College
livestock facility
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area for sows and their litters structor, said.
The waste settles to the
and two livestock handling
bottom of the areation tank,
laboratories will be used for the
and the clear water on top will
animal’s medical needs.
be pumped back into the
The center will also have
storage space, restrooms, first flushing system, he explained.
The areation tank oxidizes the
aid, and office space. A trained
livestock manager and assistant waste-into fertilizer, which can
will provide 24 hour supervi be used on campus lawns.
A methane gas generator
sion of the livestock.
The
building
has will be added to the center in
the future when funds are
separated areas for sheep,
swine, and cattle. The areas available. The methane gas will
are designed to match the be used to heat and cool the
animal behavior with special ' green house.
The Animal Science Center
sloping floors to accommodate
Staff photo by Duffy Coffman
will also be open for educa
. the animals’ defecation habits.
The
floors
are tional uses by elementary
automatically cleaned by timer school children, 4-H and
controlled flushing tanks which Future Farmers of America
washes away animal waste into groups, professional farmers,
an underground channel. The and community groups.
V
“The economy is not only
“Enrollment in agriculture
the government decides to bor channel drains into a 90,000
■ By Tina Riggs
a financial situation but political
row more money, the interest gallon areation tank 50 feet programs at CCC is increasing
■ Of the Print
as well,” Delaney commented.
rates will rise once again.”
away. “The areation tank and and I’m sure with the addition
“If the Reagan administration
“The outlook - for the flushing system will greatly of the Animal Science Center,
President Reagan has of decides to borrow more money
future is rather dim,” summed reduce the smell,” Lynn enrollment will increase at a
ficially declared that the nation Congress, the federal reserve
Delaney. “Unemployment will Reagan, animal sciences in- faster rate” Reagan said.
■is in a recession.
board and President Reagan
probably get worse-maybe up
Interest, rates are sky high must decide the next move. If
to 12 percent.”
■and the unemployment rate is
¡continually rising. Everyone
■who has a job or who can’t find
■one is painfully aware of the
monds, second vice-president;
1
amethyst, and many others.
■problems facing the people of
Don Krause, secretary; Georg
\jC171 SnOW
The gem show also
■the United States, but no one
Nickels, treasurer; and Gary
featured door prizes, auctions,
■seems to know the answers.
Dennison, historian.
sales, fluorescent show and a
“I only know what I read
Also discussed at the
display of arrow heads.
OREGON
CITY--The meeting was the foundation’s
lin the papers, and I read a lot,”
Clackamas Community Col next fund-raising project, a
■commented .Peter Delaney,
lege Foundation elected new
■economics instructor at the col-
methane gas generator to com
Demonstrations in facet
officers at its annual meeting,
■lege since September of 1968.
plete the waste recycling
ting,
bead
enameling,
and
car
October 28, at the Sunnyside
■‘What’s going to happen to the
system designed for the Col
vings of rocks of minerals were
OREGON CITY-Oregon Inn in Clackamas.
_^^geconomy in the near future is
lege’s new Animal Science
among the displays at the 18th
Governor
Victor
Atiyeh
will
The
Foundation,
whose
$64 billion question. I’d say
Center. The digester will be us
annual Clackamette Mineral
visit the College today from purpose is to “provide scholar
■t’s going to get considerably
ed as a teaching model and
and Gem Corporations held
2-3:30 p.m.
ships and assist in sponsoring
■worse before it gets better.”
alternative fuel source as it
Nov. 14 and 15 at the College.
This will be the first visit by additional educational oppor
turns
the animals’ waste into
If the situation looks bad
More than 450 visitors
the Governor to the College. tunities” for students and. the
odorless fertilizer and useable
(^■for the nation, it looks worse in were there despite the foul
The short tour will consist of a community, re-elected Tom
gas for heating.
foregon.
“Nationwide
weather, making the turnout a
stroll through the grounds, with Disch as President for the
* The Foundation also has
unemployment is at 7.5 per little less than was expected.
a stop at the recently dedicated
1981-82 term.
plans to expand its current
cent, but in Oregon it is over 10
“I liked the rocks,” com
Linus Pauling Science Center.
The 14-year-old organiza
18-member board of directors
percent,” Delaney said. The mented Kristin Holmes, one of
The Animal Science Center, tion also elected Duane Price,
for this next fiscal year.
^goiggest reason for that is that the visitors. “The variety of
nearly completed, will also b
first vice-president; Duane Ed-
■Oregon is largely dependent on rocks were interesting as well as
on the tour.
■the forest products industry, pretty.”
The Governor will also
■which supplies wood for hous-
Some of the rocks on
conduct a “press conference”
■ng and construction com display were opals, garnets,
with the journalism classes and
panies.
agates, jade, petrified wood, j reporters from The Priptf dur
“The problem is that these sunstones, jasper, malachite, j ing the visit.
■companies are vulnerable to
Ithe rate of interest,” Delaney
(stated. Each one percent of the
unemployment
figures
represents approximately one
million people.
elaney peers into future
i
Meeting
planned
not taken
for granite
Governor
on campus
CCC Cafeteria
Pre-Holiday
“The economy is not only
lurtingpeople, but big business
s well,” he added. “High in
vest rates are one of the most
fficult problems to combat.
igher interest rates are not
ly a result of inflation, but
□tribute to it as well. ”
Delaney explained that
inesses must make in-
tments in order to keep up
i competition. “They bor-
at one rate and must make
their returns are higher
their costs for successful
ation,” he said.
Delaney noted that
igh inflation is dropping,
urrent situation isn’t as
re as the Reagan ad-
•ation had hoped.
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