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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1979
Silkivood lawyers say
firm didnt tell cancer risk
United Press International
OKLAHOMA CITY — Although
Kerr-McGee Corp. contends it de
voted considerable effort to design
ing, building and staffing its nuclear
plant, attorneys for the Karen
Silkwood estate say the bottom line
is that the company failed to tell
workers of cancer risks in handling
radioactive plutonium.
Both present and former top offi
cials from the company, which cur
rently is defendant in an $11.5 mil
lion negligence suit filed by
Silkwood’s survivors, have testified
in federal court the firm built a well-
equipped facility.
Testimony has been detailed on
the planning that went into the
uranium and plutonium fuel process
ing facilities, which opened in the
late 1960s and shut down in 1975.
But attorneys for the Silkwood
family have insisted throughout the
past week of the trial that the bottom
line in the case is that Kerr-McGee
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failed to communicate to workers the
cancer risks involved in handling
radioactive substances.
Former production line workers
testified earlier in the 6-week-old
trial they never were told radiation
exposure could induce cancer.
Silkwood herself, who worked at
the Kerr-McGee plant from 1972
until she died in 1974, was con
cerned that employees were put to
work without adequate training and
warnings.
The 28-year-old woman suffered a
severe case of radioactive contami
nation a week before she died in a
traffic accident Nov. 13, 1974. Ex
pert witnesses have testified in the
trial that Silkwood had enough radio
activity in her body to have “cancer
on the spot.”
Her survivors contend in the law
suit that Kerr-McGee’s negligence
caused her contamination. The cor
poration alleges she contaminated
herself either purposely or through
her own negligence.
Kerr-McGee put three of its man
agement personnel on the stand dur
ing the week, all of whom partici
pated in the planning and design of
the plant.
Allen Valentine, who set up
Kerr-McGee’s health safety pro
gram, said the safety manual he
wrote adequately described
plutonium’s dangers.
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67th anniversary Sunday
Titanic buffs mark traged
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Some 175
ocean-liner buffs, survivors and one
“reincarnated victim” commemo
rated the 67th anniversary of the
Titanic’s sinking and paid homage to
her glory at a $29.50 dinner and disco
dance.
Last week’s “Titanic Tonight’’ was
billed as a “remembrance” of the
April 15, 1912, disaster in which
1,517 people died.
For under $30, you could eat a
meal “similar” to the one served
first-class passengers the final night
of the Titanic’s maiden voyage, meet
three survivors and one “reincar
nated victim” of the disaster and
boogie to “Disco Translantic.”
“It was a beautiful ship and its
sinking marked the close of an era
when those splendid queens of the
ocean graced the Atlantic,” said
Charles Sachs, a self-proclaimed
“Titanic fanatic” and president of the
Los Angeles-based Oceanic Naviga
tion Research Society.
Guests ranged from a 10-year-old
girl who knew more about the Ti
tanic than she did about dolls, to 94-
year-old Edwina “Winnie” Mac-
Kenzie, the oldest living survivor of
the disaster.
“There was so much sadness, ” she
said, recalling the cold night she
spent 67 years ago waiting to be re
scued from a lifeboat. “I was among a
group of newlyweds, and it was very
sad to hear them say, ‘Oh, you go,
and I’ll be with you later.’ It was a
very, very sad experience.”
During the “Titantic Tonight
celebration, she and two other sur
vivors cut an enormous cake deco
rated with 67 candles surrounding a
model of the Titanic striking an edi
ble iceberg.
Now a resident of Hermosa
Beach, Calif, she refuses to watch
movies depicting the disaster be
cause “they don’t show how sad it
was,” but admits to enjoying the
dinners.
“I enjoy everything,” she said.
“I’m so glad I’m living. Aren’t you?”
Doris Williams, of Burbank,
California, always wondered why
she feared deep, cold water and felt
sad when she heard the hymn “Near
er My God to Thee.”
A friend suggested psychic regres
sion through which the psychiatric
nurse discovered the reason for her
fears. She said that in 1912 she was
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Steven W. Blackwell, who
down with the Titanic.
“I felt like I was about II
standing on the deck that niL
very unemotional,” Willianlo
Blackwell, said. “There werei
people crying and looking to■ icai
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because I was so calm.”
Williams said she went into
at the Burbank library after fa I
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UCLA Professor D.K. \\U
who has been collecting song: L,
the Titanic for 15 years, said in I
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band’s final selection. *
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survivors somehow got the tiH
the band’s last song confused H
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that the tune was ‘Nearer Myl
Thee,’ and indeed it shoulclk'
been,” he continued. “Peopfri
pected the band to play these fro
in the face of calamity.’ Ec
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