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BOB 0. BOWER 

 enter into the record, so I am going to refer to the 

 size of the animals in order to get the size into the 

 record. 



I mainly brought this panel along because 

 in a fairly recent radio program on a Seattle station 

 Mr. Benson, of the Pulp and Paper Association, said sul- 

 fite waste liquor must not have been our problem in the 

 Olympia area because there had been no change in the 

 Olympia oyster since the pulp mill shut down. As manager 

 of Ellis Brothers Oyster Company I have been charged with 

 handling an Olympia oyster bed area for several years, in 

 fact since 19A5 . We have been running an estuarial 

 experiment for 40 years in South Puget Sound. As lay people 

 we know what sulfite waste liquor does. You put the liquor 

 in the water and the whole area declines; you take it out, 

 the area comes back. 



The example here, I just happened to have a 

 sample of Olympia oysters caught in 1956 taken out of the 

 water in 1957. They are about the size of the eraser on a 

 lead pencil. These caught in 1966 and taken out in 1967, 

 as you can see, are four or five times that size. Mr. 

 Benson says there has been no improvement. 



I appended these other animals here. 1965 

 set, 196A set, and 1963 set, to show what our oysters do. 



