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Editorial
Police reports
The police reports, a recently begun
regular feature in the Journal
Opinion, have been a topic of con-
siderable discussion within our office
since we initiated them last month,
From e start, we realized that
there were risks involved with run-
ning such a feature and its affect on
our small communities. We have
debated its problems when they have
surfaced on a number of occasions,
and in fact, one week we did not run
the names of those cited in the police
reports because of that debate.
When this occurred, public feed-
back convinced us to stay with the
reports -- names and all. The
majority of the feedback from our
readers indicates that the arrest
reports are of public record and that
people want to and have the right to
know this information through the
newspaper.
Perhaps it would be helpful to
establish what the reports are: the
police reports are compiled from
written accident, incident and arrest
releases provided to us by the
Haverhill Police Department and the
Vermont State Police. The reports do
not attest that those who are arrested
actually committed a crime. We state
that, according to police, a person
was arrested, when, what for, and
when that person will appear in court
to answer the charge.
Obviously, someone could con-
ceivably be wronged by the police
reports ff they are found innocent of
their charge at a subsequent court
hearing or trial. To avoid this oc-
currence we will be offering, within
the next three weeks, court reports
also.
What the issue boils down to in our
minds is a question of consistency. If
a bank were to be robbed in our area,
we as a newspaper would be expected
to reveal the name of the bank and
those who may havebeen arrested for
allegedly robbing it. For lesser
crimes, trouble occurs when you
question where to draw the line. The
line we have drawn is that either we
present our readers with all the in-
formation" available to us or we will
not run the police reports at all.
Enlightening experience
A visit to the local Red Cross
Bloodmobile can be an enlightening
experience. It soon becomes apparent
who the regular donors are.
Policemen, bankers, teachers,
housewives, factory workers,
students -- people from all walks of
life. They come because they know
that not everyone can or will give
b].
If you are not now a blood donor,
think it over. Why aren't you?
Remember that only about four
Americans in every 100 donate blood.
The rest of us are in debt to them for
the recovery of our hospitalized fellow
citizens.
There will he a Red Cross Blood
drawing on Thursday, Feb. 18th at the
Armory in Woodsville from 12:30 to
5:30.
So make the commitment to
become a donor. Together we can
change things.
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Paperm00king in Wells River
(Continuing the history of took 8 hours to do the job that rethreaded through all the
the Adams paper mill from its was later done in 35 to 40 rollers by hand, a tedious
beginnings in 1810) minutes by the hydropuiper, process, Bigger machines,
- The man who ran the like that at East Ryegate,
Reminiscences heaters or hydropulper was have a rope that
Henry Henderson, now called the beaterman. The automatically carries the end
retired and living in Center crew for the paper machine of the paper through the
ttaverhill, worked at the
paper mill in Wells River for
35 years. Before that. he
renmmbers visiting the mill
and seeing the old paper
machine and cylinder dryer
which had been in use since
around 1860.
Mr. ltenderson's father-
in-law, Charles Davis. came
here from Cascade Mills in
Berlin in 1914 and worked in
the Wells River mill for 52
years, serving the last 23
years or so of that time as
superintendant of the mill.
In describing the
papermaking process. Mr.,
Henderson says that for many
years -- until they started
using recycled paper -- their
stock was virgin kraft pulp
(wood fiberL in the form of
big thick sheets in bales of 500
to 600 pounds. The pulp or
other stock was put into
beaters, which were big vats
where it was softened in water
and other ingredients and
beaten into a smooth
suspension called stock or
sometimes "furnish". In more
recent years the beaters were.
replaced by the
-hydropulper". a giant tub
with fins on the inside to shred
the pulp as it whirled around,
To make paper of the
desired color, they added dyes
to the mixture, then it passed
throUgh a pipe and poured out
onto a fine screen at the
correct speed to make the
desired thickness of paper.
The screen shook sideways to
dislribule the fibers evenly,
also constantly moved for-
ward on rollers, and the layer
of fibers was picked up by a
moving roll of wet felt. Suction
boxes and presses dike
wringers) removed much of
the water, then the continuous
itself included the machine
tender, the back tender and
the third man.
Years ago the mill used to
burn coal, then it changed
over to oil. Tremendous heat
was used in the dryers so
much that it took 24 hours to
heat them up and 16 hours for
them to cool off again,.
Because of this, when possible
the paper machine was kept
running around-the-clock.
seven days a week, with four
shifts of workers and a swing-
shift schedule.
Henry Henderson says
that years ago there was such
a small turnover of employees
at this mill that when he first
came here to work, he was the
first new man in 15 years.
During the years when
most of the output of this mill
was Christmas wrappings, the
demand was seasonal, so
much of the paper was stored
locally at places such as the
Holbrook Grocery warehouse
in Woodsville, another
warehouse near Ames Garage
(now Gerrity Building Cen-
ter). and the Rogers barn
below Wells River. Much of it
was loaded for shipping in the
summer by college students
on vacation,
This mill. being small,
could take care of smaller
orders than the bigger mills
could afford to bother with,
orders of less than 2000 pounds
of paper. These small orders
kept the Wells River mill
going for years.
Cleaning out the millpond
An episode still
remembered locally (and in
the Barfs Times-Argus) was
the attempt to clean out the
paper mill's millpond in July,
1964. After 50 years of ac-
sheet of paper passed through cumulation of silted sand, clay
a series of steam,heated and,olmed,v..=
rollers Is complete the drying, collect|rely known as muck "
Each successive unit of the - the depth of thewaterin the
dryers had a higher tem-
perature, the last one being
about 220 degrees. At the end
of the machine the paper was
wound into huge rolls, from 72
to 77 inches wide and weighing
650 to 700 pounds apiece.
