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Sterilization Urged at Plant, Women Say Washington (Upi> - The on, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union has vowed to make a national issue of charges by five women that the Ameri can Cyanimid Corp. pressured them into being surgically sterilised, it was reported Monday. Charleston, Weal Virginia, Tuesday Morning, January 2, 1979 The. five women said the chemical conglomerate pressured them into hav ing ihe surgery in order to keep 'their jobs at Cyanimid's Willow Island. W Va.. plant, according to an article in The Washington Post. These women were forced to make a Draconian choice that nobody should have to make," Anthony Manocchi. the union s vice presdent, was quoted as saying. "It's an outrageous situation and American Cyanimid is not the only company that is trying to force women out of the workplace rather than clean it up " Charleston The Post said the plant s entire prod uction force, ranging in age from M to 41 has sought legal advice. Last year, according to a company spokesman. Cyanimid began to shift female workers out of positions where exposure to lead could harm unborn children Gazette THE WOMEN SAID they were told other chemicals as well as lead were dangerous to pregnant women, and their jobs would be shifted Company pressure, the potential loss of several thousand dollars in overtime and the possibility of unemployment prompted the five women to go ahead with the sterilizations, they told the newspaper. From Pag* Ona The group said two other women who refused the operations were transferred out of the plant's pigment division into lesser-paying janitorial jobs in October. >. "They told us we could go to the janitorial department, but that if there veren t enough jobs there some of us i might have to leave," said Betty Moier. e of the sterilized women. $" "I wish now I'd have been stronger,' *' aid Barbara Cantwell, a divorced worker with two children T didn't worn to he sterile " The company said it adopted a policv last year of restricting all rhild-beanng women workers under SO to two sec tions of the plant where no lead is used, because the case against lead is so well documented Sterilization More than 100 chemical-based prod ucts are manufactured at the plant, located on the Ohio River near St Mar ys, W Va The chemical firm has emphatically denied responsibility (or the women's sterilization, the newspaper reported, insisting its policy is aimed solely at protecting unborn children "Our doctor met with all of the wom en in Sep**mber when our policy was announced." a company spokesman told the Poet. "At that time we said that we discourage sterilization and that if it was done we did not sanction it." (Please Ten to Page 7A, Col. 1) t Uc 104916 W * :V ` ' Co l"\^ Motor Vehicle* Commissioner Virgi nia Roberts said Thursday that the em ployee apparently bad issued license plate decals and temporary registration receipts to car owners, but failed to send forms to the DMV. As a result, the She said the DMV is instituting a system in which counties must submit written, signed requests for decals to insure against fraud. She said she also is asking that the state tai commission er include automobile registration tran sactions in yearly audits. . ______ _ would have to put up }2 million and the federal gov ernment would pay for the rest. Pickett said WVU's etperta presently travel to Colin Anderson and other areas of the state which is "great for the students, services snd the communi ties " But when centers are established department had no record that the de cals had been issued or that fees had been collected, she said. Asked if she suspected that fraud could exist in other counties, she said, "I don't know, bnt that's one of the on university campuses, Pickett said the "academicians never leave to go out in the real world " "Evidently that paperwork was never reasons we're tightening up our audit The laboratories for training and procedures" diagnosis ought to be in the communi /Death of Carbide Worker / Linked to Vinyl Chloride '.>*>10, ties. Pickett said. The health director also lean that Colin Anderson would become a custodial center where the handicapped will be transferred to --antown for diagnosis and treatHe thinks for example, education I TAe ^iwrimd frm The d__e__a_t_h_o--f .a<n wemiiipploivy/ewe voif UUQnKiomn Carbide's Sc--ou*th- CTMh.*arl"eston plant has been attributed tentatively to angiourcoma, a rare liver disease linked with explosure to vinyl chloride. Gerald Forrest of South Charleston, a long-time employee who worked in Union Carbide's vinyl chloride unit for 25 yean, died Saturday. Dr Benjamin Newman, chief pathol ogist at Thomas Memorial Hospital, said a preliminary autopsy indicated angiosarcoma, but that additional tests would be performed If the preliminary findings hold true. Forrest would be the with employee of 11.:-- r*--- - *` Union Carbide to die of the disease since lltt. Plant spokesman Prank Stowers said liver tisane studies will be performed by the National Institute of Health to verify Ikat Forrest had angiosarcoma The Sooth Charleston plant baa not. produced vinyl chloride for several ( years. However, the plant sUU uses the chemical aa a raw material. Vinyl chloride emiiaiens came under federal regulation in 1975 after re- soacbers linked the chemical, used in the production of plastics, to liver dissease. sn should be trained at Colin An derson er, Colin Anderson would be bet ter off in Morgantown. MEDICAL HISTORY has shown, be said, that (be countryside became de pleted of family doctors and, in the end. the medical centers became referral renters to which patients have to travel and spand the better part of their time on transportation. Pickett ts (earful the same will become true for the hand!capped. Why destroy the present system which has WVU'x (acuity visiting com munities. Pickett asked. He said that system is far ahead of other states and be hasn't encountered as good of an experience any where else, "Why not >lale Revokes taeat. aovenTiUMtwT expand on what we have," he Mid. caoai. aovaatisaaitwr- Rest Control 1 inn's License *OTCf OP *um*'**ALC tm City bi CMfMiMi, dmi Ivifflm* .win rc*tv* b*44 Md* Monci or ftfOTlCC II Mry i*fb IMt IN tii t*4 City it oo a m . ****?. #*' Ok**' 4y eiflvi t IM ivfhbnty veil t# tft t*4 V*4*rlf*4* W I (par t to* tor IH# 4m4*itto* * 4 Itrvctvfi 41 4N MM* Wt4*Hvto Ttuttet, SC 10*1**4114*1 014V *4 4* tfottf * trvii mn* by 16 I9imtd I* * IwtoHbQ (lURtl M*#r# bhd SyBAOT Meqrs, Mi ifgfttr't ofiif* Vt*4f m*tl I,Ccte.fmm,nIadnnvH__o_O_K'_nM_n-Ifmfdhwaflts-eI.IwMttNHtrd1o*Ht1h4i I <P*4y<*4***4t y4*'*>4.M.