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Show Pare xna 13 ECAISEIt Conservation Weok To bo Observed ALUMINUM CORPORATION BUILDING NEW REDUCTION PLANT KAISER 1c Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical corporation today announced selection of the New Orleans, Louisiana, area as site for construction of a new 200,000,000-pound-a-ye- ar 2-- 24 aluminum reduction plant and power facilities. Carrying out big scale expansions to produce more aluminum for national defenst and essential civilian requirements, Henry J. Kaiser, president, announced that Kaiser Aluminum will invest $79,000,000 entirely privately furnished in the following program:, 1. Construction will be rushed immediately on the reduction plant with four pipelines, which will raise Kaiser Aluminums capacity to a total of 540,000,000 pounds annually of aluminum pig, thereby boosting the corporations overall expansion in capacity since the Korean qutbreak by 80 per cent. 2- - The corporation will construct its own power plant at the New Orleans area site. It will use natural gas as fuel in generating electricity, which is essential in large volume and at low cost to produce primary aluminum. United Gas Pipeline company has entered a, long-tercontract to supply the new operation with natural gas from the vast Gulf area fields in amounts up to 70,000,000 cubic feet a day. 3. Kaiser Aluminum will open up its bauxite properties in Jamaica to supplement its present source of the basic raw material from which alumina will be made to supply the new Gulf Coast reduction plant and also its two reduction plants in the state of Washington. Development of the new source of bauxite ore in Jamaica, within a short shipping haul of the Gulf Coast, will include mining operations and the providing of port , m ment for both the reduction and power plants has been on order for some time. Intense speed will be put into the project with the goal of starting the first production of aluminum pig in the latter part of this year and of having all four of the reduction lines in operation by the middle of next month, in order to meet mount- requirements and he aluminum shortage. " Mr; Kaiser declared that Mayor DeLesseps S. Morrison and ing military In Utah ibis Woob 1 1 Utah will have a conservation week this year, according to Martin Crane, chairman of the Foresters club who announced that interested state organizations will cooperate to stage the observance April 2 has been April an appropriate date for Arbor day this year. The Foresters, a club organization of students enrolled in the school of forestry, range and wildlife management 'at the Utah Agricultural college, have initiated the movement to establish a conservation week for the purpose of focusing public attention on the value of our national resources and to promote a fuller appreciation of their value. Representatives of the womens conservation council, the USDA council, the soil conservation service, the U. S. forest service schools, the bureau of land management, and the state forestry department have expressed interest in thi conservation observ2-- 3 SAFEGUARDS FOR YOUR sug-gested- .as 6. BANK ACCOUNT Good bank management . .. sound bank supervision Y YT and the security of deposit insurance work together to safeguard your deposits with us. Federal Deposit Insurance has been increased from $5,000 fo a maximum of $10,000 . Each depositor of this bank is insured up to this new maximum for all deposits held in the same right and capacity. Chamber of Commerce of Nfew Orleans, headed by Joseph coRault, had led operative efforts by state, civic, industrial and national leaders and officials over a period of weeks that culminated in the final selection of the New Orleans area over many factory sites surveyed. They marshalled economic facts and acted swiftly to aid Kaiser Aluminum to go ahead with the new facilities with all possible speed, in the interest of ances, according to Mr. Crane. supplying critically needed addiAssisting with the arrangetional aluminum for defense and ments are Foresters Jim Krygier, essential civilian industries, Mr. William Hart, Dick Weissert, Kaiser said. Professors Lewis M. Turner, of .the magnitude Indicating Whitney F. , Floyd, Christian AluKaiser the expansion project, Koch, and T. W. Daniels, all of the far-reachi- Wedses day, February 28. 1251 DRACTRTON TRIBUNE. D2AGEBT0N, UTAH ng - VYE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT CARBON EATERY BANK PRICE, UTAH Member Federal Reserve System and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation minums reduction plants at Spo- the USAC. kane, Washington, and at New Orleans will be respectively the There are some 50,000 coal second and third largest primary merchants in the United States. aluminum plants in the" United States and the third and fourth 'argest in the world. The new reduction plant is expected to be one of the most efficient and lowest operating cost aluminum olants in the country, SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT Drive-I- n For Your Convenience Teller Winuow . and shipping facilities. The corporations bauxite plant at Baton Rouge, Louisiana will be expanded and modified to handle the Jamaican bauxite and 4. to increase from 300,000 tons a year to 540,000 tons the production of alumina, the white powder chemical from which aluminum pig is produced. This will represent an 80 per cent increase in production at the Baton Rouge plant. site for the new "reduction and power facilities has been obtained on the Mississippi river, directly on deep water for ocean-goin- g vessels.It is Jbeing the New Orleans from bought Terminal company, a subsidiary of the Southern Railway within the New Orleans metropolitan industrial and popuation zone. More than-1,00persons will be directly employed at the reduction and power plants, and completion of the Baton Rouge plant expansions will bring employment there to approximately 700 employees, Mr. Kaiiser stated. Direct' Kaiser payrolls in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge 5. A 280-ac- re 0 SATURDAY NIGHT . . . we attended a banquet in Price and heard Col. Bailey, an attorney from Salt Lake City, speak on the subject of this countrys present plight. He recalled that one of the reasons for the disintegration in anof past civilizations cient Greece, Rome, Egypt and other countries was disunity on the home front. Lack of cooperation, bickerourselves, ing among back-biting in our and country today, he said, make the USA a candidate for oblivion. ne implied that our civilization may not survive the current crisis. ne also sounded a note of hope for us by pointing out men like Benjamin Franklin who said high taxes would ruin the conntry back' in the eihteenth century. Col. Bailey thought perhaps he, like Ben Franklin and other Mprophets could easily be of doom wrong. We sincerely hope he mud-slingi- ng is. We believe this country and our way of life can be preserved by simply pulling together and acting like we are '.11 citizens of the same country, with the same common aims of freedom and good living. But we dont think this kind of cooperation can be achieved sitting down. For unless we stand for something worth while, we will, usually Tall for most anything. to approximate $6,000,000 a year, upon completion of presently projected expansions. Several,, million dolTO KEEP AMERICA FREE, lars annually will be spent in adSTOP KICKING AND LETS dition for purchases of supplies, START KUCKING. transportation and other activities. Keep the soot cleaned out Crews of Kaiser engineers and of your furnace or heater by production executives who have regular use of Red Devil soot remover. liquid for oil burnscoured the Gulf Coast area seekers and powder for coal and naing the best combination of wood. tural gas supply, water and rail The shipping advantages, good employee and housing resources, and Carbon Grocery Co. availability to markets, are ready; to rush early construction. Equip-- 1 areas are expected side repairs. 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