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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1968 DOC JMA001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter - Armstrong Contracting & Supply Prefers Asbestos Cloth Cheaper 7/6/98 7/5/98 Armstrong Contracting & Supply Prefers Asbestos Cloth Cheaper 1968 Armstrong Contracting and Supply AC persists in using asbestos cloth because it can be torn up by hand saving on labor costs in contrast to glass insulating cloth Based on interview with AC man in Baltimore where AC did a tremendous amount of work at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point shipyard Form No. 9200 1 ORGANIZATION COMMUNICATION RAYBESTOS ALANHATTAN Inc. ee OO joes No. enn 65-66 set es enone ASBESTOS TEXTILE DIVE TO Mr. S. R. Zibaruan Jr. ATTENTION SUBJECT Dato 12. February United United United Naval States States Naval Washington D. C. Department Department Department Reference our had heard the United States Washington on Brothers the fact that Turner Brothers Brothers conversation regarcdliontgh was going to be specified by b byy I went to rumor that glass to the exclusion of asbestos cloth Navy this matter January 30th and 31st I called Mr. William Winblad the Vice before I left covering Washington for A few days President of llanville who has been I mentioned the problem Manville for the last thirty years Mr. H. Vincent Roynolds to him and he had one of his csonpteaccitaslitsotsdeta ermine if there was any also go over his Washington I left for Washington Mr. Reynolds marit in this rumOT Defore evidence of glass cloth being spari- told me that he could find no fied rather than asbestos cloth with Mr. Carl Gran of the Miscellaneous On Tuesday we had lunch of Commerce Mr. Gram Notals & Minerals Division of the Department fiber for the Govern- for the stockpiling of asbestos who has is responsible in the Navy Department ment and is familiar with everyone Mr. Cham assured me anything to do with asbestos insulation not valid as glass cloth far as he was concerned this rumor was contained less than 25 as be used for piye lagring if it ctorueladtmeanltwayasnd he had not heard of any change of attitude the following personnel in Mr. Shirey and I then contacted am going to list and for a matter of record Department numbers room numbers and telephone the Navy their Mr. Mr. Mr. Shatterly Code 63404 Room 3214 William Phono 64919 H. P. Walker Room 4714 Al Munkreis Room 3730 Phone 61010 section and is very familiar with Mr. Hunkreis is in the insulation knew of no switch in speci- our specifications He told us thcaltothhe and he would be in a position cloth to glass that asbestos asbestos fications from asbestos He indicated to know if this this had had taken place be handled by Mr. J. Puglisi in lagging was going to Mr. Puglisi was presently pipe por se no Mr. Leon Birnbaum but that and he was lo the office office in a coubing which tie him up for tMr h. e Haufntkerrnooiosn said that possibl the next day on an assignment he had only been leaving to contact Mr. Puglisi as would not do any good nothing about asbestos cloth it know This on the job three three three days and Page 2 seems to have been standard operating procedure for the Navy for the last thirty years that I have contacted them as it seems to be taboo to have anybody handle a product which he knows at all about anything e a I also tried to contact the head of the cable section of the Navy Department and found that the two gentlemen responsible for this section were on a trip For the matter of record though Mr. T. Acosta is the head of the cable section and his assistant is Hir D. Weiner They are located in Room 4716 telephone number 61787 do believe that I got the answer to our problem when I on Mr. F. D. Rupprecht of Armstrong Contracting & Supply called in Balti- more This company does a tremendous amount of shipyard work and Navy work in insulating vessels at Bethlehen Steel Sparrows Point Maryland I asked Hr Rupprecht about glass versus asbestos and he said that the contractor at all times has been able to use glass cloth as lagging but that his company would never use glass anything but asbestos The reason for this is that the people who are doing the insulation work are at an extremely high hourly rate and they can tear asbestos cloth by hand very readily before they wrap it around the stean line Glass cloth will not tear properly at all and would have to be cut and with the high wage rates Mr. Rupprecht seid this would not be economically feasible would assume mont and also correct that from with the information we got at the Navy Mr. Rupprecht that possibly this rumor Depart- is not JOHN A. EROLN JR sub CC CC Q. Scoweroft D. E. Shirey