*itef***m#0i4^.4*4*!T4* ,, PUBLIC HCA4.NO CovNtif 4* thf City 41 Ovhbkr #iU *M 4 pvBK **4f *a l* fV C***cM CHkMbtft o< Clip W#lL OvfHMf, K4l Vi'o* M4. **4*4oy. OKm44f M. If* |I f n p 4* t (WM4M r|4A t*v from ! 4*44*f*4l I* i C4*tr4i IwtenMi 1*4 4*404'*? ' ** OH Mt * to S44f 4<to P4tftov* 4v- .*.**Av*-w~.V:v; ^/!*-** f- UCC 104917 i "* <r* t* 4 BUCKHANNON store will come gambling, casinos and prostitution in the streets, and it will turn the whole town rotten," (aid Lois Almond, leader of the fight here against has joined the local Temperance Union and is one of the staunchest opponents of the liquor store. He said, "Buckhannon is the cle anest town in the state, and we want to Carbide Employee's Death Linked To Vinyl Chloride By DAVID GREENFIELD Of The Daily Mail Suit The death of a 62-year-old employee of Union Carbide's South Charleston plant has been tentatively attributed to angiosarcoma, a rare liver disease linked with exposure to vinyl chloride. Gerald Forrest of South Charleston, a long-time Union Carbide employee wbo worked in the plant's vinyl chloride unit for 25 years, died Saturday in Thomas Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Dr. Benjamin Newman, due/ pathologist at the hospital, said a preliminary autopsy indicated Forrest died of angiosarcoma. Additional post-mortem tests will be performed. Forrest is the sixth employee of Union Carbide to die of the rare liver ifttnw since 1961. He was an active employee at the plant at the time of his death. The South Charleston plant has not produced vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of plastics, for several years. However, the plant still uses vinyl chloride as a raw material in its resins process Vinyl chloride emissions came under strict federal regulation in 1975 after researchers discovered the chemical was linked to liver disease. In the past 15 years, the deaths of fewer than 24 U.S. workers heavily exposed to vinyl chloride gas have been attributed to angiosarcoma, according to statistics. Plant spokesman Frank Stowers said liver tissue studies will be performed by the National Institute of Health and medical specialists to verify that Forrest had angiosarcoma. Forrest had been an expediter in Carbide's plant maintenance department since 1969. He was a plant employee for 2T years club liquor law. But to buy bulk I Buckhannon and Upshur County dents must drive to Weston, Elk. Philippi. Because Weston is closest, mi the traffic goes there. In fact. Mayor Bill Short, the state is built new store east of Weston in l County to serve the traffic from 1 hannon. Short believes the opponents bat tie chance of stopping the pro; Buckhannon store, which ho said is ported by the city council "and me the voters of the city." Some 1,0M registered voters ngi petition U> call a referendum ot question. The referendum is ichec Jan. 16, and Short said, "I just imagine it not passing." At the i time that petition was circulating, city sent out another one for the st< opponents to sign. Only 265 did. But Mrs. Almond, wife of physi Harold Almond, is optimistic. She i "We're going to defeat it, positiv Biblically and morally, it's evil; il'i wrong. And we're going to win." Her husband supports her in thee paign. "As s doctor. I've seen enoog: what alcohol can do to families, and accidents it causa," be said. "Ala is this nation's No. 1 drug problem,. prevention is the only cure." Mrs. Almond sumps all of her j sonal mail with the words* "OUTL. ALCOHOL," and is distributing bum stickers which say, "Alcohol -- Ame (Turn to Pg. I9A, Col. ...----FlLL A YEAR-ROUND NFfD--------- Typewriter Would Aid Lonely Man m U* tar ter. UCC 104918 Charleston Daii? 8&ail f. .S: - .. Wednesday, .Jun 29.T977, The Charleston Gaz Yinyi Chloride Name of Latest * .;** Blamedlliv Death GfEx-Clrbider Liver Cancer- 7 >. Victim Released nsg&ytf.??: By JIM PAHL .'v' Of The Daily Mail Staff "ST ,-* r.'- % ' foTrmheerdeeamthplloayset moonUthnaiofna 6C0a-rybeidaer-oinld.'1 ^JUl^je..S. !ttn,,S ?_8fIp^?-aHM^TU,,E5. L,._Jy-N---E---2--8--t_- 1~97-.7-j~f_iJ The identity of the most; recent' tinv of angiosarcoma' among emplo and former employes of the Union C bide-South Charleston Plant has tx released by company officials. South Charleston has been attributed to angiosarcoma; a rare form of liver ca%^ -cer believed linked to. long-term expo* * JUS^" Cancer Victim , ^ 1 a r, t > * The mam's death and the diagm 'Were announced Monday by the cor ration. The man's name was withh until the permission of the family ' obtained. " ,V., -'.; ' Theman's lhnii)tfwas being with^ held pending discussions with the fami ly.The man worked at'the South Char leston plant for about 24 years before seeking other employment, said Franki Stowers, a Carbidsspokesman, said..1^ Stowers. said, fourj earlier angiosar coma deaths have been discovered since* 1968 among .former employees* with exposure to vinyl chloride. ,' A1975 study by Dr. Henry Anderson, a research associate at the Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, said 27 per cent of,the 435 vinyl chloridejvorkers-afthe plant have apparentliver,' damage^; -t'P-i'ix+'M About 16 per cent of the workers had?: abnormal results in the. liver enzyme^ test and seven per cent had enlarged liver, both above the. national average; according to the study; ; Stowers said Union Carbide has re duced emmision of the chemical and is : complying with- Occupational Safety^ identified As C. E. Moore - ij.* -TT'" . v -cs. . . v- A'60-year-old former Union Carbide employe who died in New Jersey last month of angiosarcoma, a-rare form of liver cancer, has been identified as Charles E. Moore. - Frank Stowers, a company spokes man said Moore had lived in Bridgeton, N.J. since 1966. Hedied on May 27. Moore joined Carbide in May,' 1937, : and worked off and on for the company until April. 