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Colored Tissues No Polluter, Kimberly-Clark Says By RICHARD BRAGAW Oallv News Staff Writer taincd steadfastly Jat pink Kleenex is not one of them. "If all colored tissue were suddenly changed to white, the pollution problem in this country would not be relieved by a thousandth of one per cent, if that," he said. A growing 60 per cent of Kimberly-Clark's facial tissues are colored with textile dyes. Aqua, yellow and pink pastels are most popular, but the company also offers deep colors like gold, avocado green and hot pink. "EVERYTHING WAS white oriented" until sometime in the 1930s, when color began to catch on, said a spokesman for Kimberly-Clark.

Pastels became popular during the early 1950s, and the deep colors came into their own just recently. Environmentalists have expressed concern that the dyes can inhibit decomposition of tissues and can pollute the water when facial and toilet tissues are flushed into sewage systems. Kimberly-Clark maintains the dyes "are not toxic, will not kill fish or plant life, and do not promote algae growth in rivers or lakes." Scott Paper the largest maker of toilet tissues, and Procter Gamble which markets the popular Charmin line, joined Kimberly-Clark In denying environmentalists' claims. "NOBODY CAN prove that colored tissues create any environmental problems, but companies like ourselves are unable to prove otherwise," a Scott spokesman said. Both Scott and Procter Si Gamble said sales of the colored tissues have been rising.

Tom Saygers, Dayton water engineer in charge of pollution problems, admitted that his wife might buy blue tissues if they were on sale. "We have found no detectable coloration of our water system because of colored tissue, but if everyone in Dayton switched to colored tissue it's not going to holp the situation," Saygers said. SAYGERS SUGGESTED that if the dyes used in facial and toilet tissues were toxic, their users would likely experience some discomfort before anyone noticed that the tissues pollute the water. Dr. J.H.

Wittoesch, a Dayton rectal surgeon, said colored tissues have caused skin irritations and itching In some patients, especially the yellow tissues. "I advise strongly against colored tissue," Dr. Wittoesch said. He recommends that patients concerned about bathroom color schemes place colored doilies over their white toilet paper. Kimberly-Clark received 300 letters of complaint about colored tissues after demonstrators at Earth Day, last Apr.

22, urged concerned citizens to shun the pinks and blues. THE COMPANY was even more piqued when Hugh Downs, host of the "Today" TV show, told his audience of seven million that he and his wife were not buying colored tissues, because they pollute the environment. Downs made the remark right aher queing a commercial for colored Kleenex. An underground newspaper recently linked the use of toilet tissue to rectal cancer and urged its readers to stop using tissue altogether. 1 Saygers said he's afraid the stew over whether to use colored or white tissues will cloud the real environmental issue: the public's reliance on disposable products.

"We must overcome the concept of disposability. That's the lie. There is no disposabihty. I can only throw something away in your yard, or in the air, or in the water," he said. The nation's largest manufacturer of facial tissues has come to the defense of the pretty blues, yellows and pinks which have caught milady's fancy.

Kimberly-Clark maker of Klee-nes other tissues, says its colored tissues have been falsely called a plague on the environment. CIRCULATED checklists that tell individuals how to protect the environment often have suggested that colored tissues pollute," William J. Yan-kira," Kimberly-Clark vice president, said in a memorandum to consumers. Yankus acknowledged that the paper industry faces "many serious problems in the environmental area," but he main- DAYTON DAILY NEWS Focus on Suburbia School Cutbacks Discussed Channel 16 Denies I Bankruptcy Charges Second Section Page 13 Thursday, March 11, 1971 mm mm ment issued against Kittyhawk by the Radio Corporation of America on Dec. 9 amounts to a lien against the station.

Kittyhawk further denied that it committed an act of bankruptcy by making a secu-r i arrangement with the First National bank on the station's furniture, equipment and personal property by which the bank would secure a greater percentage of the station's debt than its other creditors in the same class. While Sharar filed his answer in the office of U.S. deputy court clerk Robert Snell in the federal building, one of the station's shareholders, Frank Luhn, a board member, filed an answer in Kittyhawk Television which until Feb. 27 operated WKTR-TV, Channel 16, denied Wednesday that it is bankrupt. The station's general manager, William Sharar, asked, the U.S.

