I thought about it all weekend, and I have decided that I don't want to go into Mitch's personality quirks on this forum. The whole point of the Dorr-Oliver story was that I was surprised that people would vote against a nuts-and-bolts proposal for social reasons, and I don't see what good can come from me going into a detailed description of the very social issues that I considered to be irrelevant at the time.
Our paper mill is actually pretty small as paper mills go, which is one reason why it was eventually shut down. I understand that it now uses re-cycled raw material exclusively, and I don't know how it compares in size to other re-cycling plants. P&G originally bought Charmin to get its facilities in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the Cheboygan plant, which had only recently been bought by Charmin, came with the deal. A lot of people were surprised that it lasted as long as it did, some 30 years. The current owner has operated it for about 23 years now. He tried to sell it some years ago, but the deal fell through.
We have had our share of sub zero temps this year, and winter is not half over yet. We live only a few miles out of town, but our temps commonly vary 5-10 degrees either way from Cheboygan's officially reported ones. We got down to 24 below the other night and Cheboygan reported only eight below. We are already at 23 below tonight, and Cheboygan is reporting 10 below. I'm sure that I said this before, but there ought to be a law against anything below zero. Zero is plenty cold enough to ice the lakes over so people can go snowmobiling on them, and we don't need it to be any colder than that.
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