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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1956)
CO o o O o o o o o O o. Bonneville Takes Steps To Prevent . Industry Layoffs" PortiOd U.R- Eunncville fPowtr Administration hasl t?Ken step to ry to halt a lay off of workers because of a cut back if interruptible - : o o o pow.tr PBA announced an emer gency programIor regulation .of Columbia rir reservoirs plus procurement ofo power from other sources wh.ic!r it said misjhlO ;J!ow industrial power users siih a9 jfluoiinum firms j to maintain full operation. Cut Announced Earner itiad b'cu announced that 500.000 kilowatts, of inter rupted power would be ctit oft to 13 electro-process industries Q?g midnight tonight 0Aluminusi Company of Artlcr q icaat Vancouver. Wash., said Wednesday V would "lay off li0 qO workers each -fct its Vancouver O and wenalcnce plants utcausc wtf the cutback. Alcoa indicated 0the BP A announcement may re sult in a char.pe in 'the layoff plans o u An official a( Kaiser- Alumi (J?um and Chemical corporation cji Spokan-jSaidutlie" supplemen q tal p',5.er'woiild allow its plants at Mcd and" TreuJwood to con tims without layoffs. The. Rcyn r olds Retals Company with pLtnts at Jrould.iit, .Ore., and TV.. .:-... ... O niaintain productiorr. " ' To Draw Storag Water. Jack Jolliffe. TBA. power re Siources manager, said the plon Ccalled for drawing down-storage water behind Grand Coulee to keep generators there on the power production line. Other wise, liiey. would be idle this, month. The water drawn down therefjvould be replaced in Jan uary or tairr hv a ffraw.Hnwn M-Khind0Hungrr Horse dam in Montana. O BPA also said it would- get 80,000 kilowatt from Califbr qO nia Oregon Power -.Company arM Eugene's Water & Electric cPoard.0 4 CD The Christian- church is be lieved to exist .within every capi tal fityof ffie world, with but three exceptions Lhasa in Tib et, Mecca in Arabia-, and Kabul in Afghanistan. O - AJkansns is. the most tieav'ilv Q wooded of tlu- states. It is esti O mated the present stand oi'mar Ktabl timber is in excess nf 30 million board feet, according to current estimates." o c o o to o ' shown here is "Sparkling Turquois," just one of the ' - J VTJ o f . heavenly colors. . . x. Christmas day .-' 'jSjiJ'o0 G - . VS. yiX-f "it came' ' 'i 4 J "-.-"' - A x- T f,m Vvb o 51st. Year MEDFORDti Urutea Ptcss if uu ucaiej Aire MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, lXkrifp'; 7 . CROSSING A MAKESHIFT BRIDGE into Austria are these fugitives frcra Russian terror in Hungary. One man carries a child on his back. A woman on the left bank carries anctk er child. (International Soundphoto) Great Salt Lake Mineral Extraction Getting Bigger Salt Lake City (U.Ri Amer ica's so-called "dead sea." the Great Salt Lake, is very much alive commercially speaking. And it's getting "liveliar" each year as the multi-million dollar business of extracting var ious minerals, mainly salt, from its briny waters continues to ex pand at a rapid rate. The lake, which covered the entire northwest section of Utah plus parts of Idaho and Nevada in prehistoric times, is called a "dead sea'" because only small organisms like a brine shrimp the length of a pencil point can survive in the highly salty water. But this fact is responsible for a lucrative tourist business that has grown up around the lake. For the heavy salt concentration makes it impossible to do any thing but float in the water, and many a weary traveler takes a dip in the saline waters to put to a test the lake's slogan "You can't sink." Minerals extracted from the Great Salt Lake, besides common tabic salt, include sodium sul fate or Glauber's Salts, magnes ium chloride, potassium chloride and calcium sulfate. Production of salt by evapor Most heavenly of all sweaters to give or to get! Meet the merriest mixers of the season . . . cheered with color, blessed with Kharafleece cloud-soft, divinely washable . . . and never, never mbths! Sure make good fashion connections all year long shown here is "Sparkling heavenly colors. . '-vr J- ... ation ot lake waters has risen 54 per cent from 116.694 tons in 1950 to 180,000 tons in 1955. Some Mythi' The Utah Bureau of Business and Economic Researci estimates that this production will more than double in the next four years because of expansion of present salt producing facilities and construction of a new plant that alone will produce up to 200,000 tons of salt a year. The new plant, built by Chem ical Salt Production, will go into operation in 1959. It is estimated that the north ern Utah lake can yield enough salt to supply the total industrial and domestic requirements of the United States for 200 to 240 years. The sodium sulfate in the water is used in the manufac ture of paper, glass, in synthetic detergents as a bulking agents, and in the smelting of copper nickel ore. The main use of the potassium chloride in the water is as a fer tilizer, but it also can be used in conjunction with the magnes ium chloride to produce valuable magnesium metal. Strange tales have grown up CHRISTMAS Turquois," just one of Price 10c RIBUNE United Fresi -Jul) Leased Wir 1956 8 Pages Night Club Material Not Suitable for TV San Francisco U.P.) Too many television personalities have proved flops in night clubs because they try to use the same material that goes over on TV, according to a couple of veteran night club operators, Dave Sic gel and Bert Grover. 