District Bankruptcy court to hold a hearing to determine issues raised by three film companies which filed against Kittyhawk for involuntary bankruptcy Feb. 23. MCA Universal Television systems and United Artists television alleged that Kittyhawk owes them $68,880.52 for unsecured licensing of films. THE STATION denied it is unable to pay the debts. It also denied that a financing state Pi I jg I 4 I xi I I 4 if -v 2 hi Pollution Count Stuck on Medium Air pollution in downtown Dayton remained in the medium range with a reading of 64 today.

Fairmont Senior Wins Hallmark Art Award the office of the bankruptcy referees in the Knott building. LUHN, who denied the film companies' allegations as to the station's bankruptcy, asked the court for. a jury trial to determine the issues. His attorney, Horace Baggott Jr. said the only reason Luhn filed was to protect his interest and those of the other shareholders in case the station did not reply by the deadline today.

Baggott said Luhn's answer might be withdrawn. i began broadcastingNn March 1967, had reduced its hours from 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. before going dark last month. It ws based at 1630 E. Stroop Kettering.

CHANNEL 16 lost a bid for an American Broadcasting Co. affiliation more than a year ago, when an ABC official was charged with acceptinga bribe from John Kemper, then chairman of Kittyhawk. Kemper, his wife, Ann, and the entire board of Kittyhawk, including are parties to a suit against the station by Springfield Television broadcasting, operators of Channel 22. Springfield charged Kemper conspired with ABC to keep Channel 22 from receiving the ABC affiliation, that Mrs. Kemper wrote a $50,000.

check to cover the bribe and that the board knew of the.conspiracy. CHANNEL 22 eventually received the ABC affiliation. Kittyhawk's bo ard, which has denied its part in the conspiracy, includes many prominent Daytonians, among them pizza magnate Victor Cassano, Antioch temple illustrious potentate Robert U. MacFarlane and construction executives Richard Brainard, Arthur C. Stock, and Walter Litsey.

Also on the board were attorney Louis S. Goldman, Dr. Kenneth Am, E. Raymond Am, president-treasurer of Film Associates; Lee E. Eiler, chairman of the board of Fidelity Prescriptions John H.

Pearch, former general sales manager of the station, and Paul L. Komminsk, of New Council Says No To Merger No functional merger of regional agencies in the Miami Valley will occur in the immediate future. The Miami Valley Council of Governments voted almost unanimously Wednesday night against turning over its plan-n i responsibilities to the Miami Valley Regional Planning commission and then disbanding. The city of Dayton cast the lone vote for merger on an 11-1 count, after a motion to table the matter, by a delegate from another community, was defeated. The Dayton representative made no statement of the city's position.

A WEEK ago today the Montgomery-Greene counties a nsportation Coordinating committee had rejected a merger with the council. Some members of the planning commission, council and transportation group have been trying for several months to work out an arrangement to convert themselves into a single agency. Charles Lewis, Montgomery county i oner and council president, said he still believed in a single priority-setting board for the region, "but I probably will not risk another political bloody nose by proposing it." Mayor Donald Rickner of Riverside said his village belonged to no regional agency when he took office and he had to do a lot of talking to join. "The only benefits we can show for our community from three years' membership in these groups came through COG," he said. "COG does more for the little communities than the others do.

If we're absorbed by regional planning, I'll recommend Riverside withdraw." Housing Funds OK'd The U.S. Housing and Urban Development department has announced a $92,685 annual reservation for 110 units of 1 -a moderate-income housing to be built in Jefferson Twp. by a limited dividend corporation. The project on W. Third St.

near Longvale Dr. is sponsored by Old Salem Enterprises Inc. American Modulars Corp. of Dayton will be the builder on the $1.4 million development. SIXTY TWO-BEDROOM, 38 three-bedroom and 12-four bedroom units will be constructed under the Section 236 program in which the federal government pays most of the cost of interest on the loan and the developer keeps the rents down in return.

