The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 15

THE EVENING SUN, Friday, August 14, 1981 B7 Recycled becomes Every Monday, the lady who manages our home in exurbia ties into neat bundles the huge stacks of newspapers we have accumulated during the previous week. Her husband then spends the time and money to drive the paper to a recycling center miles away. They are not paid a cent for the collected paper. Their one achievement is getting a load of solid waste out of the house. Prices have collapsed for virtually all recyclables.

Markets for most collected materials- -limited from the start -have dwindled or disappeared. Recycling groups the nation over are burdened with oversupplies of solid waste materials ranging from paper to iron and steel. Only aluminum-can recycling seems to be holding its own and that is due primarily to the fact that aluminum-container manufacturers actively support the recovery program. Unlike other recyclables, aluminum containers do not require major reprocessing and can be used almost "as is" in manufacturing new containers. But here, too, the outlook it turning dim.

Many groups that had been active in recycling in past years have given up, finding that the "on again, off again" economics of waste material collections and sales just too much to cope with. Collecting the materials is the relatively easy part; locating ready markets for the collected wastes is the tough, often insurmountable problem, even in good times. "You have to have markets for the old newspapers, corrugated wastes, metal containers, the rest," says M.J. Mighdoll, executive vice president of the 68-year-old National Association of Recycling Industries. "This country is still without a national materials policy to help expand present industrial markets and create new ones for recycled raw materials." Despite our expressed concern for the preservation of virgin materials, our tax, transportation and purchasing policies are still largely directed toward encouraging use of primary raw materials over recycled ones.

Transportation rates on recycled commodities exceed those on their competing virgin counterparts by as much as 100 percent -and purchasing tices across the board favor (directly or indirectly) virgin products over those manufactured with recycled materials. Some minor measures in the energy area are being pushed to encourage recycling. Several federal agencies have been backing recycling-oriented purchasing programs. Among the states, seven also have similar purchasing programs in operation, while others are considering their implementation. In Maryland, where a recycled-paper purchasing program has been in existence since 1977, the state energy office calculates that the energy saved through this program translates into 230 billion BTUs of energy, or enough to heat 1,650 private homes for one year.

There is no disputing that epergy values are being lost because of our failure to recycle millions of tons of wastes. About 40 million tons of wastepaper are dumped every year. Yet, there is a 64 percent energy savings in using recycled paper to make new paper as against virgin pulpwood. For other recycled materials, the energy savings are equally -if not more -dramatic: aluminum, 92 percent; copper, 85 percent; iron and steel, 65 percent; lead, 65 percent; zince 60 percent; rubber, 71 percent. In addition to saving energy, recycling-oriented policies and programs help create sustained, long-term markets for recycled materials.

By so doing, they promote waste recovery at all levels. "Recycling is an economic activity," Mighdoll emphasizes. "Waste materials cannot be collected in a vacuum." (That's what is happening at our house.) "There has to be an economic rationale, and this can only come about when there is consistent, long-term market demand for the recovered waste" -and probably some money gain along the way as well. By fostering collection activities without corresponding development of a market, many well-intentioned statesponsored waste recovery programs are actually counterproductive. Instead of making recycled materials as attractive economically as virgin ones to industrial buyers, the programs discourage recycling.

Processors of waste materials are well aware of the fluctuations in demand and in the markets for recyclables. They could make the collection and recovery programs successful and profitable on a long-term basis. What a waste. Universal Press Syndicate Texans in Baltimore to christen offshore rig from Page oil companies that will reap the benefits of any oil found. For instance, the rig christened yesterday will be leased to Cities Service Co.

The honor of christening the rig went to Anne Place, the wife of Jack Place, a vice president of Cities Service. After the brief ceremony, she was given the remains of the bottle in a small lacquered box. After the christening, a long caravan of limos and buses snaked along the beltway carrying the 400 or so participants to the Towson Center at Towson State University. There they feasted on Texas barbecued beef and listened to the strains of Moe Bandy the Rodeo Clowns, a country and western group. About 500 pounds of barbecued beef was cooked up for the crowd by Spindletop International, a volunteer group from Houston that travels around the country serving up barbecue.

"We wanted to show the people of Baltimore what a Texas barbecue is like," said John William Alexander, the president and chief operating officer of Griffin-Alexander. Alexander, known as Bill, is a big, soft-spoken man. For yesterday's commission he was sporting Western style clothes with a string tie and a metal tipped collar. While much of the crowd was wearing the traditional business suit, there were some cowboy hats sprinked throughout. Times are good for the oil business.

