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,7. MAIL .TRIBUNE, M!forf, Orwi, SunIy, Jinatry II, 1939 dl ILymnibeir yftflk 1M Yeoo- Dinidkoifred Fuller Utilization of Waste Products Needed to Cut Costs By JOE COWLEY Mail Tribun Staff Writer Lumber outlook for 1959 is good, but fuller utilization of waste products Is needed to cut costs, Jackson county lum bermen said. A number of lumbermen Interviewed were enthusiastic over the future for lumber during the new year. The ma jority of them thought es tablishment of . at least one big-pulp mill in . this area would reduce operating costs by iising raw materials which the mills cannot convert into lumber.' However, there were some who disagreed strongly. "It might look like a good year, but stumpage and logs cost so much that the picture won't improve greatly by any means," one lumberman re marked. Utilise Chip Material This same lumberman be lieves that a pulp mill here would utilize chip material resulting from lumber produc tion and would cut costs. It would also - prevent much burning of waste materials and air pollution which some people are complaining about, the lumberman said. "We certainly don't want a pulp mill here," another lum ber manufacturer said. "A Jackson County Chamber of Commerce investigation re vealed that the amount of water available in Rogue river would support only one 100-ton capacity pulp mill and provide jobs for only 120 men. Such an industry here would create a pulp mill smog, pollute the entire val ley air and ruin this area as the ideal place to live." "One of the problems of complete utilization is lack of markets and the long trans portation costs to markets now available," :" a ; lumber manufacturer said. v ; Sale For Material - "It isn't merely a problem of talking someone into being utUizatiajp-minded.", the lum berman said. "We can't find a sale for chip material in this area. It would make us harmv tft pet chin material in a product which would en able us to break even." "Mention a pulp mill in this area and people wrinkle their noses," the lumberman saiL "Trouble is people might wrinkle their noses too far and we never will get a pulp mill in here." "A pulp mill is one of the main keys to utilization of raw material," he said. "More such material is utilized the less the lumber industry will continue to smoke. Actually what is pollution? Nobody has been able to define it to my satisfaction." Burn Material "I'm forced to dump a lot of good chippable Douglas fir material into the burners. It pains me to have to do it. This material should be worth something in an economic sense." To ship to the nearest pulp plant we would lose money for every car. I investigated the possibility of shipping fir pulp to Walla Walla, Wash. It would cost $13 a unit. It costs $15 a unit to ship to pulp mills in Springfield or Albany. Sawmills in those areas can ship chip material directly to the pulp plants. "I do not believe that the present technology permits a pulp mill of even 100-ton ca pacity without serious pollu tion resulting to the Rogue river and damage to wonder ful fishing. "At the time the chamber study was made, it was decided our cue is to pro mote a mill in Roseburg or Klamath Falls or some other point where we could still ship our chips at a minimum freight charge. This way we would get the benefit of the mills without the pollution Mills will be established at Roseburg and Klamath Falls in the not far distant future, it was reported. - The lumberman quoted from a statement of the cham ber's chairman of the tourist and convention committee made . when the pulp mill study was completed. "What are we thinking of to want to ruin $12 million of recre ation business for only 120 permanent jobs?" The lumber outlook very good, the lumberman added. He predicted continued ex pansion in this area along the lines of more refinement of product. More dry lumber, more surfaced lumber and packaged lumber will be pro duced. This same lumberman pre dicted establishment of at least two more plywood plants in this area. Elk lumber com pany plans to start construe tion of a green veneer plant some time in 1961. Douglas fir is the best wood for this purpose, it was explained. There is more of this variety here than any other species, the lumberman said. Predicts Good Year Anotner lumberman pre dicted a Tretty good year for 1959 in the lumber indus try. Building stocks are up with housing the main usage for lumber. "I hope I never see a pulp mill in this valley," this lum berman said. "A pulp mill in the Roseburg area would help Jackson county sawmills since they could get good freight rates for shipping chip ma terial. "However, since such ma terial would have to cross the California line to reach Klam ath Falls, a mill there would not be so good," he said. "Inter-state rates would make such shipment too costly.' One large lumber manu facturer said he thought the industry is generally. optimis tic. A pulp mill would help the industry of this county considerably, he said. Pulp manufacturers will find a way to cut pollution economically eventually, he added. A fil tering plant takes a lot of water. . It would take more than one mill to take care of all : the waste produced in this area, he said. It is not a ques tion of whether raw product is here, he said. Surveys snow ample material for pulp is here. Another lumber manufac turer said the lumber business is Dickine up and forecasts "a pretty fair year." Many new homes are being built, he saia. However, stumpage prices and log prices are still high. A firm which produces manufactured lumber also predicts a good year. Some of this firm's customers are in creasing inventories. Nationally the lumber in dustry recovered from the 1958 recession in mid-year and the forest industry of this state regained its status as a billion-dollar contributor to Oregon's economy. In Douglas Fir Region . Lumber production in the Douglas fir region, at just under 8 billion board feet diDDed to about 1.5 per cent. However, prices average sev eral dollars higher, inven tories were cut by a small in crease in sales volume, and at year's end mills had a bigger order file and smaller stocks on hand than a year ago. Plvwood production has climbed 13.6 per cent to a record 6.2 billion square feet in Oregon. This makes the 12th continuous year of unin- terruDted expansion for this phase of the Oregon forest in dustry, according to reports from the industry. Plywood