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nearly big enough for a train to
run through it is being laid on
the ocean floor to discharge waste
water into the sea.
Kngineers call it the largest,
longest, heaviest, deepest pipeline
er assembled under water.
The pipeline, costing 21 million
dollars, will extend 6.22 miles into
NEW LIFE was injected into the OTI New Site Fund campaign Wednesday at a luncheon
In the Willard Hotel. Vern Owens, campaign chairman, distributed cards to solicitors
leaking $16,940 needed to raise the $40,000 purchase price. Here Owens, standing right,
makes his pitch to Dick Reeder and Mayor Lawrence Slater, seated, and Earl Kent and
Jim Winde.
Huge Underwater Pipeline Being Placed In Pacific
LOS ANGELES (API A pipeline'ithe ocean from a sewage treatment
plant. About half the distance has
been covered. Each section laid is
192 feet long and 14 feet in diame
ter and weighs 720 tons.
It takes eight lengths of pipe
tn make one of the sections, which
are put together on a barge and
then floated on pontoons to the in
stallation site.
Stcel-helmeted workmen on a gi
ant five million dollar plattorm
I hen take over. The deck of the
platform. 120 feet by 210 feet, is
a maze of winches and machinery
with a 100-ton crane in the center.
The pontoon and pipe are guided
into place below the platform by
a lug. The pontoons are flooded
and the 720-seclion of concrete is
lowered to the sea floor.
Two divers sink with the section
and guide it Into place. Over a
SI.lr.HT QUAKE
GARBERV1LLE (UP1 A
slight earthquake, registering be
tween 4 and 45 on the Richtcr
scale, was felt here Wednesday
night. There were no reports ot
damage.
.o reports of the quake were
made at the Humboldt County
sheriff's office in Eureka, 75 miles
north of here.
loudspeaker they tell winch opera
tors which lines to lower, lift or
tianten.
When' the spigot end is inserted
into the bell, a ubber gasket in
side the foot-thick pipe walls seals
it under compression. The crane on
the deck pours 1.200 tons of rock
down a chute to cradle the pipe
The pontoon is surfaced and pulled
back to land.
Hydraulic jacks then lift the plat
crm's 27-stories-high. 700-ton legs.
The platform is pulled 192 feet
funher out to sea. The legs are
dnlled back into the sandy sea
boitom r.isd the platform is ready
lor the next splicing.
The pipeline is scheduled to be
completed early next year.
Shipyards
Face Strike
SEATTLE (AP) - The Interna
tional Assn. of Machinists Wednes
day threatened to strike West
Coast shipyards from Bellingham,
Wash., to San Francisco Monday
unless "firm contract negotiations
are under way by that time."
The 1AM represents 2,000 ma
chinists employed in West Coast
yards. A machinists' strike would
Idle another 8.000 craftmen em
ployed at the yards, according to
Harold J. Gibson, of Seattle, gen
eral vice president of the IAM.
The machinists are seeking a 15
eent hourly increase. The journey
men scale is now $2.72. The ma
chinists have turned down an em
ployer offer ot a 7-cent hourly
wage increase this year and
pension program to cost 10 cents
an hour starting next year.
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Spend a carefree weekend at
the Marion Motor Hotel. Get
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and doorbell. Free yourself
from KP and yard duty. The
Marion will take over cook
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while you play with the mer
maid in the beautiful Marion
pool.
Motel ratei from $7.00
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Bel Air i-Doon Sedan with sleek Body by Fiiher
smoothest ride!
One of the 7 big bests Chevrolet gives you over any other car In Its field
Anyone who's ever taken a Chevy
over a choppy country road can
tell you how lightly Chevrolet's
Full Coil suspension handles
rough going and eoi7 springs
never squeak, never need grease !
, Try this velvet way of going for
' yourself. Once you do; you'll find
your own way of saying what
MOTOR TREND magazine puts
this way: ". . . the smoothest,
most quiet, softest riding car in
its price class." But the happiest
part of it all is that this Full
Coil ride is just one of teven big
bests-all documented by pub
lished opinions of experts and
en-the-record facts and figures.
BEST ROOM -Official dimen
sions reported to A.M.A. show
that Chevrolet sedans offer more
front seat head room than all
but one of the Aioh-priced cars
more front seat hip room (by up
to 6.9 inches) than the "other
two" of the leading low-priced
three.
BEST ENGINE-Chevrolet en
gines have long won expert praise
from virtually every automobile
magazine, and just recently,
Chevrolet received the NASCARt
Outstanding Achievement award
for "the creation and continu
ing development of America's
most efficient V-type engines."
BEST ECONOMY A pair of
Chevrolet sixes with Powerglide
won their class in this year's
Mobilgas Economy Run, topping
every other full-sized car. And -the
winning mileage was a whop,
ping 2. 38 m.p.g.
BEST BRAKES Chevy's
bonded-lining brakes are the big
gest in their field, built for up
to 66 longer life. In a direct
competition conducted by NAS
CAR, Chevy ou (stopped both of
the other leading low-priced cars
in a test of repeated stops from
high way "speeds.
BEST STYLE-It's the only car
of the leading low-priced 3 that's
unmistakably modern in every
line. "In its price class," says
POPULAR SCIENCE magazine,
"a new high in daring styling.
BEST TRADE-IN-Any
N.A.D.A.t Guide Boole can give
you the figures on Chevy's extra
value. You'll find that Chevrolet
used car prices last year averaged .
up to $128 higher than compar
able models of the "other two."
Your Chevrolet dealer will b
happy to tell you about a whole
host of other advantages besides
these seven. Why not drop by
his showroom?
' Automobil Manufacturer! Atto
nation. tNntionrtl A$tociation for Stock
Car Advancement -and Reteareh.
tNathnal Automobile Dealere At
eoeiation.
CHEVROLET
Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Centennial Exposition in Portland, and see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer
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