University, county study plan
Landfills like this one are rapidly filling up across the country. Projects
like the University 's plan to bum garbage will help take the strain off the
over-used landfills.
Refuse replaces
wood for fuel
A Lane County-University plan
to use garbage as fuel for the
University’s power plant is being
studied by Physical Plant Director
Harold Babcock.
Babcock said Wednesday that
a plan currently being studied will
use Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)
as a partial replacement for “hog
fuel" (wood waste). Hog fuel is
currently the only fuel used in the
University power plant, which pro
vides heat and electricity for the
University.
The county will provide the RDF
from a resource recovery plant it
plans to build adjacent to its pres
ent Glen wood facility, Babcock
said. The county has started the
bidding process required to con
struct the plant, he added. If an
acceptable bid is received, the
plant will open about a year after a
contract has been awarded, he
said.
The recycling plant would first
shred the garbage received from
regular garbage pickups, then
remove any metal and glass, exp
lained Babcock. The remainder of
the garbage would be used as
RDF to be burned in the power
plant.
Babcock hopes the new pro
cess will cost no more than the
present system. He said the pro
cess will be used on a small, ex
perimental basis until he decides if
the plan is feasible. The power
plant fuel mixture eventually will
be one-half garbage and one-half
hog fuel, he said, adding that any
savings resulting from the
changeover would depend on the
price of hog fuel.
Although he is unsure what pol
luntants will be released into the
air, he said there will be no more
than is presently released be
cause of governmental air quality
standards, there is no adverse
smell from burning the garbage.
“Ecologically, I think it is great
because we will be getting some
thing useful out of our garbage,
Babcock said.
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ASUO studies athletic fund proposal |
The ASUO Executive is cur
rently examining a proposal be
fore the State Board of Higher
Education which would increase
University registration fees by $6
to help subsidize non-self
supporting athletic programs.
Mark Cogan, ASUO vice
president for legislative affairs,
says he is "ca citrous of the prop
osal, introduced by Chancellor
Roy Lieuallen because of the pos
Warren named
to SUAB post
Jeff Warren was named chairer
of the Student University Affairs
Board (SUAB) state and local
committee Friday by summer in
terim SUAB chairer Andrea Gel
latly.
sibility of placing an additional fi
nancial responsibility on students.
Presently profits from the inter
collegiate basketball and football
programs, including incidental fee
subsidies for student tickets, fund
men’s non-revenue sports unable
to support themselves through
ticket sales. Women's athletics
depend solely on incidental fee
money. The chancellor's proposal
aims to make the “minor sports"
financially independent from
these sources.
As the recommendation reads
now, the State Board would in
itiate in 1977 a separate athletic
fund; approximately two thirds of it
would consist of student registra
tion fees and the balance would
come from state funds. Although
registration fees would increase, a
decrease in the incidental fee
charge is expected.
Discussion on the proposal will
begin at the upcoming State
Board committee meeting
scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. in
113 EMU.
In the meantime, ASUO officers
“will have to study further" to de
termine the net cost to students,
Cogan explains.
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-State restrictions set
Bulk yogurt portioning
stopped at area stores
By MARTHA BLISS
Of the Emerald
If stores buy their food in bulk
from wholesalers and then
divvy it up into smaller quan
tities for customers, they can
save both themselves and the
customers money. This is a
nifty idea, but it doesn't work in
all cases.
Yogurt is one of those cases,
and the State Department of
Agriculture now restricts stores
from portioning out their bulk
yogurt into smaller quantities
for retail sale. Two Eugene
stores caught in this practice
were the Willamette People s
Co-Op Grocery and the Sun
dance Natural Food Store.
At both stores, customers
could bring their own contain
ers and buy portions of Nancy
brand yogurt kept in bulk; store
workers would simply lade it
into their containers. But the
agriculture department now
says the practice is unsanitary
since yogurt is a fluid milk
grade A dairy product, all of
which must be packaged
where it is processed and re
main unopened until its final
sale.
The department s main ob
jection to the stores proce
dures, according to Martin
King, one of the Willamette
managers, was the ladle which
stayed in the yogurt bulk con
^
tainers. The handle, which re
ceived wide exposure to
human bacteria through the
ladler's hands, was deemed
unsanitary.
Anthony Stahelski, manager
of Sundance, admits the prac
tice was "pretty raunchy." He
also agrees with the unsanitary
ruling and says his store would
eventually have resorted to
using special taps for yogurt
dispension if it continued the
practice
King says he thinks sanita
tion is a personal judgment and
that the agriculture de
partment’s stipulation is too
"radical.”
At any rate, the two stores
can no longer buy Nancy
yogurt in bulk from the Spring
field Creamery if they are going
to dispense it improperly. The
creamery is still allowed to sell
the five-gallon bulk containers,
and usually does so to restaur
ants which use the yogurt in
cooking. As with the stores,
however, restaurants cannot
serve cutomers grade A dairy
products directly out of bulk
containers without special
taps.
Sue Kesey of the cremery
says she was aware of the
stores' improper dispensing
techniques but did not refuse to
sell the yogurt to them before
the agriculture department’s
enforcement.
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