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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1981 DOC OC136 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Deposition of Willis Hazard FRANK T ABRAHAM P. C. W W WATKINS P. C. NICK C. NICHOLS C ROBERT E. BALLARD P C DALE FRIEND C ROCKNE W. ONSTAD P. JOHN R LEACH H GRANT KAISER CRAIG D. BALL REID WILLIAMSON C JANE FRASER R DAN FONTAINE LAW OFFICES ABRAHAM WATKINS NICHOLS BALLARD ONSTAD & FRIEND A PARTNERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS 800 COMMERCE STREET HOUSTON TEXAS 77002 713 222-7211 June 25 1985 BERT H.TUNKS THURMAN M GUPTON COUNSEL TO THE FIRM W. JAMES KRONZER ASSOCIATED COUNSEL Dr. Barry Castleman 1722 Linden Ave. Baltimore Maryland 21217 Dear Barry I certainly appreciate the hospitality you extended to Larry and myself when we were in Baltimore Your assistance has proven to be and will continue to be very helpful I talked with Bert Danziger from Los Angeles and he indicated you were curious about what happened to the Saranac documents that Illinois had concerning kaylo On February 11 1981 in cause number 80-0180AP in the United States States District Court for the District of Maine Lawrence Kimble v Manville Corporation et al the deposition of Willis Willis Hazard was taken On page 49 of his deposition the following question and answer appeared Question And when the kaylo division was sold to OwensCorning what happened to your file Answer The last day that they were part of Illinois we got some corrugated paper cartons unloaded our file cabinet had them called the janai t tt he o enr d Corning carried over to Owens a poner the afternoon and I am sending you copies of pages 49 and 50 of the deposition Should you require anything else please let me know Very truly yours REB Enlosures CC Mr. Lawrence Madeksho ROBERT For E. BALLARD the Firm Q Now you are familiar with the fact that the Kaylo Division was sold to Corning in May of 19587 A. Yes sir a And you knew about that during the time that the sale was being consummated and the transfer occurred ? | A. I don't remember when I knew it 1958 stands stansds tands stands 1 out when the final thing was accomplished 2 Did you at any time tell anybody from Owens- | Corning about the Saranac study dealing with Kaylo A. I don't remember a Do you remember if there was someone who you would consider a counterpart at Corning someone that you may have dealt with or discussed industrial hygiene problems at Corning A. Q A. At what period During 1958 I don't remember that Q Did you maintain a file dealing with the Saranac study the letters from Dr. Vorwald and the reports A. Yes Q. And when the Kaylo Division was sold to Owens Corning what happened to your file 2 > Nene 50 A The last day that they were part of Owens- Illinois we got some corrugated paper cartons unloaded our file cabinet called the janitor at the end of the afternoon and had them carried over to Corning Corning . Is this as a result of some instruction or memorandum or directive generally to transfer documents dealing with Kaylo to Corning RE A 2, I don't remember whether it was or not I we did that 0 You did do it A Yes And in addition to your files were other files also turned over to Corning at that time MR KELLEY Object KR Q Yes What other files were turned over to Owens- Corning that you know of A I don't know what they were I don't know what files went over I know ours did a And that would include the documents that have been marked today Pu I don't know whether all of those documents documents were in that file or not but we sent over material