Mr. tlenderson and Elwin
Beyce { who worked here for 40
years) can remember when
they were still using water-
power in the mill for running
two of the beaters, also for
cylinder pmnps for moving
the stock mixture from the
beaters to the screen.
Sometime later. Mr. Bidwell
installed generators to utilize
the waterpower for electric
lights for the mill. generating
two-thirds of o their own
electricity.
The old waterpowered
beaters were slow-moving and
Red Cross is asking for donors
therapy, in which one
specific part of the blood is
removed and the balance
returned to the donor or
patient in one continuous
process.
- Education about blood
and its medical uses and in
blood supply management
for the medical profession
and the general public.
-- A rare donor registry
of nearly 9.000 on-call
donors nationwide to
provide rare blond to meet
the needs of special
patients.
- Blood resource
sharing, though which
regional blood services
nationwide assist each
other in maintaining a
blood supply adequate to
meet every patients needs.
Fina neing
The Red Cross finances
itself by recovering its
costs from the uses of its
services. It charges
hospitals a processing fee
to cover the expenses of
recruiting donors:
collecting, testing.
processing and distributing
blood and blood products:
'and equipping the service.
The fee is based on cost.
thmpitals pass the charge
on to the patient.
The blood itself is never
charged for because it is a
gift from voluntary donors.
Other funding comes
from private contributions
and from research grants
and conlracts.
WOODSVILLE-- The Red
Cross Bloodmobile will be
at the National Guard
Armory on Feb. 18 from
12:30 to 5:30 p.m.
And according to Red
Cross area spokesman AI
Guy, a good turnout would
be more than appreciated.
The Red Cross believes
that blood should be
available to all who need it,
regardless of race,
economic status, ability to
donate, place of residence.
or membership in a
specific group, said
another group spokesman,
The Red CroSs also
believes that the only way
to ensure that blood will be
available for any patient
needing it is for an
adequate number of a
community's volunteer
donors to donate regularly,
The Red Cross does not
assign credits for blood
donation or require blood
replacement from
recipients of blond. There
is no need for these com-
plex, costly,
discriminatory procedures
when a blood service s
doing its job of furnishing a
reliable community blood
suppl. And the key to a
reliable community blond
supply is regular blood
donation by the com-
munity's caring people who
enjoy good health.
Community Responsibility
The Red Cross asks all
healthy individuals in the
community to join together
as good neighbors in
regular voluntary blood
Platelet concentrate,
used to cohtrol bleeding in
patients whose bone
marrow produces too few
platelets, such as those
with leukemia or un-
dergoing chemotherapy
treatments.
In addition, frac-
tionation, or the separation
of blood plasma into
several derivatives, results
in-
Antihemophillc factor,
used to prevent bleeding in
patients with hemophilia.
Albumin and plasma
protein faction, used for the
t reatment of shock.
-- Immune serum
globulin, used to help avert
or modify certain viral
diseases such as hepatitis
and measles.
Red ('ross
Blood Service
To most people, a blood
program suggests the
donating or receiving of
blood. But the Red Cross
blood service does much
more than collect, process,
and distribute blood and
blood products. Other
areas of service may in-
clude-.
Technical expertise to
aid hospitals and their
blood banks and medical
staffs with blood iden-
tification and management
problems.
Collection or isolation
of specific blood com-
ponents by means of
pheresis, an increasingly
important procedure used
in both collection and
donation. This joining of
individual action in the
interest of maintaining a
reliable community blood
supply is what the Red
Cross means by com-
munity responsibility in
blood service.
Anyone between the ages
of 17 and 66 who weighs at
least 110 pounds and is in
good health may donate
bleed through the Red
Cross,
Donating blood is safe
and simple, The entire
process, including medical
check, takes about 45
minutes: the actual
donation requires only 6 to
10 minutes.
Since the national Red
Cross blood service began
in 1947, technological
advances have greatly
increased the uses of blood
Today, the components of
one unit of blood may help
restore several different
patients to health. The 57
Red Cross blood regions
convert the over 5 million
units of whole blood they
currently collect into some
II million units of com-
ponent products. Among
the important products
extracted from whole blood
re
Red cells, used for
patients such as those who
require surgery, lose blood
in accidents or have
anemia or kidney disease
Plasma used for the
treatment of shock and,
when clotting defects oc-
cur. as in hemophilia or
severe liver disease.
pond had decreased to only
two feet. Even though the
pond was no longer being used
for waterpower, there still
was water needed in the
manufacturing process, and
what was coming through
from the pond was dark-
colored and foul-smelling.
Also, because of the pond's
decreased water capacity, the
mill was being flooded every
time there was high water.
At thai time the mill was
being operated by Ben-Mont,
and the plant manager,
Harvey Wilson. decided to
solve the millpond problem by
opening the gate on the dam
and bulldozing the silt down
through it, to create an
adequate channel through the
pondbed
Of course the disturbed
muck was carried down-
stream, turning the river into
a thick, dark syrup -- which
caused considerable distur-
bance among townspeople,
also the State Water
Resources Board and the Fish
and Game Department. A
major concern was the
destruction of spawning areas
for the Connecticut River
trout. At thai time, there were
no authoritative anti-pollution
laws, but the State Water
Resources Board's pollution-
control division recommended
Ihal the bulldozers stop
pushing the silt downstream
and inslead shove it up onto
the riverbank - a request
which was granted.
Problems of
recycling paper
Recycling of paper sounds
like a wonderful conservation
idea until you come down to
the practical problems of
working with it in the paper
mill. because of the extra
things in it which won't
disinlegrate in the
hydropulper, such as pieces of
cloth, styrofoam cups, and
somelimcs an old shoe. Even
though the beatermen watch
closely what is going into the
vat, there is no way they can
spot t he worst troublemakers:
wel-slrenglh papers thai will
nol separate into fibers, but
instead soften into a jellylike
nmss that plugs the pumps
and forms gobs of goo on the
tureen, so that oftentimes a
whole batch of sleek has to be
thrown away.
