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FILE NAME: ddZWZZdd DATE: DOC#:ATd DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: ZWZZZZ/ Table 3 - Chicago Press Reports re Asbestos -Exhibit 73 73a 73b 73c 73d 73e 73f 73g 73h 73i 73j 73k 731 73m 73n 730 73p 73q 73r 73s 73t 73u 73v 73w 73x 73y 73z Date October 6, 1964 March 2, 1966 March 30, 1969 April 12, 1970 September 28, 1970 December 1, 1970 April 25, 1971 December 2, 1971 January 7, 1972 July 16, 1972 July 26, 1972 July 26, 1972 March 22, 1973 March 31, 1973 May 8,1973 September 10, 1973 April 14, 1974 July 25, 1974 December 24, 1974 August 15, 1975 September 21, 1975 October 13, 1975 October 17, 1975 October 30, 1975 April 4, 1976 March 10, 1977 Source Chicago Daily News Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Title Suspect Asbestos A Cancer Source Link Asbestos to Cancer of Lungs, Colon Links Cancer to Chemicals We Live With An Answer? We Don't Even Know the Question Probe Tobacco Additives: Nader Huge Rise Told in Cancer Risk This is Your Lung Asbestos Pollution to Be Next Target Illinois Votes Rules on Asbestos Uses Find Asbestos in Some Antibiotics Ban Further Asbestos Spray Use State Halts Asbestos Spraying Cancer in Youths linked to Asbestos Emissions of 3 Substances Limited Blue Collar Views: Risks of Occupational Disease Asbestos on the North Shore? National Report: Woman Fights OnThe-Job Health Hazards for Government Blue Collar Views: Plant Size Irrelevant to Safety Blue Collar Views: Health Hazards vs. A Company Doctor The Resurrection of the Lakes Blue Collar Views: A Navy Time Bomb that's 29 Years Old Cleanest Lake Threatens Life Cancer Research Cited: 3 Americans Win Nobel in Medicine Blue Collar Views: The Job Hazards a Man Never Sees Chemicals and Cancer-a Whole Industry Holds its Breath Pro and Con put Dyes on the Spot EXHIBIT .~ 73 ~ Casijeman Dec- Pfulbv. 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HnCClIii"" ~.~~1 ai;' j'Jt<ll>u.b.! .I>u hu sl:u:>wn ~>14~ t~g.,r;j faT psiu<:ipl~, ~ I1i.o inaug," ralion M put alUllI eetl1lad 10 J.b. .0p1' poUltnle.Jtk (If r~pOmll' ftlerna .nod. ,,,jaliv<$ to joh. In scw,,,, Q,atio1i thQI "Ih. "v,'sioan. elM'- tn;:nt corponlJon. ;,~e aml Jj)(hC~llol1 (1I1I Coluni -rile endll4J!l$ I<:'>t. 01 Iti. do- bus .r~ oO,",\;Inl in'i'ir~tirll1 to lmnewce perf;;.rmance '$ It" VIlgl' us" b~h ~~ '",I.vidual. 111\d.. 0oY'( with which he il ctlfurclJl8 Caup,es' ~ I:!ati~n. a< we ~~ek Il ,'M"W W tbt Isnd, rac.tfll law hi; 1I11.!hed world of pea'll' all<! \\llll!!dd~,f'",, Ibrough a reluc.tn<>l ~tnndjog." 1, , 15 monq.J age. l Susp~ct Asbe8JO$.:.,~ A Ctdnler: Sowtclii ! . ,'" y , CLhIiNcaKgoATrSibBuEneS(T19O6S3-CTuOrreCntAfilNe)C; MEaRr 2O, F196L6U; PNroGQSu,esCt HOisLtoOricNal Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1969) pg. A8 ...lINK ASBESTOS TO CANCER OF LUNGS, COLON New York, March 1 fM Mount Sinai hospital reported today that asbestos, used in brake linings and other common products, may be a cancer related danger to the general public as well as to those who j come into contact ,vith it in in dustry. "The Mount Sinai ss tu die s show that direct occupational . _~{posure to asbestos increases the risk of pneumoconiosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and pos- sibly cancer of the stomach and colon," the hospital said. "Evi dence also has been obtained that some asbestos fibers may be present in tbe lungs of at least .one-quarter of the urban population of the United Stales.U The statement was released along .with the hospital's an nouncement of a new laboratory to assess the asbestos danger to industrla'l occupations and the ~ I tblic. 1 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited 73b LINKS CANCER TO CHEMICALS WE LIVE WITH RONALD KOTULAK CJII~n Tn/mfU: (l9f1JCurmlf lJiiMld: MM3u.1 )0,1/)69; ProQuCSl Hr~orical NCW$papcrsChiQ.oTnbuDC(I SqO 19S5) pg.C2:5 ,l-iNKS CANCER I TO CHEMICALS ! WE LIVE \vITH BY RONAW KOTVLAK (OIIC1IP TrihMl Press StRiltetl New Orleans, March 29- Chemioal agents in OUr food, air. and water appear to be the largest cause 01 buman can- eelrSs, a Boston medical re.~arcber reported today_ Sensitive new tests have shown t hat chemical com- pounds found in polluted air, supplies, and 0 the r environ- mental areas are capable of producing a variety of cancer in a:ilinaa, sMitid Dr_ Samuel S. Epsteion, chief of the carclillo- genesis an toxicology labllra- Itory at Children's search Foundation cancer Re- in Boston_ "There is now growing recognition that lthe majority o! buman cancers are probably due 10 chemical carcinogens lcancer causing agents)l in the environment that they arc Ihence, uIlimately, preven!- able," he said_ I PreoalCllc)' Is Noted Population studies show lthat certain types 01 cancers are more prevalent in various parts of the world than others. depl!J]ding oOnD the chcmieals to which the people are exposed, he soid. In the United Stlates and Britain, for e.<ample, lung cancer is higher than in other I; countries bee a use or the igreater number of persODS who , smoke cigarets, he said. Mouth cancer is bigb in Asia because of the popularity of cbewing IIbetel nuts and tobacco leaves. i Sltomach canCer is high in IJapan, Iceland, and Chile. prob-. I ably hecause much of the fISh ,eaten in these countries is 'contaminaled by a chemical !called nitrosamine. i Cancer of the esol>hagus among Z amm b i a os drinking IKachasu spirits has been as- soclated with Nitrosamine cOn- ,ltamination in the beverage, he Isaid. Tbhe cancer in iDeiden.. of liver the Banlia tribe is Iprobably attributable to af- latoxlin dietary contamination and to eating cycad plants. Link 1to0 Occupations I workers exposed 1to0 certain chemicals in their occupations show an increased rate of ocertain types of cancers, be Icxplained_ As examples, be listed blad- der eancer iDn the aniline dye ! and rubber industries; l~ng ICcaonlocreardoin aunrdaniinumwmorikneerrss of In nitrogen mustard factories in Japan; sinus cancer ill wood- workers; pleural and peritoneal cancers iDn asbestos workers; and skin caneeeet.' in cuUing and I, shale Oil industries. CertaIn ehemicals, previously Ithought to be harmless, are now linked 10 the inception of cancers in test animals. DDrr_. , ~P"u,;ft porte..d! at lhe Am.,.;- can Caneer ",ci~tyOs ~ienee writers seminar. Dr. Epsltein is ltesting a wide variety of chemical cOOiponds on baby mice to determine their cancer causing properties_ Results from the anlbmtta!l experiments cannot be directly applied to man yet, he :>aid, but there is an "approximate" connection. Reproduced W1I\ p6lTI'IISSion of Ihae COP'i'l9hl owner. FlJI'tMr reproduction prohilxted wrthouI: perml$SIQIl.. 73c An Answer? We Don't Even Know The Question Recne Duboas Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentflle). Apr 12, 1970; ProQuesl HIstorical Newspapers ChIcago Tnbunc (1890 - 1985) pg.1IS83 An Answer' We Don~t Even Know The Question We've hardly started to identify the substances that poison our environment. It's possibJe that the worst news is yet to come. RHene Dubos look a Ph. D. degree in 1927 01 Rultggeerr!s) uniuer3i1y. Since then he hos been Glisocioled with RHoockef/eller unillJerssiitly in New York City, where he is now CIl prrooffeessor. He has been intelillllely concerned with the effectls 0/ entlironmenllol forces - phy3iochemica/, biological, and social-on human liiffe. BfUJ BReene Baboll T HE PHRASE "social prlems" Is ambiguous. It refers to diffi cult situations experienced by many members of a given society at a given time. But It Is often also used to convey tbe view that tbese situa' tions can be solved by economic and social measures. My tbesls Is tbat manf important soclall'robtems ean- (nollrllll.,l from l'sycllolollY Toedn"y lMIIag. nzlne, !lIB"'b, 1910. CopyriSht, Communi .ltUonlllRe.......b/Jolnc..ln.... Inc.) not be solved by such measures because we lack tbe scientific and tech nological knowledge on whicb to base effective social action. Statesmen, social planners, and technologists often say tbat financial east is the major obstacle to air poUutlon control But, in fact, even If we had limitless resources, we could not formulate really effective control programs because we know so . little about the orlgio, nature,. and effects of most air poUutants. Soot, dust, and poUDen were regarded for a long time as tbe most important factor:; of air poUution. Then emphasis shifted to carbon monoxide and suullCfuur dioxide. A few years ago tbe Los Angeles smog drew attention to nitrogen oxides and photooxidants-nd the automobile's In temal combustion engine became tbe chief villain. But important as aUll theIiC IIgentl> "re, thef aecoWlt flor only a few aspects of air pollutionperhaps not the most dangerous. For example, asbestos particles orlginat Ing largely from brake linings of .84 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73d 4 83 laOI.LIJTION motor cars and from insulation mate. rilal used In construction have been detected in significant amounts in the pulmonary alveoli of urban dwellers -and there Is no doubt that asbestos IIss a great health hazard. Several carcinogens have been detected in urban air. Most important, and gen-. erally overlooked, is the disturbing fact that some 'IIf) per cent of the partilculate contaminants In urban air are still unidentified. Their biological effects are unknown. But recent ex periments have shown that newborn animals exposed to these undefined contaminants may show disastrous consequences when they become adults. In view of this ignorance, controUng emission of soot, carbon monoxide, or sulfur dioxide probably would not go far toward controling air pollu. tion. Nor would changing '{from iin ternal combustion to electric automobiles diminish the' release of asbestos from brake linings or the production of the lmml!l\se amount of colloidal stuff generated by tires grinding on pavement. Any control measure Is of course useful, however limited. But a ra tlonal control policy will not be pos- sible until we have made asystematic chemical survey of air contaminants and have determined their effects on human beings and on ecological systems. No one really knows at present which of the air pollutants are mQst variety of mineral and synthetic sub- stances. Just as clear water often contained typhGid bacilli ip the 19th century, so the clear water In most of our city reservoirs 1JlIO0WW ccOoln1ttalinn.s a host of chemIical substances, largiely unidentified, that may be deleterious to health. ReceJllt discoveries suggest We can't go Oil. b.u.r.'lillg and dUII'.ping o"r wastes, btlt we dOIl't knol" "01" to recycle tlle"l. dangerous and where priorIty should be placed In control measures. Ignorance Is even gre~ter with re- gard to water pollution. We have learned from the 19th-century sanl tarlans how to detect and In some measure to control the contamination of water by bacterial pathogens and gross organic matter. But water pol. lution iIs now chiefly chemical In nature and Is made up of an Immense that the mineral composition of water affects mortality from heart disease, and It woauld not be surprising to learn that other chemical contaml nants of water have undesirable bIiological effects. In fact, there are indications that nitrates have reached a toxic level Iin certain paris of this coonnUtlDneent. The disposal of solid wastes constitutes another social problem f{eorr which meaningful programs cannot be formulated until new kinds of . knowledge have been developed by the natural sciences. PhysicIists, chemists, and biologists must develop entirely new methods for recycling the products of technology and agrl. culture. As a biologist, I am con- vlinced that Iit iIs DDOO longer possible or permissIible to incinerate all orgoanic wastes, to dump them into water., or to use them as land fill. Yet, we do not know how to recycle them ,on a llaar~gge scl/lle. Indeed, we have hardly progressed beyond the empirical techniques of compostllng that have been used from time 1Im memorial by gardeners and farmers. I could list a bost of other social problems Cor which there Is no pos slbllIlty of solution untO more knowl edge Is prllvlded by the natural sciences. Crowding and architectural design and urban and rural planning based on ecological concepts need Intensive study. Another problem Is air conditioning and Its effects on biologic rhythms. There Is overwhelming evidence that man Is geared tbru his evolutionary past to the cosmic cycles and that air conditioning upsets some of .86 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 484 1'.U.I.I1TlnX thG5e cycles. A vast amount ooCf tech nical and biological study is needed to make air conditiOQing more com patible with those biololdcal demands encoded in man's genetic apparatus. Excessive sensory stimuli and sensory deprivation are two more ooCf the countless aspects of the technological environment that must be studied if we really want to integrate science into human life. I single out for empbasis oae item of paramount importance because it bears on aUll aspects of social and technological plaruting-the lasting effects of early influences. A n environmental influences have their deepest aDd most lasting efCfeeccts worst effects of envircnmental poIllu. tion are probaabbly yet to come since it ;:; ;:...lIy during recent decades that c&,...in chemical poUutants have reached high levels almost every. where 'and that children have been exposed to these pollutants almost constantly from birth. Findings from studies made re-. cently at two medical schools in England, one in London and one in Birmingham, indicate that fCrroom the age of 2 or 3, children raised under conditions of high pollution begin to show evidence of pennanent mal function. Clearly those children are not going to die. What will happen is that in 20 or 30 years, as a result of that slow, chronic response to environmental Insult, these children will Tho 'De ~oH.plail.l ofthe laiaarr."J.I we slIiffer, ouur kids will probably fare worse. when they act OD the organism during the early, fCoorrmmaattiive phases of its development; the first six years of life seem to be especially critical for human beings. It is not an overstatement to say that in human beings the first four years of Iife-and, Cor that matter, prenatal life-are of such critical importance that if the environment at that time is not just right, the organism suffers some kind of handicap from which it will never recover. In the light of this fact, the certainly suffer from some form of chronic disorder. Chronic pulmonary dise3se is at present the largest cause of disabi1ity 3IId death in England. and it is increasing in this country at an alarming rate-to such an extent that I believe it will be one of the biggest medical problems within 10 years. We can and must develop ImowJedge of environmental effects on very young children. We know little about the effects of these early influences. We must. Q L-' '-' Reproduced with pennission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pennission. 