With the lifting of price controls by the Reagan administration and the easing of other regulations, the oil companies are exploring for oil in places which before had been unprofitable. And this is fine with Alexander. "We better realize when we put a tax on anything that comes out of the ground, it is passed on to the consumer," he said. He also believes the workings of the market place is the best way to promote conservation. "It should not be through regulation but through price." One of the first in line for the beer at the barbecue was Druse Foreman, a Griffin-Alexander employee who has been in Baltimore working on the rig for a month.

"Everybody is friendly as hell," said Foreman, who was sporting a T-shirt with the Texas state seal on the front and a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve. "The partying is outrageous." In his hometown of Beaumont, things come to an end at 10 p.m. Here it goes on until the early hours when "they throw you out." When the rig is finished he will work in its pump room where "there's nothing light, nothing easy." Chemical firms gearing up to appeal antitrust ruling PITTSBURGH (AP)-PPG Industries Inc. said yesterday it will appeal an antitrust ruling made by a Federal Trade Commission judge against four major manufacturers of "anti-knock" gasoline additives. Administrative Law Judge Ernest G.

Barnes ruled in Washington on Wednesday that Ethyl Du Pont PPG Industries, and Nalco Chemical Co. broke the law in the way they sold tetraethyl lead. Du Pont and Ethyl said Wednesday they also would appeal the decision and Nalco said it "likely will appeal." "The order, if allowed to stand, would place severe restrictions on the lead manufacturer's normal commercial freedom concerning pricing and re- E. Wilson, retired custodian A Christian wake service for Ennis G. Wilson, a retired custodian, will be at 7 p.m.

today at Fulton Baptist Church, 1630 W. North Ave. Funeral services will be held after the wake. Mr. Wilson, 69, died Tuesday at Lutheran Hospital after a long illness.

For the last 24 years, he lived in the first block of S. Abington Ave. in southwest Baltimore. Mr. Wilson retired in 1976 from Fallstaff Manor Apartments, where he had worked as a custodian about eight years.

"During his retirement, he really didn't do anything special," said Dora Wilson, Mr. Wilson's wife of 34 years. "He was only interested in reading the paper and looking at TV. He really loved his boxing and ballgames." A native of Portsmouth, Mr. Wilson moved to Baltimore when he was about 14.

He worked at various times as a cleaner and presser, and as a delivery man for a florist. Mr. Wilson was a member of the Fulton Baptist Church and on the usher board. "He seemed to enjoy his work when he was serving as an usher," said Milton L. Gaines, treasurer of the usher board.

"He was a very nice fellow, a quiet easy-going man." Besides his wife, the former Dora Parham, survivors include a sister, Phyllis Barnum of Baltimore. James B. Fisk, former head of Bell Laboratories KEENE VALLEY, N.Y. (AP) -Funeral services for James B. Fisk, former chairman and president of Bell Laboratories, will be held tomorrow in Keene Valley.

Mr. Fisk, 70, who served 14 years as chairman of the board, died Monday in Elizabethtown Hospital in Elizabethtown, N.Y. During World War II, he was a key figure in the development of radar. After the war, he headed work on electronics and solid state research for Bell Labs. Mr.

Fisk also was director of the Division. of Research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and was chairman of the U.S. technical delegation at the Geneva Nuclear Test Ban Conference. Survivors include his wife, Cynthia, and their three sons, Samuel, Charles and Zachary.

Clifford B. McManus ATLANTA -Clifford B. McManus, a former Southern Co. chairman, died yesterday at age 85. Southern Co.

is the parent of Alabama Power, Georgia Power and two other electric utilities. Renowned conductor Boehm Your Money's Worth Sylvia Porter lated practices -for example, prohibiting delivered pricing and advance notice to customers of price changes," PPG said in a statement. "PPG believes that those practices are not anticompetitive, are legal and do not violate the FTC Act," the company continued. "The prohibitions in the judge's order, if affirmed, would be novel under antitrust law as the FTC itself conceded when it filed the complaint in 1979." In his ruling, Barnes said there was no evidence of a price-fixing conspiracy between the companies but they used press releases to the media about future hikes to assure that competitors knew about them. SALZBURG, Austria (AP) -Karl Boehm, 86, considered among the world's foremost conductors, died here today after a lengthy illness, his family announced.

A renowned interpreter of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works, Mr. Boehm started his career in 1921. His 60 years of performing music included more than 40 years with the Salzburg Festival and 48 years as a conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic. Mr. Boehm had a stroke during a television recording session in Vienna last March.

Doctors said he went into a coma two days before his death. During his career, he performed in more than 140 cities around the world. In the last two years of his life, the only concession he made to age was a chair in which he would sit while conducting concerts. Despite his illness, he still wanted to conduct Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" in the final days of this sum- mer's Salzburg Festival. His friends said he would have been too weak.

