jdf garVdtk, _____ , tice will be necessary to reduce workers' expo cal, aud it would require significant changes in sure to it. Federal and private industry experts manufacturing processes, government special are working on a high-priority effort to deter ists say. The HEW recommendations also members to exojnine.energy usage and evalu^Ojiftititf^iwrptysfeaijfcOs SCnonmAen of(tVhaeAsTe. 'AsltluixdJ li/esks' AM.xfrepa- -rXts- 1h. Aav <e'1i--n>cfftu d4 .eidj u- AJdClr tj ^1% I X . - * . L- personal ' mine the exact extent of risk from the sub would call for monitoring of the environment In stance and what further precautions will be the plants and medical tests of workers to de needed. - f . , . termine whether they are beginning to experi Vinyl chloride Is used In making a wide ence adverse effects. The institute also is urg ^ m, array of plastics,. including pipes, floor tiles, ing that there be warning placards in manufac records and other consumer products. It nor turing areas and that employers be required io mally is a gas and is converted in manufactur- provide specific warning information to em ' ing to a material called polyvinyl chloride, a ployes- powdery substance that is then converted into " Meanwhile, government and Industry are - finished products.- accelerating efforts to determine the extent of The first firm Indications of the chemical's the problem and to determine more definitively possible danger came last month with the re the role-played-by vinyl chloride in Its cause. port by B. F. GoodrlclrChemical Co., a division The Goodrich Louisville plant was one of Die of B. F. Goodrich Co., that ft had been deter first to begin production of the plastic compo mined that four workers at its Lonisyjlle, Ky., nent after World War H and the type of cancer plant, which converts vinyl chloride into poly diagnosed in its employes Is one that takes vinyl chloride^ had died from a rare type of many years to become evident. The first four liver cancer called angtoscarcoma. This canctr, workers found to have the disease had been ex-. which affects the blood vessels of the liver, is thought to occur among only 25 persons a year The benefits of art appreciation are now more prevalent than ever as executives enhance offices and lobbies with quality original art. To assist you In a planned acquisition program, Newman Galleries offers an outstanding selection of works--from 19th Century trafftionalists to recognized contemporary artists at sound in vestment prices. . To make your investment most meaningful, we Invite you to compare our values with those being quoted in, the New York art market. _____ * Brochures available, Hiuevjmam galleries WFcr art reasons *.since 1665 1625 WaEmJt St., Philadelphia * LO 3-1 r7$ 650 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Wewr LA S-Q675 mental asses^lOnis^rKLiititieTffftg r nudear- iin economic impacS analyse^-arnoog others,y, uuv We have recb!f5tiy compi|ecf :a digest of ourit related studies.f'fease write us for a copy, iLyoo he an interest in maximizing yaur opportunities for'etraa v-hrch have hee^' ereater^jy-thenei^y crisis. v*#? Write on your IBtte^* --'" " " -J - - * f ^ 1*- Headquartsrs:t5383HoiliSter Ave" Sahta-Bi J. nationwide. Thus, the cluster at the Goodrich plant, the largest manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride in the nation, stirred immediate con cern. ' Then, over the weekend federal authorities reported two more cases of angiosarcoma at the Goodrich plant, bringing to jsix the number WOLFHOUND occurring there. "This makes it a bigger prob lem than we had believed," declared Marcus Key, director of the National Institute lor Oc cupational Safety and Health, which makes sci f( entific recommendations to the Labor Depart ment. The institute im part of the Health, Edu j cation and Welfare Department. So far, however, federal authorities aren't prepared to assert specifically that vinyl chlor ide causes liver cancer. They note, along with I t-- - - . Goodrich officials, that workers at the compa ny's plant are exposed to a variety of other chemicals involved in the conversion of vinyl chloride to polyvinyl chloride. But the circum stantial evidence is increasing, and a strong case is building from records of human cancer , and animal experiments that a substantial health problem has been uncovered. The immediate issue is what new precau- : lionarv measures should be taken to protect works.is. Some 6,500 employes at 37 plants op erated by 23 U.S. manufacturers are involved. Union representatives have urged the Occupa tional S-tfely Agency to issue an immediate I older tightening its existing limit of 500 parts per million in the atmosphere. Industry repre- scntalives, however, urge that the Labor De partment take more time ill investigating the problem and issue its new regulations under SL 091987 ! usual procedures, which permit a public hear- j mg before they go into effect.