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There were a lot of rumors about what was going on at Hanford. Everything was coming in, nothing was going out. And some people said, "Oh, that's a sandpaper factory. They hold up a glued sheet of paper and the dust coats it." Others said that the gigantic facilities rising from the desert were going to be FDR's winter place. At a show-and-tell session at school, a kid says, "I know what they're making. They're making toilet paper. My dad brings home two rolls in his lunch bucket everyday."
I remember an incident when one of the workers was leaving the plant with a bunch of copper wire wrapped around his waist. A patrolman noticed him, gave him a pat search and said, "Step over here, please." The rest of us went on. We never saw the guy again.
ROGER ROHRBACHER, HANFORD
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