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976 (rtiodrit'li to IYoIkP Lo-hIiL Link - Beta mi RuIiImt-Making. Leukemia ii The U K ` **<>' -h < > .in nonaped jestcrd- that it wsH inirntirM' * |wtN* lift between eyr'heltc tuh her manufactur'- - and T-->. ktma sf'rr ff.-}/):.- lhat !:.ii-ronjo- .- * - i*> '' \a' j'i.ini llkll mi:' I Mill i.i- M' - in*IPod \t t*- van'1' d n i.i. . 1 ihe %;it|<-i>- '"'tiiuu- Hi <Jrut.tionai Naiety and Health ^4 that nrtvaic r/ aa under Dr* Jofteph Wagner and Robert Kr/1 of NJOSirsD1. vUlon of Surveillance m Cincinnati said In a lelr phone Intcnlo that further ftndy wu "very much in or d<-r" and deserved immediate attention" after the Goodrich finding* They said that the exlt et*ee of a canrer haiard in the mullibilliofl dollar thetie rubber indium would have bnai finm-ir.i'* impart The leukemia i a turned ur> at the fiondn-ti Pert Neches plant. which makes synthetic rubber ftires and r**nveynr belts m a proresa Involving the chemi- ral substance* styrene and butadjajje Dr. M Johnson, the company'* director 'AT eovl roomraul hrallh. said that a Sft-yearold man employed St the plant died in Frtirv ary and another worker who baramc III with leukemia *' ceutty it rer-etviru tn-at Two tftiml etnfU>>eev **1 and M died H the drees** mre 1WT1 a--iit a man *1. j had ler thi plant l-r an other j"h dj* l IK 1906 Oe'rLint I jot mru f pubhe -fi - 11 r mmuAj . s lion* >ai<i tn. : th** oimpar pUnmd "eomi4*tc JJ-Jll- tl tud' v. .If !.: `i > M 1>C* tv! Mamr* werr i There air A V3 pruriiui.- wotkrr' :i* " 1 |vi: \i-. ,:i v (loirretioa A WaaJuiuteu Pact article .jn: \I- >n,. ! jt i. *! ii tit- 'k : i plnycr* *he ni;mr-r n krmii ra-e* tuim-d i it ptent:g!!y (. .in* " t'-u* tfi. t I .'!)) nr*'j..). rij.'ij Itiri -. : .v . ,,l l;> ..Hit - . ! nv - *>..!> tiff mii .? N i-.-dr . l` 5 t 'i-- i ,j i n ii !'rr .. The d*um-r ..f :nr leu tx'irwa eases as a reault *; an etluutti>* study of erap|tne 1ST TtTTtt'J|8l , tuaBuiaeturm# hp'OnqQylfli and other t'ompaaies a* linked In a rare liver lancer. Viny I chloride i not in xnlved in tiocHirieli'* Texioperatinn* NIOSll officials aaid that the industry and the Oil. Chemical and Atomic Work ers Union were spn^sonn.: research un the health im part of sjvrcne* by lljn*ard and Nqjro Carolina l river titles. Employer* and u^iors -it the Texas plae? wi-rr *** lurmed >e'terda> of the leu- ksmia findio;'. .nc! Most! iS-isii inionne*! Dr \nthonr J MrM*-h aH. nl th lJe>arlm',n: . f Kpidemiolofiy at the L ni\:'> nv of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said yesterday that there had been a "fairly foaalatent exceu of leuke mia drfttha' at Kjnthetie rubber company plants stud ied during the research pro ject. He said that the number of deaths had vaned. but that the death rate for lymp hatic leukemia, a periirular Op ttasl)in$lsn Jtost tmoM Ssdaij (Ana case mi ? iOOO-Nml Mwb 23J-4IOO - C"tvW-oi~ 2 ? S.ft2 --C^w. t d Ac.. Orw* IM: 22J-7J0O--OiUKt Newt 0*U 21J-7JIJ MdA^a News Oesk 22J-7M2--Ombudsman 3234Q41- Sporti Scc w t* laiesnuft Hm H imm, nw*t, e eaeRnrw * o eiMe mas* * ' 1 ; r . lir- >h< 1 .^IliT Itiufi for u` 1/nt^h U-.il i nrcr <<: rh' rhiefl\ *'-<* ; ;i*' I r J . RSV 0006607 hef