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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1978 Dec 3 DOC NMA133 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Kansas City Star - Tough Restrictions Don't End Asbestos Threat - Part 3 of 3 . LARNED MASA MASA MAS with pra OEE bre PE ett tie Cum, pra because ed guilty three months ago in the the bullding because because ~ the effort to out with the support of in wher dea y deal of a prion cocapee and a quired to saw through the heavy exte f Bow on patrols or in the p tunt SWAT team The things in standing spous Wichita oilman has escaped from the of fraces the two maximum secunly unul the Larned rior bar and because of foot with barbed wire ther But It's stressful 100-60 stresa ful in fact that it may tear some ing not only a visual similarily to the people they're trying to dest valved in those whations to the ' street were more dangerous she sold today State Hospital officials scale marriages apart with and get the goods on but often Baid Hider then aprt A search was underway in central Investigation Investigation of most and western Kansas for Glendal Ri The Kansas Bureau of is checking on the possibilty Cielland Working vice is one the stressful assignments a police offi- & behavia sindarity Saper cald She added Prostitutes I can't think carry knives di guna I don't er 26 of Wichita said cer will endare saya Dr. Marshall If they're hanging around bar worry about a prostitute coming as Hospital Superintendent Rod Clal land said a hacksaw blade was used to saw through a heavy pocurity screen and some heavy steel bars on the only Fulder was committed to the stale hospital after entering his plea in Sept. Sedgwick County Dutrict Court 1. He was ordered by Judge Elliot Fry psychologist Saper police The vice squad officers Are walking around in the cruddi parts of town undercover Mum they've got to drink If they hang around prostitutes they often have to react in an appropriate fashion aaid Saper who has worked with film with a gun and shooting him in husband the stomach Her husband added We talk See PBYCHEN ^ GTCAT ^ GTCAT on Page > in window Rider's first floor room | Bee BAR Page Tough Restrictions Don't End Asbestos Threat By fuck Lyman Member of the Staff A couple of years ago inspectors for the Occupational Safety and Health in toxics and pesticides branch Kansas City He said 31 states now have come sort of asbestos program almed at lao- lating sabosios pollution and correct- As the case lea on asbestos linked did disease grew so ment regulations the tide of govern govern On April 8 1873 OSITA banned the use of beaton 3 ^ Administration were poking around oJ hollerin Kansas City International Airport Airport : in fact Wil when their equipment detected an : und Family unusually high level of sabestos fibers | if yet Coun- in around handling the air the aa ASBESTOS DEATH BY FIBER 11 Neither Missouri no Kansas has such a program Brandner said but he la trying to contact health Bela in those two states and lowa and Nebra ka to set up some sort of program for construction material in concen concen earlierthat tration exceeding 1 parcentparcent It was a year OSHA re leased it first sabestos standard- Umiting the level of Asbestos In the workplace to no more than an average hygienist Charles Adkins Industrial hygienist for OSHA Region Vil in Kannai City Lastof Three Articias testing air samples from all publie of five fibers per ruble centimeter buildings over an eight hour period That limit VEN HANT VEN turned out ald It that one terminal at KC and half of soother were con asbestos Insulation ructed using InsulatiInsoulatnion That's not unul Thousands Thousands of boisdings and ships have th"caentury using sabesion bulli kabulation sabeatos etiling and floor tiles and as benice wallboard Most of that con struction however Decurred before the word got out ^ rkingasbestos exposuretocancer and other disease At KCI the traulation was Naking off in terminala koso filling the air the with level nat with micmicroscorpie oscopie asabsbeesstots os fi N OSHA got together together with the city and the airlines and placed a layer of neslant over the crumbling insulation particles blocking the Into the atmospher atmosphere That solved the from scaping problem far na What KC1 concerned What concerns government official buildings- schools hospitala atores hotals August the Department of Education and Walfare naked Healththe Environmental Protection Agency to determine which of the nation's public buildings contain asbestos Insu the project now la the asbestos inediation and oth s^asbestos which may be contaminating the air in other p^"blic Wolfgang Brandoer is working on for Hagion VII of the EPA's The first pelaristaiyd in schools he preliminary air samples have Sama prelimnarytaken by Kansas officials he been. Concern over the dangers of Babes tor began to gain national atteillar in 1964 with the release of medical ne- porta linking the microscople fibers tu ibojalor ibojalor of developmceanncetr The use of asbest was severely curtalled curtal ed in the intervening years Be fore the report came out it was com mon to find asbestos workers doing tissir joba junkd clouodf white fibers tisirthick it fimiled to vision few loss Later was dropped to two fibers and there is evidence that may soon be dropped again to tenth of a flher continuer per cuble Also the Consumer Product Safety Consmission has banned the use of a two least products because because of thuir as beatos content It rusulted in tightening on the Line of Rabertos Adkins sald ' st just too easy not use