The poorer the materials
used. the poorer the quality of
paper produced. Every time
there is a weak sP0i in the
paper it ts apt to tear in the
rollers. In the Wells River
paper machine, which is over
.d; years old, whenever the
paper broke il had to be
rollers. Of course the newest
machines, such as those at
International Paper in Jay,
Maine, are completely
automated run by com-
puters and pnshbuttons.
Any defective paper can
be put back into the beaters
and run through again, but
this all takes time -- and time
is money. Mr. Bidwell used to
say that he was glad when he
saw the machine tenders
sitting around with nothing to
do, because that meant the
machine was running well and
the .company was making
money.
Wildlife
Henry Henderson says
that on summer nights the
worst problem with the paper
machine used to be June bugs
and moths. They would fly into
the beaters or onto the screen
or rollers and get crushed and
make quite a mess -- also a
weak spot in the paper, so that
it would tear off.
One night, just before
dark. the paper machine bad
been going just fine with no
trouble -- when all at once the
paper went to pieces. The
crew all went running up to
the wet end of the machine
and discovered that a pigeon
had come in through the
window and gotten caught in
one of the overhead wheels.
The poor thing was whirling
around and around, and
feathers were flying all over
the place -- seemed like a
bushel of them. The men were
an hour and a half cleaning up
,the mess and getting the
machine going again.
Through the years, they
have seen all kinds of wild
animals from the mill win-
dows - deer, beaver, rac-
we purchased in Vermont. The
car had a defective part which
cost a considerable amount of
money to repair. It has been a
very frustrating problem for
us. Not only has it been a
financial strain but there is a
possibility this company will
not reimburse us for repairing
the damage the inferior part
caused.
I am very angry. I feel any
defective product bought by
consumers, by law, should be
liable to the manufacturer. I
Excent/ona/
pho00h+
To the Editor:
The pholography of F.
Itobl)ins is. without a doubt,
exceptional and has added a
ne di mensinn In your paper.
Iler gifted al)ilily in capturing
the besl of ht'al scenery on
black and while fihn is out-
standing, ller photos con-
sistantly reveal Ihe abundant
heauly of the tipper Valley,
renlinding even those toobusy
to see for themselves, that
there s(qus no finer place to
live.
Keep publishing her work!
We enjoy il so?
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Gitchel
& Son
Piermont
Opposed to
arms freeze
To the Editor:
The writer is a member of
the American Security
('ouncil. which in turn is af-
filiated with the Coalition of
t'eace Through Strength. The
('nalition of Peace Through
Strength is comprised of 274
Metal)ors of Congress, (a
nhljority of Congress) and 126
nalional organizations, of
hich the 2',. million member
V.F.W. was the iarges.t to join
in H$1.
Two-hundred and twenty-
nine U.S. tepresentatives co-
Slmsorod llouse Concurrent
lte)lution No. 16,3 calling for
a national strategy of Peace
Through Strength, in addition
to which l0 state legislatures
passed the Resolution For
coons, skunks, hedgehogs and Peace Through
w...d..h....ka Wranuent Strength-eight of which
' ' : : " " ..... |i (*Oa|lt " ton ; "
visitors in'- t Tnfll were .D
squirrels, who were eager for TIx, re are those m our midst
handouts of peanuts and other
goodies. Another visitor was a
beaver that would come right
into the mill. He came in about
twice one summer, between
midnight and 2 a.m. For some
reason the mill seemed to
fascinate him, and he came
down the ramp into the
machine room, walked the
whole length of the room, went
up the stairs into the beater
room and checked it out, then
went do'n into the boiler
room - a place you wouldn't
think he would go. because of
the heal but he went down
there and nosed all around the
boilers, then went back up and
away across the dam.
Where the water came
into the mill, it ran through a
screen, and sometimes fish
would gel trapped there.
ltenry Powers. who used to
work at the mill as a
healern|an, bad an old yellow
tnmcal that used to follow him
h) work. and would sit by that
screen by the hour to catch
fish. Every time he got one he
would bring it up to Henry and
drop il at his feet to show itoff.
Another place that fish
used to congregate was in the
raceway, where the water
came out through the big old
a[cr wheel, and the fish
seemed to like the cool. dark
pools. Righl over the raceway
there was a window, and
btide it the nmchine lender's
table. One summer day Fred
t'ushing was machine tender,
Elwin Boyce was back tender
and tlenry llenderson the
third nmn. Fred was looking
out Ihe window, watching the
raceway, and when Henry
walked by Fred said, "There's
something wrong in that
raceway. There's no small
fish they've all disap-
peared, i'll bet there's an
awful big fish down there that
has scared "out all the little
()nt.""
They bad a dung fork
there thai they used in ban-
dling piles of wasle paper, and
Fred took the fork and went
down under the mill. llenry
and Elwin kept watch out the
window, and all of a sudden
Fred nmdc a jab with the fork
in the water, and the next
thing they knew he was out in
the water in the raceway ---
and somehody besides him
was Ihrthing down there. It
was a Northern Pike 40 inches
hmg they had never seen
stwh a big one. Fred took an
awful bath to get lhe thing, but
bi' gol il.
