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o : * * 5 PLAINTIFF'S I * EXHIBIT, USM-238 ' &* ATD-HQ, Asbestos, ` *\ .>* EE: ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY " CHEMICAL WEEK" MAGAZINE SEPT* 10 and OCT* 8, 1966 * ' * * The attached from the Oct* 8 issue of "Chemical Week" shows the prominent, display and attention given to a point-by-point refutation of the magazine1* Sept. 10 article on "asbestos"* This editorial handling came after several consultations with the editors and other McGraw-Hill officials and after careful rundown of all the allegations made in the original piece, including a check through an intermediary with Congressman Watkins of Pennsylvania, who completely repudiated the comments attributed to him. Dr. Murray Brown of the US* Public Health Services Division of Occupational Health also disavowed the figures relating to asbestosis among the general population which were attributed to his organization. We believe this concise, non-contentious presentation of fact will set the record straight for the some 50,000 readers of Chemical Week. The original article stimulated only one other press inquiry and this has been satisfactorily handled* without attention being given to the story* Por any inquiries you may-encounter about the Sept. 10 Chemical Week article, * the attached should be a complete answer* Special attention might be drawn to the U.S, Public Health Service denial of supposed high rate of asbestosis in general population.* . * ,* Att: Yvan Couture. .f i ON THE COVER: Test pattern used 1a adjust* Ing end checking color TV. Each set contain* t \viy . V.v< . :<>$? . ... . ; ; Vot $9. Ha. is . >** C* . October S, 1965 > ' 'Xfjl WEEK IN BUSINESS V. \ * * * Wage-price guldepest* have broken down* and unless labor and man* voluntarily repair them* mandatory control* am inevitable. * .* * # * r . -* ! \/ > 4* . \ i *. 'm \ . ;* Sendee and Johns-ManviBe deny conclusions that asbestos has ,,;N*;* ** public health hazard. z if low-cost petrochemical feedstocks: As Oow and Hess seem. -v import quotas* others eye foreign trade zone bids. /. 27 For companies that store oils* chemicals, ether fluids in rented tank farms: a> . * counttnts* committee suggests safeguards to prevent another **soy oil Casco.** .; *.1 SJL. 'A* New forum, old debate: Spokesman for domestic and foreign producers of syn* ` thetic organic chemicals sum up latest tariff arguments for AiChE members. *>. Financial revelations coming from chemical companies and divisions: Discretion still % prevails ever disclosure, but reporting of divisional data to be required. 30 * Mora mergers and acquisitions: Sehlo becomes full owner of Mountaineer Carbon; Alee gets Rubber-Plastics Industries; Sherwin-WHUams buys Sprayon Products. *' *--.- *-31 " High court to rule on disputes of big concern to chemical companies--euch as ` conglomerate mergers, franchise dealerships, `piggyback** freight "hot cargo.** . . ., 1 'f-ft AS . Diaz Administration Intent on boosting fertilizer* end pesticide production to help feed growing population, gives Mexico a better foreign trade balance. 66.* *Continental* executives String In Puerto Rico find that the.U.S. territory combines' DEPARTMENTS. * the pleasures and problems of a foreign assignment. Business Benchmarks 220 . -220'- New orders for nonelectrical equipment are running 23% ahead of last year* but Business Newsletter t IB not all six machinery makers are sharing equally In the boom. --S-*.' Countdown * .V* 205 ?;*** International .. *5 Key Changes . *V~ 201 THIS WEEK IN TECHNOLOGY V.` j* letters- . : . 7\*v * { Marketing * . *. 72 . . Toms River Chemical builds 600,000-gal rubber-lined waste disposal basin for usa ' i*--: - Market Newsletter . Meetings ; t / National Roundup 75 .. . *,. 7 39 * * 96 .In emergend**--such es a breakdown in its effluent discharge pipeline. .* .*1V-\ Pittsburgh Plate Class Is offering a novel procass for making strong, crack-foe' ?.*- People * . . Produccttiioonn*' .c' 66 .. . *'*' 535 ' foam* of alumina or other refractory oxides. *. .. * *. * > 9* .4 e Research .. 96 . * * vI-'.* ' Specialties * Technology Newsletter 79 .*< >31 . This week in specialties " , 5 --. *,' *1 * ` * WuhlMton Newsletter *. 35 79 * Rsm earths are literally fighting their way to new applications In fluorescent and ,, World Roundup 51 * r5* high-pressure discharge lamps, as well a* In color TV* * . CwoluJ v* h M tXf, /(w. iw-iiwm > r*--*.*/ *.-, M *< XH"!* * WV m***m.m w fmrn* * J < A--. TTERS!. 