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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7,
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. 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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