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Scientist Predicts Great Lakes Region Will Be Industrial Center By JOSEPH L. MYLEH Washington - idpb - A Uni versity of Chicago scientist believes the Great Lakes re gion "is destined to become the greatest industrial region on "earth." Before the end of the cen tury, he says, "we may well see a city belt, say 20 miles deep, stretching continuously from Milwaukee to Buffalo." The driving force behind this predicted inundation of the Great Lakes area by peo ple is thirst, particularly in dustrial thirst, for water. Prof. Sverre Petterssen, chairman of the University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences, said re cently the world's rapidly rising population is multiply ing the demand for water as well as for food and fuel. Demand Waler It has been estimated that the demand for fresh water in the United States alone will reach 880 billion gallons a day by 2000 A.D. Current daily consumption is about 270 billion gallons. According to Gwilym A. Price, chairman of the board of Westinghouse Electric corporation, U. S. daily water needs 40 years from now may be more than 300 billion gal lons greater than the nation's present usable water supply. A Westinghouse engineer, Robert A. Baker, has pro posed construction of giant plants capable of producing 150 million gallons of fresh water a day from the sea while generating 880,000 kilo watts of electricity. Great Lakes Prof. Petterssen said the United States is "in a pre ferred position," as far as water is concerned, compared to most other parts of the world. The average rainfall in this country is about 30 inches, compared with less than half that amount in the Soviet Union. And then there are the Great Lakes. This region, he said, "is by far the dominat ing fresh water center," con taining "about one-third of the total fresh water supply in the world." i "It is easy to see," Pet terssen said, "that certain parts of the U. S. have be come overloaded with con sumers of water. It is not difficult to foresee that the Great Lakes region as a whole is destined to become t lie greatest industrial region on earth. "Industry cannot continue to move to California; it may soon have to move back to where it should be. This, I think, is obvious, but what needs emphasis is that this may well happen before this century draws to a close. Petterssen said develop ment of the predicted city Beer Truck Drivers Agree To Increase Portland IUPP Employers and Oregon beer truck driv ers have agreed to a tentative wage increase of $5 a week, an employer spokesman said. The agreement averted a strike threat by the Teamsters Union. The new pact, retroactive to June 1, brings the driver's new pay to $136 a week in the Portland area and slightly less in other parts of the state. An additional $2 a week is to be added to the pension plan Jan. 1, 1963. The new contract must be approved by union membership. belt stretching from Buffalo to Milwaukee would have "enormous" health, social, and political consequences. He called for study and re search now on how to keep the region "healthy and at tractive" when it is the in dustrial center of the world. MedfordIbIjTribune SECTION C MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 0. 10B2 PAGES 1 to 10 Curriculum Expert Added to Faculty Eugene - Dr. Albert Ray mond Kitzhaber, well-known curriculum expert who organ ized and directed Portland's 1958-60 high school curricu lum study, has been appointed a professor of English at the University of Oregon. Dr. Kitzhaber, who comes to Oregon from Dartmouth college, where he has been research professor of English since 1960, is nationally rec ognized for his work in Eng lish composition and curricu lum. In announcing his appoint ment, Dr. Kester Svendsen, head of the university's Eng lish department, said, "The appointment of Professor Kitzhaber adds to the univer sity faculty one of this coun try's most distinguished spe cialists in the teaching of Eng lish composition and rhetoric and in the development of curricula in high school and college writing. Study Director "Professor Kitzhaber is al ready well-known to the Ore gon community for his direc tion of the Portland high school curriculum study. He comes to us from a two-year study of student writing at Dartmouth college, a project supported by the Carnegie corporation. Our courses in composition and literature for teachers will benefit greatly by his presence, and he will contribute strongly to the whole field of teacher educa tion." A graduate of Coe college, Kitzhaber received his master of arts degree from Washing ton State college and his doc tor of philosophy degree from the University of Washington. 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