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Show THE NATIONAL Business news and commentary Volume 7 Number 2 50 cents Wednesday, July 13, 1977 4 JUU ! 3'' 1 f erolMS Trash removal nets paper profits Salt Lake City businesses arc cashing in on trash removal, earning as much as $2,700 yearly for what previously would have been carted to a landfill by costly garbage col- Crossley and Sons Enterprises, Inc. provides the same service to Walker. Bank and lectors. But paper recycling need not be limited to banks, Environ- The lucrative practice of recycling office wastepaper can net considerable profits without adding an additional workload. according to Ray Walton of First Security Bank. mental Protection Agency officials point out. Businesses of all kinds can convert between 30 and 70 percent of their waste into profit by tapping their trash, and help the environment at the same time. (See PAPER , page 12) "We've had a paper recycling program for about four years now, and earn about $900 monthly by selling our compaper and puter print-ou- t cards to rccclers," Walton explains. "Its no extra work for employees since they simply put aside the high-grad- e papers and place them in a central container instead of the trash basket. It sounds complex, but it becomes second nature with the workers." Spafford Wastepaper Co. makes pickups at the banks From garbage to greenbacks: Salt Lake City businesses are atune to financial and ecological savings offered by Spafford Wastepaper Co . through recycling. Spafford buys high grade paper from banks and offices and ships it for conversion into tissue paper. Here, bales of shredded paper await pickup at the Spafford plant. out-of-sta- te computer center twice monthly, weighing the refuse and paying up to $130 per ton for various grades of paper. Fruit Juice named in law suits Three Salt Lake couples have filed law suits against Fruit Juice Corp., charging the company has violated the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act. According to suits filed in Third District Court last week. Fruit Juice failed to deliver vending machines to customers who paid nearly $1,500 apiece for them, in two cases. In the third case. Fruit Juice promised to locate six machines purchased by one couple at a location that was actually unavailable to them at the time. In all three cases. Fruit Juice allegedly refused to refund money to the dissatisfied customers. Locations promised The suits were filed by Richard and Nora Higgins, Susan and Greg Dougherty and Wilford and Marjorie Timothy. The Dougherty suit names as defendants Fruit Juice Corp., Fruit Juice Corp. of Salt Lake City, FJC, Inc., Mike McCabe (present general manager of Fruit Juice) and Peter Hansen (former general manager). On March 22, the complaint states, plaintiffs agreed to buy two vending machines from Fruit Juice. The Dougherty's were "induced" into buying the machines, the complaint states, when company representatives told them the machines would be located at Williamscn Truck Equipment Co. and Whitmore Public Library, after the company secured "location agree- ments" there. Shortly after executing this agreement, the complaint continues, the Doughertys were informed the Williamscn and Whitmore locations were not available afterall. But, if they would purchase four more machines, they could place all four at Westminster College. In April, the Doughertys purchased four machines, and waited for their arrival. No contracts ever signed But when the machines arrived in Salt Lake City, the complaint continues, Fruit Juice informed the couple the Westminster College location was not available cither, and their machines would "temporarily" be placed in other locations until certain difficulties" with Westminster were resolved. The complaint further alleges that Fruit Juice had never made a contract with Williamscn Truck or with Westminster regarding location of a vending machine there, and furthermore, the location at Whitmore had been previously promised to other Fruit Juice customers. The Doughertys have "repeatedly" requested a refund of their $8,965 investment, and Fruit Juice has failed to respond to them, the complaint concludes. The Doughertys are demanding exemplary damages of $15,000 plus the $8,965. Unhappy with delays The Higgins suit claims the couple paid for two machines on (See FRUIT JUICE, page 13) which nets $500 monthly for its wastepaper. Trust, Billboard firms and city at it again Two billboard companies, facing an order from Salt Lake City commissioners to remove their signs from airport property, have taken court action against the order, naming city commissioners, the airport authority and I.J. Wagner as defendants. In a complaint filed in Third District Court June 30, Galaxy Outdoor Advertising Corp. and National Advertising, Inc. claims the city's recent action, terminating its lease with the companies, was discriminatory, unconstitutional, and violated the companies' right to due process of law. Requesting the court grant a permanent injunction, stopping the defendants order, and stopping Wagner from "interfering with the contractual relationship between the city and plaintiffs," the companies have been granted a hearing July 19. The city issued a letter of termination to the companies June 1, the complaint states, ending a lease agreement that had previously been renewed annually for 15 years. The letter additionally ordered the companies to remove their signs by June 30. The city leases space to billboard companies on other city (See BILLBOARDS, page 13) |