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...fell in amounts estimated at eight tons per acre in the Moscow-Pullman area of Idaho, 300 miles from Mount St. Helens, and 350 Ibs. per acre in southwestern Montana, roughly 400 miles away. The fine, gritty ash drifted into everything: aircraft engines, sewage and water treatment plants, tractor gears, washing machines. One official at Washington State University warned homemakers to use only detergents when washing clothes because soap might mix with ash in the water, forming a sludge that would hopelessly clog the outlet hoses of automatic washing machines...
...resolutions supported by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) included setting up a review committee to forbid Caterpillar Tractor from selling its products to South African military police--a resolution ACSR turned down last year. The Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which lets ACSR do its research for it, abstained on the resolution because it said the situation in South Africa had not changed enough in the past year to warrant a new policy...
...protesters criticized especially the CCSR's two abstentions on what Mary F. Nolan, assistant professor of History and a speaker at the rally, called "two very moderate proposals." The resolutions included recommendations that IBM cease business transactions with the South African government and that Caterpillar Tractor not sell its products to the South African military...
...letter also observed that the ACSR had rejected the same resolution on Caterpillar Tractor last year, and until the CCSR had further information on their changed position, the CCSR would register a no comment...
NIPSCO, Edelen's Waukegan, Ill., firm, employs six people and last year grossed $550,000 selling welding equipment and industrial clamps to customers like International Harvester and Caterpillar Tractor. This was to be the year that it would hire another salesman, but instead the money will be used to finance huge unsold inventory. Currently Edelen is paying 25% bank charges on a $125,000 debt. "It costs me one good employee to pay those loans," he says...