4B6 PO....IJ'II'IOX therefore, develop a new kind of knowledge to understand and, one hopes. predict the bad effects-and the desirable ones-that the technological environment exerts on the expression of biological and mental potentialities. It is not surprising that we know so IitUe ahout the long- range effects of social and technological innovations. But it is shockin~ that 50 very little is being done to develop those aspects of the natural sciences tbat could contribute to a more rational utilization of our tecbnological prowess. We cannot solve the environmental problems of our society because in most cases knowledge of the inter- play between man and his environ- ment is either inadequate or totally irrelevant. what is worse, few, if any, are the places that are searching lor the kind of infonnation that the natural sciences could contribute to the solution of our most urgent social problems. ODe can expect that the clamor for more social relevance in academic studies wJ1l bring about a shift in the areas of research se!ected for emphasis by theoretical scientists. But it Is unlikely that the effort devoted by universities to the SCientifIC aspect of social issues will be sufficiently large and we~ough foeused to affect significantly the course of events. Universities were Dot organized to deal effectively with urgent social problems. Moreover, they should Dot try to reorganize contributions to unsolved problems. Temporary project groups rather than permanent stratified units will char. acterize .socially oriented science. This does not mean that academic scientists must remain aloof {from social issues. Tlie most urgent role of the university is to sensitize stu. dents to the fact that their social concern wiiUll be wasted if it is not based OIl scientific. teclmolollical knowledge. The university should learn to glamorize the social aspects of the natural sciences. Universities now tend to consider studenls who want to concern themselves with s0cial problems as second-class citi:i:ens or second-class scientists. A course of action for the current ecologic crisis may be derived from what bappened one century ago when Europe and the United States experienced the environmental disasters caused by the first phase of the industrial revolution. At that time the appaDing conditions in most urban industrial areas stimulated enlightened and dedicated citizens to launch a vigorous campaign of social refOnDS. Public bealth laboratories and boards of health were organized to formulate and enforce sanitary regulations, often agaillst the resistance of vested interests. It SOOn became apparent. however. that even the best-meaning and most enterprisjpg social refonners could We don't know enoug" about pollution, and mworse, few of us are trying to flind Ollt. themselves toward this end. '11Iis would jeopardize their traditional and most important tasks-the acquisition and kansmission of timeless !mowl- edJ!e. . The study of most social problems requires a complex: integrated ap- proach not readily achieved within a university because the academic structure is primarily discipline- oriented. Professional associationstecl1oo1ogical, medical, and social -have long realized that it is diffi.. :lIlt to study their problems within the aeademic systA!m. For this reason, many of them bave established their own research programs outside the universities. and so, of course. bave aUll major industrial enterprises. Much socially oriented science wiDU have to be canied out in the future by task forces made up of assorted scientists who have different skills and are selected for their potential not be very effective because they lacked the kind of teehnical informa- tion that ouly the Datural sciences conld provide. As a rewlt, new kinds of researdt iDstitutes were created to study the epidemic and nutritional diseases that constituted the most pressing e.uvironmental problems of the late 1lIth century. Neither medical scbooIs nor universities were then geared for the scientific study of these conditions. The first institutes devoted to medical research emerged outside ~ independent of the aca demic establishment. Their lJist is long, ltom the Pasteur institute in Paris and the Koch institute in Berlin to the Rockefeller institute in New York City and the lnstitute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama in Guatemala City. These remarkable and highly productive institutions were fOllll1ddeecd! and nurtured by private and political bodies to deal with .u9n0 Reproduced with pennisslon of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pennission. answered social demands. It took years-even decades-before the new scientific problems generated in the& mission-oriented laboratories were recognized by universities as legitimate areas of academic researcb. There is much reason to believe that public pressure will soon place social [especialJy environmental] problems at the forefront of the seien- tific enterprise. Since the existing knowledge of the natural sciences is not sufficient to permit the development of effective action programs, we science and practical applications bas constituted one of the most in- fluential factors in the development of science. The study of ecological problems in technological societies will soon generate new, exciting knowledge of man and his envIironment. Man is Jlot oOnD his way to extinction. He can adapt to almost ~ing. I am sure that we can adapt to the dirt, pollution, and noise of New York City or Chicago. That is the real tragedy-we can adapt to it. As we The dallger lies Dnot iDn extitletion 'Jlit in the possibility that lunnanity will adjust to it. can only hope that new types of research institutions will be created to aequire knowledge directly rele- vant to urgent social issues. Altho mission-oriented institutions will have to be concerned with practical problems, they Will contribute to theoretical knowledge because thev will have to open new and neglected areas of inquiry. The history of science proves that any effort to deal with practical problems inevitably points to new theoretical problems, just as the study of infection enriched cellular and molecular biology and the search {or better strains of cormn opened new fields of genetics. The interplay between theoretical become adapted, we accept worse and worse conditions without realizing that a child born and raised in this environment has no chance of de- veloping his total physical and mental potential. It is essential that we com- mit ourselves to such problems as a society and as a Dation. not because we are threatened with extinction, but because, if We do Dot understand what the environment is doing to us, something perhaps worse than extinc- tion will take place-a progressive degradation of the quality of human life. Adapted Iron, 4 pap" ddicrrcd tRiIt " .ym JJusiutU. 0/ the Arflonne lTnh:C'~iti('.1' ASit,elatioll. I~ : I ~ : ~ .~l\' s 6 Reproduced with pennission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pennission. ---- ----- ._-- --. '- ' - r - - " - ~--\.~r---' ~-, -~_ _ - - - - - - -~------ .. ~ _A _ _ _ _ _ _ ._~ _ _ -- - ..- - - - -----'----01?----- - ., > t CHic:~~~'ri-:;N~' MON~A;, ~EP~~~-2~, 1~7: ._~-=cc=:__ .. 1>-a' E~i1ittlt c. T~lls In".~~I-~,et :9~c~~1J\N.AT.ODBERA-C~OEEUKSSE '-( , " -,' - > , PWwerin ' ' '." fiartc.~ 'c" REAL_'l'KPgOB . . lD-'1'he is-~~pied-'~ SotithWt~ sia's. progress.. in. _perfeeijn.g -the ,Asia~/~~~.e.:s~bles multiple independently. tai:get- nHee ~~t mean, Is ~~,e:~t. 4Siltl_~O~Vle't;~ut:l-_JWyydeararrteoe able reentry vehicles for 'Uits ICBMs the [MlRV] aircraft ~" to the. enormously s~t to the . . '_ . rding to fUture balance ofpower' Tay- specialist added. (rtonsumer Crusader Na- t~i~::~e~:~ay for a.n im- what he called the- tobaecoin- douusstrfoyr'seiugsne. mofapttoesrs.iinb.lyA~h""aazreatrQ<d,-: \ ).' ' cigars and cigf!t.illus: ~ ._.- .. ~'-.-~,..'"-t-----. - lIe's "All lor said. ' :'. "But the world derives a Nader said in a letter to , to be 'The Unitea states and So- s~ange feeling of peace from Miles Kirkpatrick, chairman of '. viet Un,ion stra~gic arms _fun~ the I fac~ that th~ two super- Federal Trade Commission, iditor of itation'. taJks-um:Lhad-SOllie. ef-< po~eE'~ ilay~ -avaibkb~e the glass' fibers, -ceramic :l in his feet "only in the missile field, me~ ~ Insure the mutual bers, asbestos, rock wool and l tt )1 ,e4 according to TaYlOl'. anmhilation of each other and diatomaceous earth have been ----Boviet . _:_. ..., . _.__.__ almost everyone e~ at the either considered or- --used' in t is not ,,' ~ss Pi9~s Told . pus of a omutftOon'/" ~esaid. , rE!constituted tobacco. -r.-n;~~h..~~ _~~nther _ nation bas pro- "And the United States sec- While the use of reconstituted Umon t ~sedgfeitly With. ~ .~p;. -refary-:-ordCIense Can arrordtoo-tl:oOa:CC6 nfiee East pUngIy ~iye, anbm.1S.aiIe keep projected new weapons saved the tobacco $200 1 coast- def~nses, ~Pl~ th? contmued like the Navy's advance under- million ...to.-.$350 mimHion annunal-- iDn from b~dup .of .m~on~ental bal- sea, long range missile system Iy, Nader said, "Such a cor~ lRa state U.Sti~ missile ~ti~ by both... as a bargaining' point in his porate bonanza has not brought 1lee coup sIdes,' Taylor said., hip pocket against any lack of. with it any selfiIDposed .or gov- .Photographs taken !-~r elec- enthusiclsm for continuation of ernmentally imposed duty to [" tronic--and..speciaI reconnais- the arms limitation meetings," analyze the extent of the health- lIt such, aircraft revealed Rus- he said. __ .. ____ ba~~r~s.involved~"' I states ~s- TSE AGE '(JJPD- -;: --~ke :) Jut i. There at the rote a- l~r1fe .-ORDER THIS WEEK! SALE! 50% ' OF--F! .. Christmas portraits of you o~ your child. Any size, any finish, any' qucmt.i~ __ .______ ",_ An example of the savings; One BhxllOO portrait~ .raeg $10, '. _ now ~n'y 5.00 , ~' Three 5x7 pOrtraits, regg_- $24, now only $12 . ~8~~&k"o~~~~ Cancer Risk (,JIlCQSO TribuInIE' (JI)63-CJlrrelll/iM Dec I. 1970. ProQucst Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (J 890 - 19R5) pg I Huge Rise Told in Cancer Risk BY nOS,\LO KOTULAK IScience EditorI fClIlCI,D Trlillunli Pr:tl Smlee) BOSTON. Nov. a6-For more lution and drives on crowded and mQre Americans the in- expresswais with high levels of creasing number of pollutanls they are exposed to may give ;rll1em a be~er than even chance of developmg lung cancer, a ~~eral hcalth expert reported John J. lIanlon, assistant surgeon general ooCr the United States Public Health Service, said doctors have been shocked to fiPmlIl that exposure to two or more k now n eaneer-causing agents doesn't merely double automobile exhaust fumes then he runs a very great ~ of The developing cancer," Dr. Hanlon said frightening thing about this example is that aUn city dwel!ers ~r~ e.'Iposed to ashesltos sllICe It IS a commonly used building material but doctors don't know yet how much of a risk it represents. he said. Death Rates RIse tbe risk of eancer but increases Air pollution also plays a it many times. major role in the development How Risks Pilec Up Reporting at the American Medical Association's 24th clin ical convention, Dr. Hanlon said tbis snowballing effect gives some people almost a 100 per cent risk of developing caneer. o[ emphysema and chrome broncbitis, Dr. Hanlon said. A recent study in New York City revealed that in the last 10 years the denth rate from em. physema hbas increased by 500 per cent and tbe death rate For example, a person who smokes once to two pncks of clgarets a day hbas 10 times the risk of developing lung eancer as a DOlllimokcr, be explained, A person Who works with as bestos increases his risk by 25 times. [Continued Oa page 2, col. 6) But a person who both smokes up to two packs of elgarets daily and works with asbestos increases bis risk of lung caneer by 80 timClS, he said. "And if this person lives in a city with high levels of air pol Repl'Oduced with perrrussion of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohIbited without permission. Risk of Lung Cancer Rises Sharply, A.M.A. Clinic Told (CODtIDuecl from fmt page] lrom chronic bronehitis has !W ri&en 200 per cent. Dr, HaDlon said such increases r~eet ~ way pollu. tion JO~ WIth other f~c. tors ID Clllllributlug to the nse of disease. He DO~ that peoptae had beeII smoking for 70 years before iaereases of such magnitude were observed. "Each year the pollUtion of our air. land, aod water becomes worse," Dr. HaDnlon said. "Tbreats from llIISaCe foods, water, drugs, cbemj. eals and a variety of eoan SsuUmDleer products are rapidly iiDb me creasillg, eausillg the quality of Americall to de- tetiorate." The life expectancy of the average adult male iDb Amerlieca has not slgDlftcantly increased iiDb the last 50 years because of the diseases' aDd DlDesses Gea. brousflt 011 by eI!ViroDmealal pollluuttiiooDn be said. ID EYiroDmea& "The me di c a I profession must become much more cog nIzant of the fact that a very slgnific:aot proportion of t.'Je so-called cbroD1c:, noDcommu niceable diseases as wen as mental iUOness have t h air genesis iDn the environment and that more attention to tile ea w-OIIDIeat cao prevent many of these .iIlnesse5," he said. Another form of pollution, pesticides, have wdtrated 'our body tissues and may be tick lag away Ili k e a biologieal time bomb that c:ould explode iDn the 1II1m 10 to 31 yea!'!, said Dr. Charles S. Boustoll, chalrma n of 'the Community Medicine DepartmeDt at the University of VerDIOIIl ThIs is wbell the people wI!o IuJve IuJd DDD.r, aDud other pest!C!ldes in their bodies for the longest time will be produclng cbildren, be explalaed. DDT and Children Experiments with aJlimab show that DDT can cause genetic damage and birth defects, Dr. Houston said. A1ltthho no ODe knows what loot tenn effect the pesticides wIiDll have on man, many seieatists are CGlleemed that the average AmerieaD now has 12 parts per million of DDT in his body fat, he added. "The contillued use of pesticides is a gigantic h\llll8O elCperiment totally unjustifiable in view of wbat we already know of their potential danger," be said. Reproduced with pennission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ,_,I} This is your lung Ronald Chicago Tribune (J963-Currentflle); Apr 25, 1971; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) pg. H28 - "1I1I CIIIJ IIIOft U/ile tk UIIIpIe ot God. 1Iim . " God ".crOWIl lar .1Ie temple 01 dt:od it JIoIf .".. temple Je arc," 1II1 Car. %:121 I11I. . . . . . . . . . .. ThiliIl The healthy pink lungs in the photo on the left belonged to an ll-year-old. The polluted black lungs at the right belonged to a coal miner who worked in carbon-choked air. The lungs in the center photo? They 'belonged to an average Chicagoan, someone just like you. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without resident, the bid lUllS was ~. '1'here was noae of tile bright, plDldlb pearleaceot -color lllat we would like to see. "Dirty afr--cf-..e aDd death. For every day 01 IlaI,. dirty air; QOtber KCeleration of dlaeue. aDd per- hbaps anotber death. lfa it neeeaaryl" Others lIMe become d8I'1, too. "u the mdeDce wmante. maybe it Is tJme we begin tIItiII '1lIlIIO0,' U the Pl'ClbabIe eatIIe of death for aD IllcrealiDllIUIIlber at p!lUeata who die falm what . . CD be oilier ea.U.le.l," Dr. James N. Pitts Jr., cIlreetar of the Stalewlde Air Po\latioa Phyaklans are aI80 becoming lIlarmed over tihleo apparent lDcrease in IUDDgI callC!el' CIBeI caUled by poUution. While 10 miIll0D AmericaDs have quit smoking, the deatb rate from cancer contlnuea to IDcrease. Tbls increase may largely be related to _ Iocreased exposure of the population to e8lll!causing ageats In tile euYironmeot, polata out the National Advlaol"J CaIaIcer CouocD. A major atudy has been laUDChecl by the National Cancer lnatitute in tile bopes of ldelltif,ybrg the c:anceerr--ccaauussilDag agents In our I!!IIllVVirioronnmmeent aDd eUm1lnnaattllng them. Ilas less tIIIn 5 mWlonths of an filch ID diamet WhIItIes rfgbt tbru the nose and may get Into the lungs. Air enters the IWlgs thru the wiDdplpe [trachea] whicb branCbea off Into two main Items. oCrIQae ClCIDneetllIg to eaeh 1uDg. 'l1Iese stema have mlDY furtber dlvIsioDII, Ulitte tile roots of a tree, ealIed air passages that bring tile air Into tile farthest reaches 0( tbe lungs. Tbe wiDdpIpe and air passagei are lined with miBlous of tiDy hairs [cilia) that act as the Itmg', IIIlDItaUoa department. The ltmg tissue aecretea ReteudI Cater of the Ulllverslty of CaIIlonaia at Evlcleac:c tIIIt our air 1l111188y)' Ctuumm cella CIIICel'OU8 D1UCU8 (pbIegm] 1Ihich acta like a sticky blauket Riverside. was abown by Dr. David SpaIn. a patllologilt wwbiO that Is IUppoaed 10 catdl Impurities. mueb like 01 Some ftIIidenta already laIow !hey cu't lIIInJive lia the bIc dtJ air. ODe day ,ear aDd baIIlgO a 58-year-old WOIIWl wu ordered bJ her doctDr DOt to breathe OUeqo'. air aBy1IIOre if ashbe wanted to Ita, alive. . Twelve weeeekbi earlier IIIe bed beeD brau&bt to a hospital iDll the eity near death, bel' luaga wraeted 117 cIIroalc fIroacllfUa, emphysema aDd 1IIIIIuDa. n took ~ " - to modem mediciae to i But Ave bel'. -"Of Wbea ... w.4iIcbarpd alib: weeb later, the fU'llt IIreatIl ell air . , drew CJUtJIde the ImpItaI brougbl bIrtiDI eaaab to bel' tbroat. After only ODe day ,....u., IDn a.icaIG'. Iaul ............. vioIeaIIyJ ftWIecI, m. 8l1li Ibe . . . _ _ CI'itiI:aIIJ' III I'CIIIIIiriDI .. an- """!aim CD lie IIDIpItal. sm IIlIOn! web were ___ to ...... over .II.e.r. aeuCe attack, hidi which eftI7 miDuI.e ... IIIIed rib lfear 01 death bJy 1UfraeatiDD. 'DIe IIeCGDIl tilDe . . . . rudJy ltor dIIdIarse her dDctGr took DD dIaDces. W'dII III 0QIfIl ma* IIrapped 0ftI' . . fa:e, .ail.e ..... C!aIIted iDto .. ambuIaace, ruaIIecl to O0''IHIaare IDtenIatioDal Ahport and fIowD CD _ iDll Arir.aaa "tIbere tbe Ioweat poIIutJon IeYeJa C!GUId be fouDd. I SIlo lIas IDIGOW breatbJac weD, ad IIIe Iw not had any more IICIIIe respiratory attac:b. She has lIIlYer retume4 10 adc!qo, where, Cor bel' and an iInIereu- flag DIJlDber 01 victIma aufferiag &om America'. fastest pvwiIIg dIaeaseI. tile atfDg of death Is iDll I tile air. More and more doc:tora faced with IuDg dieeaIe IfDbd CD air poUuIJoIl are preeerlbillg QIIeoway tripa flor their IIeriauaIy m paUeats. '1'heIr order, "Get out of 0IIeq0 if:rou waut to breathe." 'I'be t!OIIdIUoa 01 our air Is a growillg huard 10 health, asayy. Dr. Bertram Cunow, ploneeriDg air poUutIoa beaUb expert wbo waarran:sa that die average c:itJ dweller, partleularly if be smokes c:lgarets, CcaID look fGnranI to .erIous luag trouble ID most cases. don' "We're liaa for lbiard tIma If we deaD up the air. EverJooe DDW bbaus bladt IuJIgs to IlOme cIereet aDd tIiIs 1II1 aD iDdIeator of tile erud that', In the air and of tile pJ8IlJ other IIIIUlta the Innp 1IUffer. "'DIe atate of our 1unga lIaI IIUt!b that at Ieut 210 mllUaa AmerIcaaI ad probabIJ IIIOl'e have the eufY IIa&a of dcInnDIce braDchWI ud there IitI DO queatioG that mlWlUaaaas of people tu:ve undiagIIosed empbJ- ema IeDI8 .. atata Dr. C&mow. b is frfI,IIteIIlIIg doc:ftAoIrrII lIaI that air po\lutioa Ilas begIJmiDg to riva1 elgaret 8IIIOkiIIg as tile dUel cCa8!l1li1e of du"OIIlc ImIDChitIa. IDn America. amok:iDg ila IlUUDll ecIIISIdeIed tile prime c:uIprit but ifDa Loadcm L...._. that air UuUon is the b'....est 1i - aperta _ e po '65 say.. I _ov . . . ."_ . . . . . . _-0 C8MUIaOnoyf tpheIoapdleiaehaaavee, Dcro.mCearItIoOwaccept eougbiag I81I1I aathIr.s more tbhaD a DUisaDce beeause It hbappens to graduIIlJ" be saayyss, but CQUghJdg is ofteD a sign fouDd (Il'eCaDCel'OII dwIges iDll lIIIIg c:eIla of New York City resideIIts who didn't IIDOte. Tbe8e aame dumge&. _ more oflbem, were alIO found ifDa tile hmg I!da 0I1DIGbrs. So dam8'llfnl 1I1I air poUutioD to our IIIIIp aDd ., wideJipread Ilas tile effect that alJIIOIt 110 ODe reacbes the age of 12 wftbaat lIIfferial some deteriDratIDa, exp1aIaa Dr. RuaeIl P. SbenriD, pathoJopt at llthellU~~.."_.'...-.-.. of SoIltbem caIIfornq ScbooI of Afta' e..m"'~ tbGuIIDda 01 1uAgI, Dr. SbIIrwIa 88)1 be .... Jet to fiDd ID,)Y'OODe who bbaus IIl8IIIJOI to eater ilia tMI8 with 1IIIdamqed IuDp. IJQund Iaas cella cIIe eecb ... bat people ec iItt.". IIDtice tbat the)' a.: IaIIDI dal ~ . . . tiIIae. 'Ibe III!Dl! Dr. SbenrJa liN CD IIdI dallllllllI..,.. 1DapeaIa, .... It IDQ ~ .... lid tile .... 1I1I destroJed. be ...,.. wa. tIda ...... tile *tiDl1II8J be .. 8IIIIJ lft1 fiIr P'O""""b - _ eaacer, WUIIII Dr. SIIenriL WhIle I0IIIO IIdaIIiIU dIIqree wiIh Dr. SbenriD'. I estimate, be mafnhinllJlat pnbIIIIJ . . , . . ... - acme lIIIIg damage characterIItIc or tile earIJ oaeet i of empbyaema. "I believe everyooe aver U ilia it. I !mow [ eaa't fiDel a IIIIl'IDal _ iDll IIIIJ'IIdII over that age." PriDCcee adds: "Auytlme JOU atart fDliDc up the Juags with foreigb material JOU tab up valuable i apaee. 'l'bere are 110 two wa)'S about it: It em 'c:a\lle IIIIGrtDeas of breath, reduced ozygenatioll 01 the blood 8l1li an iDc:reaaecI straID O01D1 tile IIeart lid clreuIalMy S)'stem." MJcnlllCOplc ....aminatloa of. the Iw!&'s tiDy air aaca [alveoli] 8boWw8 tile aearred tissue that probably was caused by iIIhaleIl add aemul IIlista eating away tile tIa&ue, Prince 118J11. Scarriag was found in evel"J case where It was IoaIIed for. The air aaes are like tiny balloons that Inflate to bring osygen in and deflatoe to expel earbboodll. dioxide wastes from the bodJ. Some experts believe that seaning eau8eS the saca to lose their ~asticil.y and to break apart 10 they CaD't ., their job aanlyii more. Tbe loss of eoatractiIitJ aDd the_ de:struc:tloD of tile alveoU are 8lgus of empIJJaema. Even tho scIeati&ta are UDC:OVI!I'fag early aIgu 01 emphysema in the popuIatlaa, IDOIII; peoplo probalIIJ may)' never experieoee thile (ee1lDg of suffoeatknl tbIIt is a symptom of the severe form of the cIiseaae. De reaaoa Is that tile 1\I11III have about 100 miIIIoD alveoU, providing an reserve. 'DIe death rate from emphyaama has doubled every five years for the last two dceadea. It fa 110'10' the seeond bIgbest cause of dlsabUlty iDll people QDder as wbo apply for Soclal Seeurity beIIefitI. be cCl'.Y.. ...J.L..-.n..er,s I._...._.a beeome blaek the same way tluit the coal mi!lDleerr''s. do. C~ found iDll. the mine and tile city air, Ila the element th,t' paper, before tIIey cu get I1Ito the sensitive alveoU. Tbe eWa beat In waves at 1,000 to 1,500 times a mfmde. TbIs wave ICtiaD creates an upward lIftIng motiaG whkII eoastaDtly moves the carpet of mUCUI with Ita cargo of cliDgIag dJri &om deep iDll the lUDg out to tile Ibroat, 1Ibere ilia eltber harmlessly swalloWed or eougbed up. _ ' eJwnicaJa fGund ill air po1IutioII or cigar IIIIOb CCIIDII IIDock out tbheo cilia. Tbo IIIde hairs caD be paralJzed aDd tbeIr deaDIiag actioD stopped by _IUUurie IIC!id, 8UIfur dImIe, Ilitrogea diDDDDdle 8JIIl i _ _ iD .... poDutbt or elgaret 1IDOb. 1ba paraJ,JliasllClioa lia dIJrCmIUI. . . . CIPJIQrO 10 IIIeIe poIII!l'ful ....ieaJs eIIl dI!ItnIJ tile dIia.. '!lie cella oat of wIakIt the dUa PI" mmaaJ, tIIeIl be replaced '" CDanIel' ceedIIsa CIIat daIl't line tiDy lIIIirL 'ftIeIe eeIIa IIDIIeqo CIIIIItaDt etwwea ad IOIDe fImItIcats IUIpeCt CIIat the1 are the aboIIDl'IIIal CieIII oat of wIdc!a C8IICS'8 JU,J . . . 'DIe lIIIIp cmrreact '" ptVduc:iJW more Dl1ICUI whidJ, ainco it laD't effectively moved out 1IIIJIIl0000, pIup uP tile air passagea iDri tile limp. Tbis Ila wIIJ ebronIe broDeIIitiI patieats are foreed to eougb. n IitI aD attempt by the IIody to set rid of the IIlIICUI IIIat hbaas been co1Jec:tiD& In tbho lungs. Tbe IrritaDIs DDW rou In, aDd tbe.v Inflame !he IIDIag of the -air JI8SII8CeI, eauaiDI aweIIhIg 8IId fIaiIIef aamnria& aDd makia8 breathiv& more cfiffi. cult. TbeIe irritaDta c:auae IIIOnI tnlUble beeatilo the air passages by to dose down 10 keep tbem out. CoastaDt IrriaUoa keeps DmUaIDDJ 01 tbeae pasaages dosed, furtber reduc:iDg the supply of OIYgeD that cu get iDll. AAaI the eadJoa particles IDflltute deeper into the hnIP past the delfl!DIlIleIlesa cilia they become lodged In and 8l'OIIIId tile air saes. At tbIa point IIlotber of the body's defleonse systems c:omes into pIlayJ but, lIIIl"vl1uDateiT, it is DO match for Itba earIIoa. TbIa ayatem emplo)l big cella eaIIed II18CJ'Opbaaes 'Iddch are deIfped to goIIbIe up harmluIl forelp llIIMa"Cel Tbe IJUICI'OlIbIges are IUP' posed to digeIt the fmpurlIIea and ID eonvert them -.........1ce.1Iy . . IIarmJeaa producta that cu be emdeiI from the 1IacIy. But IaDn awful tIafag IIappeaa. SInee cartm 1I1I buIc element wbJeb cu't be brobD don, the III8CfOl1IIaIes become chnh(oomdell '!'bet ..... the putIcIea but IheJ cu't do IIIJIhIII& wIh tbem. '!'be eadIaa coIIIIeecdta IiQll the maeropIsages UIItil the big eeUs tire aDd break don tbemaelves, eompact- liDag tile c:eIluIar debria and earIJoD into Otblee I.I.IIIi tia8ue. Not G0IIIlly do the luaga turmn blac:k &om the carbon; ttlhleayt _a.b.lBAnbDegiDthefDulInrg~t~IP~, "kD"o'-c-k&In:g-nouCtllti_l_e..a..firt~s..al"c.s. OIYgea for cad:Ioa dIoIide iIInI the bJood. Recent atudIes with animals Bbow that tile earbou :!;. of cIiaeaIe. ADyOllO wbo cou,gba aDd ral8ea phlegm ANu..!.o .. .. .~ 1loMo.. t 1__.. three DIOIlIhs a year - - ..... lDorD_ .or a - - for two Jean hhaul the ear., stages of ehroaIc bl'OJl- cb.~~ ClOIIliDue to 8IIIOke aDd to be exposed W ell' pvuIllI\I9A, ....... ~ set _ _ eh-'c! ht_ dIItIa. 'l'IIls Ila what we bave fOUDd." LaIIt)'eal" dInIalc broDcbltis aDd empbysema caused 30,000 deaflha. imparts the black c:oollor to what abDUId IIOrmaIIy I be a DDliDntt lJuuag. WbDe tile IIIfDer lets his carbbooDll from the coal lie 1lODlIlnies, the city dweUer lDbales bl_ from tbe ever-: I present lOOt that Is emitted from (uel eombustlolL 'l'tIe IUllftl are our front line al defelllO agahult .... poIlutioa. Altbe the hair 4ftCI molat membrllle& iDll. the aoae catdllllOllt of the bIg partfclea of dwIt and other cobtamlnaDls we breathe in, UJtblag that I particles play an eveII more omiaOus role iDll de IItroyiu& luag tissue. BeaeaIdIera fOUDd that pure carboD particles may simply collect in the lJuag. IIut H Itba partiiclees. carry traces Of aulfurie acld a&uDdd other ebemlcals, as they ofteIl eclit, they can cause lung CaDcera In rats. DoetorI MW de!Ieribe IIWIY severe (ormtl of Itmg disea&e accorrddiiDng to what a victim breathes. 1beae IIftHhreateDlog diseases 1Ihich are ea1led pneumo- .3J Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproductior:t prohibited without permission.  It aUK I.lING eonioses [Ck., pneumon, lung and !wnu. dust), are geoeralJy due to heavy exposure to air poUutants ifD a partkulsr line ot wmfr. Coal du8t In the mines prcduc:ell "miJIer's lung," eoUoD fibers Ila the mlI1s cause b)'sainosis, sugar cane fibenI [bagasse] are I'eSpOIISlble for bagassosis, ISbestos wbere It Is mined, mDled or utilized IDII eoastruetJon causes a&bestosIs, aluminum dust pro- duees a1umfDorris, aud tbere are many others. Health experts are becoming worried because many of these poUutants, wI1kh are known to cause l18Vete dlllnnaage at bigh eJ'(lOSUre, are'aI90 reachiJIg Ibe geDl!l'al population: Asbestos fiberas, for ex&JDple, are DOW eollllllODl, 1fO0IlIlIllId lit the Iuaga 01 city resi- dents. Nonsmoldng a&be&tos workers have 25 times the DCII'ID81 rIaIt of deVeloping _ caocer. Tbe effect of air poUutioD 011 bealth Is devastating. AA reeeot aatiolnride 8IUdy by the epidemiology aDd lltau.tics ttivIaioa of the NatloDa1 Tuberc:ulosls and Respiratory DIiseue AI8oclation revealed that almost 0OIbJe out or Ift lIospitaI patieDIs Is hosplta1iled flor resplrator)r cIiIeaseB, with chronic bronchitis aDd empby&ema Ibe chief offeuders. '''l!Ie dfIeases that appear to be the major eau&eI ol death J.Q the UDIted states tDday are lIOIIiDCectIous ill origin aDd IIhare the charaderlsUea of bl!iDIIgg cau.ed by, ID8Df fac:tors, of insidious onset and I1I1,,.deYelopmeot over a 3). to 3O-year period, 8bd d. beIDg dHfieult to beat wibleen fiDaIIy reeognized." Dr. Caraow. AIIIOIII tile diIeues that takte years to dewIop aad are JiDked to the sire of a cRy IIIId ita level of poUatlou are IIUDDIIJI e&Deers and respiratory dIaea8es, 1Ds/st.l Dr. camow, wbo is dUef of the eavinJamemaf beaIth II!ctIoIl at the UJ1iveraltJ d. IIUDoIa College of MedlefDe. Dr. Camow lid proVeD tJuu studies that perscms wilbli respiratGry dIIeaaes SUffer more acute epi.odes of _ as air pollution levels go up. Two of bIs atudles iDdicate that the death rates rom 1l1li8 dIaeases aDd beatt attaeb go up as the air 1Jecomea more polluted. Heart attacks become Involved because a paUent's heart must work Iwder when be has diffIeulty breathiDg. TIle studies eabow that high levels of air pollution set as a "death accelerator" in seriuusly ill pat1eats. '!'hey also Indicate that tbere may be no safe tbresboId aDd that new higb.rlsk populations may appear at every level of pollution. During periods of high pollution school clliIdren &bouId be told to refrain from sUenllGWl physical exercise and to stay indoors, and high-rist patients ' a_uId be iaactive and remain ID bed, Dr. C8l1IOW A38. . From an airpJaDe or mUes out 0OD0 a highway JeadiDg to ClUcagG and other large citieS' you can &pot the ~rown cloud of pollution that sits over tile metropolis like a deadly bubble. "[I think air poUution at any level in a city ahorteas the lives of the residents because it ijDo-. , creases the environmental insults they are exposed to," warns Dr. Camow. ''11lere is 110 questioa that at very h/gb eoneeatrations it eauses UDlleeesuI')' deaths among tile weakest members of the ClOIIl- aumlty." One medIeal investigator hbas found evklenee in- dIcatlng that the &Uapended partieulate matter ID dirty air may be more barmful to your liver than aJeohG1. Reporting at the recent American Publle Health AsaocIation meeting, Dr. Warren WlDkelsteiD Jr., of the University of CalIilomia ID Berkeley, 8aI4 that a two-year atudy of Erie County, N. Y., which IDc:1udes Buffalo, revealed that there Ilas a atroq UIIk between h/gII poUutlon levels and cirrbosls. DivIdiq the &tucI1 area illto five eeollOllllc groups, Dr. WillkelatefD found that IiDll each 8fOUP the rate of clrrhoala was higher for those people IivhIa in ,. 'lie aelgbborhoods with hlgb air pollution JeveIa. For example, &mODI per8CIII8 fa tbhO $5,1'15 to ",oot wage bracket the death rate from cinhosla I!'OIle from 11 per 100,000 to 47 per 100,000 as they were subjected to hisher and higher air poUution levels. OveraU, he fOUlld that DIeD I1viaI ill tile IIIIIIt .... Mluteed sectioas bad a cirrbosis death rate IIix times bigber than men living Ilan relatively deaner air. Dr. WinkeJateiD IIIIid that aIIho air.lJome tolile agents apparently etJl act dIreetIy to produce clttbosis, wbea poIIutioD Is combiDecl with ezcessive ,alcoholic Intake there Is III eabaDcemeut effect wbicb greatly iDcreaaes tbe rl* of developing Uver disease. Each year air pollution becomes worse, causing a deterioraUoa of the quality of American life, warus Dr. JoIlIin J. HanIlon, IlllllbitaDt surgeon general at tile United Stales Public Health Service. Ufe ~ for males 40 or more years of age is oa1y a couple of 1ear& more today than a balf c:eatury ago, be lutatteess. Members of the medlcal profession must realize the fact that a very Big nlfleaDt proportion of Ibe ao-caIted lI00e0mmUDIcable dlreases begin with' poUutioll and that cleaning up tile eIlviroIImeat eo preveat many el tbeae illnesses. A atucIy of New York City's air from November, 196Z, to May., 1965, revealed that an iDerea&e of one eoefficfeIItoOf.lJaze UIIit (wIIIcb is the staDdanl mdsure of the Ifght eeattered by p;ntkuIate matter iDn the 'air] brou8ht an increase of 1lU3,t deaths per day from heart aDd respiratory diaQses, reports Dr. 'l'homas A. RocIpoa, at the division of epl demfotop:at research at COnniieeDIl Medical College. MaIlIly at the particles of dirt that float iDn the air are geaeraDy IDI) BamIDaaIIl that thbey are invisible to the IIIbd eye. '11Iey are produced by iDduatriaI, autollllltive, domestic IIIId c:llmalic procesaes which hum, CObCIeDIe. divide, grind aod erode materials. 'DIe U. S. Department of Health, EducatioD aDd Welfare states that advene health effects 0IlCUI' wbea the lIIIIluail geometric average level of partIicu1laattee matter exceod& 110 mJcrograma per cubic meter of air. Besides endaIIgeriIIg your health, air pollution takes a tremeadous bite out of )'OUr poc:ketbook. Dfrt,y air costs COII&IIIIlerII $1.3 to f30 bi1Uoa 8IIIlUaIJy in eeouomic damages iDn the U. 5., reporta Prof. Beld A. BIr}y'--.' ~ of the University of WWii&sc:oasiD's Iutitute for EnviruameDtaI Studies. Tbe&e eosts, tbo bard to estimate beeause of the aJl.pervasive nature 01. air poIIutioD. are certaiDJy more than what we spead each year for educatioll, be mamtapimDl,. 1roDicaIIy, tile COIitB of air poUution have been eonsidered a beIltbJ growth factor in our sroas aatioDal product beea\l!ll! the GNP includes iDdustries that mate IDOIIe1 from poUuUoo, 5UCb as detergenat 1DIIDUfac:turera, ear .ashes, eommercial laUDdriea, 'IriDdow .asbers, paint milkers aod even hospitals, BryllOll says. TIle air we breathe costs Amerieans' $4 billion year in direct bealth care costs, he says. 10 the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, air poUu tioll Increases household maintenaDce c:o&ts by $2.7 blllioD yearly and in CaIiforaia alone, it causes _ millIoo destnictiDD each )'ear to f8l'lll crops. be adds. TIle iDdnct effects of air poUutlioa are al&o awelODIe becauae of thile ability of polluted air to cIJaIIge the cUmate. BuDdIDgs, heating and industrialization make cities &twwoo to three degrees warmer than the IIUI'l'OUIldiD& COUDtryalide. The cities are up to a tbousaDd times dustier, have 30 per' ceot less SUtIDlIlight, 50 to 90 per c:eut less ultraviolet 1i,ght, aDd 8 to 10 per cent more rain lbeeause of the water 'I' that eoIIec:ta OD dust particles evl!lltuaUy forming raindroJlaJ. Prof. 8ry8oD says. ''1beIe c:IIaDges. tDgetber With a witcbes' Itnw of ssuulIfur dIoDdes, lIitrogen oxides, bydroearboos, aolefins IUId cadIoD IIIOIIOxIdes, ereate a distlDctive loc:al . dima~ particularly disadvantageous to health," he points out. We are t1louliDg the temple" IUId ereatillg a tenibIe legacy, PriDce 1i8JI. We bave ereated a DeW geaeratioD of people wbose body fat Is filled with c:hlorJaated hJdrocarboll pesticides, Villose bones are filled with StrontIum 90, whole human mother's milk, If pit into a eontainet', would DOt be per- mitted to be aoId aeross tile counter because of its DDT eollteut, whose lungs 1arnel b1ackeDed IDIl scarred from air poUutioD, IIIId wbo&e livers 1arnel cJysfllOOtiolnlal. "We are our brother's keeper." PriDJlc:e pleads. "no we want to live UDder tI1Is De. mark of CaIn!". Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. iiWD~~~~-u~.~~i~~~~!~~~~~~~~J;;;~;;~~~~;;;;~==~ youthful ~unts aef energy' at a correspondence .....,,..h,,.nr',...,;.Of-n , ~s _.~d r~ords .to langua-ge skUls" .of the~.~'-;:=..":;:i~tF. . 'Cenfers {or METRO OJlcogo Trllbbuul1lle (1963.cllmwljile), Ikce 9, 1971; ProQucst Htstorical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 1985) pg,W13 METRO Asbestos Pollution to Be Next Target '!'he new asbestos regulations proposed by the llUnols Polilutlon Control Board will, tor the first time in 100nols. aim at controlling a pollutant on a personla-person basis. The proposed regulations, which probably will hbe adopted in midDecember, provide for regulaUng the use of asbestos as it Is manufactured'. used In construction, and used in demolitlioan procedures. During hearjngs earlier this year, several doctors linked asbestos with lung diseases, ineludlng cancer. Thbe regulations will go fartber than Chicago's ordinance, which requires only that asbes- tos spraying be Umlled to en closed areas. Under the board's proposal, manufacturing plants and oth eor facilities that use asbestos will be required to provide faciliUes where employes can change their work clothes. Tim BHarker, an aid to the board, said the provision was added because testimony lIud!lcated thnat asbestos workers and their wives have a highor Incidence of lung diseases be cause they often come In con- tact with the substance. "This Is a unique proposal," BHarker said, 'because It Iden Ulies the individual as a polilu. ter." Under the regulations, asbestos manufacturers would be al lowed to emit no more than two flihber of asbestos for each ,cubic centlimceter of air. Plants also would be required to use tbhe best available technology to limit asbestos discharge Into water. In construction tradcs, out- side spraying of asbestos on buUdlngs would be prohibited arter March 31. If the materl ai, In wall boards for example, is used during construction, it must be handled under a cover or in an enclosure. Visible em Isslons of asbcstos would be a violation of regulations. I The regulations will require that buildings with asbestos be wetted and the asbestos strip" ped by hand during demolition. Reproduced WIth permiSsion of the copyright owner, Further reproduct,on prohibited without permi..""" __ -----Sy-CASEY-BUKRO-.. . [EnvjrQ~~~t ~~to.r]. . ...... baiiiied as best 0 S about 30 Illinois ma.nufaeturers r-~fun~~~~;di~.