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L, Oct 0.1>74 Dell | Bitmed y---------------------------------------------------- plastics Component May Cause Cancer me ding is soon to ropeny which .* the mayor's could bofld a sa the mayor rty now owned ae preegit.dty tty renovated-- rath the cost of tHaghn after an a preliminary apparently no the dty frame meeting Too\ J. McDuffie .lhlin hturin-- private Moohasixed, bowws were not ranted topriquent utility : he arid he ter on neat "ovefora that MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - wrapping paper and other goods By GE Dow Chemical Co. odd Tuesday it has reported to federal agen cies that a second basic compo nent of plastics may be a cancer agent ' . Thecompanysaid thatprriim- inary reports by the Bulan d- entist woo first Mortified vinyl chloride as an agent ofhvcrcan cer show that vhqdidine chlo ride, nsed with vinyl chloride In at Dow's Midland plant Rowe called toe report "an alert rather than an established fact" He said Dow scientists now in Italy espect to seek con firmation of toe experiments IDtS WOOL * The study was conducted by Dr. PX. viola, professor of medicine In Rome concentrations of toe Advoc. What wr Tuesday ni{ integration . between aw! man and a ? duced no w sparked onh andideologt David Du) Dow plants to produce a basic plastic resin, has produced can cer in rats. a liquid woe rats. Viola exposed reported todevetKlohnpeighLtosuoisfi ment of reticulum cell sarcoamnda Jodie l "I cant emphasise storey --or cancer developing in intes the local Or tinal supportive tissue--in the Unity, agre test animals. that integ Dr. K.V. Rowe, Dow re "TMs is a very normalfr oc schools was searchsdatistand toxicologist curring cancer, particularly to Both spt FVom the basis of the preSrai- the kinds of rats he (Viola) was sdf-determi nary information, Dow notified using,'' Rowe said. was a ner the Occupational Safety and The cell irregularity Is "quite spoused out Health Administration, Envi atvariance" with angiosarcoma, tween then ronmental Protection Agency, the rare liver cancer linked with Bibbins t Food and Drug Administration, vinyl chloride to toe deaths of to criticize industrial customers and affect U.& chemical industry workers policieit of ed Dow workers. exposed to the gas, Rowe said. round fau. Dow did not indicate how Rowe laid Dow researchers called simp many workers were involved. have completed six months of a See Vlnytidtoe chloride is made at twoyear experiment to which Duke is Dow plants in Freeport, Tea., tats are exposed to vinylidine and Bibb) and Flaquemine, La., and nsed chloride. Dowhasfound do toxic president for the manufacture of plastic effects as yet, he added. ty, 1966-6 % End to Parking Meters two as a nation, Comim casionr Asked in Ville Platte and s' the VILLE PLATTE-The Chamber of Com; 'ution group camp, the swimming poo1 "d other facilities at the -''amber SL 044544