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CTr CARDS, lOl'.'A cf;ri:c b. i. two MAR 2 01977 . Iowa PCB Disaster Averted DES MOINES (UP!) -- The dellv- ment was being tent to Omaha, ery of a ntvMt containing the highly Neb., from St. Paul, Minn. A driver tonic substance polychlorinated M- tor Capitol OU. toe., Omaha, held phenyl (PCS) to a Cedar Falla com-. mietaken the solvent tor crankcafe pany la under Investigation by the oil and delivered M to the Cedar Department of Environmental Quail- Falla company, he aald. . ty. - Pete Hamlin aald the aubalance flrat was thought to be crankcaee ell and was to be spread on Iowa's dusty grave) roads by Schmitty's Road Oil ing Co. in Cadar Fails. However, offi cials detected the PCB and averted what could have been a major disas ter, be said. The advent contained six parts per thousand PCBa, well above the ade level of one part per trillion In drinking water, Hamlin said, adding the mixture was enough to "kill or cripple moat of the population in Hamlin, director of the DfiQ's land quality mawagsmsvit, division, explained that the thick, colorless Mid odorless liquid can cause cancer Mid bfrtk detoeta if Ingested. PCB is virtually Indestructible and is manu factured in die US. by MgmaataJp* dustrM Chemicals Co,, St Louis. About 14,000 gallons of the PCB contaminated liquid were found in Iowa Friday after the Environmental Protection Agency office la Kansas City, Mo., reported that the ship- HONS 001640