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The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 14

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4-6-THI GASTONIA GAZtTTI, F.b. 6, W2 Larger waste plant built at Cramerton Burlington Industries has increased its investment in environmental control in Gaston County by placing in operation an expanded waste treatment facility at Cramerton. The new plant provides treatment capacity of eight million gallons daily. The project cost some $800,000 and look more than a year to complete. Presently, it serves local matw facturing plants of Burlington's Galey Lord divison.

Later this year, lines will be extended so the plant can treat domestic waste for the Town of Cramerton. The facility supplements a treatment plant that met state standards when it was completed in 1966. the year the G. Lord plant was built. Burlington's primary waste treatment facilities at' Cramerton had a treatment capacity of about five million gallons a day.

More extensive treatment is being provided under revised Getting your money's worth stream standards, 'iiie ton plants, as well as the needs of the community, will be served by the large expansion. Jim Kirk, division engineer for Burlington's Galey Lord division, considers the new plant to be "one of the largest and most complete waste treatment facilities in the entire textile industry." J. S. Amccn, Burlington's senior staff engineer and pollution control socialist, directed the design of the new facility by the company's corporate engineering department in Greensboro. The facility is a biological treatment system of the modified activated sludge process.

It is designed for 95 per cent operational efficiency. New facilities in the expansion include aeration basin, clari- ficrs, aerobic digesters, sludge drying beds, pumping stations, screening devices, a chlorination system, and modification of the existing 12 million gallon acratlion basin. The entire project will provide primary and secondary treatment. Its design and construction was approved by the North Carolina Board of Water and Air Resources. "We are committed to a policy of pollution control in all operations," Ameen said.

"Pollution abatement is a responsibility at all levels within the company, and we are continuously checking the efficiency of all water and air treatment facilities on a regular basis." The Galcy A Lord division engineering staff is involved in operation and maintenance of the treatment plant. Presently, the local staff is registering with the state and the Gaston County Health Department all air pollution sources. A hoilec conversion at the Mayflower Plant, to reduce air pollution, is scheduled in mid-summer. The secondary waste treatment project at Cramerlon is one of 15 major water waste trealment projects undertaken by Burlington in 1971. These, plus air pollution control measures, cost the Company approximately million.

Completion of the secondary treatment plant brings to over $1.5 million Burlington's investment in waste treatment at Cramerton. Environmental expenditures by Burlington are expected to reach about $4 million in 1972. EXPANDED 12-million gallon aeration basin, utilized for treatment since 1966, has been modified for expanded treatment at the enlarged Galey Lord facility in Cramerton. The W-. G.

Lord plant provides a backdrop for the new $1.5 million facility, which went into operation last week. 3-day cooling off period lets you cancel purchase By BILL McKEITHAN Gazette Staff Reporter Under new consumer protection laws you can sign an agreement to purchase a set of books and then cancel the deal. However, if you die and hare a funeral, there's no cancelling of the payment. Someone is going to have to pay for the expenses. Funerals are akin to mobile homes and autos and the contracts canno: be cancelled simply because you don't want the deal from a door-to-door salesman, a for consumer protection division of the North Carolina attorney general's office said in a telephone interview.

Gene Haffer of Raleigh said. "It's 2 vthivle new hal! game for the rloor-to-door salesman and the buyer. We've finally got some protection for the consumer, some things we've never harl before." A.T.ORS the protection the consumer now ria.5 since the law went into effect the first of the year protection against referral ealK. Haffcr explained. "Referral sales are not to he confused with A salesman can still offer to pay a happy customer after a sale for new leads.

"A sale now can no longer he based in part of the offer to pay for referrals." Haffer said. Although Haffer said he did not want to get into specific examples of the law. he said a number of door-to-door salesmen have used this referral gimmick in the past as a measure of pressuring for a quick sale. Under the scheme, the salesman, after delivering a high pressure sales talk, would promise that if the customer would make a certain number of referrals then the purchase would be free. Of course, he is also making this same offer to the new prospects or referrals and by a system of progression the number ol customers soon is exhausted.

Consumers now have a three day or 72-hour "cooling off" period, Haffcr said. Sometimes a person may be built up to such an emotional pitch by a quick talking salesman that the customer signs a sales agreement. The next day when a cooler head prevails he may want to cancel the "deal" he got the night before. In the past there was no way this could be accomplished. tinder the new law a consumer has 72 hours to cancel the deal.

Haffer said there is a cancellation fee for getting out of the deal hut it cannot be larger than one per cent of the total selling price of the item and cannot exceed the cash down payment. To cancel a deal you must write the firm and notify them of your intentions. Haffer suggested the letter be sent by certified mail or that a witness he taken in the event it is sent by first class mail. Haffcr said he would suggest that if the letter is to he sent hy first class mail the witness Aidrich named The Rev. A.

Douglas Aidrich. pastur ol the First Baptist Church of (iastonia. hos been named to two committees of the Wake Forest University board of trustees. Aidrich is chairman ol the committee which handles matters relating to the undergraduate college. He also is a member of the budget committee.

should note the time and loca- tion the letter was mailed and Getting should fully understand wtiat is happening in the event of future legal action. Haffcr said the highly technical law excludes certain items such as funerals, when a representative of a funeral home would actually make the sale in the home following a death, and the sale of motor vehicles and clothing. He added there are several other clauses which will allow the consumer to cancel a con- your money's worth tract. He said one way for an agreement to be cancelled is if the contract cannot be fulfilled anc it is the fault of the seller. "But then," Haffer said, "this again is a highly technical question.

Take as an example the West Coast dock strike. The goods can't he delivered but then whose fault is that?" He suggested that anyone with a specific question contact the consumer protection division of the attorney general's office in Raleigh. Elizabeth begins Asia-Africa tour LONDON Queen Elizabeth II. Britain's dignified champion of the soft sell, cm- harks Tuesday on a gruelling 25.000-mile swing through South- cast Asia and part of Africa. What she is selling is British prestige, once taken by force of arms.

The sovereign with her husband. Prince Philip, and daughter, 21-year-old Princess Anne, leave London just two days after the 20lh anniversary of her accession to the throne. Her first stop is the U.S. air base of Utapao in Thailand, home of American B52 bombers that pound the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. A group of parly members of Parliament have drawn up a mo- lion of censure against royal advisers who arranged for the queen to stop there.

Buckingham Palace shrugged off any suggestion that the choice of the Thailand base for the first stop had any political significance. Officials said the chosen route was merely the most direct one, and lh.it the queen would not bo officially visiting (he base. Queen Elizabeth's itinerary extends over 47 days and eight countries. It is one of the longest tours she has ever made, exceeded only by her Commonwealth trip in 1953 and 1954, her visit to South American in 1968 and to Australia in 1970. Apart from Thailand, the queen will visit Singapore.

Malaysia, Brunei, the Maldlve Islands, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Kenya. A palace spokesman said the visit to Thailand was being made in return for a similar visit to Britain in 1960 by King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikii. Explaining the 12-year delay, the spokesman said the Thai and British monarchs had such busy schedules it had not been possible to arrange a state visit before. Behind the international courtesies of royalty, the queen's visit comes as the result of careful calculation by British Foreign Office experts. It is on Ihoir advice that the queen decides to make state visits anil the advice is based on the hard facts of trade and diplomacy.

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Years Available:
1880-1977