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1,1 Section Jj Staff And Wire Reports On Finance, Real Estate, Consumerisnr Sunday, January 25, 1976 Page 1-E pons Make Money By Reusing Resources of the ecological implications of his work. into three-foot segments to prepare it for remelting at its final destination its birthplace, the steel mills. In another part of the yard, the scenery is cluttered with transmission casings, pots and pans and household appliances, all aluminum. There the aluminum is manually placed in a furnace where it is heated to its melting point of 1200 degrees Farenheit and poured into molds. Once cooled and lifted from the form- By ED KIMBLE Times Business Writer Richard Grant does not bother to hide his enthusiasm for his work.

He enjoys making a living by helping save America's natural resources. Grant is the manager of El Paso iron and Metal, the city's largest scrap handling facility. And while he I is concerned with the current going I price of No. One heavy melting steel (steel scrap inch and over in thickness) and the market conditions 'i for metals, he also is highly conscious llillsl mmmmm llfiUB Psftl fjj ''j the aluminum blocks are sold to such companies as Alcoa. Inside the warehouse, workers toss wire into a furnace to burn off the insulation.

While it is burning, they are hard at work sorting copper and brass into their different categories. The "red metal" products, as brass and copper are called, are then placed in a compacting machine, much like a household trash compacter, and baled into blocks ready for shipment to copper refineries and brass ingot makers. Iron, lead, zinc, magnesium and almost any other metal found in large enough supply is sorted and prepared for shipment to prospective buyers. In addition to saving the metals, Grant notes that the recycling process saves energy, the energy that would otherwise be expended to extract the metals from the earth. El Paso Iron and Steel processed 25,000 tons of steel and iron scrap metal and 2,700 tons of nen-ferrous metal last year.

That's 27,700 tons of metal that will not need to be mined this year. El Paso Iron and Steel is one of eight firms in the El Paso area that processes metals for recycling. Together these firms processed more than 332,000 tons of metal in 1975. El Paso's metal recycling industry not only conserves natural resources by putting waste to work, but it apparently creates jobs. There are 260 persons employed by the eight El Paso firms that process metals for recycling.

In addition, there are several firms which simply collect metals to sell to the processors. One of those firms is the Universal Co. owned by Romulo Castillo. Universal has a contract with the city government to extract metal 15 cents a pound for the high quality aluminum which is used in the seamless cans. -(Times Staff Photo by Lance Murray) CASH FOR CANS Dickshire Coors has paid out a total of $1,060,531.32 to ecology conscious El Pasoans in the past five years for bringing aluminum beverage cans to this recycling plant on Chelsea.

The firm pays Mrs. Josie Cervantes, a recycling team leader at Dickshire Coors, reports that several individuals currently are making a living by collecting aluminum beverage cans and selling them to Coors for 15 cents a pound. Charitable and civic organizations in El Paso also take advantage of El Paso's metal recycling industry to earn money for their activities. Mrs. Mildred Smith, recycling chairman of the Citizens Environmental Council, reports that $1,500 of the $5,000 which was used to EP Contributes To Newsprint Shortage IM 1 build Stu-Mem Park near Irvin High School was earned by recycling tin cans.

The C.E.C. also conducted a campaign in March 1974 to earn money to buy alligators for the El Paso Zoo and earned $2,994, collecting approximately 75 tons of tin cans. C.E.C. maintains tin can collection containers at Sunrise Shopping Center, Ft. Biggs and Happiness Is Toys.

The organization sells the cans to Proler International in Vinton for $40 per ton. During 1975, C.E.C. collected $831 by recycling 41,760 pounds of tin cans. All of the money was donated to charitable organizations in the city to assist them in their activities. And St.

