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csae hilfe Gcatral Cffioes robrucry 12, 1967 r.TL rjucm cc cii.xia.vz2i; azrenms n. n**t u*ny, hu b. . H 1 2) C* / R* IS. Rurtia V. f. S-wchcfr c. n. sucfaum *--iseecerch - n. e. rciic .- ILre la a ferUf --gagy of Wbat w (Uncuawefi Curiae cur nsetlac February 0 la your office. Wo nrrl4 the tafoiootloo w facto roodYod m fkr m tfaa aufivem publicity la Bure* m polychlcartrafcort Hpfaenyla. For tUo wccrt| wo Into xocelwafi tta ftMoflnc pufa&latari lnforaotloa. loiter fraa Puawr tfitark of tfaa Tnattfrnto of Analytical Cleadrtrjfc ttaiyaraity of Btoofafrolafe Mil ftwrtwr 29| about fala Hr. Jeaaca defining oono of tat tatfQKano la facts calyilail voefa ao potlycfalorloafaed * ttytauarla. Attaabad to thia letter wca a ngpart oa the yPMcnoo of polychlorinated ttjtaanrla t cocUbe analysis of bjdoetail mfl> written tor Hr. Jetsam Qynoir Wldaoxtc. SHvo Wood of oar Braoeela oIXloo am* m tfao to jaw* nlaaae of Jnuoy ID* 19&T# about tfao Pwofllah oicosaa la detecting tfao jpoSycUtoelnated Ufbaurl. , A aao vrltUa far tmm Wood dated Jwnary K tarnrising fata out* o&tfa Paoaon, is Baodoo* Ala on* tfao drofc lahnuaUcn In tfae 0. C. rocfbsr 15* 1966, tb Hto Bdaatlgt Mvnripg. carried n article about a aov clbeniaal lamrd,ntdortiOTtlac the suns that bad tern Cooc fay the University or ctocH- Zxacottall?, all of these reports covered tfae anoc itaso. ]Xm to tfao f^-'********* of tfao Aroclor products to tfac Cfepoic Uvlsloa, we dr?f/flofl on tjfao foUovUic piw of actios* M*y of tfaa action retired Dalis vlthla tfao reala of your autbcorlty, you aoeepted tfaa responsibility to fcilw through oo the followixv:'. MONS 097089 LEXOLDMONOOOQ23 I 8 1* Prepare a stnteawnt or letter tar coo ty Itariastiiy; vith custooera laquir* about thi* publicit}'. . 2. you vill tolls to Bun Porrestol on partgarlss o press release oad told It until such a tine that v* fscl as though it should be released. 3. Give seas thought to few vc rould oaerctafr this jpbblaa on a toadoologies! sod pfceimaalagiDel feos&o* V, salt to the B3R pecpla after m define the pmeaa to contact. 5, Arnuvgt for contact with fieyer ona ftrodeleo. tvs guMtloos that kept oeatag leek to ur atafle tads* tbs motion mm that Is ill of tbs pKpOBmta ptUfes^ three feo Im oothL^ about the lento tt*t feme Um fmW pertkatetp la the air art no om few oagrthiap wot fentt would feo eoealdned Jamful. few SeUar fereutf* out the fiact that tfeam met feme two other prototi floui la thff etaplate ***tyrtt and fea y*4lJ fee interested la tawing Wot other thUgf mm ffcuafi. (f ffeeae try*** aoeS Iwdlitt a&teotlQB vltt tti mi|Uat or wmu of the pfeMftv r the tocMfeiioA nft |Ww8mmi ' iBftolMtttlSflUi '' +-- --- * Rjoeee do let as kaw if tbm la auptblag X w do or engr uey x ooa heap la getting them ectiooe etartad end getting per Infcwtion lawthor oo that m tea mka aura our Aroelur feualaioo la wt aXXhetai fey this evil poaiolty* - /tot ssn^ssi MQNS 097090 LEXOLDMONOOOQ24 o ------ nrCNtMtNTATOX . . . J>V~ /,/30/fa 7 Conservationists have another chemical to worry about, one that apparently aooumulatee hi fi.th, birds, animals and people much like DDT. Called polychlorobiphcnyl (PCB) In Sweden where its presence in nature was first discovered, the chemical Is known as chlorinated biphenyl in the U.S. Though not made In Sweden, the : ` ttfA chemical Is used worldwide in transformer oils, lubricants, paints and solvent?. A Swedish scientist says PCB( firsI"appears in museum-preserved sea eaglet dating from 1944, and that It is now present in high concentrations In Hsh, fish spawn, birds, seals, and human adults and children. The Swedes attribute wide spread distribution of PCB--it has been detected In the air of London and Ham- j, ,, - ' burg, and in seals off Scotland--to air pollution resulting from industrial uses $, 04 .//&' "d from incineration, which does not destroy the chemical. The extent of the j hazard, if any. Is not known. And U.S. sources say they are not aware of any , such problem In this country, "Taka ma to tha moon" remains a wish in sang only for most women, except for the Jo/cn or so who joined about nine hundred men in answering the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) latest call for scienti.sts-astronauti (Chrmen- (Jo tafor, Sept 16, IMS, p. 68). At Use deadline, Jan. 8, only 839 doctorate engineers and scientists had filed applications out of an estimated 20,000 qualified persons in the country. Engineers comprised 27% of the applicants. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will pre-screen the applicants for NASA, which will select twelve of the survivors before August 15. No estimate of the women applicants' chances of selection is available. /o SfO"U***SL* 1,; t /: / Even ttt United Steelworkers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Injunction that forced striking members back to work at Union Carbide Corp/i Kokomo, ' Ind,, plant (Chemontator, Jan. 16, p. SI), the company appealed last week to a W. Va. court to set aside an unemployment compensation award to Its Alloy, W. Va., employees. The W. Va. Dept, of Employment Security said on Jan. 6 that 1,060 Alloy employees were entitled to compensation for the nearly three months the plant was shut down between July 2 and Sept. 22,1906. The National Labor Relations Board had branded that shutdown as an illegal lockout , , (ChemenUttor, Nov. 7, 1066, p, 67). When Carbide reopened the plant, the . employees struck. They are still striking. I. I- Power plants and tfwrtrteot New Jersey pdt most ct the triune tor high wHur d&wriir ^50t) levels in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area--the power companies . because they produce most of the pollutant, and New Jersey because it has no 1 rules to cope with the problem. : These wen among the conclusions of the lengthy N.Y.-N.J. Interstate Air , Pollution Abatement Conference held in New York this month {Chementator, Jan. 16, p. 82). The Conference, though recessed, technically remains in session until a permanent body is established. Among the recommendations were thesei ;! * Federal representation, with a vote equal to the states, on the Interstate ' ' ' .. body, The U.S. wants an entirely new agency, while the conferees prefer to V ' ' expend the authority of the existing Interstate Sanitation Commission. ! Application of New York's ambient-air quality objective* to the entire area. .. * Power plants not to bum fuel exceeding 1% sulfur after Oct. 1, 1969, ' unless die plants are equipped to deal adequately with SOt emissions. ' *No new generating plants to be permitted unless a 20-yr. supply of . low-sulfur fuel can.be guaranteed New sources of SO< emission to be limited to 500 ppm., and existing ' sources limited to 2,000 ppm. . ... MOWS 030213 at Jaaaary SO, 10*7--dwmltil Imlwwrtae 4 LEXOLDMONOOOQ25 ((,1IJ2 'tSvt c 1TV/IWfLAnMUttTg NOTES ON THE NEW6 continued potaioet in one operation. Work i* alio in peqgret* on a double-row harveitcr. Tnat tractor wheel* arc indeed harmful to toil ha* emerged from a unique field ttudy at the inittlute. Using a gamma-ray probe and detector, reaeircher* there have been able to observe for the first timetiie actual local profile* of toil deniity aero** tractor rut*, plough furrow* and the like. They have reined them to the failure of plant* *ueh a* raspberry cane* to grow where the toil hi* become compacted. Clod* are al*o typically the remit of the pauage of heavy machinery aeros* the soil for vtrioui purpose* well u booing. At ao .(hat cutting down the extent to which the National Institute of Agricultural traetore and vmealed vehicle* run over the Engineering, Howden, Midlotlxan, mih toil will undoubtedly improve production. interesting new attitude! are developing, Thia it by no mean* the only application however. For one thing herbicide* have , of modern methqd* of icienee to farm eliminated Ilie need for close mtnu*l mechanitationat NIAE. Novel work under procedures which meeni th*t it I* no way aim* at automated tingling of sugar longer necessary to grow all crop* in tingle beet*. Again it it herbicide* like paraquat row*. There would be diitinet advantage* that have made euch advance* potiinle, in growing potatoes, for imlance, in bed* Manual thinning by hoe it tadiou* and it wide at three or four row*, It would be more economical of land, etrthing.up could be done quicker, end the toil would suffer let* from the comprettiontl damage done by agricultural machinery. _ There in * drawback, however. Tradi tional trader dc*ign doe* not permit the use of wide strip*; and no one eltewhere term* to have given much thought to way* in which tractor* could b improved. At NIAK engineer* have had a hard leek at txpentive. The plan ii to u*e a machine equipped with photoelectric detector* sensitive to the ipeetral abtorption line* of the green chlorophyll pigment in leave*. Signal* from thi* device, indicating the . density of foliate, will control a paraquat prey which will *quirt the excess plants, leaving only those required at (pecified intervale for optimum growth. Engineering data during field trial* on new equipment i* about lobe collected by wild farmer* are going to need in the radio tefometiy, and modern data- future and have designed an impretaive processing metliod* are under develop "nelf.propcIlcd.muhi-pHrpoactoolframe" ment at NIAE/ which could well com to dominate our rural l*nd*cpe* in a few yean' time. Essentially it con*i*t* of a largebox frame, REPORT OF A NEW % tupported *t cbeii-height on conventional tractor wheel*--a large pair at the front. and email pair at the rear corner*. At the front of the frame in the centre