( t o be c(mt inued )
hn can at best be classified
as fear-nlongers. With in-
lernat tonal ties of the
organizations to which they
hehmg. Ihey are seeking to
pt'eml tn Ihe world the face of
Anlerica as being a fear-
ridden face. The strength of
America, ,n addilion Is its
pl'md backbone, lies in its
nuclear weaponry and nuclear
and other forms of energy,
withnul which wc could not
nanufaclure those items
needed f,r our defensv These
h, ft-wing organizations are
seeking to disembowel our
gills by deproving us not only
of our nuclear weaponry but
all other fornm of our defense
against the monstrous
st rengl h'of the ('omn) unists.
l)tu' to its unihlteral intent,
I'nl snrc I can speak for the
ndllio,ls of gond Americans
affiliated with the Coalition of
I'eaec Thrnugh Strength ill
s;13ing l wouldn't touch that
arms freezepetilion wilh a l.-
ld ixfle? I apphlud lhese who
refused to pill it on the Imlhd
and Io th|, forccd to vote the
quest ion Town Meet ing Day I
slrenuously urgc its rejection.
I, this Opporlmsily Io vote
Ior il st I'l)n Alnerica .
Frauk I,. Cutler
Bridport, Yermont
sumer communicate directly Attorney General,4
with a large corporation? it is clear there
One way is through Attorney fighting for the
General John Easton's consumer.
Consumer Complaint
Division. My frustration has
Academy summer
To the Editor: Fairiee,
Thank you so much for is$250. Vershire
giving such complete included in this
coverage to the Thetford have left it out.
Academy Summer School. It make the
is greatly appreciated, next issue?
There is one omission,
probably inadvertantly --
under costs-- we mention that
the tuition for Thetford, W.
lack of
To the Editor:
It was not intended to be a
theft. Lack of communication,
yes ! between Melvin Couillard
and a gas attendant in
Woodsville, N.H. When each
pumped $3.00 worth of gas in
the tank, unbeknown to each
other; and only one pumping
got paid for at the time of
pumping.
Unaware this had happened,
it was called to my attention at
a later date by a Woodsville
officer, which I then paid for
the extra $3.00 gas
seemed
officer how it could
place. There was
$100 paid.
I want you to
do not steal,
not a thief. I
working
recommendations.
never belittle my
$3.00 at anytime.
We and God know
man. We love you ]
To the Editor: Mr. and
We and God know, son and
brother, that you are an
honest, kind, thoughtful,
helpful, and a hard-working
Comm-il to review school
Oxbow school
will 00ive
" committee' a
(continued from page 1 )
"front office" was responsible
for the problem.
However, the teachers now
have cooled on their blame of
the administration and say
what they are seeking is a
more consistent policy lacking
much of the "gray area" that
is presently built into the
system.
District superintendent
john Fontana-e
situation as he sees it from an
administrative stance, "The
principal is the one you are
paying to make the decisions
and when be makes a decision
it gives everyone else the
opportunity to second-guess
him." He pointed out that the
present policy of more "gray
area decisions" for the
principal to make is a result of
the past failure of a more
"black and white" or rigid
policy.
Fontana warned the board
that although the school's
administration might actually
"have it a lot easier with black
and white policy because the
decisions are already made,"
the board could be opening
itself up to more problems in
the future by opting for a rigid
set of rules with no margin for
flexibility.
"I don't think you can say
Dick Rothenberg (the school's
principal) is responsible for
discipline problems at
Oxbow," said Fontana.
"When you instill a con-
sistency of enforcement in
everyone," be said, "then I
think you can solve the
'problem."
Renberg said that since
the January school board
meeting, he and assistant
principal Charles Ottina had
worked to
down on the
students that
tending their
said regarding
discipline at
what I believe is
situation."
School board
Aroline Putnam
bothers me that
New USDA interest
rates annom00ced
The USDA Agricultural after April 1, 1981, and
Stabilization and Con-
servation Service has an-
nouncod that its February
interest rate for silo and
commodity loans will be 14.0
percent.
The new rate, up from 12.25
percent in January, reflects
the interest rate charged to
the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration by the U.S. Treasury
in February.
George T. Hart, State
Executive Director for ASCS,
said; "The new rate will apply
to all loans approved on or
disbursed during February
1982. The rates on these loam
will again be adjusted bn each
succeeding Jan. 1 in order to
reflect current economic
conditions."
ASCS announced • ,s
"floating" interest rate pdcy
in April of 1981. Interest rates
for all new loans will change
monthly under the new
system. Outstanding loans
will have their interest rate
adjusted once each year on
Jan. 1.
Bradford man gets Naw promolion
BRADFORD-- Navy demonstrated professional
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class abilities,, according to a U.S.
Frank C. Furman, son of Don Navy spokesman.
C. and Lucy L. Furman of
Bradford, has been
meritoriously promoted to his
present rank while serving
aboard the destroyer USS
Vogelgesang homeported in
Newport. R.I.
He received the accelerated
promotion in recognition of
outstanding performance,
duty proficiency and
added that, the
be solved a
Oxbow
Association
Croteau, in
Handbook C
proposal,
committee be
review and adopt i
that it meet for
monthly review
problem is solved.
Fontana called t
"the forum
to some kind of
upon a solution."
The
postpone any
discipline until
Committee meetS
The committee is
members
school board
ministration,
students.
Contract
Also at the
board
contract
teachers at
year.
Only two
denied renewal
tracts because
absence. The
be returning
to fill-in while
t
Oxbow art
Hadley
with
of his plans to
and eighth
construct a
foot sculpture
attached to a
of the high
The fiberglass z
constructed
Plaster of
student models.
story on the
week's Journal
. Nuclear
given his
proposal in
Republicans
and James
spoke in favor
arms limitation
at a
Washington,
limitations
McCoster.
