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FILE NAME: CertainTeed (CERT) DATE: 0000 DOC#: CERT027 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Articles Q f t ilu jt d J l- \ PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT ~C7\35T 'Tf& dtuCCif 7^**^*-/ /Z d O A J , _ , Ul&U * Castleman.CERT000181 distri the i Mo of th. so c fo . Water Pipe Use St f w M ' ^T.hTwie.tra_H_eallitth. Board non^aa causing agent when u motion by Dr. David Stray sufficient information is not St : Sr. voted today to w g * t a * S a b " cerning its use as P c !its stand on the use ofJp,. ^ a water conducting material, Pari concrete pipe 1?'to The U.S. PubUc Health Ser- clos: The board aen^ fth e L ic e is inifiating a study into beci [ "Pnipoet" aupnWtilvessuummctiei ernS infoprrmovae- assubltesot{osanpiipneq,uPirryobt,aob!thLe!m! tfroomm P lo t tion could be _ e hneeaalitthu department. _ _ he pipe was S ectojr^Dr.JJos-. "--The service told TMus w`ewere ^ 7 board's the first municipal health boara y faction did n to raise the question c o n c e ra ^ U itj0n con- the safety of the pipe, D . t e s s f r ^ 51,towish said. asbes- l '^ A s b e ^ S '^ bjw Stretch Your proven innocent. 11 i Castleman.CERT000182 \Tie Stirs Furor , FRANK RITTER detro jco u a d lae n and a \ Vanderbilt University protes to r clashed verbally yester day over bat prompted tbe professor to inter recently that rwnent jape... might cause"cancer. U r. Jam es Snell, assistant professor a t tbe Vanderbilt school of medicine was ques tioned at length by Council man Jam es Hamilton about a letter he wrote recently in which he raised tbe cancer question. "T H E IMPLICATION of your letter," Hamilton told Snell during a council com mittee meeting, "was that Metro Council, under tbe guise of saving a few cents, was going to place-hundreds of thousands of people in danger of getting a dread disease--cancer. "We certainly don't want ' to do that. And coming at the time it did. and in the alarm ing way it was written and distributed to the public, it would seem to me the letter was unfair." The meeting, a joint session of the finance and public works committees of Metro Council, was called to con sider whether the city should permit asbestos pipe com panies to bid on Metro pipe contracts. Cast iron pipe has been used exclusively, although it is more expensive initially than asbestos pipe, for at least 40 years in the Nash ville water system. HAMILTON asked Snell yes terday if there have been any studies to determine if iron oxide from cast iron pipe might cause cancer. Snell re plied that there have been no such studies, to bis knowledge. "There has been no re search," Hamilton asked, " on whether asbestos cement pipe or cast iron pipe can cause cancer, has there?" Snell said there has not been. Hamilton said if Snell was sincere in raising the question about asbestos pipe, he should have raised the same ques tion about cast iron pipe. "I think it is perfectly rea sonable to raise such a ques tion" about cast iron pipe, Snell replied. "WOULD YOU r a i s e the question, doctor?" asked Coun cilman James LaPensa. "I would be very happy (Torn to Page 12, C atena 7) Pipe-Cancer Tie Stirs Forum (Ceatinaed Fro* Page Oae) cast iron pipe from July, 1966, to September, 1967. As to write the Public Health bestos pipe, Augst added, Service about it," Snell an would have cost only $864.000 swered. `The whole question of contamination of food and water should be raised, in my -- giving Metro a savings of $459.000. Lawrence h u defended buy opinion." . Snell sent his letter last November to Robert L. Law rence, Metro w a t e r w o r k s d i r e c t o r , supporting Law rence's decision to prohibit asbestos cement pipe manufac turers from bidding on Metro waterpipe purchases. The professor said he would consider tbe use of asbestos ing tbe more expensive pipe on grounds it is better and has "a greater f a c t o r of safety." However, Johns - Manville representatives insisted yes terday that their product wili serve the city equally as gooc as c u t iron pipe if it is in stalled properly. pipe "a medical hazard of SHORTLY AFTER S n e l significant degree" until the wrote his letter last year t< Public Health Service has Lawrence, raising the ques checked it out completely. tion of whether ubestos pip* EXPLAINING TO the coun cilmen yesterday that he had no ulterior motive in writing the letter, Snell said: "1 regret the vindictive at titude that aome people have against me, merely as a re i suit of my raising this ques- ition." " I'm not vindictive against you, doctor," Hamilton inter rupted. "In fact, I had never met you until now. It just seems to me that a scientist is under a requirement to could cause cancer, the Metn Health Board took a simila stand. The board voted Jan. 17 ti " not approve the use of asbei tos pipe" until sufficient lr formation could be obtain to prove if it is medicall safe. Yesterday, at an e a r l morning meeting, the boar voted to reconsider its stan on the bie of evidence sul mitted by Johns-Manvills O representatives.________ state all factors in a case." "I don't tetnir you under stand bow this came about," Snell said. " I simply raised thought that before Nashville undertakes to buy large amounts of asbestos pipe, this question should be raised. "IF YOU DESIRE to raise the same question about cast iron pipe, then I think it is very reasonable. I have no po litical motive. I have no fi nancial interest in these pipe companies. I am not aligned politically with any group." Hamilton reacted angrily at this statement by Snell and declared: "We're not Inquiring, doc tor, into your political align ments, your religion, or any thing else." The exchange between the councilmen and Snell followed presentations by representa tives of b o t h Clow Corp., which has supplied all Metro waterpipe tbe p u t four years, and Johns-Manvilie S a l e s Corp., an ubestoe pipe deal e r seeking to bid on pipe pur chases here. K. RAYMOND Augst, assis tant district sates manager for ' 'Johns-Manvilie, told the counliman that there are strong s.`?&SBmiEsgTMoi83 Indications 'Metro could save tos pipe firms to bid. Angst said Metro bought Sl 5 m i l l i o n worth of