1965. ` " '$**si-* :;'i: For 24 yean. Moore was employed as a shift fitter in the vinyl chloride divi sion. Angiosarcoma is believed to be linked to long-term exposure to vinyl ch-lo--r-id--e-.-S--t-o-w--e-r-s--s-a-id. - , He was Charles'E. Moore/ 60 Bridgeton, N.J. He moved away ft West Virginia in 1965, when he left job at the South Charleston plant a having worked there for 26 years. , ;He was a maintenance man in plant's vinyl chiwide unit for 24 ye 'Long-term exposure to vinyl chlo has been linked to angiosarcoma, a i form of liver cancer. Four previous cases of angiosarci had been reported among plant ployes. - - < UCC 104919 Hesltit Admiaistratiod (OSHA) Environmental Protection Agency? . (EPA) regulations. Tuesday, June 28,1977, The Charleston Gazette] 5th Liver Cancer -- fri 'T. , W .. Case Discovered A fifth case of angiosarcoma, a rare left the company.in 1965 to accept an form of liver cancer, has been discov other job elsewhere. ered among former employes of the Angiosarcoma, the spokesman said, vinyl chloride unit of the Union Carbide "is believed to be linked to long-term South Charleston Plant, company offi exposure to vinyl chloride " cials said Monday. The spokesman said that since the "Officials ... have received a final" discovery in the early 1970s "that long- pathology report that the death last term exposure to vinyl chloride might month of a 60-year-old former employe have an adverse effect on health. Union is attributed to angiosarcoma .. ." a Carbide has achieved significant reduc company spokesman said. - tions of emissions of this chemical to The name of the victim was with the air and the work environment and held. the spokesman continued, pend is complying with-Occupation Safety ing permission from the family. The ' and HealthAdmimstratiorr 2nd tlrvi" I man had* worked m the vinyl chloride ronmental Protection Agency regula area of the plant for 24 years before he tions covering vinyl chloride." Cbacleston Daflp gpaf1 moJOune v, 1977 Vinyl Chloride Blamed In Death Of Ex-Carbider By JIM PAHL Of The DmBy Mail Suit The death last month of a 80-year-old former employe of Union Carbide in Sooth Charleston has been attributed to angiosarcoma, a rare form of Uver can* . cer believed linked to long-term expo-. sure to vinyl chloride, company offlcals ' announced today. The man's identity was being with held pending discussions with the fami- 1 ty.The man worked at the South Char leston plant for about M yean before seeking other employment, said Frank Stowers, a Carbide spokesman, said. Stowers said four earlier angiosar coma deaths have been discovered since 1968 among fonner employees with exposure to vinyl chloride. A1973 study by Dr. Henry Anderson, a research associate at the Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, said 27 per cent of the 435 vinyl chloride work ers at the plant have apparent liver damage. About 16 per cent of the workers had 1 abnormal results in the liver emyme test and seven per cent had enlarged liver, both above the national average, according to the study. Stowers said Union Carbide has re duced emmisKMi of the chemical and is complying with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)lregulations. UCC104920 A mw Mi and bows tonight m tut mio im. r cloudy *nd cooler Friday Htghs In Mo mM ! par uv cwuoy in me South and Central. Highs m the Mi to law SOs Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, March 7 and 8. i Carbide Receives1 Cftanco of roto M por coat today pod M par c tones * fControl Mounfolt> IUbwots or ftso mtTCMN FMNNfTLVANIA Showawrt and Ohio. West Virginia, Mississippi, Ala thundershowers today. Highs from tha mid SOs to bama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsyl dtrshowort today ondhtg tontaM lUrti Mr 4* i mo low 4*t and tows toiiigM binia mid JSt. Portly and Friday. Laws mid die and highs Friday in the nos. vania, New Jersey, New York, Mary Safety Awardclowdr a>d oadar Friday. Htofts In Hit low Sis. Ctoonce of rain M por coni today and SO par otnf IMfT VtWftffA Showers or thundershowers today ending tonight. Highs today la the Ms end land and Delaware. tonight laws tonight In tha Ms. Partly cloudy and colder Zone 7 ISouIS) Showors and ttawndorsliowori today ending tonight. HtoN today In fha low Us and lows iMtghl in too mid Ms. Parity dowdy and cooler Friday High* in fh# low 90s. Chance of rain Friday. Highs In the SOs. IMIIMY*S NUMlOtnit Sa.m......i3% 11 am..... 41% sp.m....3s% From Page One The Carbide field construction de partment based in Kanawha Valley has Mptr cant today and U par cant tonight Zona I ttsortnsra Mowntains I Showors or ttwn* dorshowers today ending tonight. hwn today tow to mid Mi and tows tonight low to md Ml. Partly ctowdy and cooler Friday.H..i.g..h...s...I..................... .. Chance ot raMi M par cant today i Zona f tCitlani Panhandta) Showers or thun dershowers Itfcety today and ending tonight. Highs today mid ta upper Ms and lows toolphi from The HtwmlwindtmliTiMfromItu liiljpm TSMMKaTUMS WSi!iS>v'Ht)h HWXiwIoiLwr u RktS Utah for IS m H Storm ttt in MS. fttcaro tow Mr F*. n> -1 Mann Ml In mi MMCimATKM SMmut pradpttaltan aioilpm.................Tract Total tor lha month at Fatoruary ...................>01 Ex-Carbide Worker Dies Miners Richard Carter, president of United Mine Workers District 29, said, "More mines are working today than yester day. ft does look like the back to work movement is on " received a top award from the National Safely Council for outstanding safety performance during the past two years. The department stands in the top 1 per cent of aU the firms rated for safety performance on the job, officiate said It completed the year with a 107 disabling injury rate per million hours worked, marking the second best in the i I l Of Vinyl-Linked Cancer Carter said, however, nothing defi nitely would be known until art reports are in today. The district has 14 field department's 45-year history. The best 5 was in 1975 when a .64 rate was a achieved. p Tk* IlMclalcdPm* representatives who have been out Recently, the department passed the A rare form of cancer believed linked to vinyl chlonde exposure baa claimed the Ufe of long-time employe of Un ion Carbide In Sorth Charleston, a com pany spokesman announced Wednesday. Prank Stoners, director of public re lations. said the victim was 67 and retired. He had worked 28 yean at the South Charleston plant. 