INTERESTING FACT
Theflrst steamship to cross
the Atlantic, the S.S. Modesty: The
Savannah, traveled from others are
Savannah, GA. to Liverpool, for themselves
England, on 1819. The voyage you are.
took 29 days. -Tower,
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Editorial
Police reports
The police reports, a recently begun
regular feature in the Journal
Opinion, have been a topic of con-
siderable discussion within our office
since we initiated them last month,
From e start, we realized that
there were risks involved with run-
ning such a feature and its affect on
our small communities. We have
debated its problems when they have
surfaced on a number of occasions,
and in fact, one week we did not run
the names of those cited in the police
reports because of that debate.
When this occurred, public feed-
back convinced us to stay with the
reports -- names and all. The
majority of the feedback from our
readers indicates that the arrest
reports are of public record and that
people want to and have the right to
know this information through the
newspaper.
Perhaps it would be helpful to
establish what the reports are: the
police reports are compiled from
written accident, incident and arrest
releases provided to us by the
Haverhill Police Department and the
Vermont State Police. The reports do
not attest that those who are arrested
actually committed a crime. We state
that, according to police, a person
was arrested, when, what for, and
when that person will appear in court
to answer the charge.
Obviously, someone could con-
ceivably be wronged by the police
reports ff they are found innocent of
their charge at a subsequent court
hearing or trial. To avoid this oc-
currence we will be offering, within
the next three weeks, court reports
also.
What the issue boils down to in our
minds is a question of consistency. If
a bank were to be robbed in our area,
we as a newspaper would be expected
to reveal the name of the bank and
those who may havebeen arrested for
allegedly robbing it. For lesser
crimes, trouble occurs when you
question where to draw the line. The
line we have drawn is that either we
present our readers with all the in-
formation" available to us or we will
not run the police reports at all.
Enlightening experience
A visit to the local Red Cross
Bloodmobile can be an enlightening
experience. It soon becomes apparent
who the regular donors are.
Policemen, bankers, teachers,
housewives, factory workers,
students -- people from all walks of
life. They come because they know
that not everyone can or will give
b].
If you are not now a blood donor,
think it over. Why aren't you?
Remember that only about four
Americans in every 100 donate blood.
The rest of us are in debt to them for
the recovery of our hospitalized fellow
citizens.
There will he a Red Cross Blood
drawing on Thursday, Feb. 18th at the
Armory in Woodsville from 12:30 to
5:30.
So make the commitment to
become a donor. Together we can
change things.
Letters to the Edit
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Paperm00king in Wells River
(Continuing the history of took 8 hours to do the job that rethreaded through all the
the Adams paper mill from its was later done in 35 to 40 rollers by hand, a tedious
beginnings in 1810) minutes by the hydropuiper, process, Bigger machines,
- The man who ran the like that at East Ryegate,
Reminiscences heaters or hydropulper was have a rope that
Henry Henderson, now called the beaterman. The automatically carries the end
retired and living in Center crew for the paper machine of the paper through the
ttaverhill, worked at the
paper mill in Wells River for
35 years. Before that. he
renmmbers visiting the mill
and seeing the old paper
machine and cylinder dryer
which had been in use since
around 1860.
Mr. ltenderson's father-
in-law, Charles Davis. came
here from Cascade Mills in
Berlin in 1914 and worked in
the Wells River mill for 52
years, serving the last 23
years or so of that time as
superintendant of the mill.
In describing the
papermaking process. Mr.,
Henderson says that for many
years -- until they started
using recycled paper -- their
stock was virgin kraft pulp
(wood fiberL in the form of
big thick sheets in bales of 500
to 600 pounds. The pulp or
other stock was put into
beaters, which were big vats
where it was softened in water
and other ingredients and
beaten into a smooth
suspension called stock or
sometimes "furnish". In more
recent years the beaters were.
replaced by the
-hydropulper". a giant tub
with fins on the inside to shred
the pulp as it whirled around,
To make paper of the
desired color, they added dyes
to the mixture, then it passed
t hroUgh a pipe and poured out
onto a fine screen at the
correct speed to make the
desired thickness of paper.
The screen shook sideways to
dislribule the fibers evenly,
also constantly moved for-
ward on rollers, and the layer
of fibers was picked up by a
moving roll of wet felt. Suction
boxes and presses dike
wringers) removed much of
the water, then the continuous
itself included the machine
tender, the back tender and
the third man.
Years ago the mill used to
burn coal, then it changed
over to oil. Tremendous heat
was used in the dryers so
much that it took 24 hours to
heat them up and 16 hours for
them to cool off again,.
Because of this, when possible
the paper machine was kept
running around-the-clock.
seven days a week, with four
shifts of workers and a swing-
shift schedule.
Henry Henderson says
that years ago there was such
a small turnover of employees
at this mill that when he first
came here to work, he was the
first new man in 15 years.
During the years when
most of the output of this mill
was Christmas wrappings, the
demand was seasonal, so
much of the paper was stored
locally at places such as the
Holbrook Grocery warehouse
in Woodsville, another
warehouse near Ames Garage
(now Gerrity Building Cen-
ter). and the Rogers barn
below Wells River. Much of it
was loaded for shipping in the
summer by college students
on vacation,
This mill. being small,
could take care of smaller
orders than the bigger mills
could afford to bother with,
orders of less than 2000 pounds
of paper. These small orders
kept the Wells River mill
going for years.
Cleaning out the millpond
An episode still
remembered locally (and in
the Barfs Times-Argus) was
the attempt to clean out the
paper mill's millpond in July,
1964. After 50 years of ac-
sheet of paper passed through cumulation of silted sand, clay
a series of steam,heated and,olmed,v..=
rollers Is complete the drying, collect|rely known as muck "
Each successive unit of the - the depth of thewaterin the
dryers had a higher tem-
perature, the last one being
about 220 degrees. At the end
of the machine the paper was
wound into huge rolls, from 72
to 77 inches wide and weighing
650 to 700 pounds apiece.