'The two operate the Cal-Neva club on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe and hire such big-name attractions as George Gobel, Jimmy Durante and Mickey Rooncy. "Television has done more to encourage talent than anything else in the history of show busi ness," Siegel said. "But you can't just step cold from TV onto a night club stage and expect to click." It all boils down, Siegel said, to the hard fact that a person who'll sit and watch a TV comic for free isn't nearly so demand ing as the one who pays several dollars to see a floor show." Unfortunately, Siegel added, some stars who have stepped from TV to night clubs haven't kept this in"mind and sharpened their material accordingly. The jump from night club to TV, on the other hand, is usually much easier because the per former has gone through the worst, Grover said. Facing a live audience that has spent good money to see you is the prime test, he added. The human skeleton is made up of about 200 bones of which 74 are located in the head, neck and trunk and the remainder found principally in the legs and arms. about the lake. Only 65 years ago newspapers reported "eye witness" accounts of herds of whales and sea monsters in it. A tribe of fierce Indians also reportedly inhabited the islands in the lake. And a giant whirl pool, thought to be the lake's out let, threatened to suck boats through underground waterways into the Pacific Ocean. But the facts about the lake its amazing buoyancy and salt and mineral productivity are even more startling than such myths about it. the Olympic Athletes Hold Beach Party Sydney UP.! British and American track and field ath letes took over Coogee Beach for a midnight nude swimming party yesterday and sent po lice investigating calls of bois terous conduct and drunken rev elry. Both police and American con sular officials admitted that members of the visiting track and field teams had swum nude at the suburban Sydney beach after returning to their hotels following the Commonwealth versus United States track meet Wednesday night. Officials de nied, however, that attempts had been made to overturn a taxi, tear up stop signs ar.d bundles of newspapers. Police Sergeant Townsend of the Randwick Station said com plaints had been lodged by ir ate residents of the Coogee area, but he said the athletes had ob ediently returned to their hotels when asked to by police. Methane comprises about 90 per cent of the content of nat ural gas, sometimes known as marsh gas. Methane is formed chiefly by the decaying vegeta tion and it is found in marshes. TUP HMITFn C,TATF; WATt)klAI R A Kl kf OP -iL. ) X SJ in nice Many Bills Ready" For Salem iU.P.V More bills', will be ready for introduction at the start of the 1957 Legisla ture than at any previous ses sion, Sam Haley legislative coun sel, predicted today. Haley said that as of Nov. 1. 183 requests from state agencies for bill drafting had been filed with his office which drafts most of the bills for state depart-, ments, legislators and interim committees. Requests from legislators themselves are just beginning to come in, Haley said, with 69 Loaded Gasoline Tanker Crashes; Driver Escapes Roseburg t'U.R) A gaso line tanker truck loaded with 1800 gallons of fuel crashed into a ditch near here Wednesday and burned after exploding, minutes after the driver has escaped the vehicle by kicking out the wind shield. Joe C. Hites. 45. Roseburg. told officers he struck a slick spot on the highway before" the truck slid off the road into the ditch. "I couldn't remember getting out of the truck but I' do re member kicking out a window," he said. oA tipjroni Santa- -0 V 2 " o cO,G ANGELS 1957-LeJisIature on hand Nov laspartaed a toU1 o horses Willi OJ UlltlMJV. 1 , 13,0. Most, of th.e bill drafting or legislative" .interims o committees has been'completed with a tou9 of 44 now ready. Haley sid this would give the legislative coun- sel's office more thtieo for re quests from inSividualo legisla GOODHOUSEKEEPER VACUUM CLEANER Get Your Free Tickets TlfM NORTH RIVFUCiPlF o PflDTI AKIPi . u..t.j.dhm'il.uirCiintAi O 1 si? b) "junior, exec qardigan ith o Q pebble-stitched collar, 1295; c) "love bug" sfip-qn, raglin sleeves, new piped d)-and the CQlli-rejd "towrf talk0' d 0.95! Our Own special "dye - to - xTEWELRY' T&'Tib" horses on Ameri can farms in 1954 was about five mil'linn Tr, 10-70 ,ano,,a and mules on farms. 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