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FILE NAME: New York State & NY Times (NY) DATE: 1974 Oct 15 DOC#: NY069 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT Article - Javits is Breifed on Perils of Asbestos Javtts Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos By EDITH EVANS ASBURY New York Times (1857-Currentfile); Oct 15, 1974; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2002) Pg 33 Javits Is Briefed on Perils of Asbestos : By EDITH EVANS ASBURY . cancer from the asbestos dust date for State Senator, and 11- S Senator Jacob K. Javits con ferred with medical- officials of Mount Sinai Hospital and with t home on .her father's year-otd Paul Carey,.represent g clothes and shoes, ing his father, Representative The union leaders present Hugh L. Carey, Democratic can labor leaders-yesterday about what he called the "sleeping peril" of- asbestos particles in the air. , . After th conference. Dr. Irv ing Selikoff, professor of medi: cine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, took Senator Jav its on a tour of laboratories in which research was being dne ot} diseases caused by asbestos and vinyl chloride. The party, which included Mrs. Javits, got trapped in a Stalled elevator for 10 minutes. Asbestos Workers Represented "You can see," Dr, S. David Pomrinse, director of. the hospi tal, joked as they awaited rescue, "that we spend our mo ney on science, not mainten ance." . . Dr. Selikoff and the. union leaders at the conference, which was held in the' hospital's Basic Science Building at !02d represented asbestos workers and painters. , Senator Javits promised to press ior,passage: of legislation that he and Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. have pending be fore the Senate Labor and Pub lic Welfare Committee, which would require expansion of state workmen's compensation coverage to include victims of dust-related illnesses. The Mbunt Sinai research program is partly financed by a Federal program supervised by the committee, of which Senator Javits is a member. Later Senator Javits joined other officials and political can didates at 69th Street and Fifth Avenue to review the Columbus Day parade, ,, `A People's Year* Ramsey Clark, the Democrat ic candidate for Senator Javits's scat, also reviewed the didate for Governor. "This is a people's year," Mr. Clark declared,. during which "the people" had a chance to reverse the "gnawing corrup tion in government" and' the growing economic crisis by electing Democrats. Poll Pleases 2 Candidates Senator Javits and Mr, Clark both said they were pleased by the results of a state poll com missioned by Newsday,' show ing Senator Javits the choice of 39 per cent of those polled, with 32 per cent for Mr. Clark, 9 per cent for Barbara Keating, the Conservative candidate, and 20 per cent undecided. Mr. Clark said that "39 per cent for an Incumbent is no vote of confidence and 20 per cent undecided raises real prob lems for him--it's a real con test." Senator Javits said the poll S__tr_e_et _an_d _M_a_d_i_so_n__A_v_e_n_u_e, parade, after opening a Man- results were'"good for me, con- thanked Senator Javits for hisihattan storefront headquarters!Sidering the way in which the help in calling attention to the at 401 Fifth Avenue, between state is running." He referred "horrors" of lung cancer, which 36th and 37th Streets. ,to the fact that the poll showed afflicts workers who handle as-! "This Is a people's house," Mr. Carey leading in the gover- bestos and vinyl chloride. But Mr.- Clark told the audience, norship race, with 49 per cent, they said there was a greatjwhich included the Democrats wh' "ile Governor .W...i.lson got 28 need to alert the public to the Robert M. Morgenthau, candi- per cent. danger. . . date for District Attorney of Mrs. Keating spent yesterday The group showed slides ofiManhattanrState'SenatorMary being interviewed by reporters children .playing in and ne'arlAnne -Krupsak, candidate for and attended a dinner by the mounds of asbestos, ,and told Lieutenent Governor; Robert Kings County Conservative .par 'the Senator of an ll-year-oldlAbrams. candidate for Attorney ty at the Carlyle restauraift in girl who had contracted lung-General; Joan Davidson, candi- Flatbush last night. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.