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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1950)
i "iThm CSatosracm. Salem, Oregon. Tuesday. Mar 8 1SS0 , i This Wax Came horn Barh of Trees j ; . : ;:-. - X - - i 1 1 if"" . :(fVc7V- "... The Santa Fe railway wai named for Santa Fe, New Mexico, but never ran through it. Instead, a spur line of that railroad serves Santa Fe, capital city of the state. and tannin only in small quanti ties. It Would like to set up pilot plants in-order to show business how profitable the operation would be. Both can ' be produced cheaply. . : Another product from bark is called dihydroquercetin, and it may have important medical uses. Doctors think it will cure some types of blood diseases, and al ready it has been found to make sterile mamma rabbits have lit tle bunnies. And it might be of value in treating sterility in women. . . A big eastern drug company is interested in dihydroquercetin, and enough to supply the whole coun try could be. produced from Just a few trees. j COS V ALUS - Dr. E. F. Knrth, chief ef the chemical utilisation section of the state forest products . -laboratory, displays samples of wax extracted from bark. Dr. Knrth la the father of the wax-rrom -bark process. (PhaU by Don Dill. Statesman staff photographer.) . , Wax from Wood Waste Seen . Large New Area Business ' ' ' By Paul W. Harvey, Jr. i CORVALLIS, May 9 -(JP)- The forest products laboratory here bits learned' how to take the wax business away from the bees, and how to make the already prolific rabbits produce even more rabbits. And that doesn't begin to4ell of the wonderful uses of bark from the trees of Oregon's forests. 1 The laboratory, which is financed by a tax of five cents per 1,000 feet on all timber cut in the state, has learned how to make tannin, - which is Tjsed for leather tanning and oil well drilling. ' -It can make sugar and molasses. Its scientists also found out how to make gasoline out of bark, but that. wouldn t be economical. . Since the laboratory really got going in 1947, it has spent more than $600,000 to help the lumber ' Industry find uses for wood waste, and to carry on other research ; projects which the industry wants. It has 25 permanent employes, Including 10 scientists. All are un der the direction of P. B. Proctor, the technical director. Faculty members and students of the Ore gon State college forestry school also help. Proctor' thinks that the labora tory has, found the way to a vast new marketrfor wood waste, with a possibility that lumber mills will ! be able to sell their bark for $40 ton. Now they pay $2 to $3 a ton to have it hauled away.' Right now, Proctor is trying; to sell his ideas to industry, which . always is far behind the research scientists. He hopes that local money will develop the wax, tan nin and other industries which re sult from the .laboratory's jre search. - ; I' Sot far, the wax deal Is !the - biggest - Since the United States . jiow imports 80 per cent of its ijvax from Africa, Argentina "and Mexi co. Proctor thinks it's ,a safe bet that the wax - from - bark indus try has great possibilities, i Proctor estimates that the bark -from Douglas fir cut in the noirth west will product twice (the amount of wax needed in the Uni ted States. He thinks new (uses for wax will be found, as one. big chemical company is interested in it for the carbon in it.The jwax companies are interested, tooJ ' Wax already is being prodjuced at Springfield. Proctor things' this industry might eventually be worth $75,000,000 a year. I He said the wax is of theWgh est . quality,..-but much more re search needs to be done in jorder to find out exactly what jit is chemically? Some of the wax is ' extremely complicated in its chem ical structure. Dr. E. F. Kurth, chief of -the chemical utilization eection of the lab, is credited with the wax development. , Tannin from bark can be ex tracted in the same way as) wax, and the potential value of th;e tan nin is $54,000,000 a year, j Seventy per cent of America's tannin now is imported, and in .10 years, .all of It will have to be , shipped in. I The war munitions boardj which ays tannin is a strategic material, i found the laboratory's tannin as i good ' as . any. The Humble Oil company is interested in the new tannin process. ,- j, . . About half of the tannin fused in this country is for oil well drilling, explains Proctor. It thins the mud and thus makes the drilling tools last longer. The other half is used to tan hides.: .' j Tha laboratory, can produce wax Si Almost at your finger tips yet another world of fun and beauty! 