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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1969 DOC JMA370 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo & Press Release - Stokinger on Asbestos Cement Pipe Hazard Part 1 of 2 06/02/98 23:39 FAX 14104482368 GLS 010 3630 CONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIACLONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL D. L. Rinmon cc H. Ball - 11th Floor J. Solon - 12th Floor H. Jackson - 2nd Floor P. L. Pundsack - Finderne M. Harris - DHQ S. J. McDuff - D^ Q P. E. Dix - DHQ FILE Division Headquarters February 13 1969 w studie studie Dr. S. Spail - Research ~ E. Fanner Basearch . --">.- J. H. Swensen Finderne E. H. O. A. File Pronska - DHQ Wirsig - 270 Madison Chrono Dr. Herbert E. Stokinger's Presentation ASCE Meeting New Orleans 2/6/69 Attached you will find a resume of the paper by Dr. Stokinger presented at ASCE Meeting in New Orleans Alan Wirsig attended this convention and was the present to hear the paper referenced above Alan contacted me by telephone on Friday ation February 7th and related what occurred during Dr. Stokinger's present- I then contacted Bill Raines and Matt Swatonic in our Public Relations Department and we attempted to record Alan Wirsig's recollection of the present- ation by Dr. Stokinger Unfortunately we were unsuccessful in this recording and I then contacted Alan Wirsig and asked him to write up his recollection of what took place The attached comments by Alan were written Friday afternoon on the return flight to New York from New Orleans and represents his recollections while the facts were relatively fresh in his mind I have not attempted to edit or inject my own by Alan Wirsig and would remind everyone that without excessive detail due to his sense of opinions into the comments made Alan's comments were written urgency J. F. Baker F. J. Solon Jr. April 14 1969 meeting tomorrow night here is a brief In connection with your that document this topic description of several attachments in February by the American Society of A New Release issued a talk given by Dr. Stokinger Engineers reporting on that Al Civil at a meeting in New Orleans This is the meeting certain that Dr. Stokinger Wirsig attended Al is quite like the sentence that is underlined never said anything and which implicates on the bottom of the first page in asbestos pipe with asbestos induced tumors women to the Editor distributed by the ASCE B A correction Note tape recorded conversation with the man M. in March after my release Lester wrote the original news who allegedly Federal Water Pollution Kalshman Regional Director Boston brought about a denial that Control Administration refusal to affirm the release and a that he wrote the controversial statement at Dr. Stokinger had made all the ASCE telephoned Dr. Stokinger and Subsequently with the original news release A after he first agreed in the next breath he also agreed with the the retraction and then convinced that correction B they became was in order to Dr. Stokinger that appeared in 'Copy of the reference ENGINEERING published by ASCE the March issue of CIVIL relied upon the news release The editor of the magazine realize that it had not been from the Society and did not properly verified of the correction note that will run in D Advance proof ENGINEERING As you know this April issue of CIVIL effect of the the to us to help counter the damaging was given article in the March issue As you are also aware its salesmen both the February news release correction notice for the Pipe Division widely circulated to note to the editor retracting part of the from the ASCE and the advance proof of the the April issue of CIVIL ENGINEERING Bell W. P. Raines | | | Stokinger dustrial Health Cincinnati levels of DDT chlorinated He gave evidence to show that trace environment and hydrocarbons and organic phospphraotdeuscepdresbeyntthien loiuverr and do not con food are idnestthreobyeoddybyInenazdydmietsion present limitations on arsenic in food caenndtrawtaeter are extremely conservative and can safely be exceeded at least by a factor of ten of the new and highly toxic sub- Stokinger named beryllium as one At low concentrations it causes stances now present in our environment The was of beryllium in berylosis a fatal disease with no known cure hazard Destruction of rocket fuel he suggested presents