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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Oct 15 DOC NMA092 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Javits Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos Javits Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos By EDITH EVANS ASBURY New York Times Current file Oct 15 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg 33 BriIseBrfiefeed don Perils of Asbestos BY EDITH EVANS ASBURY . cancer from the asbestos dust date for State Senator and 11- Senator Jacob K. Javits con- brought home on her father's year Paul Carey represent- ferred with medical officials of working clothes and shoes ing his father Representative Mount Sinai Hospital with repsentd The union leaders present HugLh. Carey Democratic can- labor leaders yesterday about represented asbestos workers didate for Governor . what he called the sleeping and painters This is a people's year Mr. peril of asbestos : particles in Senator Javits promised to Clark declared during which the 2 conference press for passage of legislation the people had a chance to After the conference Dr. Iry- that he and Senator Harrison A. reverse the gnawing corrup ing Selikoff professor of medi Williams Jr. have pending be tion in government and the cine at the Mount Sinai School fore the Senate Labor and Pub growing economic ' crisis by of Medicine took Senator Jav lic Welfare Committee which electing Democrats its on a tour of laboratories in which research was being done on diseases caused by asbestos and vinyl chloride included The party which included Mrs. Javits got trapped in a stalled elevator for 10 minutes Asbestos Workers Represented You can see Dr. S. David Pomrinse director the hospital joked as they awaited rescue that we spend our money on science not mainten- Dr. Selikoft and the union would require expansion compensationof Poll Pleases 2 Candidates state workmen's compensation coverage to include victims of related illnesses The Mount research program is partly financed by a Federal program supervised by the committee of which Senator Javits is a member Later Senator Javits joined other officials and political candidates at 69th Street and Fifth Avenue to review the Columbus Senator Javits and Mr. Clark they both said were pleased by the results of a state poll com- missioned by Newsday show ing Senator Javits the choice of 39 per cent of those polled with 32 per cent for Mr. Clark 9 per cent for Barbara Keating the Conservative candidate and 20 per cent undecided Mr. Clark said that 39 per cent for an incumbent is no parade Day People's vote of confidence and 20 per ., A People's Year cent undecided raises real prob leaders at the conference Ramsey Clark the Democrat lems for him a real con- which was held in the hospital's ic candidate for Senator Ja test Basic Science Building at 102d vits's seat also reviewed the Senator Javits said the poll Street and Madison Avenue parade after opening a Man- results were good for me con thanked Senator Javits for his hattan storefront headquarters the way in which the help in calling attention to the at 401 Fifth Avenue between is running He referred horrors of lung cancer which 36tThis h 37th Streepeople's ts to the fact that the poll showed " afflicts workers who handle as- This is a people's house Mr. Carey leading in the gover- bestos and vinyl chloride But Mr. Clark told the audience norship race with 49 per cent which they said there was a great which included the Democrats while Governor Wilson got 28 need to alert the public to the Robert M. Morgenthau candi- cent danger group . . date for District Attorney of Mrs. Keating spent yesterday The group showed slides of Manhattan State Senator Mary being interviewed by reporters children playing in and near Anne Krupsak candidate and attended a dinner by the mounds of asbestos and told Lieutenent Governor Robert County Conservative par- the Senator of an year Abrams candidate for Attorney ty at the Carlyle restaurant in girl who had contracted General ; Joan Davidson candi Flatbush last night 1 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission