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About MMM ptiplt will die from ashertoe, a Journal daimt. The deaths, according to the Jour nal of the American Medical Associa tion (JAMA), will occnr in the Unit ed Slates during the nest 40 years. Dr. Irving Selikoff. director of envi ronmental sciences at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, told the journal that public health au thorities were doing very little to regulate the widespread use of asbes tos in the U S. He said there was no truly effective treatment for asbes tos-related diseases, which include several forms of cancer. Selikoff said that 700.000 tons of asbestos were used each year in products for schools, cars and homes. $1.8 Million Settles Suits On Asbestos Cleveland -- (AP) -- A *1.8 million settlement was reached yesterday on claims filed against 17 corporations by 10 insulation installers who became 111 and relatives of 16 workers who died after inhaling asbestos, according to lawyers for the workers and relatives. Lawyer Robert E. Sweeney said the firms agreed to pay a total of $1,840,000 to the workers and their families to settle a series of federal cyirt suits filed since 1972. The amount that each company will pay each worker or family has yet to be worked out, he said. U.S. District Court Judge John M. Manos had conducted pretrial hear ings for more than lVi years on the suits, which were eventually consoli dated into one case that was to have gone to trial next month. The firms include Johns ManviUe Products Corp., GAF Corp., OwensComing Fiberglass Corp., Celotex Corp., Raybestos Manhattan Corp. and Flintknte Corp. Sweeney said the Insulation Install ers and their relatives claimed that the companies failed to take adequate steps to protect the workers from as bestos Inhalation and exposure, which he said can cause lung cancer, abdom inal cancer and rectal cancer. Asbestos, which Is mined and crushed. Is widely used as binder and insulator for many products. All the companies In the case have removed asbekos from their products and replaced it with compounds such as fiberglass, said Thomas W. White, another lawyer tor the workers and their families. WORTHY Of ALL WSTUORLANO '----- t|imm - * ---------" FRIDAY, MARCH 1,1971 GREmBURG.PA.lMOl Nicely Safeguard Project Initiated By LANCIKRRTAN ---- TVtbuu-fUoiew Staff Writer A KRC Research Con. crew is expected to complete work at the Nicely Elementary School liter todey in an attempt to contain asbestos fibers emitted Into the sir from damaged ceilings. The New Jeney firm, hiredbythedistrict this week for the emergency project, will continue work it the Metxgar Elementary School during the weekend end apply a special sealant to the building's hallway ceilings. Workers wearing protective clothing ay begansealingoffthe workaree at S On the doom to the entrance to the signs sternly wantedthatprotective measures be taken before entering the building. The signs read: "Asbestos dust huird. Weir assigned protective equipment. Do not remain in ires unless your work requires it. Breathing asbestos dust may be hazardous to you health." Airqualityteats will be conductedpriorto the application of the sealant at Metxgar to discern if there is asbestos in the air. But unlike Nicely, the ceilings at the Metrgar school have not been damaged. Greensburg Salem School Superinten dent Robert Dovey said Thursday that the school district will hold to its original plans to open both schools Monday. The Nicely school, the focus of the controversy, his been closed since Wednesday to permit work in the building to begin. Hallway Prepared Dovey said that district's consultsnt on the asbestos problem, Dr. Nurtan Esmen, will conduct sophisticated air qualitytests stboth schools on either MondayorThesdayofnext week to determine the effectiveness of the the sealant. ; "We want to conduct the tests while the children are in school." Dovey said. Parents of Nicely students have argued that the testing must be done under normal classroom conditions. Dovey said Esmen was requested to perform the air quality assessment largely tn response to parents' objection that tests conducted by KRC Research Core, wouuoot be impartial He saidthatEsmen'sflndingi willbe made available (ivedaysfoDowingthetest Meanwhile, a spokesmen for the Greensburg Salem Education Association said yesterday that the teechen union is "satisifed" with measures being taken by administrative officials to correct the problem. Joseph Dovyak, a teacher it the Mstzgar Elementary School end president of the aiaoditlon, said that his concern about Um effect ofasbestos on heilth had been expressed to the school administration. "Nothingformallyhas been stated, but wehevebeenlnconteet withDr. Dovey," Dovyak said. "The teachers hive knowledge of the asbestos denier," he said. ' `If the measures taken by the district are for the benefit of the students, they arefor the benefit of teschers, too," Dovyak said. BRG 0454