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Lead Paint is Found rr-PIfif "refIftLf0laS'6!^lSs-fs^s^|!r|S JUN15197J-D' s bPRIS- In School , mSis,_8" ?ugi3T f\fl9Pf-iis f1fl,S-'1o ny j i: d a v id s o n . of 77u* tUidotin Mtiff \ * .* When ihry were just toddlers.' nt * lens! a lew id Iho childten now nt (tie ISntnlis i:<liication;il Center iH Weft liiilntkMpliin. coatrqcterfr.Tcod'^pofsqn^,. ing (rum paint. ' Today they aic mentally retarded. 'those same children, and others, ou- scheduled to be transferred to the T. I*. Read School id Kastwirlc. But Read has paint peelin'* throughout it end .rlirtf pfihit tins (i eery high lead cmt-ni. mToiding fit Ute grandfather ttf a IJrofrfjs Mwlem.l "Thai building is 1 time bomb (or these children.*' said)lames Reed, of HXt N. Wihon si., wratsc grandson Is one of the children.Ming transferred - In Read. Along with several other parents, Reed recently loured 1 lie Read School and while there, he collected paint chips from a baseme t stairway,apd . . fiift'floor lialltvnys.*-y ' `"-I- . J6 Tel. Lend Content \' bg *#' sDf|.Hf il'e g a^S I; ! -..'vi.W 1JitII? lSr*lffKi* ** .pr i- If _as IS-a> r a o e ? a _ iE-e^Sislgss-g-iS" ii l.s'o-S' 8 ""g 1* IS 5 o v:t, I-^5!l|I ss 1-S'g ct- li-gp Sc- --arf><i a? g1,r'I.5eS=2",^S2eo,~t-teoS.!3--ggassTSS.S-"--S.15<c5yo88. ! B> "* a#"'1 n 7f802.?i sa* SIaLf zs$s-?c sSoT Ufdnre Associate.*, bacteriological** amt chenucal icscaihi lirni nl 43<KI v Locus/ st.. csamlitrdjflK* samples fur Reed. `Hie lab rvpnil said the 1en<f*/- i.rwirnt was greater hao 36 perceWl* %. Piiiui that has a le: d content of one -i ' V, ; .Rollup iniinioiw percent is com dried harmful, c ;Palnl chips at the T. B^ilcau . according to lilt* Cit Health Dcparl* meni. "We'ir going to ha o Ihc paint lost* ed." said l-.divard m Dclsslcr, direc 'Sc Ih io I In Philadelphia, cdn- ' tain great amounts ot lead.;' i tin' of aululectuic. jenp.incrring mid Oner the lead poisonihR ecK.is^l ninstnaitim for lluj stitnnl district, I Ikic* tIrrii''..idiliKnenrUt! iii thc woqrld Iqstni''t c&ru; when questioned on Ilie mailer. lu rew-rsi 1h(f iprocess," - the - ex- "If it contains tcld it will he re* plailtcd. ' . moved holme il is repainted." It phrcnlal permission is granted, Read was last palmed 10 years ago the siudnnis nt Rend School will he and a new paint joll is scheduled fur screened lor lead poisoninfev''just as a yet undetermined! time in (he next snon as possible," said Samuhl Crav- fiscal year which (trgins July 1, $ iiz, administrator ot school \eallh school district spokesman said. servlets. 'I lie lad ronlciil In Hie chips could linKiks and Rend each house dliout have bttiil up over the years as suc IW Irainaltlc menially retarded pin* cessive paintings iveic .done, MJIlon denis. W. Ransom, imlaic's chief chemist explained. "I lie outer sur!a< e may have had mn-Jetn paint (with a very lw ,h'ud foment), hut miainly Hie umieitoat- log didn't/' he said. Ilroohs, located at S7ih and .Hat ;rInrd are. now lias siudonls with in hue range ot 6 through 21. Students at Read, 7S(h and Ruist avc. in i ie Knslwick secliuh ot Southwest l*hi a- di-iplila, arc 12 through 21. . Jo.vl a Little Bit * Tu Transfer All U the mvimdly irlardud students 1o lake neitor advantage ot the attending Rend have ealen rmrtgh of vnratinnal education workshop at- the paint rhips, lliey're in danger of liraoks, (he school system will tmns* stdfering more iclardalhm. according h r alder siudonls there horn Read. In pedinttician Ur. Mmirl Young, of In September, Read wilt have stu John I*. K'-uwdy Memotial Itospifnl. dents aged six IlirmiRh M and llrooks *`M irally doesn't require very W ill take the IS through 21-year-olds, much," she added. , The Brooks Home and School Par "We don't want (hm to lie further, ents Ad Hoc Committee said It would retarded." site said. "Load innensea have no comment until a meeting Ihrir iviaitlaitan." with school ollicials tomorrow. N39144 <D <d " <9 BJ