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4 The News-Review, RoMburg Ore. Mon., Oct. 23, 1961
CHANCING PROCESSES
By Charles V. Stanton
Gov. Mark Hatfield gave an exciting climax to Nation
al Forest Product Week when he announced Friday that
Hercules Powder Co. will erect a multi-million dollar oil
fraetinnatinjr plant in Portland an "a major ntcp in the
establishment of an Oregon chemicals industry based on
by-products of the state's big forest products industry."
Thin development, the governor asserts, marks the be
cinninor of Oregon onerations in the silvachemical field. He
called attention to a utatement by Dr. Wayne Kuhn, re-
l i . i. : i . I : . - r - t., 4Kof iha
In a recent issue of the " ....,. X'...i...... ...:u . ,.r . .iirhnmil
Street Journal two columni ol '" k ni ........ v....
space, eiarung on the front paw, industry to compare with the billion dollar petroleum cnern
are devoted to the subject of Pet-'joais industry.
rocheimcals. You may ask: what) r)r fores(, jndustrv, in mv opinion, is just in its be
ta Petrochemical: They are . Sods ,,talfe. Although forests have been stripped from
woducu" of wUdeum i refining I hillsides across the continent since the white man first set
Presently petrochemicals ac-Uoot on the land, forest products until very recently have
count for only about three per cent 'come from mechanical operation. Our use of wood has
of the oil induatrjr'e total tonnage ; been based on sawing lumber from logs,
production, but oil men expect pet-1 f 0 lumber we added plywood. Our only major chem-
"npeVcint. ;rWmil use has been the making of pulp and
now until at least 1970. At that! M ,, i j
rate, aalea would double every 10, Uses Learned
years.
DEAR ABBY
Abigail Van Burtn
paper.
Do SOMETHING,
DEAR ABBY: I was faithfully)
married to a man for 13 years. I
did not look at another man be
cause I was satisfied with just
him. The feeling was mutual. .Then
a pretty young redhead started to
work in hu oldce. She threw her
self at him, and he fell for her.
Now he says he can't give her up.
but he still loves me. too. In other
words, he wants both of us. My
world has fallen apart. I can't give
him up, 'ither. This has gone on
1
eaeaseasssaeatea
Hal Boyl
Career Choosing Is One Of Life's Problems
Lady!
they didn't perhaps
wrong choice.
i ihey nan-yearn to oe some-
DEAR ABBY: We have a prob-i"1'" .' ....
le.n with our mother. She smokes The oltice woraer wonders u ne
all the time. She tells us how bad 1 wouldn't be happier if he had be
piifiirrttei ar for vnur health hu) i come an engineer. The traveling
she lights one afte- the other, and i salesman wonders if he wouldn t
coughs and smokes and smokes 'get more kick out of living if he
and coughs. She is not very care-1 ran a shoe atore. The doctor won
ful. either. A. nost every chair and'oers if it wouldn't be belter to be
table has little burns in it where a business tycoon and enjoy bis
she put down her cigarettes and own ulcers instead of having
forgot it. We love our mother very I treat those of others.
NEW YORK (AP)-Choosing a You 'wouldn't have to look for a trying to sell you an electronic
career is one of the great prob- parking space,
lems of life. Yon wouldn't hare to explain to
Many men in middle age. after wife why you took the 7:12 com
working a quarter century or muter train home instead of the
more at one calling, wonder if Vtt.
make the
much and don't want her to hurt
her health. I', says in the Bible that
you should honor your mother, so
for almost twelve months. What is; how can we tell her?
the solution?
OLD FAITHFUL
OEAR OLD FAITHFUL: I am
THE TWINS (age 10)
Yes, at times we all feel that,
given it to do over again, we
would choose a different career.
You could gain 15 pounds in
weight without a guilur feeling
feeling that you were letting down
civilization. I
Oh, there are a lot of advan
tages to being a hermit. Such as:
You wouldn't have to go to
cocktail parties.
You wouldn't have to listen to
after-dinner speeches, attend PTA
meetings, f.ght crabgrass. or
shovel a path to the garage on
snowy days.
You wouldn't have to borrow
money to contribute to worthwhile
causes.
You could scratch yourself in
OEAR TWINS: Tell yeur mother. , the woods and an inherited
that you love her very much, and ( corae for life. What better exist
nuhlie as the onlv spectators
My daydream choice is to be a would be chipmunks and squir
hermit, hermit with a nice home reig.
You could flick cigar ashes on
ran onener.
You could let the dishes pile up
in the sink for a week at a time
if you chose.
You wouldn't wear holes in your
pants reaching for tipa to placale
hatcheck girls, waiters, and cab
drivers.
You would never, never, never
have to ask the boss for a raise.