What EPA hopes to do Brandner said is devormine whether there is an bent danger in older buildings Boo STUDY sa Page E + ro STEKT 170 un nobody seemed to Ler starving Indeed everyone seemed quite healthy I began to walk alone up toward the main building at the " stayed with her until she asked me to marry her he said She's a manipulative seductive female ~fi answered one of my questions with an obscenity and observed that people did have sex in Jonestown tries to stab Congressman Ryan CopyrightCopyright The 1978 Washington Post Distributed by Universal Presa Syndicate About five the Minne cy disclose particles in Minn Study Calls for Stricter Asbestos Rules Continued From Page 1 und If necessary draft regulations to ban areas in the nation there is a high However in December 1976 the Nalevel of asbestos fibers normally in the tional Institute for Occupational Safe no evidence for a threshold or for a safe level of asbestos exposure Investiga the Resery been dump conite all cility outsi 1958. Jon L do something about it The alternatives are limited he said asbestos can either be re- moved or scaled In most cases it prob ably would be sealed he said It's cheaper that way | The only problem I can seeis who's going to pay for it he said Thus far the EPA has said it isn't going to put any money into All 31 state asbestos programs are financed either by the states or by lo cal governments OSHA has no scale program to measure asbestos fiber content at ev- what is known as a background level of the fiber Also many states have gravel roada fibers and madeup of rocks that are high in as- bestos a good breeze can the fibefribesrs loose and into the atmo- sphere : ground parts hazardous In some damn official said parts of the country the an EPA There was a case a few years ago Adkins said of a paint factory in St. Louis that was importing bags of as- in bestos fibers from Louisiana for use resistent paint The asbestos was ty and Health published a Revised Recommended Asbestos Standard It was NIOSH the research arm of OSHA that recommended the current standard six years ago But after fur- ther testing NIOSH scientists said in 1976 that the standard should be lowered to .1 fiber per cubic centime ler That drastic cut is necessitated ac- cording to the , by studies that provide conclusive evidence that ex- posure to asbestos fibers causes can- cer and asbestosis in man As a result NIOSH recommends the standard should be set at the low est level detectable by available analytical techniques That approach NIOSH said is con sistent with the most recent recom- mendations for other carcinogens and would also prevent the development of asbestosis Thus far OSHA haan't acted on NIOSH's suggestion though officials Bald a lowering of the asbestos stan- dard is almost inevitable 20 With asbestos we're years be hind in controlling it and we'll be see- heer for th tailings art Subsequi aroused pu ty of the + definitiver ing asbesto the extent bers,! However Was & the .. stopped } clined and The 85 ery workplace in the nation Addins said but it is one of the things OSILA inspectors test for on each Inspection It's part of what OSHA calls its Tar- get Health Hazards Program Under being shipped in porous bags similar evry billowy to potato sacks and every a sacsakck was bumped it sent up cloud of white asbestos fibers Ironically the bags and contents The report continues Evaluation of all available human data provides Hunter Falls on Arrow the effects for another 20 years said Bleeds to Death along thei perior for east of D pocullar contained the program each workplace inspec tion includes testings for asbestos carbon monoxide cotton dust lead and AlAslsoo Adkins said if workers are afraid they're being exposed to a high level of asbestos OSHA inspectors will come out and take air samples Earlier this year the State of New Jersey petitioned EPA to set air guide lines for asbNe ew s Jerst ey io s ons e of had been purchased from the federal government The OSHA regional office also has undertkena study of brake shops As bestos is used used in brake linings as it is In many friction products Officials feared that workers in brake shops while grinding down the Unings and fitting them in place were being exposed toa fibers . to high levels of ashes- HINKLEY Minn -A year old hunter bled to death after he fell ouofta tree onto one of his arrows Pine County sheriff's officials said Monday The victim was identified as David of John Akerson Grundy Minn A sheriff's spokesman said the ar- row became embedded in the youth's log when he fell Saturday and severed small artory If he'd left the arrow in he'd probably be alive today said the spokes- aswkho easkd ed not to be identified Akerson was bunting with his father and two brothers in St. Croix State Park when the accident occurred The Minnesota Department of Natu- ral Resources said the death was the second arrow casualty ever recorded in Minnesota around S evidence grated int A feder in 1976 th threat an million dered to siteforisitebforib That du 1980. Laba encounter spokesman spokesman said ---- the nation's landing producers of as- bestos products One of the problems government Adkins said OSHA Inspections did find evidence of the fibers in the air the nation- When the young man pulled the ar- row out of his leg he began to bleed heavily went into shock and died the Buy sell trade moming Bundays Bundays with Times evening and Classified Ads the lacon Five an ack but not in excess of current To place ads Clasifed scientists is that in many ur- al standards b youdr ial 234-40A0d0v ' --, -- -- wN \ *