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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-
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Dr. M
Johnson, the
company'* director 'AT eovl
roomraul hrallh. said that
a Sft-yearold man employed
St the plant died in Frtirv
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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
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