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Show 'Durables Complicate Waste Disposal Problem By JOSEPH L MYLER UPI .Senior Editor erable, according to a National Academy of Sciences study. And as Charles C. Johnson Jr., administrator of the Consumer Protection and Environmental Health service, notes: Yesterdays city dump is now in todays Second of three articles Experts agree there is only one ultimate solution to the dilemma of solid waste disposal. They call it total recylc-ing.- " This is a dream of a nearly junkless society. In it, nothing would ever be thrown away; it would be used again. Our wastes then would become a national resource, a mother lode of valuable suburb. The traditional methods of disposing of big city wastes are incineration and landfill. But most city incinerators are inefficient and they compound the sin of ft Vi air Automobiles, for example, would be designed either for reuse or for easy retrieval of their better parts. When automobiles had served out their useful lifeprocess that times, the assembly-lin- e produced them would be reversed. In a typical year Americans throw away 48 billion cans, 26 billion bottles, more than 30 million tons of paper, four million tons of plastics, and 100 million wornout tires weighing a million tons. To simplify life for Americans caught away from home without an opener, technology provided the snap top drink cans. They were made of aluminum because aluminum cans are easier to make and tear open than cans of steel. But aluminum is more resistant to corrosion than steel and hence harder for nature to reduce to rust Another bit of , ''v ' li'K:..., ' V? w. Growing mountains of garbage and trash already huve destroyed large areas of living space, as this view of a Washington, D.C. garbage dump shows. Disposal Is now becoming a national headache. progress Is the glass bottle. Instead of lugging it back to the store for the deposit, you pitch it into the trash can along with the potato peelings. The bottle is looked upon almost as an enemy by those who preach reuse and recycling as the best answer to waste disposal problems. The Committee on Pollution of the National Academy of Sciences posed this quescommercial le tion: Should we tax glass bottles severely, or have federal law forbid that they be not reused? According to Solid Wastes Management magazine, it costs New York State 30 cents for each bottle it picks up. This is seven times what it cost to make the bottle in the first place. Such inorganic wastes In the trash mountains complicate the task of disposal. Plastics, brick, and concrete, the , Academy of Sciences committee noted, may endure for centuries. The aluminum can, the throw-awa- y bottle, and the plastic container have contributed more than they were ever On a worth to landscape pollution. catheafternoon the Washington Sunday dral grounds on Mt. St Albans in Washington, D.C., is cluttered with cans. City dwellers walking to the bus stop have to tread their way gingerly amongst the shards of glass bottles which have been Dug to the sidewalks from automobiles. There is no escaping the litter or the conclusion that Americans are Incorrigible litterers. On some highways It is hard to see the No Dumping signs protruding from the cascades of dumped refuse. According to the New York Times, school kids who went fishing in New Yorks Central Park pond caught discarded auto tires, glass containers, beer cans, waterlogged magazines, and a blanket. Prominently placed trash cans bearlegends reading keep your city clean Have helped, but not enough. Where man goes, he leaves litter. Those who have toiled gasping to the summit of Colorados 14,256-foLongs ing ot MERRY -GO - ROUND By JACK ANDERSON - SAN FRANCISCO President Nixon has no intention of pulling Americas 55,000 troops our of South Korea. He gave this assurance privately to South Koreas President Chung Hee Park last weekend at their nists would renew the Korean war, but warned that they would attempt to stir war. up a new, Vietnam-styl- e He told Nixon that the Communists are actively training agents to infiltrate the South and foment revolution. They are slipping across the demarcation line and landing on the coast in threes and fours. Their instructions: To organize cells, spread dissent and create social F r ancisco summit meeting. Only the interpreters were present while the two chaos. Those who have been captured belong to Special Unit No. 124, which has trained a reported 24,000 infiltrators. However several other North Korean units are known to be training agents for guerrilla warfare in the south. Park stressed the need for full readiness to combat massive infiltration. This would take more patrol boats, radar and electronic equipment, he indicated., Despite press reports to the contnry, however, he made no requests for additional military or economic aid. He carefully refrained from going beyond a presentation of die problem. President Nlxoa replied that he was fully aware of the situation, that