Mark's Methodist Church also maintains a tin can collection container to earn money for its activities. Besides conserving metals that have already been mined and creating jobs, there's evidence that metal recycling indeed saves energy. Julian Villalpando, a recycling team leader at Dickshire Coors, said recycling aluminum cans requires only 5 per cent of the energy that would be required to mine bauxite and concentrate the ore. The metal recycling business is one sector of El Paso's economy which seems destined to grow. Wea Statton of the Pearl Beer Distributing Co.

of El Paso said his company plans to increase its activity in the aluminum beverage can recycling business. Statton said the company is awaiting shipment of a 1 (Please Turn To Page 2-E) a business profile "By recycling, we are able to conserve our natural resources," he said. Walking through the scrap yards of El Paso Iron and Steel on San An- tonio, one can see the many resources that are conserved. Small mountains of steel stand waiting for the crane's magnetic grip to transport them into the hopper of a huge, powerful shredding machine. In the shredder the metal is sliced and truck rental firms, estimates that 25.7 per cent of the 40 million Americans who move each year use van lines, while 65.2 per cent either rent or borrow equipment to move themselves, and 9.1 per cent take what they can carry in the family vehicle and dispose of the rest.

Warner L. Baylor, consumer information officer at ICC headquarters in Washington, says "When one moves, you are in a very delicate emotional state changing jobs, low on cash and leaving friends. You are taking your accumulation of a lifetime, which may be virtually The Trauma Of The i I ij isfcvr; ii picks up newspapers each Wednesday in one of the city's four geographic regions. The region north of Aurora to the city limits is covered on the first Wednesday of each month. The region south of Aurora, west of the north-south freeway and north to the El Paso Country Club is covered on the second Wednesday.

The third Wednesday, sanitation workers pick up papers in the area east of the north-south freeway to McRae and south of Montana to the Rio Grande River. Everything east of McRae to the city limits is collected on the fourth Wednesday each month. Gil Salcido, head of the Sanitation Department, says persons wishing to recycle their newspapers should place them on the curb in tied bundles of about 25-30 lbs. LIQUID GOLD? NOT QUITE Actually this is aluminum which has been melted from automobile transmissions, pots and pans and other aluminum products at El Paso Iron and Metal. But this recycling process is worth its weight in gold in the energy it sa ves.

Only about 5 per cent of the energy that is required to mine and process bauxite ore into aluminum is used to recycle aluminum. (Times Staff Photo by John Costello) Furniture Business Owed To Chauvinism Watch That Ming Moving An Emotional State For 13 Million U. S. Families from the municipal dumps. Castillo said his firm extracts approximately five tons of copper, aluminum and steel from El Pasoan's garbage each' month.

Castillo employs 15 persons to perform the task of hand picking tin cans and metal from the city's dumps. Johnny Gahan and his son Randy, with and Metal Broker Salvage, collect about one ton of copper and brass each week which they sell to El Paso Iron and Steel and a recycling firm in Waco, Tex. substantially increase the cost of paper. Approximately 14,000 tons of newsprint are distributed in El Paso each year in the form of newspapers. According to Joe Gorel, owner of El Paso Waste Material, approximately 30 tons of newsprint are collected each week.

According to Mrs. Mildred Smith, recycling chairman of the Citizens Environmental Council, each ton of newsprint that is recycled saves 17 trees. Considering that 14,000 tons of newsprint is used in El Paso each year and only 1,560 is collected for recycling, El Paso's failure to recycle 100 per cent of its newsprint costs Mother Nature 209,480 trees each year. The City Sanitation Department (C) 1976 N.V. Times News Service Gross National Product rose 5.4 per cent to $1,217.4 billion in the fourth quarter in terms of 1972 dollars and in current dollars was up 12 per cent to $1,573.2 billion.

For all of 1975, however, GNP was down 2 per cent in real dollars. The Consumer Price Index in December rose 0.5 per cent, as against a rise of 0.7 per cent in November. For 1975 the CPI went up 7 per cent, the smallest annual increase since 1972. The federal budget for the year to end June 30, 1977, sent to Congress by President Ford, proposes expenditures of $394.2 billion, and a billion. A "problem" list of banks compiled last year by the Federal Reserve Board includes 12 of the nation's 50 largest bank holding companies, including the Chase Manhattan parent of Chase Manhattan Bank.

