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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Oct 15 DOC NMA092 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Javits Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos Javits Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos By EDITH EVANS ASBURY New York Times Current file Oct 15 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Pg 33 BriIseBrfiefeed don Perils of Asbestos BY EDITH EVANS ASBURY . cancer from the asbestos dust date for State Senator and 11 Senator Jacob K. Javits con ferred with medical officials of Mount Sinai Hospital with labor leaders yesterday about what he called the sleeping brought home on her father's working clothes and shoes : The union leaders present represented asbestos workers and painters . _ year Paul Carey represent- ing his father Representative HugLh. Carey Democratic can didate for Governor . This is a people's year Mr. peril of asbestos particles in Senator Javits promised to Clark declared during which the ' conference press for passage of legislation the people had a chance to After the conference Dr. Irv- that he and Senator Harrison A. reverse the gnawing corrup- ing Selikoff professor of medi Williams Jr. have pending be- tion in government and the cine at the Mount Sinai School fore the Senate Labor and Pub growing economic ' crisis , by of Medicine took Senator Jay lic Welfare Committee which electing Democrats its on research tour of laboratories in which research was being done on diseases caused by asbestos and vinyl chloride The party which included Mrs. Javits got trapped in a stalled elevator for 10 minutes Asbestos Workers Represented You can see Dr. S. David Pomrinse director the hospi tal joked as they awaited rescue that we spend our mo- ney on science not mainten- ance Selikoff Dr. Selikoff and the union would require expansion compensationof Poll Pleases Candidates state workmen's compensation coverage to include victims of related illnesses The Mount Sinai research program is partly financed by a Federal program supervised by the committee of which Senator Javits is a member Later Senator Javits joined other officials and political candidates at 69th Street and Fifth Avenue to review the Columbus Senator Javits and Mr. Clark both they were pleased by the results of a state poll com- missioned by Newsday show ing Senator Javits the choice of 39 per cent of those polled with 32 per cent for Mr. Clark 18 per cent for Barbara Keating Barbar the Conservative candidate and 20 per cent undecided Mr. Clark said that 39 per cent for an incumbent is no Day parade People's .. A People's Year vote of confidence and 20 per cent undecided raises real prob leader's at the conference Ramsey Clark the Democrat Items for him a real con- which was held in the hospital's ic candidate for Senator Ja test Basic Science Building at 102d vits's seat also reviewed the Senator Javits said the poli Street and Madison Avenue parade after opening a Man results were good for me con thanked Senator Javits for his hattan storefront headquarters the way in which the help in calling attention to the at 401 Fifth Avenue between running He referred horrors of lung cancer which 36th 37th Streets | to the fact that the poll showed afflicts workers who handle as- This is a people's house Mr. Carey leading in the gover- audience bestos and vinyl chloride But Mr. Clark told the ; norship race with 49 per cent they said there was a great which included the Democrats white Governor Wilson got 28 need to alert the public to the Robert M. Morgenthau candi- cent danger . . date for District Attorney of | Mrs. Keating spent yesterday The group showed slides of Manhattan State Senator Mary being interviewed by reporters children playing in and near Anne Krupsak candidate and attended a dinner by the mounds of asbestos and Lieutenent Governor Robert Kings County Conservative par- the Senator of an Abrams candidate for Attorney ty at the Carlyle restaurant in girl who had contracted General Joan Davidson candi- Flatbush last night : Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission