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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1960)
0 c5 O O ro o o oooo o 00 0 (3) o C3 0 0 o oCoo o o o 0 O 0n O O o O o o o o O O O o 00 G o o o o 1 Research Scientists Discover New Ways to Unlock Chemicals Portland - Oregon's lorestlthe storehouse of qhemicls industries will share in a rich hidden inside the forest trees harvest iu the tumia years of the Pacific Narthvt. as research scientists discover So says the Oregon Commit new and better ways to unlock' tee of American Forest Pro- Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- AT A KIDDIES' birthday party in Hollywood Eve of lie six little boys present were sons of dramatists; the sixth as the offspring of the owner of one of the country's big mt rarnpt factories. Dur ing a lull in the bedlam, the mother of the birth day boy asked the guests in turn what their fa thers did. Five in succes sion answered, "My fa ther is a playwright," The sixth, just as proudly, an nounced, "My father is a carpetwright." Running Into debt isn't what's bad, Aggers Mik Aristotle Connolly: tt's run ning Into creditors that throws you. MV FATME? ISA. ducts Industries, forestry edu cational organization, in a sur vey ct siividicmic&l develop ments by leading forest in dustry chemical producers in the state. "Silvichemicals," a relative ly new term in common usage, denotes the field of discovering and producting chemicals from wood. It was popularized by Rayonier In corporated, a pulp and paper manufacturer in Washington. Numerous companies and research groups in the Pacific Northwest have become ac tive in this field, and Oregon, as the number one timber slate, has a vital stake and a bright future in silvichemi cals. Many leading forest pro duct firms and organizations which maintain headquarters or branches within Oregon's borders are already beginning to show real results. An example of the wide variety of uses into which new chemical products of the tree are finding their way is furn ished by Crown Zellerbach M3 1 srak 7 L 5TH ANNUAL nationally Advertised Diamond Rings NATIONAltr ADVERTISED PMCE S. $75 1 1 a '25 Doeft wim k mim meif tmg M NO MONEY DOWN, EAST TERMS PAY AS LITTLE AS SO A WEEK "Raw Formn tart ikM imhi 1 lata Mm, ) A MM) -KM Urt ari bntf Mf la UK 114 fat. na to m $37 50 HOW OTH vmt wtlwfc nlclMa haMl Ml UK fW. A UI TO NaT tart. . 1" 1 V4UU IOTM UN6S Cavthrla torratJua MlIWi. 1 tta aaaa4l, IM Ml A TIM TO PAT $100 3iv I art a t A YUI NMI a 8 ipathlint dlamantfi In at i qulilttlr tinu 14k Mild gall K meunllnai. NO MONEY DOWN IIAR IO PAY Give Her a Gift of Lasting Affection A Gift of Fine Jewelry FROM I 298 CYm Yt'4 ttpti ft) pay of Uof 3?.?$ Vi-jW 0 M Quality graduated lingla) strand ttjrtwtd 7 Vfr"' aff . Beairtifirl drem wateh t wrlfc I Ktemdi j r if Dainty paridanr and chain Mi 2 dtp- gfj f mondt and cultured pearl. 3 ;J Ei A WIDE SELECTION OP JEWELRY WL XWj lf AT REASONABLE PRICES. jjSi HOURS; 122CifMi - Mcdfftrd O Corp., which says its silvi chemicals are going into as phalt emulsions, briquets, ceramics, cleaning compounds, gypsum board, softboard, in secticides, lino'eum paste, road binders, concrete admix tures, oil-well drilling com pounds, paint, paint slovents and strippers, agricultural chemicals, synthetic fibers, rubber, camphor, wetting agents, resins, solvents, plas ticizers and a host of other products. 1 Weyerhaeuser Company is shooting for a full line of silvi chemicals and is presently marketing quercetin, a bril liant yellow chemical derived from Douglas fir bark which protects products such as rub ber, plastics, vegetable and animal oils, feeds other com modies from spoiling or de teriorating. Company scien tists are continuing their ex tensive research on bark com ponents and whole-wood fiber products. In Portland, Georgia-Pacific Corporation will soon start production of 200,000 to 300, 000 pounds a month of cyan ide chemicals in a major new chemical pilot plant which will use bark and sawdust. The new plant will turn out glycerin, copper cyanide, fer ric ferrocyanide, copper sul phate and nickel sulphate worth an estimated $2,000, 000 to $3,000,000 a year. A new research and devel opment center of Evans Pro ducts company at Corvallis is pushing research on chemi cal utilization of wood resi dues. The center is presently turning wood fiber from near by mills into plastic-impregnated battery separators. Western Pine association's laboratory in Portland has developed methods for ex tra c t i n g arabogalactan, a sugar from larch which is useful as a pill binder, and an ingredient for such pro ducts as ink and glue. The pine industry researchers have also improved extractive techniques for resin, a source of terpentine and rosin. Resin, which makes up some 5 per cent of pine trees, can be ob tained from stumps, or even from lumber. At Corvallis, the Oregon Forest Research center, an industry - supported state organization, has isolated ma jor chemical constituents from western trees and has devel oped uses for extractives from Douglas fir bark sjch as tan nins, waxes and dihydroquer cetin. Scientists there are also studying lignin structure and are working with wood resi dues. Industry foresters who think of their producing Tree Farms in terms of tim ber crops for lumber and paper products, plus by-products in watershed values, recreation and wildlife habi tat, a,e becoming increasingly aware of the vast chemical storehouse their tall timber also represents, says AFPI. In fact, the industry organi zation declares, the day may be fast approaching when bark, 1 i m bs , knots, pitch pockets and all may be hauled to the mill to be ground up, cooked and reshaped into dazzling new products. Approximately 30 per cent of every tree in the forest 12 MAIL Y leWNflC Mtf, V. C Tkameby, My , 1 M consists of lignin - the "glue" which nature uses to hold the fibers of the trea together. Re searchers have not yet fath omed us exact structure, des pite their progress in obtain ing a growing range of chem icals from it. Many of them believe that once they achieve the break through in pinning down lig- o nin'i Uructui completely -which some feel (pay come within five to 10 years - they will then Rave the framework with which to create a silvi chemical industry compar able to this country's diverse petro-chemical field. 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