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SiffI i?') > f| I; ' ;t VOt. ClXXXI-Ko, 46 60 PAGES MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2<i. 1974 Cayyrlokt (t) 1V74, Tint l.ukrid* Tlmj ni., FIFTEEN CENTS HOjfAS EDITION I . . ..I 'i \ l t Safe vinyl-chloride /eve dollar question? By DONALD XI. HOUGHTON end OKNNIS POMTB tsvhvMs V*m ti*W WrtHn A few yean # tome rein In research laboratory In Italy contracted rare torn* of raiiccr. A tew month* ngo the public first heard of the mysterious deaths of a few worker* at a Louisville chemical plant o( the aitmc dlcas. 1 Today. InvcMIltulor* throughout th world arc brclnnlng to put together evl- deuce that the link between the two in cidents --- exposure to the common chem ical vinyl chloride and t jlow death front *' rsyc cancer of the liver -- may be an International health menace of monumen- Uf.woportlora- {$. Tomorrow In Washington, a scvies of bearlom will begin to determine what the United State* jjovornment IntondJi to do ^background bout It, Specifically. the US. Labor Depart- moot ha* been asked by two government health agendo to forbid the cxponure of * However, the outcome of the hourloss chemical worker* to any delertuhlt trace may well be felt by far more than Ihc o( vJnyl chloride- a baalc chemical that In , 0,000 workers in the muJlImiillori-doHnr Raucous form la used to produce many vinyl chloride Industry, because In recent lyprs of plastic*. Week* and da.v there have been report* Meanwhile, the worker* are laboring of deaths from the same mysterious can under an "tmorgeocy- standard forbid cer among employes In the plastic* in ding exposure to more than 50 part* of dustry. , the at* per million part* ofalr. one-tonth Indeed, the circle of concern has breed- the standard (n force before ft was com cne',1 beyond the plastic* liulusiry. with monly suspected that vinyl chloride its'JrUndreds of thousands of workers. Fur might r* killer. nojrihcre arc documented case* of Urn cancer, celled imgiosJirroros. among people whose only connection with the chemical nml plastic* Industries is that they happen In have lived near plant* where the chemical was processed. The known worldwide dealt* count from angiosarcoma Induced by cxpoyurq to vinyl chloride now stand* at 19. five of which involved workers nt, the Lotilsvllla plant on Bells Lane of the D. F. Goodrich Co. Anri, two more persons, both employ es of the Louisville Goodrich plant arc known to be suffering from the usually j fatal sliscmi', rubllc hcnllh official: alc.iriy have Set SAFE Back page, col. 2, thl* Mellon1 Mrt1- l-l- JM3MM A i H a tfie ld - C. R. F lyn n J 3 illao(0 C uo &0 aH M aj u Ma> o -h uo w. U ,, O 0) CO QJ w W!2W WO g o <MD 0) 0>1> MS3 fl)> a 300 QJ H q ^* 5e* j? J;q *5 -> t m d< \ A O fU p2 M ft? ^ -O <P!JhW