~~an~d~~seft caclioifiasib~esbtOns~'pr:od;u;c1~S~w.il~l'boeperre-. jlidustry 'wOrKers' ate'from board after June to of ashes- 30';1972:: The~its-.wiU., 'not ':'tos -fioor~te-leaving -:tiWir '. issued to working site. visible clouds of smoke or gas- The IllinOjs Pollution Control es containing asbestos fibe~ '-'Boafd,-~- Itnii ROCkfm-d,' outri~ - ..W~~J' YI!~-1!raun predicted in WashingtoJ tthhaat.ftih.e~myoonwilwl=ilble-hboir-:nCo-ltonhleZree"~(Cbmefuocrh~ like Ant tl!e-year recorded interview for a local television program, -.sfiarsid.L;c'brilmd-W.coiUDnvbien'cebdO-t'DIti"haotj-fil~ettbo~rrei-ltQhQen-;y?e'a=lE'4Eg9f0i0i=--".tj mentof the ~ace shuttle President Nixon app~ov .-d~y ~: grejltly. reduce- the expense of est~ . -whicb-scientists .wi11he and work for long periQds 'on 'the moon's surface. scientists will eventually take their wives aiong. "a ~d~_~bil~--wili~bOrtrolL=th&::mOgn."--- ad~Ud~_c~~~a~n;.~w~a~w~r~.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ also to -out- Ecological Milestone ~~~urnilejLhullilli!i_ is.be:- ing-:deniQlijl~~State -officials' said they are not trying' law the use ()f aSbes1os, only. to .....__p ..IoLL.uJhe use...ol.-aassbbeessttos where it might have an effect on health_ , mi1itatY _ The Uultecl States A~y an-notfnced ~eIdeI . -DlaDYrYestefCtaY=tbat'it Is-bbibJ"'ih1iig l,OOO-CiVillaDStJIl( Germans. to take over "l'tificckkey Mouse" job.s now ~Dlbat-infantry; sQldiers;-'''We-plan-W--divert -1 __ ~--UUJJll.Jla '.);fieke~use!-iobs--b-aek- to--primarY- to teplace: tbe)Jl with civillans-omostly local' na1 spQi[esnian .said. Among the jobs to b.e . -by elriUaa.LwJU..k M~~it~~.! :S!!cJ! ~s gYl1!~a.slum _I The asbestes- eomrols- reqttire Illinois asbestos manufacturers . mlSJ~ silies Personnel, the spokesman said. H ~_he_".hQgt..JLruLaDJjO!.~- -. ~- ~ . '-.' .- Shoots-W< \ cer p!:(I.d fnHil,'' P)1r(1111 ,JJ""OIIJI"II'I,',.,;,;1I 1- ' -- - ' , - !>UN-I~~'t~_~~t~Jlljy J6. 191i- q q' -, - , " h~d to:detect heroin in childten of m,.,'i"lita--"r'-.-,y-,'-- : 1<, ,It-If'1 I "'~ (/llIIltl1dIl1l''" 1)1 I "\o('r~('.. ,,! b adV'~('I-tl , I .' dl'l~ ahU5C ~aid Sllllurday hce, Ilon~, He ~aid malle',s I O~fl per- wli)l paYj r1osec,artecntlolly 10 lthec sonal privvacy and 0 her inodi' proi','ct 10 sece whether"vrine :lnal/~i~iprogrllJl1s '~'~uld__work vII,dual riigghts would ,pro ably prevent IIhe red~r~I' g vern III nv,han COOnnllnUUllIllCS III Ihc 111-lIIliJ1lCd S~atcs, " , men! Irom I requITing jlTIlnc /(,~!,~ of (iVlli,"~~ III IIhe I nilcd !Jr. .JCTOnl(, I. .Jaffec, (hrNlg' ~1:It<'s for 11I'rfllI1. ! ! 1,,1' of th'~ While lIouse Speti"i ' 'Mu~l. \~e stand Ily IIw'lp /1I1I I ion Cjlffiicc for DDrug /I)Jusc I ., I I PJ't'v('ntipn, saaid iill an mtler- , F d b viecw with Ihe fedrral govern- !, :::~:~:t~';,~~~tr.l ~~~~~ ~~: ~~~~:~ t t b I' In aSSIISS, OS In ~om e a n I 10 ICS ,1 liln~ Illl;;1 i coulllll prOViidde funds mId . !I:lII'rOIll[o>c' aml:Idscohlhoh!oe.'lrs,orgcal(rlJ1illlll17m.mauluninoiilnly~ I,' IIh:ll wa~l('d (I1I)) Iry the IlCe(('h- lI;qll(', l St'ck;oHirial comment. '111f' I'l'juag/JJl propo<,al ~ il<; "..1!\n,/w",::,,l(l,d;\ "'~~r'l ~cC[>\('Il1I)1(1'1 ,""', ,"I ',IOu"iillh dalc -. i~ ~Ilr('ll1 "'1)11, laI)11 , fdr ,oJrnl1.n.llwwnnl :nl!l11ong 'uti"",,}), 6ffiLials, ;)\1'( 01 din~ IfI) ('01. IIi It'lianJ ~. l\otJl(', dcpuly 1TO 111f' I~dll"gon'; top drug offl / ,,,,''II i \ 'I'h" '!II;in~ 10515 "W,olluull&' hr 1",I:,:ttdl,f.' III ife)"t,.r ,('110015 runn''llY Ih(' 1Ill'IlIlIiillddry loorr,.Jhllldrecn of its II))'',.I<'I'-"('.i~ 'pcoplC'. Col KKOlilc By Viecltor (ohni' WaS/ling/on Post Spec .1 WWAASSHINGTON - As~estos has been found in pos~ibly dangerOllS OlmounlS in ~orne !of Lthhe most popular 'tlOlibiolid Ihat doctors prescribe. I I The assbbeeMMOO!!! flbC'rs - jvhith .lm11aay play 11: role in ('<IIusing Cillnnccr 1jnd oliil1ler lun~ dipease , - arc *tllilnlg into medicines b~nusc hl~n\ltactur~rs use as.. "'cSIOS fiher~ ~o slrnin OUt imlll--,I puritlies. The fllln1ddjjnn~ \\'a~ reported I . 1essslly a~ an e~'idemiC moves 'Ihrough a high school or any other ('/oose'd co munlty?" he-- ~aid, "For the frdc;ral govern- men! Ithe answ~r IS yes. BUuIt olhee!r' groups callt sSel,tLhe~r own 51andards 'or p~lclpa!Jon. A ~('h(Jol (':tn require vaccination, , , I It.. last week in Sdence and will b'leieeoxfpathnedeJdouornn~if1! a of coming is- the Armner- !l'Un Medical A,.s~. "Our COl;CIUS~" is that it is 'only prudent to facturing II1e~h han&e manu 5." Dr. IJrving J. Selikoff. one qqf the authors, saaid SatUrday.; "There are otlhel- filLering lTIethods that are quite effective." : All drugs invplved are in- jetted. Selikof[ and bis team from M01JIlt S~nai Medical School, Naw YYark, tested 17 and f 0 J.I n d.~ "significant" lor ')'.amp!!,-. a; c re<~!ll:5".e {Ilji;"rt'gis.trali(m" vc"'- /It Cce-lmli r"-' <,;.al,,. !;n;.""n.~,-; ill 1'"lo(-;!o)'('(:-_ V11:Cr. "ri,,~ !(,~I~ fur bfc1XJm l;.(-"u:~" a P''''re~i~ilc for <jl:lar1E:rJ;c rc-g'''' DDatlIon al the !In.~m:; oI1!:.': ;';';, ,k-n1 body pre~;d(-n!. .t f amoun\s of aSs~'.l()S ,::; 6, ail antiblOilt5.. These ar~ a,c~t2: zolan1idd..Ee-., V)~<ijj~. (--eroa."((....----!r'.;;. djnet~ ~elracvcU1)el '.~'a.n:a.n0.000:-=n-n--;;::&:& and methj( ili~n. LeseT amoums of as~(:-sl<:''5 "-e:e. found )f.l ,11<'(; PE'nl( ,lLn "",,";;e.r. pies. generally sm:'Jl. :rang;ng ifmmCw";) a dozen lO more lI-,J:I, :tJ ;)~,tr::: peT e,rarr>. BBUUII ",; r.;:as beer, !eamc..o m .;':',Pff: :'Tll:"'-i.;i ar,,mals. said ,h-r: CcoOr(ii':c''rf,'. ;b2;, 2S liitttlle 2, ]0 1iO0 $0 :nJ:I):r:;,:115 ctf asbesl:Os C3:1 prow.", mce~;;.. ",ill, I11I1I1f1! \\lIuld nOI be lcquir('d I. of ;) thl!d If Ihe famiily 011- . ft"' hltd . Chicagoland's Elbi~al quc51ion cited I 1II1I1I1' 1~~II<<llInl rai,es legal' ql'c~ 'l!li\~ lI~\",{tH~inA bo(h Ihc rj~hb I "I I i\'j!ian dt'pendenls and I .I','II'cni{'JlIls v;ill!l some foreign ';I;'I:\tll~I'.~! !hul could. require i 1)11' 1JIl1ll1J1lllalary 10 )('pon 10 local ,,:fl('i;ll~ ,Ill\, heroin Ihers it , d l , \ cC--OO\\l(' l' lrrqqt Jl J. . I)ll,. -J,hhfrlr'ec ,aid any eexxttC(--nn;;lloon J "I IIrinf~: Ic,{ing Ilw!'yonfdl ser-! raises' clhlcnl ques- f Finest Garages at Our lowest p'rictes ARA SALE , I v-4:' ~:~RUbb~ ~itY .' FURNntJRE WITH -4: FUTURE. 'SALE II "" "Pp'" ',..,,Itt~~,"""'l\ ;; ." ' . ~ , '~'. '.) I ~)I," t r 11 73j DELUXE ,CUSfO - -CITY BEAT 25 of 39 landowners OK Grant Par : I B.V Charles M. Smith t~'<:"h,t",!' for pi'I'"CIl,iV'!! lJelllislry 1JM13! JI had h$:-Jl w(.-J) : [rhOlI !YY..JJclcriia of variuus IIyyppaas caaUU'I!.' r~tLtlt' : Ban~spurs building ~rogram ao ParI; h,,, !<':c:i,,'u Ih" hlc"'''";:' or 25 or the u lunUt)wncrs AAnd where do the bau~na Ihrivt bestl wh()~I' plI)pl"I"lil'~ will ovcrlook iil, a Park Distrkt attorney At'cordlnl: to a lluLrillolllsl who &flOY.!: (J th~ ';:';"';,""1",",0.;"; ).!..." rrpc)rll'd 'IIf""'IIllaay. I hirt('c~1 'hadu:rs gave thclr appr~val in day. in !.he kind or sugaall) ("nvironm<:n! Cf(";l.l.(lj :r, Ul-{- "w:r,,-~" Wlillll;;, f).liidd '-.. 1-:'("n,11I ',aid. I he 1'(":,1, llC (ltlded, voiiccedlllJeir 1\ Inf'rican die!. '. . ( (~{~, . . Ooef IhI' IWI) d"IlI,a', "r ,nil""" rl/''ct"I'/h'htlc'c1! hhyy Ihe Park Di~lrkl, T II{{CcTrwWiinll ~"lIIc!lI, (())IIII"" -Inlll! I1I1I1I1' "f"n('r~hip of t/le Fine Ar;IS BulJdlIinlt. .l!O(J <;. MM,,...hill::aJl - "<IN I~ wdlill!;:. Fcrd Kranp<ll", parr ownc'r uf n.,bUllding ill 11:10 S. MMIIcchhiiggaan, orully haS1rotc~ted the IlIllllld ~hcll. Kle'rwilnl ,,a,id writwll approval would c sough! rr.Ont alllh(~ landlJwl1l'l.~ "onccmcd, illllcclluudllng the 12 l~ failed to Jlli1t-c I/ll'il" slanlld known. ''Ij he handshcllils the viisib e part of J A WNDlCATE HEADED by une lEe 'l"CtJ\ld'~ l~b"''' banks got a slale bui/ldin;; pri>>gram ofl !he gro~~ lb1 ""i ~i".e Morgan (juaran~ Trusl Co, of New York, Ll:>e syw.';."'..a,t<:: boughl the first $"100 m.iJ1il)n in a $56l-m.iilioo is!.w. Gl &-~nds i+.;r ~'on'lru("(ion al SllifC liospilats. priSfJJIIll!.:aaffll(l ullivHtf'ssaaxx:i(-s the 'Park J}I~tricl proposal. llle invisible part Is ' 1: under, F,mull!e1l parkinllg ganrgt' - ItI) be built along witlhl!!..hhe and~hcll In Ihl' aallll''JJ n"OoWw fllll""\\''uuplled by Ihe Monroec Sltreet parkin,' llot. Ban further asbesto~; spray use Cl.AAIMINIt; "I\TTlllIIHHlliiTTEESS c<Ppr ('XlrCllle dangerr"" I", many p('r~iins, Iht' JJhnoi~ Pollt/i'coll Conlrol Board forrbbade Ihe furtiillee,r. I"" of a~lx~\IOS \flra'y~ 1Il1l'1fi rrproofing It 45story building 9f ll('arillg ('IlJllplc'licm in UOWJlllooWWII1l Chktlgo. 'Target of tbe bun was Ihe IA\nnlil"i;n.;:.:..II(())hhllll~oOn Co., 1E!l):',!) AnnSsOonll,. MClro~'~: Paark, whoq> \\\\0011 h,'(~ I1l1~l1Vl' bet''1ll ~prE!ylll:': ;lsi)e&&lloos oOvVeCr Ile ~tcel GlwwlletolllJf I1I1"", (C""NNA Flhall("i~1 Corp. huilding at 301.], .abash. Tile rulin;:,"." il/I(I" f)rsl rfHtl <'11101'.::(' rrolll a slale b ~ on It!ble sprar Ih..II IW(";t\llC ;'fret liivvee .1ln;lSslI MMaarch, Jt \\las till~~ed on . Jllll'dipil flllclill'~~ Ih~<1 IIic' 'llriIY.~ ('an cause (twwOo de dly lung ollllldlll~. r)ff"'"d, of I\lllllll).:-.Iohn;;on Withheld imm~dilatc romnJ('IlII1t (J)IIl Ih<' Il"in~. Its 1<p."~(IlI,.tlivcs argu!?d III aa board hC'aarrin;: May 21 11t,1I 'I11)'IiI1111' dhlll"l"ials could Ilot be had, were lIll$uilahll' aanntt!. IIIIII ;;r,I1<'r:II, 'tOtl/I) cOrtly, V~c7inations t.o S~Op c~vities? AA NAVY DlleN("1. I':Jlh(lI";"~1 ~aid vaccinations might one day mukc Ihte: urnl,o,1ll dtil 1/1 as ,",h!J\\tt11IICCIC as meta). 'Dr. Saa11llllut'I Hoffm~n. a ("Hplain illlhc lteeth. ttaann,, ('nviisiioned ,1 day Wwlhll'nll Ld"lillwlwr the vaccpp""''""IIllUU!,p_' lca) applirntions 1II1)) 1<'t'lllhI JlII;lht Hoffm:lO 10 Ilw aInI1ll1lllaal rUIn-ecm Pi K blood collection. on cify AA CJly Counciil commiLtete 1tuesday d'nance recommmended an Drpermittinz vOlubtaru b,iood collection on O citJ y p' rop~ el!- I. ltIli'n Ihe pasL the City COWlcB _ hlps had to approve eacn st',pa- r.fr~ltcc (ontra(:t. wilth , or,ganiza.. (t1on~ wishing !Ito coHliect blood o01p1 C'lly propell1lly _ even lteall- pprary blood drives in fire i>ta- I ~ons I: . newr' :If ibe rddJnance IS ap- proved, bJoo \Ollleecting orga"- n!zalions y;ilI pply 10 the GC1hhj.. hepatitis 3n-Mlg pilOd d:J~ 2;;, Undh the fJr-dU\\aaECe ;m w- 2:>1,'" g"".:!ltizapl>ll that '.oi.s~ '''' "oXro;i- ;..".-.,......".'.;.-.' led blood en d1)1 p.rO::~;l;; "-""'-' . ....:.....:: o\\f'o<~~dI'h)da"rvteiorr,eos, fuJiiilJiJcaka= ;~ ~ e~,":1: grwra4Li)e ilial f>~d,"-V~,-e"s>ci UVet : ~ aval1a1yJe 10 me .oorlO: me i:lis i. - - j QI" her " IUJ1_ ~Le1'21"'~Y ffP- a. . .;, period; {}f a y,eeilill""} illl~ess ~e J r~'ll is 'i.-aj-.,oo_ ; , l ..~"'."i.,ti,J,." j- --- ~-.- ..- \ : More 'Se.(urity ",5th cIel'A:L:SE -P.EETU I Ai; rago Board Heaalth, WhJJll[D \.I\iill superviise Lhe operation. I ; r " , . . :Heiilth Co lr, M.uurrrraay C 11");, I n ;:e,_ ~y 'f"rme .t..?-a Cmm,,', ,""" ....... I"' HJHjiie"ealthwCnom'0m1 ittede .that lhe O>!- dllnnance would Substanlially itllprove ~e ssuupppplly of VO]Ul1' ll..riJy do atled blood, Sud" ' blood ge erally is safer be-; ':!llyysse of t c Iligh i1lcidence rdtf 1 9'" '. i .....,,,, "--, .j, - I A-de:>t n dbcoetll'pLU. J"Ff'$'!:aS. ll'EOoEnUntIeJe.l.>~~ -':''' bold. ~bjhe~ Bi se<:urrtj/lSl>d eo={ln._llUl i I {T)Ee!EltTurHeo~ tlne t ti.~!.&~.....,.., benlt.h. ~ Jo"m Q~fut "" rl ~ .,. ' , ; ;. ,fHeC ~ _.111",," ,11 / / /,...---.~. .t -fI"e.t~ Y$JR GWiT ... F-jJ:t"t1'" ( i , 73k _ When the study began, the State Halts Asbestos ~ SprayingBY CASEY BUKRO 1 Envirol!mental E<!itor ! ) The Anning-Johnsol) Co. was 1I "S'" prohibited by the state yester- . day from completing asbestos I ./- .spraying to fireproof the 45- \ r'" -t . story CNA F'ifianciai C.eennter under construction 'at 301 S, - "Wabash Av. ~ . It .was theJirst time the IIl- 'linois Pollution Control Board bas halted the -use of asbestos spray under a state tegulation which became effective March 31. The board ruled that pro- longed exposure..to asbestos fibers can lead to. lung diseases, including cancer. Used 1,000 Tons Anning-Johnson, of 1959 Anson St., Melrose Park, told the boord that it alreildy has used of ashestos - on -insteadofa lit COMPARE OUR P,,"ICE WITH I THE LEADING LlnLE .lMP'ORTS :-- --- Fow:d pinto $1,960* Volkswoagen 113 $2,159* Toyotoa C~rolla..l600 $2,109* poatsun PL51 0 $2,306* "Manufacturer's ~g'ested retoall-er1ce f6r 2-do.ormodel Excdludes deafer preporollon cliioorrg;es. if any, desrinatloaft charge., IIll. ~nd taxes. ;i'(~- .:,;--.....-.; ._.:. . -. -: ',' . JAr.II"1"'JJ..''..nnggiinnee~~rr;;ii\proved- .- . -.~""--o____ - .~_~:dnd~e~'ctedin_qy.e~.10years I. _ <__ .of aduaM:Ir.ivjn~Hn small Ford- builrcars alll over the worldo #' ( ,-------- :~.- _0'_-,- .,-- -.--=-:::... ----==-:--1 -', "'-' "~ - . . -. '\. ...~. . .. CAkc C0t ~~~\o-~ \r~ . '?I7-~r {3:~ ... ----- --...:.- - - ----~~----' ---Cancer. in . -.--'-' "otitliS----l~-- -', Y . . .. . "".c c- -"""--- lIInk.edt,o- ---.a.: s. D e - . . ..'1.' . - - -: . ~ " G ARE '. he. POgnlnd' s8ld. SOme.Of "thhet" Ivett coming 8.tarmeci that. asbestos chUdren uv i near asbestOS c- ,,~ay pOse. a deadly'peril to plants; oth6ra'played:1nth 'bur- ,some chlldren. . 'We are 'now be~ to 1~P~'l-u-ue,ga' th t a had . j' t . . eonta nnee(d} " " certafn 'see an' mcrease in asbestos products, SO!l$.8 had types. 'of eaucera li1~cl1i1dreii . as- who have been exposed to 'as- .bestos dust was chUrned ..UP. bestos dust early in life," said lIueI to demolition, .atld others Pr. Robert Pogruild. ass~ate may have received asbestos professOr of occupational .arid fr4pl baby, pow~el':8, he ex- ." en~mental health t8.t '. the plaitqe4.. '. - .- .. -i :': . , Unl\tersitY of Dlinois School' of Dr. Pogrund sai.d that one PubUc H_th.. . ' dilapidated school iDn 'the ..Chi.. . at ,IDvestlgators the fecJeral cagq. area had to be closed National Institute for Occlipa because asbestos .was leaking tiona! Safety and Health reeo-- from the ceilinl. ma~r1aIs and , centJy. ~eovered an Jncrease 'falling on the students. v . in ~theliomas ~in children, . HE' CALLED' FOR rlCict Dr. Pogrund re,orted yester- ta dards to red . 1.L."", risk of . day at .course s n .to . uce 1.lRS . .. ' "o' MMEESSOTHELIOMAS are ean- cers attacking the Iininfof the 1~~~. . . ~ ?~ :- . ~. .In .track~.~__~~~~ .ViouilY-rare.' maJignancies .b1. ~''''~' ,"'ChilcfreD, .~e _.!nvestjgatori . ....th.at _.the~,__ asJ)estos in the air . T~e genera~ populatioJl has. been increasing)J. exposed to as~~tos, JU1.d. many__.~medical ,-,' 'are authorities concei-ned' that '. hu- this mat pose a groWing. al ard, .he said.. Asbestos gets into the ~ _._._._ _~ from'- ~ SQUrcciS--" iilSula- .--, . '.. .tlon :~g..U"._"D~~IlUO-'~----U-.H-;""'~ _ .~~e linings,.- demolition ~ . .of'014 bitiIdirigs, and a-grqwiRlf" c.~lorful W81 .. .. - RAIN .udy Saturday with gh in the middh' Set' Page 64. Il"t b,. 1f'1(1 t'{lt'rQfrSC. In( "I'e_ .1 S; 'un-.. ~I CHICAGO ~ l an a 31, 1973 TUR*F*F*IN*AL 108 Pa-ges - 1JO0 Cen' 0"' urchase at '"'le ~ ill1Jrke ~ts profits 'f mas.J. Moore and Edwar.d. T. Pound a business partners of AIld. Thomas E. 31st) secretly made huge profits from 'hase of 148 acres of city-owned land, ion pushed through the City Council te. Ile dee::..i was put together by IK(eane', dose (riend ,s panner, the late Davlid S. Chesrow. who W<lS for ) l'hairman of the Board of Local improvements. f the t<lmplex and secret deal, uncovered by The and Better Government Assn. in a three-month In. provide a fascinating insight into (che operations ' Comoiraie. a vast political empire centered a.round '1I1n1.. . ;uti' e<t,ttoor J. Tcrrreennccee Bruunner summEid up the thi' 'alne ...., Dragged that Chicago is a c,ty that works. ~a) shows how Chicago works - Keane's pals cas)!S2.l-mlllion purchase of city land at bargain-base.'. " :ill flow t.oday from portions of the huge tract. ~ Famrol, which was purcbased In 1964 for just over mal'ke! v,liue at tile time. A subscQuent court f a part of thd tract gave an indicatio ne Carey s Jury .viisiittllIbv7~" .as. prohe~ S~mrow in J mail fraud By Edward T_Pound and Thomas J. Moore Federal innstigators are preparing n~ eat fraud c.harges against Harry H, Semro\\, ic mer Chicago postmaster and now chairman j. the County Board 'of Appeals. for granting $159,000 assessment reduction to his brothe Tbe Sun-Times learned Friday The federiI invesngation. under thp dLnc<,uon 0; '(ir'e attorney's office and Internal Revenue Sern('p a~e.cts. IS direct .result'of information fumed on'r tll Toe 'un-T,m<'S a; the~etter Government Assn. The Jusnce Department moved qUlckl). suopen."n~ Oil F day afternoon all assessment re,:ords and other docur..e;: pertaining to the The beneficiary business. partner cut was granted owned by Otlto Prospect. The reduClion taxes based on '.1"100 Uhll )JI' ',.1I1! ,';' hp h(l( :tnl(' il I 1111,\11;:/: ""II,,""'',, Mr. Warnhl' lul,'ij Ill<' .""Jh, enr!! lhat ("'r!,, rh''''l'r"iJ Jh", .. art! r(!;l' ~;IICinj'l"" ;.r,,,r d ,j.' ma)j!,i' pOI.t,rs 1I ,: Ih" I/("\:~ I.,'!: ~;elf. Ih(" should ',,,((1,:: I}ur-. I1I1;;"" .he foJJowers ", ~'i;t'1l ,J I IIJa('kwlll~'f'f: ' rt ;,:I:r/', \ddJ hve in a hhN NIIII ''.."" ;nt! 