i Is jl two-hour study-discussion session on the proposed i 1 1 i appropriations bAidget Wednesday night, the Dayton school board reached the following conclusions: appropriations ljudget has to be approved ljecfcuse that's all the money available. trwA wide range of alternatives" open to the board to up the $14 million deficit to operate the schools aj their present level; but not all are feasible. -I-living arts and multiple liottvation still, make prime topics for discussion. THE ACADEMIC discussion ejpded with one major change the proposed budget. The ard decided to continue its ntributions to the Dayton philharmonic orchestra, Dayton Art institute, Dayton Museum of Natural History and Aullwood farm.

if Presumably the budget will be placed before the board for approval at the meeting next Thursday. fBoard member Jeptha Car-rell asked, to have split year-round school explored to a a i the costs. Leo Lucas, president," said the, board must decide whether staff operate on the appropriations budget or seek refunds. ace Ratio Teachers Called Good the Dayton school system reported today that its minority employment record compares favorably with the percentage of minority persons in the Noting that the black population of Dayton was set at 30.5 percent, the system said Waqk teachers accounted for 3.2 per cent of the teachers. Black executive officers in tfce schools were 33.3 per cent qj total and black school administrators account for 29 rjer cent, officials said.

McLin to Speak At Y. Springs lYELLOW SPRINGS McLin, 88th district state rep-rlsentative from Dayton, will peak to the Yellow Spnngs- iimi Twp. Democratic club 8 p.m. Friday. The talk, in the Mills Lawn PhooI, will include comments McLin on the appointment minority group members to DsHions of responsibility in be Gilligan administration.

McLin is a special advisor to he governor on minority af fairs, and president of the Black Elected Democrats of dhio. Daily News Photo by Bill Shepherd HELPING OUT John Snedegar (atop ladder), vice president of Protective Treatments, 3345 Stop Eight directs firemen to a blaze in the plant's mixing room early today. One employe suffered a burned hand and the plant sustained mostly water damage, a spokesman for the firm said. Wright State Plans Environmental Course Daily News Photo by Bill Shepherd TINA WAS AMONG 5 AREA WINNERS She Also Writes Poetry and Music A Fairmont high school senior who says she "really put myself into my work" has been selected as a Hallmark Honor winner in the recent Scholastic Art contest regional held at Cincinnati. Tina Wright, 18, was one of five students from the Cincinnati region, covering west Ohio and Northern Kentucky, whose work was selected for the Hallmark citation; SHE ALSO won a Scholastic finalist award for her pencil drawing.

Miss Wright's Hallmark selection was a chalk drawing entitled "Brown It will be permanently displayed in the Hallmark museum in Kansas City. In addition, it will also be in competition in New York City for the regional Hallmark award, which carries a $100 prize. Presently, the reproduction rights belong to Hallmark and they may use it on some of their card lines. OTHER DAYTON suburban winners in the contest include John Woods of Fairmont West, who won a finalist award in mixed media; Pam Mann of Fairmont East, a finalist in sculpture; Centerville's Mike Geary, who won a finalist award in ceramics, and Al-ter's Richard Garling, two finalist awards in photography. Miss Wright also writes music and has had some of her poetry published and teaches art and crafts at the Dakota St.

center and Camp Dakota. She said she wants to earn a degree in fine arts and become a painter. Asked what special touch she gives to her work to win prizes, Miss Wright said, "I really put myself into it; it's a part of me it means a lot." She said most of her present emphasis in her work is on color and shapes. "I try to get my feeling across that way," she said. said.

He said Valachi would be dead within 24 hours of his release from prison and his killer would take home Maas, the only reporter to interview Valachi, said he hasn't been threatened for his work. "They (the Mob) are very rational. If they thought they could benefit by ray being dead, I'd be dead tomorrow. But that would cause them more problems than they already have." Maas explained the Cosa Nostra is a purely Italian organization of about 5,000 members who operate in 24 "families" across the country. But he stressed that Italians didn't invent organized crime.

