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W B P yjpP pWMAP^IPIilWip p w |fiii!^ swiMl>j |P|u |wgpp HpsiniiaPi '.-|i i;i eimwi.wmMM^s liJraiiri nihm^JUm^fammaau LIA 15860 .v-aiu----- LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION. INC. aea ma o is o n a v k n u i O NEW VOM. N. r. 10017 ptma AXD flATOT PROgBAM--19fr* Dorn 0. Fowler Director of Health al Safety. Lead Industries Aseoclatlcn, Inc. Sloe* our ordinary oetlvltl** In Beelth and Safety foliar routine rf answering questions, Inquiries, attending meetings, etc., and alno* good many of thee* activities or* llst*d for you in th* Aseoclatlce's Quarterly Aspect* and ooaMntad upon for you In Mr. tisgfeld's Aooual Aspect, we thought ot this tin* that It mlgit bo Instructive to outUna In greater detail several n*nl altuatlooa that can* to our attention In tba peat year. Accordingly Z would Ilk* to dlacuaa three ltan* In greater detail than la ordinarily poaalkl* In our Quarterly and Annual Report*. First, on* of the nor* faacua T.T. diae, than a dlscuaalcn of a certain univeralty professor and finally an outline of a new poaltle* action program that we are atartlng thl* year. the Ben Casey T.T. 8>o--October 3. 1961 T.T. portrayal* of phyalclana are ordinarily not of great Interact to me but thla particular show was headlined aa a aolutlon to a land poisoning prdblaa In Industry so I watched. It turned out to b* on* of the nort obnoxious prograne Z have ever seen, although the examination by Er. Caaey of the 'lead poisoning problem' was nor* Jurenil* than obnoxious. The show portrayed the ermpany doctor la a really vicious manner all the .fell* Inferring that American buelaee* flrna would condooe shabby and unethical medical practice. Aa a matter of feet the entire show was a travesty on the way a modern American business la conducted In that all of the employee* In the email ebop ahem were euppoeed to have lead poisoning and yst th* company doctor refused to admit It. told then they bad headache* and etemaefa ache*, and hid this bad situation from the Board of Health and other gove rment authorities. Then of course Ben Casey discover* th* situation and rides to the rescue of th* poor downtrodden aaqOcyee* by ex posing th* company doctor, confounding th* company lawyer and outwitting the management. To am It was a comedy--although a tragic one--since Ben Casey erne entirely wrong In his explanation and diagnosis of lead poisoning and equally wrong In his understanding and portrayal of modern American business. the show mad* me wooder, again, In whet world th* MadIscn Avenue ecrlpt writer live* the seriously portrays a company which hid**, or even attest* to hide, from its union, from th* government end from Its own physician a poisoning situation as serious aa this particular one was supposed to be. We here at the office considered that our best approach to the network and T.T. station (ABC in this ease) would be through th* medical profession. Z could not locate any phyalelan by phone who bad watched the program bat nil were equally shocked, with me, *>en Z outlined th* program content to them. ZB order Presented at the j6th Annual Meting of th* lead Industrie* Association, Inc., Chase-Park Plan* Ratal, 8t. Louis, Mo., April Q1-9B, 196fc I ne.asjmaiai i psyii;. mn:nmi Muimu imjii j^j.|si>.Ji]i^p!,i,^mw'm I'a'm'Ji ufaeW aim, N 3256 w m<hp ... mjnii nawais ,min -i. 1 wvwiwaswew w Don Q* fowls*_________ ____ -- - _ -2- - Health sed Safety frcgrsa--196b to stir op *CBM action Z wrots to ths President 0/ the Industrial MiMwl Association outlining y thouita la tho ntttor sad requesting tbolr coopexetloa la bringing thl* utter to the attentive of reepccslbla authorities. 7b1* la vfcat happened. la tho rebruary 196k official Journal of tha Industrial Medical Association, tho President, Dr. John Harris of Btotaoa Kodak, wrote aa editorial frao which I would like to quote. "In a Boa Caoo7 show on television 00 October 30, 1963, a 'coapany doctor' wm# portrayed la a 'particularly and unnecessarily villainous Banner'. I'a quoting Deo fowler, Director of Health aod Safety at the Lead laduatrlea Association, 1*0 first brouit this to our attestloo. Since the ANA caducous proudly rerte aaong the credit# for thla progrsB* to quota Don fooler eg*Is, wo have asked Henry Bow to uae the laflueace of the Cowell en Occupational Health to prevent such a thing la the future. Personal letter* tram you to the piograa director of ABC-TV vlll also half." Aa a reeult of this editorial the Aaerleea Medical Aaeoclatlaa ead tha Zoduetrlal Helical Association aese^lad a cooelttee of competent phyelclsaa to a private screening of this T.7. aba* la order to plan a aethod by which future progress of thla type caa be screened and corrected before they are Obow. These