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FILE NAME: AT&T and other Phone Companies (ATT) DATE: 1964-1977 DOC#: ATT020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Chicago Press Reports RE Asbestos with Index & Articles Table 3 - Chicago Press Reports re Asbestos -Exhibit 73 73a 73b 73c 73d 73e 73f 73g 73h 73i 73j 73k 731 73m 73n 73o 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 Castleman Dec - Pfulb v. 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HERGUTfl the Little Corpora) kesMuram. red poikeai cooliel ' Mailamfi, is in true that a | hummbfgbinf 1 tfapixui above | the weetrolfo in' your ieslau| rant? i : "|i isn't a hunvmiqgl^rtl; il% i. probably a finch; 4 if' on ?ho chandelier," said the wailt i rcss by phone Tuesday from i & W aite. "It came ttoougb ih t revolv ing doc* with some people Iasi night. We citUed the Human Society bul they don't come and get bfreU, it items M Whai** your namer m&dame' "te lle r not quote anybody without Mr, Kaplan's OK." although fb* pmejs e m e r g e d , from y/orld War U mote devastated than any cw nity in M ia, the s.vav iraj .ienioeraik prwcwe? have been m a m to c il Twice there iwB hcon a. su- tsctttal cbsUigover of potL-*5 knauAgfntnt by esg-bvc !Driver Dies !Under Car * HEJLEO, Mr. Kdpwe. i' if m is there's a f in c h flying amend your chandelier? ``It isn't a finch. People tell me it's a wild canary,- said Ihc Uni iva& in 3V5.5 wrvsii the laic R anm Magsaysay sad h Naciocaii^iai urueaicd ihz fifals, itirmsbeij by p-o-vtwt" cornipikjo. After Crash Ronald Frazier. 3i , of 4014 N. Octavia, Norridge, was All Kaplitn, maneger of rbr rcstadduif. " A nally, it look* like a littie parakeet, and we're hoping to lure it down with food and The KCOitd camr (!i Hb when M.icapagal led a 'Smiled opposiuon" of the Uberal H vty nnd younger hfcaiisde cls:njents lo power. killed early Tuesday. wise throw from Ms car after it rammed a fire plug. The ear rolled over on top of him . A passenger. Ana Thomas. | 2?. of >3712 N, Page, wai in ; fair condition in Northwest I Hospital, with abrasions and possible in(ra*t injuries after : she too was throws from the j car as jt went out of control water," ^ Where is it right now',1 "it's on t o chandelier, anil Mr. Thrator cays O tell you it' a S7.000 chande!!.' That's Ed Thrasher, tjse bsarsi-chair man." HELLO, UpcolB Park Zoo? Is there Kb a tiiisg s wild canaty? "There no such thing as a AllbnUgb hardly s ehstis* mal-o psrsoiialy, Mscapagal ms cxpciicoce and Lmuicu that make Mm g^auincly con cerned fiih the lot of ihe av erage farmer before wtiuueg ctcctioo & * eoisgi'essrtaii served his apprenfeship la sforeign affairs as secrci$ry m. ippioes to #asB laites. 1at about 2-.3Q son. iu front of wild canary," said Gene Him. He also earned n in j 7S4? W. Forest Preserve. assistant roo director. ccoitomks while pracitejag Is-. ; POEtCB WERE looking ' Tuesday for a youth they fec! iieve was to jlfiv e r of.a hiti ami-run slton car t o t kiiicd ! a 5-year-oid boy as be retiirocrl . home from kindergarten Mon day. The boy. Cary Sateckcr, of ! 6554 tv. Cornelia, was slruek "it is probably st goldfinch, which is migraliag at this time of year." ' HelW. 1* Ibis ihe restau rant? Hello Columbus Day is Proclaim ed MACAFAGAI/S e^cciioe as vice preshfcaf ia iSS'?. like h h 106! victor/ for pm bkiiU if.n upsef rtutaiigcd thrncgb meilcu^ys ptanaing &a4, devoted cuUjvatksft oC Rirahvovea, Amidst aH Ihfi shon^iemi cidcataifonsE o f p r s it o i pet-.tiCif. A|acap^1 as' p?d>ii}zn\ In front of 572? N. Meade as WASHINGTON ttiPIS - a!o has show- regard I he walked into the street from fcssidsm iohtaoft formfiHy for priaeiple, After i between'two parked ears, po- proclaimtHl Monday. Oc, U . radon put a cad to irrc ep j Bets said- [ a* Cabifnbuv Day, paiaimeir of reporwr' fricaos ! T.iii car. stote* Saturday 1 Johnson said m his proda- and relatives to jobs hi gover- Elmwood Fatk, was fetter found muii<*h that The vision, eotfr- m?at enrporiitions abandooed at N. Mobile and and d e t o t a o Coiunv 'fi)C endurip^ icsi,, oi iris do W, Grace, four btocka from t o bus arc constan! inspiration to mestic performance a &e vig> aceident sue. WIhwmm told police to-youth who was driv ing ran away. Gape died an hour later in NotthwesKHospilal. He was us*. b$ih as hidividuaL and as o>'wh whtd) be b ^iorabig a gallon. &< sack a the land reform law ho poshed world of pcaqo and onder- * through a rcluatmt Congress staRding." * . J5?rl^ago #> . i . . . . . f It'jd- ,, ,, . t Xffrs; m i Accp m jin k s'majo? purchases forj o u ? '^ ir .. ; Suleek. i Suspect sbps.. ` - HEW y tO 4 fift^ r r-Souie0: ' -v ^ \ some M .- oi.'ABBtEfc^feOw e*l DfKiii^ ^ W e3' of stBp<^j7Cu% 'Mbes*- -S tB 0 c t f f i <S _ tosatA caK ^R Blofftoe g ' esmeti* J>uiiS*of jwsticr c** t o d aok Bly fof'j^ w iM i h w d k * * q K t o p 8 # tel fM)mas Thiic3c,in b w n u me>- thritoma, involve toliam g ot the nbdutLinul amt rftwl r-vi- but auto j 1S t r jf'f.ip i'o r -; ifrdigy , i . i-.-i.jl.ieur, t o i 'i.-.^igb l relcuw: dust jutto the fifth.* tie. p,'eri- ; - ; Much of to ir v id e r .e e H' icpe.-t w.-. y ie v t 0 cvniu I men*-; an ut they sujil it t o _ b'.c that <lul from piuducis -, coniaioingtutovloit ra.gh'l ne djfc'i r of mj<shed resc^rcl. euRosttig - people lencillv fu lbi Aricr^-o L-j.CjrJbti; , ' , octv. Di ,'imiaow if iTwiyh , .rii.i-ini ' fo- i* studies oi.C^aJCl WJ-ok^ * Iw-'.r"/a. aA;J4rfjJi4lugsl.ucjkJ*>,, s ic g u .aa. iei'',h.ui!~` ` i -.'j Vbiu j e ib -1cui it"5 310-,ji[1lio; lA*|iitm w yw a-uv'fji.He.i-j tVa-Mrt fswpv-i,i'j >' gitjd Rejiiity_JTto/to''Muistei -2f ^Cbubhiat! jyiadii su iii.ira tod `Tuesiwy` ' ' J tW jfB W g y 1 .ad n i& aW H W t?A W & AdfircvRooulvi-t. EfiiaSM}dfk LINK ASBESTOS TO CANCER OF LUNGS, COLON Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentfile); Mar 2, 1966; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1969) p g . A8 LINK ASBESTOS TO CANCER OF LUNGS, COLON New York. March 1 UP) -- Mount Sinai hospital reported today that asbestos, used in brake linings and other com mon products, may be a cancerrelated danger to the general public as well as to those who i come into contact with it in in -1 dustry. . "The Mount Sinai s t u d i e s show that direct occupational _xposure 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 the lungs of at least one-quarter of the urban population of the United States." The statement was released along with the hospital's an nouncement of a new laboratory to assess the asbestos danger to industrial occupations and the tblic. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited 73b DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT D ec fo o s~ (, LINKS CANCER TO CHEMICALS WE LIVE WITH RONALD KOTULAK Chicmti Tribute(IM-OmvittfiM: Mar 30,1069; ProQuest H istorial Newspapers ChicafioTnbuocd 890 1985) P8-C2J LINKS GANGER 1* !WELIVE WITH BY RONALD KOTULAK ICMcag Trifciw Press $tnice| New Orleans, March 29-- Chemical agents in our food, air, and water appear to be the largest cause of human can cers, a Boston medical re* searcher reported today. Sensitive new tests have shown t h a t chemical com pounds found in polluted air, supplies, and o th er environ mental areas are capable of producing a variety of cancer in animal*, said Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, chief of the carcino genesis an toxicology labora tory at Children's Cancer Re search Foundation in Boston. "There is now growing recognition that the majority ol human cancers are probably due to chemical carcinogens [cancer causing agents] in the environment that they arc hence, ultimately, p r e v e n t able," he said. Prevalency Is Noted Population studies show that certain types ot cancers are more prevalent in various parts of the world than others, depending on the chemicals to which the people are exposed, he said. In the United States and Britain, for example, lung cancer is higher than in other countries b e c a u s e of the greater number of persons who smoke cigarets, he said. Mouth cancer is high in Asia because of die popularity of chewing betel nuts and tobacco leaves. Stomach cancer is high in Japan, Iceland, and Chile, prob ably because much of the fish eaten in these countries is Icontaminated by a chemical ! called nitrosaminc. j Cancer of the esophagus among Z a m b ia n s drinking IKachasu spirits has been as soclated with Nilrosamine con ! Lamination in the beverage, he said. The incidence of liver cancer in the Banta tribe is probably attributable to af latoxin dietary contamination and to eating cycad plants. Link to Occupations Workers exposed to certain chemicals in their occupations show an increased rate of certain types of cancers, be explained. As examples, he listed blad der cancer in ibe aniline dye and rubber industries; lung cancer in uranium miners of Colorado and in workers in nitrogen mustard factories in Japan; sinus cancer in wood workers; pleural and peritoneal cancers in asbestos workers; and skin cancer in cutting and shale oil industries. | Certain chemicals, previously [thought to b e harmless, are now linked to the inception of cancers in test animals. Dr. >Epstein reported at the Ameri can Cancer society's science writers seminar. . Dr. Epstein is testing a wide variety of chemical componds on baby mice to determine their cancer causing properties. Results from the animal ex periments cannot be directly applied to man yet, he said, but there is an "approximate'1 connection. Reproduced wuh permission of lhe copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73c An Answer? We Don't Even Know The Question Rcnc Dubos Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentfile), Apr 12, 1970; ProQucst Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890- 1985) pg. 183 An Answer? We Don't Even Know The Question We've hardly started to identify the substances that poison our environment. It's possible that the worst news is y et to come. Rene Dubos look a Ph.D. degree not be solved by such measures be in 1927 at R utgers university. Since cause we lack the scientific and tech then he has been associated with nological knowledge on which to base Rockefeller university in Neu> York effective social action. City, where he is now a professor. Statesmen, social planners, and He has been intensely concerned technologists often say th at financial with the effects of environmental cost is ibe m ajor obstacle to a ir forces -- physiochemical, biological, and social--on human life. pollution control. But, in fact, even if we had limitless resources, we could not formulate really effective control programs because we know so B y R este Bubon little about the origin, nature, and effects of most air pollutants. Soot, dust, and pollen w ere re garded for a long tim e as the most THE PHRASE "social problems" Important factors of a ir pollution. is ambiguous. It refers to diffi Then emphasis shifted to carbon cult situations experienced by m anymonoxide and sulfur dioxide. A few members of a given society at a given tim e. B ut it is often also used to convey the view that these situa years ago the Los Angeles smog drew attention to nitrogen oxides and photo oxidants--and the automobile's in tions can be solved by economic and social m easures. M y thesis is that many im portant social problems can- ternal combustion engine becam e the chief villain. But important as all these agents are, they account for only a few aspects of air pollution-- perhaps not the most dangerous. For (Reprinted from Psychology Today Mnnzlne, March, 1970, Copyrights Commun!catlona/Research/Macltinea Inc.) example, asbestos particles originat ing largely from brake linings of >84 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73d 4 S3 POLLUTION motor cars and from insulation mate* ria l used In construction have been detected in significant amounts in the pulmonary alveoli of urban dwellers a n d there Is no doubt that asbestos Is a great health hazard. Several carcinogens have been delected in urban air. Most important, and gen erally overlooked, is the disturbing fact th at some 70 p e r cent of the particulate 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, controling emission of soot, carbon monoxide, or sulfur dioxide probably would not go fa r toward controling a ir pollu tion. Nor would changing from in ternal combustion to electric auto mobiles diminish the ' release of asbestos from brake linings or the production of the immense amount of colloidal stuff generated by tires grinding on pavement. Any control m easure is of course useful, however limited. But a ra tional control policy will not be pos sible until we have m ade a systematic chemical survey of air contaminants and have determ ined their effects on human beings and on ecological sys tems. No one really knows a t present which of the a ir pollutants are most variety of m ineral and synthetic sub stances. Ju st as clear water often contained typhoid bacilli in the 19th century, so the clear w ater in most of our city reservoirs now contains a host of chemical substances, largely unidentified, that m ay be deleterious to health, Recent discoveries suggest W e c a n 't g o o n b u r n in g a n d dum ping our w astes, but w e d o n 't U n ow h o w to r e c y c le th e m . dangerous and where priority should be placed in control measures. I g n o ra n c e is even greater with re gard to w ater pollution. We have learned from the 19th-century sani tarians how to detect and in some m easure to control the contamination of water by bacterial pathogens and gross organic m atter. But w ater pol lution is 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 would not be surprising to learn that other chemical contami nants of water have undesirable bio logical effects. In fact, there are indications that nitrates have reached a toxic level ia certain paris of this continent. The disposal of solid wastes con stitutes another social problem for which meaningful programs cannot be formulated until new kinds of .know ledge h av e been developed by the natural sciences. Physicists, chemists, and biologists must develop entirely new methods for recycling the products of technology and agri culture. As a biologist, I am con vinced th a t it is no longer possible or perm issible to incinerate ail or ganic w astes, to dum p them into w ater, o r to use them a s land fill. Yet, we do not know how to recycle them .on a la rg e scale. Indeed, we have hardly progressed beyond the em pirical techniques of composting that have been used from time im memorial by gardeners and farmers. I could list a host of other social problem s for which th ere is no pos sibility of solution until m ore knowl edge is provided by the natural sciences. Crowding and architectural design and urban and ru ral planning based on ecological concepts need intensive study. Another problem is a ir conditioning and its effects on biologic rhythms. There is overwhelming evidence th at m an is g eared th ru his evolu tionary past to the cosmic cycles and th at a ir conditioning upsets some of >86 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 48 l'o ix ir r io x these cycles. A v ast am ount of tech* nical and biological study is needed to make air conditioning m ore com patible with those biological demands encoded in m an's genetic apparatus. Excessive sensory stimuli and sensory deprivation are two more of the countless aspects of the technological environment th at m ust be studied if we really want to integrate science into human life. I single out for emphasis one item of param ount im portance because it bears on all aspects of social and technological planning--the lasting effects of early influences. A l l environmental influences have their deepest and most lasting effects w orst effects of environm ental pollu tion a re probably yet to come since it is o l y during recent decades that certain chemical pollutants have reached high levels almost every w here and th a t children have been exposed to these pollutants almost constantly from birth. Findings from studies made re cently a t two m edical schools in England, one in London and one in Birmingham, indicate that from the age of 2 or 3, children raised under conditions of high pollution begin to show evidence of perm anent mal function. Clearly those children are not going to die. What will happen is th a t in 20 or 30 y ears, a s a result of th at slow, chronic response to en vironm ental insult, these children will Tito w e co m p la in o f th e harm w e suffer* our k id s w ill probably fare w orse. when they act on the organism during the early, formative phases of its development; the first six years of life seem to be especially critical for human beings. It is not an overstate m ent to say that in human beings the first four y ears of life--and, for that m atter, prenatal life--a r e of such critical importance that if the en vironment a t that time is not just - right, the organism suffers some kind of handicap from which it win never recover. In the light of this fact, the certainly suffer from some form of chronic disorder. Chronic pulmonary disease is a t present the largest cause of disability and death in England, and it is increasing in this country at an alarm ing rate--to such an extent th at I believe it will be one of the biggest medical problem s within 10 years. We can and m ust develop knowledge of environmental effects on very young children. We know little about the effects of these early influences. We must. Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ssH I L L V m V therefore, develop a new kind of knowledge to understand and, one hopes, predict the bad effects--and the desirable ones--that th e tech nological environment exerts on the expression of biological and mental potentialities. It is not surprising that w e know so little about the longrange effects of social and tech nological innovations. But it is shock ing that so very little is being done to develop those aspects of the natural sciences that could contribute to a more rational utilization of our tech nological prowess. We cannot solve the environmental problems of our society because in most cases knowledge of the inter play between m an and his environ 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. The most urgent role of the university is to sensitize stu dents to the fact that their social concern will be wasted if it is not based on scientific, technological knowledge. H ie university should learn to glamorize the social aspects of the natural sciences. Universities now tend to consider students who want to concern themselves with so cial problems a s second-class citizens or second-class scientists. ment is either inadequate or totally irrelevant. What is worse, few. if any, are the places that are searching for the kind of information th at the natural sciences could contribute to the solution of our most urgent social problems. One can expect that the clamor for m ore social relevance in academic studies will bring about a shift in the areas of research selected for emphasis by theoretical scientists. But it is unlikely th at the effort de voted by universities to the scientific aspect of social issues win be suffi ciently large and well-enough focused to affect significantly the course of events. Universities were not or ganized to deal effectively with urgent social problems. Moreover, they should not try to reorganize fm course of action for the current ecologic crisis may be derived from what happened one century ago when Europe and the United States expe rienced the environmental disasters caused by the first phase of the industrial revolution. At that time the appalling conditions in most urban industrial areas stimulated enlight ened and dedicated citizens to launch a vigorous campaign of social re forms. Public health laboratories and boards of health were organized to formulate and enforce sanitary regu lations, often against the resistance of vested interests. It soon became apparent, however, that even the best-meaning and most enterprising social reformers could W e d o n 't k n o w e n o u g h a b o u t pollution, and w orse, few of us a re tryin g to find out. themselves toward this end. This would jeopardize their traditional and most important tasks--the acquisition and transmission of timeless knowl edge. The study of most social problems requires a complex integrated ap proach not readily achieved within a university because the academic structure is primarily disciplineoriented. Professional associations-- technological, medical, and social --have long realized that it is diffi cult to study their problems within the academic system. For this reason, many of them have established their own research programs outside the universities, and so, of course, have all major industrial enterprises. Much socially oriented science will have to be carried 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 land of technical informa tion th at only the natural sciences canid provide. As a result, new kinds of research institutes w ere created to study th e epidemic and nutritional diseases th a t constituted the most pressing environmental problems of th e la te 13th caitu ry . Neither medical schools nor universities were then geared for the scientific study of these conditions. H ie first institutes devoted to medical research emerged outride and independent of the aca demic establishment. Their list is long, from the P aste u r institute in P aris and the Koch institute in Ber lin to th e Rockefeller institute in New York City and the Institute of Nutri tion for Central America and Panama In Guatemala City. These remarkable and highly productive institutions were founded and nurtured by private and political bodies to deal with un- 90 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. <ss POLLUTION answered social demands. I t took years--even decades--before the new scientific problems generated in their mission-oriented laboratories were recognized by universities a s legiti mate areas of academic research. There is much reason to believe th at public pressure will soon place s o c i a l (especially environmental] problems a t the forefront of the scien tific enterprise. Since the existing knowledge of the natural sciences is not sufficient to perm it the develop ment of effective action programs, we science and practical applications h as constituted one of the most in fluential factors in the development of science. T he study of ecological problem s in technological societies will soon generate new, exciting knowledge of m an and his environ ment. Man is n ot on his way to extinction. H e can ad a p t to almost anything. I a m su re th a t w e can adapt to the dirt, pollution, and noise of New York City o r Chicago. That is the real tragedy--w e can adapt to it. As we The danger lies n ot in extinction hut in th e possihilitg th at hum anity w ill adjust to it. can only hope that new types of research institutions will be created to acquire knowledge directly rele vant to urgent social issues. Altho mission-oriented institutions will have to be concerned with prac tical problems, they will contribute to theoretical knowledge because they will have to open new and neglected areas of inquiry. The history of sci ence proves that any effort to deal with practical problems inevitably points to new theoretical problems, just a s the study of infection en riched cellular and m olecular biology and the search for better strains of com opened new fields of genetics. The interplay between theoretical becom e adapted, we accept worse and w orse conditions without realizing th at a child bom and raised in this environm ent h a s no chance of de veloping his total physical and mental potential. I t is essential th at we com m it ourselves to such problems as a society and a s a nation, not because we a re threatened with extinction, but because, if we do not understand w hat th e environm ent is doing to us, som ething perhaps worse than extinc tion will ta k e place--a progressive degradation of the quality of human life. Adapted from a paper delivered at a sym posium of the Arf/Onne Universities Asso ciation. " t ffl r t mu :---------- ------------------------- *. f ...... T ^ ~*S=n 1 a Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MONDAY, SEPTEM BER 28, 197- NADER SEEKS BACGOUSE HEALTHPROBE -- WASHmGTONrSept-.-27 Consumer Crusader Ralph Na >B-- The tfceSolie East mean is I;" to the rding to le's "All ' to be iditor of i in his >L ied --Soviet t is not t --i s --t h e - t Union ile East l coastm from :a state le coup 3k such is so preoccupied in Southeast A sia ^ d th ere.^ e squabbles on tte Siho-Sovietbbrder to distract attention but ibey are enorm ously significant to the future balance o f power" Tay lor said. The United States and So v iet Union strategie arms lim itation t& lks4m dhad^om & ef fect only in the m issile field, according to Taylor. Russ ProgressToId "N either nation has progressed gretly with its crip* plingly expensive antim issile defenses, despite the continued buildup of intercontinental bal listic m issile potential by both sid es," Taylor s a id .' Photographs taken by elec tronic^ en d s o c ia l reconnais sance aircraft revealed Rus sia 's progress in perfecting m ultiple independently target- able reentry vehicles [MIRV] for its ICBMs, the aircraft specialist added. "But the world derives a strange feeling of peace from th e ' fact that the two super powers "have available the mehns to insure the mutual annihilation of each other and alm ost everyone else at the push of a button," he said. "And the United States sec retary of defense can afforcTto keep projected new weapons like the N avy's advance under sea, long range m issile system as a bargaining point in his hip pocket against any lack of enthusiasm for continuation of the arms lim itation m eetings," he said. der called today for an im m ediate federal investigation o f what he called the tobacco in dustry's use of possibly hazard ous foreign m atterin d garetss, cigars and c ig a r illo s._____^ Nader said in a letter to M iles Kirkpatrick, chairm an of the Federal Trade Commission, "that glass fibers, ceram ic fi bers, asbestos, rock wool and diatom aceous earth have been either considered or used in reconstituted tobacco. While the use of reconstituted tobacco saved the tobacco industry $200 m illion 4o 4350 -million annual ly, Nader said, "Such a cor porate bonanza has not brought with it any self-imposed or gov ern m entally imposed duty to analyze the extent of the health hazards involved;" I States rsE AGE (jffPD -- ihattan, toissjon ' Mce y ju t !. There a t the roke a tall fire ORDER THIS WEEK! SALE! 50% OFF! Christmas portraits of you or your child. Any size, any finish, any quantity;_____ Art example of the savings; One 8x10 portrait, _reg $ 10, . now only 5.00 - Three 5x7 portraits, reg. $24, now only $12 i l Huge Rise Told in Cancer Risk ^hur^^Trifm ie^ff^S-C tirreiufile) Dec l, 1970. ProQucst Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 19R5) PS > Huge Rise Told in Cancer Risk BY RONALD KOTLLAK IScience Editor | K b lC IfB Tri&um Pksi Strvletl BOSTON. Nov. 30--For more lution and drives on crowded and more Americans the in expresswa/s with high levels of creasing number of pollutants automobile exhaust fumes, then they are exposed to may give them a better than even chance of developing lung cancer, a federal health expert reported today. Dr. John J . Hanlon, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service, said doctors have been shocked to find that exposure to two or more k n o w n cancer-causing he runs a very great risk of developing cancer," Dr. Hanlon said. The frightening thing about this example is that all city dwellers are exposed to asbes tos since it is a commonly used building m aterial but doctors don't know yet how much of a risk it represents, he said. agents doesn't merely double Death Rates Rise the risk of cancer but increases Air pollution also plays a it many times. major role in the development How Risks Pile Up Reporting a t the American Medical Association's 24th clin ical convention, Dr. Hanlon said this snowballing effect gives some people almost a 100 per cent risk of developing cancer. of emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Dr. Hanlon said. A recent study in New York City revealed th at in the last 18 years the death rate from em physema has increased by 508 per cent and the death rate For example, a person who [Continued on page 2, col. 6] smokes one to two packs of cigarets a day has 10 times the risk of developing lung cancer as a nonsmokcr, he explained. A person who works with as bestos increases his risk by 25 times. But a person who both smokes up to two packs of cigarets daily and works with asbestos increases his risk of lung can cer by 80 times, he said. " And if this person lives in a city with high levels of air pol- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73f Risk of Lung Cancer Rises Sharply, A.M.A. Clinic Told [Continued from first page] from chrome bronchitis has risen 200 per cent Dr. Hanlon said such in' creases reflect the n ay pollu tion has joined with other fac tors in contributing to the rise of disease. He noted that peo ple had. been smoking for 70 years before increases of such magnitude were observed. "Each year the pollution of our air, land, and water be comes worse," Dr. Hanlon said. "Threats from unsafe foods, water, drugs, chemi cals and a variety of con sumer products are rapidly in creasing, causing the quality of A m e r i c a n life to de teriorate." The life expectancy of the average adult male in America has not significantly increased in the last SO years because of the diseases' a n d Alnesses brought on by environmental pollution, be said. Genesis in Evironment "The m e d i c a l profession must become much more cog nizant of the fact that a very significant proportion of the sfrcalied chronic, noncommu nicable diseases a s well as mental illness have t h s i r genesis in the environment and that more attention to the en vironment can prevent many of these illnesses," he said. Another form of pollution, pesticides, have infiltrated 'our body tissues and m ay be lick ing away l i k e a biological time bomb that could explode in the next 10 to 20 years, said Dr. Charles S. Houston, chairm an of 'the Community Medicine Department a t the University of Vermont This is when the people who have bad DDT and other pesti cides in their bodies for the longest time will be producing children, he explained. DDT and Children Experiments with animals show that DDT can cause gene tic damage and birth defects, Dr. Houston said. Altho no one knows what lonfi term effect die pesticides will have on man, many scientists are concerned that the average American now has 12 parts per million of DDT in his body fat, he added. "The continued use of pesti cides is a gigantic human ex periment totally unjustifiable in view of what we already know of their potential danger," he said. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. This is your lung Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentfile); Apr 25,1971; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) pg. H28 "H ang man dttOe tke (empie o/ God, Mw abati God dettroai i t th tem pia o / God t i W |, whlch tempie pe ore." li Cor. 2 :8 J m g IkwwaaW K m tm lm k A LL our lungs have turned black! The lung is the body's moot' exposed in ternal organ and it reflects the kind o i air w e breathe. You are constantly sucking in air lik e a vacuum eicanpr to fulfill your body's need for oxygen. The hmg* have to 'filter 15,000 quarts o f air each day. The tiny particles of dirt that pollute the air and the harm ful gases that contam inate it are drawn in with the oxygen, bathing th e h a g s in poisons they were never m eant to handle on a steady basis. . . <`I am sick and frightened that m y environm ent is wmtnatM, m y health assaulted and m y b a g s blackened from the air which 1 am forced to breathe in order to five." These are the angry words o f a man who has exam ined m ore than 15,000 pairs o f h a g s during autopsies at the Cook County Morgue. H e has failed to find even one healthy looking pink hmg* w ere a ll blade. With a vengeance that som e scien tists describe as an and grave threat to human sur vival, nature has struck back against the despoilers of her air by *gi"g m an's hm gs into blackened cesspools, discolored and damaged by m an's own w astes. B ack lungs have becom e the body's hallm ark of air p""**"" and they now affect every city dweller to som e degree whether h e sn a k es d garcts or not. Doctors ca ll this condition anthracosis. Coal m iners have the s " condition but to a much greater f Ut*. . The Made lung is to e m odem day m ark o f Cain, for toe that each man puts into the air affects not ooty him but U s brothers a s wen. City residents are affected to e m ost but sin ce polluted air knows no boundaries, inhabitants of th e country also bear the insidious mark o f poOuiion within to d r ctw ste. * Altho few people know it, the startling fact is that doctors performing autopsies on adult Ch icagoan Thi/i/ u ew Iuft9 The healthy pink lungs in the photo on the left belonged to an 11-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. have not b ees able to find a bright, d ean , pink lung in several decades. I f this sounds frightening, it should be. Environlink our foul air to the increasing death r a ta bom such hmg diseases a s chronic bronchitis and em physem a, a s w ell a s to deaths from heart attacks and cancer. In addition, our air degrades the quality of life. 