HE SAID the Mafia works in alliances with racketeers in all ethnic groups, including Germans, Irish, Jews and New Bids Due On Base Housing New bids will be opened Wednesday on 300 units of family housing at Wright-Patterson Air Force base. degree program. INSTRUCTORS FOR the spring quarter offerings include Charles Blake, WSU associate professor of economics; Marvin Seiger, WSU population genetics expert; Jeffrey Stanford, visiting environmentalist; and John May from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The day classes will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The evening classes are set for 7 to 10 p.m. Mondays. Original bids, opened Feb. 3, Walsh Honors Taft CANTON U.S. Sen.

Robert Taft Jr. (R-Ohio) will be the commencement speaker at Walsh College May 15, and will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. i a I Homes Construction Lafayette, $7-. Swindell-Dressier division of Pullman Pittsburgh, and Amcon International $10,544,660. Del Layne 219 E.

Day, ton-Yellow Springs Fair-born, is also qualified to bid, Russell said. Mill Closes At Urbana Special to the Daily News URBANA Citing the high cost of pollution control and declining demand, officials of the United Board and Carton Corp. Wednesday announced the permanent closing of the company's Urbana mill. i The $500,000 plant was con-structed in 1969. United President David L.

Summers said necessary anti-pollution equipment, "a change in the paperboard market and severe price pressure left us no choice but to close the mill." Another United Mill in Springfield was closed last Mob not all Italian, Valachi Author Says Wright State university's first environmental studies course is being offered in the spring quarter for both day and evening students. It is designed as a study of environmental quality problems and possible solutions. According to course coordinator Ronald i the course could be the first step toward starting an environmental studies degree curriculum at Wright State. Schmidt said that if there is enough student interest in the area, he would investigate starting a Johnson was considering as his running mate was Cornelius Gallagher, a congressman from New Jersey and, according to Maas, "a known tool and collaborator of the Cosa Nostra." He added ominously: "I needn't mention that business about being aheart-beat (Gallagher's alleged Mafia ties were first publicized in Life magazine in 1969). MAAS addressed a wide-eyed audience at Fairmont West high school.

He was the final lecturer in this season's "Window on the World" series sponsored by the Kettering Rotary club. Joseph Valachi, the Mafia sergeant who broke his oath of secrecy and lived to tell about it, is sequestered in federal prison behind "five doors and five sets of guards," Maas BURGLAR LEAVES HIS ORDER DEFIANCE, burglar hit a coin box at a service station here a month ago. The station operator began cleaning out the coins every night. Then he found the box pried open with a note inside saying: "I was here again. Please leave some money the next time." He suggested legalized gambling not and public vigiliance as two ways of fighting the Mob.

Mental Health Meeting Set Dolly Newt Worren County Burton LEBANON Persons interested in Warren county's mental health problems are invited to attend the first meeting of the Warren County Mental Health association at 8 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 18. The meeting will be in the juvenile court room on the first floor of the courthouse. Calvin Young, former chairman of the county's mental health board, will speak.

He presently works as a state consultant to mental protessionals. were thrown out after President Nixon suspended provisions of the Davis-Bacon act. The law requires prevailing union wages paid workers on federally funded construction jobs. Impact of the President's action on the cost of the project won't be known until new bids are received. The comparisons probably won't be too meaningful even then, according to Col.

Daniel Russell, chief of the base procurement division. HE SAID some require-ments have been changed in the meantime, such as making patios required instead of optional. Russell said at least 55 other base projects totaling about $1 million also have been affected by the Davis-Bacon suspension. The projects are mostly for maintenance and repair work and range from jobs estimated at $2,000 or less to road work in the $200,000 range. American Modular 2424 Far Hills was the apparent low bidder in the original bidding on the 300 homes with a base price of $7,694,000.

OTHER BIDS included Na- Mafia-controlled i in Kettering? Vandalia? i i Gambling, and those who tun it, are ubiquitous, said Peter Maas, whose best-seller, 'The Valachi Papers," gave tjie first authentic account of Iffe in the Cosa Nostra. Vlf you can place a bet (on horses or numbers), organized dime is here. It's all part of tjie grab," he said Wednesday right in Kettering. THE NEW YORKER added rimly that cooperation from public officials at some level is necessary for the Mob to "It's too big to be otherwise." Mob penetrates virtually all avenues of life, including business and politics, ligh and low. Just how high, fee said, was manifested in D64.

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