dlscuaelcoa between the nedlcal profeeelcn and the f.T. Industry are still la progress and aa far aa Z know a urhariles for reels* cf such prcigr*-- has still to be established. lead la the Ocean > H* A professor la the Departaeat of Oeology at the California Zastltute of Technology baa expanded his laterert la recent years to include tbs ocean. Thla particular professor has also bacons en expert an nuclear pli^bology ifelA Is a f-sclasting specialty that takes advantage cf the wnlprseencs la land and sea of three Isotopes of lead. Since these three Isotopes of lead have equally vw11-known precursors la the stale scale. It Is possible, by Beans of delicate sod ertreaely sensitive neesuresents, to deterslae the ratios cf the three Isotopes, and their radio-active precursors la soils, rocks, etc. These Bsasureaents sen be sade so accurately that a nuclear pliafcologlst caa tell ue how old a pieca of rock is or the age of a gallon of water la the ocean. Zt Is Interesting to kaor that these are the Ben ifco lave given us the exact ag* cf the earth--ell done with lead. In other words, lead la, sad has proved to be for thee, a aost valuable tracer eleaent, far mart versatile and laportant than radioactive carbon. How here Is *ere w coae In. Za asking bis aessursBsats of rocks sad soils and in wters the nuclear plukbologlst expects to find lead everyidwrB aod so he do**) but recently he has fotnd Ubat he thinks Is too such lead la tha ocean. Apparently the professor becaae genuinely slarssd and decided that he had to find out where all of this load la cosing free, sad It was at this stags cf his cogitation that he rsaeWered our Industry Is selling load for i***1'** ead that thla leaded gasoline is used la cars and trucks and, therefore, cease out of the tailpipe* of these cars sad trucks. Is api ead Into the ataospbsr* sod tram the steeepber* drops Into the ocean. With this single chela of events st his asntsl disposal the professor was able to explain la a satisfactory naaner bew $00,000 tens of lead every year dreg lato the oceans of the Icrtbeis Bealspfcere. Aa Bob Zlegfeld sold idiea be first hoard these fsateetle "facts", * her* is the world's beet lead alas and all for free. Vhea w# looked up the publication# la which these articles appeared se find they are respected} w find that the professor, Sr. Patterson, Is respected ^ * * urn '! W*y^yW^Bjpnwwwwwwmn>wpwWHnwi^rnpm>eifiwmgar^nknwwimwawrawraa.-ea.i)miirv>jie w i'"! > im . . * * ^* . --.,* ^ * ^ * , . i |iiyP'!Wiuii^ ijm 'ii*i LIA 15862 ^j- - --*^^111^-1 * i i on 0. fowler .j.................. -- Health and Safety Pto(ralSA la the scientific crimmnlty] end of course we tew that hla university hag t* unsurpassed reputation la the world at eelsaca. So wa decided to talk to Dr. fettereon ano give hla the benmfit at our knowledge about tha aii>ject et load. I found Dr. Patterson to bo sincere and dedicated scientist whose measuring techniques for lead art beyond reproach and whose laboratory and equipment cannot ba Batched anywhere la tha lead industry not, tor that Better, la any other university. However, Dr. Patter*co, la hi* dedication a* a scientist concerned with tha broad problem of public welfare, feel* that It la hi* oblig ation to ooitlfy everybody about thle problem and that la tdiat ba baa dace and la planning to continue to do. Aa you ml^it expect ha aad Z bad a eerloue dlacuaaloo and X questioned hla a*auction* that all of the lead that goaa Into tha gaaollfia ccaaa out ot tha tallplpaa and reaches tha ocean every year] particularly when at the time ot hla report we were uaiag a grand total et 170,000 tana of lead la tha gaaollne eold la this country. Ba had aada hla aatlaata ot tha $00,000 tone by assuming run*cffa froa rivers aad rainfall as explanation for tha difference. It was no uae ay pointing out to Dr. Pattaraoa that our own Industry and that tha Federal government through the 0. 8. Pxhlla Bealth Service has made literally thouaaada of measurements of tha lead content of tha atmosphere and that thaee measurements are uniformly low, lcwer than any level which would be physiologically significant, and that therefore hie Inter pretation of hla own data was probably la error. I further pointed out that using hla own data the lead level la tha oeaaaa is about one hundred time* leas than the amotait permitted la drinking water. Z must say that after spending four hours with Dr. Patterson we parted la a friendly manner but be had not convinced me aad, unfortunately, Z had not convinced him. Sis constantly re iterated position is that lead should ba removed from 1--dlataly ao that -e atop poisoning all of tha people la America. Va have net beard tha last from Dr. Patterson. Bsla smaar ha journeys to Greenland tfcere he heads aa expedition which