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H1: I\ I M A M -H THE DENISON HERALD--Denison, Texas, Tuesday, February 20,1979 ' 'Downs'Suit Still Pending ~' Charley Downs, 56, former employee of Johns-Manville ' who died in an Oklahoma City '/hospital Sunday, had filed a '/$2.5 million class action suit ' "against Johns-Manville' last - "IVovember. The action was filed in the '`jFastern District of Federal Court and alleged that Downs had been exposed to cancer- causing asbestos during his "tenure with J-M. " An autopsy was performed M>n Downs, but no information ''was available. `"'Downs was the second for mer J-M employee to die who . /has blamed their work with their fatal illness. )>-. In December 1975 Glen Wayne Gage, 46, died of lung , ^cancer, and on Dec. 17, 1978,.. his widow, Dorothy Gage, filed a $250,000 suit in the same federal court charging that her husband's death was due to exposure to raw asbestos v materials while working for ' : J-M. r Downs filed the suit originally, but since he died, if the courts rule he died ' because of what he alleged, . then the widow would be ; eligible for some benefits from , that suit. ` produced JM - S3