he con- presidents OUR f.lAtt JONES Horse Sense Isn't All pollution. At best, they just reduce the volume of waste. Anywhere from 5 to 25 per cent of solid wastes, depending on incineration efficiency, remain to be stowed some other way. (Edllor'i noto: Harry Jonti It on vacation, and wtilla ha'a away wa hava axhumed several The sanitary landfill has had some f hit delightful old "Orsndpa Jackson" stories.) and some notable notable successes failures. The landfill has been used to By HARRY JONES create parks, recreational areas, and We remember Grandpa Jacksons , public gardens. Ideally, you pick a site which has no other use, bulldoze trenchhorse and buggy very vividly. It was a , es in it, haul in compacted or shredded surrey, but we dont recall any fringe on refuse, and cover the unsightly stuff top. It was the horse we remember best daily with decent soil. In practice this often has resulted in Grandpa called him Government.: of into matter seepage pollutant ground Grandpa said, Government took a lot water supplies, or in destroying die more oats to run him than his actual sermarsh habitats of wild things already vices were worth. losing too many struggles against encroachment by man. Strangest thing about the horse was As Johnson says, Most cities In the his speed. He would go no faster than the country are now destroying vehicle to front of him. If it was an old areas of natural beauty, and horse pulling a big load, old Governpolluting land, air, and water in an effort ment would fall to behind and trot to get rid of mountains of refuse. But landfill, though a solution of dialong. You could beat him all day with a to get hla attention but minishing usefulness as sites become scarcer, has accomplished some fine couldnt get him to go a lick faster. you things. In Los Angeles County, an open Someone was always telling Grandpa pit mine was filled with wastes to provide a botanical garden of great beauty. how to train the horse. None of their In Detroit, solid wastes have been ideas ever panned out, but the word fashioned into an artificial hill for sledtrain gave Grandpa an idea. ding and skiing in winter. Virginia old landfill an is converting Beach, Va., The railroad site into a soap box derby slope and outtracks ran right door theater. Grandpas It is becoming more and more neceshouse and the road sary to haul city trash to increasingly followed alongside distant disposal sites, on the land or in Into the county the sea. Goven;,-men- t San Francisco la studying a plan to was not the haul garbage 300 miles by rail to desert smartest horse burial grounds instead of dumping it as , . . however, he before into the bay. Philadelphia is putnever bet on peoting into operation a program for transHe didnt ple. porting its refuse to abandoned mines 100 know an Iron miles away. - Horse from a horse and buggy. So For Philadelphia this will be cheaper when Grandpa needed a fast trip into by.$2 a ton than incineration. town, he would check the train schedule. There are Borne 8,000 abandoned or Sooner later He would start old "Government off just mines in this country. of filled with the be all junk may they as the train was due to pass through. Peak have found awaiting them a refuse can. Some hardy ranger lugged it there. His work was not altogether in vain; on an ordinary summers day there is, indeed, much trash in the can. But there remnants of also Is litter elsewhere sandwiches, wrappers, candy bar drained milk containers just lying around or wedged amongst the rocks in this little space so high above and so far removed from the normal range of the According to the Senate subcommittee air and water pollution, Perhaps the greatest waste collection headache, pre- on sented by packaged materials is littering along our roadways, in our parks, and along our river and lakes. There Is a vast difference in costs, says the subcommittee, between collecting a ton of cigarette wrappers placed In garbage cans and a ton thrown away carelessly. Authorities now agree that disposal of solid wastes must be accomplished on a - rural basis. regional The old local community attitude of take it somewhere else, but dont raise my taxes in the process no longer is tol- urban-suburb- two-by-fo- past seat , civilization. BOOKS U. S. To Keep Troops In South Korea San Wednesday, August 27, 1969 So Common materials. Run backwards through the line, they would yield their most precious parts in a sort of priority system until only irreducible scrap, itself salvageable, remained. But this is not the way auto makers design autos. Nor is it the way mercantile companies design the packages with which they lure the consuming public. The modern steel industry no longer has to have scrap iron. And the people who package foods and everything else for the American family have no economic reason for caring what happens to the empty package. City trash is a fantastic mixture. The is the most revolting part garbage easiest to get rid of. If man simply ignored