The General Accounting Office will urge creation of a federal grain inspection system to eliminate abuses in grading quality of grain sold abroad. A deferment of taxes on money invested in common stock was proposed by Ford to encourage more people to invest in the market Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner Smith, the nation's largest brokerage house, announced it would handle back-office operations for other Wall Street brokers. Italy is seeking loans totalling $1.25 billion from the United States, West Germany and the International Monetary Fund to bolster the lira The Bank of England cut its minimum lending rate from 10 per cent to 10V4 per cent Gold closed in London at $129.00 an ounce, down from $130.80 an ounce a week earlier The Federal Communications Commission has approved long distance rate increases for the American Telephone Telegraph Company amounting to $225 million. wookly inventory Less than 12 per cent of the newsprint used in El Paso is recycled each year, despite the City Sanitation Department making weekly collections of old newspapers. The minimal recycling effort on the part of the city's residents comes at a time when the cost of newsprint is higher than ever before and at a time when the United States is far from self sufficient in the commodity.

"The United States is even less self sufficient in newsprint than in oil," Frank Feuille, president of Newspaper Publishing said in a recent interview. Feuille said the United States produces scarcely 35 per cent of the newsprint it needs, the remainder coming primarily from Canada, where labor disputes threaten to worthless to anyone else, but is invaluable to you," Baylor explains. The householder has very little protection from shipments that arrive late or damaged, says James P. Harley, who has the improbable title of "Impartial Chairman of the Moving and Storage Industry of New York." His office, in existence 20 years, is financed by 265 moving companies, which account for 90 per cent of the $75-million-worth of moves annually in, from and to New York City. Earlier this year Harley's office (Please Turn To Page 2-E) Closing Van Door By ED KIMBLE Times Business Writer When she was attending the University of Wisconsin in the 1940s she was interested in only one thing: "Meeting Mr.

Right and having a good time." Today, Mrs. Charlotte Williams heads one of El Paso's largest and most elegant furniture companies, Charlotte's. And it all started because of one male chauvinist pig. At the outbreak of the Korean War, Mrs. Williams operated a gift corner in her husband's store, the Hardware House.

"When Robert was recalled by the Army for the Korean War, his partner wanted me to run the whole thing. So I wrote him and told him I'd do it for $300 a month. "I wish I had saved that letter and framed it. He wrote back that no woman is worth $300 a month. "So we dissolved that partnership and opened our furniture store on Reynolds," Mrs.

Williams recalls with a smile. That was 25 years ago. Charlotte's Maple Shop, specializing in Early American decor, rapidly expanded. Today, Charlotte's enterprises includes the original Charlotte's on Reynolds, Ethan Allen Carriage House, Charlotte's Gifts at Morningside Mall and the new Charlotte's at Peppertree Square. Charlotte's has also developed a comprehensive interior decorating service which not only has helped numerous homeowners plan the look they want to live with, but also has set the decor of commercial establishments in El Paso, Chihuahua, Albuquerque, San Francisco and other cities.

Mrs. Williams takes care of the inff When people move to new homes they are in a "very delicate emotional state," says an expert. They are taking the belongings they've accumulated over a lifetime, and they are sensitive about the way movers handle those belongings. ByC.C.MINICLIER Associated Press Writer Surveying a bent pewter pitcher, a smashed lute, damp blankets and hundreds of little pieces of once precious glass, the housewife turned in tears to her husband. "If we move again, we do it ourselves," she said quietly.

She was not alone in her unhap-piness. The federal government estimates that 40 million Americans about 13 million families change their permanent addresses each year. In a spot survey recently, the Interstate Commerce Commission found that more than half the persons responding to a questionnaire were not satisfied with their move. Two-thirds had loss or damage claims. Spokesmen for interstate moving companies respond that many people become depressed when they have to move and express this depression in criticism of the moving companies.

They also argue that most household moving is done from June through September and this puts a strain on the moving companies. Four major moving van lines, in performance reports required by the federal government, state that from 50 to 65 per cent of all moving cost estimates are off by more than 10 per cent, the ICC reports. The Committee for Do-It-Yourself-Moving, representing U-Haul, Ryder, Nationwide, Hertz and other trailer Charlotte Williams merchandising and design end of the business and her husband, Robert Williams of Savannah, takes care of the money matters. Mrs. Williams' merchandising sense is readily apparent the moment you walk through the door of Charlotte's at Peppertree Square.

When you enter, you wonder if you (Please Turn To Page 2-E) Z1 .1.