'It is a pity that people can't se e their own blackened hm gs," says Joseph K. Prince, a toxi cologist and chief pollution fighter fo r the Uiaoia attorney general's office. "If they could, I think w e could end to e air pollution problem alm ost over n igh t People would demand it a t a ll costa." P eople are not generally aware that the dirt th a t; quickly settles on newly fallen m ow also clogs tbeir hm gs and toe sulfuric a d d m ists to th e air that cause bricks to erode and nylon stockings to dissolve also leave scars on to e predous organ that enables m an to breathe, sa y s Prince. The balance o f nature is lik e a rubber baO. If you push in a t one spot, pcesaure la exerted ail over toe b a ll The rubber pushes bade or rebounds to re establish its equilibrium. Man h as put stress on Ids environment by pump ing enormous amounts of pollutants into toe air. America's air wWy contains 200 m illion tons of contaminants, approxim ately one ton for each American. Scientists have b e n wondering bow nature'would rebound against these pressure points, and som e have predicted changing clim ates, a new man-made ice age and dead ocean* It now appears that nature h as m apped bade in a m ore subtle yet far m ore threatening w ay. The black hmg is a can to pay our debt to nature far continued survival. Among the poisons w e breathe every day are hydrocarbons, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, inor ganic m etals, peroxyacetyl nitrates, beam pyrenes, volatile organics, ad d s, aldehydes, particulates and perhaps a thousand other pollutants. Sulfur oxides easily com bine with water vapor to form sulfuric ad d m ists. PriDce first becam e alarm ed about the black lung phenomenon and then angry a t what poOution is doing to our lungs when b e sa sh e d a t autopsies in to e county morgue for to e coroner's office. "In to e youngest to too oldest rural or urban resident, the black lung w as present. There w as none of the bright, pinkish pearlescent color that w e would like to see. "Dirty afr--disease and death. For every day of dirty air; another acceleration of disease, and per haps another death, b it necessary?'' Others have becom e angry, too. Physicians are also becoming alarm ed over the apparent increase in lung cancer cases caused by pollution. While 10 m illion Am ericans have quit smoking, the death rate from cancer continues to increase. This increase m ay largely be related to. increased exposure of the population to cancercausing agents to the environment, points out the is less than 5 mtUfontbs of an inch fa diam eter whistles right thru the nose and may get into the lungs. Air enters the lungs thru the windpipe [tracheal which branches off into two m ain stem s, one con necting to each fang. These stem s have many further divisions, like the roots of a tree, called air passages "If the evidence warranto, m aybe it to tim e w e National Advisory Cancer Council. that bring the air into tbe farthest reaches o f tbe begin listin g `smog* a s the probable cause of death A major study has been launched by the National lungs. for an increasing number o f patients who die from Cancer Institute in the hopes o f identifying the The windpipe and air passages are lined with what seem to b e other causea," says Dr. Jam es N . cancer-causing agents in our environm ent and elim m inions of tiny hairs [cQ ial that act a s tbe fang's Pitta J r., director o f the Statewide Air Pollution inating them . sanitation department. Tbe fang tissue secretes Research Center of the University of California at Evidence that our air m ay turn ceils cancerous mucus [phlegm ] which acts lik e a sticky blanket R iversid e. w as shown by Dr. David Spain, a pathoiogiat who (hat is supposed to catch im purities, much like fly Some residents already know they ca n t survive found proeaneerous changes in lung cells o f New turner, before they can get into the sensitive alveoli. in the Mg cHy air. One day e year and a half ago a 56-year-old woman w as ordered by her doctor not York City residents w in didn't sm oke. These sam e changes, only m ore o f them , w ere also found in the Tbe cilia beat in waves at 1,600 to 1,500 tim es a m inute This w ave action creates an upward lifting to breathe Chicago's air anymore if she wanted to fang crib of smokers. motiaa which constantly m oves the carpet of mucus stay alive. ' S o damaging is air pollution to our tongs sod so with its cargo of clinging dirt b om deep fa tbe Twelve weeks earlier she bad been brought to a hospital fa the city near death, her lungs wracked by chronic bronchitis, emphysema and asthma. widespread is the effect that alm ost no one reaches th e age o f 12 without suffering som e deterioration, explains Dr. R ussell P . Sherwto, a pathologist at tang out to the throat, where it is either harm lessly swallowed or coughed 19. It took everything known to modern medicine to the University of Southern California School o f save her. M edicine. B u t rimmtoiiB found fa air pollution or cigaret When aba w as discharged s is weeks later, the first A fter exam ining thousands o f tongs, D r. Sberwta sm oke can knock out the cilia . Tbo little hairs can breath o f air th e drew outside the hospital brought says h e has y et to find anyone who h as managed b e paralyzed and their cleansing action stopped by a hacking cough to her throat After only one day to enter h is teen s with undamaged tangs. Injured . sulfuric ad d , sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and to Chicago's foul air, her huge violently rebelled, h a g c r ib d ie each d ay, b et people generally do net i ozone to air polfatinn or cigaret sm oke. and She again becam e critically 01, requiring to- notice that they ere faring vita] reserve hmg tfcsue. Tbe paralyzing action is dangerous. Long exposure admisaton to th e hospital. Six more weeks were The nam e D r. Shenringtaro to thto dam age to hype* to these powerful chem icals can destroy the cilia . needed to g e t her over her acute attack, to which fay i i* mI g m ay go iW B b slf the The cells out o f which tbe cBia grow m ay then every m inute w as filled with fear of death by fang is destroyed, h e says. When ttris happens, the b e replaced by coarser crib that don't have tiny suffocation. victim m ay b e an easy prey for pneumonia and fang hairs. These ceils undergo constant changes and The second tim e sh e w as ready for discharge her cancer, warns D r. S ta ir in . aome investigators sn p eet that they are tbe ab doctor took no chances. With an oxygen m ask While som e nckaHata disagree w ith D t. Sherwfa's normal crib out o f which cancers m ay spring. trap ped over her t e e , th e w as carried into an | estim ate, b e m aintains that probably everyone has The fangs overreact by producing m ore mucus am bulance, rushed to O'Hare International Airport j aom e lung dam age characteristic o f the early onset which, since it isn't effectively m oved out anymore, and flown to a spot in Arixona where the low est > of em physem a. "I believe everyone over 12 has ft. d u g s up tbe air passages in the tangs. This is wfay pollution level* could b e found. I know I can't find a normal fang in anyone over chronic bronchitis patients are forced to cough. R She Is now breathing teeti, and th e has not had that age." to an attempt by tbo body to g et rid of the mucus any m ore acute respiratory attacks. She has never Prince odds: "Anytim e you sta rt finin g up the that baa been collecting fa the lungs. returned to Chicago, where, for her and an increas lungs with foreign m aterial you take up valuable Tbe irritants now roll fa, and they inflam e the ing number o f victim s suffering from Am erica's fastest growing d iseases, the sting o! death is in the afar. space. There are no two w ays about it; it can 1 cause shortness of breath, reduced oxygenation of | the blood and an increased strain on the heart and circulatory system ." lining o f the air passages, causing sw elling and further narrowing, and making breathing m ore diffi cu lt These irritants cause m ore trouble because tbe air passages try to close down to keep them o u t M e r e and m ore doctors faced with lung disease linked to air pollution are prescribing one-way trips for their seriously in patients. Their order, "Get out o f Chicago if you want to breathe.'' The condition o f our air is a growing batard to health, sa y s D r. Bertram Catnow, a pioneering air pollution health expert who warns that the average city dw eller, particularly it be sm okes d garets, can look forward to serious lung trouble to m ost eases. "We're in for bard tim es if we don't d ean up the air. Everyone now h as black fangs to som e degree, and this is an o f the crud that's in the air and of the m any other insults the lungs suffer. "The state o f our kings is such that at least 20 mUlion Am ericana and probably m ore have the early stages o f chronic bronchitis, and there U no question that ntinng o f people have undiagnosed emphy sem a," sta tes D r. Caroow. What is frightening doctors is that air pollution is beginning to rival cigaret smoking aa the ch ief cause o f chronic bronchitis. In Am erica, smoking is considered the prim e culprit but in teu to n experts believe that air pollution is the biggest of th is d isease, Dr. Catnow says. Many people have com e to accept coughing as nothing m ore than a nuisance because it happens an gradually, he says, but coughing is often a sign o f disease. Anyone who coughs and raises phlegm Hnrfag the morning tor a t least three months a year for two years h as the early stages of chronic bron ch itis, he says. "And if they continue to smoke and to be exposed to a ir pollution, then they get severe chronic bron ch itis. T his is what w e have found." Last year chronic bronchitis and emphysema caused 30,000 d ea th s. M icroscopic examination o f. the lung's tiny air sacs [alveoli] shows the scarred tissu e that probably w as caused by inhaled acid serosal m ists eating aw ay the tissu e, Prince says. Scarring w as found in every ca se where it was footed for. Tbe air sacs are lik e tiny balloons that inflate to bring oxygen to and deflate to expel carbon dioxide w astes from the body. Som e experts believe that scarring causes the sacs to lose their elasticity and to break apart so they can't do their job any m ore. Tbe loss e l contractility and the. destruction of tbe alveoli are signs of em physem a. Even tho scientists are uncovering early sign s o f em physem a in the population, m ost people probably m ay never experience the feeling o f suffocation that is a symptom o f the severe form of tbe disease. The reason is that th e lungs have about 600 m illion alveoli, providing an extra reserve. Tbe death rate bom em physem a has doubled every five years for the la st two decades. It is now the second highest cause of disability in people under 65 who apply for Social Security benefits. T b e city dw eller's lungs becom e black the sam e w ay that the coal miner's do. Carbon, found in th e m ine and the city air, is the d em en t that im parts th e black color to what should norm ally be a oink lung. While the m iner gets h is carbon from tbe coal be m ines, tile city dw eller inhales h 's from tbe ever present soot that is em itted b om fuel com bustion. The lungs are our front lin e of defense against air pollution. Altho the hair and m oist m em branes fa . the nose catch m ost o f tbe big particles o f dust and ether contaminants w e breathe fa, anything that Constant irritation keeps m any o f three passages closed, further reducing the supply of oxygen that can g et in. A s the carbon particles infiltrate deeper into the hmgs past the defenseless cilia they becom e lodged in and around the air sacs. A t this point another of the body's defense system s com es into play but, unfortunately, it is no match for the carbon. This system em ploys big cells called m acrophages which are designed to gobble up harm ful foreign substances. The macrophages are sup posed to digest tbe im purities and to convert them chem ically into harndesa products that can be excreted from the body. But an awful thing happens. Since carbon to bade dem ent which can't b e broken down, the macrophages becom e dumbfounded. They swallow tbe particles but they can't do anything with them. The carbon collects fa the m acrophages until the big cells tire and bred; down them selves, compact ing Hie cellular debris and carbon into the lung Not only do tbe lungs turn black from tbe carbon; they also begin fitting up, knocking out the air sacs that perform Uw life-giving function of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide to the Mood. Recent studies with anim als show that the carbon particles play an even m ore ominous role in d e stroying lung tissue. Researchers found that pure carbon particles m ay sim ply collect in the lung. But if the particles carry traces of sulfuric ad d and other chem icals, as they often do, they can cause lung cancers in rata. Doctors now describe many severe form s of lung disease according to what a victim breathes. These life-threatening diseases which are called pneumo- 6 31 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 4 B U C K LUNG conioses [G k., pneumon, lung and konia, dust), are generally due to heavy exposure to air pollutants h a particular lin e o f work. C o il dust in the m ines produces "m iner's lung," cotton fibers in the m ills cause byssinosis, sugar cane fiber [bagasse] are responsible (or bagassoais, asbestos where it is m ined, m illed or utilized in construction causes asbestosis, aluminum dust pro duces alutninosis, and there are many others. H ealth experts are becom ing worried because m any o f these pollutants, which are known to cause severe dam age a t high exposure, are'also reaching the general population; Asbestos libera, for exampte, are now com monly found hi (he lungs of city resi dents. Nonsmoking asbestos workers have 25 tim es the norm al ride o f developing lung cancer. I b e effect of air pollution on health is devastating. A recent nationwide study by the epidemiology and statistics division o f the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory D isease Association revealed that alm ost one out o f 10 hospital patients Is hospitalized for respiratory diseases, with chronic bronchitis and em physem a the chief offenders. "The d iseases that appear to be the major causes of death in (he United States today are in fectiou s fat origin and share the characteristics of Wing caused by m any factors, of insidious onset and developm ent over a 20- to 30-year period, and of being difficult to treat when finally recognized," sa y s Dr. Carnow. Amoag tbe diseases that take years to develop and are linked to the size of a city and its level o f pollution are lung cancers and respiratory d iseases, in sists Dr. Carnow, who is chief of tbe environm ental health section at the University of llltoola College o f M edicine. D r. Carnow has proven thru studies that persons with respiratory diseases suffer more acute epi sodes o f fllo e n a s air pollution levels go up. Two o f b is studies indicate that tbe death rates tom lung diseases and heart attacks go up as the air becom es m ore polluted. Heart attacks become involved because a patient's heart must work harder when be has difficulty breathing. Tbe studies show that high levels of air pollution act a s a "death accelerator" in seriously HI patients. They also indicate that there may be no safe threshold and that new high-risk populations m ay appear at every level of pollution. During periods of high pollution school children should be told to refrain from strenuous physical exercise and to stay indoors, and high-risk patients ` should b e inactive and rem ain In bed. Dr. Carnow nays. From an airplane or m iles out on a highway leading to Chicago and other large cities' you can spot the reddish-brown cloud of pollution that sits over the m etropolis lik e a deadly bubble. " I think air pollution at any level in a city shortens the lives of the residents because it in creases tbe environmental insults they are exposed to," warns Dr. Carnow. "There is no question that a t very high concentrations it causes unnecessary deaths am ong the weakest members o f the com m unity." _ One m edical Investigator has found evidence in dicating that the suspended particulate m atter In dirty a ir m ay b e more harm ful to your liver than yiw iM Reporting a t the recent American Public H ealth Association m eeting, Dr. Warren Winkelstein J r., o f tbe University of California in Berkeley, said that a two-year study of E rie County, N . Y ., which includes Buffalo, revealed that there is a strong link between high pollution levels and cirrhosis. Dividing tbe study area into five economic groups, D r. W inkelstein found that in each group the rate of cbirhosis w as higher for those people living in Se iv igM>p>hTMrfK with high air pollution levels. For exam ple, among persons in the $5,175 to 6,004 wage bracket tbe death rate from cirrhosis rose from U per 100,000 to 47 per 100,000 as they were subjected to higher and higher air pollution levels. Overall, he found that m en living h i the m ost pol luted sections had a cirrhosis death rate six tim es higher than men living in relatively cleaner air. Dr. W inkelstein said that altho air-borne toxic agents apparently can act directly to produce cirrhosis, when pollution is combined with excessive alcoholic intake there is an enhancem ent effect which greatly increases tbe risk o f developing liver d ise a se . E a c h year air pollution becom es w orse, causing a deterioration o f the qualify o f American life , warns D r. John J . Hanlon, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public H ealth Sendee. L ife expectancy for m ales 40 or m ore years of age fa orgy a couple of years more today than a half century ago, be states. Members o f the m edical profession m ust realize the fact that a very sig nificant proportion of the so-called noncommunicable d iseases begin with'pollution and that cleaning up the environm ent can prevent many of these illnesses. A study o f New York City's air from November, 1962, to M ay, 1965, revealed that an increase o f one eoefficient-of-faaze unit [which is tbe standard m easure of tbe light scattered b y particulate m atter in the air] brought an increase o f 13.4 deaths per day from heart and respiratory diseases, reports D r. H annas A . Hodgson, o f the division o f epi dem iological research a t Cornell M edical Cotlege. Many of tbe particles of dirt that float in the air are generally so sm all that they are invisible to the naked ey e. They are produced b y industrial, auto m otive, dom estic and clim atic processes which burn, condense, divide, grind and erode m aterials. Tbe U . S. Departm ent of H ealth, Education and W elfare states that adverse health effects occur when th e annual geom etric average level o f par ticu late m atter exceeds ao m icrogramx per cubic m eter o f air. B esides endangering your health, air pollution takes a tremendous b ite out of your pocketbook. D irfy air costs consum ers 13 to |3 0 bfflion annually in econom ic dam ages in the U . S .. reports Prof. Reid A . Bryson, director o f tbe U niversity of Wis consin's Institute for Environm ental Studies. These costs, tho hard to estim ate because o f the all-pervasive nature of air pollution, are certainly m ote than what w e spend each year for education, be m aintains. Ironically, the costs o f air pollution have been considered a healthy growth factor in our gross national product because tbe GNP includes industries that m ake money from pollution, such a s detergent manufacturers, car washes, com m ercial laundries, window washers, paint m akers and even hospitals, Bryson says. Tbe air w e breathe costs Am ericans -<4 billion a year in direct health care costs, h e says, fn the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, air pollu tion increases household maintenance costs by 2.7 billion yearly and in California alone, it causes 500 m fllion destruction each year to farm crops, he adds. Tbe indirect effects of air pollution are also awe som e because of tbe ability o f polluted air to change the clim ate. Buildings, beating and industrialization m ake c itie s tw o to three degrees w anner than the surrounding countryside. Tbe cities are up to a thousand tim es dustier, have 90 per' cent less sun light, 50 to 90 per cent less ultraviolet tight, and 8 to 10 per cen t more rain [because of the water i that collects on dust particles eventually forming I raindrqpa]. Prof. Bryson says. `"These changes, together with a witches1 brew o f sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, ole fins and carbon m onoxides, create a distinctive local . clim ate particularly disadvantageous to health," he points o u t We are "fouling the tem ple" and creating a terrible legacy, P rince says. We have created a new generation of people whose body fat is filled with chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, whose bones are filled with Strontium 90, whose human mother's m ilk, if put into a container, would not be per m itted to b e sold across the counter because of its DDT content, w hose lungs are blackened and scarred from air pollution, and whose livers are dysfunc tional. " We are our brother's keeper," Prince pleads. "Do w e want to liv e under this new mark o f Cain?" Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. proposed by the Illinois Ppjjukftfie Lest available technology tion Control Boar# will fO rth^to limit asbestos discharge into f**irwstv twimmve in iiKho--is:r ar.-Tim--z---a---t water O T tr^ rg a poMtant cot a ^prson^to-person bastS: Side spraying of asbestos; on Tjtie peopled rc0------ . , buildings would be -prohibited--^ ^h}ch probably will be Mg-Rfed a fte r M arch 21- Tf the. m atpcL.-- ,, in mid.r>Afpfaher, provide for, aTrifwtl boards for example,'. regulating the ise of asbestos is used during construction, it ^ , ,as it U manufactured, used in must be handled under a cover ^ ; lo ia o youthful bursts of energy at a -worn horse attests to many id' 'se- 6y hard-playing tots. iition pt'oceduresrDarmgdiear^ ings earlier this year, several, doctors lhikied asbestos with - Jung-diseases, including cancer. Covers Wide Variety* . # The regulations will go far ther than Chicago's ordinance, which requires only that asbes tos spraying, be limited to en violation of regulations. The regulations will require that buildings with asbestos be wetted^and lhe-asbestos=8tri^ ped by-hand during demolition. Hadley School m closed areas, ' Under-thc boardV-pfepesab-i manufacturing plfits. and oth- ; /)/)/) er facilities' that use asbestos J (si wJ. jU lfif will be required to provide fa- i A ^ iqoq beauest-d-4he-wiU o i sm .'rtj* ,-s change their work clothes. ^ j former electrical contractor in Tinr Harker,"n-aid-to th e) ^jBfleata< will be used by; the board, said the provision was HH1ny <?,,hnni fnr the Btinri-m -- -- :i s e =--i e s U7Tm M_:*y_A g. .a, ^ | j^u n n i q s u u c u o u w i i t g t i a n o u u ^ cated that asbestos workers j.R allie for citizens of Latin and ' and theh wivM jiave g-higher Powfrai '>mario3 4; / 'f-frr>. fysTTkj'J, T iti *t * Unfit on Emissions ' ods and records to .improve "This is a unique proposal," language skills of the blind. H arbor said "because it iden- Centers for Spanish and Por- ffigjjr fe r ** . arc in Bogota,-Columbia; Sao_ Under the regulations, ashes- Paulo,, Brazil;. JBuenos, Aires-;, to ^ -m a m tfa e tu rers--w o ^ -h e --a L -^ n d --4 H e m P o ra ry -o ffic e -itf-N o r= rr m uU e^ -nU.<^IUlie feiliwfe l iU W CW--w --Lvalifalilvl Hiivu IumwO*I*l* .-------- -i fr&s?,* _ _ , _ - . ad v... filing. Shoving, and laugh- I3e7 two f..vibers1^ as, bi e. s<tos feo_.r. each blind iTTn Umte&Staies and cubic centimeter of air. Plants ' Mexico ...... il' \jj^7 W S ti METRO Oiicago Tribune (1963-Cunvutfile), Dec 9,1971; ProQucst Historical Newspaper Chicago Tribune (1890- 1985) pg. WI3 M ETRO Asbestos Pollution to Be Next Target The new asbestos regulations proposed by the Illinois Pollu tion Control Board will, tor the first time in Illinois, aim a t controlling a pollutant on a person-to-person basis. The proposed regulations, which probably will be adopted in mid-December, provide for regulating the use of asbestos as it is manufactured', used in construction, and used in demo lition procedures. During hear ings earlier this year, several doctors linked asbestos with lung diseases, including cancer. The regulations will go far ther than Chicago's ordinance, which requires only that asbes tos spraying be limited to en closed areas. Under the board's proposal, manufacturing plants and oth e r facilities that use asbestos will be required to provide fa cilities where employes can change their work clothes. H m Harker, sn a ld to the board, said th e provision was added because testimony indi cated that 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," Harker said, `because it iden tifies the individual as a pollu ter." Under the regulations, asbes tos m anufacturers would be al lowed to emit no m ore than two fiber of asbestos fo r each cubic centim eter of air. Plants also would be required to use the best available technology to lim it asbestos discharge into water. in construction trades, out side spraying of asbestos on buildings would be prohibited after M arch 31. ff the m ateri al, in wall boards for example, is used during construction, it must be handled under a cover or in an enclosure. Visible em issions of asbestos would be a violation of regulations. The regulations wiH require that buildings w ith asbestos be wetted and the asbestos strip ped by hand during demolition. Reproduced wilh permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. VU . ;v u u u i a Itu o u a im , *- d av I - 1py\L- 26, had been paroled last Dec.1was being negotiated. ojl Ecuadorian men in Panama waters. w * e r m Rh aa rntonnn'ss pp aarrvtvy cvounutkenudwed i**n* Miami t_h.azrt.__t_h_e.__.3 registered. 'IA_ m- e. r.ican vesseIl andJ that DBaa ri 4toa nh iics i HB8tt>EinaagiMi ^sum ae f r o m - i h ^ - E c u a d o r --government Predicts Births on.Moon _ __Wernher von Braun predicted, in Washington BYCASEYBUKRO that the moon will, be colonized much like AnC [Environment Editor] that A baby wiU=be-born there before the year Illinois banned asbestos. abot 30 Illinois manufacturers 1recorded interview for a local television program, said; *Tnr convinced thatrbefore-tfae-year--2Q06-1 spraying yesterday and set a of asbestos products will be re- first child ^*1 ^ hnrh nrr^ti^ooignie^saW ^ national prcdent by compell- "qrd .lo get-permits_io, oper- ment of the pace shuttle President Nixon approv ...."fig 'asbestos industry workers ate from the board after June 30r -!972.:The-permits-will-not adaayy wwriall' Rgrtceaatul^y reduce- the expense o.f.. e, sti to clnlbemslves of sbs- he:issued to any-plant emitting- -^eHnanent^noomba&e^on -which-scientists wjirne^ -tos fibers before-leaving working site. their. visible clouds noft scmmonkirae norr goass:, gjjd work for long periods on the moon s surface.^ The Illinois Pollution Control es containing asbestos fiber* scientists will eventually take their wives along, "s dayn child- wiH-he^born- oitthednoon. Beardr-meeting in'Rockford, -- " "Reject Outright4*air a l s o adopted .clean. jvater. The regulations require prop ""standards -that T e q u ir e ^ IH in o ts- lection from dust containing industry to remove 85 to 90 per asbestos wh4h\<U1Ca >n lhMmill/d4imn/gt !isc .bKea-. -- cent of the chemical wastes in ^^-dPT^Vylished- State officials ' "discharges to state streams. said they are not trying to out Twenty-one chemical wastes law the use of asbestos, oniy to are named in the standards, curb-the use;of asbestos where --whichrmustbe m ethyBec. 31," it might have an effect on 1973. ----- . health. . * . Ecological Milestone Construction activities; using Cl* tn Drop `Miekeu^Mouse^ Joi The Un.ited- S_ t. ates Army announceJdj Sin- IHtneliX3Tl Germans, to take over "Mickey Mouse" jobs now -hy-combat-iiifantiy>Qldiersr "We;Tlan~te3iyert j tied-un Jn- tMiekey-Mouse^-jobs-haek-to-^rimary' to replace them with civilians--mostly local nat military spokesman said. Among the jobs to be ' by civilianswill be positions such as gymnasium i h o sjd ta F -w a S rd -n tte n d a n ts r'b o iie r-firm c a rjS m to fs The asbestos controls require Illinois asbestos manufacturers to provide their workgra^jath, facilities enabling them to clean their .clothes , and, bodies of asbestos .fibers before leav ing work. , "Our medical date show asbestos- -materials- must becarried on within an enclosure The board deleted mn-earlier proposal to outiaw'.the use of asbestos brakedinines The Illinois .water, quality standards, adopted, after-more- tham-20-heargs beld-thruout- missary sales personnel, the spokesman said. H pay will he about SIHO.an hour.----- - " ./ Purse-Snatcher Shoots Wc - . - -- f!rrn. I h a t J J i e -- m a n shot last "Does JoanJiveJ: that a man coated with asbes ing," then tried tos particles can be a hazard to people around him-^-his wife and his children," said Tim Coast apartment buildmg-by-a- purse. When she-; man who stoleber purse. patted a "pistol ar took her purse, ai Barker, an" assistant to tto hoard asbestos workers have oped faSTlung diseases, ie spokesman. -- -------- -- tbe-purse^Boatcher as she was ---are-strietr but-tecbnicaliy^fes^ entering the building. "What we're doing is. pro sible and economically, reasorF tecting people he might come able!" The board also warned 1 M i 6. 1M - " f 1 S. - - ^ I 1 i ^ fo detect heroin i children of military ! lo h*U` ho th ililm i f}/ Ji'lg abuse said Saiturdnavy he ill payj d o se,a tten tio n , to ihe' I o v cim m v ; proien jo see whetherNgrine IV* ailvisoi-fin analysis program s could work m civilian com m unities in the j I'mtcd Slates. I Or. Jerom e T. Jaffo, direr ! inr of thi| White House Special A ition Ojfficc for Drop A.buse itiinonncs. HHee said m attefs .o.fr!i_p_e_r- sonal privacy and ojherjindivi,dual rights would? projiably prevent the federal' gofvern- ment from | requiring jtrine lcst,s of i ivtlians in the United sta te s for heroin. I 'M u st. we siand hv help- <le_s_sil.y.....a..s....an epi.d.em. ic m oves through a high school or any other closed com m unity?" bcsaid. "For the federal govern ment the answer is yes. But other groups tan, set their own standards tor pEtrttcipation. a school can require vaccination, for exam ple, as a reaussiie for registration" At Cc-rara] State ijniv-erssv in V*jibe; force. Ohio, a n tis tests for berom becam e a pre requisite for q a a n er ly regtsnation at the urging o f'the stu dent body president. Preventibn, said in an inter view with the federal govern ment pitjbably could not itself institute heroin tests for civil ians biit i could provide funds Ini' local- schools, com m unity gm ups aijd other organizations that warped to try the let'''lln;i|iie. ; Seekiofficial comment , 1he Pe|iiagon proposal -- its .ibvur.-iir.-l suggest Septenibei us a sm iling date -- is tirciifniint fiir com nienl among -isi In,i iy Officials, a n oi ding to i nl. Richard S. Koine, deputy to the Pentagon's top drug offt- the turino- tests wmdilJk b.e made ip ifotir schools nrumnYTbb'y the niiljuiry for ibtldrcn of its Find asblestos in Some By Victor Cohn last week in Science and will W ashington Post Spec WASHINGTON -- As leslos has been found in possible dangerous am ounts in som e !of the most popular antibiotic^ that doctors prescribe, | The asbestos fibers -- vhich -may play a : roJe in causing cancer pud other lung disease ' -- arc getting into m edicines bewause m anufacturers use as-i -*csltos filters to strain out im- purities. The finding was reported be expanded on ip a coming is sue of the Journal of the Amer ican Medical A,s$n. "Our conclusion is that it is 'only prudent to change manu facturing methods," Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, one cjf the authors, said S atu rd ay.; ``There are other filtering piethods that are quite effective." ! All drugs invjolved are in jected. Selikoff and his team from Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, tested 37 a n d fop nde"significan t antibiotics amounts of asbestos 6, ail antibiotics. These are a-ce-tazolamide, oxadilip, cephaior:. dine, tetracyclinel vaocqrnycis a n d roeihiciliin. Lesser amounts of asbestos rr-ere found in two pe-m cPJji tu p les. The amounts nr oived were generally smalt, ranging from a dozen to m ore igar: y.jfr fibers per gram. Bui ;; has been learned m .o.pe; i-ner.iai ani m als. said the- o n e r s, eba- as iittie as 30 to 30 m ib g r a m s of asbc-sios can produce cancers. O', erse,is ' people. Col Kolite ; Chicagolatid's suirt. In|t would not be tequired 1 of a ihd d if the fam ily oli ' [Cl Ir d ' ne; m of d u b c lic i comes over -nc G'. as as she is nan .iront f stiva! Que en for I png i die Chicago Yate! old beauty is iSon-Times Phbtc IdfiKjul question cited , the iPltin raises Jegal'qjies1nil's nsvdKing both the rights Finest Garages & "I i ivjlian dependents and ii'cnwnis with som e foreign i nani i iCs: that c o u ld . require at Our ihe military to icport to local n.fu'ial.'j an y heroin users it divosehqd. Lowest Prices Hi. Jiifl'e said any extension j "I m in t'.'testing beyond ser- ! H (M V ^ OF CUSTOM UttS \ iiym rji . raises 'ethical ques- ! Foam Rubbed City FURNITURE WITH A FUTURE. SALE ' jV .' `O'iti' 1 SOFAS. & GROUPS Mo,dern-32" Sofa 0 yellow Vec-., ' tro witH matching-chair W av- .'$549.95. 2 pc. group now $ 3 9 9 .9 5 Modern .3:j:c._grouping in' gold! colored';.' Nylon,.- IncJodcs sofa :ond- Mr. -.Mrj. C hair.- W as $499 95 $ 3 9 9 .9 5 Mode/p.92"' Chromo. bose sofo- ">h Striking '-o ro n g e ' p r in t. W a s .: S499..95..i'f4c>w,','is.,$ 3.99, j&Sr'- .Modern :8b."' black-.'vig/I iofcT .with'.''2....inotching ;chdirs;. yvds. S449.<?5': Nv9;;.::Y ;:';:$ 3 4 9 .9 5 ;f-:- Modern 88'L.wood- r'm.sbfa'-in.i r>s - *^ ?cxiw;yy s'3j29..9 5 . $ 2 4 9 .9 5 DELUXE CUSIO 32 C H IC A G O S U N T t M E S , W e d ., J u ly 26, W 2 CITY BEAT 25 of 39 landowners OK Grant Par . By Charles M. Smith for Pj'evcntive Dentistry mat >t had been ''v.-c-JJ ev-iao(jvfvi n ic ( lurngn l*;irls DiMmci';, hi" bnndshcll planned lo t (ram that bacteria of various types cause ra aies ' Pari; lia.s i n eived ilv bli'.-.Miig of 25 of tile 50 landowners And where do the bacteria thrive best whoso piopn'tirs will overlook 1, a Park D istrict attorney According to a nutritionist who spoke- O the 'Orr.'i-tv'ior; Ho*r- reporieil 'Ilii'Miay. I hi r u in 'hackers g a v e their approval in whim ;;, ta.iCiri v KiTv.m vjid. I lie rest, lie added, voiced their 0|<5. Of lhe Iwo di'iieils of i onsenl received by the Park D islricl, Kerwin said, one -- from the ownership of the Fine Arts Build ing) -Ilf) S'. Michigan - w as n writing, l-'erd Kraniior, part owner of a .building in 11110 S. Michigan, orally has protested the hand shell. Kerwin said written approval would he sought from all the landowners ronrorued, including the 12 wjho failed to m ake their stand known. "1he handshell is the v isib le part of the Park' District proposal. The invisible part is a ll:under ground parking garage -- to be built along will! the bandshell In the m e j now oeeupie.d by ihe Monroe Street parking lot. Ban further asbestos spray use CI.AIMINfl " A T T R IB in F S i f extrem e danger" lo; m any persons, die Illinois Pollution Control Board forbade the fur ther use of asbestos sprays m'fireproofing a 45-story building ne ar' ing-> 'com p l..e...t..i..o...n.......i..n.. d...o...w.....n...t.wow. , .n. vC. .h. . cicv aibgvo.. '*Ta>r5g0e1t Uolf the blm w as the Arining-.iohnson Co., j)f 1959 Anson, Mclro! e : Park, whose uoiki-rs have been spraying asbestos over the steel skeleton of die t'NA l-'iham-iol Corp, building at 301 S. Wabash. Die rutin;; i'.:i.|dic first fo em erge from a state b in on the s p r a |s ilu i U r a n ic etfci live .Iasi March. Jt w as liaised on . inedital fimlines thal the sprays can cause two deadly lung filhnOni.s. Offn uils of Aninng-Johnson wittiheld im ntedilate rom m ent on die itiling. Iis repiesr-niativcs argued at a board bearing May dial subsiiniie draierials could not be bad. were unsniiable and. in gent-ral, `too costly. . Vaccinations to stop cavities? A NAVY DI'.N fA I. pailudog.isi .-aid vaccinations m ight one day m ake die denial di ill as obsolete a s m etal falsie leelh . 'Dr. .Samuel Hoffman, a captain in the N avy D en ia l Corps, in fact, envisioned a day when either the vaepinatiohs or chem ical applications id teeth might eliminate! d eca y altogether. Hoffman lolc the annual convention o f ilieiA m erican Sociely day. in ihe kind of sugary environment reai.ed in m i- averakv1 American diet. Bank^spurs building program _A SYNDICATE HEADED by one c f liae r,,> banks got a sla te building program off t ie gnouadJ L e i bv t t e ts-z Morgan Guaranty Trust, C o . of New York, Hg ^ c a i e bough! ihe first $1*00 million in a $563-aniimioo is& teef bs& Ss f w the construction at state tfospHafe. prisons sand uaivers^ic-s / OK blood collection on city A tidy Council com m ittee 1 uesday recommended an or dinance permitting voluntary blood collection on city propei- M In ihe past the City Councfl bfis had to approve each sepa rate contract, with organiza tions w ish in g 1to collect blood op city property -- even tem porary blood drives in fire sta tions. |! heparifis among paid doaso- llnder the orduiasce an rgatiizapOB th at wished to ylleci Wood on cit5i pirepersy would have to JWjiuf a zmmtier Of eocdinioriS, including eibe guarantee that Wood -wesBd tie avaflal tfe to the ttenor arad ats or her (uttiaediate-farrniy for a p erio d ;o f a year, unless Sse right is w aived. ; S-r. cfeas iff the new ordinance is ap proved, blooticolIecUng orga'- njzaiions will apply to the Chi cago Board op H ealth, winch wiill supervise the operation. [Heddth Comr. M urray C. B l r o w n tola the Council's Health Com m ittee that the oiidlnance would substantially iftiprove the supply of volun tarily donated Wood. Such| blood "generally is safer be-j ciuise of the high incidence rif More Security Vfitii FALSE TEETH j Ai| A sy lim e Afraid mji re?