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With the nation scraping the bottom of its high-grade iron deposits and steel capacity due to rise 60% (to 216 million tons yearly) by 1980, the development of such low-grade ores as jasper and its cousin, taconite, has become one of the fastest-growing branches of the booming steel industry. Items...
Beneath the forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette...
Interpretative Reporting. In Sacramento, angry Motorist Ernest M. Blackburn was hauled off to jail after he refused to sign the traffic citation he received for driving too slowly unless Traffic Officer Ernest Jasper agreed to prefix his own signature with "Eager Beaver...
...professor, meanwhile, was branching out into other fields too. In 1933 he led a faculty rebellion against the university's autocratic old chancellor, W. Jasper Kerr, ultimately forcing him to resign and splashing the name of Morse in every newspaper in Oregon. In 1936 Morse went to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings (on the recommendation of Raymond Moley) to direct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal law. In 1938 Frances Perkins appointed him West Coast maritime arbitrator, where he made a brilliant reputation as a fair and meticulous judge...
Quick & Dead. After the wounded and dead were brought into Jasper, the county seat (pop. 5,000, including eight millionaires), a curious crowd gathered in front of the hospital. Leola Garlington, sister of the wounded brothers, burst through the mob, screaming at Sheriff Martel Mixon: "You son of a bitch. It's all your fault! If you'd been doing your job, this would never have happened...