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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Air Pollution
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Fruit Industry to Experiment
With Lumber Industry Product
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More acreage will be
heated experimentally with
the 'less smoke producing
Presto Logs during next
spring's fruit frost season, Car
penter said.
"It would reduce the cost
considerably if the local ' n
ber industry could make such
a log here," he added.
' (Kogap Lumber Industries
which is producinga fire
log similar to the Presto
Log on an experimental basis,
has been trying for some time
to get the fruit growers to
commit themselves to defi
nite orders, according to Com
pany Vice President S. V.
(Duke) McQueen.)
Some problems with Pres
to Logs is that they dissolve
in wet weather, take longer
to "come up to heat," are
more difficult to handle in
the orchards and cannot be
put out once they start burn
ing and relit as heating oil
can. Carpenter explained.
Cover All Mills
As a preamble to the lum
ber industry report, the coun
ty judge pointed out that air
pollution control must cov
er all of the lumber mills on
the valley floor and not just
the three or four mills in or
near Medford.
Miller also read a letter
from the Southern Oregon
Conservation and Tree Farm
association, announcing for
mation of a wood waste dis
posal and utilization commit
tee. Purposes of the committee
will be: '
(1) to study, analyze, and
promote improved methods
of wood waste disposal with
emphasis on those methods
untilizing waste materials
and reducing disposal by
burning.
(2) To give information and
act as a clearing house for
exchange of ideas on wood
waste disposal and utilization.
(3) To conduct, when feasi
ble, experiments on new me
thods of wood waste disposal
and utilization.
(4) To cooperate with pub
lic agencies and other inter
ested groups in solution of
problems relating to air pol
lution. , . .
Progress Mads
"The forest products indus
try feels that considerable
progress has been made in the
last decade in reduction of
air pollution in Jackson coun
ty through greater utilization
of waste products and im
provement of plant facilities
for disposal of remaining
wastes.
"The industry, however,
also feels that it is vitally
necessary that even further
efforts be made to develop
greater utilization of waste
products for the economic
progress of our industry and
betterment of the communi
ty," according to the letter
signed by Glen Duysen,
SOCTFA president.
, Committee members 'are
Gene Burrill, Burrill Lum
ber company; Francis Cheney,
Cheney Forest Products;
George Flanagan, Elk Lum
ber company; Bob Van Duk
er, Fir Ply, Inc.; Bernard Pa
rent, Gulf Red Cedar; Mc
Queen, Kogap Manufacturing
company; Jery McGrew, Mc
Grew Brothern; Bud Nutting,
Medford Corporation; Paul
Doe, chairman, Olson-Lawyer
Lumber, inc.; Tom Oliver,
Timber Products; Ed Pease,
Trail Creek; Steve Wilson,
Steve Wilson Lumber com
pany; Alex Austin, Oregon
Veneer; Bill Mattson, Red
Blanket Lumber company.
B. L. Nutting, general man
ager of Medford Corporation,
said by next spring his mill
will not be burning wood
waste. A new veneer plant
is being constructed and a
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PET BRINGS SUMMONS-Edith McNeel, 33, Detroit, Mich.,
proudly displays her 25-pound pet ocelot, named Wendy,
after she was presented with a summons to appear in court
on charges of housing an animal not commonly classified
as a household pet. The ocelot, native of South America,
looks like an overgrown pussycat that resembles a miniature
freshtoleopard. (UP! Tel'ephoto)
Deer Kills Hunter Near Maplegrove
Dallas - (UPD - A Monmouth
hunter, George Connel Jones,
42, was dead on arrival at a
Dallas hospital Friday night
after he was kicked in .the
face by a wounded deer, the
Polk County Coroner's office
said.
Jones and Herman Amos,
also Monmouth, were hunting
in an area near Maplegrove
west of here.
Amos told authorities that
Jones had fired at a deer and
gone into the brush after it.
A few minutes later he
stumbled out bleeding pro
fusely from the nose.
Jones was the' state's 15th
hunting - connected fatality.
Six have been shot to death.
Dacca, Pakistan (UPD - East
Pakistan Gov. Mohamed Azad
Khan returned Friday night
from a tour of the 600 islands
in the Bay of Bengal where
an estimated 5,000 persons
were killed by tidal waves
earlier this month.
barker and two chippers will
soon be in operation.
Don Jackson, Timber Pro
ducts, said his mill will have
only one burner operating
after next week. The com
pany has started new "steam
generating facilities toward
eliminating smoke and cin
ders. Two existing .. burners
have been shut down. The
fir 'chip and ground bark by
product program is continu
ing, he added.
McQueen noted that most
of his firm's accomplishments
have been reviewed already.
The company is continuing
work on utilization of waste
products. At present sale of
Multi-Bark, a ground bark
by-product,, is slow. The fruit
industry has given the forest
products companies a chal
lenge in developing an ade
quate fire-log for orchard
heating. The industry now has
a committee willing to work
with the fruit industry, he
said.
Kogap's two burners ave
been shut down two weeks
for hunting season, he add
ed. Uiiliialion of Waste
Paul Doe, Olsen-Lawyer
Inc., reported that his compa
ny has spent $250,000 during
th elast few years for utiliza
tion of waste products. All
the company burners are
burning now is white fir saw
dust and some bark, he not
ed. Some, open burning has
been eliminated during the
last three months. The com
pany has. all A-l burners in
good condition, he added.
A representative of Med
ford Veneer and Plywood
burners since it uses dry
ends. If is using waste wood
from two other mills in its
power facilities, the spokes
man said. Some residue
burning is being done in an
open pit on the White City
Realty property by other
mills, he noted.
A representative of Oregon
Veneer company said his com
pany is taking out the dry
waste and has been studying
possibility of installing a chip
per. Edgings Sold
Jerry McGrew . Brothers,
reported that his company has
started pulling out sawdust
and wood waste. Edgings have
been sold to a local company
manufacturing small broom
handles and to Mt. Pitt com
pany. The company is exper
imenting with cyclonic action
in its burners, he added.
Flanagan said Elk Lumber
company is building a green
veneer plant, installing bark
er and hammer hog, plans
installation of a veneer chip-
peer and sale of Forest
Loam ground bark by-products.
The company plans to sell
wood chips for pulp, he add
ed. The company is planning
installation of an air-free
heater at an estimated cost
of $25,000 to increase the
boiler capacity. It is selling
some of the power generated
from burning wood wastes
to California Oregon Power
company, Flanagan added.
The Company has reduced its
contribution to air pollution
50 per cent, he said.
'Whipping Boy'
Steve Nye, of Nye and
Naumes Fruit company, asked
if the lumber and fruit in
dustries are to be the "whip
ping boy of air pollution
control. "How about all the
home furnaces which send
up smoke?" Nye asked the
Medford city manager.
"It would not be possible
to control the smoke from
some 8,000 chimneys," Duff
retorted.
Gerow noted that this prob
lem is being dealt with ef
fectively in Eugene. He add
ed that sanitary incinerators
and leaf burning are exempt
ed from the new state law on
open burning. Such opera
tions would be subject to lo
cal control, he added.
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Panel Discussion
MONDAY--4to4:15p.m.
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GOV. G. MENNEN WILLIAMS
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WILL PRESENT VIEWS ON BEHALF OF KENNEDY
FOR PRESIDENT. OTHER PANELISTS INCLUDE:
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