Portland O bserver, July 17, 1985, Page 3
■anular groupa ihnxigfxxit the country
<uxl two natxxial gnxipa M o i Interna­
tional and the Naixxial I ixigre» far
Mat, Smith uud DADS o f Portland
have approximately JSO people on its
mailing list. The or gat valion cnwaes all
racial lines and gender is not a ques-
METROPOLITAN
Dads Against Discrimination
HOMES NEEDED NQW
Katarina and Pete are coming to
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by Nathaniel Scott
St. Johns Landfill: filling fast
turning Muliixxnah County's dcusHXi
to exclude the Wildwtxxl site from fu r­
ther consideration.
The local Sierra Club is one o f the
□tizens’ groups most involved in the
garbage controversy. They want
Metro to look at alternatives that ex­
tract something o f value from the
garbage, for instance composting or
ethanol conversion.
by Robert Lothian
Portland has a garbage problem.
The St. Johns Landfill, where m il­
lions o f tons o f orange peels and tin
cans have been dumped for genera­
tions, is filling up.
The landfill is scheduled to close in
July o f 1989, and the problem is,
what is Portland going to do with
2,000 tons o f garbage produced each
day?
As environmentalists who advocate
alternatives and traditionalists who
want to continue burying and burning
the smelly s tu ff line up on opposing
sides, w e'll be hearing a lot about
this issue.
The option chosen to deal with the
growing stream o f solid waste w ill in ­
fluence the economy and air and
water quality fo r future generations,
say local environmentalists.
They often wrangle with Metro,
the regional agency in charge o f solid
waste. Metro has opted fo r a new
landfill and high tech garbage burners.
In 1982, Oregon City voters, con­
cerned about air quality, turned down a
proposal fo r a garbage burner in their
community.
Now Schiut/er Steel Products Co.
has announced plans to build a $65 -
$1«) million dollar garbage burner on a
site owned by Schmtzer in the Rivergate
area about one-half mile from the St.
Johns Landfill. The proposed plant
could handle about 1,000 tons a day.
about half the metropolitan area’s cur­
rent production.
Another alternative »xxikl eventually
have to be found for the extra 1,000
tons.
Metro has been proposing a new
landfill for the Wildwood area o f North­
west Portland, hut that effort appears
to bed losing in the face o f protests by
residents and a legal battle waged by the
local chapter o f the Siena Club. A Sierra
Club lawyer » im i a court decision in
June that prevented Metro triMii over
“ We admit that finding an environ­
mentally acceptable solution to the solid
waste problem is not gixng to be easy,
but it would be nice if they at least
trie d ," said local Sierra Club chair­
man Bob Smith. "S o far the Sierra
Club has been dragging Metro kicking
and screaming toward such a solution."
Citizen expert Lyle Stanley offered
some creative options during a recent
club meeting. Stanley, who has a
background in biochemistry, said
that garbage burners are expensive,
they pollute the air and they produce
tons o f ash which pose another en­
vironmental hazard. In addition,
aluminum, a valuable resource that
takes tremendous energy to prixluce,
is lost in burning, he said.
A n alternative to wasteful burning
that could make money would be to
recycle the metal, glass and plastic,
and make fuels like methanol and
ethanol out o f the organic waste, said
Stanley.
Portland has the potential o f pro­
ducing 26 m illion gallons o f ethanol a
year, with a value o f over SI a gallon,
according to Stanley, who said that
ethanol is being used to fuel cars in
Brazil.
Garbage separation, recycling and
resource recovery technology is ex­
pensive, but only about half as expen­
sive as burning. Some cities are a l­
ready recycling garbage, Stanley said.
"T here’ s a lot o f energy in this
thing, and we have the potential o f
making money from something that is
now a lia b ility ," he said.
MRS. Cs
WIGS
M an y w i
"W e are not anti-women; we are
pro-fathers," said V ictor Smith, pres­
ident o f DADS (Dads Against Dis­
crimination), a non-profit organiza
tion, as he outlined the organization's
fight fo r equal rights under (he 14th
Amendment.
D AD S ’ concept is " t o bring about
a little more equity in domestic laws
and to educate the public about fa­
therhood," Smith said.
The philosophical position o f the
organization is that fathers are treated
different than mothers in domestic
disputes; especially when the pro­
ceedings end in divorce.
Smith outlined a number o f " in ­
equities" which he said denies the
father his rights to parenting.
In most cases, he said, the mother
is awarded custody o f the child or the
children and fathers are given visita­
tion rights.
"W e don’ t want to be considered
visitors in our children's lives,” Smith
said, "B o th parents, unless clearly
judged unworthy, should have equal
time in the parenting process."
Smith emphasized that “ children”
are the biggest losers and it appears
that our system o f judication has not
made proper allowances for dual
parenting relationships
D ADS are not only concerned
with domestic matters; they advocate
for the rights o f men and the prescr
valion o f the American heritage:
justice fo r all.
Recently, DADS pointed out to
Pacific Northwest Bell that its com­
munity service pages (the blue pages)
had a listing for "w o m e n ’s services,”
but no such listing for men.
Herbert Amerson, consumer a f­
fairs manager with Pacific Northwest
Bell, said a "m e n ’s services" listing
will be included in the next directory.
DADS questions the biasness o f
"approximately $20” o f marriage li­
cense fees going towards "domestic
violence programs" which are exclu­
sively fo r women, Smith said.
DADS, in its newsletter, advocate
that U.S. Senator Bob Packwood be
txwi.
Smith cundudcd that DADS is in
need o f financial and volunteer snpp
Anyone »ho » i d » to contact the
gamzaixxi may write: DADS. P
Box 8504, Portland. OR 97207 or
222-61«)
Families like yours are needed now
tor European students arriving in your
.community in mid August These slu
dents speak English, carry their own
spending money and are covered by
insurance
Katarina
To select your student, call
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L u rle n e S h a m e u d -D In , 281-3716
E d u c a tio n a l F o u n d a tio n for F o reig n S tu d y
a non protit organization
VICTOR S M IT H
"given non-support from the fathers
o f Oregon.”
Smith said, "(Senator) Packwood
is absolutely worthless to the men and
fathers o f Oregon. I am coastantly
looking for one thing (Senator) Pack-
wood has done for a divorced man
(in Oregon). I challenge your readers
to furnish me with that inform ation,”
he added.
Another issue Smith raised was the
Governor’s commission on women.
" I t ’s funded in excess o f $81,«X) per
year," he said, "M e n have no such
program.”
Smith said in a lot o f ways (he gen
eral public is "taxed for sexist means."
He said the powtaxi of DADS is that
men, the same as women, suffer the
trauma o f crises And that under the
priXectuxi o f the law, each slxxikl re­
cuse adequate and equal care. He add­
ed, “ Women have a crisis hot line, men
don’t."
DADS raised the quesUtxi: "Should
judges alixtg with iXhcr public servants,
penixlicalls he required to subnut to
drug testing to pnxevt the public?"
" I ikxi't think it's any problem to ask
our public servants to (submit) to drug
tests," Smith said, adding, "that in­
cludes the mayor "
DADS has resources (hot lines and tn-
hxmaiHxi) in Portland, Beaverton,
lugenc. Grants Pass and Mcdhxd,
Smith said. We liavc a nation-wide
directory Ixxiku p and can assist men
with dixnestK- problems in all the states
DADS was fixinded in 1977 but re­
cently it ha gained visibility. There are
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