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VOL. 15 NO. 11 TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION, LUFKIN, TEXAS NOVEMBER. 1474
At Evadale Paperm
Millions Spent By Eastex
On Anti - Pollution Controls
(Editor's Note: This is the
urth in a series of articles that
11 what members of the Texas
)restry Association are doing
i the environmental scene.)
By ALAN MILLER
hrector of Public Information
Temple- Eastex
Twenty years ago this
- cember, a new pulp mill went
, stream in Evadale, Texas.
corporated as East Texas Pulp
d Paper Company, initial
pacity was about 100,000
is.
In reviewing news stories and
Aure articles written at the
ne, much attention was given
the "modern pollution
ntrol devices installed, some
,ally new to the pulp and
per industry."
In the intervening twenty
years, additional pulping facili-
ties were added. New paper
machines went on line, and
today, Eastex Incorporated
produces some 461,000 tons of
pulp and various paper prod-
ucts.
And the company continues
to write new chapters in air and
water pollution control.
To control liquid effluents,
retention basins were a part of
the original design. A 230 foot
diameter clarifier was added,
and additional holding basins
equipped with aerators were
designed to keep in step with
the latest pollution control
technology. Dollar investment
in water pollution control alone
totalled more than $6,000,000
by the end of 1973.
Other projects in process or
included in future plans will
include a tall oil plant expansion
TEXAS SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE STATUS
as of October 3, 1974
Number of Spots Detected Since January 1 ......
4,021
Number of Spots on which Action is Complete ....
2,778
Total SPB Spots Controlled ....... : ... .......
1,488
Total SPB Trees Controlled .................
98,882
dumber of Spots with Incomplete Information .......1
'umber of Spots to be Ground Checked ...........
715
umber of Spots Lacking Control ................
527
zmber of Spots Lacking Control -
30 Days Since Detection .....................1,085
to recover additional chemicals
created in the pulping process,
with spill collection systems and
difusion washers added as well.
Company officials state they
[See EASTEX, Page Seven]
Red Caboose
Completes TFA
Museum Train
The Texas Forestry Museum
train is complete. A shiny red
caboose, Old No. 99, has been
added to the relic of early
logging days. Melvin Kurth Jr.,
president of the Angelina and
Neches River Railroad, has
turned the caboose keys over to
Ed Wagoner, secretary-trea-
surer of the Texas Forestry
Museum trustees.
The bright red caboose has
found its permanent home
behind the Texas Forestry
Association headquarters build-
ing on Atkinson Dr. in Lufkin,
the site of the proposed Texas
Forestry Museum.
TFA hopes to attr8ct enough
support for the Forestry
mue um to .—at. a tauriat
attraction for Lufkin and the
entire Eagt Texas area, ' By so
doing, it wili'preserve a big part
of East Texas' past.
Old No. 99 was built by the
Cotton Belt Railroad at its
Pinebluff, Ark. shop in 1901.
The caboose was used by the
Cotton Belt between Pinebluff
and Memphis from 1901 to
1963.
A.N.N.R. bought it in 1963,
and it has been there ever since.
During its working life, the
caboose served as the rear
observation car, where the
breakman watched for any
problems on the train.
Another function of the
caboose was that the rear
breakman re -lined the track
switch to the normal position
after the train had passed. And
the car also doubled as sleeping
quarters for the train crew at
the end of a run. The crew even
cooked breakfast on the stove
on the caboose.
All of this is history for No. 99
now. It is retired behind a steam
locomotive and tender, wood -
burning steam loader and
logging car.
On one side of the train is a
high -wheel cart. On the other
side is a 100 -foot fire tower, that
also played an important role in
the early days of East Texas
forest history.
Smaller equipment used in
the early days of the East Texas
forest industry• will also be
r r -a"ad in thH TP.YAfl Fnrggtry
Museum. The Lufkin Kiwanis
Club and the Texas Forestry
Association have formed the
non -profit museum corporation.
Funds are being collected for
the building.
Donations to the museum
fund are tax deductible.
Museum pieces may be loaned
or donated. For further
information, contact Texas
Forestry Musuem, P. O. Box
1488, Lufkin, Tex. 75901, or call
634 -5523.
Many Apply
More than 100,000 persons
apply each year for the 6,000 job
openings the Forest Service has
to offer, including about 1,000
for every 40 Raneer nnaitinnc
AININUU1VUED expansion tons per ycar. Tha plant began pro -
lans announced by Eastex Incor- .duction in 1954 with 300 employ -
orated will increase annual pulp ees and an annual capacity of. 100,000
❑d paper product capacity to 461,000 tons.
U1.i) NU. vu— Melvin Kurth Jr., president Forestry Museum. The caboose was built in
of the Angelina and Neches River Railroad, 1901 by the Cotton Belt Railroad in
(left) gives Ed Wagoner the key to the Pinebluff, Ark.
caboose donated by A.N.N.R. to the Texas (TFA Photo)