will drill into tha Greenland Icecap to find two-hundred year old snow itelch he will then analyse for load with the intention of proving that two-hundred year* ago the lead level la enow was much leas than It is today. Our plan* for Dr. Patterson include a meetly between him and Dr. Xcboe la which Zr. Kahoa will present to hla tha facta et Ufa concerning lead physiology aad present public exposure to lend. It will be Interesting to follow this discussion. Beport on Hew lead Information Proaiem At its Decoder masting last year tha Board et Directors spproc-4 a proposal by our advertising agency to prepare printed material cowering tha use aad abuse of laad la present-day industry and every-day life. May of o meahere have la tha past suggested to us the need for a positive action program of this kind milch could seise tha Initiative and praaaat Information favorablm to lamd to the medical profession and others who are interested and coocaroad. Khan Z say favorable to laad I do act mean to tvly that we intend to be wor thing ether than objective in our presentation et information but that we will present facts la a caplets and rosaxdad manner ao that nedloal daclalona earn be mads on tha basis of knowledge rather than Iptoraooe. The first objective of this program, which la bo w la b!4> gear with 0. . Tyson writers busily abstracting aad collating information on laad toadoology, is to reach selected member* of tha medical aad public health professIona la this country. Z say la this oountry although our Buropean friends are following - wjpi)fiii4tiu.,ji4iw.gwu.ipw. ivmmmmmm. m i. .urn ywmiMjj,! ijipjimuji. n|mmj LIA 15 86 3 0 Dan 0. fowler ItOlh aad Safety Frorw*~ls6b our progress vlth a great deal at Interest aad have asked to be kept lnfonai cf our progress here Uc *u m th*7 in antic lpaMng and art already naming Into probleas of a natura slailar to the* vlth which w* are faced her*. A# wa all knew, tbara la a graat deal of lnforaatloo co load toxicology prseeot la books and artlclas la tba aclantlfle and aadleal literature, aad It la fro* tbla aourca that w* ara abstracting tba notarial foe our first pifeUcatlc*. This publication vllL lncluda a concise atateaant of the presently known facta about lead toxicology and tba application of these facts to tba lnduetrlal situation, that la tba protection of ewploywesj to tba public health field where the probla* of childhood lead pdeculng la recognised; aad to tba air pollution aad water pollution situation ae It now exists. Our basic philosophy la tbla endeavor is to let tbs facta speak for theaealves, aad to put tba facta Into tba banda of those opinion aakers vfco ca* beet use the* to Obtain for lead a fair bearing la tha pihllc press, and In tba winds of tba general population. Aa you know wo find tbla necessary because of tba graat asmet of Ignorance that exist# today about lead la the Medical aad pjbllc health professions, an ignorance that la west likely due to tbs lack at tine on the part of these professions In keeping up to date. Our publication la designed first to lay a factual groundwork In tha knowledge these profession* should bava about lead and aid tba* In their dally activities and. In later upplaaenta, to keep the* abreast of currant development*. Our plana Include ailing tha basic piece of lltaratura, which will be ready fer printing shortly, to a list of several thousand key people, fro* tine to tine aftar this aad aa It bacoara available we will furnish these people aad others with eupr1s*sntal lteas of a specific natura, always strictly factual and accurate, to help keep the* lnforwad. Other wallings aad waterlal will bawade to selected newspaper editors In the field cf science to help cadet specific situations aetbey trim, and to provide a general background for their Interpretation cf newe Item*. We have great hopes for this idiale program end feel that If we Maintain * coverage of scientific literature end abstract fro* It pertinent waterlal we will be la a position to Influence tha lapcrtant people In the field of Medicine, pifclle health, air and water pollution aad those se(wests of the prase Wilik deal with these natters. General Cwsent fro* thee* activities which we have Juet outlined fer yea Z would Ilk* i to point out that our whole approach la designed to Integrate the Bealtb and Stfety Prograa of tba lead Industries Association with the XLZRO Research Program, by Initiating research activity la areas where facte are lapwing and Beaded, through our *e^>rahlpe In various professional and technical societies, -- valuable acquaintances with key aesbers cf the societies In tba aedloal and pibllc health professions and to assemble all of these facte, and to wake use of all of these acquaintances la a general educational effort. fcj.