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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1949)
Southern Oregon New, Review, Athland, Oregon, Thursday, February 24, 1949 Use of Lumber Mills W a s t e Products May Solve “i:9A' ®MTinse Ashland's Future Economic Employment Problem i™. r«*ur 51 Axhlund lum berm en und c it yeust culled Torulu Is also being Potential ways and m eans of izen« of Ashlund who find their developed. utilizing wood w aste by small economic security tied up with Ponderosa pine stum puge is mills such as are found in and th at of lum ber this week were now being used lo r the p ro d u c around Ashland are being studied offered new hope for future jobs. tio n of turpentine, rosin, pine today by vauous lum ber com John M. Taylor, gruduute s tu tar und other nuvul stores. panies, schools, laboratories and dent ut the University of O re A plant hus recently bi en es individuals. gon, writing In the Oregon Bus tablished at Sacram ento, Culifor Some day the smoke a b a te iness Review, pointed out that nia, w here by pse u t compression m ent problem will be settled by •dl m anner of products are now und therm o plastic conditioners the local mills them selves, which being developed from m aterial wall panels und floor tiles are will utilize the present waste which was once burned at con being produced from wood waste. which is being consumed in the siderable cost. The board thus produced from burners. , The history of the tim ber In shavings is available in rem ark dustry is characterised by tre uble color combinations It is also m endous waste. 'lim ber today non-crum bling and nail holding shows signs of possible exhaus “Prea-to-Logs" is a form of u- tion which has caused science to tillzutiori of saw dust und waste 1 step forw ard In an attem pt to from mills which is fam iliar to | find new uses for wuste products, nearly ull home owners. ■'Pacific Telephone probably and better uses for present c u t Old saw dust has proven to be spent more money on the Pacific tings. excellent hum us m aterial. Fresh Companies which operate on sawdust In turn has been found Coast than any other company a long range basis have udded to be a fine bedding m aterial fo r In 1948,” Mark R. Sullivan, pre sident of The Pacific Telephone new wuste utilizing units to their cuttle. and Telegraph Company, stated existing plunts. Complete m an Home insulation, using paper in his 1948 report to shareholders, ufacturing units which are used pulp in compressed sheeting form released W ednesday by J. H. only for processing lum ber wuste has proven satisfactory. Creager, local m anager. m aterials are being set up In the Wood flour, essential in the Declaring that the year 1948 northw est. m aking of plustics, has as great was the biggest year In the his lulk about the Chicago pack-1 a future as any of the wood tory of the telephone company in ers using everything of the pig wuste products. It is in demand every way except net earnings but the squeal, one medium siz as a base for all plastic mould on investm ent, Sullivan a l s o ed mill in the northw est, is now ing powders, filler, and especial pointed out that the company's recovering practically all its ly in the m anufacture of lino spending was a m ajor contribu waste m aterials. Slabs and edg leums and several hard board tion to the over-all economy of ings are run through a hydraulic products. the coast. debarker which cleans this once Ethyl alcohol is one of the de The total income of the com waste m aterial. This wood is velopm ents in the full utilization pany, after paym ent of all ex then chipped, saw dust from the program . There are m any pro penses was reported as $36,773,- chipping is used for fuel for the cesses for extracting the alcohol 000 This was a 4.78 per cent re b o ile n along w ith other scrap, from wood. One, which Is in op turn on the capital invested in the chips are sent to paper pulp eration a t Bellingham, W ashing the business, and was “except In mills where it becomes paper. In ton. is the use of wood pulp, the 1947 the lowest retu rn in the this sawm ill even the burned fuel other is the use of wood waste. past 35 years of the com pany’s In the boilers Is used again. The J The Springfield, Oregon, plant, history.” 1 charcoal particles are re b u rn e d . uses the wood waste system, In 19411, the num ber of tele by forced draft. This mill has The lignin by-product which phones in service was increased j only a small am ount of fine pow- is available at the Springfield by 332,000 The num ber has in i' < r 11s final waste. I plant can be used for fuel. creased by more than a million Science has discovered m any Douglas fir bark has been pro- j since V-J Day. outlets and uses for w hat was cessed into a m arketable raw , ----- —.—o----------- once just so much waste from I m aterial for phonograph records. Leland Linn, superintendent o f , the mills. Among these are car-1 explosives, plastics, Insecticides, schools and Dr. Elmo Stevenson j bohydrates for supplem entary ! glues, and soil conditioners. These , president of Southern Oregon stock feeds. Molasses is another] five products are m arketed un- college this week attended the! by-product, coming principally • der the name of Silvacon by the school adm inistrator's conference' from Douglas fir waste. A fe e d 1 W eyerhauser company. jin San Francisco. • Pacific Tel. & Tel. Releases Report G R A Y CLUB SPONSORS MOVIE FOR WORLD FUND A movie show for grade school boys will be held in the social room of the YMCA next Monday afternoon, February 28th at 4:00 o’clock. The show is sponsored by the Ashland Gray-Y club for the purpose of helping the boys of the group raise money for the club pledge to the YMCA World Youth Fund. A series of six comedy c a r toons will be shown for an a d mission price of . five cents. In charge of the affair will be H ar vey Sorenson, .presid» nt of the club and Charles Eliason, Adult adviser to the group. tim e dancing and an am ateur show will feature the Saturday night MRS WOODS REVIEWS get-together of the Phoenix Com- FRANK GILBREATH BOOK j m unity club and Youth center. Mrs. Marcus B. Woods review- The affair will get underw ay at ed the book, "Cheaper By The the phoenix grange at 8:00 p m. Dozen," at the Monday m eeting Businesses and club organiza- of tin- Ashland Study club The l*ons of Phoenix are sponsoring club met at the J. H. Edgar Ian am ateur hour which will pre home. I cede the dancing. W inners of the Mrs P. H Stansbury, as her arna.teur show wiU ** e le c te d by selected subject, spoke on “N a r applause and will appear at the next show in competition with cotic new contenders. QUIT LOOKING FOR WORK- The udll h« next koM meeting ** J of r. the 7 club ----- Music will be by the Morgan Establish yourself in a profitable ,. ‘ ebruary family of Ashland. A .C. Lewis j Rawleigh Business. Be your own 28 at the home of Mrs. F. R president, states that the Com- boss No M f* r t’l l l Mr-«, u . r» z. . r - ------- ’ v«ir. 1 <j e experience x p e r ie n c e u or i c capital apuai Mrs ( M Fr 1 11 4*1 * anf rn u n *ty Youth center is necessary. W rite imm ediately, of the nrr.i/mm 1 W‘ tak<‘ care kxa! project and requests that Rawleigh’s, Dept. 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