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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Mar 1 DOC NMA175 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Seattle Times Article - Professor at U.W. Meeting Notes Danger of Spraying Asbestos for Insulation A The Seattle Times Sunday March 1 1970 Professor at U.W. Meeting Notes Danger Danger of Spraying Asbestos By AL DIEFFENBACH Times Medical Editor Careless spraying of as bestos insulating material is an air pollution problem that has become a serious health hazard a Mount Sinai School of Medicme processor said here Friday Regulations should be prepared stringent rapidly ' and quickly enforced Dr environmental medicine said Here to speak at the eighth annual symposium on Respiratory Diseases Di Seli koff said one out of every four or five asbestos workers dies of lung cancer The very fine mineral fibers are found almost invariably in the lungs of persons autop sted in New York City he said ONCE THE FIBERS get into way they the lungs there is no to remove them and cannot be dissolved he said Dust counts taken during asbestos spraying jobs show on the order of 20 times the normal amount of dust in the ar he said Dr Selikotf said entire buildings sometimes arc contaminated for life be cause asbestos fibers are left loose after pipes and beams are sprayed with the insulat ing material in the areas between floors and ceilings These 31cas of dead space often are used as re turn an ducts for a build ing's circulation system he Said When asbestos ^...bers are being sucked from these areas into the circulation system of a building { tank would have to call this one of most reprehensible habits we have found he said . He said he has become increasingly concerned about the introduction of new na terials and techniques before then effects have beer a curately measured The present controversy about possible harmful ef fects of control pills > one instance Dr Selikoff Said Another is the use of enzymes in detergents he added He said there have been a verv significant number of asthma cases - some with serious illness and others with permanent effects among workers n dete packaging factories THE ENZYMES form Irving J Seloff New York a professor of medicine and for Insulation about I per cent of a deter gent 10,000 000 the zyme mixture About pounds of the en was used in 1969 Dr Selikoff said but about 10 times that much will be used this year workers now are protected from he hazards of nhaling the detergent dust and its very active enzyme cargo asked biologically he said but what happens to the 60,000 000 wonten exposed to a low level intermittent dose of possible enzyme hala tion He said there 15 kittle knowledge on the subject * except that the ill effects could be either allergic reac tion to inhaling the sub + stance or a rec effect on the linings of the bronchual tubes Utilities Name | Director For Nuclear Work THE WARCHE ' JAMES V. NEELY James V Neely who has worked on the development of nuclear power plants m New Jersey and PennsylvaBia has been named director of nuclear projects for Seattle City Light and the Snohomish County Public , Utthty District The utilities are partners ! m the development of a na clear generating station on Decep Kiket Island near | tion Pass and may work { jointly on a similar project | at Samish Island north of ; Mount Vernon Neely will be responsi joint | ble for the utilities nuclear power activities ' A graduate of the Univer | sity of New Mexico Neely worked on the Three Mile | Island Nuclear Plant No 2 in southeastern Pennsylva- nia and on Oyster Creek Nu clear Plant No 2 in New | Jersey He was an employe | of General Public Utilities Seminar Set | For Aviation | Mechanics A general aviation maintenance seminar for mechan Jes will be Tuesday and Wednesday in the Winthrop Hotel of Tacoma Hours both days will be from am am to 4:30 pm The event is sponsored by the Washington State Aeronaut ics Commission in cooperanon with the Federal Aviation Administration Seattle area office and the FA FA A Academy in Oklahoma City Reservations may be made with the Washington State Aeronautics Commission Topius will include airmen authonty and responsi bility alteration worthness requements aircraft electrical installation and introduction to general aviation for executive jets Similar seminars have | been given throughout the United States but this wi'l | be the first in the Northwest Northwest deep dense wool oriental rugs save 54.00 to 71.00 Appeals Court's Indian 3x5 29.95 29.95 Clerk to Move SAVI 54.00 on Rimostan Oriental design rugs from lock The clerks office of the state Court of Appeals will Belgium Finest worsied wool with patented move into new quarters on + weave the 10th floor of the Pacific thick fringe 9x12 Kerman reg 229 Building Third Avenue and Columbia Street tomorrow morning The office for the Seattle division had been located located temporarily the M Building to Judges will use rooms in continue to the United 175.90 x15'8 reg 4900 275.00 275.0 SAVE 7100 on 9112 heavy brocade patterned Indian 1 rugs Hand woven from scoured 2 plpyly wool yarnyarn Soft wool greens gold greens ivotics 9x12 reg 25995. 188.95 6 9 reg 129 now 99 4x6 reg 5995 44.95 States Courthouse for nearings unul facilities are ready in the Pacific Building 3x5 3x5 , reg 39.95 sale priced 29.95 | St. Nicholas imported braid rugs Exams March 14 Entrance examinations for , she fall semester at St package of 4 Nicholas School 1501 30th Ave E will be from 8 45 to noon March 14 The school is a nonsectar- 57.00 lan college preparatory girls school Parents should make reservations at the school office Imagine all four of 1 rugs an 8300 value 5 reversible for twice these nylon pile tubulas braided at this low price And they re all the wear One 9x12 room size Heart Specialist Elected Dr Robm R Johnston Bellevue a member of the Mason Clinic staff has been elected a fellow of the Ameriran College of Cardiology a 4.300member organization of heart specialists one 3x5 and two 2x5 scatter rugs Choose brown gold avocado blue red Other sizes at special savings too Floor Coverings Fifth Floor Seattle Northgate South- center Everett Tacoma centr Convenient credit available our most versatile occasional chair now 118.00 Its a swivel chair a rocking chair and our most asked for occasional char And it can grue your living oom this very weck for only 118 A classic in design otter chosen by the p Select from 3 different patterns in 10 decutor colors De signed to be equally at hon in a traditional setri as it is in a contemporary one bee it tomorrow Home furnishings Fifth Floor Seattic Northgate Everett Southcenter and Iacoma Mall Consensent major purchase revolving credit terms avaiable avaiable