it, taking the consequences to his eyes, nose, and health, nature would dispose of it. But much of the stuff mixed with garbage in the trash haul is what scientists You can bury r. call nylon stocking in moist soil for years, and when you dig it up, there it is. Soil bacteria and other organisms which feast on garbage cant stomach such synthetic materials as nylon and plastics general. ly. All DESERET NEW' ferred in a guarded sixth-floo- r suite Hotel. From a secret memo dictated afterward, however, this column can report the highlights of their discussion. Nixon Indicated' that his military disengagement policy would not apply to Korea where the Communists of the north keep producing new provocations. The United States is firmly bound by treaty to defend South Korea against invasion. In their public statement, the two leaders reaffirmed their determination to repel any armed attack. In private, however, Park discounted the danger of an invasion. He doubted that the Commu had received a detailed report from Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard who recently completed a Korean survey. At a separate meeting of subordinates, Secretary of State Bill Rogers asktd whether the infiltration trend was increasing. South Koreas Hu Rak Lee, who heads the presidential secretariat, replied that the trend has no meaning, but Oat the capability was what mattered. . He acknowledged that die infiltration rate had slowed down, but ha suggested that die Communists were lying low until after the constitutional referendum in the ' fall. , The appearance of desperate, disciplined North Korean agents to the south had stimulated the drive to amend the constitution so President Park could run for a third term. Any overt guerrilla activity would only win votes for Park, who has brought economic and military stability to South Korea. He suggested that the North Koreans now realize this, therefore, that the infiltration has been temporarily curtailed. ' Because Park is campaigning for a Stegner's View Of The West third term, some Nixon aide tried to edit a sentence in the joint communique, which stated: President Nixon expressed his admiration for the rapid and remarkable progress of the Republic of Korea in economic, social and other fields in recent years under President Parks leader- WATER; ship. day. . These aides wanted to delete the reference to President Parks leadership, contending it amounted to a U.S. en- dorsement of Park. Privately, Washington would like to see Park reelected but doesnt want to meddle in South Koreas domestic politics. The aides, however were quietly overruled. Originally, President Nixon didnt want to discuss even Korean problems at the San Francisco meeting. He merely wanted to give Park the same report he had presented to other Asian leaders on Vietnam and the disengagement policy. But at Parkis insistence,. Nixon finally agreed to add Korea to the agenda. He acknowledged that a stable South Korea is essential to peace in the Far East. Note: The bantam South Korean leader has built a strong army and achieved economic reforms .largely by personal example. He is as tough as any of his soldiers, and he practices the same austerity he asks of his people. THE SOUND OF MOUNTAIN by Wallace Stegner. Double- $5.95. It worked out well. Old Government ; took out after the train and wouldnt stop until both the engine and Ihe horse puffed into the station. Well, R did work out well until one -day when Grandpa needed to get to town fast There was a train due and so was Grandma Jackson. It was a real race between the train, all old Government and the stork doing 50. The train was an express, didnt stop to town, just whistled as it passed through the depot Old Government gave a snort and didnt slacken the pace despite some cussing from. Grandpa. , 10 chib had Grandma and Grandpa dren, all bora to the county seat near that is, all but Uncle Strawberry Flats Elbert, who was born some 80 miles to the west on the Union Pacific right , y to a place called Watersviile. Grandpa told the story whenever the family gathered. He said there was a ; moral hidden there. -- -- This la a refreshing, appreciation of the American West by an accomplished writer who has a great affection for the area. The 16 essays collected here were written over a period of more than 20 years. The first hclf of the book contains mountains pieces on the wilderness which characterizes the and deserts true West Its topics include packhorse trips, camping, visits to the Havasupai and the Navajo and excursions to the canyon country and the New Mexico deserts. It is a song of praise for natural beauty, but running through it is a thread of sardonic comment on the ways in which successive generations have plundered the land. The latter half of the volume is on western writers (as distinguished from writers of Westerns) and on the relationships between western writing and that of other regions. --MILES A. SMITH (AP) Uncle Elbert said It was, You can run a