'JIlul..lllli, hurn(!d wil. h a i'lpprrmm ''J. . HJJp,- ~;"HI IP'Ij" ~'I"(Jhf'J \ ,,,d, Sat;m "If{' .r~'f rapt' I1C'OP!(' \'.h .. arc' JJOo'"I~~ ill" fo: " !ItI'I'I'I!}.I', I'~' . rruul' ", jt JIf ''::,Iff \\ a': wf:11 as his . !lit I, " "1, (({{ r.t I,rf .. ""..tf..'',, s"'HJw'''JU~iness~ I:,,, :,1 ',,nl Ihitl bv doing 11,:" h. oX '. 111 h '..on- (.:i(cctive "h,,;;::!!,..-.II:' r"r,pl,,, f1.jpedaHy ', .. lhIj' f' ~ ,,'(' "n'~' rca~nd what JfI' I~<," ijlr,,'Jr' .:;n rtt,')l hp ,aid. !,dj'lrj' f,r: " Ilv f/'pon!J.e of ,: Irh \' !lIHII:' .'1.': "Ild at lhe Jesus' !" ;', I j.JJI ~'tt:f''''' n~ghL Mr. \\.,1, I, ,';1:1,. wlitIJf'd them, '1Inl 1." dl(!"', It-ave them Emissions of 3 Simcha Din;lz (lefN1) !.raell''s. SI.,es, is welcomed 10 the 5talelu"p,,,rrns,>, in Friday by Depuly Sec. of Slale ne1h Rush. was once a nlghl walchman al iongton. is a close political Meir. He reporledly was apJ,oi~ted over the objeCliions of Foreign Washington Dinilz, who teturn 01 a igainsf ciga IOGAI ES. Ari7.. WPl) - ! preSident of the American Icer Soclet y urged broad- ters Fnday to "help save a ,dred thousand lives" by re- tr n i n /l 3n1i-nga re!I com- ~cial$ ,." tile air to count- ::1! ,eduction" of 'fthe ng ,aCC(l firms. r. Arthur G_ James, a Co- "" bus (Ohio) surgeon, said the heavy anti-cligaret ad 'paign on radio and lele)n had produc;:d a marked -ease in the number of, -ager~ taking up smoking Iccn 1968 Rnd 197J. 11 when the ban on broad- :t cIiwgaoryeleaards vaegroti,sitnihlge took nUln- verfising i is urged of .,nfli-smoking spots, r,at! heen required under faIrnpr,s doctrine, dropped threelullrths. That wasn't 10 counteract "the appeals of the ciga- and ad'!,ertising Inn('~." he saidi' "1 hr Il'{'.~~lt ha1Jbeen a~ uprtlf Irend in cigaret smoking, ;aJly among teen-agerts," said. mes railed upon broadcast(l0a again "take Into the of America the 'messabout cigaret smokIng effectively changed the habits of millions of and prevented the adof millions of teen- substances limited' W.~<;JJlNr.Tfl\" "I'IlIl -- 1II1"". ~'()\.'( rnnlf'1'lt JmrOSftlIH'\\ IlIfr'''i Fridav 10 rpduI'I' ;liiJ hurn" .... ,.,.j'llou;tt<; or Ih:'(~p hH/rll dOIJ' sulJ~liInn's - a~bcs!Os, beryl Iium iilirf U'f'fllIJ'V, . The n!lt-s from the Em" on mec-mill PI tll('( !lijon Agenc,\' n' I/uir!l' Ih,.J no n~/)~slos mills give nuUfl v,~,hl{' ('IIIIS~iol'.\. IlIin less nlr cJpaning devices are used 10 eliminate asbestos ( JllI"' .... IOII~.. 'fhey :"';0 han thl' use of asbeslos lailings - Ihe unused pnrl of asbestos ore - for road surfaces, and permit no visible l'mission from faclOries using asbestos. These plants include those making certain textiles as well as cement produrts, floor tile. paints. insulating material and a long list of other products. I The EPA prescribed certain procedures !O follOW when buildings containing asbestos insulation are demolished. When razing buildings ahove c e r t :l i n heights, demolition crews must wet down the asbestos material and drop it to the ground in air-tight rhutes. The EPA estimated that 25,000 buildings which will fall under these rules' are demolished each year. The new procedures Will add, .an esti- ",.""lurl ~14; ,n,!lion a yel"lr to Ih, I (J<:I 1;/ 1"',ldin,' o('molition. Asl), '.1 f)" hil~ I:een linked to I,,<:n, III~I' ;orl("'!1" "'!nd identified '" " f!,,';~ihk '~lIse of other ,. IhI (. S I I ;limnn 1INM. 11~ effects ~"rnclim('s do nO.t show up for 31l ye-~ r~ in pcrSOJl~ exposed to hlavy d<olosstt''s. A "pokesman said the ban on Mbestos tailings applies prin1ilfily to roads in Vermont, where asbesto~ mInes eXISt. Beryllium cnmpouqds can be lieeilhal if ImOhhaalled In i sufficient quanti! ies and also have been linked to ski'nll and eye problems. The new rules lJimit the amount of peryllium that may be expelled frqm plants and prohibit the liurning of beryllium wa~fe except in incineriJIors. Bnd restricts the a m 0 u 11 t s which may be burned. The beryllium rul~ af:ffeects c e r t a i n foundries', teramicmakers. machine spops and roOcckkeeHessttin/l facilite<;. Breilthin/l lTfercury vapors Ihlas been linked to nerve and kidney injuries. as }Veil as brain damage. Under the new rules, plants which process mercury ore or use mercury compound~ to produce c!hJlIOOII:iDe gas are limited in the amollillt of emissions they can produce. I Blue-collar views Mike LaVelle Chicago pg..20 Tribune (l963-Currentfile); May 8, 1973; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Blue-collar views Risks of occupational disease By Mike LaVelle BETWEEN 14,000 aad 15,000 workers die every year as a result of. w,ork-reJaled accidents. The Occupational Safety end Health , brench of tile Labor Department points out that a Dumber of chemicals and other. substances, some widely used in industry, can (lauosa cancer. Many win-Jeers in mllll\ufacturling plants con tlnue to be exposed to these chemIcals. The Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Work ers International UJlion says that "each passlug work day without regulatory , intervention increases the number of employes who will be ellectively eXposed to tbese chemicals and Who subse quently may develop cancer." IF AA WORKER III Cthhe asbestos Indus' try dies from cancer, in the metal in dustry from beryllium poisoning, or an uranium miner from radiation it is not, according to the statisticians, a work related accident but an occupational disease. It is estimated that 100,000 deaths a year are tile results of occupational diseases [a colIServative estimate ac cordling to FrankUn WaUllek oC the Unit ed Auto 'Workers [UAWl in his book, "The American Worker. An EndalJgered Species"]. What then, pray teU, Is the difference between accident and disease? Should we consider them the same and say that 114,000 workers a year die {from workrelated causes? Are company physicians doing their jobs? Says one UAW oWelal: "Ill one ease a man dled and tbe aUtopsy showed tbhat his heart had burst. Hoe had beeo subjected to chlorine gas prl- qr to his dying on the job. The company contends he had a heart attack." How many pbyslclans, purely out Qf ignorance, do not take into accoWlit DocC' cupatl!ln~1 exposure when makillg a di agnosis or In determining cause of death in an autopsy? Not an Idle polot wheo you coDsider . that some 100,000 chemical compounds have been introduced Into Industry since the turn of the century. With our . splraUng technology; 600 new chellllicals are introduced each year. Ralpphh'.Nader'8s report, "Bittler Wag. es,I"I by Josepbh' Page and Mary O'Brlien, quotea a Dr. Hawley A. Wells 01 the PuJlnonary Research Lab Ja Johnstown, Pa., appearing before a House subcommittee 00 labor: . "Many physicians express frustration at having Inadequate medical informa tion to diagnose and treat patients with suspected occupatlonal diseases, much lJess the abJUly to prevent thelll. ' "Dr. John L. ZaJln6ky came up to us in Detroit IIII\d told of 3D cases of chron. ic beryllium diseases caused by expo.. sure to 'safe' levels of beryllium dust. He was ,told by tile company tbat If he pubUshed this material in the medical literature that he would have to look for another job. "He was torn between proCesslon~1 honesty aod persollsl security aDd be- Core be reSolved this dilemma be died oft a second beart attack. HIs material has never been published." What lbIas the Nlixon admlnlstratlon done about worker safety? Let's take a look. Here's a Department oC Labor radio comtnerciaI: "HI, this Is Joanne Wor ley. Don't get hurt on the job. Stay alert end pracHee lob safety full time. For more Intormation, conlact the nearest o[fice of the U. S. Department oC Ltaabboorr." AA Teamster local in St. Louis, being alert If not a bit nafive, believed such commercials and 8ent a request fior information on chemical compositions and the hazards associated with mmaao terials used in their work place to a branch set up by the Health, Education, and Welffaare Department and the Department oC Labor as the NationallnsU tute of Occupational Safety and Hea\tb [NIOSH]. In July. ply! . 1971, they received this re. "IN REFERENCE 10 your letter requesting chemical composition and health hazards with an extensive list of Industrial trade products. 1 regret to inform you that at this time we do not have access to this type of Information. We do hope that within one year we will have an operatioDal file of material satety data sheets on chemical prod ucts. "Your request should be directed to the manufacturers as they have direct responsibility for providing health and satety fnformatlon on their produccttss..I"I With a Big Business-oriented admiln Istratlon in Washington that kind oC response does not 8lII'JItJseme. It's like reporting a rape to a Richard Speck. I'd rather report It to Ralph Nader. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 730 ment urging the gO,vernor "to estaplish will - ----- -., -----... - .....- _ ..- .. _...0 - - ...... - -- ...... regions and political parties. It haw great aeal aoom g a blue-ribbon search committee to seek 'weighty responsibilities for public edq-_ President Nixon', need out candidates for the board." The sug- -' cation below the college level, beginn''Doing gestion usefully directs public attention wi~ the choice of a su~cessor to Dr. to the for a board of maximum dis~ BakC!lis. the last of the elected super-, impressive on a 0 the smaller groups for give-and-take ( tinctron;-tho three weeks -'i11ay be'-t;oo, short a time to permit mUch of a formal searCh. - o It is to be hoped that Gov. Walker and his's~aff h;:lVe already given con- interidents of' publie instruction. .' ,G~v. ~alker has an'Q opportunity to" apPQirlt a J,roard of Education which will not coosist of captives of any selfish' faction but of citizeris willing and able constant lament 0 that more of this . putj:.~,crOss to the..p N~on, for, ~~a1l1 recall of names 0 siderable thought to selecting a blue- to act in the public interest. He should only oriee qf twice Ct~c~c~ u ~ l ~l) (~5> . ribbon board. [TTOhOo as Sen. McGovern could leave thinking about a Vice Presi- make the ;W0f this important Gopp- portuni~y. _ ...,'" ,'- \V{ ,minds me of U1e fauver [D.,. Tenn.] =~~~\-~~! t:'~:~ Asbestos .on,,the,,no,y,th shore?,-,,- -"', Rep. Samuel H., Young' [R.; Ill.J bas very small. The asbestos jndustry stoutly r~ some provocative questions about maintains that there have always been asbestOs, water, and health. He wants minute amounts of asbestos in air and to know if the International Joint Com- .. ,".water and that "there is no evidence mission, which manipulateS too flow . that the small 'number of fibers found Trauma cen out of Lake Superior, is monitoring the water at Sault Sainte Marie to. see h~ much asbestas it -contains. Rep: .Young' fears that a recent increase in Superior's outflow frQm 80,000 to 120,000 cubic feet per second will bring asbestos, "this cancer-causing contaminant," into the water intakes of IllinoiS, towns"' and' points south. - > This particular story bega'n in 1958, when the. Reserve Mining Company began the daily dumping of 60,000 'ions Qf taconite ,tailings into Lake Superior at , Silver Bay, Minn. In due course millions of tons ,9f these wastes .wen~ _~bserved to be smothering micro-organisniS-bi-tne' lake, and suspended powdery taconite was turning green the blue water of or in most members of the general po-pula- ,tion affect health longevity." This would be-more reassuring iftl1e adverSe impact of intense. exposure'- to. 3$bestos ' had been realized earlier than it was. 'Rep. \"OUf'lg Wtruld like to see - the Superior outflow reduced. He points out that Superior is expected soon to recede from its present level, which is near - the maximum limit under terms' of in- ternational agreements. Or how about .increasing the diversiort'of wate~ from th(f Great Lakes thru the Illinois-Missis- ' sippi waterway? Or are legal and en- to viroilmental objections to that dec~ive? -ShooDulid one _wish- success the litigants s~king to shut down Reserve Mining's operation at Silver Bay [which puts as- SPRINGFIELD, __, the Illinois TraUurIrI cal Services syste explain tqe placem rmna Center signs ways and., Illinois en these signs ar'e a others will he Trauma Centers a Chicago ,area and The Illinois Tr founded a little IrrI ago to assure tb persons in our s care. To date niore injured persons hClj the ,state's "45 trau Lake Superior. Conservationists started bestos infA?);lJ.e air as well as the water]? linois now leads tt a legal fight against Reserve's dumping Or would t~ economic consequences of of traum,a victims long before it was discovered that there that be unacceptable? Toe H9spital 1'1 were 2.0 million asbestos fiberF-s'in each, Questions, questions. Back in. 1958 it ',are placed on fede ]liter 'of water sampled at Two, Harbors, all seemed so simple: Jobs, iron; pros, _i~.,-and almost a million at Duluth. - ~ritYI and no complicaUOris. If we are - These ,asbestos fibers of course .are w~r now,., we are- sadder as welt ' . partment of TraIl amhuJanc~ personr ,porffiiglhe .cdUca rIiiaated trauma cent TII stubborn passenger.ttafri The American passenger train has friends, tJtan exp,ected. Thi'pi-oPos~l to: , heetl counted out 50 many- times by its _ drop -th~m thew sharp pr0te5t:i fro~ detractors - and eve~ its"friends - rail pa$se~ger gmups. 'rur.ther,-' these . - that by now it sho~d b~ as e~inQt as -..-peop~e p~. their . ' , ''ri~r~ , the pasaenge~ pigeon., But it keeps roU mouths _we\'~. ~~~" May, .._ ....,:...""'"-. 'ing along' and at times shoews ,a vitality . ~e. two. show~. :s~J$lIQlil . surpriSIng even to those , most dedicated . : ~~ases .in Anitrak - have' been chosen , ... pl~ effort... i acr~$ the ,State~ .'1 'ha~C' _"be~~)*(}sen ~ that not~~~v~rY",h&s cat.-~j6. i':.crit-i{~'~ . . ~...,- National Report Christine Davis pCgh.icMag1o2 Tribune (1963-Curreennttfile)),;' Apr 14,,119974; ProQuestHHiisstorical Newspapers Chicago Trni.bune (1890 - 1985) Wanted: BU$ille~ AAddmiinniissttrratiion MMaajjoorrs College students who want to make substantial contributions atter graduation should oonsider majoring in business administration. Although minorities represent l17~ oft the total population, they account ftor less than one-third oft one p~rcent ot the nation's business assets, according to a recent report by a government task torce on minority business enterprise. The 73-member task torce was established in 1972 by the U.S. Departme~t oft Health, Education,. Reproduced with permission of the National Report by Chrlltlne'Davl5 of and Welfare at the request ot the Interagency Council of the Oftfice oft Minority Business Enterprise, a division oft t.hhe Department of COllllllerce. The task torce study determined that "the high failure rate of minority enterprises" oDan be attributed to "the absenoe Of managerial and business skills neoessary" for" a firm to survive in today's competitive environment. The report said that there is a "chronic shortage of trained minority talent" to 1t'ii1l1l the need tor "o1i'ners, managers, and ., business technicians in the growing number ofr new and expanding minority business firlllS." The task tforce reoo~eDnded the establishment 0o1f' a national prog~ tor providing business mBllaa&&eemmeeDnt skills to e&xxiissttiinn& and potential'minority entrepreneurs and oalled for the creation ofr state and local task forces t.o "educate, train and support" ourrent and future minority owners. The task foroe also recommended increased 'federal fundlng 0o1f' predominantly minority COlleges and the establishment oft minority enterprise scholarships to encourage business educatilon. Although federal expenditures ftor minority business ventures reaohed $1 billliiOon last year, the rate orf failure oft federally funded bUSinesses remains extremely high. Fuell Crisis Immpact on Inner City Reported Herrington Bryoe, director of research at the Joint Center tor DDPo..eCl.i..,tioinalteSsttuimdioensy, Washington, beftOore a Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Hum!n NNeeeds warned that the ourrent ftuel corriiSsis threatens inner Coity Blacks and pOoor people. He said that inflation, unemployment and rising costs of heating fuels, wbhich may lead to higher rents, will hit Blaocks the hardest. Br,vece warned the Senators that landlords will probably use the energy crisis as an exocuse for redUuoCiing heat belecw recoommended levels and, in many oases, raise both rents and the cost'oft other servioces in low i~come apartments. REPRSSEEHHTT44TTttYySs: CHARLES rrUUGGaaee West African Drought WWoorrsseennss Desp1te numerous fund-raising aQtivities sponsored by organizations througghhoomut the country and intervention by the United States government, 200,000 people may die of starvation during the worst draought of the century in West AtriQa.., . ' Congress has approved a resolution by Rep. Charles Diggs {D-Mioch.~ for 825 million in relief ftunds. and ancther 850 copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73q million has been designated for aid but has not yet been authorized tor release. Most oft the $25 million will be used immediately to inorease agrioultural prOduction in the stricken Sahel region oaft Atf~ica. Government sources report that the U.S. has allooated 350,000 tons ot ftood and grains' tor the 1974 fisoal year to the West Afrioan states and pledged another 22.250 tons ct grain to Ethiopia. Of the private crganizations whioh have established fund-raising drives for the famine area. Afriooaarr'e, Relief ftor Africans in Need in Sahel (RAINS), and People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) have made the most significant contributions. Africsre. a private Washington-based organization has raised approximately 1$230,000 frcm 1$5 and 1$10 contributions reoeived ,as almost entlreiy from the Blaok community. Africare was also instrumental in getting a $250.000 contribution t~om the Lilly Endowment of Indiaaapol!is. RAINS. a New York group,. has raised $50,.000. mostly from Black organaizations: and PUSH,. headed by Rev. Jesse .Jlaackson. has donated several thousand dollars to the drought stricken region. The West African Intergovernmental Relief Agency has estimated that between 50.000 and 100.000 persons have already died in northern Ethiopia from the drought or famine related diseases. 8t'VERLY CHERRY Woman Fights On-The.Job Health Hazards for GGnmment Carbon monoxide indicators. methanometers and mercury vapor deteotors are not exactly household words. However. to Beverly Cherry,. an industrial hygienist in the Atlanta regional oftice ot the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). they are everyday tools. In her job as a regional industrial hygienist with OSHA. Ms .. Cherry has the responsibility for inspecting on-the-job health conditions in eight southeastern states-Alabama,. Florida. Georgia. Kentuoky, Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. OSSHHA! safety oompliance o1t''ffiicoeers look . speciftioally at safety 1t''aaccttors in work places.' Currently her aotivities are centered primarily on five aoft the most commonly used and . hazardous toxic substances-asbestos, carbon monoxide. cotton dust, lead and silioa. Ms. Cherry is the only woman industrial hygienist in the southeastern United States. Navy Selacts Second Black Admiral The United States Navy has apPpOoiinnted Captain Gerald E. Thomas to the admiralty. making him the second Black Admiral in American nistory. Admiral Samuel L. Gravel~. Jr ., the other Blaock admiral,. was appointed in 1972. The United States Air Force set the pace for promotions when Benjamin oO. Davis. Jr., was named Lieutenant General. a rank he held until his retirement. Daniel "Chappie" James was promoted to the rank o01t' Lieutenant General in the Air Force in May 1973. . Brigadier General B. O. Davis,. Sr was the first Blaok holding that rank in the United States Army. He retired t1'r'roomm the service with one star. Major GCeneral Frederic DaVviisson became the Army's first Black two-star general. Later. James F. Hamlet was promoted to the rank oft Major CGener--aa.l. . Twelve BSlack generals now serve in the U.S. Army. CompeeUUlion Opens for Ralph 8Suanchee Fellloowwsshiippss The United Nations Assocoiation ot the U.S.A. has launched its second annual competition fo~ Ralpll BBUunDcche Fellowships. The . fteflowships are awarded to Blacks under thirty years or. age to support work. on global p~oblems, with partioular emphasis on the interrelationships 'otf domestio and foreign aftfaairs. Every Blaok oollege oamp~s.is distributing applications as are major universities where large numbers of Black students are enrolled. Edward H. Kearry, president of' the United Nations Association,. announced the appointment ort the former Associate Director of the NAACP Il;egal Detense Fund. Francis Lee. as the new Director ot the Ralph BSunoehe Awards Program. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Plant size irrelevant to safety Mike LaVeIlle Chicago Tribune (l963-Currentflle); Ju125, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 _ 1985) pg..114 .Blue-colla) V~WS .Plant size irrelevant, to safety By Mike LaVelle ON JUNE 21 tbe U. S. HoUusle of Rep. resentatlves voted 201 to 194 to exempt employers with 2S or less workers from fuU coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and to ban federal safety Inspootots from entering such estabUshrnents. I fail to see much diHerenee between working in a smmaaDo factory with less than 25 workers or a large one' with over a thousand. tnheerre Is one difference: A smeU factory may be located in a bade alley warehouse'in a large city or out In the booDdocks, hidden from the pubUc oye, violating workers' r1~ts everyday. I KNOW-because I've worked at such places, one of whieb was a novelly factory OD Chicago's Northwest Side. HNq one eVer received timeand-one-half {or overtime,' and the owner even had the gan to hire his mostly black and App~lachbln white employes as weekend . maids and handymen. Nobody knew or bothered to ask what kind of glue the 8II88IIIbliers . were anUfing, nor whether the rusty, screeching freight elevator was safe. Another example was a plumbing shop in a western auIJ.. urb where a thin man in his fifties and I loailed east iron bathtubs welgh1ug over 300 pounds' onto a truck. Neither oC us ever recelved a hernia, but if we had there wasn't too damn much we c<:oauld have done about It. And Ihere was a plastlc factory an the West Side where you IlteraDy shovel asbestos fib,ers Into a steamheated hydraulic prllllS. The stuff gelS. an your ~kin and into your lungs. There are a lot of small businesses like these, and the workers in them should have the same protection under OSHA laws as any worker for General Motors or U. S. Steel. It'll caUed equal protection under the law. The OSSHAA amendment stili hbas to pass the Senat41,. and I hope that Charles Percy and Adlali SteevveeInISsOona both Yote against It. It would teeUn wor~ era more about their lltence tbaa the ritual donning o( hardhalS at eJection time . The Illinois representatives who vat ed (or the amendment, wh1C! h was sponsored by Paul FiJidley, a llepubU. can, are Flindley, Republlcans Robcert Hanrahan. Edward DerwinSkf, Harold R. Coallier. Samuel H. Yoaung, Pbllip Cranoe, Robert MeClory, lLaesUUe C. Ar ends, George M. O'Brlien, and Demo crat George E. Shlipley. The next time one of these guys greets you outside and asks for your your vote, tfeanctohriym,ga"tUe you aren't voting for my Interests as a worker, I'm not going to vote for your Interest as a pOliticiiaann..O"J Don't be conned by an AmetIean Oag label on a hard hat. These are the same guys who will cat PoUsh sausage, sing "Danny Boy," or wear a dashh1ld on Chicago's South Side if they see a vote in it. IT'S NOT Improbable that the chemicals they wouldn'l dare Introduce into the work place oC a large corporatioll under the scrutiny oC OSHA Inspectors could be introduced into a small factory protected by Findley's amendment. In a sense the workers in a ameU factory could be used as guinea pigs. To paraphrase Murphy's Law, "If. they think they can get away with 1~, they'U try it." And if something goes wroog In one of those back-aUcy factories; those who aren't involved may never know. But we should. All workers should have equal protection unde~ safety J~ws. Reproduced with pennission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pennission. 73r Health hazards vs. a company doctor Mike Lavedlle Om.'ago p~9 TribulJe (J96J-C"rr~1f1 file). Decc 24. 1974; ProQuest Histor4caJ Newspapers Chicago Tribune (J Jl90. 1985) Blue-colla)' views Health hazards vs. a company doctor By Mike laVelle TilE INDUSTRIAL uses of lead include the manufacturing of tin cans, chemicals, pipes, bullets, paints, and batteries, the casting of type, and the .soldering ooCr car radios. Lead poisoning can damage the blood, brain, nerves, and kidneys. In 1969 70 per cent ooCf the employes of 3 company dealing with lead suffered lead contamination to the degree ooCf requiring constant medication. Two empIloyes have' been retired because of severe lead poisoning. The effects of lead poisoning can disl'upt the body's motor functions to the point oC spasms or paralysis. It.~ eU([ect on the muscles and tbe heart has caused death, Lead poisoning can also damage Ule brain, causing mental Ictaroation. Lead, in fact. can remain in your body for periods ooCf time. You can completely forget ilt.. and then one i1In~ss will trigger a toxic poison into your bloodstreaDl. LEAD POrSONING. as in mllDy of the chemical occupational hazards at work places, is a danger that accumu lates. Its buildup is so subtle that at times the critical point for irreversible permanent damage coincides "ith its di~covery. Evidence in that sense is not enough-prevention is the key. There has been a strike against the CGould Battery plant in Trenton, N. J., since Nov. 18. At issue arc lead poisoning hazards. In the last Lwo years of the pllaant's worrkkffoorrCcei! of 230, 40 reportedly have been forced ocrr the job for health reasons, including the president of lAIcaI 108 of the United Electri.cal Radio and illachine Workers o! America, according to Florence eCriUleey, a IllIlon representative in Chicago. The umon is insisting on better protection agdinst lead poisoning, while the company in~ists that it's supplying \\' 0 I' k e r s with respirators and face nlasl.:s and that is good e8'lugh. despite the allegation thaIt 40 workers got sick on t he job and they had to go home or tuII the hospital. The issue, according to Dr. Sidney Wolfce of a Washingtonbased Health Research Group, is that !thbe company, 1iS many other companies do. much prefers inexpensive-and inadequaterespirators and faece masks to installing costly air-suction and conditioning systems. Not to be overlooked, by the way, is the fact that not only are respirators and masks inadequate, they're damned uncomrortable to wear eight hours a -day: Two years ago, the Local 108 began pressing the GouIld Company for lead poisoning protection. The union caIled in Dr, WoKlfe, a nationally known au thority, to help them. At first, the cormn pany refused to provide any in!orma. ti,oon about plant health conditions or the medical histories of .the workers, according to Dr. Wolfe. Eventually the local was able to get the information, and with Wolfe's help get some improvements rrom the company. But Gould has ignored some of its promises and Dr. Wolfe is continuing to aid the local in winning a decent health protection program. A point to be raised here is why did the workers have to plead for a doctor from outside the company? Paul Broa deur answers the question in his fine book, the recently published "Expend able Americans_" Brodeur's book examines the relation ship between medicine and manage ment thru the particular ca:;e lIf tille Pittsburgh Corning a~beslos plant ill Tyler, Tex.. and the case of its workers a Clf Ili ectedd with the asbesto:;-related disease, asbestosis. In the book Brodeur makes it clear whether the company .doctor cares for his patients or his employer. On page 245, there is an anecdote which tells the whole story: ,. 'I WONDER if there might he some time in the next day or two that I could talk with you.' Dr. Grant appeared to hesitate. Then, glancing quickly over the ballroom, which was emptying, he shook his head. 'I'm afraid I cao't: he replied. 'In this inStance there is a question of a patient's rights.' For a moment I thought II had noL heard him correctly. Then it dawned on me that he was talking about the company. .. 'Do you mean Pittsburgh Comrning?' I said. 'Why, yes,' Dr. Grant replied. 'If they doo't want me to talk with you there's nothing I can do..''I'I' Reproduced wIth permtSSlOll of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pennissJlon. 73s The resurrection of the lakes Jerald terHorst Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file); Aug 15, 1975; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) pg.A4 Jerald terHorst The resurrection of the lakes GRAND nAPIDS, 1II11lcch. - Uneero In President Ford's homo town - and mine - they now catch salmon In thoe downtown strectches of Grand River, more than 30 miles upstream from Lake Michigan. A f(ew years back, you could only take sucker and cearp here. That's' part of thoe cheery news con- coming thoe Great Lakes that's worth noting tbcStl days. Despllo thoe continuing economic difficulties of America's bIg Indlllifrlial clUes along tho Groat Lakes, we are slowly winning tbhoe battle against pollution of Ihe world's largest body of Cresh water. The fight has not beon easy and It Is a long way from being over. A decado ago, many of thoe .experts felt lhe Great Lakes were rac:lng doom8dny. The real fear then was that the U. S, and Canoa da, thru ignorance, noglect, and a con centration ooCr industry and commerce, were literally and inexorably turning the lakes ijnto a IlCwer stretching from northern Minnesota to New York's At- . lJanUc scaboard. 'l'JlAT APPARENTLY IS not gollDog to happen. Not bllCauso the (eors wore overblown but because ooCf corrective action being taken by tho cltlcs, stlllttees, provvoInces, and national authorities on both sides at thel border. Vou don't have to be an environmental expert to IIpot tbhe .di((erence thnt IaI decade hos made. . AccordIng tp Canadian and AmoertlCljin commercial fishermen, they now cpn scee Into the depths agaihni where mu.rky wlalters once prevailed. LLaake trout, perch, coho, and chlinook salmon are In abundance. No longer Is Lake Erie choked by massive beds oC algae created by Ithboa sewage dlischargce ooCf urban coenters. The chemical wastes from plants In Gary, D e t t a0 It, Cleveland, and Rochester. N. VY., nowadays give a less chalkY (inge to tho shoreHne waters of Lakes MichliglUl, Erie, and Ontario. Bothing bBDChcs In the Cleveland area thllt had to be closed because of pollutIon only a (few years ago are now In use again. Progress in cleaning up the Great LLaakkees was the happy theme, that, for once, marked a meeting of Amorlcan and ClUladlan. reBseeaarrcchers In Windsor, Ontario, under the aDuussppIlces of tho Inter- national Joint Commission that deals wilh boundlll)' water problems of the two countries. Three years ago, Coanadi an Prime MinIster TrruuddooDaUu and thoan President Nil(on signed a pact pledging a unified campoaIlgn to rid the lakes 01 the most flagrant pollulanl8 by 1075. Canadian authorities figure they wlU have 00 pot cent of theIr share complet ed by the ond of Ihls year. Bul the Nlixon ildmlnlstratioll Impounded Amerl CDn flundlal as part ooCf D move to cut Inflation and federal spending. . Court teversal&, congressilonael insist- ence, .snd the Ford adminlatrotlon have now restored thIs flow of.moqey, Henry P. Smith IIlIl, head of. th~ U. Ss.. delelgla- tion 01 the I. J. C., predicls Iho lak4S' cleanup can be virtually completed iIn (four oddlllonal years. Much remains 10 be done, but corrective work is undor way In the problem areas. according to Jamces Korwln, the award-winning environmental writer oC the Petroil News and an authoorriittyy"' on the Groeat Laukes cleanup camplllign. For example, researchers are puzzled by the mysterious I IaIyYe r IsI of "dead wntoc" which spread along the bottom of Lake Erie and parts of Lake Ontario in mid-. summer. The contaminated portion of Lake Erie has nearly doublod In thbe last five YyeCallrrall even as major steps were being taken to curb pollUutlion of surfaCe waters. on TAKE TJlE celebrated eou of the Reserve Mining Company In DulMuth. whero toaconiltle wastes have been found to be laced with tiny asbestos flibers thllt consUtute a liCflous health hazard to lhe drIinking waters~or Iho region. Is It pos slible that tho flibers - discovered only reccnlly - have been prevalent in Lake Superior Cor a long lime dua to land runoff? By Iho end of the decnade, some $10 bll lion to $18 bl\Uon wlU have been apent to resurrect tho Great LLaakkees. It ,will take additional hugo sums and continued determination to bring the Great Lakes back after generations of contamInation and mIsuse. But the en couraglng thing Is that the situation Isn't gciltlling w\YoorliiOo - ft's gc.ttlnll beltter. Unr~ruf PleelnS $'I'AddIICCIlI. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ,,~~;q{~~j~;V? '1~=::., 73t time. Of that number, about 50- per cent have rema~ea "~lean," the term used by compUlsIve gamblers themselves to . . '. .' e,~ Blue-collar views, ~ ~----o ., ----..01 . - .. -~..,.. ""\lVl'.l"'~U '-Ul~~l "uc;~ bx:ought the wreCkage of ili,eir lives here. .We'll ten you 'more ab9ut these' men and the':!~pe Breckkssvviill1le VA hosp~tal. offers them tomorrow. . I .\f~ t,.,hz-4 1-2.-\ ~-S- .. ._0: .ANavy time bomb that's 29~.'years old' By' Mike LaVVeel.1l&.1&----_._. , . . '. the Navy has made some c?sh s~t~le .. me~tst Dr~likoff believes there has . . t~ . .been no 'credible effort to track doWn. , workers. ,~- ... <..Terrua !I'ora aaround in hi! et collision. Even if th a .rumble, Q they 1;iave a being in tru . af-that parti , ciyal occcipru , WJIAt'.IN ... Fonfdolng ~ around tHe,s ~. .An mquiry .__Qf.t~ brings driVing to h raiser for f can Party. : .raisers, in 0 arily- th,e' dl United State cliore,s. ,of.: C . .(!Om~Qsated for the 'diSease frOJ,ll. the ':: :tim~W'1.l"h""1ie'Was' ~~ctEidr., ..:. .'