i* a power ful, 70-hortopower tractor engine coupled to the driving wheeto by independent oil- driven hydrodynamic moton. The driver lit* high up on the rear member of the box frame ina*eat that ean be hydraulically ihifted from tide to tide, or turned right round to face the reverie CHEMICAL HAZARD V A Swedbh reeearch worker ha* expressed eoneern over the increaied amount* of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) entering (he air, presumably from industrial tmoke and rubbish-dump imoke, and being absorbed by water and taken up by fi*n and later Kumtni. PCB which is related to and ae poieoitou* * DDT wa* detected by Mr Soren Jensen of the Imtitute lor direction. He he* two leven at hi* left Analytical Chemistry, University of fund: both forward cim a rang* of 1 Stockholm, in eome 200 pike taken from forward speeds; both backward, reverie different parte of Sweden, 6*h and fish- need*, By moving them independently spasm throughout the country, an eagle tlte wheel* will revolve *i different rate* which wa* found dead in the Stockholm nd auiit turning. The rear wheelt ire Archipelago, end in hi* own, hi* wife'* telescopically mounted end can be railed end hi* baby daughter'a hair. At the btby or lowored hydreutieelly. They ere self i* only Sva monthe old her father con- levelling over uneven ground. Agricultural cludea that iha tot her doee of PCB with .implement* are mounted--without the her mother'* milk. need for toil-diniiging wheel*--in the It I* not known it present how much centre of the box frame. Implement*, of thi* substance i* dangerous or even likewise, ean be deiigned for hydraulic fntel, Ifit i comparable will) DDT thrn the operation and the frame i* equipped with limit would be 0.5 mg per cubic metre of two large oil lank* at each front corner air--end, for companion, the deed eagle nd icveral hydraulic take-off valve*. had at lean 10 timet a* high a concentra The whole contrivance ii limplieity ittalf tion in tti body. For purpotc* ofelimina to control. tion Mr Jensen ha* obtained feather* from A ploming unit ha* now been conitruc- eagle* preserved at the Swedith National ted that will plant and ridge four row* of Muieum of Natural Hiiiory emee 1500 to&J CtiCWDCT. ff>ft t<ln. nd lit* delected PCtt first in *n csrlr i :HI! 1944. In Sweden, PCB i known to hr us,.<| j(l electrirul insulations, hviiraulir mlh, high-temperature anil high-pre-sur,lubricating oil*, paints, Itinpicrs in,I vrnihc*, and a* pigments in vurinus plastic*. It does not aecm to lie used v nn insecticide. It i* not destroyed hy incinera tion *nd m*v enter the- body directly through the akin, by breathing, nr bvws'v of food (especially fish). It is piriin'ilnrh harmful to the liver, and alio ilu- skin; thi* has been demonstrated t*y riper!menu on mice. PCB is murli Its r her in break down titan DDT and there is ever; reason to tuppose that it is murli more difficult 10 get it mu of ihr system. The suhttince has also been detected in the air over London and Hamburg and >l*n it seal* caught off Scotland. It can therefor be presumed to b widespread thruuriiiN the world. LOAVES AND FISHES The famine which now threatens |>nri <>! India ha* tended to fora* the attention ul the dcvclo)Hsd countries on tlitii *ul>. contincnt'i chronic inability to feed itteeming people, but t warning nnierumr last week from another less publicised area. Dr B. R. Sen tin: Indian Director General of the UN Pond anil Agriculture Organisation wat addressing regional conference at Punta del Estr, Uruguay He lambasted tlte governments of Lunin America for tlieir unwillingness to funwhat could be "a very serious linistiuii indeed". It would take,he eithiuinercnw in food production of four per oust youto Mem "social end political unrest whir), till prevails", or even to present it from worsening. Dr Sen * warning contra nmic ton soon. Malnutrition if not actual hunger is wiilr. pread in Latin America, where per-rnpii, food production ha* drowsed liy four |iim cent in the pest six year*. At the -*mr thin the population ii exported to dentitle it-rl (to 422 million) by 1985. Dr Sen lielim-' the four-ner-ccnt rise to be trrhnirnlit featibie, if en .ill-out effort is mailr nm< Apart from tlte struggle In iiirrnw food supplies to keep pare wit It pnputnt ionj however, efforts ere al*o heirs;; mtnlr n| overcome traditional prejudie.'s *gnin-| various food* which may l' plentihi' though neglected. In tlte water* of Ukr. Vi, tori,,. (> inrtsnee,--tltey cover u ar,,i khnui it.. str.c of Ireland--there rc v,.t shnnU tilapia, * firm wltitr fislt, wrlpliing nli.'nj 8 ot and very tasty,' European firms Inis already asked tlte Tamtainsn f'tivirtmii J about tha |>OMibilitich of inm.'inj; filleti to Europe but lilt' loctl projilr < by no meant ai keen to cat inis non * fare. HONS 031518 I pyni ni\/ir\N