Look Back ... to alternatives to a wood chipper, 1999
Apr. 2—April 2, 1949: The date happened to fall on a Saturday during a time when there was no Saturday paper put out by Consolidated Publishing.
April 2, 1999, in The Star: Investigating alternatives to destroying wood waste in a wood chipper, Anniston officials are taking a look at a "clean" incineration process. The current 7-year-old wood chipper handles about 400 tons of wood waste per month, but the machine is out of order nearly as often as it works properly, on account of worn grinding teeth. City Manager John Seymour, a proponent of incineration, says a Louisiana-based company would supply a machine that burns cleaner than a campfire, heating air to nearly 1,200 degrees inside a sealed building. The wood would be turned to ash while preventing smoke from leaving the facility. Also this date: Hoping to fill an empty factory that once employed 700 people to make microwave ovens, the Calhoun County Economic Development Council bought the former MCD building in Golden Springs yesterday. The group paid $637,500 to a New York bankruptcy trustee for the factory, and for 25 adjoining undeveloped acres. The factory, which has a reinforced floor and high-volume electrical systems, would be best suited for another metal-working or assembly operation like MCD. Originally known as Magic Chef, the company in the building previously stamped metal casings for its ovens on-site.
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