22 of them as a vinyl chloride worker. An autopsy, Stowers said, showed said all had long exposure to vinyl chloride at the South Charleston plant. He declined to release the name of the latest victim. "Since the discovery in the early 1670a that exposure to vinyl chloride might have an advene effect mi hearth, Union Carbide has achieve significant reductions on emissions of this chemi cal to the air and the work environ ment, and ta complying with ... regula tions covering vinyl chloride," the com trying to get striking miners to go back to work ever since the wildcat began. The sick leave issue, he said, will be taken to (he National Labor Relations Board. Eastern said certain miners were re quired to get a doctor's certificate at the Wharton mine after they repeatedly reported to be sick apparently to dodge new work assignments The company got temporary restrain ing orders Tuesday against strkers at Keystone and Hopperston mines, but million consecutive safe hours mark. The construction department em- ploys about 1,000 persons. It ta based at the Carbide Institute plant, but has facilities at South Charleston, Sistersvtlle. Alloy and Marietta, Ohio ic ti< th Blood Pressure Checks Offered in Marmet Senior citizens to Marmet and sur rounding areas can have their blood death was caused by angiosarcoma, a pany said in a statement. U S District Judge Dennis Knapp de pressure taken at any time at the Mar cancer which affecta the lining of the "In addition; Union Carbide contin layed the orden on the request of Cart met Volunteer Fire Department. liver. 0 THE DEATH was the fourth attrib uted to angiosarcoma among Union Carbide employes since 1966. Stowers ues to conduct private studies on the effects of vinyl chloride exposure on health and is also participating in simi lar studies conducted by the Manufac turing Chemists Assn ." er. He asked the court to give union officials an opportunity to continue meetings with miners in the effort to get them to return to the pits. A spokesman for Consolidation Coal Technicians are on duty 24 hours a day and there is no charge for the service. State Offering Sexual Attitudes Class Cn said miners were returning to work 'f 'i I a L. UCC 104921 .Arb*-- W-H l ~n U.S. Offers Settlement* With Union Carbide WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a pro posed order settling an antitrust suit against the Union Carbide Corp over carbary1. an ingredient in pesticides. The proposed order, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, be comes final if the court approves. * THE SETTLEMENT involves the substance which Union Carbide has marketed commercially under the trademark Sevin for nearly 20 yean. Sevin it the principle ingredient in sev eral widely used Garden pesticides. Theater W. Va. To Perform at Tech Under terms of the settlement, the company is prohibited from entering any pmngement restraining the use of Sevin for 10 years. The company may not enforce cer tain provisions discouraging the resale of Sevin in its current contracts with pesticide makers. The proposal would settle the anti trust suit the govemmoit filed against the company last April. In the suit, the government charged that the company violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by unreasonably restrain ing the use and resale of technical carbaryl. the pure form of the insecticide chemical. (The only Carbide plant in West Vir ginia that manufactures Sevin is the Institute plant). ** MONTGOMERY - West Virginia Tech will present for one performance Theater West Virginia with "You're a Good Man. Charlie Brown." The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 3 in the Tech Center Ball room and there will be no admission charge For more information, call the school. THE COMPANY ALSO was accused of obtaining duplicate patents on carbaryl in order to extended the period it would enjoy a patent monopoly. After the suit was filed, the company disclaimed any rights under the later patent monopoly. The Justice Department and the fed eral court will accept public comment on the proposal for the next 10 days. i so pn the tha adc t De pla teti km I hig citi 22 to tiH er. Pc ro! g I 1WELCOME W.V.I.A.C. UCC 104922 To* Kv\ \ Vinyl-Linked Cancer Kills Ex-Carbider By ROBERT KELLY Of The Daily Mail Sufi A rare type of cancer believed to be linked to vinyl chloride exposure killed another former employe of Union Car bide's South Charleston plant, the com pany announced today. The victim was 67 and had worked 22 years in the polyvinyl chloride produc tion unit at South Charleston, Carbide spokesman Prank Stowers said. The company declined to release his name, pending permission Rom the familiy, Stowers said. However, the Daily Mail has learned the victim was Chester (Hink) Hinkle, a former South Charleston resident who died in a Rock Ledge (Fla.) hospital Jan. 2. Hinkle was the fourth Carbide South Charleston employe to die of angiosar coma, a cancer which affects blood vessels lining the liver. Stowers said three other angiosar coma deaths discovered since 1MB in volved persona with long-term expo sure to vinyl chloride at the South Charleston plant. Dr. Henry Falk, medical epidemiolo gist for the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, said the angiosar coma case reported today is 19th in volving vinyl chloride workers since the link was established in 1970. Falk said 10 cases developed among (Tara M Pg. SA, Chi. I) VINYL Continued From Page One workers at B.F. Goodrich plant in Louisville, Ky.; four at South Charles ton; four at a Goodyear plant in Niaga ra Falla, N.Y.; and one at a Firestone plant in Pottstown, Pa. "I guess my main feeling about this is that it's unfortunate that it took people so long to realise this could happen, it's overwhelming, to think that toxic ma terial was used so freely for so many yean," Falk said. Stowers said Union Carbide has achieved significant reductions in vinyl chloride emissions and is complying with Occupational Health and Safety , Administration and Environmental * Protection AgShcy emission regula tions. Ucc 104923 me pigs and thought perhaps they ^ PENELOPE THE PIC IN AGRICULTURE DEPT. LAB (Tun P|. 