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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1973 Feb DOC NMA176 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Seattle Times Article - Asbestos Toll to be Heavy Says Doctor A The Seattle Ownes Friday February 23 1973 Kickback charges probed in union loans By TIMOTHY S. ROBINSON Washingter Part WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is 10vadigating charges that agents for a $ billion dollar Teamsters food were pant lockbacks on loans obtained from that fund according to United States District Cherrer Cherrer ondsonds The case is being present ed to a federal grand jey Justice Department here by attorneys and sources d It is one of two ongoifnegd ere investigations va~...u the admonstration of the en- east Inn Central States South east and Southwest Armas Tund for at least use and a half R. source called the pension foul aquiry the the Chicago office Murtha sand 7 RS sources sold the fund has more than 3700 mulbon out talan talan we being conducted that agency and said the Teamsters operation is so complicated that JR JR a chart outlining it that covered a 6 feet by 10 feet wall Francis Martha esecu- dive secretaroyf the Central States Fund in Chicago said yesterday he was coa- ware of any investigation sato that feind I think we do have a ~ load out in that came he said referring to the specif Uve case being presented to Uve grand jury bere bid The June Department has granted vomanity from prosecution to two witness- es thus month who had oth erwise refused to testify he fore the grand juy here on the ground that theat ac wers them could urnenate A Justice Department spokesman yesterday refused say offurial cond on the case saying Use agency does not comment on whether investigations are being conducted According to cus add that sfid not know filed in Court Ferris Washington District the first witness E Traylor being questioned concerning payments with the Dis of Columbia to obtain a loan from the Central States Southeast and South- west Areas Pension Fund and kickbacks to an agent of that fund to obtain such a Joan The specific loan being investigated was une made to Telesis Corp & cabis sion firm by the Centra States Pund Traylor of Evansville Ind founded Telesis in 1964 and that firm now uperales cable televisi now franchises in eight states from Minne | anta to Alabaina Person at die Evansville office said Traylor was a former presi dent but that he was no longer connected with that from Traylor could no be | reached for comment * yes- terday The second person grant | ed immunity was Samuel Block who at best refused to testify before the grand jury yesterday He subse- quently was granted immu nity and testitied He was spot further identified by the department bet court sources said he also was from Indiana ' . Pension Fund which is ad the ammont of the loan or misterd in Cincago Use parpose of The second investigation thetag thetag conducted by the The mal procedure for a fum being lent money po ANNUAL DAYS CLEARANCE SALE LAST 2 >= It's a good time to stock up on BOOKS GIFTS CHURCH SUPPLIES + a real saviga 11 Cokesbury's Annual Winter Clearance We must make room for new bein "- Cokesbury Cokesbury A GOOD NIME #O SHOP AT Cokesbury BOOKSTORE SEATTLE 91101 91101 HOMES 0.10 5.30 MONDAY SATURDAY R ba--4 _= Internal Revenue Service which has been studying the Ito the fand is for an application to be processed by FREE COFFEE COFE DISCOUNT SHOPPING CENTERS AND DONUTS Ellsberg Russo acquittal asked SATURDAY MORNING MORNING AM to 10 AM AM Our gorden center openi openi at r " " Daily Bud Shooperst Shooperst > GARDEN CENTER LOS ANGELES - AP - Alloys for Danicl Ellaberg and Anthony Ras 20 asked the Pentagon nera tal jadec today to or der them acquitted me ately saying the govern ment has not proved that they commitled any onnies The mobos fat judgment of acquittal which followed virtual completion of the government case also asived the judge to drop sli charges against the two igen Legal arguments on the motion were scheduled for later in the day Listing the li counts of the indictment against Ellsberg and Russo the attor neys contended that in each count the govemment had prescated " 1 dence in prove charges and espionage conspiracy and espionage They attacked the government's classification | system which they said wrongfully placed the marke * i Ing top ret qu the Fentagon's study of the | Vetnam war The motion paid no proof had been presented in court that the defendants 27072- | spired to commit espionage supposedly an act which could har Dhe United States rational defense * At most the attorneys sau the evidence showS an agreement of relent to copy a very limited number || of documents over a very limited time span hardly enough to show the intended objectives of the espionage conspiracy charge Asbestos toll to be heavy says doctor WASHINGTON A - P A noted researcher told a Senate subcommittee way that by the end of this ontury asbestne will ciarm the bves of I million Americans who have worked on are TOW working with , Abrous uneral All will die in the next 30 to 35 years said Dr Iv ing Selikoff of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York Seltholl is a recog Baxed authority on asbes tos related diseases enough It's terrible for these 1 million people but they're a limited group he 1 tbe Senate commerce Biviromental subcommit tes But an unknown number of other persons who do 22 work directly with the ma terial are exposed to ashesLos every day to an un- he known degroc added Unfortunately it's almost entirely a man made disease Dr Selikoff said That means it's also man " preventable About 200.090 will die of l,ung cancer another 000 of asbestosis or lung scar 300 ning another 300 of oth er cancers and the rest of various other ailments he saf Seliko and his associate , Dr Arthur M Langer told the submmmittee of a vide range of consumer products + contaminated with ashesNS Beer wine liquor soft drinks and drugs often are filtered will usb Sard they | Dr Selikoff sand that as bestor a Bedden time bomb that respits in can ner to 40 years after c posure Researcher blames virus not genes for cancer SAN DIEGO - UPT Viruses from outside rather than genes on the inside ap- pear to be the cause of can- cer according to a Colum bia University researcher Dr Sat Spingelinan re- yesterday portedported here on his research with identical fwms indicated at Icast off the disease said Dr Spiegelman We don't have to fight our mom genes order to control cancer Dr Spiegelman's rescarch tends to disprove a theory that outside effects such as radiation chen cals picome and string can start a genetic sequence that causes cancer Dr Spiegelman behaves many forms of human cancer were open to Domal means of ourection | once the human cancer si muses were found and den tifled For his research Dr Spiegelman used two sets of idechcal twins one suffer other ing from cancer the normal j He said that when moving the deoxyribonucleic acid DNA molecule present in every cell in the twins with cancer the DNA molecules formed lobnds But he said that when the malignant DNA was mixed with mole- coles from the healthy was they did not mut in- dicating there was to inher ent cancer sequence of genes in the DNA molecule | of the healthy twins GRAND OPENING VM Turf Green Plus Lawn Fertilizer 297 Our exto low discount piece 164 164 8 formule for NW thmole and sods 25 boy cover approximately 3,000 sq ft VM Brand Fish Base Liquid Fertilizer One gallon size Provides lest plant nourishment Our exire low discount price 97 Temper Garden Tools 197 Our extra low discount Teur chance of shovel rake or gorden hose Golden Vigoro Moss control Lawn Fertilizer 399 Our low discount price 4 7 Kills western masses and lets grass grow thicker with bellar torf celer Vigoro 5 lb. 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