sources were moved into a Depart- 

 ment of Resource Economics and 

 Community Development. Thus the 

 social scientists continued a broad 

 spectrum of investigations directed at 

 current economic problems. E. F. 

 Jansen, Jr. became the department 

 chairman. 



O. B. Durgin joined the Depart- 

 ment of Sociology in 1950. Besides 

 teaching and research responsibilities 

 he has held several administrative 

 positions including that of University 

 Registrar, Director of the Institute of 

 Natural and Environmental Resources 

 and Director of the Biometrics Labora- 

 tory. But over the years Durgin has 

 been concerned w^ith census data — a 

 yardstick of change in the social char- 

 acteristics of the country. Each decade 

 he develops ways to make the tremen- 

 dous amounts of data gathered in the 

 census accessible and useful. As con- 

 sultants to the N.H. Office of State 

 Planning he and research assistant 

 Anne Palmer, using the computer, 

 analyze and interpret these data thus 

 making the material available to orga- 

 nizations such as churches, town 

 school boards, and county and state 

 officials. 



R. Tichenor, Jansen and J. 

 Pickering did a case study of a recy- 

 cling system of municipal waste in 

 Nottingham, New Hampshire (1975). 

 The potential for recycling was such 

 that it was studied in a broader context 

 in 1978. Seventy-five percent of the 

 citizens contacted six months into the 

 program favored recycling. Daily out- 

 put was 1.18 pounds of recycled mate- 

 rials and 0.93 pounds of rubbish per 

 person. Costs per ton of recycled mate- 

 rial were $15.19. Net revenue is highly 

 dependent on market price which at 

 the time of the study was $16.83 per 

 ton. 



R. A. Andrews, and associates, 

 during this time period published eight 

 studies under the general title of 

 Marketing Agricultural Products in 

 New Hampshire. The first study 

 treated livestock assembly costs and 

 adjustments needed to improve re- 

 gional livestock marketing. The re- 

 search team then moved to look at 

 marketing channels for select veg- 

 etables, potatoes and fruit. Andrews, 

 G. M. Leighton and N. C. Latremore 

 evaluated the market potential and 

 prospects for New Hampshire produce 

 and vegetables (1977). They inter- 

 viewed vegetable producers, retail 

 stores and wholesale produce opera- 

 tors in the State and predicted that 

 "sales through roadside markets and 

 wholesale to other retailers will likely 

 expand at a rate three to five percent 

 greater than the rate of population 

 increase." 



Responding to the oil crisis, M. M. 

 Dalton, J. H. Herrington, O. B. Durgin 

 and Andrews (1977) investigated fuel- 

 wood marketing. They pointed out 

 that wood had been a major source of 

 household fuel for New Hampshire 

 residents prior to 1940. During the 

 19th century fuel wood was so scarce 

 that it was imported from the maritime 

 provinces of Canada. Until the oil cri- 

 sis in 1973, the fuel wood marketing 

 system had virtually disappeared. The 

 shortage of oil and the increased costs 

 of oil and electricity motivated con- 

 sumers to seek fuel wood as a substi- 

 tute. Fifty-two percent of the house- 

 holds sampled in the State "burned 

 wood in a stove, fireplace, or both, and 

 a few burned it in furnaces." "Wood 

 appears to be an 'opportunity' fuel 

 since many households cut all or part 

 of their supplies on their own land." 



Andrews and J. C. Dammann 

 (1978) analyzed the fuel wood market- 



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