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Navy's rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight. Many a Congressman, suddenly made aware of the contract which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of Teapot Dome. By last week, two House committees, Naval Affairs and Public Lands, were probing the contract, which was abrogated after the Justice Department found it "illegal and invalid." They had failed to uncover any skulduggery...
...Yellowstone Park's two elk herds, thinned by 7,230 during the present winter, are still a problem. Wyoming's rising moose population is mooching down on civilization in search of food. One militant moose recently held a group of children imprisoned in a schoolhouse for hours; three other moose had to be shot by a rural mail carrier before they would give him right...
...game hunters had better luck last week. Many areas in Western States are overrun with deer and elk. Game commissions, plainly worried about mounting damages to ranchers for destroyed haystacks, are talking about an added open season, an all-doe season or just plain market-hunting...
...zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...
...PHILLIPS Elk City, Kans...