Mr. tlenderson and Elwin
Beyce { who worked here for 40
years) can remember when
they were still using water-
power in the mill for running
two of the beaters, also for
cylinder pmnps for moving
the stock mixture from the
beaters to the screen.
Sometime later. Mr. Bidwell
installed generators to utilize
the waterpower for electric
lights for the mill. generating
two-thirds of o their own
electricity.
The old waterpowered
beaters were slow-moving and
Red Cross is asking for donors
therapy, in which one
specific part of the blood is
removed and the balance
returned to the donor or
patient in one continuous
process.
- Education about blood
and its medical uses and in
blood supply management
for the medical profession
and the general public.
-- A rare donor registry
of nearly 9.000 on-call
donors nationwide to
provide rare blond to meet
the needs of special
patients.
- Blood resource
sharing, though which
regional blood services
nationwide assist each
other in maintaining a
blood supply adequate to
meet every patients needs.
Fina neing
The Red Cross finances
itself by recovering its
costs from the uses of its
services. It charges
hospitals a processing fee
to cover the expenses of
recruiting donors:
collecting, testing.
processing and distributing
blood and blood products:
'and equipping the service.
The fee is based on cost.
thmpitals pass the charge
on to the patient.
The blood itself is never
charged for because it is a
gift from voluntary donors.
Other funding comes
from private contributions
and from research grants
and conlracts.
WOODSVILLE-- The Red
Cross Bloodmobile will be
at the National Guard
Armory on Feb. 18 from
12:30 to 5:30 p.m.
And according to Red
Cross area spokesman AI
Guy, a good turnout would
be more than appreciated.
The Red Cross believes
that blood should be
available to all who need it,
regardless of race,
economic status, ability to
donate, place of residence.
or membership in a
specific group, said
another group spokesman,
The Red CroSs also
believes that the only way
to ensure that blood will be
available for any patient
needing it is for an
adequate number of a
community's volunteer
donors to donate regularly,
The Red Cross does not
assign credits for blood
donation or require blood
replacement from
recipients of blond. There
is no need for these com-
plex, costly,
discriminatory procedures
when a blood service s
doing its job of furnishing a
reliable community blood
suppl. And the key to a
reliable community blond
supply is regular blood
donation by the com-
munity's caring people who
enjoy good health.
Community Responsibility
The Red Cross asks all
healthy individuals in the
community to join together
as good neighbors in
regular voluntary blood
Platelet concentrate,
used to cohtrol bleeding in
patients whose bone
marrow produces too few
platelets, such as those
with leukemia or un-
dergoing chemotherapy
treatments.
In addition, frac-
tionation, or the separation
of blood plasma into
several derivatives, results
in-
Antihemophillc factor,
used to prevent bleeding in
patients with hemophilia.
Albumin and plasma
protein faction, used for the
treatment of shock.
-- Immune serum
globulin, used to help avert
or modify certain viral
diseases such as hepatitis
and measles.
Red ('ross
Blood Service
To most people, a blood
program suggests the
donating or receiving of
blood. But the Red Cross
blood service does much
more than collect, process,
and distribute blood and
blood products. Other
areas of service may in-
clude-.
Technical expertise to
aid hospitals and their
blood banks and medical
staffs with blood iden-
tification and management
problems.
Collection or isolation
of specific blood com-
ponents by means of
pheresis, an increasingly
important procedure used
in both collection and
donation. This joining of
individual action in the
interest of maintaining a
reliable community blood
supply is what the Red
Cross means by com-
munity responsibility in
blood service.
Anyone between the ages
of 17 and 66 who weighs at
least 110 pounds and is in
good health may donate
bleed through the Red
Cross,
Donating blood is safe
and simple, The entire
process, including medical
check, takes about 45
minutes: the actual
donation requires only 6 to
10 minutes.
Since the national Red
Cross blood service began
in 1947, technological
advances have greatly
increased the uses of blood
Today, the components of
one unit of blood may help
restore several different
patients to health. The 57
Red Cross blood regions
convert the over 5 million
units of whole blood they
currently collect into some
II million units of com-
ponent products. Among
the important products
extracted from whole blood
re
Red cells, used for
patients such as those who
require surgery, lose blood
in accidents or have
anemia or kidney disease
Plasma used for the
treatment of shock and,
when clotting defects oc-
cur. as in hemophilia or
severe liver disease.
pond had decreased to only
two feet. Even though the
pond was no longer being used
for waterpower, there still
was water needed in the
manufacturing process, and
what was coming through
from the pond was dark-
colored and foul-smelling.
Also, because of the pond's
decreased water capacity, the
mill was being flooded every
time there was high water.
At thai time the mill was
being operated by Ben-Mont,
and the plant manager,
Harvey Wilson. decided to
solve the millpond problem by
opening the gate on the dam
and bulldozing the silt down
through it, to create an
adequate channel through the
pondbed
Of course the disturbed
muck was carried down-
stream, turning the river into
a thick, dark syrup -- which
caused considerable distur-
bance among townspeople,
also the State Water
Resources Board and the Fish
and Game Department. A
major concern was the
destruction of spawning areas
for the Connecticut River
trout. At thai time, there were
no authoritative anti-pollution
laws, but the State Water
Resources Board's pollution-
control division recommended
Ihal the bulldozers stop
pushing the silt downstream
and inslead shove it up onto
the riverbank - a request
which was granted.
Problems of
recycling paper
Recycling of paper sounds
like a wonderful conservation
idea until you come down to
the practical problems of
working with it in the paper
mill. because of the extra
things in it which won't
disinlegrate in the
hydropulper, such as pieces of
cloth, styrofoam cups, and
somelimcs an old shoe. Even
though the beatermen watch
closely what is going into the
vat, there is no way they can
spot t he worst troublemakers:
wel-slrenglh papers thai will
nol separate into fibers, but
instead soften into a jellylike
nmss that plugs the pumps
and forms gobs of goo on the
tureen, so that oftentimes a
whole batch of sleek has to be
thrown away.
