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and to get things back to normal as soon as possible.

Some 500 people were sheltered in Simpson Timber Company's mill at the height of the Klamath flooding.

"They started coming in on the 22nd,," said Pat Caldwell, resident manager. oolVe had bunkhouses that are built to accommodate 40 men. When they were filled, we started rigging up bunks in the vene.€r plant, in the truck shop-just about everywhere. We had enough blankets to take care of the ones that didn't have anything, but many people just pulled cars and trailer houses into the yard and slept in them."

At Georgia-Pacific's Big Lagoon camp, the logging camp was opened by the company as a rrefugee center. Simpson company trucks and bulldozers at Klamath hauled housetrailers to higher ground. With their help, a pre-fabricated school is being air lifted into the area. At Orick. bulldozers from Arcata Redwood Company worked on state highways while Arcata's trucks and front-end loaders cleaned mud and debris from the town.

Rellim Redwood ,Company near Crescent City, volunteer,ed experienced men and equipment to help open Highway 199 to Grants Pass.

Many highways and roads were severed by water and wash-outs. But the extensive network of forest-development roads were used as connecting links to the outside world for many of the cut-off communities.

Though many of the redwood producing mills were heavily damaged, as many as are able to continue operating at the present time have kept their plants in operation to keep men on the job and to aid the economy of the area. With transportation still interrupted in many areas, many mills cannot ship the lumber but are producing and storing it in an effort to get payrolls going again to bolster the stricken economy'

Some companies are using sea-going barges to get the products to market, and Simpson Timber Company has even airlifted redwood plywood into a large San Francisco housing project which wasthreat. ened to be stalled by the shortage of materials.

A Miller Redwood Company official said, "We are going to continu,e to produce lumber as long as we can store it or find some way to get it to market in order to