1A, Col. 1) *TN ^--r.^r- \na, ^ -Drily MaU Photo By Earl Beaton Vinyl-Linked F0R MVlfr'fotiuYifoN / 1 1 I 4 Cancer Kills DNR Taking Steps L Ex-Carbider By ROBERT KELLY Of The Drily Mali Stall 'l To Prosecute FMC i d By BOB KITTLE An FMC spokesman admitted the *pi A rare type of cancer believed to be Of The Drily Mail Staff firm had discharged the chemical into Pit linked to vinyl chloride exposure killed the river, but claimed the quantities mi another former employe of Union Car bide's South Charleston plant, the com Dept, of Natural Resources officials were not large enough to confirm Envi were taking steps today to prosecute ronmental Protection Agency reports 1 by pany announced today. The victim was 67 and had worked 22 years in the polyvinyl chloride produc tion unit at South Charleston, Carbide spokesman Frank Stowers said. The company declined to release his name, pending permission from the FMC Corp for alleged failure to report discharges of thousands of gallons of carbon tetrachloride into the Kanawha River, Director David C. Callaghan said. that the South Charleston plant was the source of a 70-ton slug which reached Frankfort, Ky, today. The spiU, reported Friday by federal investigators, threatened the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of resi dents along the Ohio River. The EPA rot las CO K* J, no ovt familiy, Stowers said. However, the Daily Mail has learned the victim was Chester (Hink) Hinkle, a former South Charleston resident who warned residents downriver from a point above Cincinnati to boil their water before drinking it. Callaghan was to meet today with I tlx ct isi died in a Rock Ledge (Fla.) hospital Kanawha County Prosecutor Larry P<* Jan. 2. Winter to determine how to prosecute pn Hinkle was the fourth Carbide South FMC for alleged violations of the state lie Charleston employe to die of angiosar coma, a cancer which affects blood vessels lining the liver. Stowers said three other angiosar coma deaths discovered since 1968 in volved persons with long-term expo sure to vinyl chloride at the South Charleston plant. Dr. Henry Falk, medical epidemiolo gist for the U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, said the angiosar coma case reported today is 19th in 4 volving vinyl chloride workers since the I link was established in 1970. Falk said 10 cases developed among (Tun la pg. 1A, CM. 1) Water Pollution Control Act, which re quires polluters to report toxic dis charges. Meanwhile, Jim Manwaring, chief of the EPA investigation, said the firm responsible for the discharge could be prosecuted for violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and Toxic Substance Control Act. Federal investigators have focused their attention on FMC and the Dia mond Shamrock Corp. plant at BelleShamrock officials have denied dis charging the carbon tetrachloride. EPA experts said they are certain the (Ten ta pg. IA. Cat. 4) pet at 1 the kill A too opi deb Y >" by i pro T fra regi prq II wOAwfl Beckley Ball Takes Final Bounce By CHUCK HIST Of The Drily Mall Staff As the final seconds ticked away on the Civic Center scoreboard, a Beckley College cheerleader pleaded with her team for a last, desperate comeback. She clasped her hands behind her head in exasperation. She shouted a final "Let's go, guys!" She folded her arms in frustration. Then the horn sounded, signaling an 85-79 win for Glenville State over the cheerleader's beloved Beckley Blue Hawks. Ever so slightly, her eyes mois tened. It was all over. Beckley had not only been eliminated ' from the tournament -- like West Lib erty was ousted later that evening by West Virginia Tech, 7540 -- it was the end of the junior college's basketball existence. The athletic program is being discontinued at Beckley. While the cheerleader cried. Coach Joe Cook was businesslike. He tried to shake hands with the players on his team but most were already headed for the dressing room. Instead, he offered congratulations to winning coach Jess Lilly. In the locker room. Cook told his players they could keep their uniforms. "You guys did a good job," he told the downcast youngsters. "You played a helluva game. It's been a privilege to coach you." With that. Cook turned to a group of writerf "That's It," he smiled. "They played good ball. I'm real proud." It was a quietly emotional scene in the Blue Hawks' dressing room They'd had time to get used to the reality since the college announced in January that this would be the final season for bas ketball. Expenses, lack of facilities, dif ficulties in keeping players and the problems of a two-year college compet ing against four-year institutions made the decision inevitable. `T don't feel very good right now," said Lee Perry, who scored 22 points and had the distinction of scoring Beckley's final points on a layup with three seconds to go. "I feel like crying. "I really wanted to win this one in my hometown," said Perry, who played for Stonewall Jackson High School last year. "I just wanted to show <Tm la Pg. JA, Col. II 0 Astn Brid) Busit Gass Com Crosi Dear Edifc oo CO to Trapped In Wreck, Doctor Tries To Save Own Life MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) - A doctor crushed in a car wreck at tempted to save her own life by performing a makeshift tracheoto-. my, but died before she could fin ish, officials said. "It would have saved her life is she had succeeded," coroner's dep uty Howard Harbulak said Tues day. He said she "probably would have needed less than a minute" to finish the operation. He said Or. Marilyn Markovitch, a Saratoga anesthesiologist, at tempted the tracheotomy with a paring knife when her windpipe Soviet Spacemen was crushed against her steering wheel in an accident Sunday. Harbulak said the 48-year-old woman managed to cut a threequarter inch incision in her throat before dying of suffocation. He said a tracheotomy is an oper ation that "any knowledgeable per son would have done" and he said Dr. Markovitch could have suc ceeded if she had been