horse in Watersviile, but you cant make him think. : Uncle George guessed the moral was, Never follow the horses if you dont have horse sense. , Aunt Mattie said the moral was You can train a horse, but you cant train ' Grandpa Jackson never did say what the moral was. 1 YO UR HEALTH Guarantees For Young Performers Habitual Miscarriages Dear Dr. Steincrohn: I am 22 years old and very happily married. My hus- band and I want children very much but I have had two miscarriages In the last eight months. I was told I may have a thyroid problem. Can It be corrected? What are my chances of having a normal Mrs. C. baby? COMMENT: Last things first to put your mind at ease. It is not serious. There is no reason why ycu cant have a baby because you may have a thyroid problem. With that reassuring bit out of the way, lets talk a little about miscarriages. Its possible that low functioning thyroid may contribute to miscarriages, but is is not probable. Even if you have hypothyroidism, your doctor can prescribe thyroid extract to bring up its function to normal. Sometimes we can only guess at the real cause of spontaneous abortion or miscarriage. They usually occur during the first three months of pregnancy. (If the loss of the embryo occurs after the seventh month it is called a premature essential. Many miscarriages can be prevented U treatment is started early enough. s Four years ago, to 1965, a young Edward Warner, appeared for a recital at Beloit College to Wisconsin (where Utahs own Dr. Crawford Gates is a member of the faculty to addition to being conductor of the Beloit Symphony and the bass-bariton- e, Dear Dr. Steincrohn: A week ago I figured I caught a cold after shampooing. For the next day I had a running nose, sneezing, and a temperature of 99.6 My nose is better, the sneezing has stopped but at times my temperature falls below 98.6 to 98. Then to the evening it climbs back to around. 98.6 again. Should I visit the doctor because of this Mrs. H. fluctuating temperature? COMMENT: I would say that was normal fluctuation. Daily temperature readings differ in mostly all of us who are healthy. I think Its time to put the thermometer away, dont you? Springfield Sym- phony). A heavy snow storm reduced Mr. Warners audience to a handful of people. Rather than cancel the recital, he MUSICAL WHIRL program that guarantees for the a The evenings success resulted in discussions with the president and staff of the college, and Mr. Warner became the first Affiliate Artist. Since that time, the program has expanded from the one appointment in 1966 to 17 for the 1969-7- 0 season, with an additional 23 appointments under negotiation. a Today the Ford Foundation announced grant to Affiliate Artists, Inc., $235,000 by Brickman tfiutteTTAmsCfee MV GOH WHIL.B OM HIS HoN&YMoo- M- the only Hie nonprofit enterprise one of its kind to the United States aims at providing gifted performers with financial security while adding to the cutural activities of colleges, universities, and community organizations. It is funded principally by foundations and churches. Designed to assist young professional singers, instrumentalists, and dancers in advancing their careers, Affiliate Artappointists, Inc., arranges three-yea- r ments for the performers to colleges, universities, and community organizations located at a distance from large urban cultural centers. During each year, the artist visits his Institution four to six times for a total of eight weeks, giving concerts and working with students in seminars and lectures. He also performs for and talks with such community organizations as Rotary, Edwards, and Lions Clubs, and also womens and business groups, and high schools. The balance of the time he is free to accept other engagements. Affiliate Artists are trained professionals who need performing opportunities as well as a steady income. They are e nor faculty neither members. The stay provides them with financial security and the possibility to exercise their art. At the same time, the performers develop new audiences and increase public understanding of the artists creative and economic problems. artists-in-residenc- 0 t ; niiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiniiiiiiniiHiiiiiiiiiiia tnid-caree- r. abandoned his formal program, Invited the audience down front, and alternately sang and discussed his music and the crises which regularly confront young artists. End With city elections coming up, Com-- , missioner Con Harrison is trying to keep in the public eye . . . without irritating it. livelihood for talented young performing artists to the small sociaty birth). Perhaps more than half of miscarriages are due to something wrong with the formation of the imbedding of the egg. Precipitating causes as such as falls, ' blows or jars. woman like Any yourself, Mrs. C., who has had repeated miscarriages should have special tests and treatments by a competent obstetrician or gynecologist. 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