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...Odessa need not become a ghost town. At least that is what Dr. Geoffrey Stanford says. A blithe, British-born M.D. who conducts research and teaches at the University of Texas School of Public Health, he insists that Odessa can build a new prosperity on an unlikely foundation-its own wastes...
...Odessa project will start next fall. Every day, 250 tons of garbage, 20 cu. yds. of sludge, and up to 500,000 gal. of sewage water will be sent to a 640-acre plot that one rancher has donated to the experiment. Other landowners are anxious to follow suit. Indeed, says Jack Dillard, director of Odessa's utilities department, "we may have some fights over people wanting to have city garbage dumped on their land-a new kind of range...
...problem of processing the garbage before it is plowed under will be handled by Alton Newell, a millionaire manufacturer of auto-shredding machines in San Antonio. Seeking to diversify his company, he is building a special, highly automated garbage-handling machine for Odessa. It will sort out the wastes and crush them into small pellets. Old paper and other leftovers will go to Dr. Stanford's project. Newell will sell the metal wastes to recyclers until he recoups the $600,000 construction cost of the machine, which he will then turn over to Odessa for $1. Meanwhile, the city...
...Stanford believes, Odessa should be well on its way to becoming an agricultural center. To be sure, some important points must first be resolved. He has not yet decided, for example, exactly which crops should be planted. He must also confront a Texas law banning the sale of food grown in human wastes, even though the sludge contains neither pathogens nor "any element of sham or sin." To prove the point, he will reserve 16 acres for scientific tests of all trace elements in various crops...