ACS:

Senior Staff Realigned Creation of a new ACS staff position and changes in the titles and responsi­bilities of several existing positions are announced by Executive Director Frederick T. Wall. These are among a series of steps Dr. Wall is taking to restructure and strengthen the staff.

The new position, which will be es­tablished as of Oct. 1, 1970, is that of Secretary of the Society. It will be filled by Rodney N. Hader, since 1962 executive assistant to the Director of Publications. Mr. Hader will serve as secretary to the Council, the Council Policy Committee, and the Board of Directors, and also will perform certain functions that might ordinarily be car­ried out by an assistant to the Presi­dent.

Effective July 1, the three largest units of the staff will be renamed. The Office of the Executive Secretary will become the Membership Division, ACS Publications will become the Pub­lications Division, and Chemical Ab­stracts Service will become the Chemical Abstracts Service Division. Some, though not necessarily all, of the subunits of these divisions will be called departments. The chief admin­istrators of divisions will be known as directors and those of departments as department heads.

On the same date, Dr. B. R. Staner-son, Executive Secretary of the So­ciety, will be appointed Director of the Membership Division; Dr. Richard L. Kenyon, now Director of ACS Pub­lications, will become Director of the Publications Division; and Dale B. Baker, Director of Chemical Abstracts Service, will become Director of the Chemical Abstracts Service Division.

In order to effect an orderly and

Rodney N. Hader New ACS staff position

gradual transfer of his responsibilities, Dr. Stanerson will no longer retain the title of Executive Secretary after Oct. 1. He will continue, however, to per­form his present administrative func­tions, except for those to be taken over by Mr. Hader as Secretary. Dr. Stan­erson will advise Mr. Hader during the latter's first months in the new office, and also will serve as a consultant to the Council and the Board until his re­tirement at the end of 1971.

On Oct. 1, Dr. Wall will assume the responsibilities of the Executive Secre­tary to enable him to perform certain functions under the Constitution, By­laws, and Regulations of the Society, pending enactment of amendments re­quired to substitute the title "Execu­tive Director" for "Executive Secre­tary."

The position called Assistant to the President, now held by R. M. Warren, will be allowed to lapse upon Mr. Warren's retirement next year. The ACS awards program, which had been administered in the office of the Assist­ant to the President, has already been transferred to the Department of Re­search Grants and Fellowships, where it will be administered by Dr. Joe E. Hodgkins, assistant head of the depart­ment. During 1971, Mr. Warren will devote much of his time to activities associated with the XXIIIrd Congress of IUPAC, which will be held in Bos­ton in July and for which ACS has been officially designated secretariat.

Mr. Hader joined the ACS Publica­tions staff in 1950 as an associate edi­tor in the Chicago office and became head of that office the same year. He was appointed editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 1956, assistant to the Editorial Direc­tor, ACS Applied Journals, in 1960, and executive assistant to the Director of Publications in 1962.

A native of Paris, Mo., Mr. Hader attended elementary and secondary schools in Kansas City, Mo., and re­ceived a B.S. in chemical engineering with highest honors from the Univer­sity of Illinois in 1944. From 1944 to 1950, except for 22 months in military service, he was with Firestone Plastics in Paterson, N.J., and Pottstown, Pa. He worked on the Manhattan Project for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1944 to 1946.

ENZYME DETERGENTS:

Nader Charges Hazards Consumer champion Ralph Nader, in his latest crusade, has asked the Fed­eral Trade Commission to either ban sales of enzyme detergents or label them to warn users of "serious health hazards," alleging that the products cause allergic respiratory conditions or

THE CHEMICAL WORLD THIS WEEK

Ralph Nader

Warns of "serious health hazards"

skin reactions. FTC, while not ex­pected to act yet or make known re­sults from its joint investigation with the Food and Drug Administration (C&EN, Dec. 15, 1969, page 15), has plans for an independent, $100,000 study by the American Academy of Allergy to try to resolve the questions raised by Mr. Nader and others.

Detergent makers, meanwhile, reaf­firm the safety of their products and contend there is little new in scientific evidence in Mr. Nader's petition.

Many of the scientific studies re­ported in the petition concern past difficulties factory workers had in handling the enzymes in concentrated form. The industry says these prob­lems have been overcome by new de-dusting techniques, encapsulation, prilling, and other means.

The petition charges, however, that the well-documented danger to workers handling enzyme concentrate indicates a long-term danger exists for the general population. It further contends that "Definitive tests spec­ifying the relation of enzymes to al­lergic respiratory disease cannot now be conducted because the effects of becoming sensitized may not appear in the general population for three to five years. This conclusion is corrob­orated by an unidentified FTC medical officer in the February issue of Family Health*' An FTC spokesman said he could neither confirm nor deny the ar­ticle's allegation.

A Procter & Gamble spokesman says that "There is no basis for the ques­tions raised by Mr. Nader about safety of enzyme detergents. . . . The ex-

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