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FILE NAME Quigley QUIG DATE 1972 Mar 15 DOC QUIG015 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Newspaper Article Nuch * PASSAIC N.J. Debiyp feet The Herald Wed. March 1972 15 ~ 7 Cancer peril cited on inhaling asbestosfibers WASHINGTON group of labor AP - A leaders and ference of discovering about 50 cases of one rare variety of were fatal within year and half a year or asbestos Health Education and We fare and private industry have doctors said Tuesday the danger of cancer from breathing eliminatesuch poten only cancer mesothelioma in , Clayman said asbestos was *done little to * hazards persons living around an as- one of hundreds of poten - - asbestos fibers is increasing bestos processing facility op tially lethal industrial subst- sharply in the United States as erated by the Manville- ances that the federal govern- the asbestos grows , devas- It may be the most devas- tating environmental disaster yet perpetrated by any indus- Corp. in Manville N.J a popula- town of about 15.000 tion ' Borow and Dr. William L. ment should control under the - recently enacted occupational health safety act and the environmental protection act trial nation Jacob Clayman - director of the CIO's in- dustrial on department Nicholson of the Mt. Sinai School of Mediciffe in Newment York said asbestos is increas- He said the Labor DepartNewment and the Department of said at news conference J. ing as a health hazard in all Millions of American workers their families their ghbors may exposed to toxic concentrations of asbes- tos Clayman said in de- cities as its use increases in the manufacture of textiles cement ship building insula other tion piping and ucts prod : manding stricter federal safety controls on the use of as- Borow said it takes 20 to 40 years after exposure for var- bestos Dr. Maxwell Borow of ious types of cancer to devel- the Somerset Hospital in op from inhaling asbestos fi- Somerville N.J. told the con- bers and that all such cases ,