The poorer the materials
used. the poorer the quality of
paper produced. Every time
there is a weak sP0i in the
paper it ts apt to tear in the
rollers. In the Wells River
paper machine, which is over
.d; years old, whenever the
paper broke il had to be
rollers. Of course the newest
machines, such as those at
International Paper in Jay,
Maine, are completely
automated run by com-
puters and pnshbuttons.
Any defective paper can
be put back into the beaters
and run through again, but
this all takes time -- and time
is money. Mr. Bidwell used to
say that he was glad when he
saw the machine tenders
sitting around with nothing to
do, because that meant the
machine was running well and
the .company was making
money.
Wildlife
Henry Henderson says
that on summer nights the
worst problem with the paper
machine used to be June bugs
and moths. They would fly into
the beaters or onto the screen
or rollers and get crushed and
make quite a mess -- also a
weak spot in the paper, so that
it would tear off.
One night, just before
dark. the paper machine bad
been going just fine with no
trouble -- when all at once the
paper went to pieces. The
crew all went running up to
the wet end of the machine
and discovered that a pigeon
had come in through the
window and gotten caught in
one of the overhead wheels.
The poor thing was whirling
around and around, and
feathers were flying all over
the place -- seemed like a
bushel of them. The men were
an hour and a half cleaning up
,the mess and getting the
machine going again.
Through the years, they
have seen all kinds of wild
animals from the mill win-
dows - deer, beaver, rac-
we purchased in Vermont. The
car had a defective part which
cost a considerable amount of
money to repair. It has been a
very frustrating problem for
us. Not only has it been a
financial strain but there is a
possibility this company will
not reimburse us for repairing
the damage the inferior part
caused.
I am very angry. I feel any
defective product bought by
consumers, by law, should be
liable to the manufacturer. I
Excent/ona/
pho00h+
To the Editor:
The pholography of F.
Itobl)ins is. without a doubt,
exceptional and has added a
ne di mensinn In your paper.
Iler gifted al)ilily in capturing
the besl of ht'al scenery on
black and while fihn is out-
standing, ller photos con-
sistantly reveal Ihe abundant
heauly of the tipper Valley,
renlinding even those toobusy
to see for themselves, that
there s(qus no finer place to
live.
Keep publishing her work!
We enjoy il so?
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Gitchel
& Son
Piermont
Opposed to
arms freeze
To the Editor:
The writer is a member of
the American Security
('ouncil. which in turn is af-
filiated with the Coalition of
t'eace Through Strength. The
('nalition of Peace Through
Strength is comprised of 274
Metal)ors of Congress, (a
nhljority of Congress) and 126
nalional organizations, of
hich the 2',. million member
V.F.W. was the iarges.t to join
in H$1.
Two-hundred and twenty-
nine U.S. tepresentatives co-
Slmsorod llouse Concurrent
lte)lution No. 16,3 calling for
a national strategy of Peace
Through Strength, in addition
to which l0 state legislatures
passed the Resolution For
coons, skunks, hedgehogs and Peace Through
w...d..h....ka Wranuent Strength-eight of which
' ' : : " " ..... |i (*Oa|lt " ton ; "
visitors in'- t Tnfll were .D
squirrels, who were eager for TIx, re are those m our midst
handouts of peanuts and other
goodies. Another visitor was a
beaver that would come right
into the mill. He came in about
twice one summer, between
midnight and 2 a.m. For some
reason the mill seemed to
fascinate him, and he came
down the ramp into the
machine room, walked the
whole length of the room, went
up the stairs into the beater
room and checked it out, then
went do'n into the boiler
room - a place you wouldn't
think he would go. because of
the heal but he went down
there and nosed all around the
boilers, then went back up and
away across the dam.
Where the water came
into the mill, it ran through a
screen, and sometimes fish
would gel trapped there.
ltenry Powers. who used to
work at the mill as a
healern|an, bad an old yellow
tnmcal that used to follow him
h) work. and would sit by that
screen by the hour to catch
fish. Every time he got one he
would bring it up to Henry and
drop il at his feet to show itoff.
Another place that fish
used to congregate was in the
raceway, where the water
came out through the big old
a[cr wheel, and the fish
seemed to like the cool. dark
pools. Righl over the raceway
there was a window, and
btide it the nmchine lender's
table. One summer day Fred
t'ushing was machine tender,
Elwin Boyce was back tender
and tlenry llenderson the
third nmn. Fred was looking
out Ihe window, watching the
raceway, and when Henry
walked by Fred said, "There's
something wrong in that
raceway. There's no small
fish they've all disap-
peared, i'll bet there's an
awful big fish down there that
has scared "out all the little
()nt.""
They bad a dung fork
there thai they used in ban-
dling piles of wasle paper, and
Fred took the fork and went
down under the mill. llenry
and Elwin kept watch out the
window, and all of a sudden
Fred nmdc a jab with the fork
in the water, and the next
thing they knew he was out in
the water in the raceway ---
and somehody besides him
was Ihrthing down there. It
was a Northern Pike 40 inches
hmg they had never seen
stwh a big one. Fred took an
awful bath to get lhe thing, but
bi' gol il.
