Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting and Committee Minutes, October 8, 1964, with Board of Governors Notes on Selikoff Publicity (1964)

Minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's October 8, 1964 twentieth-anniversary general meeting and of its Air Hygiene & Manufacturing, Sales Promotion, Technical and Fiber Testing committees, reproduced twice, followed by undated Board of Governors discussion notes. The Air Hygiene committee minutes record the committee's concern that Dr. Selikoff's October 1964 conference on the biological effects of asbestos linked asbestos with cancer and would affect the industry. The Board notes record discussion of how to respond to the Selikoff publicity.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Minutes of the Air Hygiene & Manufacturing Committee, Oct. 8, 1964 (Cralley survey, Selikoff conference, dust-method pamphlet, committee review)
• Pages 4-7: Minutes of the ATI General Meeting (twentieth anniversary), with attendance list, officers and Board of Governors
• Page 8: Minutes of the Sales Promotion Committee, Oct. 8, 1964
• Page 9: Technical Committee report on federal specifications, Class 5330
• Pages 10-11: Minutes of the Fiber Testing Committee, Oct. 8, 1964
• Pages 12-14: Second copy of the Air Hygiene & Manufacturing Committee minutes
• Pages 15-18: Second copy of the General Meeting minutes
• Page 19: Second copy of the Sales Promotion Committee minutes
• Page 20: Second copy of the Technical Committee report
• Pages 21-22: Second copy of the Fiber Testing Committee minutes
• Pages 23-24: Undated 'Notes of Discussion' by the Board of Governors on the Oct. 6, 1964 Selikoff publicity and the upcoming conference, marked as an alternate copy for paragraph 4

People and organizations

From J. W. Christenbury (Chairman, Sales Promotion Committee).

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Textiles: Cloth, Garments, Gloves, and Blankets · Johns-Manville · Quebec Asbestos Mining Association · Raybestos-Manhattan · Turner & Newall.

About this copy

This is document ATI-37 of the Asbestos Textile Institute documents, produced in asbestos litigation, 24 pages. Production numbers ATI-000037_0001 to ATI-000037_0024.