caoulpodtecnatuisael widespread dispersal of a rocket in the earth's atmosphere toxic beryllium source of toxicity is asbestos which can enter A rapidly increasing or ingestion The appearance of induced the body by respiration implicated asbestos water tumors in women Stokinger said has pipe as the source of asbestos One of three 48 diameter horse shaped diversion tunnels used at Portage Mountain Project The tunnels FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE POISONING OF MAN'S ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT SUBJECT OF TALK HERE from National Center for Urban Dr. Herbert E. Stokinger , Toxicologist refused claims for concern on accumulation mui Tahustrial Health Cincinatti in a paper presented before the American of pesticides in the human body in New Orleans on February 6 Society of Civil Engineers Meeting that the trace levels of DDT chlor- Dr. Stokinger presented evidence in our environment and inated hydrocarbons and organic phosphates present food are destroyed by enzymos produces by the liver and do not concentrate in the body as previously feared He also pointed out that present limite conservative and can safely be of Arsenic in food and water are extremely excended at least by a factor of ten of the substances that were of concern While pointing out that many levels have proved to be essential to life there as to toxicity in trace in our environment which have been found to are new substances appearing he very toxic An example is beryllium At low concentrations it cuases berylosis a fatal disease with no known cure Although industrial hygens a new hazard is pre- control its hazard in beryllium prowessing measures fuel Destruction of a rocket in the earth's seat dum to its use in rocket eed could cause widespread dispersal of toxic beryllium atmosphere source of toxicity is abbestos Asbestos intake A rapidly increasing oe In industrial operations this can be is by respiration or ingestion Small amounts of asbestos act as carcenoganic mucul^'1 The controlled induced tumors in women has implicated asbestos- appearance of asbestos solu- of asbestos This problem requires cement water pipe as the source of asbestos pipe for domestic tion in view of the increasing use 4 fl AN of Ne THE MAGAZINE MAGAZINE OF ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTION a PREGO9N1"Plain POBLAD ae DEA CIANN D DEAENDS ES bererae Unitat 1 Gebuty JA an ESTILO 1. SU 49 agle Eskw IN JANI JANI SESION Aing longer OL UNITED ENGINEERING CENTER 34 EAST 47th | March 31 1969 Filo Z.R eeeSo Oese d WT Adtaebe wh Tey RZ penshenat, sf ae Mr. William P. Raines Director of Public Relations The Manville Corp. 22 East 40th Street New York N.Y. 10016 Dear Bill is an advance proof of the Correction As we discussed here which will run in the April issue of CIVIL ENGINEERING --ASCE Note Sincerely ONC Kneeland A. Godfrey Jr. . of the American Society of Civil Engineare Tha Official Monthly Publication he cane reeeete Noten cmicatho tant Saas isdn 2. oe eae aa par ce a TT cea aarenre enemas Em Correction account in the March lasur page 53 An inaccurity appeared in a news E. Stokinger toxicologist by Dr. Herbert ut Cincinnati reporting on the paCpeenrtergifvoern Urban and Industrial Health from the National Water Resources Engineering held in New the ASCE National Meeting on Orlean of induced tumors in wornen The sentence was The appearance the source of asbestos has implicate atbestos water pipe as this statement was not mad~- Dr. Stokinger that low- very We have been advised by all at this time that the presumably There la no evidence at of water supplied level exposure by ingestion whihcahs mreisguhltteodccinura bryeciongtnaikzeed health hazard U. Public through azbestos 3.pipealikoffwho is referred to by the secording to Dr. Irving in the Beld Dr. Selikoff is Health Service as a recoDginviizseiodn aoufthEonrviitryonmental Medicine Mt. Sinai professor and chairman School of Medicine New YorkaCsitbyestos pipe meets the specifications For water supply systems Works Association and of the U. S. Government of the American Water asbestos water pipe is sold 351A Specification SS Under Federal Health Service for use in Indian reservations in the West to the U. S. Public from the Position Paper Asbestos- are taken The last two paragraphs Health prepared by Manville Cement Water Pipe and Human New Y. Corp. 12 East 40th St. York N. 10016. +