* l i fk* *rronj u a e? A -deateffc *dbesr7e<*zt hdji. FASJEEBTHjP-emSes fire* ` dentures * lonc-esr, S c ser, iltecSec fcoM. ' b s abi2ir*eed? ' s ec u rity * od ojaf-ert, txsVE&Sr i TEETH Denture AdiLeeiTe Fotw^eti' i Dtsture* t i a t fii atfe ifaesiSitf'fi | fcerith. Sfre your Te^sSieiy cm ree S tyte f p m t s v m t r & r p e Rooms &Pools W S ta i " w 73k _ When the study began, the State Halts Asbestos insten fff Spraying BY CASEY BUKRO 7 Environmental Editor 'j The Anning-Johnson Co. was b prohibited by the state yester day from completing asb&tos ^ spraying to fireproof the 45- story CNA Financial Center under construction a t 301 S. Wabash Av. a It was the-first time the Il linois Pollution Control Board has halted-the use of asbestos I ' v J spray under a sta te Regulation which became effective March 31. The board ruled th at pro longed exposure -to asbestos fibers can lead to. lung diseases, including cancer. Used 1,000 Tons Anning-Johnson, of 1959 Anson St., Melrose P ark , told the board that it already has used 1,000 tons of asbestos spray on the building. The company sam it-wanted to spray an additional 10 to 12 tons from the second Pto the fifth floor on the east side of the building in the next . two weeks'. . ' ~ The firm also argued that __ su b stitu te s- were not available; ,and that denial of permission to ~ 'use asbsstos~spray coukH ead to-h ig h er c o s t? 'a n d building modifications' ' - ~ The board rejected the argu ments as "unsubstantiated and |o ^ purely speculativ e ^ It said th a t spraying asbestos on a building in the h e a rt of downtown Chi cago would pose a health;threat ' to ." a substantial num ber of people." - - --- f ' - . .A spokesm an .for ______ ,, Johnson said in a telephone in ' terview that substltufts for asbestos spray, are available, ` but it must, be decided if-they. - can be used gn the.'CNA build* 'm g along-with the spraying a t ready Idone.' _. . City H a s L a w TM ~ - : -T heC ity of Chicago-alsoJias: . jin ordinance prohibiting the use of asbestos, spray.- I t be came effective Jan;. 1. The city .tfoel not have-j-a,. tfomclaint . against th e'C N A-,building.___ ^ *In. o tte r . action,--the "board fined the Caterpillar T ractor __Cfc $2,000 for. deiite'sigp& ipollution a t its Peoriapjarifc, fined the Lobue.Exgavhting' Co, tl,0 0 0 for pollation at-itsF -C f' ' . H eights r e f u s e ^ lispQSal' ' s t e - --fined th'&TI5wgUinois~GaS7~& E lectric C a ^ $ l ,000Jo tfaiU n g : to pbteijstote p e rm ifs ^ o r ' ii -- stalling lo ur- gas-oil tdfblnbsrat -'Hts^M bline-niant^anT'' COMPARE OUR PRICE WITH THE LEADING LITTLE IMPORTS Ford Pinto Volkswagen 113 Toyota CorollaJL600 DatsunPL510 $1960* $2,159* $2,109* $2,306* Manufacturer' suggested re la ll^ rlc fdr 2-door modal. Excludes d ealer preparation charges if any, destination charges, title and taxas. S o ild tra n sm is slo n .4 speeds, ;fully synchronized, iioor-mounted. If's also1easy to CTiiaiirtaifiHnjaetrboth tht=i trrins-_ - --mission and differential are" !,ubed for life..'they nee^Tn-" .. speetion only during routine, -mdfitenance. - _ ' A rlltblngine. improved-rdpd perfected in over 1 years . of actuafar.iving i small Ford - buttfcars alt over the world. ^ b g flim fo r tr n F r Q t-ja U ifc t-se a ts, ., Ip t. IIS;. , ;-J . , >#eid ts r DEFENDANT'S _ EXHIBIT u (X e - Case - I looxi f6)U C O linked to RESEARCHERS ARE be- Pogrund said. Some of the coming alarm ed that asbestos children lived near ,,asbestos may pose a deadly peril to some children. "We are now beginning to aee an- increase in certain types of dancers in children who have been exposed to as bestos dust early in life," said p r. Robert Pogrund, associate professor of occupational arid health <at the plants, others played with bur* lap;bags that bad contained asbestos products, some had played in buildings w hereasbestos dust was churned up tlue'to demolition, and others may have received asbestos from baby, powders, be ex plained. - ~ University of Illinois School of Dr. Pogrund said that one Public Health. Investigators at the federal Nations! Institute for Occupa tional Safety and Health re cently discovered an increase dilapidated school in the Chi cago area had to be closed because asbestos was leaking from the ceiling materials and falling on the students. " in njfsotheliomaS in children, Dr.^Pogrund reported yester day at a postgraduate course on hing d ^ a ^ t the-E icfc Congress Hotel.' The meeting was sponsored by the Asnerican College of Chest. Physi cians, the Chicago Lung Asso ciation, and the University of Illinois. HE CALLED FOR rigid standards to reduce the risk of exposure to asb esto san d im proved techniques for fSShitoring asbestos in the air. T^e general, population has been increasingly exposed to asbestos and many...medical authorities are concerned that this may pose a growing haz MESOTHELIOMAS are can ard, he said. cers attacking the lining of the Asbestos gets into the air lungs.-- ------ ;riH!* from such sources as insula In tra c in g down these^pre- tion spraying on new build viousiy rare, malignancies In ings, brake finings, demolition chtidren, jfound that th e , investigators of _th e.victims ha4~ -fl old buildings, and a growing rig; -- AbaUoon] been tQ asbestos, ^Dr. asbestos, he said. colorful wai 46& tw m 73m RAIN iiicty Saturday with K h in the middle See Page 64. *>`i br f tH{I r.icrpriSC. Inf * * it * TURF FINA! 108 Pages -- 10 Cen* ***" *" * " ' .............. ~"^T-rrrrr mas.J. Moore and Edward. T. Pound business partners of Aid. Thomas E. 31st) secretly made huge profits from hase of 148 acres of city-owned land, a ion pushed through the City Council ie. ' le deal was put together by Keane's close friend >s partner, the late David S. Chesrow. who was for chairman of the Board of Local Improvements, f the com plex and secret deal, uncovered by The and Better Government Assn, in a three-month *i. provide a fascinating insight into the operations e Combine, a vast political empire centered around in. . . mti- ector J. Terrence Brunner summed up the thi; , 1 in e i.--. Dragged that Chicago is a city that works, eal shows how Chicago works -- Keane's pals cash- 52, l-m illion purchase of city land at bargain-base- .tU flow today from portions of the huge tract, , Fat ru, which was purchased in 1964 for just over market vaiue at die rime. A subsequent court ? a part of did tract g a v e an indication of the 1964 By Edward T. Pound and Thomas J. M oore Federal investigators are preparing ir & fraud charges against Harry H. Semrou, fc mer Chicago postmaster and now chairman m e County Board bf Appeals, for granting $159,000 assessment reduction to his brothe The Sun-Times learned Friday. Carey sehks ! 9 0 jury visit by,,. attorney s office ind internal Revenue Service a e tis . ; fflrect result o f information r u m ed o v ertn The Mm-Tunes the Better Government Assn. -- - --- -- ^wpaiuncui jfiuveu quicKiy. suoparmins on F day afternoon all assessm ent records and other documer. pertaining to the p r o p e r t ^ ^ e ^ ^ e m r o ^ ^ r r i r h ^ b S S i , ? 1h ^ DEFENDANT'S cut was granted tor t i l H EXHIBIT . owned by Otto Sem rol ^ UCC - Mfc. -I Prospect. l , " 1 The reduction m il I 9 ' , taxes based on a v e ra g M ij ( A 'tf'z jic U s jta s ) he betnnip a t lu,i,i,;;(; - I.'-M a-.'w ellashis Mr. Warnhe i,,hi the 't 'I Show-business ence that even tho,,, ij Arf! r6fd S**Uanisis maK*' powers I v ih f #Jc\:; `fiff, ihe-' .should ,o: ihir- ihe followers of Mack-wim/Pd * who Jjve in a ficaj -.e .nd in.,,;, * i f burned with ; Zippo '* Hi* soul m*0*i Satan are ,ivi rape people are ' loot in- Un - , ,:1" *" " that hv doing h h i,-ore effective ' ptf*. especially l 'i |. 'e understand what )> i.". -. Ir.-.e . ;:n ,t,, ^ saj(J lie .. Ihe response of ; " r ",.d old at Ihe Jesus ' Ii.mwt!w mht. Mr. ,-aJ-. wowed them. F id l.e didn't leave them k"i;dii.p Emissions of 3 New Israeli ambassador Simcha Dmitz (lefl) Israel's new ambassador lo the Uniled Slates, ,s welcomed to the State Department in Washington Fnday oy Deputy Sec. of State Kennelh Rush. Dinilz, who was once a night watchman at tljre Israeli Embassy in Wash ington. ,s a dose political aid to Prime Minister Golda Men. He reportedly was appointed to the ambassadorship over the objections of Foreign jMinister Abba Eban. (AP) le tu rn o f a d v e rtis in g g d ifis t c ig a te fs u rg e d Ii nprdeseidnentt Tof tLhe American icer Society urged broad- ,':n,i-Sm0liinS . SP`S. wfiich hml been required under tfje fairness doctrine, dropped ters Friday to "help save a by three fuiirths. That w asn't idred thousand lives" by re- etough to counteract "the r n i n g anti-ogaret com- gl imoroiic appeals of the ciga x ia ls m the air to count- r 1' t a n if advertising in -'t reduction" of the di sin es," he said hfi ^acce firms. "I he result h a t e e n an up- r. Arthur G. Jam es, a Co bus (Ohio) surgeon, said the heavy ami-cigaret ad ipaign on radio and telean had produced a marked 'i.irri trend in cigaret smoking, ittlly among teen-agers " J^mes said. am es called upon broadcast- 1 10 again " take Into the ease in the number o f . hejmes of - Amrica th e-m ess- -agers taking up smoking aaes about cigaret smoking recn 1968 and 1971. tin t effectively changed the it when the ban on broadcigaret advertising took :t two* years ago, the num- sn oking habits of millions of acfplts and prevented the ad- di'iion of millions of teen agers." substances limited IWVAAACTrIilIMNGCTTOiua /.1I PI, - |.|.ie povr rnm ent imposed new i pies Frldnv lo reduce aii l.mncztiiioii.-ii-: of three h a /a id o u s siihslances -- asbestos, beryl lium anil nter* urv. Ihe rules from Ihe Enviionmental I'ttiietllon Agent-v re quire that Ito asbeslos mills give olf visible einissioKs, nnless air cleaning devices are used to elim inate asbeslos <m is s io n s . ui.'iid $M'i million a year lo Ihe i O':l r;| hifildinp demolition. Asiu si os litis been linked to brent Inal t :inter and identified O'- a possible cause of other ' h e s i itinei is. Its effects .sometimes- do no,t show up for 30 yetira in persons exposed lo heavy doses. A spokesm an sa id jh e ban on asbestos tailings applies pri m arily 10 roads in Vermont, they also ban the use of asbesios tailings -- the unused part or asbestos ore -- for road surfaces, and permit no visible em ission from factories using asbestos. These plants include those making certain textiles as well as cem ent products, floor tile, paints, insulating m aterial and a long list of other products. , The EPA prescribed certain Whfcre asbeslos m ines exist. Beryllium compourjds can be lethal if inhaled m 'sufficient quantities and also have been linked to skin and eye prob lem s. The new rules lim it the amount of beryllium that may be expelled from plants and prohibit the burning of ber yllium w aste except in in cinerators, and restricts the a m o u n t s which m ay be burned. procedures to follow when buddings containing asbestos insulation are demolished. When razing buildings above ,- The beryllium rule affects c e r t a i n foundries, ceramicmakers, machine shops and rocket-testing facilit-es. c e r t a i n heights, demolition crews must wet down the as bestos material and drop it to the ground in air-tight chutes. The EPA estimated that 25, 000 buildings which will fail under these rules 'are demo lished each year. The new procedures will add, .an esti- I " Breathing mercury vapors has been Jinked to nerve and kidney injuries, as yvell as brain dam age. Under the new lules, plants which process mercury ore or use mercury compounds to produce chlorine gas are lim ited in the amount of emissions they can produce. I B lue-collar views Mike LaVelle Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentfile); May 8 pg. 20 ' 1973; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Blue-collar views Risks of occupational disease B y Mike LaVelle BETWEEN 14,000 and 15,000 workers die every year as a result of work-re lated accidents. , The Occupational Safety and Health branch of the Tabor Department points out that a number of chemicals and other, substances, some widely used in industry, can cause cancer. Many workers In manufacturing plants con tinue to be exposed to these chemicals. The Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Work ers International Union says that "each passing work day without regulatory ' intervention increases the number of employes who will be effectively ex posed to these chemicals and who subse quently m ay develop cancer." IF A WORKER in the 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 workrelated accident but an occupational disease. I t is estimated th at 100,000 deaths a year are the results of occupational diseases (a conservative estimate ac cording to Franklin Waliek of the Unit ed Auto Workers [UAW] in his book, "The American Worker, An Endan gered Species"]. What then, pray tell, is the difference between accident and disease? Should we consider them the sam e and say that 114,000 workers a y e a r die from work-related causes? Are company physicians doing their jobs? Says one UAW official; " In one case a man died and the autopsy showed that his h eart had burst. He bad been subjected to chlorine gas pri or to his dying on the job. The company contends be had a heart attack." How many physicians, purely out of ignorance, da not take Into account oc cupational exposure when making a di agnosis or in determining cause of death in an autopsy? Not an idle point when you consider . that some 100,000 chemical compounds have been introduced into industry since the turn c f the century. With our - spiraling technology; 600 new chemicals are introduced each year. Halph -Nader's report, "B itter Wag es," by Joseph 'P ag e and Maty O'Brien, quotes a Dr. Hawley A. Weils of the Pulmonary Research Lab in Johnstown, P a., appearing before a House subcommittee an labor: ' "Many physicians express frustration a t having inadequate medical informa tion to diagnose and treat patients with suspected occupational diseases, much less the ability to prevent them. " Dr. John L. Zalinsky cam e up to us in Detroit and told of 30 cases of chron ic beryllium diseases caused by expo sure to `safe' levels of beryllium dust. He was told by the company that if he published this material in the medical literature th at he would have to look for another job. " He was torn between professional honesty and personal security and be- fore he resolved this dilemma he died of a second heart attack. His material has never been published." What has the Nixon administration done about worker safety? Let's take a look. Here's a Department of Labor radio commercial: "Hi, this is Joanne Wor ley. Don't get hurt on the job. Stay alert and practice job safety full time. F o r more information, contact the nearest office of the U. S. Department of Labor." A Team ster local in St. Louis, being slc rt if not 8 bit naive, believed such commercials and sent a request 'for information on chemical compositions and the hazards associated with maten ais used in their work place to a branch set up by the Health, Education, and Welfare Department and the De partm ent of Labor as the National Insti tute of Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSHJ. In July, 1071, they received this re ply: "IN REFERENCE to your letter re questing chemical composition and health hazards with an extensive list of industrial trade products, I regret to inform you that a t this time we do not have access to this type of information. We do hope that within one year we will have an operational file of materi al safety data sheets on chemical prod ucts. " Your request should be directed to the manufacturers a s they have direct responsibility for providing health and safety Information on their products." With a Big Business-oriented admin istration in Washington that kind of response does not surprise s . It's like reporting a rape to a Richard Speck. I'd rather report it to Ralph Nader. Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73o mem urging the governor "to establish a blue-ribbon search committee to seek out candidates for the board." The sug gestion usefully directs public attention to the heed for a board of maximum dis- tinctionriho three weeks-'may be too short a time to permit much of a formal search. . ' It is to be hoped that Gov. Walker and Ms staff have already given con siderable thought to selecting a blue- ribbon board. [Tho as Sen. McGovern could leave thinking about a Vice Presi- Asbestos on the regions and political parties. It will haVte weighty responsibilities for public edu cation below the college level, beginning with the choice of a successor to Dr. Bakalis, the last of the elected super intendents of pubhe-msfeuetion. -- Gov. Walker has an opportunity to appoint a Board of Education which will not consist of captives of any selfish faction but of citizens willing and able to act in the public interest. He should make the m oskof this important Op portunity. J \ north shore? great aeai aDout g President Nixon impressive on a o the smaller groups for give-and-take < constant lament o that more of this put across to the p Nixon, for exam recall of names o only once or twice minds me of the fauver [D., Tenn ] a b o u t t h e media knows how to miik Rep. Samuel H. Young [R.,- 111.] has very small. The asbestos industry stoutly raised some provocative questions about asbestos, water, and health. He wants to know if the International Joint Com-, mission, which manipulates ther flow out of Lake Superior, is monitoring the water at Sault Sainte Marie to see how maintains that there have always been minute amounts of asbestos in air and .. water and that "there is no evidence that the small number of fibers found in most members of the general popula tion affect health or longevity." This much asbestos it contains. Rep; Young would be'more reassuring ifth e adverse fears that a recent increase in Superior's impact of intense, exposure to asbestos outflow from 80,000 to 120,000 cubic feet had been realized earlier than it was. per second will bring asbestos, "this Rep. Young Would like to see the cancer-causing contaminant," into the Superior outflow reduced. He points out water intakes of Illinois towns' and" that Superior is expected soon to recede points south. . - from its present level, which \s near This particular story began in 1958, the maximum limit under terms' of in when the. Reserve Mining Company be ternational agreements. Or how about gan the daily dumping of 60,000 tons of increasing the diversion6'of water from taconite tailings into Lake Superior at th<* Great Lakes thru the Illinois-Missis . Silver Bay, Minn. In due course millions sippi waterway? Or are legal and en of tons 9f these wastes were observed vironmental objections to that decisive? to be smothering micro-organisms in'fhe "'SftoukHme-wish success to the litigants lake, and suspended powdery taconite seeking to shut down Reserve Mining's was turning green the blue water of operation at Silver Bay [which puts as Lake Superior. Conservationists started a legal fight against Reserve's dumping bestos into the air as well as the water]? Or would the economic consequences of long before it was discovered that there that be unacceptable? were 2.6' million asbestos fibers in each Questions, questions. Back in 1958 it liter of water sampled at Two. Harbors, all seemed so simple] Jobs, iron, pros $Kim., and almost a million at Duluth. - perity, and no complications. If we are These asbestos fibers of course are wiser now, we are sadder as w elt The American passenger train has beeft counted out so many times by its detractors --- and even its friends -- that by now it should be as extinct as the passenger pigeon. But it keeps roll ing along and at times shows a vitality surprising even to those most dedicated to-saving it. . __________ ' ` . 4 -- A---- * - i m n r f frt H i c . friends, than expected. The"proposal to drop them drew sharp protests from rail passenger groups. Further, these -people put their money where mouths we-e. Ip May, Jhne,,.and tiie two .trains' Showed ` '"J creases in patronage, . Amtrak then i f e d the state ' Commerce Commission th T ra u m a cert SPRINGFIELD, ... the Illinois Trayn cal Services syste explain tl^e placem ma Center signs ways and^t Illinois these signs are a others will he er< Trauma Centers a Chicago .area and The Illinois Tr ' founded a little n ago to assure th persons in our s care. To date more injured persons haj the state's '45 trail linois now leads th of trauma victims The Hospital Ti are placed on fede par'tment of Tran ambulance personr porting the critlca hated trauma cent have been chosen planning effort-, i acrdis$. the state. I have.been i^ osen 1 that npireydry hes care ibr critically National Report Christine Davis Chicago Tribune (1963-Currentfile); Apr 14, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Notional Report by Christine Davis . Wanted: Business Administration Majors College students ho ant to make substantial contributions a fte r graduation should oonsider majoring in business administration. Although minorities represent 172 of the to ta l population, they account for less than one-third of one percent of the nation's business assets, according to a recent report by a government task force on minority business enterprise. The 73-member task force was established in 1972 by the U.S. Department of Health, Education. and Welfare a t the request of the Interagency Council of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise, a division of the Department of Commerce. The task force study determined th at "the high failure rate of minority enterprises" can be attrib u ted to "the absenoe of managerial and business s k ills necessary" for*'a firm to survive in today's competitive environment. The report said that there is a "chronic shortage of trained minority talent" to f i l l the need for "owners, managers, and ' business technicians in the growing number of new and expanding minority . business firms." The task force recommended the establishment of a national program for providing business management s k ills to ex istin g and potential'm inority entrepreneurs and oalled for the creation of sta te and looal task forces to "educate, tra in and support" ourrent and future minority owners. The task force also recommended increased federal funding of predominantly minority colleges and the establishment of minority enterprise scholarships to encourage business education. Although federal expenditures for oinority business ventures reached 81 b illio n l a s t year, the rate of failure o f federally funded businesses remains extremely high. Fuel Crisis Impact on Inner City Reported Herrington Bryoe, d ire c to r of research at the Jo in t Center for P o litical Studies, Washington, D.C., in testimony before a Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs warned that the current fuel crisis threatens inner city Blacks and poor people. He said that inflation, unemployment and rising costs of heating fuels, which may lead to higher rents, w ill h it Blacks the hardest. Bryoe warned the Senators th at landlords will probably use the energy c ris is as an excuse for reducing heat below recommended levels and, in many cases, raise both rents and the c o s t'o f other services in low income apartments. REPRESEHTATlve CHARLES OlGOS West African Drought Worsens Despite numerous fund-raising ac tiv itie s sponsored by organizations throughout the country and intervention by the United States government, 200,000 people may die of starvation during the worst drought of the century in West Africa. ' . Congress has approved a resolution by Rep. Charles Diggs {D-Mioh.). fo r 825 million in re lie f funds, and another 850 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73q million has been designated for aid but has not yet been authorised Tor release. Host of the $25 million w ill be used immediately to increase agricultural production in the stricken Sahel region of Africa. Government sources report that the U.S. has allocated 350,000 tons of food and grains- fo r the 1974 fiso al year to the Vest African sta te s and pledged another 22,250 tons of grain to Ethiopia. Of the private organizations which have established fund-raising drives for the famine area, Afrioare, Relief for Africans in Heed in Sahel (RAINS), and People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) have made the most significant contributions. Afrioare, a private Washington-based organization has raised approximately $230,000 from $5 and $10 contributions received almost entirely from the Black community. Africare as also instrumental in getting, a $250,000 contribution from the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis. RAINS, a New York group, has raised $50,000, mostly from Black organizations; and PUSH, headed by Rev. Jesse Jackson, has donated several thousand dollars to the drought stricken region. Tho West African Intergovernmental Relief Agency has estimated th at between 50,000 and 100,000 persons have already died in northern Ethiopia from the drought or famine related diseases. BEVERLY CHERRY Woman Fights On-The-Job Health Hazards for Government Carbon monoxide indicators, methanometers and mercury vapor - doteotors are not exactly household words. However, to Beverly Cherry, an in d u stria l hygienist in the Atlanta regional office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), they are everyday tools. , In her job as a regional indu strial hygienist with OSHA, Ms..Cherry has the ' responsibility for inspecting on-the-job health conditions in eight southeastern sta te s-- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, M ississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. OSHA safe ty oompliance o ffic ers look specifically at safety factors in work places.' ' Currently her a c tiv itie s are centered prim arily on five of the most commonly used and . hazardous toxic substances-- - asbestos, carbon monoxide, cotton dust, lead and s ilio a . Ms. Cherry is the only woman industrial hygienist in the southeastern United States. Navy Selects Second Black Admiral The United States Navy has appointed Captain Gerald E. Thomas to the admiralty, making him the second Blaok Admiral in American history. Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, J r . , the other Blaok admiral, was appointed in 1972. The United States Air Force se t the pace for promotions when Benjamin 0. Davis, J p ., was named Lieutenant General, a rank he held u n til his retirem ent. Daniel "Chappie11 James was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Air Force in May 1973. Brigadier General B. 0. Davis,, S r., was the f i r s t Black holding' th a t rank in the United States Army. He re tire d from the . service with one s ta r . Major " General Frederic Davison became the Army's f i r s t Black tw o-star general. L ater, James F. Hamlet was promoted to the rank of Major General. ' Twelve Blaok generals now serve in the U.S. Army. Competition Opens for - Ralph Bunche Fellowships - The United Nations Association of the U.S.A. has launched its seoond annual competition for. Ralph Bunche Fellowships. The fellowships are awarded to Blacks under th ir ty years of. age to support work, on global problems, with p a rtic u la r emphasis on the in terrelatio n sh ip s of domestic and foreign a f f a ir s . Every Black college campus is distributing applications as'are m'ajor u n iv e rsitie s where large numbers of Black students are enrolled. Edward M. Karry, president o f ' the United Nations Association, announced the appointment of* the former Associate Director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Francis Lee, as the new Director of the Ralph Bunohe Awards Program. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Plant size irrelevant to safety Mike LaVelle Chicago Tribum (1963-Currentfile); Jul 25, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890- 1985) ro* ^ Blue-collar views Plant size irrelevant to safety By Mike LaVelle ON JUNE 27 the V. S. Home oi Rep resentatives voted 201 to 194 to exempt employers with 25 or less workers from full coverage of the Occupational Safe ty and Health Act and to ban federal safety Inspector's from entering such establishments. I fail to see much difference between working in' a sm all factory with less than 25 workers or a large one with over a thousand. There Is one difference: A small fac tory may be located in a bade alley warehouse'in a large city or out in the boondocks, hidden from the public eye, violating workers' rights everyday. I KNOW--because I've worked a t such places, one of which was a novelty factory on Chicago's Northwest Side. No one ever received time-and-one-half for overtime,' and the owner even had the gall to hire his mostly black and Appalachian white employes as weekend . m aids and handymen. Nobody knew or bothered to ask what kind of glue the assemblers 'w ere sniffing, nor whether the rusty, screeching freight elevator was safe. Another example was a plumbing shop in a western sub urb where a thin man in his fifties and I loaded cast iron bathtubs weighing over 300 pounds onto a truck. Neither of us ever received a hernia, but if we had there wasn't too damn much we could have done about it. And there was a plastic factory on the West Side where you literally shovel asbestos fibers into a steam-heated hy draulic press. The stuff gets, on your skin 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 o r U. S. Steel. It's called equal protection undo: the law. The OSHA amendment still has to pass the Senate, .and I hope that Charles Percy and Adlai Stevenson both vote against it. It would tell work ers more about their stance than the ritual donning of hardhats a t election time. . The Illinois representatives who vot ed for the amendment, w h i c h wss sponsored by Paul Findley, a Republi can, are Findley, Republicans Robert Hanrahan, Edward Derwinski, Harold R. Collier, Samuel H. Young, Philip Crane, Robert McCloiy, te slie C. Arends, George M- O'Brien, and Demo crat George E . Shipley. The next time one of these guys greets you outside your factory gate and asks for your vote, tell him, "If you aren't voting for my interests as a worker. I'm not going to vote for your interest as a politician." Don't be conned by an American flag label on a hard hat. These are the sam e guys who will cat Polish sausage, sing "Danny Boy," or wear a dashhlld on Chicago's South Side if they see a vote in it. IT'S NOT improbable that the chemi cals they wouldn't dare introduce into the work place of a large corporation under the scrutiny of OSHA inspectors could be introduced into a small facto ry protected by Findley's amendment. In a sense the workers in a small factory could be used as guinea pigs. To paraphrase Murphy's Daw, "If they think they can get away with It, they'll try i t " And if something goes wrong in one of those back-alley factories,'those who aren't involved may never know. But we should.' A ll workers should have equal protection under safety laws. Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited w ithout perm ission. 73r S "c u v d r rdsvs-ac<>mPa"y diic'r a , , sa Trit a . B t a . * 0 ^ 4 , , , 74; PraQucst Hiaonca| NcwspJpcr!Chicago T .b i i m 0 m |985) Blue-collar views Health hazards vs. a company doctor By M ike LaVelle prefers inexpensive-and inadequate THE INDUSTRIAL uses of lead In clude the manufacturing of tin cans, chemicals, pipes, bullets, paints, and respirators and face masks to installing costly air-suction and conditioning sys tems. batteries, the casting of type, and the _ Not to be overlooked, by the way, -soldering of car radios. is the fact that not only are respirators Lead poisoning can damage the blood, brain, nerves, and kidneys. In 1969 70 per cent of the employes of a com pany dealing with lead suffered lead contamination to the degree of requir ing constant medication. Two employes have-been retired because of severe lead poisoning. The effects of lead poisoning can disrupt the body's motor functions to the point of spasms or paralysis. Us effect on the muscles and the heart has caused death. Lead poisoning can also damage the brain, causing mental retardation. Lead, in fact, can remain in your body for periods of time. You can completely forget it, and then one illness will trigger a toxic poison into your bloodstream. and masks inadequate, they're damned uncomfortable to wear eight hours a day. Two years ago, the Local 108 began pressing the Gould Company for lead poisoning protection. The union called in Dr, Wolfe, a nationally known au thority, to help them. At first, the com pany refused to provide any informa tion 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 improve ments from the company. But Gould has ignored some of its promises and Dr. Woife is continuing to aid the local in winning a decent healthprolection program. A point to be raised here is why did LEAD POISONING, a s in many of the workers have to plead for a doctor the chemical occupational hazards a t work places, is a danger that accumu lates. Its buildup is so subtle that a t tim es the critical point for irreversible permanent, damage coincides with Its discovery. Evidence in that sense is not enough--prevention is the key. There has been a strike against the Gould Battery plant in Trenton, N. J., since Nov. 18. At issue are lead poisoning hazards. In the last two years of the plant's workforce of 230, 40 reportedly have been forced off the job for health reasons, including the president of Local 108 of the United Electrical Radio and from outside the company? Paul Bro 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 case of the Pittsburgh Corning asbestos plant iu Tyler, Tex., and the case of its workers a f f l i c t e d with the asbestos-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: machine Workers of America, according to Florence Griley, a union representa tive in Chicago. " T WONDER if there might be some time in the next day or two that I could talk with you.' Dr. Grant appeared to The union is insisting on better pro tection against lead poisoning, while the company insists that it's supplying w o r k e r s with respirators and face masks and that is good enough, despite the allegation that 40 workers got sick on the job and they had to go home or io the hospital. The issue, according to Dr. Sidney Wolfe of a Washington-based Health Research Group, is that the company, a s many other companies do, much hesitate. Then, glancing quickly over the ballroom, which was emptying, he shook his head. `I'm afraid I can't ' he replied. ' 'In this instance there is a question of a patient's rights.' For a moment I thought I had not heard him correctly Then it dawned on me that he was talk ing about the company. " `Do you mean Pittsburgh Corning'" I said. `Why, yes,' Dr. Grant replied. If they don't want m e to talk with you there's nothing I can do.' " Reproduced with pen TM * TM of the copynght owner. Further reproduction prohibited without pemtisslon. 