Boehm had canceled all other engagements to conduct this summer. His conducting style was designed to recreate the composer's original as precisely as possible while still making music "with body and soul." "I always have in mind an ideal," he once said. His preference was Mozart. "Whenever I conduct Mozart I feel refreshed after 10 minutes, even if I was tired before. That music keeps me young.

It's a pleasure, not work, I have to accomplish," he said. Experts say he also was a champion and leading interpreter of music written by Alban Berg, Strauss and Richard Wagner. Mr. Boehm was born in Graz, the son of a lawyer and a pianist. He attended law school at the same time he received music training.

After graduation from law school he became conductor at the Graz Opera House for two years before going to Munich. He conducted in Munich, Hamburg and Dresden before World War II and in 1943 was named director of the Vienna State Opera, destroyed by bombs the next year. He was renamed director at Vienna in 1954 and oversaw the opening of the reconstructed opera house in 1955. But he resigned the next year in a controversy over his commitments abroad and the opera schedule. He became a regular guest conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1957, where he conducted for about the next 11 years.

Mr. Boehm was general music director of Austria. He received many national and international honors during his career, including honorary memberships in the Bavarian State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic and honorary president of the London Symphony Orchestra. Mary Gossman, retired F. Wightman, technician A mass of Christian burial for Mary Genevieve Steadman Gossman, who worked for an electrical contracting company for many years, was being offered today at the Shrine of the Little Flower, Belair Road and Brendan Avenue.

Mrs. Gossman, 79, who had lived since 1975 at St. Martin's Home, died there Monday after a long illness. Her husband, Frank M. Gossman, a retired bookkeeper for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died in 1975, shortly after they moved from Northeast Balti- more to the home that is operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Alice Cascio, at age 79, ran grocery company Funeral services for Alice R. Crosby Cascio, a former vice president of a wholesale grocery company operated until il 1970 by her and her husband, were held Aug. 8 at the Sterling funeral establishment in Catonsville. Mrs. Cascio, 79, died Aug.

5 at her home in the 9500 block of Frederick Road in Ellicott City after a long illness. For 20 years before she and her husband, Samuel L. Cascio, retired in 1970, she was an officer Kay-Cee Food an East Baltimore institutional food com- Mrs. Gossman retired in 1961 from the Blumenthal-Kahn Electric Co. after working there about 20 years.

She was a native of Baltimore. Survivors include two sons, the Most Rev. F. Joseph Gossman, Bishop of Raleigh, N.C., and former auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, and William E. Gossman of Fallston; a daughter, M.

Regina Gutberlet of Winchester, and seven grandchildren. pany which serviced ships that docked in Baltimore. The firm merged with Joffe Brothers, another wholesale grocery firm, at the time Mr. and Mrs. Cascio retired.

Mrs. Cascio was born and reared in Gambrills. Besides her husband, survivors include a daughter, Alice M. Darby of Catonsville; a brother, Robert T. Crosby of Towson; two sisters, Katherine Mostyn and Adeline Truckenmiller, both of Baltimore; a granddaughter and three great-grandchildren.

Philip F. Truss, retired Martin- A mass of Christian burial for Philip F. Truss, a musician and electronics technician, was being offered today at St. Anthony's Church, 4414 Frankford Ave. Mr.

Truss, 66, of the 5800 block of Benson Heights died Monday at the Loch Raven Veterans Administration Hospital after a long illness. He retired more than 10 years ago as an instrument specialist for the MartinMarietta Corp. where he worked for William Didusch, medical artist Funeral services for William P. Didusch, a nationally known medical artist, were held Monday at the Henry W. Jenkins and Sons funeral establishment, 4905 York Road.

Mr. Didusch, 86, of the Mount Vernon area of the city, died Aug. 7 at St. Joseph Hospital after a stroke. He began his career in 1914 when he was a student at the School of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School.

He was a graduate of Loyola High School and the Maryland Institute, College of Art. A native of Baltimore, Mr. Didusch came from a family of artists. His father was a woodcarver, and many of his sculptures are displayed in churches throughout Maryland. Mr.

Didusch's brother, the late Jim Didusch, taught medical art at Johns Hopkins. During his career as a medical artist, Mr. Didusch illustrated 18 medical textbooks, specializing in urological drawings. A long and painstaking process is required to get each detail correct, and it took him 10 years to complete the illustrations in the book "Practice of Urology," by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young and Dr.

David M. Davis. He also illustrated "Clinical Urology" by Dr. Oswald S. Lowsly and Thomas J.