brought .better nrices most of the year, espe cially in the third quarter. Then a market upsurge car ried prices as much as sio from the year's low and ply wood plants produced over time to meet the demand. More Jobs Created More jobs were created and value added to forest products durinjr 1958 with expansion of re - manufactured lumber and plywood into various building materials. Larger growth is expected in this phase of the industry. Basic output of pulp and paper tilants will nrobably be con verted into cartons and other finished products, industry spokesmen predict. The state's 1958 log harvest was estimated sX lVi billion feet, down about one-fourth billion feet from 19o7, accord ing to statistics from the in-: dustry. Logging operations moved from a low to a -near-record level in the fall. Rogue River National for est sold 178 million board feet of timber during 1958, compared to 107 million board feet of timber for the previous year for an increase of 71 million board feet, according to Carroll Brown, supervisor of Rogue River National for est. . BLM Sales Bureau of land manage ment sold 197,934,000 board feet of timber during the 1958 calendar year compared to 113,612,000 board feet during the previous year; an increase of 84,322,000 board feet, ao cording to BLM officials. This is in keeping with the state trend which saw record sales of government timber. National forest timber sold for harvest just about doubled when government timber agencies responded to the cries of the log-hungry mill operators. Archilecf Finds Tooth, Uranium Wsi-alnn - AT T TTPHAti arfTii- tect digging a foundation for a new home here found a shark's tooth about 100 to 150 million years old - and uranium. . . When Russel J. Horner, 47- year-old architect and con struction engineer of Liberty Harbor, found the fossilized tooth, along , with clam and oyster shells, also fossilized, he sent them to the archeology department at Rutgers University. . He also sent: along a speci men of rock to the American Smelting and Refining Co. at Perth Amboy for analysis. It turned out to be urani um and the assay report indi cated a rich deposit-the loca tion of which Horner is now keeping secret. RED-FACED POLICE . Los Angeles -UPD- Embar rassed police yesterday were looking for one of their prowl cars that was stolen from the police headquarters parking lot. Reference Books Added to Library During Past- Year More than 150 new refer ence books, including two 20 volume encyclopedias, have been added to the Jackson County library in the past year, according to Library Director Helen E. Webster. About one-fourth of the la- brary's budgeted funds for new books was utilized for these essential materials. "With the addition of the new volumes the library will be able to do a quicker and better job of answering re quests for information," the librarian said. "The demand for facts and statistics is in creasing every day, and ques tions come in to headquarters from every part of Jackson county, and occasionally from other states." Important Fields Most of the important fields of human knowledge are cov ered in the central reference collection. Included among the new reference works are up-to-date yearbooks, direc tories, atlases, handbooks and encyclopedias. Some ofi these are "The Abbreviaton's Dicti o n a r y,! and "The Encyclopedia of Am erican Facts and Dates." Year books and directories repre sented are "The Statesman's Yearbook," "The Encyclope dia Britannica Year Book, "Ayer's 1958 Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals," and "Polk's Medford City Di rectory, 1958." Brief information on many topics can be found in several almanacs and "fact" books such as the "World Almanac," "Information Please Alma nac," and the "Rapid Fact Finder." Several new biographical aids are "Who's Who, 1958," "Who's Who in America, 1958-1959," "The Internation al Who's Who, 1958," and the "Cyclopedia of World Auth ors." Reference books in various subject fields include the "Book of Flags" "Law of Mar riage and Divorce,'-' "Harper's.1 Topical Concordance of the Bible," and "The Concise En cyclopedia of World History." Others are Monro's "Index to Reproductions of European Paintings," Brucker's "Sub ject Index to Poetry," and "The Musician's Guide." Commonly Used The most commonly used reference books and those of a general nature are available not only at the headquarters library but in the several community branches. Among them are the "World Alma nac," "The Rapid Fact Find er," and "Lincoln's Library of Essential Information." Branch libraries also have the "Consumer's Bulletin An nual," the "U. S. Government Organization Manual," "The Dictionary of Holidays," and "The Oregon Blue Book." Each community library is equipped with an atlas, a dic tionary, and an encyclopedia, and most branches have in dexes to quotations and an thologies of poetry. The best reference "service to an area such as Jackson BACK SEAT DRIVING Derby, England -(OPD- Sid ney Brown, 35, charged with speeding, told the court Fri day that while driving he was having an argument with his wife. "I decided to put my foot down firmly and it went on the accelerator," he ex plained. The court fined him $14. county requires that the basie collection of factual materials be sheleved in a central loca tion and administered by a professionally qualified refer ence librarian. , ; - - Any resident of the county may consult them there or may telephone his request for information in to the head quarters library, where the services of Miss Joyce Marlin, assistant librarian in charge of reference work, are avail able to him. , Hatfield Approves Plant Industry Chief Salem -(UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field Friday approved the ap pointment of Hugh Taylor, 62, as chief of the division of plant industry of the state ag riculture department. . The appointment was rec ommended by Director Frank McKenuon, whom Taylor suc ceeds. Taylor has been an em ploye of the department since 1934 and has . been assistant chief of the plant industry di vision since 1941. .... ... CHANGES MIND Newark, N. J. -(CPU- Poet Carl; Sandburg telephoned President Evald P. Lawson of Upsala College Friday to tell him.'he was ready to accept the honorary degree he turned down 10 years ago because he was too busy. . CASH DAVIS PHARMACY THE foJsQ STORE 135 West Main, corner Crape Ph. 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