Each evening as the sun sank in
glory you'd sit in your front porch
rocker, patting your hound dog's
head, as you brooded over the one
big decision of the day:
What shall I do tomorrow go
hunting, or go fishing?"
When you get right down to it,
why doesn't everybody run away
to the woods and become a hermit?
State Approves Sale
Of D jf ur Phone Firm
!n iKn l4ak vn it'A Vm-A t it tt OH aOit tli t"tim.
That would Indeed be a startling i ' " , ,1. fi. .1 h
rate of increase for NEW products.
What are these new products
more particularly, in the field of silvachemicals.
We are making rayon from wood. We know how to
Ry way of partial answer, the produce sugars. Wood is a source of commercial alco-
wall Mreei journal story paints
this portrait of the American home
of the future: v
The house can't burn; It's made
of fireproof plastics from founda
tion to roof.
The carpets are replaced only
when the family gets tired of
them; they never wear out.
The yackyard swimming pool
has a touch of Roman splendor:
it's made of a synthetic material
that look like Tuscan marble.
And mowing the lawn is no long
er much of a problem. It only has
lo be done once a month, thanks
to a new product that inhibits the
growth of the grast without affect
ing its beauty.
All of this, it is asserted, will
come about as a result of new
products made possible by pelro-cheoiistry.
The oil industry, the WSJ story
estimates, spent about SO million
dollars last year in petrochemical
research. By 1970, the story adds,
it is expected that from $200 mil
lion to $240 million will be spent on
petrochemical research.
Why all this about the bright
prospects of petrochemistry when
our Southern Oregon-Far Northern
California area has as yet NO pet
roleumand the prospect of ever
finding petroleum here is generally
regarded as dim?.
The answer is interesting.
Some four or five years ago, K.
G. Locke, then head chemist at
the Forest Products Hesearch Lab
oratory at Madisop, Wise, offered
a prediction, which was also print
ed in the Wall Street Journal, that
by W0 WOOD chemistry would be
approaching petrochemistry in im
portance.
That, he said, will come about
when the mystery of lignin. one of
lhe chief substances in wood, is
solved. The lignin mystery has not
Ium I..JU I I. n. ... I. . I
chemists believe that in time it
will be.
Perhaps its solution would be has
tened if wood chemistry had back
of it even a reasonable approxima
tion of as much research money
as petrochemistry seems to have.
' This much is certain:
If wood chemistry could be
brought up to parity with petro
chemistry, as petrochemistry's pro
spects are outlined in this Wall
Street Journal story, the whole fu
ture of the timbered area of the
North Pacific Coast would be revo
lutionized. As of now, we are compelled to
; depend too heavily on the building
material markets, so that our pros
- perity rises and falls as building
Aanuiallu I.An. k.. ; M ; .. I
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fills. We suffer from a cycle of
' boom and bust. That cycle could be
.1 broken if wider marketa could be
found for our basic raw material
which is wood.
The picture has another dimen-
non.
Petroleum m a mineral. It can
; be exhausted. Sooner or later, pre
aumably. it WILL be exhausted. If
and when that time comes, our
,, national economy will be affected.
Wood i i CROP. Hi production
" can go on forever.
hoi. Our own Oregon State University holds a patent on
the making of wax from bark. We know how to produce
several drugs from wood. Drugs, cosmetics, household and
agricultural chemicals all may be made from wood, Gov.
Hatfield laid in his announcement.
We are just learning how to take a log apart, collecting
its fibers, then rearranging those fibers to make various
forms of pressed wood, insulating materials, flooring,
sheathing and other products.
As we separate the cellulose fiber we release a binding
agent, lignin. Lignin we know is one of the most versatile
chemicals. But so far we haven't been able to break lignin
into its many components. When we succeed in this step of
research we will have available a wide variety of chem
icals that possibly will be far more valuable than the fi
bers we now use as a raw material for manufacture. We
know that from lignin we can make plastics, adhesives,
components of paints, and many other products.
Scientists, we are told, are on the verge of success in
their efforts to achieve a commercially valuable breakdown
of lignin.
Lignin is one of the chief waste materials in the manu
facture of pulp. We now consider lignin a nuisance. Yet
within a few years it probably will be considerably more
valuable as a material for manufacturing than is the pulp
we now extract.
Will Make Jobi
Previously in this column I have told how a nationally.
known researcher in the use of wood told me a number of
years ago that the time would come when the logs in our
1'acuic Northwest would be too valuable to be cut into tim
ber and boards. We would get our lumber, he asserted.
from countries with cheaper labor. Here in the Northwest
we would be utilizing our wood resources for fabrics, but
tons, plastics anu many specialized products.
It has been interesting to observe trends in the light of
his prediction a prediction made many years ago.
Today we are finding that many of our small mills
have been forced out of business by the price they must
pay to get logs. More and more a manufacturer must be
able to secure full utilization of a log if he is to stay in busi
ness, fetnmpage prices are putting smaller manufactur
ers out cf business.
