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October 29, 1975 Charged Goodrich Unit's PVC Facility in Quebec Big Board Bans City Stores Trades NEW YORK-The New York Stock Ex. Has Had 9 Deaths Due to a Rare Cancer change said it will suspend trading of the common stock of City Stores Co. before the opening of the Big Board Nov. li. The exchange said that City Stores' id Fraud By Barky Kramer Staff Reporter of Tae Wall Stbsct Jouiwal A Canadian plastics plant, with nine gan angiosarcoma toll had climbed to eight deaths. And it recently reported to the Na tional Institute for Occupational Safety and doesn't meet the minimum requirements of round-lot holders (100 shares or more) or the aggregate market value of publicly held shares. Mexico deaths so far, has gained the grim distinc Health that the total had reached 10 deaths. City Stores said that it Intends to appsal tlon of having more known fatal cases of a But a company spokesman said yester the action to the appropriate committee of rare liver cancer caused by occupational ex day that one of the deaths on further exami the exchange's board of directors. , 7 Associates poaure to vinyl chloride gas than any other nation had turned out not to be angiosar The exchange said that effective yester single plant In the world. coma. day, all transactions on City Stores' stock $200 Million A epokesman for B. F. Goodrich Chemical All of the angiosarcoma deaths were dis will be on a cash, or same-day delivery, be. Co, in Cleveland confirmed that nine deaths covered by Dr. Fernand Delorme, a patholo sis. Upon suspension, the exchange said, ap- hiding' Sales due to angiosarcoma of the liver had oc gist at the Maurice Central Regional Hospi curred over past years among former work tal at Shawinigan Sud. Both Shawinigan and ers at the B, F. Goodrich Canada Ltd. poly Shawinigan Sud are about to miles northeast uil Staff RtporUr vinyl chloride plant In Shawinigan, Quebec. of Montreal, about midway between Mon Corp., two subsldl- Both are units of B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. treal and Quebec City. licer* and directors Angiosarcoma was first linked early last The Shawinigan plant was built in 1M1 tnt indictment by a year to long-term exposure to vinyl chloride and is, like the Goodrich plant in Louisville, charged them with gas, which is used to make polyvinyl chlor one of the oldest PVC plents in the world. of more than 5200 ide plastic, or PVC, Including the Canadian Saye Exposure Reduced near Albuquerque, cases, 48 workers around the world exposed Goodrich said that after the first cases of to vinyl chloride in PVC plants have devel angiosarcoma were uncovered at Louisville . : aently denied the oped liver angiosarcoma. Almost all are it "grpatly accelerated" a plant moderniza dead. Seven other cases of angiosarcoma tion program at Shawinigan and that worker iefendanta charged also have been linked to exposure to the exposure to vinyl chloride gaa has been nd and 10 counte of chemical. drastically reduced. JiRLaad Sale* Act of First Cues Discovered The company said the province of Quebec A.m Inc. and ATC :t of Amrep; ear* old, chairman t, president of ATC ^ of Amrep and Rio The first cases at vinyi-chlorlde-llnked angiosarcoma were discovered in January 1974 at the B. F. Goodrich PVC plant at Louisville, Ky. That plant currently has rec orded eight angiosarcoma deaths, with a ninth case aUU living. Three cases have been uncovered at the hasn't set occupational standards for vinyl chloride exposure, but the company adheres to standards set by the province of Ontario. (Occupational safety Is a provincial matter In Canada, unlike the U.S. when the federal government seta standards.) In the U.S., federal standards require ' aenior rice presii Tice preaident of - t, 80, preaident of M) . *n'or vice - Ml of Amrep and , tancho and ATC Union Carbide Cbrp. plant at South Charles ton, W.Va., and another three at the Good year Tire A Rubber Co. In Niagara Falls, N.Y, One case each has occurred at a Good rich plant in Avon Lake, Ohio, and at a Fire stone Tire A Rubber Co. plant in Pottstown, Pa., according to records kept by the gov ernment's National Institute for Occupa PVC plants to prevent worker exposure to Uvela of vinyl chloride of more than one part per million parts of the air they breathe. The Ontario standards allow a maximum exposure of 10 parte per million averaged over eight hours, although Good rich said exposure levels at the Shawinigan plant were currently averaging between two and three parts per million. tional Safety and Health in Cincinnati. I MARKETING %/' GROWTH MAPCO's marketing arm, the Thermogas Division, reported that propane sales during the 12 months ending June 30, 1975, were up 15% over the comparable period a year ago. A detailed review is contained In our June 30 Quarterly Report. Write for a copy. mapco T_tei_Aa_u_r.s_O_Bkuohu.oMm*jmAMmnt.le. SYMBOL MDA NYSE MWSE * P$E Cp t director of Am Abroad, five cases have been reported is. former presi- from from PVC plants in West Germany, three France, two each from Cxechoalovv , who, waa Indicted rate. treat a 20-month Ida, Britain, Italy and Yugoslavia, and one each In Norway, Sweden and Japan. Other of occupational exposure to vinyl A* pmctlcea by the t. Curran. At a : Uh Patricia H. '*7 and chief of chloride that resulted in liver angiosarcoma include two each in the U.S. end Canada, and one each in Britain, Italy and Sweden. Mr, Curran said Death Records Used u***tlUon Into Goodrich Canada announced In a news '**3 he welcomea release lest December that four cases of he may hare liver angiosarcoma had been uncovered "la nich aa from death records of former Shawinigan workers, with the earliest occurring in IMS. ta mi. i Goodrich purchased the plant from Gulf 1 ' ** " scree Canada Ltd. in 1213, and the company noted '* " auntoral in the December release that only one of the at- i:o ea "an# lota detths had >e plant occurred while Goodrich owned -- r ' u **;ea , _*** P**nt formerly known sa Shawinigan " * tusev- , jwmjeai Ud.. employs about 200 workers. "* * * i# ,,T ,, , Patent company said in its annual --------last spring that the Shawinl- "Aa* n"11 *1.000 for each of the *"- *" . 7""~--* w ivf. defendant charged J^'aUon could be -~T. -- a ^ o'mprU,onm*,,t and r ^'*'25 4* ucc 006*^2