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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1966 Sept 10 DOC NMA015 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Chemical Week - Asbestos Awaiting Trial ~ s . Taking a * wt. oe eon. Taking - Giant Steps .. * pmeee . Two chemical process companies , Sou. rces ene own te ee oe wes << 7 pee - Sources of airbome asbestos took giant steps toward diversifying into o theccanogferllaaspt h wey ek Asbestos ducts used in centrally conditioned building and two paper companies with comea1e, Asbestos ducts and insulation in homeheating plants ~e FROM binedsales nearly $ billion Motor vehicle brake linings and clutch . plates wine & marges tentative_agreement Auto ws * Bendix Corp. its Asbestos floortiles .wk oceanocieancic activities 22. Sie Auto Detroit exe by |undercoatings *_een ceiling and Tre panded 5 Marine Advisers ~ [- Estock Estock Marine Advisers SD producer ( FittingFitting cutting and removing asbestos| wallboards 2 floorings ~aHRS2 Companies Apetrroleeumnaggenus ed Incinerationasbestos.alled scrap processing =e Calif producer ae oceanographic ine eee Tt er insulation piping andand claand kSmeee walSlboearedss insulation sate .~ 28 fe eren >e paren aaa bata Semel Shei ors n SN moroperty filtered effluent from asbestos plants ~* " lel and B. L. McFaarndlAsa socn iatd es oe Tr. Fort Worth and Midland Tex in vi group of five companies involved in a3 q aay offshore onshore drilling opera- s tions = have agreedto merge subject a *. Y to stockholders approval The Mc- Farland group operates five offshore drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico A 3 tentative agreement to merge has been reached by U.S. Plywood Csthoacmkhpoilod-n 2 e Corp. New York and Papers Inc. Hamilton tissu jest to both directors and ers approval The corporate identities of both companies will be preserved cem me Reducing Gas Rates The Federal Power Commission has ordered El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Transwestern Pipeline Co. to reduce by 17 million tural gas in the southern market the price of naCalifornia The rate cut stems from the July 26 decision in which FPC turned down the application of Gulf Pacife Pipeline Co. a Tenneco subsidiary to supply gas to the Los Angeles area CIV Aug. 6. p 20 Gulf Pacific Last week filed for 2 rehearing Fl Paso and Transwestern were told would have to lower their rates to reflect the lower costs result- sibl~ ing from the hipper deliveries posin the expanded system At the same time FPC saidit would conduct further proceedings to decide if cus- tomers should get additional benefits resulting from more liberal deprecia- tion allowances FPC has given the companies 45 days to show cause why the reduction alwuld not take place Asbestos Asbestos Awaiting Awaiting Awaiting Awaiting Trial The asbestos industry- end products are vained at more than 500 million be in fora shake- - up It could come in the form of federal legislation limiting the use of asbestos because asbestos has been ac- though not yet convicted Probeady a aprignificant health hard Probready abl^'contender for asbestos " markets plastics Recent studies have convinced U.S. PHS offithcinik a itlmasy asbestos them up to Ave yeatores st true role as an air poll However Congress may act b the research is finisShayes dR sentative Robert Watkins R. We've seen enough evidener Probready Asbestos will never get a bill of health With just a little sdtartiact woen'lels move for controls Public Health Service specialists and Some form of asbestos contr other medical authorities that about 40 of all Americans have mild chronic cases of asbestosis even in the offing public health off are certain if only part of a k ambient program How though most of them never worked thereis the danger that Congress directly with asbestos enact rigorous controls on the Unlike other airborne dust particles qu ty of asbestos that could be used ashestos fibers have the ability In that case both Canada and = Canada most as much as activated carbon- asbestos products manufach to absorb polycyclic hydrocarbons would be hard hit Of the five fi and arsenicks Furthermore . says of asbestos mined USPHS in the past 30 years the 2s- today chry asbestos holds the predominant related cancer rate has in ket position because of its ins creased sixfold ing and processing qualities :: The Inferences While the average produces more than 30 of the c ashestos worker is well protected the sotile asbestos used in the US man on the street is not The 3x1- both countries a number of sei mizzon wher sfisers in his lungs can would occur dislocations vinz from a variety of sources table present og. oe get, And medios experts say there's no Te * zssess hydrocarbon content in , the lung deposits - American Cancer Society research- ers feel certain there is a synergistic relationship among airborne asbestos smoking and lung cancer They reason that the nondegradable hydrocarbon- seaked fibers may well be a constant replace source of lung irritation At terial that there is no known could fill all of asbe strategic roles On the other h should federal controls merely for higher standards for binders shieldings that would spark a ris new products with plastics tal the lead Reason say industry spokesn present polymer technology a easily turn up products to bestosin most uses nee 32 CHEMICAL WEEK September 10 1966 o= s Sey ae mn aLEs P aiesilent te cs? 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