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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1978 Dec 3 DOC NMA133 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Kansas City Star - Tough Restrictions Don't End Asbestos Threat - Part 3 of 3 LARNED LARNED KAN mAan who pre ed guilty three months ago in the deaths of a prison cocapee and a Wichita oilman has escaped from the maximuin security unit of the Lamed State Hospital officials sald today A search was underway in central and western Kansas for Glendal Rid- er 28 of Wichita Hospital Superintendent Rod Clel- land said a hacksaw blade was used to saw through a heavy security screen and some heavy steel bars on the only window in Rider's first floor room SMEEbuilding Te LEE box mr A ere bide Kner the building box ause of the effort ro quired to saw through the heavy exte rior bar and because of the two foot fences Rider then with barbed wire ther scale The Kansas Bureau of Investigation Investigation is checking on the posalbilty Clelland said Rider was committed to the state hospital after entering his plea in Court Sedgwick County District Court 1. He was ordered by Judge Bee BAR Page 3 \ out with the Support of Mi Widder standing spousA But It's stressful too stress- ful in fact that it may tear some marriages apart Working vice is one of the most stressful asignments assignments a police off- cer will endure says Dr. Marshall Saper a police psychologistpsychologpsyichoslogtist The vice squad officers Are walking around in the cruddier parts of town undercover assum t ea ing not only a visual similarity to the people they're trying to deal with and get the goods on but often & behavice similarity Saper Bald If they're hanging around barn they've got to drink If they hang around prostitutes they often have to react in an appropriate fashion aaid Saper who has worked with & on patrol or in the suppo unit SWAT team The things in volved in those situations in the street were more dangerous said , ,, , She added Prostitutes I don't think carry knives or guna I don't worry about a prostitute coming at him with a gun and shooting him *' the stomach Her husband added We talk Ser PBYCHOLGICAL PBYCHOLOGICAL PBYCHOLOGICAL on Page Tough Restrictions Don't End Asbestos Threat d hollerin in fact Wil und Family yet Coun By Ruck Lyman A Member of the Staff A couple of years ago inspectors for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration were poking around Kansas City International Airport when their equipment detected an unusually high level of asbestos fibers in the air around the handling Breas ASBESTOS DEATH BY FIBER toxics and pesticides branch in Kansas City He said 31 states now have some sort of asbestos program almed at two- lating sabestos pollution and correctIng it Neither Missouri nor Kansas hoo such a program Brandner said but he La trying to contact bealth officials in those two state and lowa and Nebras ka to set up some sort of program for As the case files on asbestos Unked diseas~ grew so did the tidoef govern ment regulations On April 8 1973 OSHA banned the use of asbestox 83 x construction material in any concen tration exceeding 1 parcent It was a year earlier that OSHA re leased ith first sabestos standardlimiting the level of asbestos in the workplace to no more than an average Charles Adkins Industrial hygienis for OSHA Region Vil in Kansas City said it turned out that one terminal at Lastof Three Articles testing air samples from all public buildings The first priority he said is schools of five fibers per cubic centimeter over an eight hour period That limit Later was dropped to two fibers and KCI and half of another were con structed using asbestos insulation That's not unusual Thousands of What's sec in Philadel buintings and ships have built this century using asbestos inkulation asbestos ceiling and floor tiles and as / bestos wallboard Most of that con OSHA got together with the city and the airlines and placed a layer of sealant over the crumbling insulation blocking the particles from escaping buildings- schools hospitals stored hotels In August the Department of Health Education and Welfare asked taken Some preliminary air samples have boon by Kansas officials he said Concern over the dangers of mabes tos began to gain national attention in 1964 with the release of medical re- ports linking the microscopic fibers to there is evidence that may soon be again to tenth of a flber per cubic centimeter centimeter Also the Consumer Product Safety Commission has banned the use of at least two products because because of their as bestos content tel wn Chapel Auv struction however occurred before the word got out linking asbestos expo- expo- sure to cancer and other diseases At KCI the insulation was flaking off filling the air in the terminala low NOS AT JEN- est level with microscople asbestos fi HANT A<V bors problfaer mas What concerns government official now is the asbestos inmilaatndiootnh s^asbestos which may be contaminating the air in other public the Environmental Protection Agency to determine which of the nation's public bulldings contain asbestos insu- lation and which of them if any pose & health threat to the ocupants Wolfgang Brandner ocupants occupants working on the project forRegVIi I ofothn e EPA's the later develodevlopmenpt dmeveelonpmetnt of cancer The use of asbestos was severely curtalled in the intervening years Be fore the reports came out it was com- mon to find asbestos workers doing their joba jumid cloud white fibers so thick it fimited vision to a few foot ae It resulted in tightening on the Adkins use of * asbestos sald It's it just too easy not to use What EPA hopes to do Brandner said is devormine whether there is an asbestos danger in older buildings 860 STUDY on Page ! v ee 1978 os 1 ta ~ heeheeeer STEMY told us nobody seemed to De starving Indeed everyone seemed quite healthy I began to walk alone up toward the main building at the " stayed with her until she asked me to marry her he said She's a manipulative seductive female I answered one of my questions with an obscenity and observed that people did have in Jonestown tries to stab Congressman Ryan Copyright 1978. The Washington Post Distributed by Universal Presa Syndicate About five the Minnes cy disclose particles in Minn 8 Study Calls for Stricter Asbestos Rules Investiga the Reserv rece been dump conite tallu Continued From Page 1 of and if necessary draft regulations to ban areas in the nation there is a high However in December 1978 the Nalevel of asbestos fibers normally in the tional Institute for Occupational Safe- no evidence for a threshold or for a safe level asbestos exposure cility outsi 1958. Jon L Ged do something about it what is known as a background ty and Health published a Revised As a result NIOSH recommends ficer for th of the the I The alternatives are limited he level fiber Recommended Asbestos Standard standard should be set at the low- tailings art said asbestos can either be re- Also many states have gravel roads It was NIOSH the research arm of est level detectable by available ana- Subseque fibers and SO moved or sealed In most cases it prob madeup of rocks that are high in as- OSHA that recommended the current lytical techniques aroused pu ably would be sealed he said It's bestos a good breeze can standard six years ago But after fur- That approach NIOSH said is con ty of the v cheaper that way blow the fibers loose and into the atmo- atmo- ther testing NIOSH scientists said in sistent with the most recent recom- definitiver The only problem I can see is who's sphere . 1978 that the standard should be mendations for other carcinogens and ing asbesto going to pay for it he said Thus far the EPA has said it isn't going to put any money into it All 31 state asbestos programs are financed either by the states or by lo- cal governments OSHA has no scale program to measure asbestos fiber content at ev- ery workplace in the nation Adkins said but it is one of the things OSHA inspectors test for on each inspection It's part of what OSHA calls its Tar- get Health Hazards Program Under some parts In damn ground of the country the is hazardous an EPA official said There was a case a few years ago Adkins said of a paint factory in St. Louis that was importing bags of as- bestos fibers from Louisiana for use in resistent paint The asbestos was being shipped in porous bags similar evry billowy to potato sacks and every a timsaeck was bumped it sent up cloud of white asbestos fibers Ironically the bags and contents lowered to .1 fiber per cubic centime ter That drastic cut is necessitated ac- cording to the , by studies that provide conclusive evidence that ex- posure to asbestos fibers causes can- cer and asbestion smiasn The report continues Evaluation of all available human data provides would also prevent the development of asbestosis Thus far OSHA hasn't acted on NIOSH's suggestion though officials Bald a lowering of the asbestos stan- dard is almost inevitable With asbestos we're 20 years be hind in controlling it and we'll be seethe effects for another 30 years said Hunter Falls on Arrow Bleeds to Death the extent bera I However Was & the .. } stopped ) clined and The 85 along the perior for east of D pocullar contained the program each workplace inspection includes testings for asbestos car- bon monoxide cotton dust lead and allica Also Adkins said if workers are afraid they're being exposed to a high level of asbestos OSHA inspectors will come out and take air samples Earlier this year the State of New Jersey petitioned EPtoAset air guide lines for asbestos New Jeriss oeneyof the nation's leading producers of as- had been purchased from the federal government The OSHA regional office also has undertaken a study of brake shops As bestos is used in brake linings as is in many friction products Officials feared that workers in brake shops while down the linings and fitting them in place were being exposed toa fibers . to high levels of asbes- Adkins said OSHA Inspectors did HINKLEY Minn yeA ar- old hunter bled to death after he fell out of a tree onto one of his arrows Pine County sheriff's officials said Monday The victim was identified as David John AkerofsGrounndy Minn A sheriff's spokesman said the ar- row became embedded in the youth's log when he foll Saturday and severed small artery When the young man pulled the ar- If he'd left the arrow in he'd probably be alive today said the spokes- man who asked not to be identified Akerson was hunting with his father and two brothers in St. Croix State Park when the accident occurred The Minnesota Department Department of Natu- ral Resources said the death was the second arrow casualty ever recorded in Minnesota I around S evidence grated int A feder in 1978 th threat an million dered to siteth That du 1980. Laki the lacon encounter spokesman said scientists problems government is that in many ur- find evidence of the fibers in the air row out of his leg he began to bleed but not in excess of the current nation- heavily went into shock and died the al standards ; A 7\ Buy sell trade inorning , evening and Sundays with Times Star Classified Ads To place your ads dial 234-4000 Adv y r Five an ad Luons sa