1 .Asbestos Safety Reaffirmed /'" of asbestos. In the meantime, however, the division will continue to promote the application of knows control To tee Eorroiu The articlt titled foreseeable future to completely methods so that the workplace can Ajbejta: Awaiting Trfxl** {CW, * place asbestos in the many applications be kept as healthy as possible. * }Sept, 20, p. 32) eonttia susy. bic- for which it is now used. Any syn ... Muxjuy C. Bxowh, M.D. euraciei, which hive led to erroneoug thetics would havt to prove superior * Chf ' assumptions and false eoneluaions. * to natural asbestos and be economical- * Division of Occupational Health . Briefly, the facts are these: Ty competitive. *, Department of Health, Education , (1) Asbestos is a uniquely useful product serving the seeds of modern As to health aspects, in June of this year the U.S. Surgeon General ap 4t Welfare * * * Public Health Service sun and society, and it is not likely . peered before the Senate Public Works . Washington, P.C to be replaced by economically feasible * Subcommittee on Air and Water Pol- # * synthetic polymers, or anythin! else, ,- totion, with Senator Edmund Muskie CW it phased to set the record in the foreseeable future. of Maine as chairman, to discuss var Straight, Soma of these interviewed (2) No published reports, even the ious problems relating to air-pollution apparently drew unwarranted ccneiu- * most speculative, support the general ^ ` abatement. Surgeon General William rioits from insufficient .and.dubious ized statements in your article regard * - Stewart enumerated a number of sub- . 'data.--Ed. ing health effects of possible exposure \ stances in common use, ineluding * to asbestos. (3) There is no basts for the sugges plastics and asbestos, about which he MEETINGS aaid: 'The public health hazards that- tion that Congress "may act* regard- may arise from these aspects of ca- ing asbestos use, for no such proposals . virownental contamination have not axe being considered by Congress. We. been adequately documented. In each are informed that the congressman instance further investigation is needed quoted as predicting action disclaims to determine whether health is indeed any knowledge of health evidence threatened and what control measures relating to asbestos or of proposals .. may be necessary.* to control its use. In these days when all substances, (4) No evidence exists to show that in. our air and water and even the asbestos poses health risks for the gen ..- food we eat are constantly under eral public or to show that even 1% scrutiny, as to their effects on the pub- of Americans have "mild chronic He, the fact that asbestos is among' the asbestosis," much leas the 40% figure `subjects of investigation is not surpris you give m your article. . ing. In fact, we have always supported ` (5) Regarding your list of "sources and will continue to support Investiga- of airborne asbestos,* there are no * * tions by the VS. Public Health Service Asm of OQdal Analytical Chemists, , annual meeting, Twin Bridges Mamou .Motor Hotel, Waahittgton, D.C, Occ 10-13. Teehnleoa International symposium ea automation In analytical chemistry, Stat ler-Hilion Hotel, New York. Oct. 17-19. Pros, Chemical & Allied Trades Asm, annual meeting, Hollywood Beach Hotel, Hollywood, Fit, Oa. 20-22. Commercial Chemical .Development *Au% discussion of packaging, Drake Hotel, Chicago, Oct. 26-28. National Assn-, of Purchasing Agents, Chemical Croup, annual fall conference, . Continental Flaxa Hotel, Chisago, Oct. 27. data to support the contention in your article that the *man on the street" is exposed to asbestos from these sources, and other'research scientists. Room. Hackney * Vice-President Society of Engineering Science, fourth . technical meeting. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. or indeed that these sources contribute . asbestos to the ambient atri (6) We know of no data to support . Jobns-Manville Corp. New York American Society for Metals, national metal congress and exposition. McCor mick Place, Chicago. Oct 31-Nov. 3, ` your claim of a sixfold increase in so-. called "asbestos-related eaneer." - To the Enrcox: In reference to As you doubtless realize, the proper * -your article, "Asbestos: Awaiting- parental Drag Assu annual conven tion, Sutler-KHton Hotel, New York. Nov. 1-4, conduct of our business requires us to keep abreast of scientific developments ; ** Trial*" (Sept. 10, p. 32), we know of no scientific evidence supporting . Fertiliser Industry round-table con ference. Mayflower Hotel, Washington, regarding asbestos, both medical and the statement that "40% of all Amer- D.C, Nov. 2-4. technical. Zs is our opinion thst syn * leans have mild, chronic cases of thetic polymers are not likely in the asbestosU." ** Tba Society of tba Plastic* Industry, 11th plasties film, sheeting and .coated t' Even in the asbestos industry, where fabrics conference, Waldorf-Astoria Ho- more is 'known about exposure levels ' tel.,New York. Nov. 9-19; conference on CW welcomes expressions of opinion from readers. Tbo only than among the general population, - cellular plasties in transportation. Edgethere' is imprecise knowledge about ' water Beach Hotel, Chicago.,Nov. 15*17. the health effects of exposure to as- . The Franklin Institute Research Lab, requirements: that they he per tinent, as brief as possible. Address all correspondence to: H.C.E. Johnson, Chemical Week, 330 West 42nd SL, New York, N.Y, 10036. `bestos. * \ With the cooperation of labor and industry, the Division of Occupational * . Health has under way- a long-range, in-depth study to answer this question, . as well as to develop better criteria for the safe handling and manufacture ` . oratories, fourth annual symposium on the orgtnic-iolid state, Philadelphia, Nov. 14. Central Atomic Division of Central Dynamics Corp, and Air Feree Office of Scientific Research, fundamentals of gtv- surface interactions, `San Diego, Calif, Den, 14-16. - ;* October 8, 1966 CHEMICAL WEEK 7 r't -.vyr w;?