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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 14 Sep 1983, p. 36

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Carpentersville, IL 60140 This Friday • Saturday & Sunday Machine takes in cans then dispenses cash By ELLEN DEBENPORT CONWAY, Ark. (UPI) - It looks like an automatic bank teller and It works like a reverse ven­ ding machine; put In empty aluminum cans for recycling and the machine dispenses money. It's called CanBank and more than 100 have popped up throughout the country since Poly- vend Inc. began making them in June. The metal fabrication firm now has a backlog of orders and Poly- vend officials are marveling at the number of Americans who are willing to recycle their used cans for a little spare change. "It's basically a sophisticated trash compacter," said Richard Anderson, general manager of Polyvend's contracts division "You can feed it one can at a time or you can bulk feed it." THE CANBANK WEIGHS the cans, crushes them and blows them into a storage compartment th$M:an hold 3,000 pounds of scrap aluminum . Then it dispenses coins to the recycler at the going rate -- currently about 20 to 25 cents a pound. There are 24 aluminum •cans in a pound. ' » "You can't really cheat It," Anderson said. "If you try to weigh material down, it kicks it out." A'magnet inside the CanBank traps any steel cans fed into the Aluminum companies are eager year, he said. ^ ip to have the cans because it takes 95 percent less energy to smelt aluminum from used cans than from imported bauxite, said Jim Darwin, Polyvend's marketing services manager. Other coun­ tries, especially Japan, Germay and Denmark, also want secon­ dary aluminum to save energy making other products, he said. CanBank was designed and patented by Golden Recycling Co. of Wheat Ridge, Colo., the recycl­ ing arm of Coors, And it is involv­ ed in marketing with Poly vend. "They are trying to get their hands on all the aluminum they can," Anderson said. MORE THAN HALF the 60 billion drink cans produced yearly already are being recycled na­ tionally. Colorado has achieved 80 percent reclamation through voluntary efforts, and other states encoCiarge recycling to clean up highways. Anderson said recycling will flourish if it is made convenient. The machines --13 by 8 foot metal boxes that are nearly 10 feet high and weigh 4,000 pounds -- are to be placed In parking lots at grocery and discount stores or outside vfait food restaurants where they are accessible. ^ Polyvend, originally' a metal stamping company, has thrived for 20 years in the vending machine business. Founder J.P. traps any steel cans fed into the v machine business. Founder J.P., By VERNON SCOTT machine and drops them into a \stoltz invented the glass front ven- UPI Hollywood Reporter trash can, along with any other dina machine in allowtna HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- "FILL 'ER UP - I JUST MADE A GREAT DEAL WITH TH$ RUSSIANS!" Robertson recalls blacklist days ByVERNONSCOTT trash can, along with any other materials not light enough to be blown Into the storage compart-' ment. The CanBank owner -- soft drink and beer companies, in­ vestors, anyone interested in a lit­ tle profit -- then can sell the crushed cans to a scrap dealer or to an aluminum company for recycling. • "THERE'S ALWAYS going to be a margin between what he pays the customer (who uses CanBank) and what he can get on the market," Andei4on said. If a CanBank is in a good loca­ tion, it probably will collect about 3,000 cans a week and the owner recover his $18,000 investment in a HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- With publication of the paperback edition of "Indecent Ex- „ posure," the book detailing Hollywood's It is°the largest independent pro- seamiest scandal, Cliff Robertson Is reminded ducer of license plates in the hi® three-year blacklisting by the town's powerbrokers. 1 ding machine in 1964, allowing customers to see what they were buying for the first time. United States, makes microwave cabinets for Sharp and a sanding machine for Black and Decker. • Its new CanBank*- -- painted blue and brown with space left over for advertising -- already are in operation in Houston, Kan­ sas City, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Dallas and smaller cities. Ander­ son sees a bright future. "People are recycling now who never did it hefore, like myself," Anderson said. "My wife has two trash cans at our house now -- one for aluminum cans and one for everything else^ Cliff is a whole man again, working regular­ ly after three years of enforced unemployment by venal, vengeful men at the studio and in Columbia Pictures' former New York board room. \ - Movietown's old boy circuit slammed the door on Cliff after be reported David Begelman, then Columbia president, for embezzling $10,000 in a 1978 scheme to defraud the studio. - Begelman wrote a. check for $10,000 to Robertson, then forged his name and collected the 10 grand himself. Hollywood-gate was discovered when the Internal Revenue Service INTERNATIONAL FOOD FAIR • Apollo's of Elgin • Corn's Freeze of Elgin • Malone's Hideout of Dundee • So-Jim Restaurant, of Carpentersville •Black Forest of Dundee • Cattleman's of Algonquin • Floyd's of Carpentersville • El Niagra of Dundee , Masi's of Dundee • Inglenook Pantry of St. Charles • 7-Eleven Food Stores • Smittens Bakery of South Elgin Beer Gardens supplied by Budweiser Wine made available by Coastal Valley Wines FEATURING: SUNDAY ONLY Carpentersville-Dundee Jamboree Highland Games' • Bagpipe Competition • Highland Games Competition • Highland Dancers Competition SPECIAL EVENTS • Carnival-Carnival Rides • Concessions Galore • Parade • Mini-Events • Skydivers • Antique Car Show • Country & Western Night • Auction by Curly • Cowboy Hat Contest • Belly Dancing Demonstration • Games • Arts & Crafts Show • Children's Day/Games, Parade • 50's Dance & Band • Square Dance Demonstration • Helicopter Rides • One-Two-Three Game • New Car Show See You at Carpenter Park! out, Cliff was the only vic-AS IT TURNED tim. Begelman was convicted and subsequently let off with a slap oh the wrist. . He and his cronies, whose principal talent is exploiting the creativity of others, made it ap- pear Robertson was the villain, when in fact he was the only hero in the tawdry scenario. They deny existence of a black list. But Robertson didn't work for some three years following Begelman's duplicity, which does not suggest coincidence. Robertson had been forewarned but he Is a man for the long run. His fronds likened him to Don Quixote, and replenishing the lost y< advised' against his decision'to tilt at such rebuilding the sea wall, powerful windmills. Douglas Trumbull, another man of Integrity, hired Robertson for a top role in "Brainstorm'* with Natalie Wood, who died during produc­ tion. Ironically, 'IBrtlnstorm" was filmed at IGM whegj&egelman landed on his feet after Columbia. When Begelman claimed noblesse oblige for Cliff's hiring, Robertson quickly said he was hired over Begelman's ob­ jections. r In addition to "Brairistorm," to be released this fall, Robertson co-starred with Jacqueline Bissetln "Class," released earlier this year, and has completed a leading role in Bob ^Fosse's "Star 80." This season Robertson has been added to the cast of CBS-TV's "Falcon Crest," a means of years of income and for uildingthei BUT BY THE TIME Begelman Involved the innocent actor in his crime, Robertson already was tilting with the California Coastal Com­ mission over his beach property in La Jolla, Calif. .More than seven years ago a Pacific storm tore away the 50-year-old sea wall fronting Robertson's house. It also wrecked a sewer line. The city of San Diego repaired the sewer with a massive concrete sleeve. Because the city altered the sewer routes the sea wall had to be changed. Robertson, an avid ecologist, consulted Cal Tech engineers and other experts about rebuilding the wall and presented the plans to the CCC. The bureaucrats^ killed the plans, claiming they did not conform to the "exact footprint" of the original wall, thus constituting new con­ struction, which the commission forbids. IT WAS CATCH 22 for Cliff. He was a triple victim -- bf the storm, commission intran­ sigence and, worse, the continuing erosion of his property by the Pacific. p •/ For seven years Cliff spent a fortune fighting CCC staffers who offered to "okay the wall if he would cede his beach to the state, thereby denying him his 14th Amendment rights. . TO HIS CREDIT, Clilf is not as bitter he might be. He is, of course, contemptuous of Begelman and the men who tried to protect him by applying pressure and threats. Robertson believes their chickens will some day come home to roost and that meanwhile the unprincipled, unscrupulous men who manipulate Hollywood behind the scenes must live with themselves, something he wouldn't wish on his worst enemies. Work of housewife figured at $7 hour I T H A C A , N . Y . ( U P I ) - T h e housework of women whoNcare- for their families full-time is worth an average of $7 an hour in 1982 dollars, a new analysis shows. . C o n s u m e r e c o n o m i s t s K e i t h Bryant and Catherine Zlck base their figure Gov. George Deukemajian this year replace "on what they call the ed some of Jerry Brown's appointees to the commission and last month Cliff finally got permission to rebuild the wall. * "You CAN fight city hall," Robertson said, grinning. "Y/U just have to stick to /our guns when you thpk you're right." THE WlfEEL HAS taken* a full, turn for Robertson, although he will never recoup lost opportunities and Income from his three-year black listing. He brpke the black list barrier when director DON'T TAKE A CHANCE ON YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTH Dundee Dental Center Dr. Louis Blanchot, Director DENTURES-J145 * Cus tom Made-Upper o r Lower o p p o r t u n i t y c o s t rather than the market alternative method. The latter assumes the value of housework is what it would cost to have outsiders do the ^orr ^he method they devised assumes the value of housework by a full-time housewife with two children is the lowest wage rate that would lead her to take an outside Job. Bryant, a Cornell University professor o f c o n s u m e r economics and hous­ ing, said the value of a wife's housework In­ creases as the age of her youngest child in­ creases. Zlck Is now an assis­ tant professor at the University of Utah. 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