able to make a longer incision. Mariposa County sheriff's depu ties said the crash occurred early Sunday when Dr. Markovitch apparenlty lost control of her auto on a curve and slammed into a ditch. The wreckage was spotted early Monday by another vehicle. Prepare To Return PENELOPE MOSCOW (AP) - After 16 days in space, the Soviet Union's two orbiting cosmonauts began preparations today to return to earth. Tass reported. "The crew is carrying out operations for the transfer of the station to auto matic flight and for preparations of their space capsule for undocking and landing," the official Soviet news agen cy said. Tass did not give the expected time of return. The report said Col. Viktor Gorbatko, the 42-year-old flight commander, and his flight engineer, 37-year-old Yuri Glazkov, completed their flight pro gram and were transferring the results of their experiments from the orbiting Salyut-5 space station to their Soyuz-24 capsule. Soyuz-24 blasted off Feb. 7 and docked the next day with Salyut-5. VINYL Continued From Page One workers at B.F. Goodrich plant in Louisville, Ky.; four at South Charles ton; four at a Goodyear plant in Niaga ra Falls, N.Y.; and one at a Firestone plant in Pottstown, Pa. "I guess my main feeling about this Is that it's unfortunate that it took people so long to realize this could happen. It's overwhelming, to think that toxic ma terial was used so freely for so many yean," Falk said. Stowers said Union Carbide has achieved significant reductions in vinyl chloride emissions and is complying with Occupational Health and Safety Administration and Environmental v Protection A^mcy emission regula tions. Continued From Page One had hog cholera ... a disease we're keeping under surveillance. "So, since Jackson County is too far to drive every day, we decided to bring back one piglet to observe. We didn't believe she would ever return to the farm, so we really didn't think too much about it. But, it turned out not to be hog cholera." Instead, Dr. Njaka believes the bam Penelope and her siblings were kept in was too humid and the pig lets caught influenza ... or swine flu, if you will. "We put her in an incubator and she responded miraculously," said Dr. Njaka. "She weighs between 15 and 20 pounds now and seems quite content. Before too long she's going back to Jackson County, but we didn't want to send her while it was still cold outside because that would be like condemning her." So, in the meantime Penelope is living with her adopted family at the Dept, of Agriculture and taking guided tours of the Capitol grounds. "Pigs need sunlight or they devel op rickets, so we took Penelope out for a walk yesterday," said Dr. Njaka. "And, she was quite an at traction. One lady walked up to me and said, `My, that's a strange look ing dog.' But, she behaved quite well. She just followed right along withbut a leash or rope or anything. Pigs are quite intelligent, you know. Just like Arnold on the Green Acres show on television, for example." There's just one question, is the Capitol cafeteria scheduled to serve pork chops, bacon, or pig's knuckles in the near future? v<Not in a pig's eye!' answers Pene lope. \amni. -O" - Republicans For Greer and Prunty. Democrats Against Bird. 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SDailp Sail tues., june 28, i977> South Charleston has been attributed to angiosarcoma; a rare form of liver cancer believed linked to. long-term expo-- Cancer Victim bide-South Charleston Plant hz released by company officials. The man's death and the dia were announced Monday by the ration. The man's name was wi until the permission of the fami The- man's Hoitityfwas being held pending discussions with the fami ly.The man worked at'the South Char leston plant for about 24 yean before seeking other employment, said Frank.' Stowen, a Carbidespokesman, said.:'%{i Stowers said. four, earlier angiosar coma deaths have been discovered since 1968 among former employees with exposure to vinyl chloride. \; A 1975 study by Dr. Henry Anderson,' a research associate at the Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, said 27 per cent of. the 435 vinyl chlorideworkers atthe plant have apparent'liver damage.*. -.V1 . vv About 16 per cent of the workers had '; abnormal results in the liver enzyme test and seven per cent had enlarged liver, both above the national average; according to the study. J> :-j Stowers said Union Carbide has re- - duced emmisiOR of the chemical and is : complying with Occupational Safety.' Identified As C. E. Moore A 60-year-old former Union Carbide employe who died in New Jersey last month of angiosarcoma, a rare form of liver cancer, has been identified as Charles E. Moore. Frank Stowers, a company spokes man said Moore had lived in Bridgeton, N.J. since 1966. He died on May 27. Moore joined Carbide in May, 1937, ' and worked off and on for the company until April, 1965. For 24 years, Moore was employed as a shift fitter in the vinyl chloride divi sion. Angiosarcoma is believed to be linked to long-term exposure to vinyl chloride. Stowers said. obtained. - He was Charles E. Moore;' Bridgeton, N.J. He moved awa- West Virginia in 1965, when he job at the South Charleston plar having worked there for 26 years He was a maintenance man plant's vinyl chloride unit for 24 Long-term exposure to vinyl c has been linked to angiosarcoma form of liver cancer. Four previous cases of angios. had been reported among pla ployes.: . , i. UCC 104926 AdirJnlstotion (OSHA) tnf ~ Environmental Protection Agency- (EPA) regulations. -- Tuesday, June 28,1977, The Charleston Gazette 5 th Liver Cancer Case Discovered A fifth case of angiosarcoma, a rare form of liver cancer, has been discov ered among former employes of the vinyl chloride unit of the Union Carbide South Charleston Plant, company offi cials said Monday. "Officials ... have received a final pathology report that the death last month of a 60-year-old former employe i.s attributed to angiosarcoma .. ." a company spokesman said. The name of the victim was with held. the spokesman continued, pend ing permission from the family. The man had'wonted in ttv vl chloride area of the plant for 24 -"'fore he left the company, in 1965 to accept an other job elsewhere. Angiosarcoma, the spokesman said, "is believed to be linked to long-term exposure to vinyl chloride. " The spokesman said that since the discovery in the early 1970s "that long term exposure to vinyl chloride might jhave an adverse effect on health. Union Carbide has achieved significant reduc tions of emissions of this chemical to the air and the work environment and is complying with-Occupation Safety and HenlthAdmmistration and Envi ronmental I'rotection Agency regula tions covering vinyl chloride. ' Chesapeake Council Dunbar To Pay Firemen Couple Picks Winner - Orders Cable TV For Back Overtime With Birth Of Twins Refunds Of $27.50 TV cable customers of Asbury aod James Cable Service in Chesapeake will get *27.75 refunds from the company un der an order from the town council Council voted to allow a raise from If-IS to *5.