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Plant's 6 Gray Clouds' Are 'Silent Violence 9 EDIfOtt'S NOTE: On Feb. 5, the Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. closed its asbestos plant at Tyler, faced with new air pollution regulations and revelations qf employe health hazards caused by the breathing of asbestos dust. A proposed new health study now estimates that from 250-300 of the 869 persons who worked in the plant in a 19-year period will die of lung cancer and related diseases. By ROD DAVIS Associated Press Writer TYLER, Tex, (AP) "It's called silent violence.

If 800 workers were killed all at one time, people would scream bloody murder. Instead, one- third are going to die early and slowly and horribly and no one's going to know about it." Steve Wodka, Washington legislative aide for the. Oil latljj MEXIA, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2,1974 -PAGE 7 Before you write a'HelpWanted'ad, read ours. EMPLOYERS WANTED Applications being accepted from industry, manufacturing, publishing, educational institutions, every and small. Needed to employ disabled individuals skilled in many fields: accounting, secretarial, managerial, technical, sales, design, clerical, teaching, etc.

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Department of Health. Education, and Welfare. A Putte Trus KTil A The Advertising Council ical and Atomic Workers Union paused a second: "It's just as bad as someone killing someone else." The "silent violence," Wodka spoke of took place at the Pittsburgh-Corning asbestos plant, located in an industrial park that seems strangely incongruous in the East Texas piney woods, only a few miles from the East Texas Chest Hospital, a respiratory disease center. From 1954 until it was closed in Feb. i972, the plant employed 869 workers who made products of asbestos, a fibrous insulation material.

Not until 1971 were employes told that the gray clouds of asbestos dust that swirled in the plant like murky thunderheads were linked to lung cancer and death. In 1966, a Pittsburgh-Corning physician, Dr. Lee B. Grant, approached the Chest Hospital and later the U.S. Public Health Service about a possible study of worker's asbestos-related problems.

did not pass the information to workers until 1971. Until 1971, studies of the Tyler plant lay buried in federal government offices and asbestos dust regulations remained unchanged and unenforced. In the meantime, Herman Yandle, his brother J.C., H.T. Thomas, Harold Spencer, Frank Spencer, Willie Hurtt, Tom Belcher and Ray Hicks worked at the plant and breathed the dust. So did Mitchell Walker, 53, and Robert Thomas, 51, now dead.

Relatives say they died of lung disorders. "I don't feel angry about it except at the people that lied to us so long for so many years," said J.C. Yandle, a leather- faced, rangy man who since he lost his job pounds out a barek- nuckles living on a small ranch north of -i--, like that would 1 stand up and lie to a feller as long as they did There's no doubt they did know." He pauses for breath. "It makes a feller angry that i cash. for the Switches, CHAIR Light Olive, quilted Mattress, Wain all.

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Asbestosis may or may not be fatal, but it does cause shortness of breath and is linked to lung cancer. One out of every five asbestos workers in the U.S. dies of lung cancer. "I don't ever talk about it," said Thomas, a thin, red-haired man of 46. "Just like J.C.

said, there's no point sitting around talking about it." J.C., at 48, is older than his brother Herman, 30, and more concerned. "You'll think about it What it really would do The idea of there being no cure. That's what the big deal is. There's nothing you can do for it if you got it." There is one thing being done. The Texas Chest Foundation, which works in conjunction with the Chest Hospital at Tyler, has applied for and probably will be granted, a $1 million contract from the National Cancer Institute to study the development and effects of lung cancer in those who worked at the Tyler plant.

According to Dr. George Hurst, director of the hospital, the study will be the first attempt ever "to learn of the early development of lung cancer of asbestos-exposed smoking people and whether it can be 1 Ut Under 'the study, which' will' run about 10 years and longer if renewed, the 869 former em- ployes of the Tyler plant will be tracked down and brought in every six months for examination to see if and when cancer appears as a tiny spot on their lungs. Then every attempt will be made to treat the patients. But, says Hurst, "we have quite a bit of evidence that waiting until it is seen is too late." Dr. Irving Selikoff, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, has estimated that approximately one-third of the workers will die early: 150 from lung cancer, 50 from me- solphelioma, 45 from cancer of the colon, rectum or stomach, and 50 from asbestosis.

Some of the former employes say it makes them feel like laboratory experiments. "Yeah, it guniea pig," said Herman Yandle, a heavy smoker who already has asbestosis. "I went over there, to the hospital about a year ago. You know, they say if anything comes out they'll let you know and all that Pittsburgh-Corning says there have been some compensation claims paid to ex-employes. The brunt of the legal battle, however, is still to come.

OCAW has contacted several influential Texas lawyers to try to represent the workers on a "mass" basis. A state legislator has now agreed to represent several of the workers. The nagging question of the delay between suspicion of danger by physicians and the relay of the suspicions to workers remains unresolved. According to Dr. Hurst, Dr.

Grant approached him in I960 to discuss a possible study of workers at the Tyler plant. Hurst said the Chest Hospital prepared a study proposal of the workers in 1967, but dropped it after the U.S. Public Health Service began a similar study. Grant told a newsman he "does not remember" when he talked to Hurst and referred queries to Pittsburgh-Corning. A company spokesman in Pittsburgh said company feels it shouldn't discuss this any further at this time because the matter is subject to legal suits.

The company feels it has stated its record." The 1971 revelation of the Tyler problem might not have come except for Dr. William Johnson of the National Institute of Occupational Safety (NlOSH), who sent a compy of a nationwide asbestos study involving the Tyler plant to OCAW, which in turn alerted the workers. The Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA), a division of the Labor Department, which had the NIOSH evaluation, made only minor warnings to the Tyler plant. OSHA had a "total disregard for the seriousness of the problem in that plant," said Wodka. OSHA, which inspected the facility in 1971 and 1972 and fined it a total of $7,200, described the Tyler plant as "non- serious." Morgan Rites Set Thursday In Sandy Funeral services for Mrs.

Avis Y. Morgan, 59, of Coolidge will be held Thursday at 1:30 in the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in Sandy. The Rev. Claude Medlock of the Bethsadia Baptist Church will officiate, and burial will be in Sandy Cemetery. Mrs.

Morgan died Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Parkland Memorial Hospitajjn TXallasr -She was boijti Feb. Limestone Qpuncy and was a lifelong resident of tnfe county, She was a member of th'e Coolidge Enterprise Chapter No. 194 O.E.S., Prince Hall filiation, and was a member of the Baptist Church. i Survivors include her husband, Charlie Morgan of Coolidge-; five daughters, Mrs.

Barbara Kirven of Coolidge, Misses Ellen and Elaine -Morgan, both of Dallas, Mrs. Elizabeth Barker of Albuquerque, N.M., and Mrs. Joyce Goffney of New Waverly; four sons, Charles Aaron Morgan of Coolidge, Kenneth, William, and Donnie Morgan, all of Dallas; one step-daughter, Miss Emma Ruth Morgan of Dallas; her father, Paul Ransom of Mexia; five sisters, Mrs. Adell Martin and Mrs. Elizabeth Martin both of Fort Worth, Mrs.

Mae Ola Taulton of Brownfield, Mrs. Ruth Moss of Lubbock and Mrs. Pauline Hollie of Mexia; one step-sister, Mrs. Thadis Jones of Dallas; two uncles, Johnnie Curry and Robert Curry, both of Groesbeck; and 12 grandchildren. Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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