The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
KINGAN'S WILL
SPEND $1,000,
DANISH STENCIL
New Atmosphere Deal Is
Pledged to City by
Company Head.
START ON CONDENSER
Installation Will Require
From 80 to As Days,
Says Official.
START ON CONDENSER


people of Indianapolis was pledged
today by John r. bingham, chair
man of the board of Kingan & Co.,
who announced the proposed ex-
penditure of $1,000 for new equip
ment to Danish the packing plant
stencil, even when the plant is OPP
Grating at normal capacity.
The stencil situation, according to
conclusions reached at a conference
between DR.. Herman G. Morgan,
city health officer, and Kingan Off
Gals, is this:
Indianapolis can hope for no re-
lief from the stencil until the
plants quota under the agricultural
administration act hog slaughter
program is filled.
Completion of this program, which
has overloaded the plants carcass
reduction capacity, may be expected
within approximately ten days.
Installation of new machinery to
absorb obnoxious odors that nor
mally are part of the packing bust
ness will require from thirty to
forty-t1ve days.
Elimination Is Promised
Then, Kingan officials and DR..
Morgan believe, Indianapolis will be
spared WhiffS of the intolerable
stencil that has made the city's
name byword among tourists
otherwise impressed by its beauty
For score of years." according
to Kinghan, our engineering depart
ment has been experimenting on
methods of correcting this stencil
situation.
I'VE have appealed to govern
mental and other sources for aid.
OF course, some progress has been
made, but now, we feel we have
the problem taken care of through
purchase of the new obnoxious
vapor condenser" and any odors in
our plant under normal capacity,
will be eliminated"
In Use at Milwaukee
New blood dryers and ventilators
of various types have been installed
at the Kingan plant, according to
Kinghan, but what promises to be a
permanent solution was reached by
inspection of the new vapor con-
denSer invented and in operation
at the Milwaukee garbage disposal
plant.
Contracts for the equipment at
cost of $1,000 have been awarded,
bingham said, and installation will
be made by the plant maintenance
crews. The base and foundation for
the condenser already have been
| laid.
Pumps to supply the 400-gallon-
a-minute washer system arrived
Wednesday. The condenser, accord
ing to Frank T. Lewis, chief Kingan
engineer, will be connected to seven
dryers that serve the forty eight
rendering tanks with 100000 pounds
capacity.
10000 Pigs Over Capacity
Odors from these tanks will be
vapor washed through the condenser
before being released through the
stacks. At present, the vapors are
released into the air as they come
from the dryers.
Under the AAA program, the
Kingan plant is killing 10000 pigs
week over capacity, according to
Kinghan, and their disposal pre-
sents difficult problem. From IS
to 30 per cent of these are thrown
into tanks and reduced to grease.
Kinghan pointed out that, under
the plants normal capacity, only
the trimmings" of the pigs and
hogs are used in tankage, but I'M
der AAA regulations, the entire
carcass is reduced to pulp. Con-
| sequently, disposal of the refuse
after extraction of grease, is the
problem Kingan'S faces.
Aid Given by City
Finally, in desperation, Kinghan
said, we started disposing of this
refuse in our boilers. The govern
ment doesn't take any excuses and
kills must be made. 1t is the overs
loading Of our plant that has ag-
gravated the stencil, but we feel
that with completion of the gov
eminent program and installation
of our new equipment, all odors will
be eliminated
William Hurd, city building COM
missioner. commenting today on the
Kingan stencil abatement program.
announced that the company had
co-operated fully recently with the
city in correcting what Hurd termed
'one of the worst smoke conditions
I have encountered.
The Kingan company spent Sl8,-
900 on this project, ,Hurd pointed
out.