*2 a month. Customers bad been paying *6.70 a month since July, 1975. The refund ordered by council includes six po tent interest, Mayor George Stanley said. Hie refund must be paid by Dec. 22, he said. Carbide Has 90 Days The City Of Dunbar will pay its firemen a total of (4,*79 in back overtime pay, covering the period from September 1974 to June 197*. City policemen will also get beck overtime pay for the same period. The decision by city Cornell is a result of the Supreme Court decision striking down the Fair Labor Standards law. Council last night agreed to aign a con tract with Union Carbide Corp. for use of <00 acres of land in the Finney Hollow area for a motorcycle path; accepted for first reading an ordinance permitting tow* enhouses in the RosaUna Hills area ; ap proved first reading of an ordinance an nexing 312 acres in the Dutch Hoilbw area, incorporating the city park and the old wine cellar areas. To Cut Air Emissions Two UMW Locals Under BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Muhan and Loretta Mattar of Beaverton will In a son named after the next president regardless of whether Gerald Ford or J1 my Carter wins. The couple named their 4-day-old ti boys Jimmie and Jerry. ... Matter, a native of Lebanon saidhe*. ..-. ' his wife moved here from war-tom Be|; H-,' ;';3 recently becauie their import-export be-- ness and apartment were leveled bombs and shells. "We returned a couple months ago the land of opportunity," said Matter, w met his wife when they were students Portland State University. "We agre that if our upcoming twins were both boj they would be named after the two casu..... dates." Union Carbide Corp.'s South Charleston plant has been given 90 days by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cut its emissions of vinyl chloride into the air. The chemical is a raw material used in the manufacture of plastics and. the EPA contends, is a potential cause of angiosar coma, a rare and fatal form of hmg can cer. Carbide spokesman Frank Stowers said the company will have to make "signify cant" adjustments but was unable to give specifics because the matter is being stud ied at Carbide's New York corporate headquarters. "We're awaiting word from New York, and all I can say is we are aware of the matter and obviously will comply with the regulation." School Bus Overturns, No Passengers Hurt A Kanawha County school bus traveling from Alum Creek to George Washington High School overturned after falling into a muddy ditch yesterday morning, board of education spokesman Mike Bell said. He said thue were no injuries and the seven students attended classes at the school yestenky. Bell said the bia apparently cut to the right to avoid rats in Sproui Road and fail on its side intothe soft ditch. Water Meeting Set A public meeting for citisens of Kant' wha, Boone, Clay and Putnam Counties to discuss water quality planning manage ment in those counties will be held Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in Room D of the state Capitol Conference Center. The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a grant for study to the Re gional Intergovernmental Council to de ft Wehuptawfer water manageme* Non-Striking Orders UMW locals in Mingo and McDowell Counties are under temporary restrakitag orders issued yesterday in U5. District Court, prohibiting them from contiming strike activities. The orders issued against Local SOS* at Kermit, Mingo County, and Local 2977 at Coalwood. At issue at the Kermit site was posting of premium time, and at the Coalwood site (War Creek No. 5 mine) , the issuance of cap lights. Coal Production Shows Increase r roe MMCMTCD phew The nationwide production of coal thus far this year has increased nearly three per cent over the same period in 1975. Total protection of bituminous coal and lignite in the week ended Oct. ll, was estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Mines at 1X496,000 tons, a decrease of 30,000 tons over the previous week. Production in the same week one year ago was 13,120,000 tons. Ifetal production for the year, through Oct IX 197* was 524.0*5,000, up 2.9 per cot from the production through Oct. 1*. 1975. Here are weekly production estimates, in thousands of tons, for states the weeks ended Oct. 9,197*, Oct. X197* and Oct. 11, 1975, respectively; W.Va................. ............. 1107 2,097 2452 Ky..................................... 2JBI 1.949 3417 Pa................................... 1.993 1412 1,759 Ohio.................................... M2 1,018 SO 111..................................... 1,145 1.228 1,184 Ind...................................... 452 448 493 Va........................................ *6* 104 971 Ala..................................... 435 453 441 Md......................................... 63 70 45 Tenn................................... 157 220 SI 1XM* Wells la Gulf GALVESTON, Tex.-DriUing for era oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexk began in earnest after World War II. Ov 16,000 wells have been drilled in the gu] Hurricone Refuses To Reinstate Ban Hfl i On Construction HURRICANE-Town council has ri fused to reinstate a building ban, takh^. under advisement a request by the Hurt: cane Planning Commission that the ban tPij put back into effect. Ifc It was put into effect last July becaut1 officials believed the sewage system as water supply were overloaded. Last ugl Mayor Raymond Peak said the watt problem is near solution, and with the ba having been lifted the tint week in Och her, council agreed to study the plannin commission's request for four to si weeks before taking action. St; UCC 104927 Youth Makes Drive-In Visit To Pest Office .