Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 30, 1959, Image 32

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Newspaper Page TextNew Era Will Be Characterized By Tighter Pollution Control Br ALLEN LONG Science Service Staff Writtr Copyright 1959 by x Science Service. Inc. (Last in a series on Air Pollution) We are witnessing the dawn of a new era. It vill be char acterized by tighter controls over air and water pollution. The new era is slowly emerg ing from the laboratories of scientists and engineers with new advances in equipment for controlling pollutants. The need for such controls is apparent: Our present popu lation of 177,000,000 is expect ed to reach 220,000,000 in 10 years. Our gross national product is expected to climb from $450 billion to $765 bil lion in this same period. To day, expenditures for research run about $12 billion; by then research expenditures should hit about $30.6 billion . All this adds up to new and more exciting consumer prod-ucts-and strange, new types of pollutants in our air and wa ter. Considering this growth, 180 cities of 50,000 popula tion or more already have or can expect to have shortly, enough of an air pollution problem to warrant year round attention by full-time personnel. Pollution Problems Nor is air pollution the bane only of large cities. An esti mated total of 10,000 commu nities in the U.S. already have air pollution problems. Many of them are small, one-industry towns where, say, a lum ber mill or a cosmetic plant is the only industry.- Phoenix, Ariz., exemplifies the alert city looking toward the dawn of a new era. Phoe nix expects a greater concen tration of industry In the years ahead. It already is es tablishing zoning laws on the theory that advance planning is less costly than hindsight clean-up. These zoning laws are based on weather and geo graphic considerations, as well as permissible density of pop ulation and industry. On the other hand, a city of 82,000 in Illinois lacks many basic measures that con tribute to clean air. It fails to require use of even the inex pensive Ringelmann Chart -which indicates the shade of smoke. This device permits ob servation of smoke plumes from apartment house coal- fired heating or power plants. The chart enables the user to determine the efficiency of combustion by the cleanliness of smoke. Incomplete Combustion Black smoke represents in complete combustion ineffi ciency, wasted fuel dollars. A simple adjustment on the fur nace to feed more air to the fire will minimize "fallout" from coal smoke. In Pitts burgh smoke clean-up is esti mated to save each person $41 a year largely because of better cumbustion. Air pollution is a peculiarly local problem! and no nation al panacea exists. Various in dustries such as the electric power, chemical, iron and steel, oil and automobile man ufacturing have spent mil lions of dollars on highly spe cialized equipment needed to control their own particular pollutant emissions. In many instances, heavy clouds of black smoke no long er belch from tall stacks. In these cases, this nuisance has been cleaned up. But another nuisance remains - the gase ous sulfur and nitrogen com pounds, among others, that in visibly escape into the air and attack property and, it is be- lieved, health. Dealing With Menace Finding economical ways of dealing with this menace is one of the top-drawer projects for researchers. Many of the compounds are relatively in ert, making it difficulty to trap them easily. Perhaps a glimmer of hope is beginning to shine from the auto indus try's research labs that even these invisible agents can be controlled. The automobile is fingered by the U.S. Public Health Service as being our biggest, single source of future wide spread pollution. Ftom the au tomobile come hydrocarbons that under certain weather and geographic conditions make eye-smarting smog and chemicals corrosive to metals. Up to 30 per cent of these hy drocarbons escape from the car's fuel system - it's carbu retor float bowl, and fuel tank. Some escape from the crankcase, but most are spew ed out the tailpipe. Responding to growing pres sure, automobile makers have stepped up research' to pro duce three possible exhaust cleaners now in the prototype stage. One is a flame-type aft erburner designed to kill "live" fuel leaving the engine. The second is a low-temperature catalytic converter de signed to oxidize hydrocar bons. The third is a high-tem perature catalytic converter Reductions in hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emis sions achieved experimentally with these exhaust cleaners ran from 60 per cent to 90 per cent. Eventual Control But eventual control even of all automobile exhaust gas es does not mean the air pol lution problem will be licked. Instead it will mean that one more source has been smacked hard by joint citizen and in dustry action. Attention then can be focused on new offend ers growing out of further na tional progress. k It appears that we may be destined to live the rest of our lives in pollution. It is a costly problem and cannot be ignored. Experts believe our chief challenge today is to go after all sources with the many de vices and controls now com mercially available. The chal lenge, they say, is to develop new and better ways of elimi nating pollutants. The chal lenge is to improve the air we breathe-or at least "hold the line" so that it does not grow vastly worse. This challenge rests with the people-who may have to give up leaf burning and back yard incineration. It rests with local "govern-ments-who must be keenly appreciative of such anti-smog remedies as one-way streets to keep traffic moving. It rests with state govern-ments-who must assist local communities meet their prob lems, both technically and with laws. And, finally, it rests with the Federal Government -which, because of its facilities and knowledge, can offer ad vice and help to the states, towns and . citizens who re quest it. Desert Toads Develop Faster Than Relatives San Diego, Calif.-Science Service)- Desert toads devel op much faster than their rela tives in wet, marshy areas, Dr. W. Frank Blair of the Uni versity of Texas told scien tists here at the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting. Living in the desert means the toads must take advantage of infrequent rain falls for breeding, hatching and meta morphosis from tadpole to frog. Complete metamorpho sis can take only nine days, compared with as much as two years in a bullfrog. Male desert toads have also devel- AMBUSH SUSPECTS HELD Heirut - (UPE - The govern ment announced Tuesday night that it had arrested 49 persons suspected of com plicity in the assassination of Lebanese Parliamentary Dep uty Nairn Mougabgab. Mou gabgab, a strong supporter of former president Camille Chamoun, was fatally wound ed in an ambush Monday night. The tolls for the new St. Lawrence Seaway have been agreed upon and are scaled to pay for the cost of the project in 50 years. oped a louder mating call, for "getting all the toads together." 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford Or. B Thursday, July 30, 1959 Bicycle Theft Ring Broken in Salem Salem (DPD - Six Salem youths between 12 and 15 were arrested here Tuesday as city detectives broke up an alleged bicycle theft ring. Police said the boys had taken the bicycles apart and repainted them. All six were cited to ap pear in Juvenile Court Aug. 3. Eight bicycles, stolen parts and paint were confiscated, police said. Cotopaxi volcano in Ecua dor is 19,344 feet high. o m , .. .-, Ml...jm-nW. m jiioiriiirT irl ml' 'J.'""! 1 1 iTiTr1"" , J f ... 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