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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1966 May 13 DOC#: NMA044 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT - Mayor to Revive Air Pollution Board By PETER KIHSS Mew York Times (1857-Currentfile); May 13,1966; ProQuestHistorical Newspapers The New YorkTimes (1851 - 2( pg. 62 Mayor to R evive A ir Pollution Board By PBTKBKIH5S portant contribution" had b eenthe research agency's working, Mayor Lindsay declared yes development of a comprehensive group an air pollution. terday ha would revive what he new control code in 1964. A study of construction sailed the "donnani" Board of The city's a ir w as not only worker deaths, he said, had pin Air- Pollution Control as but turbulent w ith pointed asbestos dust as a cgnse a policymaker. Be named criticisms yesterday. Oeuaod- of lung and peritoneal cancer. maa R obot A. Low, Democrat- Six lives had been saved by Robert A. Fax, a chemical engineer, 34-ymr-oW to fin a Liberal of the Mayor M anhattan, charged with an "ill-advised" early detection and surgery, he board post th a t had been-v*cant| proposal to cut funds for the said, and steps were being tak even years. Health Research Council. en to reduce a danger to which Arthur J. Benline, Commis During a ceremony in which 400,000 New Yorkers may be sioner of asserted Air Pollution Control, later, however, that be received the Public a m erit H ealth award, from Association exposed "the boardhaA not been dor- of New York City, Mr. Low re A Republican, S tate Senator msAt* B e h d d its "m ostbn- ported ``remarkable results" by Whitney N orth Seymour Jr. of M anhattan, issued a memoran dum brandtae Governor Rocke feller** May 2 air pollution pro posals as lacking in leadership and "essentially -a mimicry" of Federal action. The Governor, Mr. Seymour contended, failed to grapple with an urgent need for state action against automotive air pollution. The Senator urged state research to develop "new power sources for vehicles," a marketable exhaust control, and controls over dust from tire, brake and road wear, along -with highway and traffic plan-, nlng to eliminate urban con- The antlpollution board here consists of the Commissioners of Air Pollution Control, Health .and Buildings and two mem-, bers appointed by the Mayor for four-year teems. The chart says regular meetings "shall be held a t least once every month." Ia a statem ent, Mayor Lind say declared he intended to give the ' board * w importance" in working w ith Austin N. Heller, a Federal official who is to become anttpoOuthm: Mr. Fox, the new board mem*1 ber, served on the Mayor's task force on a ir pollution th at re ported this week. He is a senior project engineer for the Colum bia. Gas System Service Cor poration, and designed a ir and water, pollution controls for a petro-ehemical complex con structed in Frankfort, Germany. Meetings Held Benfine Says Commissioner Benline com mented th a t he had notified SMayor Lnidsay early in Januabout a vacancy In the noad al post since Richard A. Wolff had become his depart mental deputy in 1959. Mr. Beeline said he held frequent tele phone conferences w ith board members, and there had been formal meetings in Nowwnber, February and March, while the 1964 code work saw as many as three and four sessions a week. Councilman Low, whose m erit award was for "persistent and productive efforts" against air pollution, said the board's 1964 cod embodied "th e m ost ad vanced regulations In th e United States--the difficulty has been in enforcement.'' In a ceremony a t th e New York Academy of Medicine. 2 E ast 103d Street, M r. Low noted the Mayor's new budget pro-1 posed a 6509,000 cu t ia thei Health Research Council's 68-! million budget. The M ajor called this a move "to phase odt: of the program thosejcggsttcfe. grants which are of. national, rather than local concern." >- Rut Mr. Low said "the tty's! Investment in research hasi acted as 'seed money*.'* Xh five years, he ti city had ap propriated 617.7-mHHon, w idth restated in attractin g 697-mD- Hon ia Federal, sta te and p ri vate funds for the program s. W ithout city suppor t of health research, Mr. Low cited estimates th a t "a s m any as 200 doctors would leave th e city 's1 hoapital-medlcal^school system, along w ith 486 assisting tech-i nical personnel" in favor at new' medical institutions elsewhere.I