Kirwin. This book, published in 1940, was one of his favorites. Mr. Didusch also worked at the Brady Urological Institute, the Brady Foundation of Urology and New York Hospital-Cornell University. He did free-lance work for doctors and surgeons around the country, illustrating more than 600 articles.

At his death, Mr. Didusch was the administrative consultant for the American Urological Association. He had served the association as executive secretary INVESTORS YOU MAY WANT TO PURCHASE A CONDOMINIUM IN THE VILLAGE OF CROSS KEYS INVESTOR FINANCING AVAILABLE 30 YEAR BELOW MARKET FIXED RATE GENERAL AMERICAN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, INC. 532-8660 Funeral services for F. Latshaw Wightman, an electronics technician and an active amateur photographer, will be at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at the Ruck funeral establishment, 5305 Harford road. Mr. Wightman, of the 3900 block of Elmora died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He suffered a stroke June 14. For more than six years, he worked for the Unitote-Regitel Division of the General Instrument Corp.

Earlier, he worked for more than 25 years for the Radio Division of the Bendix Corp. For a time, he also held jobs as a salesman for an auto parts company' and as an equipment repairman for the Hecht Co. A former president of the Baltimore Camera Club, he also was active in the Photographers Society of America. He won several prizes with his own pictures and served as a judge in photography shows in the area. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Pacific as an airplane insrument mechanic.

He was active in the Hamilton of the American Legion. Survivors include his wife, the former Margaret E. Merz, and three sisters, Susan M. Calderwood of Pittsburgh, Margaret E. Berney of Sanibel, and Helen A.

Midwickis of Baton Rouge, La. employee, 66 about 35 years. He served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II, doing similar work. A guitarist, he was a life member of the Musicians Association of Metropolitan Baltimore. He retired as a professional musician about 15 years ago.

He specialized in Hawaiian music and played as a young man in a band that had a weekly show featuring such music on WCBM-AM. from 1952 to 1968, at which time he became consultant. He also was special consultant to the American Cystoscope Makers in Stamford, Conn. Mr. Didusch was a founder of the Journal of Urology in 1917, and illustrated many of the early editions.

He was appointed art editor in 1946. In 1971, the American Urological Association established the William P. Didusch Museum in Baltimore, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to urology, and many services to the association. Mr. Didusch was appointed curator, a position he held until his death.

He received many honors and awards during his career. In March, he became the first layman to receive the Valentine Award from the urology section of the New York Academy of Medicine, at a special testimonial dinner. A close friend of Mr. Didusch, the late Bertha M. Trott, who was once secretary to Dr.

Young, left: a large sum of money in her estate to establish the William P. Didusch Scholarship and Loan Fund. In an interview with The Sun in 1974, Mr. Didusch said he planned to leave his estate to that fund. "It's a lot more expensive today than when I started 60 years ago," he said.

"A young fellow starting today needs a little help. "But it's a good field to work in. If I had to live my life over, I would do just exactly as I have done." Last April, the southeastern section of the American Urological Association proposed establishing another award in his honor, a plan not yet carried out. In the 1974 interview with The Sun, Mr. Didusch revealed his secret for aging gracefully: "I do as I please.

I smoke and drink. I work hard and play hard. Survivors include four nieces and two nephews. The Finance Company of America Over 60 Years of Financing for Commerce and industry 242 nd CONSECUTIVE QUARTERLY DIVIDEND A quarterly dividend of four percent (20 cents per share) has been declared on the outstanding Common Stock of the Company, payable September 23. 1981, to stockholders of record September 4.

1981. Baltimore, Maryland- August 14, 1981. E. B. LOWERY, TREASURER Later, he played in bands that ap-.

peared in East Baltimore nightclubs as well as at local social events. Mr. Truss was a member of the Police Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors include his wife, the former May C. Harman; a stepdaughter, Lorraine Jackson of Ellicott City; his mother, Helen Lentowski Truss of Towson; and three sisters, Nettie Recktenwald of Parkville, Bertha Keller of Overlea and Trudy Hynes of Ocean City.

Her fling with stardom was pure Hollywood. Small-town girl from lowa picked to play St. Joan. Jean Seberg's innocence and idealism fit the role perfectly. But her life became a ghastly nightmare of personal disintegration and political persecution.

Smeared by the FBI and abused by those she trusted, Jean Seberg took her own life at the age of 40. Washington drama critic David Richards sets the record straight about this controversial star in a story you can't afford to miss, JEAN SEBERG: AMERICAN TRAGEDY A 6-part series begins Monday, August 17 The Evening Sun.