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Anyone who lives near a paper mill knows that smell-a rotten-egg, spoiled-cabbage stink that pours forth when wood pulp is cooked to produce paper. Now, thanks to a small industrial furnace company's work in Muskegon, Mich., the awful stink...
...secret is an afterburner developed by the Blu-Surf Division of Hayes-Albion Co. of Jackson, Mich., and installed on a stack of the S.D. Warren Co., a paper mill whose emissions have long irritated Muskegon residents. Paper mills smell because they emit sulfide and methyl-mercaptan gases. Instead of venting those gases into the air, the destinking system sends them into a special furnace fed by pressurized air and natural gas. The fumes are then forced through a flame that burns at 1350° F., which is the oxidation point of the sulfides and mercaptans. The resultant oxides...
Response to the proposal has been encouraging. The Michigan Medical Society's Education Commission says that it will recommend that its parent group guarantee all loans made to state medical students. Twenty Michigan communities have answered the original letter, and two-Niles and Muskegon -have sent representatives to Wayne State for student interviews. About 100 students have declared themselves available. Their interest in the program is easy to comprehend. Since 1966, total federal aid to Wayne State medical students has dropped from $365,000 to $81,400. Tuition for state residents, which was only $750 five years...
WILLARD ROSE Muskegon, Mich...
...Grand Rapids, of an attempt to fluoridate water supplies so that children would need fewer fillings-and fewer extractions. The Grand Rapids program was soon followed by a similar test in Newburgh, N.Y. The results were checked against the dental decay rate of children in comparable cities without fluoridation: Muskegon, Mich., and Kingston...