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(Continued from page 1) built in. Adding controls, Zur-buchen explains, offers "problems entirely more difficult to solve. The kind of unit we need isn't available."
EXPERTS MIGHT argue. Two years ago, Vernon G. MacKenzie, the assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, said, "There is . . . a genuine consensus among the experts that we already have enough scientific and technical knowledge to manage the quality of our air resources with reasonable effectiveness."
Three years ago, Wolfgang Langewiesche wrote in Reader's Digest, "People can have clean air if they demand it. The remedies for air pollution are known; they need only to be applied."
In the same interview in which Zurbuchen said, "The kind of unit we need isn't available," he also said he'd told the co-op's board of directors that new control devices would be in by August 31, 1967.
He won't say exactly what will be in by August 31, 1967. He will say that they've recently signed a secrecy pact pledging to maintain silence about a yet unpatented control device. Continuing to consider those unpatented control devices he was asked, "What do you get in return?" He answered, "A colorless stack. You spend a lot of additional money and get no additional product."
WHY ARE THEY doing it then?
"It was," said Zurbuchen, "the desirable thing to do."
Adding new controls must have seemed desirable to another plant too. G. Maynard Stark, resident manager of Lawrence's FMC Corporation plant, reported, "We have approval to install equipment identical with the equipment we have on our (FMC's) other plants in very restricted areas."
With the new control installations pending, Stark talked about what they have now. He said that on all of their stacks they have equipment to take out any solids, liquids or gases." He added that these controls took out "about 99.9 per cent" of the pollutants. The devices were installed shortly after the first of this year.
FMC is adding and has added all of these controls on its own. Stark suggests that this is a "better solution than federal regulations and it saves the taxpayers a little money."
THE TAXPAYERS OF Lawrence aren't paying for an air pollution control board. There isn't one here. The Douglas County Health Service and the state public health service cover this area.
Dr. Dale Clinton, Douglas County Health Service director, reports that "from time to time we have had some problems." In the complaint line they receive "half a dozen a year. Some of these amount to nothing more than burning leaves, or odors from the city dump. Some plants will bring in a complaint or two, not a great many."
Lawrence Mayor, Jim Schubert, receives even fewer complaints. He hasn't had "any particular companions," and when asked if there were any city ordinances dealing with air pollution he said, "Not that I know of."
Asked if the city were planning any air pollution studies, he said, "Not that I know of."
Tony Resnik wants to stop open burning in Kansas City. Currently, Resnik, Kansas City—Wyandotte County Health Department director, is leading a crusade to clean his city's air, and do it locally. "Without local control," he warns, "the federal agencies will deal directly with the polluters."
Something New York City Mayor John Lindsay knows of is that, "air pollution is a problem which could have been solved, or, at least adequately controlled, when it first began to grow. Inaction has allowed it to reach the order of crisis."
Industry here may be active because the federal government's shadow looms blacker on the horizon than industry's own smoke cloud or because it truly wants cleaner air. In either case it isn't inactive.
THE CITY IS. The trash dump is an open burning operation. Other open fires are allowed.
This is not a major source of pollution. It is one source. So too are each of Douglas county's 25,-854 licensed motor vehicles. These and the 10,929 university-registered motor vehicles toss carbon
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