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The Environmental Protec Ant and Wasp Killer, BcxaOi Metered Air Sani.izer;
tion Agency (EPA) yemerday Ant and Roach Killer. Wabj Flet, Uee and Tick Bomb.
famed
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green Ant Flea Killer
and Reach Kilter; I F-L-T for Dogs and Cota; Uee and
Bomb; Wsyne Flea. Tick; Regers' Insecti
to halt the aale of thousands Barrolene Spray Diainfoctant; cide and Repelltnt; Total Re
of cans of pesticide sprays Coo:> Dairy Insecticide for! lease insect Fo.tgor; Crown
containing vinyl chloride a Milk Homes and Animate. j "Total" Complete Release In
chemical United of liver cancer.
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sect Fogger; Roberts' "Total" Complete Release ' Insect Fogger; Chaperone Flea A
The order, which takes ef fect immediately, coven 28
aerosol products intended for ae In the home, hospitals,
rid Moth Proofer Cadas Tick Killer; Pyre..inn Insecti Scented or Activated Moth, cide Pressurized Dairy Proof Spray Cedariaed; Hok-j Insecticide; Coop Pyrethrin out 23 Aerosol Insecticide; t Insecticide Pressurized Dairy
when food is handled or other enclosed anas. Outdoor sprays an not affected but the
Strike--Wasp and Hornet; N'okout 95 Insecticide; Sprit*
Insecticide, and Mid-am Brand Pyrethrin Insecticide.
EPA said manufacturers an
recalling them anyway. An estimated 19,000 cans
Funeral Home's Bodycovered by the ban an be
lieved to be on the market,
and an unknown number of to others an likely to be in the
Is Finally Identifiedbands of consumers.
The industry' was already in
the process of recalling the SPARTANBURG, S.C.,.
prays but EPA administrator [ April M (API--He looked so
Russell E. Train said the proc-i ess was not moving fast!
good
standing up there in
enough.
- j the storeroom, neatly turned
"After a few yean, we'd just given up," she said.
Officials said Evans, wbo was using the name William
"While the public health im out in a Mack suit and hat. Bryant, was picking peaches
plications of exposure to vinyl
chloride from short pesticide bursts an undertermined. the link between the gas and the cancer is suspected strongly
Looked so good, in fact, that the funeral home decided to keep Mm around for 3% years.
in rural Spartanburg County 3Vi years ago when he died at age 70. His wife, Lula Mac of New Jersey, and the rest of the family
enough to make it prudent Martha Evans had heard had searched for him from
public policy to ban further about the body at the J. W. Florida northward.
use of these products," Train1 Woodward Funeral Home, Despite radio and newspa
said.
1
I but the didn't really believe per announcements, no one
Vinyl chloride is used as a j the stories. So when she claimed the body. After sev
propellant in the aerosol i was at the funeral parlor, eral months. Coroner
sprays. Twelve eases of a rare i she asked if she could tee George Adams told the fu
liver cancer have been found the body.
* neral home that the state
among workers at factories Upstairs the went
would pay S50 for burial ex
where the chemical was in "Ob my God," she scream penses. But the funeral home
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ed. "It's BeUhouse."
decided to keep the body.
Train's action was believed Bellhouse was the family
'He looked just like he did
to be the first of its kind nickname for James Willie several months before when
taken under the 1912 federal Evans, Mrs. Evans brother- we embalmed him. so I de pesticide law which gives tbe! in-law. He left home 27 years cided to try and see how
agency power to issue an j ago to become a migrant long we could preserve him
emergency order. Tbe order; farm worker and has been in case his relatives were fi-
halts the sale of the products i missing ever since,
nally found," said luneral
involved at once, rather than "I told them I just don't -home manager E.irl Alexan
allowing a time period to pass; believe you got one up there der. *lt was out of the way
first as Is the case with other, that long," Mrs. Evans mid and no one was stumbling
bans tbe agency may impose. I today. "1 just screamed out Tbe EPA had earlier re-; his name."
leased the names of some of! The perfectly preserved
the products involved after it! body, a white sheet keeping asked the manufacturers toi the dust from the suit, white identify them. Yesterday it re-; shirt, black tic and hat, was leased all the names, includ standing upright.
ever it" Tbe executive director of
the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association. W. o.
Folk, said the funeral home broke no law in keeping the
body unburied so long.
ing some whose manufactur "They asked if 1 was sure
Mrs. Evans identified the
ers wanted kept secret for for it was him. I told them I'm body last February but de
mula reasons.
as sure of him as if he was tails were not announced
The products arc:
standing right here," she until this week. The funeral
Brulin Bog Bomb; Psraeide said.
is scheduled for July 27 to
with Sevin: Demert Raw When she asked to see the allow bis relatives from Cal
Roach, Ant end Wasp Killer; body, she bad no idea that it ifornia, Texas and New Jer
Cobra International Roach, might be her brotber-in-iaw. sey to attend.