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Kr* Thenaa L. Sullivan, President, Intonations! Fibers, Inc., 24S0 Lee Boulevard, CLEVELAND 13, Ohio* r Dear Tens Thank you for yeur letter of September 15th together with a copy of Erie Womser's letter f September 13th and a copy of the article appearing in Chccical Voofc n *. asbestos. I have not sade a recent count of the authors, of copies of this article which have . arrived here iron various sources but, I can assuro you, that if such copies represented fan rail then I would consider syself extrcroly popular# First, va have attached a copy of a letter written by our Medical Director, Dr. Kenneth Snith, to Dr. Fitzgerald of the Tile Council of Arrcrica and thin is solf explanatory. As you know, wo icfor all enquiries cn the possibly health hazards of asbestos fibre to our Medical Director for reply and ve consider his reply to * Dr* Fitzgerald to be very pertinent in the particular esse in.question. Secondly, we, are inform wit Cuxdsal `..'cal- will print a retraction of the article appearing in tha Scpterber ICth nuebsr at the staterants contained in this article, arc not correct nor do they represent tec true facts as written in tho original t . article for prcsar.tav-cr. in Chemical Week. In addition, va understand that tho i U.S. Fublic Health C-.'vi.j has stated that they have boon slsquotcd in this particular case c. : prasuuably they will tabs independent action in this jnattejr* Unfortunately, editors hsvo a tendency of reducing tho word content of any articlo presented to them such that tho resultant cense to tho rcador bears no rcsozblscco to tha writer* s intent* ; Feprcscntativo Kobcrt Watkins is engaged in a politcal czzzzitft and for his own political reasons did r.ako tho statement app-.ering in tho article but precurobly to has liitio or no knowledga of tho entity -object end is interested only in t i j. . * Hr* ThoMS L* Sullivan, *. International Floors, Inc* . . # pang 2 creating an atacsphoro for tho collection of votes* , Without a doubt, considerable damage has been dens by tho publication of tbo article in-question and a retraction by Chemical 'deek will be helpful but will not correct tho danago done* However, a very broad ar.d thorcugh investigation * . is underway by extresdy competent*csciccl pcracr.ncl into tbo ea'ctcr of asbestos . as a potential health hazard and sesa facts relating to this prograa should be available for publication in future sonthe* Vith kindest regards* Yours very truly. . ?>'. V, KBMDRY, General Sales Manager HVH/bh # Attachment ** bee: - H. A* Boisclair - Box 270, N*Y. . J* * Connor - Philadelphia * V. P, 0*Beilly - Cleveland W, T. Partridge - Chicago J* M* Sharratt - Houston J* P. McCarthy - San Francisco . H* V. Blackhurst - Port Credit F* E. Puchame - Albany J. H.-Bodder - Atlanta H* G. Donovan - Bes Manvilie . J*.G. Sattersby - Bes. Manville * "J*,A Foxwell - Bes. Manville