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Residents of the Hicks-Jones and Arnold additions, east of Cher ry avenue and north of the alumi na plant, want the road district to enable road improvement . ana maintenance with funds to be raised by taxation. They have asked a 1950-51 levy of about $2,500. The . legal limit is (a 10 mill tax, to which the asking wll be cut by the assessor prior . to making the tax rolls. - After certification of, the peti tions, signed by owners of 118 parcels of property, the county court will conduct a hearing and then call an election. The ballot will authorize formation of the district and levying of the tax. A collection among the residents raised money for holding the elec tion. 1 Roads involved for improvement are a loop comprising Alder ave nue and portions of Pleasant View drive and Shady Lane avenue, in order to secure school bus service through the area, as well as all mail route roads, said Floyd Brown, chairman of the board from the community.. The funds will also be used for maintenance of other streets in the area, which CIRCUIT COURT Henry M. Conley ' vs; Arthur Lengele: Complaint seeks Judg ment of $1,096 for - alfalfa and meadow hay allegedly delivered. Walker Stanmore Fitts vs. Ore gon Electric Railway Co. and oth ers: Plaintiffs motion to strike parts of defense denied. Lawrence Moffit vs. Donna May Moffit: Complaint charging cruel and inhuman treatment seeks di vorce. Married July 30, 1948, at Vancouver, Wash. -. - William and Emily Albrecht vs. Lawrence Girardin: Defendant's answer admits,, denies, asks that Dlaintiffs complaint be dismissed, Norma A. McDowell vs. Floyd R. McDowell: Order permits de fendant to file and cross - com nlaint. " -J: Marie Haffley, vs. William C. Haffley: Default tirder entered. Howard C. Johnston vs-Elayne M. Johnston: Complaint charging desertion seeks divorce, custody of minor child.' Married Dec. 12,, 1945, at Great Falls, Mont. Paul A. Porter as office of price administration vs. Coos Bay Far mers cooperative and others: Ac tion dismissed as to defendant Oy ster Growers. Service association, Jack L. Evans, vs. Pearl and James A. Trade and others: De cree finds generally for plaintiffs and defendants Champlin and against defendants Pearl and James A. Trude. includes between five and six miles of roads. The improvement and mainten ance will be administered by the county court, following requests shown on the petitions. PROBATE COURT Albert W. Lemery estate: Final account hearing June 2. Eva B. Cauthorn guardianship: Effie Mudd appointed guardian of person, Pioneer Trust company appointed guardian of estate, monthly payments of $150 author ized for guardian of ; person for her services. . James L. Loder estate: Inven tory of assets and liabilities filed for business in which deceased had interest. L, . MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Joseph Luykx, 32, Ft. : Lawton, Wash., U. S. army, and Mary A. Duletski, 29, Seattle, Wash, beau tician. ' ' DISTRICT COURT ? Omer Vernon Carr, Salem route 9, pleaded guilty of charge of driving while intoxicated, contin ued to May 9 for sentencing; held in lieu of $250 bail.. - Raymond Paul Clarke, Gervais, pleaded guilty to charge of driv ing While intoxicated, 30-day jail sentence ' suspended, fined $250 and costs driver's license sus pended for one year. - Tony Guerra, charged with es e a p e from state penitentiary, waived preliminary hearing, held to answer to grand jury; held on $3,500 bail. Winona Juanitta Burbank, 1935 Maple ave., pleaded guilty to charge of aiding a prisoner to escape,: continued for sentencing to May 15; posted $500 bail. MUNICIPAL COURT Robert Werner Rieder, 340 E. Rural ave., continued to May 10 for plea to charge of driving while Intoxicated; posted $250 bail. . John S. Friesen, Dallas, ordered to plead May 12 to charge of reck less driving, liquor Involved; post ed $150 bail. . ' r Wayne E. 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