. -' .;. as:r b quiet Cjl5 possible,: hime.tbem!' . "" : and ~.... I :,. can't - "":~:- :;:'it'hS;;~;:;~~4..\P-'<''~~)~ on : -:-- Dr;' IrvingJ. 'Selikoff; an ep.vironmen.; 't--c~ifi: -appreciaretne!"-l'ira'VV~~-I~i~'l1.~-ifum~oo.n .'. tal' health scientist at New York's Mt. -dons. An.d the maritime iridtiitrY~s--'as:' Sinai Hospital Envir<Wttental Sciences .Well. We have all read about the practi- or,li' ado Laboara.wtory, believeS such workers ought cally empty CTA bus involved in -a weekendS, ';J to have:th9se rights. .- minor . trafficmishap . and about the . -the 'chiCken~: During World War II the United states . .hordes of "passengers" who. gather at , ~~t~'S'( bad 3 million shipyard workers, some of the scene- crying "whiplash." tiotl -that t1hmU whom contracted a fatal form of cancer -- It is little wonder ther~. might be- a - .iffyr 1rl$.' patt~ caused by asbestos materials. It was fear that a pijblie exposure 'of past ship - .pated'challe ,called mesotheellioma and struck the building health hazards cOuld' trigg~r a . .nia 'govem01 stomach lining and chest cavity. similar response from _claim-ants - all Reagan 1 . c9ughing and wIi~zing and asserting inviting . ten OTHER &II.ij,lYA"RITWol'ltefi= suffered' thw were once shipyard wOl:ke.rs. 'intii the be~ from asbesteosis, a form of cancer similar The Navy itself pas admitted some : ~Qurt. ~ the coal miners' dread~ bla~ IU?g culpability by agreeing. to awa.rd some . ' Ford's' po dISease. Before these two mdustnal dIlSs workmen's compensation cl~ums for . .well ta sit easeB became generally known, a work- -lung..cancer. But so far only a handfuf er's death was often attributed to bron~ .of claims have been' Diiaade. demand:tha on the, fono; ehitis, pneumomia, and ~~erculosis. .FOR THE last few years. iDr. Selikoff. . the froIit-~u In 1962, Dr. ,Selikoff began researching w~th the American'Oan~r Society, ba{3' the cases of 632 men who, in 1Q42 were been the two diseas~~,. apd the working as iristallers of asbestos-insUla.- . Navy's And accor.ding to It- .' ti,on. By 1971, his research s~o~, 42S of. Cuyler a director of the ,~I.l:" . them bad died. - < . ' . . .cer . Na.vy is proceeding :at, Mortality rates for the general pop~a- tloionbeInedxipceacteteddthdautt ionn~lyth2a8t5 ~dyeaetah~s were 'peri- . od. Moreover, according to Dr. Seellikofrs ..~y, 411,,f# those deaths w~ specifical- :. ,.1J,-. ~db~~ble. ~ ~s~esteosls. . . :Dr. ~likoffwantsthe Navy and varl:' "'; PU$:~~pbU!Iding' com~~es who ~We~e..in !;:;~~~s -tf~iWo,tld War II.. to. ~ti,fr' ~G-t~t $pipy.a;-d~employ~ of ~fr POSSIl- .'. *', '. .~~-~j">tibfl.i.ty,tp.iae .~~es'. :.:r " .' Thou~, .... ,less. _. ' ". ' "They .L next month, ~ayll)g they would begm ~ut nothing wouId~appen." '~lBh ~ ,4l;. '. . , Hammo~d says. . ..... : '~ilit..::j~: ,: At ~ ,a.t~ge of their stu~y'? it 'YOI,l~~:, ::, ',.,.',t: ~'j~~",~;.: C;:,: be , ~~ .. ~".a.,~~~.e_,.t~~ ':... ..:: c..:..:::_ ....::~ __~.:,:,~~.. r. . -, ...., '" mal1time.mdqstty.Qf!i.Jl1eait:aI,~overup... <".::.A : :~,; , ;. <?ile. . ~ut t.hin~ is..~~rt~. )Yhat .'I!.1;.: '. \:~ ~<';)'.:'.":~"~ ." " ,Se~off and.the ~et.l<:an. ~an~:~~~:-:. _,,: '.' ~, '~~'..,." " ty have- d~~d~.,~,th~:~~V:~rttm~t'.s l~!t. ,.~'.' has a ~~~eat~B: ~~~e, ~,~~t ~~{). "~ .'~_:'. ;: ' . . . " '. ."--... : '-'-:'.. ; . - . i .. ',.~--:. Fear cancer from fibers Casey Bukro Chicago Tribune (l963-Currentjile); Oct 13 1975 P Q pg. C20 ' ; ro uest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) ,'{~~;;I;l~t~~f; ~" ..l'~";;~:~~liM'}'~)F.~I~~: ,. ~'" ' " Fillerad water is way o/lif. 10 Mlinnesotans liviinng near Lake Supertor, who fear billions of tiny fIllers that may induce cancer. Robert Sephar, a biologist leor Ihe Em,ironmenlal Proleclion Agency, dnnks from a tittered fountlain at ffle agency's office JR Ouluth. Trl&une 1'I.to.to. by DtW/rl Nuy,lrom CI:ealrecaancner efrosmt-f,iblearske threatens life By Casey Bukro , . Environment Cldll(lr DVLUTH-lAke Su,p<r\or lIaI \he I.rg. Saveour e.'it. deepest, aDd cleaneast Great Lake, _Ills Yet two loderal courts have ruled that the lives or 200.000 who drink water , . LAKE, J from tho lake may he thre.aatloned with cancer. 1: A secondlook The tbhreat .,as born ,qulell,y 19 lea.. pot"" ago. _ mimnllAASs exporta foWwuldl Itbhoy could IOIUmICI I!roD 0f8 I!rom a dark _ rod< be.... u IacoDllo by srIDdIug It 10 a po..der and ....." masnot. , IDn 1955,I!eaetve IoIfntug Co. open", ... Iron ore procosalDs plaDl 011 the ohores mI,... 01 LakII Suporlor III 8IIwr B.y ..... u ..u. :::.!!'" DOrtbeast of DulI11b. IItd llesm pumpIDg that powder liAnto thoe lake. lIleerly 1913, asbestos-like tibera: were diatovered iIJ the lQ:eets water. It eam6 from Reserve', taeon1te powder. " Asb<stol flbera are known to .ea.... cancer, a!I least _ faheleol. TIle ex porta "'" IIIICerta1tI ''''01Il10 01 thoe water-bo... llbon In look. Supertor, but IlOme fefllE' 200,000 ~ontB or .MIn. :=,1e'x.:~COS::W~nd.,.~~nld Ihreafeliod with ....,.... , "The bolt thati cCaIDn be ..t4 lIaI Ibal Ithbo eWloDoo 01 tbIaCOII(aIDlnaJI III air and w.ter S81i'" rfae to a r......bla medleel ......" for Ithbo JlllbIlc beaIIb." rulod Il1o U""",, Stoles cou.t of Appeals. ae.er.. THOUGH TR.4.T JlULlNG stalod In earlier u. S. DIIIdot cou.t order 19 sbut 40WA I(IIM& !DInIodIaItIy poblk: h,alIh _ . I1I did order thoe c:ompany 10 curb III air and water poU. tJoa: la. u~" tlraO or ab,ut do"", , ,;,' , Ileoerv. Idlaloa ,had' ...,.;ed that !Iha Ilberol 1000d III the floOl .... of t..o~ ta\llnga It _P!II' lfIiIto LIlb 811j18r1or eadl day are l1li1 ufItatoa. TIle eoarta decI<Ied thoet the aoedIp.Ub fiberas are lP II2lICh UU _Ihbot Ibey warranllha ~af'" and ptoIe<I\oa.;. TIoo .... made 'I"ossol 1oIatoq. I11I In eftloocdl, t h a t _ eouLIacI ...... ;. llIIpOdecI p1IblJ4 beaUh _ wbOA Itbhoy lack medlcaI ,vide.... thoet people. ate belit/i: .icUqed IItId ~ Efen If thoe lIbore In Lake SVjIerIor pose lIb., Mme health threat u 86beit0i, the ;::....~= wou14 Iako,;o to 30, weak It. collee! Illl4ted water lor drlnIc I!!g or oooklng. Dullllll ,'IIlIl Ilnlab bulldIAg a new water IUlrallon plant by April. 11171. "" cordlnll 10 Davfd Peler...; the clty'. director 0/ the Department of Walor and Ga, Ro.6erve Javors one that c:aUs tor con etructJOQ ot a 14-acro cflSpOlal mtc:l about live 1:I:l&s. Inland from the lake nur Sliver Bay .t <oal at $252 mWIon. Ecologlato WOOl Rosuve 10 _ . the mn.. whole tacolllle .... proeeaalng plant III mU.. Ii1lI(ld. AI a coit 01 1611 mUlIlI.n, Reiflen. 1111 tbo ecolostsls' deslre& are ;1 p _ l H v o l y e x p o. .I",. Thh&o firm IIIId It will aul down the ,I Sll.... Bay p1aol If -thoe aIaIe rejeocet'"s lie "'J plan, lea""" 1,540 jobl.... In ; cIwllA J,IIO who ...tIc fo, Ro...-ve !fill- ing. . The uboaloo-IJh flbera spaWllOd by Reservet.. fRIl ore proeess!ng are "_11 the 1..IO.nnt problem In Lake SUo perIor." said 11r. DoDaId Mow!~ dlrfclllr of Ithbo EPA',. HNaaIlIloo.u.a1l Waler Quality Laboratory. "Il regard It CIa an exttomDl, serlou:a: problem becauoe It '" Iwoard of on klIoWb po\ajlI/qi," be saaild, MOUIft' 'jEL/EVlss 111110 PlOil"I' haaJl ""'" madl!' In root e&r1 In proe- ..nllo>g 1'OlIuIloiI/rom /towlDs In'" Ltookk. SUperIorI tilt headwaters of the fIve G....t LaJrooo and the ..""", col cloan wafer lfor the to_lakes. ,''Il''lh1o0 br, dla<harsers are dolDg whatl they've It...... . ,alw~ tQa _i.O"ttln1&o!01IIII1IlIou.aa.l lIdo.l "Ill Ibo , lab. IIIIOIIIIIIllIIIIddIIIIaI d... yet, "l'ho I>!..uc haaJl Il0l_ a c>1WUit moot 10 "/IfII1t w..u 10 do "Jib th. laltea-l<ool> 'them .. an WIlKnlt.hod .... or ... them, The publi< aIIouJld.DOt llpoCIlClentjota 10 ..... 10 thoe ,...... Jobs bl been bopol...ly po~ -,produced with permission of the copyright owner. "I rei... to drink. thoet' aabostof water,IUI uld Hn. AnDe JoDOl. .. U u... she flUod a "O.v.... colllalnMor wUh IUterod water alIoblo It.. of chargo I1I OlIIllYY 01 thoe 14 fire 1IaI1... In tlolI cl1 of 100,00II.. Io!rt. J_, Il1o ItIOthot 0/ tlIree. .la. .O.lIO. 01 ... ealimltod lO,otlll1o 2O.ooe Du. eo; 1II1II rooJdeIIIo ,,110 1re1 - BIll: PIoANlI hav. beotpa adV-'t 1101 Further reproduction prohibited without permission. LIke 8IIporIor .....". lis total .,ater IUPply onoe 'oVYOOll)' ~ years. To Ihooe who y Lake Suporlor lIaI 1\000 bl, to poIIuto. "M'ooWWlt aaya: "Lake SupadOf' call be hurt. I bard tUm ..a.yy OtIW ahout We ErIe whoa I " . . . bey, I nv6d !n thoel pearli tl the COI(IItry. '!'bey IIIId Lake Erie .... 1\000 "'""'1" 11 big to becomo 73v ~-,,"'a a ,.,,".,CCiitt.l \:11 cneo pCgh..i3cago Tribune (J963-Currentflle'/l, Oct 17, 1975,' rPoQuest Hl'ston.cal Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Blocked due to copyright. See full page image or microfilm. Sharing the Nobel firize in medrclne are (from left); Howard M. Temin o01f the Unlverslly of Wis- consin: David Baltimore of Ihe Ma$sachusells lnslilute 01 Technology, with: his daughter, Lauren . Rachenll: and RAenato Dubacco, an American now with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London, Cancer research cited 3 Americans 'win Nobel' in medicine STOCKHOL1I1, Sweden fAPI-'1'hree American scientists were awarded the 1975 Nobcel P!'ize for Physiology lit Medicine on Thursday for research Into possible links between viruses and cancer. Two of the prize-sharers immediately !slaaid they questioned the importance of viruses as a cause of human cancer and called for research on the relationship betweeo ellvironment.,l pollution and cancer. "I don't wallt to downplay viral work, but Ihe evidence avaUable today Is that the role of viruses in cancer is small," said Dr. Davlid Baltimore, 37, head of the ltumor virology group at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. "In that case, maybe thili is not the bes1; place to put a lot of research mon- ey, but it was sound at the time when decisions were made to move into virol- ogy in a big way," Baltimore told a news conference In Cambridge, Mass. -i HE ADDED THAT he thollgh~ "lIle best /JQpe today for cures is researeh Into. environmental causes of caneer. This is a good place to put funds now." Dr. Howard M. Temln, 40, a UDlversi-' ty of Wisconsin professor WilD llpeclallz.. : es in tumor research, said he, too, bs- Heves experiments winll show most hu- man cancer is not caused by viruses. He dcceeennscribcoedndcitaionncercaasusaend UI\IUItural body-, by unnatural . chemical influences. "It has been documented that several materials used In Industry can cause cancer," he satd, citing asbestos, vinyl cbIoride, al1!l some pesticides. TEMIN SAID he thought cam:er research needs new Ideas more urgently that It neOOs new money. "There seems to be a good level of cancer research in Ithis country-the limiting thing is a lack ooCf new approaches," said Tamin. The third winner was Dr. Henato Duilbecco, 61, who did most of his research at the CaUfomia Institute of Technology. He moved 10 years ago to London to work at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboatl'atol,),. He did not comment on the iImportance of the virus-cancer relationship. The priizze-awarding facuullty of Sweden's Carolline medical institution cited the three mlicrobliologlists for discoveries showing "thhee Interaction Iletween tumor 'viroses and the genetic material iIn the cell." TEMJN WAS once of Dulbecco's slu- dents in the 1950S at Ithe California lnstl- ,tute of Technology. Baltimore was part of 8 Dulbeceo-Ied team at the .Salk Insti- tute at La Joll', CaL ~ TeJii.in saaid In Madison that he was "overwhelmed and honored" when he received the news from Baltimore, who .phoned from~New York, where he Is a yJsltlng prot4!8$or at RockkeeffeeJller Univer- sity. Through parallel research, Temln and Baltimore achieved a major breakthrough In tumor virus mechanlslll5 In 1.9'70. : A central 40gma In the field of molec- Ular bloIogy' at one time ImpUed that, information ,transfer In nature could .oniy occur (roam tbhe genetic material DNA [deoxydbolluclelc acid] to the al- ternate genetic materlal RNA [rioonu- dele /lCldJ and not In the other direc- pon. ' :-BOrn,,MImN aud Baltimore were able to accumulate Indirect evidence showing the occurrence of a specific enzyme In RNA' tumor virus 'partlcles which could make a DNA copy from RNA. the Carolilne lmItItute said. to Dulbecto, wllo went callfomla In 1949, worked with two ollhler Americans who won the Nobel medicine prize in l00ll-Salvador Lurllia and Max Delbrueck-at CaIl Tecll. LurIla IMIOWW heads the department of biology at MIT where Baltimore recently set up his OIYD caneer research center. Dulbecco started studying animal vi- ruses hi the 1950s acter rcsearch on bacterial viruses. His research with DNA mateerrial showed a virus transformed cells which in turn were able to repro, duce their altered characterIstics. The dlsl!(lvery of certain "footprints" of the virus suggested that genetiC material of the virus remained in the transformed cells. FOUR A.MJ;:RICANS ,nd t\VO Rl\~slans have become Nobel prize winners so far this year. On Tuesday, the Alflred Nobel' MemorIal Prize in Economic Science was awarded jointly to Dutch-born American Tjallirig Koopmans Bnd Soviet economic plannel' Leonid Kantarovilch. Five days eald'liieeIr', the Nobel Peace Pl'lze went to Soviet nuclear physicist and controv~slal civil rights champion Andt'el Sakllarov. . 'l'he remaining sc;ilelltlClc Nobel prizes, those Cor physics and chemistry, will be distributed by tile Swedish Academy of Sciences on Friday. The Swedish Acap- emy of Letters has not yet announced IaI date for the awarding of the lilerature prize and it was unlikely 1to0 come before the end of October_ . ( Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without 73w Blue-collar vIews Mike lLaaVVecllle ~'.~fO Tri/mum!' (J96JCuTrelllfilMe): QOcl 10. 1975; ProQUCSI Historical Newspapers ChIC3g0 Tribune (I 890 1985) Blue-collct}, views The job hazards a Inata::-:never:,Sees By Mike LaVel/le or ,'UE OEf'I\Jtl'MENT of Labor reecut- ly PI'oposcd nce\\' standard!; limiting ~.c levels vf IaI \vOl'kel"s exposu.oc to asbes tos libcrs. IClld, bClylliull1. and 13 'other toxic chemicals. When the ol'igillllli ~tRn(:arcls for many oC these chemicals and :Isbeslos IIII u(e.ials wel'ec sel In 1972, Ilhtae Nii..1llll1l adminlsl1'alion was measuring thaeir impact on Indush'y alind lhIad alin eye focusecd a01l1l bushlCSS. Business will be singing Its old refrain - il callnot afford to Insli1ute Ule stricter standards, standards which the AFLCIlO had asked fo. in a suit Nled in fed cl'al court. MArIce,l' much 'lillilltion, the cciilrts di: recled IIhle '. Occupational: Safety' ,and Heulth AdJilinib1ra!lon 10 review iL~ monitol"ing regulutlons und to e~tend the time lintit (0.' keCI)lng medical l'ccords un workCml's who had been exposed to ilsbecslos. UNDER 'I'IIE system In operation in 1Jf1l772, OSHA together wllh business moni. tored indusll'illl IIslJestos and chemlt!al lIeClI'c'cls and kept these recol'da lIor three yewat's; wOI'kel's' medical I'eeol'ds wOI'e 10 bce kept lvr 20 yYeOuDlIsS. CCOOllllunOIl scense dictates that 1m0o0nnitoring chemiculs III thl"Cce-ycellr spans Is vii: ttutally useless in dealing with lI'OUI'kCml'Ss who m'c exposed to suspected dangerous chomicals OVCI' 10- aud ISii-year spans. ,'he issue here il; 1I0t once rcesh'lcted silmlll' ply 10 eXllosuro levels. Under the /lOW' Labor Ucpulimcnt IIruflosals, monitoring ehellli~al. lovols mlu(l workers' mediclIl e.~amlllIutions would be extended to 40 year's 01' Ihe duration or I11I workers' employment plus 2U years - wblchevcl is longer. ACCording to Ule Laoor Depllrrttmmeent. an estilnated 50,000 WOl'kers IIro em ployed in the nllllluCaeture of products c{Jutlfining asbestos, 'I'hose Indirectly ex)j'loased to usbesto8 tlhlm the handling of products such as plastiCIlIi and fWlU'nlltuure and tho~e eXI)Oaed 1to0 It on construction jobs runs into the millions. 'fhe P"opost'<i standards regulating agilclitos !leclVels will 101Ve1' the curren! 5 filullll's per milliilliittCcl' of air ovel' an eight hour pel"iod to 0.5 libel'S, a reduction of 10 PCI' cent. can Unfortunately, the slundw-ds o01n1 asbes- tus materials will nolt COl'llr cOllstrlulctlion 1\II"o0llters. 'I'hcesc 1III'O'0rkCfB 1w1'1i1l1l continue to lie, gOVeJ.11ed by the old standards unless tile aOSSHA :Constructlon !ndustq Safety Ac!visqry' Colll!lllttee coml,! up with a proposal 10 lawer Ihe construction limit. 1lo0o0, III any case, the standard (or con slrouct/lon workers wlll be two fiiObOerrs PC!' milliliter of air beginning July 'I, 1976. The Institution of thoc lIlew standards invl'olvecs the complicatcd field of Indus It'ia!l disecase. Illdustl'ilIlf lIlealth hu~ards d~ 1n1o01l make good nClI'spaper storics. ,:A leg that is broken 01' IaI lIlicolld Umla! IIs busied because of unsafe muchlnery is easy to dcscribo. That is 1I0! !l'ue ooC( the lung that is damaged becAUse of years of exposure to dangel,'ous matcrials. 'rile clock cannot be tumcd back, (he mG& chinery cannot $Imply be flxed 01' rec placed. _ ", Butl Ule lathll' Illind:; ot IlnIdusb'lal health hOall:luards IIIrc preventive iIn nature, If it is UU5tl'alo to UunlldCell'ssttaanlld wllat these dnngerous chomlcals and llibel'S ar(', lmd whut they can do to UlIIlC'S budy, plea.