73s The resurrection of the lakes Jerald terHorst Chicago P g . A4 Tribune (1963-Currentfile); Aug 15, 1975; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Jerald terHorst The resurrection of the lakes GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Here In President Ford's homo town -- and mine - they now catch salmon in the downtown stretches of Grand River, more than 30 miles upstream from Lake Michigan. A few years back, you could only take sucker and carp here. That's* p art of the cheery news con cerning the Groat Lakes that's worth noting these days. Despite tho continuing economic difficulties of America's big Industrial cities along the Great Lakes, we are slowly winning tho battle against pollution of the world's largest body of fresh water. The fight has not beon easy and it is a long way from being over. A dccado ago, many of the .experts felt the Great Lakes were facing doomsday. The real fear then was that the U. S, and Cana da, thru ignorance, neglect, and a con centration of industry and commerce, were literally and inexorably turning the lakes into a sewer stretching from northern Minnesota to New York's Atiantic seaboard. - THAT APPARENTLY IS not going to happen. Not because the fears were ov erblown but because of corrective action being taken by tho cities, states, prov inces, and national authorities on both sides of the) border. You don't have to be an environmental expert to spot the .difference that a decade has made. According to Canadian and American commercial fishermen, they now cpn see into the depths again where mupky waters once prevailed. Lake trout, perch, coho, and Chinook salmon are in abundance. No longer is Lake Erie choked by massive beds of algae created by tho sewage discharge of urban centers. The chemical wastes from plants in Gary, D e t r o i t , Cleveland, and Rochester, N. Y., nowadays give a less chalky tinge to the shore-line waters of Lakes Michigan, Erie, and Ontario. Bathing beaches in the Cleveland area that had to be closed because of pollution only a few years ago are now in use again. Progress in cleaning up the Great Lakes was the happy theme, that, for once, marked a meeting of American and Canadian, researchers in Windsor, Ontario, under the auspices of tho Inter national Joint Commission that deals with boundary water problems of the two countries. Three years ago, Canadi an Prime Minister Trudeau and thon President Nixon signed a pact pledging a unified campaign to rid tho lakes ol the most flagrant pollutants by 1075. Canadian authorities figure they will have 00 per cent of their share complet ed by the ond of this year. But the Nixon administration impounded Ameri can funds as part of a move to cut Inflation and federal spending. . Court reversals, congressional insist ence, and the Ford administration have now restored this flow of,money, Henry P. Smith III, head of. the U .'s . delega tion of the I. J. C., predicts tho lakes' cleanup can be virtually completed In four additional years. Much remains lo be done, but cor rective work is undor way in the prob lem areas, according to James Korwin, the award-winning environmental writer of the Detroit News and an authority on the Great Lakes cleanup campaign. For example, researchers are puzzled by the mysterious l a y e r s of "dead water" which spread along the bottom of Lake Erie and parts of Lake Ontario in mid summer. The contaminated portion of Lake Erie has'nearly doubled In the Inst five years oven as major steps were being taken to curb pollution of surface waters. OR TAKE THE celebrated cate of the' Reserve Mining Company in Duluth,' whero taconite wastes have been found to be laced with liny asbestos fibers that constitute a serious health hazard to the drinking walers'of the region. Is it pos sible that tho fibers -- discovered only recently -- have been prevalent in Lake Superior for a long time due to land runoff? By the end of the decade, some $10 bil lion to $18 billion will have been spent to resurrect the Great Lakes. It will take additional huge sums and continued determination to bring the Great tak es back after generations of contamination and misuse. But the en couraging thing is that the situation isn't getting worso -- it's getting better. Untom f P ita srndiuit $ Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73t tim e. Of that number, about 50- per cent have remained "clean," the term used by compulsive gamblers themselves to Blue-collar views ------ o ^ ------ o r " v f v * M w p p t-u u iU /ii u i x z y brought the wreckage of their lives here. We'll tell you more about these men and the-Jiope Brecksvilie VA hospital offers them tomorrow. y y y W k i 74 | that's 29 years old By- Mike LaVelle-- DOES A WORKED have the right to be told that he has a disease that he the Navy has made some cash settle ments, Dr^Selikoff believes there has -been no Credible effort to track down other a|fected workers. * id h3?6 th e 'fight ,, _ compensated for the disease from, the ; fefected?.. . ; - / ' Dr. Irving J. Seiikoff, an environmen tal health scientist at New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital Environmental Sciences Laboratory, believed such workers ought to have those rights. ~ During World War II the United States had 3 million shipyard workers, some of ii whom contracted a fatal form of cancer caused by asbestos materials. It was called mesothelioma and struck the stomach lining and chest cavity. $ OTHER SHIPYARD~w'Orfeeffi- suffered from asbesteosis, a form of cancer similar to the coal miners' dreaded black lung disease. Before these two industrial dis eases became generally known, a work er's death was often attributed to brom chitis, pneumomia, and tuberculosis. In 1962, Dr. Seiikoff began researching the cases of 632 men who in 1942 were working as installers of asbestos-insula tion. By 1971, his research shows, 425 of them had dial. ; Mortality rates for the general popula tion indicated that only 285 deaths were to be expected during that 29-year peri Od; Moreover, according to Dir. SelikofPs -study, 47 of those deaths were speeifical- ly attributable to asbesteosis. Dr, Seiikoff wants the Navy and vari -ous shipbuilding companies who were in >4ajS^s dui^fW ofid War IXt6 notify 'former shipyabd'empioyesof their possibl^ susceptibility to the diseases. Though T can appreciate "the'T^vyVsuspX cions. And the maritime industry's 'a s well. We have all read about the practi cally empty CTA bus involved in a minor traffftnaishap and about the hordes of "passengers" who gather at the scen e crying "whiplash." It is little wonder there, might be a fear that a public exposure of past ship building health hazardsrcould trigger a sim ilar response from claimants all coughing and wheezing and asserting The Navy itself hais admitted some culpability by agreeing to award some workmen's compensation claims for " lungcancer. But so far only a handful of claim s have been made. FOR THE last few years Dr. Seiikoff, with tbe American Cancer Society, has been studying the two diseases and the Navy's liability. And according to E. Cuyler Hammond, a director of the can .cer socie|||gth e Navy is proceeding at less than' plPsteam . , "They kept saying they would begin next month, but nothing would happen." Hammond says. : At this stage of their study, it would be unfair^ to .accuse the Navy-or. -thi maritime, industrypf a medical pbyerup. Hut ohe thing is certain. What Dr. Seiikoff and theAmericari Cancer Socie ty have dumped in the goverament's fab hhs a n ain O t's:called a hot potato. Gerald r ora around in hi1 a collision. Even if tb a rumble, q they have a being in tha at that parti cipal occupaj WHAT IN Ford doing ; around tfie,s An inquiry ,,office brings driving to h raiser for 1 can Party, .raisers, in o arily th e'd United State chores. of C ^ P re s id e n ts.-. Ford econon -- npaaecMldnngs,.-tthh<i F o t^d adn weekends, a the chicken-.' h isid e r ssi tion that thu ify hi? part: ' patedehalle .nia govemoi Reagan oh i in v itin g . ten into the bes court. Ford's po well to sit demand tha on the folio' the front-ru .* i <**** 'wr-Ao u a j /if ' ' 5.; . - ?/' . -V `x'~ " '/ ' ` . ^l DEFENDANT'S a EXHIBIT pc-C 4i> J p e c fiz - 0IZ3 Fear cancer from fibers Casey Bukro ^ r f n Tribune (1%3-Currentfile): Oct 13, 1975; ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) A peninsula ol taconile filings and other wastes have formed off Reserve Mining Co. processing plant in Duluth, posing a possible cancer threat Fear cancer from fibers . fullered water is a way of life to Minnesotans living near Lake Superior, who tear billions of tiny fibers that may induce cancer. Robert Sephar, a biologist for the Environmental Protection Agency, drinks from a filtered fountain at the agency's olfice in fiuluth. Tribune Photos by David Nysirom Cleanest lake threatens life By Casey Bukro Environment editor Chic*Ttltw Prill Urfot DULUTH--Latte Superior to the larg est, deepest,- end deenest Greet Lake. Yet two federal courts have ruled that the lives of 200,00S who drink water from the lake may be threatened with cancer. The threat was bom .quietly SOyean ago, when mining exports found they could resurrect Iron o n from a dark grey rock known as (aconite by grinding it to a powder and using a magnet.. In IflSS, Reserve Mining Co. opened aa iron ore processing plant on toa snores of Lake Superior In Silver Bty, SOadlap northeast of Duluth, and began pumping tfaat powder into the lake. In early 1673, asbestos-tike fibers were discovered in the lake's water. It came from Re serve's (aconite powder. \ Asbestos fibers are known to cause cancerx at least when inhaled. The ex perts are uncertain about the hazards of the water-borne fibers In Lake Superior, but some fear 200,000 residents of Min nesota! Wisconsin, and Michigan who drink Lake Superior water could be threatened with cancer. .> "The best that con be said to that the existence of thfe-contamlnant In air and water gives rise to a reasonable medical concern for the public faeattb," ruled the United States Court of Appeals. THOUGH THAT RULING stayed an earlier U. $. District Court order to shut down Reserve lining immediately as a public health mepaco, it did enter the company to curb its air and water pollu- Uon in a "reasonably timo" or shut down. ' A , ' Reserve Mining .haa argued that tha fibers found in the 67,00) toss of (aconite tailings It dumpa'ufy Lake Superior each day are not asbestos. 11 courts decided that the oeedlp-Uke fibers am so much like asbeatoi that they warrant to# same degree of eattUonand protection.* U s cbm made legal history. It w i^ in effect, that courts coutd-act against a suspected public health hazard when they lack medical evidence that people, am being sickened arid killed* Even if the fibers in Lake Superior pose the same health threat as asbestos, the re sulting dfseaaea would take J& to ap. years to-appear. "X refuse to drink, that' asbestos water," said Mrs. Anne Jones, 35, as he ilQed a five-gallon container with filtered water available free of charge at any of the 14 fire stations in this city of 100,000.. . Mrs. Jonas, the mother of three, to one of an estimated lOfiw to 26,000 Du luth reridente who travel miles e*c 4 *Save our LAKE A secondlook week to coll>ect filtered water for drink ing or cooking. #Duluth wiii finish building a new water filtration plant by April, 1977, ac cording to David Peterson; the city's director of the Department of Water and Gas. In file meantime, nature won't allow . Duluth to forget about the fibers that pour through its taps. Heavy.storms last March stirred the trice bottom, so mud and fibers want coursbg through the city's water pipelines. "Tha water got bo dirty you couldn't sea your t o e s iq the bathtub," said Philip Cook, a-research chemtot for the V.S. Environmental Protocol Ageo* < rs National Water Quality Laboratory InyuluUt. * . - "JYe measured almost a billion fibers per quart in that water," S7 tones high er than toe normal, Cook said. Usually, the ofty's drinking water has it million to 100 million of the fibers In a' quart of water. After the storm last March, some people, complained of a furry feeling in their throats whan they drank tap water. ( Reserve Mining, owned by Republic Steel and Armco Steel, to under court order to find an inland site for dumping Us weites, which, la the tost 20 years, have formed two great deltas covering u e acres In tbs lake. SIX PLANS have been sdvri*nce<^ but Reserve .favors one that calls for con struction of a Itecre disposal site about five mites- intend from tha lake near , Silver Ray at a coat of 1252 million. ' Ecologists want Reserve to move tha ' whole (aconite ore processing plant to ' miles Hand. At a cost oi $877 million, < Reserve says the ecologists* desires are ;i prohibitively expensive. I The firm said It will tout down the N Sliver Bay plant if-the state rejects its \ plan, leaving 8,949 persons Jobless, in- - eluding 3,810 who work for Reserve Min- ' ing. ' The asbestos-Uke fibers spawned by Reserve's Iren we processing are "dearly the worst problem to Lake Su perior," said Dr. Donald Mount, director of toe EPA'o National Water Quality laboratory. "I regard It os an extremely serious problem because it is a hazard of un known potential," be said, MOUNT SELIEVES HHb pngHn has been made- in recent years in pro venting pollution from flowing into Lake Superior, the headwaters of the five Great Lakes and the source of dean water ter toe lower lakes. "The big dischargers are doing what they've always done," Mount said. "In terms of actually getting It out of the lake, not much is done yet. ' "Ihe ptldlc has sot made a commit ment to wfcpt it wants to do with the iakes-heap 'them as an untarnished gem or use them. Hie public should .not expect scientists to come to U rescue after the lakes have been hopelessly pot Lake Superior renews Us total water supply once every GOOyears. To those who say Lake Superior te too big to pollute, Mount says: "Lake Superior can be hint. I heard them My Uut about Lake Erie when 2 was a bey. I lived In that part of the country. They arid Lake Erie was too big to become pollute^" .produced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. **^cu en cu ea Chicago Tribune (1963-Current file)- Oct 17 lc m d ^ P ' ' ' roQuest H^torica! Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Blocked due to copyright See full page image or microfilm. Cancer research cited 3 Americans win Nobel in medicine STOCKHOLM, Sweden TAP I--Three American scientists were awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medi cine on Thursday for research into possiote links between viruses and cancer Two of the prize-sharers immediately said they questioned the importance of viruses as a cause of human cancer and called for research on the relationship between environmental pollution and cancer. . I don't want to downplay viral work, but the evidence available today Is that the role of viruses in cancer is small," said Dr. David Baltimore, 37, head of the tumor virology group at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. "In that case, maybe this is not the best place to put a lot of research mon ey, but it was sound a t the time when decisions were made to move into virol ogy in a big way," Baltimore told a news conference in Cambridge, Mass. He moved 10 years ago to London to work at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory, He did not comment on the impor tance of the virus-cancer relationship. The prize-awarding faculty of Swe den's Caroline medical institution cited the three microbiologists for discoveries showing "the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material in the ceil," TEMIN WAS one of Dulbecco's stu dents in the 1950s at the California Insti.tute of Technology. Baltimore was part of a Duibecco-Ied team at the-Salk Insti tute at La Jolla, Cal. Teriyn said in Madison that he was ."overwhelmed and honored" when he received the news from Baltimore, who phoned from'New York, where he is a .visiting professor a t Rockefeller Univer sity. ruses In' the 1950s after research on bac terial viruses. His research with DNA material showed a virus transformed cells which in turn were able to repro, duce their altered characteristics. The discovery of certain "footprints" of the virus suggested that genetic material of the virus remained in the transformed ceils. FOUR AMERICANS and wo Russians have become Nobel prize winners so far this year. On Tuesday, the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded Jointly to Dutch-bom American Tjalling Koopmans and Soviet economic planner Leonid Kantorovich, Five days earlier, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Soviet nuclear physicist and controversial civil rights champion, Andrei Sakharov. The remaining scientific Nobel prizes, those for physics and chemistry, will be distributed by the Swedish Academy of Sciences on Friday. The Swedish Acad emy of Letters has not yet announced' a date for the awarding of the literature prize and it was unlikely to come before the end of October. , HE ADDED THAT he thought " the bK t hope today for cures is research into, environmental causes of cancer. This is a good place to put funds now." Dr. Howard M. Temin, 40, a Unlversi- ty of Wisconsin professor who specializ- es in tumor research, said he, too, be-' lieves experiments will show most hu man cancer is not caused by viruses. He described cancer as an unnatural body-, cell condition caused by unnatural chemical influences. ' Through parallel research, Temin and Baltimore achieved a major break through in tumor virus mechanisms in 1979. A central dogma in the field of molec ular biology;a t one time implied that information transfer in nature could -TMjy occur from the genetic material DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] to the al ternate genetic material RNA [ribonu cleic acid] and not in the other diree- tion. ' "It has been documented that several materials used in industry can cause cancer," he said, citing asbestos, vinyl chlonde, and some pesticides. TEMIN SAID he thought cancer re search needs new ideas more urgently that it needs new money. "There seems to he a good level of caireer research in this country-the limiting thing is a lack of new ap proaches," said Temin. The third winner was Dr. Renato Dul becco, si, who did most of his research at the California Institute of Technology. 