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Show Working people and the marketplace 6A Wednesday March 12, 1986 Phone service changing Company finding ways to adapt to new laws, too season . ROBERT REGAN ; Review staff f:v CLEARFIELD The picking ; is cans of up picking up for Reyn- -' olds Aluminum Recycling Company. With spring in the air, people recycling aluminum cans are springing up everywhere. People are fair weather recycles, said Bob Wooten, Clear- field Reynolds tSA. i ; . sm m f convenience Utah-Idah- Many issues dealing with phone service have become social issues, and measured service is one, he said. Most people complain about measured service but he said it could be a boon to elderly people on fixed incomes, or welfare families who need phone services for emergencies but may not be able to afford current phone service , rates. on FFr h Many As A you are experiencing a health problem that has not responded to oth y Weighing aluminum cans at Clearfield recycling is Bob Wooten, manager. center mm?i RoeiiiadMc recycling newsprint at half a penny a pound. An overstacked pickup truck will carry about a ton and its owner will be paid $10 for people from Clearfield, Roy and Layton are really good recyclers. Wooten said when people realize a recycling center is in the area they do more recycling. Last year the center experienced from two times to three times the busi- the paper. After the cans are dumped in the trailer they are hauled to Salt Lake City where they are shreaded into dime-size- d discs, so we can densify them, said Remington. They are then blown into rail cars for shipment to a reduction plant for melting. Only six weeks elapse from the time the aluminum hits the rail car to the time a new product is on the shelf, said Remington. ness of 1984, he said. He also expects business to be real crazy this summer. The pricing for cans is based on tier system with a higher price paid for larger quantities. For under 50 pounds the price is 22 cents per pound. With a case of cans weighing one pound, each can is worth one cent. They have also branched into a Layton facing 'challenges' bers needed to unite and realize that they have a great potential together. We must catch the vision of the broader picture that our true competition is outside the city," he said. He said the city has unlimited potential for growth through government contracts from Hill Air Force Base, training program from the Davis Area Vocational Center and other sources. Laytons population, now the largest of the countys 15 cities, make it an attraction to new business, which in turn will help all business in the community, he said. said. We have a chance to look at tremendous number of people the A LAYTON new era of who move into our community, possibilities and challenges is he said. New ideas and new facing members of the Layton hopes come with each of these Chamber of Commerce, accordfamilies. ing to Executive Director Jack Doing business in Davis CounWhitesides. But a window of opportunity ty is difficult, he said. Only the has opened, and Whitesides said best survive. members of the chamber are He said the businessmen and ready to go to work to make the women in Layton must stay Layton chamber one of the best ahead in new marketing ideas in the West. and strategy, and have skilled There are 182 cities and towns employees who care about their in Utah and Layton ranks as sevcompanys future and that of the enth largest, presenting both opcommunity. portunities and challenges, he Whitesides said chamber mem Review correspondent , 546-360- 0 -- 1 Women Comprehensive health care is now more convenient Dr. Starley offers The design, in the category of sociation will hold its March y community and meeting at the Mansion House, housing, competed against proj2350 Adams in Ogden on March ects throughout the state and was 17 at 7 Summer-se- t FARMINGTON p.m. a national team Farm, designed by the Land judged by The Atoka Chapter Woman of Group under the direction of Mithe Year will be announced. chael O. 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Call for an appointment today no obligation. Find out if chiropractic might help you. If fslnuiv , LAST RESORT Every day chiropractors give more than a million treatments to help sick people feel GOOD again. , 5?""' ''i . 12 MILLION PEOPLE TRIED CHIROPRACTIC 1 GRAHAM use. , center manager. His boss agrees. People come out when the tulips come out, o said A1 Remington, area business manager for the company. After a slow winter, business is increasing with 7,500 pounds of cans and newspapers coming in for cash just last Saturday. And all kinds of people are recycling, according to Wooten. I see new Cadillacs and old pickups. Everybody does it, not just out of money; a lot do it because it is the right thing to do, he said. And what makes recycling the right thing to do is the energy saved in melting the old cans instead of refining bauxite into aluminum. ; Yes, thats correct, there is a 98 percent savings in energy, said Remington. We are doing quite a bit to clean up the landfill situation, he said, making another point why people should recycle. In the Clearfield area 150,000 pounds of aluminum was purchased last year. After the cans were shreaded into dime-size- d discs they filled two full railroad cars. The landfill was saved that volume of cans, said Remington. On an industry-wid- e basis, the recycled aluminum cans account for 48 percent of the metal used in making new cans. Reynolds Aluminum is the on-- , ly corporation out working with the public, he continued. The LVNDIA He said talk of 300 percent increases in some users phone bills seemed extreme until it is noted that often those rural customers were paying only $4 for phone service and the increase put the bill up to $12. i He said a current hot issue is that of measured phone service, where cost would be based on the past few years, as had many other businesses faced with dereg- The changes in ulation. LAYTON We are all adapting to a telephone service havent been accordchange in our culture, he said. soley affecting customers, staff Dennis to Its representative of a trend.7 managWood, ing He said the deregulation of the er of Mountain Bell in Salt Lake ' City. phone company had produced winners and losers on both The phone company has had to do its share of adapting too, he sides. v Customers who used a lot of told the Layton . Chamber of Commerce members at their telecommunications equipment March luncheon meeting. and placed a large number of He said since what he termed long distance calls were financialthat infamous day of January 8, ly hit the hardest and the rural 1982, the date the company deuser, who didnt make many long cided to go for deregulation of its distance calls and used very little services, many attitudes have had equipment, had come out ahead. 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