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.”
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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 ,
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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.
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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.
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The
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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
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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. ORB-361-236.
of the program
ev ery o n e attend.
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