( t o be c(mt inued )
hn can at best be classified
as fear-nlongers. With in-
lernat tonal ties of the
organizations to which they
hehmg. Ihey are seeking to
pt'eml tn Ihe world the face of
Anlerica as being a fear-
ridden face. The strength of
America, ,n addilion Is its
pl'md backbone, lies in its
nuclear weaponry and nuclear
and other forms of energy,
withnul which wc could not
nanufaclure those items
needed f,r our defensv These
h, ft-wing organizations are
seeking to disembowel our
gills by deproving us not only
of our nuclear weaponry but
all other fornm of our defense
against the monstrous
st rengl h'of the ('omn) unists.
l)tu' to its unihlteral intent,
I'nl snrc I can speak for the
ndllio,ls of gond Americans
affiliated with the Coalition of
I'eaec Thrnugh Strength ill
s;13ing l wouldn't touch that
arms freezepetilion wilh a l.-
ld ixfle? I apphlud lhese who
refused to pill it on the Imlhd
and Io th|, forccd to vote the
quest ion Town Meet ing Day I
slrenuously urgc its rejection.
I, this Opporlmsily Io vote
Ior il st I'l)n Alnerica .
Frauk I,. Cutler
Bridport, Yermont
sumer communicate directly Attorney General,4
with a large corporation? it is clear there
One way is through Attorney fighting for the
General John Easton's consumer.
Consumer Complaint
Division. My frustration has
Academy summer
To the Editor: Fairiee,
Thank you so much for is$250. Vershire
giving such complete included in this
coverage to the Thetford have left it out.
Academy Summer School. It make the
is greatly appreciated, next issue?
There is one omission,
probably inadvertantly --
under costs-- we mention that
the tuition for Thetford, W.
lack of
To the Editor:
It was not intended to be a
theft. Lack of communication,
yes ! between Melvin Couillard
and a gas attendant in
Woodsville, N.H. When each
pumped $3.00 worth of gas in
the tank, unbeknown to each
other; and only one pumping
got paid for at the time of
pumping.
Unaware this had happened,
it was called to my attention at
a later date by a Woodsville
officer, which I then paid for
the extra $3.00 gas
seemed
officer how it could
place. There was
$100 paid.
I want you to
do not steal,
not a thief. I
working
recommendations.
never belittle my
$3.00 at anytime.
We and God know
man. We love you ]
To the Editor: Mr. and
We and God know, son and
brother, that you are an
honest, kind, thoughtful,
helpful, and a hard-working
Comm-il to review school
Oxbow school
will 00ive
" committee' a
(continued from page 1 )
"front office" was responsible
for the problem.
However, the teachers now
have cooled on their blame of
the administration and say
what they are seeking is a
more consistent policy lacking
much of the "gray area" that
is presently built into the
system.
District superintendent
john Fontana-e
situation as he sees it from an
administrative stance, "The
principal is the one you are
paying to make the decisions
and when be makes a decision
it gives everyone else the
opportunity to second-guess
him." He pointed out that the
present policy of more "gray
area decisions" for the
principal to make is a result of
the past failure of a more
"black and white" or rigid
policy.
Fontana warned the board
that although the school's
administration might actually
"have it a lot easier with black
and white policy because the
decisions are already made,"
the board could be opening
itself up to more problems in
the future by opting for a rigid
set of rules with no margin for
flexibility.
"I don't think you can say
Dick Rothenberg (the school's
principal) is responsible for
discipline problems at
Oxbow," said Fontana.
"When you instill a con-
sistency of enforcement in
everyone," be said, "then I
think you can solve the
'problem."
Renberg said that since
the January school board
meeting, he and assistant
principal Charles Ottina had
worked to
down on the
students that
tending their
said regarding
discipline at
what I believe is
situation."
School board
Aroline Putnam
bothers me that
New USDA interest
rates annom00ced
The USDA Agricultural after April 1, 1981, and
Stabilization and Con-
servation Service has an-
nouncod that its February
interest rate for silo and
commodity loans will be 14.0
percent.
The new rate, up from 12.25
percent in January, reflects
the interest rate charged to
the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration by the U.S. Treasury
in February.
George T. Hart, State
Executive Director for ASCS,
said; "The new rate will apply
to all loans approved on or
disbursed during February
1982. The rates on these loam
will again be adjusted bn each
succeeding Jan. 1 in order to
reflect current economic
conditions."
ASCS announced • ,s
"floating" interest rate pdcy
in April of 1981. Interest rates
for all new loans will change
monthly under the new
system. Outstanding loans
will have their interest rate
adjusted once each year on
Jan. 1.
Bradford man gets Naw promolion
BRADFORD-- Navy demonstrated professional
Machinist's Mate 3rd Class abilities,, according to a U.S.
Frank C. Furman, son of Don Navy spokesman.
C. and Lucy L. Furman of
Bradford, has been
meritoriously promoted to his
present rank while serving
aboard the destroyer USS
Vogelgesang homeported in
Newport. R.I.
He received the accelerated
promotion in recognition of
outstanding performance,
duty proficiency and
added that, the
be solved a
Oxbow
Association
Croteau, in
Handbook C
proposal,
committee be
review and adopt i
that it meet for
monthly review
problem is solved.
Fontana called t
"the forum
to some kind of
upon a solution."
The
postpone any
discipline until
Committee meetS
The committee is
members
school board
ministration,
students.
Contract
Also at the
board
contract
teachers at
year.
Only two
denied renewal
tracts because
absence. The
be returning
to fill-in while
t
Oxbow art
Hadley
with
of his plans to
and eighth
construct a
foot sculpture
attached to a
of the high
The fiberglass z
constructed
Plaster of
student models.
story on the
week's Journal
. Nuclear
given his
proposal in
Republicans
and James
spoke in favor
arms limitation
at a
Washington,
limitations
McCoster.
INTERESTING FACT
Theflrst steamship to cross
the Atlantic, the S.S. Modesty: The
Savannah, traveled from others are
Savannah, GA. to Liverpool, for themselves
England, on 1819. The voyage you are.
took 29 days. -Tower,