Sawmill profits today involve the manufacture of ply
wood, the reduction of wastes to chips, rather than putting
them through burners, and a higher scale of production.
We learn, too, that with every refinement in the use of
the raw material we increase the number of iobs. The
manufacture of rough green lumber, which is the chief pro
duction of our timber industry here in Douglas County at
present, has the very lowest rate of employment. But the
manufacture of nlvwood srives iobs In munv mnrp trmn than
does the making of rough green lumber from the same
amount of raw material.
As we get into the field of silvachemicals we will be
creating more jobs in the utilization of materials now wast
ed. It becomes apparent that we have barely tapped out
forests as a source of raw materials for industrial opera
tions of future years.
I the donkey that starved to 'time, ae would she please try hard
i, while standing between two to quit smoking. This is one way
because he couldn't Truly to "noner" ner.
Everyone has a problem. What's
yours? For a personal reply, write
to Abby. Box 336 Beverly Hills,
Calif. Enclose a stamped, sell-addressed
envelope.
about
death,
; haystacks.
make up his mind which one to
eat. Move your haystack. Lady,
and the donkey won't have such a
tough time making a decision.
SALEM (AP) The sale of
James MarJow
, Sonja Henie, Husband
: Donate To Art Center
OSLO. Norway (AP) - Skating
queen Sonja Heme and her ship
owner husband. Nils Onstad, have
donated money and art worth
about SO million kroner J7 mil
lion for a modern art museum
and art center.
The gift consists of S3 million in
cash and most of the couple's art
collection.
The museum and art center will
Khrush Resumed Testing
Without Severe Reaction
U' A ClII1k,-..AT , . r, r . .... ..
nnii,iuiuT i.in-i-remier i ne most frightening thing is
Khrushchev is doing pretty well not so much what he has done as
for himself, probably belter than 'what he intends to do.
he expected. It hasn't cost him I A, ,, ,nrt , ,hl, mlh h.
DEAR ABBY: I certainly do
agree with that person who wrote
in to aay she was disgusted with
the way the merchants are rush
ing the seasons. In July I was invit
ed to a wedding to be held in
August, and I couldn't find a de
cent summer dress to save my
neck. Once, when I tried to buy
overshoes in March, the clerks
looked at me like I was crazy.
There was snow three feet deep
outside and they were showing
summer sandals." They start in
with the Christmas decorations so
early that they have pushed
Thanksgiving right off the calen
dar. Where is everyone rushing to?
MAD IS MINNEAPOLIS
For Abby's booklet. "How To
Have A Lovely Wedding," send
50c to Abby, Box 3365, Beverly
Hills, Calif.
You would awanen to birds'
cries, not the clamor of an alarm
clock.
Y'ou wouldn't have to worry
about paying income taxes or
meeting mortgage payments
dodging bill collectors
the floor and not get bawled out.
Irt take a shower with
out having to fight your waylMt. Hood leiepnone to, uuiur.
through a bathroom forest of dry- j to the North-State Telephone Co.,
ing nylon stockings. has been approved by State Puh-
You could cut your own hair lie Utility Commissioner Jontl (,.
and not have to listen to a barber Hill.
or cluck. "It'e getting a bit thin ml Hill also announced rnoay inai
I top. I'd do something about it if he has authorized North-State lo
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Oh, it would be wonderful out Agriculture uepaiuucm.
there-alone in the peaceful Electrification Administration
woods. No headlines to scare you North-State would use the funds
aillv. no maniac motorists to to install modern, automatic dial
m't vnn lean for the safetv uf; service and other new line tacui-
'the curb, no peddler at your door; lies. Hill said.
people who, in the middle of a
heat wave, ask, "Hot enough for
you?"
You wouldn't have to wait in
line at a checkout counter in a
supermarket.
Insurance Firm
Says Holdings
Expropriated
VANCOUVER. B. C. (API A
United Slates insurance company
which had a $24,500,000 holding in
Ihe British Columbia Electric Co.
has written to Premier W. A. C.
Bennett protesting the manner in
which the firm was expropriated
by the provincial government.
The expropriation legislation Is
confiscatory and contrary to the
principles of the common law, the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur
ance Company says In its letter
to the premier, ,
The letter is published in full,
by the Vancouver Province.
The company says it has invest
ments in Canada .worth 1250 mil
lion. 30 per cent of this' being in
B. C. It held $23 million worth of
B. C. Electric bonds and $15 mil
lion In B. C. Electric debentures.
H also holds 10.000 shares of
common stock in the B. C. Power
corporation, which held the entire
B. C. Electric common stock.
"The fixing of value by legisla
tive fiat 'without hearing or op
portunity for judicial review ap
pear to us an act of confiscation.
completely unexpected in a coun
try that has heretofore yielded to
no one in its devotion to the ruin
of due process of the English com
mon law," the letter says.
