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Show DESERET A9 JULY 25, 1973 NEWS, WEDNESDAY, Connecticut group studies new ways to control solid wastes DeanC. Miller UPI Business Editor down Bjr - " When milNEW YORK lionaire Dan W. Lufkin walked away from Wall Street two years ago to take a $32,286 job with the state of Connecticut he had a! friend thought flipped or was gearing up for a political career. Not at all, says Lufkin, a founder of the Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, Inc. investment house. I had a belief, or call it a dream, that business and government must work together or both will go the drain. I became state commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), because it involved a national problem solid wastes. If I could get business and government to cooperate and come up with a sound state answer to that one, it would be reward to convince the Connecticut and be economical. And he a asked them to do it on a nonlegislature to authorize statewide system of solid profit, arrangewaste control. Just recently ment. Gov. Meskill signed into law While some of them agreed the Resources Recovery Au- to participate to shine a little thority act giving a image, they also rea'ized body the power of eminent dothat any breakthrough in solid main, the power of contractmeant enwaste disposal ing and the power of state trance into a $6 billion marcredit up to $250 million of ket. In Connecticut alone the share-the-co- n enough. There are those who feel that Lufkin, who resigned the state job this month, did just that in 22 months. After gathering a dozen or more agencies under one environmental bonds. protection roof, Lufkin set out environment, recover material citizens generate 3.5 million tons of trash annually. The annual U.S. total is 4.5 billion tons. States aie running out of land fill areas. Incineration fouls the air. Prices for handling trash are soaring. Before that Lufkin persuad22 companies to bid for the privilege of devising a statewide solid waste disposal system that would protect the ed General Electric won the contract and came up with a system that may be a model for the other 49 states. Connecticut plan envi23 waste separation one large material replant and five energy recovery plants. The sions plants, covery Garbage and trash would go to a separation plant instead of a landfill site or incinerator. There it would be classified, sorted and reduced to manageable size by machines Its estimated that a Connecticut family of faur will pro duce by 19Sa about 85 pounds of solid' wxste annually. Under the proposed state system, 60 pounds of that total would be and material combustible converted to steam co' ld or fuel oil and natural gas by tr a pyrolysis technique. of non- pounds combustibles shipped to a rec- Twenty-fiv- e lamation plant for processing and sale would be broken down into about eight pounds of glass, seven pounds of ir on and one pound of aluminum and other metals. Only nine pounds would remain i the form of a harmless inert sub stance usable as land fill. Natural resources would be savetj instead of buned or burned. The air would be cleaner. The cost of disposal cheaper The state expects to offer this service at about $10 per ton, netting it $35 million annually in users fees plus what it gets for reclaimed material. The combustible material burned also would take care of about 11 percent of the states electrical needs. Lufkin says the first plant could be put into operation r n TPTTHl oooOod within a few years and the total system effective by 1985 if the siate makes it a priority item, D. J. Fink, general manager of GEs space division which devised the system, noted that the public always asks why business cant do something about trash if it can put men on the moon. Now. in Connecticut. weve been given the chance to answer that question, he said. The only answer to many says Lufkin, is to let government do what it does best, point the way and make the rules, and let business do what it does best, operate the business involved. I thmk Connecticuts new will solid waste program prove that and, in the process, eliminate some of the mutual distrust which has slowed down the country. of our problems, 20 million XL Gl files destroyed - LOUIS (UPI) The fire at the U.S. Military Personnel Records Center earber this month destroyed the files of nearly 20 million veterans, government officials report. ST. four-da- y The records were among 56 million kept in the building in suburban Overland. About 22 million records of Army and Air Force personnel were stored on the top floor of the six-sto- center. At least 90 percent of the records were destroyed in the blaze, .which broke out July 12. top-flo- Walter .National Slender of the Archives in Washington said there were no duplicates of most of the burned records because to 56 microfilm million files would cost $145 million. W. Some of these records will never need to be replaced, anyway, Stender said. If a man was in the army In 1912 and hes dead, and all his rela- tives are dead, who would ever want the records? 14 SLICED PORK Pork Chops Cut-U- p Fryers Fresh Fryers Sliced Bologna LOIN LB. GTA GRADE A LB. 63 J SIGMAN PKG. Lean Ground Beef Another government official, George B. Begg, asked for the publics patience in establishing what records can be duplicated. Give us about two months before we can figure out just what records can be reconstructed, he said. lfiITnTTTTr?Wn lTI7irrrFTiTiTffmnJiTT OEM! fAf?7T siK3CiijQjaraiiD33 59 Chunk Bologna Basically, the lost records include virtually all documents of Army personnel from 1912 to 1959 and Air Force personnel from 1947 to 1963, Stender said. FRESH RIPE SIGMAN ALL MEAT 0 resh Baker 0W DISCOUNT JjflOW PRICES Sliced Bread Oil line delay voted down Oatr DISCOUNT PRICES - Mild Cheese c HI-LA- 16-O- POUND LOAF WESTRN Hot Dog Buns Hamb. Buns Asst. Cookies PKG. 3 4je wO OOe PKG. LITTLE BROWNIE PKG. f) Ct Swt. Cr. Butter Margarine Tube Biscuits FAMILY POUND AUSWEET POUND PIllSBURY PKG. 7T 1 RADISHES OR SEEDLESS C Grapes 3 J Gr. Onions 329c WASHINGTON (AP) The House Interior Committee today turned aside pleas by environmentalists and voted amendments that against could further delay construction of the controversial Alaska oil pipeline. 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