1 'BOTH TEMIN and Baltimore were able to accumulate indirect evidence showing the occurrence of a specific en zyme in RNA tumor virus particles make a DNA copy from RNA, the Caroline Institute said. Dulbecco, who went to California In 1949, worked with two other Americans who won the Nobel medicine prize In 1969--Sslvador Luria and Max Delbrueck--at Cal Tech. Luria now heads the department of biology at MIT where Baltimore recently set up his own can cer research center. Dtdbecco started studying animal vl- Reproduced with permission o f the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without DEFENDANT'S 3 EXHIBIT u U c c - C et tp ( P l l L ^ C 6 ) u e Z s fiA tMrsi A Blue-collar views Mike LaVcffc p" aT n ,h m <63- ^ ' ^ > : < * 30.1975; P,oQucs, f W i c Newspaper ChogoTntacilSSO - ,985) Blue-collar views The job hazards a man never sees By Mike LaVelle fibers per milliliter of air over an eight- THE DEPARTMENT of Labor reccutjjr proposed new standards limiting `.he levels of a worker's exposure to asbes tos fibers, lead, beryllium, and 13 other loxie chemicals. When the original standards for many of these chemicals and asbestos materials were set in 1972, the Nixon administration was measuring their impact on industry and had an eye focused on business. hour period to 0.5 fibers, a reduction of to per cent. Unfortunately, the standards on asbes tos materials will not cover construction workers. These workers will continue to be. governed by the old standards unless the OSH.-Construction Industry Safety Advisory Committee can come up with a proposal to lower the construction limit, loo. In any case, the tandard for con Business will be singing its old refrain -- it cannot afford to institute the stricter struction workers will be two fibers pcimilliliter of air beginning July 1 , 1970. standards, standards wlu'ch the AFL- The institution of tho new standards CIO had asked for in a suit tiled in fed involves tho complicated field of indus eral court. trial disease. Industrial health hazards After much litigation, the courts di do not make good newspaper stories. rected the Occupational . Safety pnd Health Administration to review its monitoring regulations and to extend the . A log that is broken or a hood that Is busied because of unsafe mucldncry is easy to describe. That is not true of the lime limit for keeping medical records lung that is damaged because of years on workers who had been exposed to asbestos. of exposure to dangerous materials. The clock cannot be turned back, the ma UNDER THE system in operation in 1072, OSHA together with business moni tored industrial asbestos and chemical levels and kept these record* for three years; workers' medical records wore to be kept for 20 years. Common sense dictates that monitor ing chemicals at Uirce-year spans Js vir tually useless In dealing with workors who arc exposed to suspected dangerous chinery cannot simply he -fixed or re placed. , .. But the latter kinds of industrial health hazards are preventive In nature, If it is a strain to understand wlint these dangerous dieralcals and fibers are. and what they can do to one's budy, please take time to learn. The choice could bo a few weeks in the library or years of crippling infirmity. chemicals over 10- and 15-year spans. The issue here is not one restricted sim ply to exposure levels. Under the new' Labor Department proposals, monitoring chemical lovels and workers' niedicu! examinations would bo extended to 40 years or the duration of a workers' employment plus 20 years -- whichever is longer. According to Uie Labor Department, an estimated 50,000 workers are em ployed in the manufacture of products containing asbestos. Those Indirectly ex posed to asbestos thru the handling of products such as plastics and furniture and those exposed to it on construction jobs runs into the millions. The proposed standards regulating as bestos levels wilt lower the current 5 THE LABOR Department -.tandards cover beryllium, lead, toluene, triehterelliyleiie, p-tert-lnayltoluene, 'cumene, ethyl benzene, alpha-methyl styrenu, styrene, vinyl lolueno, cyclohexane, camphor, mesityl oxide, S-mcthyl-Ii-hcplanone. and ozone, It Is expected that industry will eight against ihe proposed standards tooth and claw just as it has fought prior proposals, Vou owe It to yourself -to bo Informed and to fight back, especially if you arc exposed to one of these chemicals. The Chicago Area Committee on Occu pational Safety and Health is an organi zation composed of workers concerned about industrial linzurds. The committee is located at 512 S. Dearborn St. Drop them a line or give them a call. Reproduced with peraussran of Ihe copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 73x Romk?K o w T d ca n ce`" a w hoIe industry holds its breath Chicago Tribune (1963-Curremfile); Apr 4,1976; ProQues. Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1890 - 1985) Chemicals and cancer-- whole industry holds its breath By Ronald KKoo,iuUl,aakk Seronea editor K T J f f s ', ; " : pounds designed to make llfo easier and . more enjoyable, . n. .igI h",t"m!a!0re8. TI?hienredrI?stngirbowtiunrgnisnugspinictoiona . `hat many of tho tens of thousands of new chemicals that-have been created o ! ^ b g hcmcPJ 0 d m i tnay be.Cap`,b'0 i bi^ toi hy 'ho federal Administration af Itcd Dyo No. 2. wElch fs widely used for . 5dirMiittia!,,gtisfuacnhofmW,inngosus01sigthnoorrfjemsoarnedtrseouf.t Dio to come. . I WE DISCOVERY that people who . work with vinyl chlorltfe, osbostos, and alntalllnodydey,enrnuna agrgeraetalytlyInicnrceraesaesdedrirsiksk of doveloplog cancer and thot rwlolo families^of chemicals such as Iho.'chlorlflfliod hydrocarbons' mny bo cancer causing has created a ' wvoro casctjf jitters in tha industry. ' The problem hss boon thnt practically nono of tho now chomlcals were tested for their potential ability to cause cancer before being put on the mnrkct. . . Aa ? ? ". we Itvo In a sea of ehcmi- , M""ons of people aratexposod dol ly to those chemicals, -end many of them may have an increased risk el developing cancer, according to.' Dr. Frank J. Rauschcr Jr., director of tho National Cancer Institute. . At first,' no- one really suspected that chomlcals caused cancer. But as tho suspicions grew, scientists were faced wllh another rendblock-thcre is no easy way to test a chemical for. its cnrclnogonlcty [ability to cause cancer}. ` ' \ TTHHEETETSETSSTSinivnovlovleveauebujbcjcclclntliargansin.lrenls to tho chomlcol-for a long'porlod of llmo,.about two to (hreo yoars, to sco If somo of them develop cancer. Such i31^50,000optoer ch'o`PmelcpalK. c:o'sting a.bout "After a company spends $5 mlllldn'In developing .a now chemical product It really doesn't want to know it It may enuso cancer," sold Dr. Bruce Nt Ames, a hlochomlst at tho Unvorslty of Califor nia at.Borkclcy. . . -Ilka many Americans, Amos long has boon bothered by. tho complin chemical names of preservatives, colorings, and other food additives he rends on labels, TEN YEARS ago he started to work en a part-time laboratory project to sco If theso chemicals (hat his children ato could bo tested more easily. Ho camo up with a revolutionary screening test that la simple, fast, and inoxpcnsivc. His test opera the door to ... quickly checking tho thousands of chemteals altoady on' tho market fa see If they may be potential carcingena, and to tasting new ones bdforc they'ore,put late production. , . ' , *. findings have embroited him In two major controversies. 5,hTMc? Ihat " ost hair dyes may bo potential carcinogens. The chomlcals used, .as,flnmo retardants In childrens pajamas alto 'turned out to bo powerful carcinogens in his tost, v . ; BASED ON Ames' results, hair dyes and flame retardants now are undor- f 'f.f morc fborough nntmnl tests to see If they causo -ttinllgnnclcsiln'tho animals. . ` _ f*?1 " Environmental Defensa FUnd petitioned tho Consumer Product Safety Commission to -tako Immediate c! - `S rduc0 0 exposure of-el#- dren and others to -fabrics treated wllh flnmo retardants. ' ....... retardant In question ts Trls: 1*>>mirepy1J phosphate. An csttmated 3 mlfilon pounds-of Trls arc mndo annually and It makes up 6 to 10 percent of Uio weight of tho garment.' J ? ? 0 . , i'*ni recommends thatnow sleeping wenr bo washed at least p|1e!frs!ao.n.-'smexcspobscuiroerotowTeralsr.ing to rcduco a rl^ `urt.MvoIvcs.tho uso of a epohim hriAi ?.tnW 1!a bacteria that tortiV .tUl W,a ? l6v' i Wok- Tho bee 'fhtaavmo a defective bgcencea.u*i"Bu`tbotyi aAlrmeaady tho .bacteria do e tin re w ln v it Z ^ i that tho chemical Is a powerful^muteSS that has corrected Uio iadgene. ^ nnne(tiincCmTMaItieicrifa1l,6cloronnm8 eankooumshantoy atrlteeersgnef changes, Including repairing a detective gene or causing cancer, "<---ciive This makes the lest very slmole in scopes ter mutattherdouggehnejws,ivthoerfSscmieinctriost " S S ^ r t f c f n' a dlC" ' ' ' ABIUJOfJ.OP thud genetically crln. plod bacteria are placed In a wtrf dish along wllh tho chemfcal to bo tested. * * chemicals thnt aro capablo of " BCD' often hre equnlfr cacaf mulflltens, Ames walls a " ahort period,to seo If any mutations oc" $ ywteTwa,t,or " W f Sth2orefdtnd^MrnAi? 'lbc `"kcs " mpleto and only two to costs from 200 to 3700 for each chemical tested. As a - result of, this work wn hTM supported tho theory, nowenfnvta ihat almost o!l ehemlca?carcb Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further re p r o d u c e prohibited whhou. p e r s o n . S t a $ r C" Cer' by 73y  F"* y un me spot Carol Rasmussen Pg WSA4rll>U" e (I9 6 i' ^ t,rre,,lf ,lv) Mar I0. 1977' ProQucst Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1S9Q- 1985) Pro and con pu t dyes on the spot by carol Hasmussen fo o d 'G u id e director IN THE NOT-TOO*DISTANT future. * ' `natural*' dye `made from beet juice might tint strawberry Ice cream pink, a dye from cranberry juice may luro cherry cola ruby red, and the pigment from grape skins could color froslings. overload of a few and allow the FDA to move more quickly when there is a problem with one dye. Countering that argumeul, Wolfe of HRG soled that if a food dye presents a risk and is banned, there doesn't need to be a replacement. ' " People are disturbed about the haz H ie food dye industry has already got ards of food additives." He cited a re ten out its tincture bottles and juice cent [19751 survey by a national maga crushers and is taking a hard look at the uses and limitations of natural dyes for food. zine which asked people If they would agree to an outright ban of all food additives that have only cosmetic bene It is afraid that after the Food and fit. and W per cent said "yes." Drug Administration [FDA] banned-vio The chance of a metabolic overload let 1 and red 2, and with its renewed from synthetic dyes could be a real scrutiny of -the only remaining all-pur* threat, especially for children. pose red food color, red 4o, the agency might move to ban nil remaining syn thetic food dyes made from coal tar derivatives. Kids a t the high end of the scale, eating virtually no food without food col oring may, "by the age of 12, eat as much as 12 pounds ot coal ta r dyes." The industry doesn't want to be caught with an empty palette. NOT ONLY IS this not a "small amount" of dye,' but'studies that have THE FEARS COULD be realized, for shown certain dyes to be a hazard were Ralph Nader's Health Research Group done on only a single dye, as if that 1HRG] recently asked the FDA to ban were the only additive in the food sup all nine remaining synthetic food dyes. ply. and not on combinations of (wo or The group argues that information in more dyes, Wolfe added.- the FDA's own files yields ''indisputable evidence * that two of the dyes cause TM c c r and -suggestive evidence" that the rest are also carcinogens. Seme of this research was done by industry and some by companies hired by industry, said Sid Wolfe, director of HRG. The government and industry view on (his point is that there is no data on this subject and without evidence of a syner gistic effect of one dye with another a dye cannot be banned. "We are just a t the point of trying >to get respectable people together to think- about the ques th e dyes in question are citrus red 2, tion," aid FDA's Dr. Richard Ronk. used to color some Florida orange sktos: red 40; orange B. which colors not dog and sausage casings; red 3; blues 1 and 2; green 3; and yellows 5 and 0. There is no such data on food dyes, but there is data on ooe situation that shows two known carcinogens affect people more than each taken singly. Among people who are occupationally At a day-long session devoted to food exposed to both tobacco and asbestos, dyes at a recent Institute of Food Tech the effect Is "three or four times high nologists seminar, industry spokesmen er" than the effect of either carcinogen defended the continued use of synthetic afone, retorted Wolfe. * . --7 --0 wwiuwi, e"aifve---<evweenn w ater or milk can kill in large amounts. won't buy food if it isn't colored. -- The amount of dye in food is so small and is not used in every food, so public concern is misplaced . . . and " IT TOOK US years to ban red 2, but it will take us less to ban the rest," he added. * That sentiment has the dye industry feeling blue, but time may be on its there are far more potential hazards In side. The FDA recently announced that food than dyes, such as the microbio it will begin this month to develop a logical hazards in home kitchens." Furthermore, since 1965, fewer than five new addlflves have been approved by the FDA, and nose were approved last year. "priority list" of about 2,100 food color and flavor additives for a "safely re view," preparing profiles of each addi tive will take, about 18 months, and then the agency might move to restrict use THAT 18 THE "wrong policy," said of some or remove some from Urn mar ket; Dr. Richard Hall, vice prcsldent/rcsearob for McCormick [a flavor'firm ]. There ought to he more additives ap- That leaves lots of time to find new natural dyes, and lota of food that still can contain coal ta r dyes. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited wilhoul permission. 73z , ................. -nt: j , h e b e r a i n r I I,, ,s ,, ..,. M r . Warnke lr,|,j e m e ihal eve,, rho^j.j, real M ilan,s,s m agu-pow ers i v lb (. (J(n , elf. ihr-. sh o u ld ,,n- be: 'h e fo llo w e rs m n ai " i a c k - w i , , r, v. ho h v e in a hi-*,..,- ;.n,: . 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Pi met lion Agem y reouire Thai no asbesios mills give ntf visible entissjolfs, an ` " C M ' am i rs. Us effects s im ctim es <j0 nol show up f m l y e 'f r s ,n p e r s o n s e x p o s e d lo heavy doses. eturn of advertising S f f^surged less air (leaning devices are used io eliminate asbestos <miss,one. I hey also ban ihe use of asheslos tailings - ihe unused p ari or asbesios ore - for road surfaces, an d perm it no visible A spokesm an said the ban on asbestos tailings applies pri- w h e 'Iy ' c r 0 a d s ,in V e rm n t, w hgre asbestos m ines exist. B eryllium com pouijds can be lethal if inhaled i n `sufficient quantities and also have been j1:rpporrreess.iidd..ee..mn..t...oo.ff...'(hh. oe .AA mm eerriiccaann .^w. iJu,.c,hdl<,JdbCee*nnnTrreeeqptuu?iirr,e^Ldd uSTfnTddee'rr em issio n from fa c to rie s u sing leer Society urged broad- asbestos. inked to skm and eye prob lem s. T he new rules lim it the le rs F rid ay to "h elp sa v e a i f fairness doctrine, dropped b) three-fourths. T hat w asn 't These plants include those am ount of beryllium th a t m ay be expelled from plants and idred thousand liv es" by re- H o u g h io co u n teract "th e m ak in g ce rtain textiles a s well p rohibit the b u rning of b er r n [ n g anti-cigaret com-cials m the a ir to count- gift m orons a p p e a ls o f th e cig a- a s cem ent products, floor tile, paints, insulating m aterial and yllium w aste except in in ^eduction" of the T . ' 1 " ' 1 advertising d' sines." he 1 # 6 |n- a long list of o th er p ro d u cts. , c in erato rs, and re stric ts the n6 races firm s, l ' l !>e re s u lt h a F li e e n a n up- T he EPA prescribed certain amounts burned. which m ay be r. A rthur G. Jam es, a Co p ro ced u res to follow w hen " r ,n ^ - smSing, - The beryllium rule affects b u s (O hio) s u rg eo n , s a id (*<...-illy among teen-agers *' b u ild in g s c o n ta in in g a s b e s io s th e heavy a n ti-c ig a re t a d James said. , iinn ss uu llaa ttiioo nn aa rrpe d e m o lis h e d . c e r t a i n foundries', c e ra m ic - m akers, m achine shops and ipaign on radio and tele- Ja m e s called upon broadcast- W hen razin g buildings above rocket-iesting faciiii es. 3n h a d p ro d u c e d a m a rk e d c y to a g a in " t a k e In to th e c e r t a i n h e ig h ts , d e m o litio n B realhing njercury vapors e a se in th e n u m b e r of f " ,e s A m erica ,h e -m ess- crew s m ust w et down the a s has been Jinked to n erv e and ' -agers taking up sm oking d l? rfb0U` Cigaret smoking bestos m a te ria l a n d drop it to ih e g round in air-tig h t ch u tes. kidney in juries, as w ell a s >'ocn 1968 a n d 197). thK effectively changed the T h e E P A e s tim a te d th a t 25,- b ra in d a m a g e . U n d er th e new It w hen ih e b a n on b ro a d - a S l l f 8 aabilS f TMiI,ions of m b u ild in g s w h ich wit) fall ru le s, p la n ts w h ich p ro c e s s cig arei advertising took atw its and prevented th e ad u n d er these rules a re dem o m e rcu ry o re o r use m e rcu ry -'t tw o y e a r s ag o , th e n u m - diction of m illions of teen a g e rs ." lished each y ea r. The new com pound? to produce chlorine p ro c e d u re s will a d d a n esti- g a s a r e lim ite d in th e am o u n t of em issions they can produce.