"By the same token, the wiping
out of conversion rights of the con
vertible debentures of the electric
company without provision for
compensating the debenture hold
ers makes a mockery of the in
tegrity of contractural obliga
tions." The company urged the govern
ment to take steps to "provide for
a fair determination of values and
just compensation for those whose
property rights have been taken."
much
He resumed nuclear testing
without getting any severe reac
tion from the neutrals.
He made an issue of West Rer
un and seems to have the Allies Why then do it' There seems
'"'"""'""i J wnn oniy one answer. U s a terror tac
Berlin issue since the popula
tions of the United Slates, France,
Britain and West Germany have
varying attitudes toward war
over Berlin was a good way to
test Allied solidarity.
It has worked out nirelv for
said, Hussia will explode a' M-Jhim so far, with nothing for him
megaton bomb. American mili
tary people have said neither such
an explosion nor such a bomb is
needed.
to do but sit back and watch
The United States and Britain
want to move toward negotia
tions. Negotiations will mean
some compromise. But France
wants no compromise, thinks it's
him. ... 1 tie to show Ihe West and the rest ; ,0 500n ,or negotiations
ne anowea ine myw in wesiern i of the world Hussian strength. I West Germany apparently is
L,: ' .!r.l'.lnS .,!rn,.r.nj, bv.l A man ho ha, mak. , 1 not yet sure how far it wants to
.11..1K in J-..JI Drrnn. lie el ...j . -,-,--..-'. . n,..l,na Ih. Rn
Kv-siuir, particularly ai me -.-, .... ....
I expense of other people, can beln"ln1, or " wanting the United
I considered neither truly sure of Stales to.
I himself nor stable Khrushchev himself was prob-
I West Berlin, a Western outpost ably surprised at how little bad
with Western troops no miles In-i reaction he got from the neutrals
I side Communist East tiermany.l when he decided to resume his
I was an old problem anyway, even nuclear tests, even though he did
inmign a sore one. i it in a cunning w.iv that throws
the wall as a symbol of his pos
session.
In all this, wilh his trumpet
ings and threats, he has shown
a more persistent leadership than
anyone in the West.
He has done the pitching, the
West the catching.
from the Demnning there was
a fear in the West that Khmsh-
ihe Russians were certain to do, doubt on any future agreements
be built at Hoevikodden in theichev might push hts luck too far ! !T,'i " dav. with him.
suburban community of Bieruin and create a situation which left Ji, "v, t'"lri lo do "" He and the United Slates had
outside Oslo, and it expected to be : no out but war. !'mn" IK,ut 11 ,B 19i "' thenian agreement perhaps an under-
completed in three or four years. Still, he was so clever in his , flr"l'Pcd it Islanding is the better word not
The center will include artists' j tactics of pressuring the W est that I . , e '! for the new adnunis- i ,0 tesl. Then suddenly Russia
dwellings and an institute for art- he gave an appearance of steadi-' "n. 01 'resident Kennedy be- tested. Because it has now had
" "f ! no issue a uhn e series of tesls one eon.
ists and art historians.
The News -Review
nkliihed r Ntws.levlew P.kllikina Ce.
Hi . I. Meie St., RMtkufg. Orf
CHARLES V. STANTON
Editor
GEORGE CASTILLO
Managing Editor
ADDYE WRIGHT
Business Manager
DON HAGEDORN
Display Adv. Mgr.
(ore
again
Months have passed now since;
he announced he warned to make
Berlin a "tree city'' without the
presence of Allied troops and thai,
Ihe Allies henceforth would have
to deal with Ihe Fast German
Communists to get to and from
elusion is obwous
These tests needed plenty of
preparations. So Khrushchev,
while carefully planning them,
gave no indication of it until he
was ready to begin.
As for Fast Germany The
Member ef the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publishers
Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation
Entered as second class matter May T. 19:0. at the post olfice at
Koseborg, Oregon, under art of Mirth I n:i
Subscription Rales OS Classified Advertising rage
berun. j Western powers haxe collaborai-
I After all this tune the Western " '' Hermans in
.Allies are siill not asrred on how keeping alne the myth that Fat
;lo deal with Khriuluhev on thisi""1 w-" ;rmany could ne re
'one (unified in Ihe reasonable future.
I tor at least a decade it has! But when Khrushchev said the
-hern a Russian hope somehow In, West must now riral vilh the Li t
split the Western Allies hoe Germans and when he hi.ilt the
(Solidarity was an absolute block Berlin wall which the Allies dij
to Siiet ambitions in Furnpr i twl dire attempt to p'lll donn
1 lor Khrushchev, raising Ine the myin was exploded.
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ore necessary. And with a clothes dryer, Mother doesn't hove to tug,
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