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an DM1.Y NEWS CHICAGO, ILL D. 328,$81 SUN. 392,005 OCT 61976 4*' NYACK, N.Y. JOURNAL-NEWS (NEW YORK CITY MARKET AREA! U. 29,000 OCT 6 1976 Company notes 1 ALOHA AIRLINES VAR FINED f7M* by the . Civil Aeronautics Board for allegedly making Illegal political contributions over an eight-year period. ' o MONSANTO CO., the nation's leading producer of the highly toxic chemical PCB used as an electric insulator, said It will halt production of the substance by Oct. 31,1977. because ol a hazard to human health and the environment. I PCB manufacturer to cease production ST. LOUIS (API - Monsanto Industrial CMUKIUCo., the only U.S. manufacturer of the controversial PCB insulating fluids, announced Monday that It nil) quit producing the (hiid, by lata neat year Earia H. Harbtson Jr., gauaral managar of Monaanto'a ipocialty chamlcala dlvlaloo. aaid the firm will complete dlatrlbutloo of all lnventoriaa and withdraw complotaly from the market no later than Oct. 9,1977. The target date woutd be even sooner. Harbboo said, properties esusing them to but electrical transformer persist and accumulate In tnd . capacitor tbeenvironmait." manufacturers have PCB has been blamed as a they would be unable to .major source of pollution in convert to othw matvials . Now York'i Hudson Rlvor. any earlier. The New York PCB < polychlorinated Environmental biphenyl) la a stable, fireresistant chemical that is used widely in transformers and capacitors. "Un fortuaotely," Conservation Department and tha General Electric CO. reached agreement recently for GE to contribute some II million toward the cost of Harbtson said, "the very properties that have made PCB* ideal and even mandatory for these es cleaning PCB* from (be Hodaoo. The agreement came after a lengthy bearing over leakage of sential sees, were alao found PCBa from GE plants at to the early ifTOs to be the Fort Edwards ana Hudson ; Fills, N.Y., into the Hudsoo. i The accumulation of PCBa The Herald Statesman ' hi watea-ways, Harbtson ! aaid. triggered the arm s ` deciiioh to cense production (NEW YORK OT MARKET AREA) 0. M.l , os soon os the electrical industry could find alternate fluids and convert Ite BCT 6 1976 '4*i ; equipment and components to their use, J The company had earlier quit making PCB* for use In Kepone fines' | carbonless copy paper, Are resistant hydraulic fluids, /Allied Chemical Carp, has bean fined |ia.t id*, lion for dumping the pesticide Kepone and othor highly tonic chamlcaU Into Virg|nln's Jama* i,host transfer fluids and , ptasticisart. ' If:.- - ; River, ft was believed to be the largest fine ever levied for pollution of the iMthm's.wqterways. In arnther environmental action, Momenta Indnsu, trial Chemicals Co. of St. Louu announced II plant lo halt production of polychlorinated biphe HONS nyl* (PCB*). Monsanto I* the only maker ef PCB fluids In the U.S. It wa* PCBa which poliMed the , 1Hudson Rlvor from an upitata General Eloctrtc 050595