~c ltake timo to learlnl. The choice could ba aII fell' weeks In the Ubrul'y 01' yew's {oIf c"ip!lJillg iInCll'lnlty. ','UE I,AllOIt DCIllJUrhuclI! ',lundul'ldIs cover beryUlum. lead, ltoll,ello, Itriehloret/llylene, IItert!butyltoluelle, ,umenc, elhyl benzcnec. n(phll-methyl SIYlCIlU. slyrence, "inyl (ullllmo. eyclouhcxulnle, camphor, JmIIcessl/tlyl oxide, 5-mcthyl-a-llCllIllIIlll00lnlee. and ozono, It Is expected WUlnst indlll>1ry will Cllght al/oainst Ihe proposed standurds ltoolh alld claw just 1/$ it hus (ought pl'Jlor proposals, You olVe It to yourself ,to be Informed and to fight buck. e6pccially If you are exposed ltu once of tIlICIB' echemlicals. ~'he Chicago Meo'Commlttees 011 Occupational Sufoty and HeaJlUIl Is 1111 Olguni. zntion COllllJOSCd of workecrs concernced about IndlWUllrlnl IlDzurd:;. Tbe cO()lIllll1iUee is located at 5f2 S, Deal'born St. DI"OII them a line or givea them a call. Reproduced with penniSStQn of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited wrthoutpermlSSlon. 73x RCohneamld iKcoatluslaaknd cancer--a whole industry holds its breath Chicago pg,. 18 Tribune (1963-Curreennttfile); Apr 4, 1976; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Chemicals and Ccaa.Rlctecrer~~aawwhh6oIlee'iinndduussttrrYy;:bnQQllddssilttss obreath By Ronald K/(oiulak n. retardant GcfDnett od/llar annllIlno dyo rruuInl a sreq'ltly iIncreased 'rllk aot dOovYeei/oopplng eaDceor' aad thaf !wbolo Tilt TESTS iny"~lveo lubJCC!lIcilr 1Innl. mals 10 the choImr!leaHor 0o.lOlolnlg' period ,qulieckly ecbhceckllDog Itho thowands Ic~ls aIl/ecady on' tbhoa maarrkkoe't 0o1f l1a0 eclhiem. sec ICt '". Thhle! nOomllla 'iInn quaestlion Is'l'rls: ;..,,'.I'IIa lost usous;a 'clowrt trick. 'Trhhoo baec- A SB''ll''III\ANGE nnUusBnn tt IlatllilUtnl over Iho glioanat choamleol IlIcltliSslry,. lramlUlles at edhleemmloals suoh lIS thoa 'chlorl noted bydroecaarrbbooiilus' moy' bhoa cone(!('o 01 I/mo, ,about tWweoi 16 Itbrco yoaars, to sBeCoO If somoa of thorn daevelop cancer. Such IIley moay)' b(e! potloennUUDo.J] earrcclnlnooggflf1~:l,, OanDd to testing noewweonnes b!6ltorc thhle!yJ"'o'orroo.~ppuut :kIlbraommooppii''ooppyyJl] pblJoossphate. An molted a mliUllilon' pPoDuUhhcclbs, ort Trh esUt!', omro terlo 001l1/l1i''1 grOowIY mbecuaussao thbeoy already haVII a deCecttlhyo geoao"., nBuut It somao of , For gecnlioe YOOl/IlIl's', It WIIS Ablecrlco'a floabulous producing mUillilons 0o1f new cmom couslng has crealcld '1/I\' sovero cossoe'l')t!t j!itlters In ltilto IndUWSttry. " lests oroa exponstlvc;' coslt/ing about $150,000 paer choamlcal. ' :" hInllto prroodduuctciotnio.' n.,' '" . ' ,'', Somoa DoCt his early Cfinlnddl/aDggss havo' eemm~~ lmIIIolIdlo DI1UUIUIuIlllIlif"i8itllCcf It makes 'up 6 1to0 ,10 ''ppoorr,c,e~ntt or Iillioa Wie!ilght ooCf ItIh!ea gaurmment. thao ,baotler!a do stlart growing It mellll!Sl 'that thao clieomlceGlIs 0 \pIOowweerrffuullllll\utloagnn 'Trhho' UHce!laonsoc fiind pounds dess/l,Jl(rned 1to0 mmko 1I1ll1o0 Deoosslloef and mora enjoyable,. 'l'he Iplroab1lem has been thaoil ~rDcD!lcDaIllY nono or Iho now chomloals wera ,tested ,'''"AAlltter a0 company speennddss,5 millliloonn'Iln doyeloplng ,a now mamlca!l product IIt broiled him In two maJjor controvveerrSsIes. His flndllllggs showed Ihoat most haIr dyes reocom'mmmecnds that' now sleepIing wear hbao washed at loesst tfhbat bhoa correctlecd theo bod gone. A cehomlcal sltrong onough 1to0 oIller BgCe- " , But tIhboa goldon droam Is tlurnIlng lInlo a ltor their poctlcaotlal4bUltly to causoa cancer belfore belng put all thoa markect. ., ,' really doesn't woaal 10 laIow It it may cCoOuUsso eaoocer," sold Dr. Brucea ~ 'Amoes, moy be poLl.ennUtlot carcinogens. 'Ihbo 'choamlcoals used ,.DoSs fllamo 'rcl4rdoanls 'In UUI!ffCeOe tUimrnees bce!loroa lw\'eelaIIr'I/ng,. to reduco aa poerso.,n's ClCppoossuurrOo to Trh. nceUtic materlial Ceolln mako many typeo! olr changos, IInndudlng ropalrlng a dec/lectlve nlghhltmmoorrDo. thbot moany ooTrrbetIhrbooa tIesnBslrroIolwrwltnbhgouusssuDoslnpidicsioDonC , new chemi/cal, that, b~vo boon crootled As I11I result, we IJIlYe In o08Bcca oltoohheemml coals,. MUilllIlons or people aro:e.exxPpDosed dol ao bloocllom/lst at (!hae UoYvoerslty., oC C~lIrfor. cohhUUcdlrcens' 'pajoamoas,'lriIiIaiO'O :,lturmned outl to bao nla alt.,Borkolcy. " " ,' .' .p~o(ivwocrrlul c~arccilnnooggensa In his ltiilstt..,' ,: , /A!.mmees' l1emst' JIIvolvec"f, tha usoa or a apo. goenae or causing eclalncer. ecllollt typo oC tIlia Solni9qlriella bactoerIla Itbot ThiIs makoe! thao lost vce.ry silmplec., In. , to ot mako thessoo,,pprroodduucclJluJlmIOaYy couslng cancer. , .",,' be capoabloe . , Iy 10 tIlItlouso chemIicals, -4nd mony ''o~tr them may bavoe an' Incereonsed risk 01 ,Llko many Ameri/cans, A'imnos long hos boon bolhored by, tho complex chemleol . , BASED' ON Ames' rosuits, hh~alIrr''dyes and Caa/ammoa relorrddaanltBs InIOoWw aoco under-. has beOI! breeclt tci.hofoc 'Ial spaeeclific genootilc detlecdt. The gennoUtlce doetlect prohibiIts tbao bacterIia Cfrroem makli!nig hlstldlno steaod ooCr lookIing through JplGIlVor!ul mlICclr'Qo-o scopes tlor mutlaotled geelnlCeSs, Ihe .scciIeenntlist , Tho receht bonnnnllDng by' tho Cederal F:FOoOod nanod Drug Admllillstlrollll/oQD ooCr nod devyeolIopi/ng coancer, accordIing 1to0: Dbr. Frank J. Rnoauscher Jr"., dlrcotl9fl or tho !lIlaomes of )plrl'ecssoorvatlvecs, colOorrlings, once! otheor:Ctooood a~dd~iUtivveess he reads on ,lalabbeel~s. going the more thorough animal lests 1to0 secDo U tIlloy CcBaUuSsOa ,moUllgniulClos" In Ithoa Icaalltthhooyr nnCC~4 ~!o f~Oepprroodduuccee..,, e, a chemrn..' 'only has to wlllt tor tIhho bacteerrIiDn to slart , , ~grwolWngIn.g,., I " . ., Dyeo NNoo. .22,' whlch hSI wIdoely wused flor coolorilng sucoh thliongs os rhofrrjos and soltt National Canccer lInss,Ultulc, ' At f(lirst,; no ono reaally BUSpaected ltIltat 'T1E'ENk YEARS ago bo .Iartlod '10 work Gnlii!~ ,, .' ' ::1 ' '" , on a portltltmmoeJaboratlory project to soeoa L:!st week theo Envlironmoenltoal Dce!loDSoa :' A pled BIlLLLttIOONN bactlerlioa ,OQF~ aorreoi thealei gtenncettlicallyeerrlplpo. placccerd In 0 peltrli dISh ',":l,UMt,EES SAID,.ltheo t..,1ttaalt!u onnJl.yy (wwOo 1to0 Uthur'Celei days 1100 complcetlo olind costs (CfilIllmm drinks, Is an I blao to come. oml/noua " siIgn 0o1f moroa trau choml/cols sussppiicions sgcraaUeouwSse(,!dsccliacennctliesrt.s But as thoe wera, lraced U tbhcso chemicals 'Ihhat his children 1D1t1o0 could bo testC'd mormo cosily. Fund paeUtJ/oned tho CCOo/nlSs1ulmlllCetr' Product Sorety Comml$slon t1o0 'fako lmmedloatoa along wIth tho chemtical to boe tocslteeclt. Bcecousoa checmilcoals that oroa ,~ca~ppaobblo oC~ , $200 to $100 Cor each cchheemmIlccaal ltlestled. "As o0'' recsull oUr(tbblls work, W\\'O0 bave : TIlE DISCOVERY Un I pDopl~ who ,work wJitlh vilny!l chlorllJll, IIISSbbocBstos, and with anoottbheerr,lloonnddbbloek-thera Is)]]Oo oosy wayy. to test 'a cohoell1dloool tor, Its corctno- 'geolcty)' [ablmffty'lto DcoOuso cancer].' Ho comoa' up with a rovolutlonary scree_ tost that IS ,IIlmplc, IlISt, DIlldl! Ilnnx aecll/on to rxp:edduuceo thao cxpos~,. oft 'Cbhll- drefn "and oalbers aCa/omo retarda 1to0.,flabrlics Itreoated ,with iclausling I0!I/UIIllCI!CCIl' ooCttleen blirrae equallllYy coappull;4~, blo of cauasilng mutatloas, .Ames 'waIlts 0 < sreubppirothrt,eecdtthathtaoolmthoeseotlr')y'an,Ulln' 'cooehwwhe.~!mImelinccj8ap1lylcnaogre'laI.I short period,to soo It shy USO : \ oxppeaaassTIvec. His lest opens Itho door,. to mn udonlts. ' , ' cur. SIlO n mUul!aa,:tUlaoonss oe;. noOglleoAsll CcIalUuSsOa cC,Jclnllceeorr, by multoaUtloonn," /A!.mmeoss ssool!l!!.!., ' , Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73y - . - ....... "'....."nn UU))''CC3300 un Ine spot Carol Ra...mu"~ ~i'i~:~rrlJuIl1" (l96)CurlY!nljii4!) Mar 10, 1917' Pn}(Jucst His.loneal Ncw~PdPcr... Chicago T(lbullo; (1890 _ 19H~) A Ch:lr,j's vearrlly iinllake of coal tar dyes may be 1/4 po~nd per year, Pro and con put dyes on the spot By Carol Rasmussen fOOd Guu~e dlre:clor IN THE NOTTOODISTA~T future. a .. natural" dye 'made from beet juice might tint strawberry Ice cream pink. a dye from cranberry juice may ltura eherry ~la ruby red. and the pigment from grape 6Idns could coalor frostings. 'I1te food dye Industry has already goaltlIen Gut its tincture bottles and juice crushers and is ltaking a hard loDo~ at the uses and Umltatilms of natural <\yes for food. It is afraid that afte!l' the Food and Drug Administration [FODA) bann"'!' violet I and red 2, and with its renem scrultliny of -lite only remaining all-pur. pose red food color. red 40, the agency might mo,'e 10 ban o.JlI remaintng SYIlthetie food dyes made from coalt lar deri'aLive . The lJldustry doesn't want to be caughl wiLl!I au empty palette. TIlE FEARS COULD b. reall.rd. for ltalpb Nader's Health ReseareiJ Group (HaG] rellednllr asked Ihe ,FDA to ban aD n!lJIle remaining synthctl~ food dyes. Tile group argues Ihat information in Ibe FDMA''s onn liIes yields "!lJIdisptltable evidenee" that two or the d}'eS cause cancer and "suggestive el1dence" that Ihe rest are alsO earclnogens, Some of Itbis tesea~b lI'as done by induslry and ssaoimdeSibd)'\\i'!o!''oolfllelPl.Padannlriieeese(ohrireodr by industry, HRG. Tlte dyes in question are citrus red 2, used to cDollor some Florida orange skiDs: red 40; orange B, wIIlcb colDors hot dog and sausage casings; red 3; blues 1 and 2; green 3; and yellows 5 and 6. M a daY-long session devoated to food dyes at a recent Institute of Food Tech nologists 5ellllnar. iIIdus\!y spokesmen defended !be .:ontinued use of sJllltbetic dyes: "NothilIg Is absolutely aafe-even wafer or mUle can kiU III large amounts_ . . , People won't buy food If{t it bn't ~'Olored___ . The amount of dye in food i. SO so small public and is 1101 concern I; used in evet'1 misplaced , .(oaondd Ihere are tar more poteaUaI Iiuards in food than dyyes. such 8as8 the mlcrobio- logical hazards in bome kltchellS." Furthermore, sinc!e i96S, lewer than five new addltlves have been approved by the FDA, and mlIIe were approved last year_ . TIlIIT IS TlfE "wwrr<wlllg pollc:y," uld Dr. Richard Hall, vice presldenVresearch for McCormi~k la f1laavvor 'firm). , There ought (0 be more additives apo- PI'O,'ed: this will provenl metabolic ovcrload of a fcw 11111>m<1 nllow the FDA to mOl'c more quickly when thero Is problem wllb one dye Countering that argument. Wolfce or HRG Doled that IfI a fOod dye presents a risk and is banned, there doesn'l need to be a replacemenlt. . "People arc disturbed about the haz ards of food additives." He clted a recent [19151 slb'vey by a nslloMIt magaztiine which asked people U Itboy would agree 10 all outright ban of all food additives that have only cosmetic benem. and 60 per cent said "yes." The eha~ of a metabolic overload from syntheUc dyes eould be a real tlu'eat, especially tor children. Kids at Ibe high end of the ..ale, eAattiing ,o(r(ualJy no food without food ceol aoring may, "by the age of 12, eat all muclht as 12 POlUlIls of coal tar dyes." Not' oNLY IS Ibis not a "sman a8l1n1ol0uunntt'; of dye; but', studies that have ~howit certain dyes 10 be a haurd were done on only a single dye, as if that were the only additive In Ithe food suppI~. and not on comblnalions of ((1w1'o0 or ulore dYes, WWoollCfe !'dded. The goverlllnent aDd uldustl"Y view on '''is point is Ibal there is no data on thIs subject and lrithout eviddence of a synergistic effect of one dye wilb another a dye caMot be hbaMed. "lVe are just at lhe poinlt of trying, 10 gel respeeliDble people together to tblnk about Lhe ques- tioo," said FDA's Dr. RIchard Rank, There Is no &UCIt data on rood dye!, but there 'is dalta On ope situation that sholVs two known carcinogens affect people mare than each taken singly. Among people "W,1M10 are occupationally exposed 10 both lobacco and asbestos, the elfeet 1& "three 01' four times blgher" than the effect of either carcinogen al6ne, rorted Wol(fe. "IT TOOK 'US 4!; year. 10 ban red 2, but It will take us leu" 1to0 ban the rest," he added. . 'lbat sentiment hbas the <\ye industry feeUling blue, but time rmna)y' be on lis .ide. The FDA recently announced that it will begin this mannLLlI!I 10 develop a ''prIority list" of about 2,100 food col aDd f1laavvoar additives for a "saCely reeo view." PreparIng profiles of eacb addl tlve will take. about 18 mouths, and then tile ageucy might move to restrkt use of SOIlttIISe or lr'emIruolve some from the mar ket That leaves lOotIs of time to flind new natural dyes, and lots of food that &tID ecap conl.aln eoaat tar dyes, Reproduced with permISSIon of lhe oopynght owner. Further reprodt.lClion prohibited Without permsSSIOO. 73z I,lll) UtII.IliI I1I1" . lIr: .'.' , hp hf't {111Ill1,(' ;'1 t 11I1.\Wn: Mr. Warnkfl told duuo, enc e fh;;ll r:\C;" rhfJlJ}'IlJ an~ rCer" ~:lJanJ.""'i :,r"" d magi" po\q~rs i~: J}w 11('\ ,~ .I-,,eeJlff, rhr". sh'ml" :,rl" JtJJPJ Ihe followers fll .'::''II''ffI/, llla(kv;im.:'lf~ , r' ;,:I:P', ot }ivt'" in H htl'OiI'." jOn,: 11l:IIi lmrm;d with a l'l'fl"" . Hp .\;tic! JIIPIW t !lIj'(J,,' I' \\.:). I, SaWn ;Ir/' ;1\ ( r;w,' Ill'Oplt- 3fC IO'J~ ill"' Ill: " 1 ,I,,\(]'I\. . : . ,,..""" .11/11'11 hI' f ,i /.,,: 'I;JI _ ,. td/IJ n II 1,1 \' IIlIl' f' " ,1' f,,1 11""11 "II'I :,f '. a-,' Wf:J! as his , ,:,(" "', (f SI)(JW bu~jness- [I f,,,,'f,, 'l!dl :" ',,nli Ihd' bv doing IIIllI::''.. h, S '.I,,1l1l,' h I',,--Oorr(' (:i((:ctiivve h':l~nll:' f,lt,n t", f'c;peCJaHy I ,,,l' , r ' f,ll' "n'~r rca;.od what J. I!':~ i;1l.J(,.::;n;nr,h hpf' c..ald. !,dj'lri' lit, ,lltv- fI'''pon~e ,: lIi, ".,IHI;' ,"I..;;,';; old at .he Jesus' tro', ;'\ li.JJrl/t;f ...,' nl~ht. Mr. /'if,f', Wli\Yf,d them. .-'"II") 1" d,(!n'l It-five them sEumbisstsainoncsesolfim3ited' VM<;JlJN,,'(IJ\1I 1'11-- 1II11..1.' ~Irn;f rnmf..r1f imrWSf'fi "I.,le rl ~!4; II,,!Iion a ye"r 10 Simcha Dinil2 (lefi) Israel', Frirlav In n(,'\1, ,uj('~ rpdll("(' ailloorn(l' Ih",' t 1fl1','.11 cr;Jl I"'ildin~ dl'moiition. SIiales, is welcomed to the Stale .. 7tjllOllill', of In:-(r hHJ:ll'rJOUo.. A'''' ''0' hilR ':een linked to Friaay by Deputy Sec of Silale was onCe a nlghl suhSWn('('~ - ;lsb~~IOS, beryl 1)HJ1Ul1Inl HlulIH(>fIIII /,((,01 hlal f ann!!' ~nd identified ;,.~ ;. pl,,~,b'" ,,""uusse of other walchman al inglon, is a close political to Prime Minisler V mefnhe rul('s from Ihe Ell'" on t It t' ~ I cI ancI,' rM. ,,'mClIrtl('s do o.t 1I~ effects Meir_ He repor.edly over Ihe objecllons was appoi+ted 10 the Golda amba . . .dofShip t,;l!l- 1l'.'.ullllcc((II ion A~.. n(." r(t'cIluirC' Ih,,1 110 nsoC'SloS n.;Il1~ 30 yellrs in n show up for person, exposed to of Foreign (tM'Iiinniis,ter Abb.. Etbbaann. lAP) give off \-',,,,,,hl' ~lIIj!',<;I01f..... un htavy doste's. lIe's me (l..aning devices are ~eturn 0 used 10 eliminate asb A spokesman said the ban on asbestos tailings applies pri- 1 acilvertising (UII"'''I(HI':, estos ",,,rily 1)0 -roads in Vermont, he'sflhoesy .. l~() han thr. use of as- where asbest'o~ mmiinnees exist. 'Beryllium c(lmpo tailings - the unused "~A~!~!t<: pan of asbestos ore - for road leIlhal ir inhaled u'lds can be In l sufficient ~)~~t~fs.",~!l!.e~ ! president of the America ls'umrfias<si-oens, a(rnodmpeframc it no visible quanntitiiees and afso have been linked to skin and eye prob- n Ilecer Sociely urged broad- had" h(,pn required under falrnr,s doctrine, dropped asbestos. tories using almemosu.nTt he nf!\WV rules limit the teTs Friday (O "help save a Idred thousand liv three-fourths_ That wasn't These pllaants inclluude those making certain textiles as be of peryllium that expelled frqm pllaants may and es" by' rer n i n g anfl-rigaret cormn- 10 counteract morolls ~ppeals of the "the ciga- as cement products, floor well tile. pain yplrloiuhmibit wath~ete b'uerxning of ber- -crals ,." Ihe air to ecounl- :.[ ,eduction" of r t SIl ~ n J"i('~," dcl he adv,ertising saildai In- a ts long . Insulating list or other material a products. n d cinermors, Band cepl in restricts I/D- the 'the ng ,acc() firms. hp ''C_~~lt ' ha"-been a~ up- The EPA prescribed I certain aCl m 0 u n t s which may be burned. r. Arrthur G. James, a Cobus (Ohio) su Irend in cigaret smoking, :ally among teen-ag procedures 10 follOW when bUlldmgs containing asbestos Tbe bfryllium rr ee r a rule af1ects rgeon. said the heavy anti-c'llaret ad said. ers," insulation are ' When razing demolished. t i n foundriiees', teramicmakers, maechme .<;flops and .paign on radio and [ele)n had produc~d a ma called upon broadcastagain "take Into the c e r t a i n buildings above heights, deemmoolliition rocket resting facilite<;. Brenlhinjt f 'ease in Ihe rked number 0(, -age" taking up smoking ;ccen 1968 Rnd 1971. of Amhica the 'messabout cigaret smoking effectively changed the crews must we! down the asbestos material and drop it to thTehgeroEund in air-tight chutes_ has been 1jeTcury vapors_ linked to nerve and kidney injuries. as well as brain damage. Under the It when IIhe ban on broadcl.gare! advertiSing took [ two years ago, the num- habits of millions of and prevented Ithe adof millions of teen- 000 PA estimated that 25.buildings which will fall luiissnhhdeeedr tehaecshe ryuelaers. I are demo- rules. plants which new process mercury ore or use mercury compound$ to produce chlorine : procedures WIll The add, an new essttii- gas are liimmiitteed in the amolUlt of emissions they can produce.