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Folk feet: The Salmon People, a performance of imaginative puppetry based on a Potlatch legend of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest, is offered at the Suffolk University Auditorium, Saturday at 2 and 8 and Sunday...
...CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white and ponderosa pine to meet the national building demands. Says Jim Hilbert, a local Teamster official: "Sure, we ought to grow. Create more jobs. City fathers run this place, and they...
...weeks ago Fruehauf Corp the producer of truck trailers, threw in the hammer and joined a long parade of big companies out of the modular-housing field. In the last year or so ITT Levitt, Florida Gas Co., Potlatch Forests Inc., Hercules Inc. and Wickes Corp along with a score of smaller firms, also pulled put of the industry. Last year Florida's Behring Corp. cut its losses and closed down the nation's largest house-building plant. Beset by production and marketing troubles, another industry leader, Stirling Homex, crashed into bankruptcy seven months...
...never laid out anywhere near as much money as builders had expected. Says Kenneth D. Campbell, president of Audit Investment Research, which specializes in real estate: "It wasn't really an industry at all. Just a bunch of companies with big hopes.' Some companies like Behring and Potlatch took great pains in design mg and equipping their plants, only to find that they could not generate enough volume to cover their investment and high fixed operating costs...
...processes, despite their ready availability. Owens-Illinois and Weyerhaeuser are important exceptions; both companies clean up most of their plants' effluents. Less than half of the 131 mills surveyed have satisfactory air-pollution controls; many dump raw wastes into U.S. waterways. According to the report, St. Regis, Potlatch and Diamond International have particularly poor records...