______ RAVENSWOOD-Offlclals have mated that it will coet *8.000 to *10490 rtpair the Ravenswood poet office, whld^ l wae damaged Saturday by a wayward sta^-> tkm wagon. Ravenawood dty police said ll-year-ok U Paxton of Ravenswood, who recent]} obtained a learnff'i permit, said he triec to ue Us brakes but Us wet ttoes hit the accelerator Instead. The vehicle thes jumped a curb, smashed a large plat* glaw winder and cracked a wall, policy said. Paxton and his mother, Mrs. Linda Pax- i too, were treated at Jackson General Hoe-. ` pital. Damage to the station wagon was I2A The Charleston Gazette, Saturday, October 23,1976 Underwood. Campaign Stops Scheduled Today x/ I I f j"t VlWyl LtMOriUB tjTTllSSlOH Today's campaign schedule for Cecil Underwood, Republican candidate for governor, is as follows: Wirt County, 9 a.ni. in Elizabeth; 10 a m in Grantsville. Calhoun County ; 11.30 a.m. Gandeeville. Roane County; 2 p.m. in Clay: 3:30 p.m.. in Clendenin, 4:16 p.m. in Elkview and 5:IS p.m. in Marmet; and 6:30 p.m. in Madison Memorial Building. Boone County. MAHENDRAM. PATEL M.D. Announces the Opening of His Practice of Internal Medicine and Lung Diseases Suit* 5 1200 Qsarnsr $L Chartestoa, W. Va. 253(1 PHONO 345*0403 Standards Finalized WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environ mental Protection Agency has issued final standards to control emissions of vinyl chloride, a cancer-causing chemical. EPA said the standards will require SO plana to spend an estimated $190 million to build controls to cut emissions at the chemical. The apeases are expected to increase the price of vinyl chloride about 7.3 per cent and die prices of consumer products made from it by a maximum of about 3.5 per ceit. (Prank Stowers, public relations repre sentative at Union Carbide's plant in South Charleston, W.Va., -- the only user of vinyl eWoride In the Kanawha Valley -- said Friday that "we are aware of the standards, but have not received complete information. As soon as we do, they will be studied." Stowers said Carbide couldn't comment further until the information is received). VINYL CHLORIDE and related chemi cals are widely used in plastics, where they are not considered hazardous. But In their pure chemical form, these compounds are believed to cause a rare and fatal form of liver cancer, and other seriouS diseases Vinyl chloride is the fourth substance designated by EPA as a "hazardous air pollutant," joining asbestos, beryllium and mercury which were cited in 1973. The final standards limit plant emis sions vinyl chloride to no more than 10 parts per million in air or in water dis charges. The regulations gave the 5$ manufactur ing plants 90 days to comply, but EPA may grant waivers of up to two years if neces sary. The standards, essentially unchanged from their original proposal in 1975, are intended to reduce vinyl chloride emis sions more than 90 per cent from their 1974 levels. s UCC 104928 THIS CUPPING FROM: THE CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL DATE /#'& PAGE /fj- VmL CHLORIDE POLICY STRICT I'M I" By RICHARD HAAS ally Mail Bustae** Editor rhe dtractor of tbe U.S. Oepational Safety and 'Health midistrettai's West Virgin* operations said he will have alternative except strict > forcement of a new vinyl ioride standard even though It ppUtfey could produce " job loss at several e Mountain State., ,, U.S. Labor Score-'. _n H. Slender anTUesday that when OSHA'i permanent vinyl chloride standard goes into ef fect Jan. I, exposure levels must average no more than one part per million (ppm), over an eight-hour period.' Short-term variances drill be allowed under the new stand ard as long is the exposure level* do not average more than five ppm during any 15-minute period. Byroo Chadwick, director of OSHA operations in West Vto* finis, said several plaits in the state -- including Union Carbide's Soath Charleston plant -- wbuM be affected by the new standard. Despite a sincere effort on the part of most local Industrim, he said, they ate having difficulty masting the tempo rary standard of 90 ppm. The temporary standard was promulgated in April aft er medical evidence suggest ed s strong Unk between expo sure to vinyl chloride and angiosarcoma, a ran term of Over cancer. Twolarbhfe em ployes who worked in the South Charleston plant's vinyl chloride unit are known to have died of the disease. OSHA officials originally proposed a permanent standaid of "no detectable'' expo sures, and held extensive hearings on UUs proposal be fore promulgating the new permanent standard yester day. ., t "I've been very impressed with Union Carbide's operatwo,'' Chadwick sa&J^fcpj have real professionals work- ing on this problem. But the fact that we had to dte them for a serious violation of the present standard Is evidence of tbe difficulty they are hav ing controlling this gas." Chadwick said the contin uous gas chromatograph mon itoring operation at the South Charleston plant was the most sophisticated he had observed anywhere In the nation.' In addition to tbe South Charleston ptaat, where ap proximately IN`workers are employed hiMnri chloride polymenxatlon, toe other major vinyl chloride plant in the state la operated bf B. F. Gootekb Co. Several smaller rompsaas also In- Involved In cacybrttng pofyvinyt chlor ide to fcknrtety ofJMdc ob- The new O&HStandard calls fogflae; af 4 to 110,000 six-month proof sentences tor thOM tffhnste officials . - ^ ,te the I South _ . ithey j- --,---------- Joe the im- r_J of the lew standard until they had affopportmdty to re view the toll test of Slender's remarks.- Other chemicals and plas tics ledastry officials were no| kdtoticent. Todd C. Walk- -ar. presidsm of the plastics division of roestone Tire h Robber Co., said the new . standard "puts the vinyl plas* tics Indnstry on a collision ' course with economic disas ter." Hooker Chemical Co. UCC 104929