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When Donald Bartlett, an oil-company worker, and six of his friends in Bakersfield, Calif. decided to hunt for uranium, they did it the easy way. They bought a $495 scintillator and drove along the country roads in Kern County around Bakersfield. One day last December, as they drove along the Walker Pass road through the southern Sierra Mountains, the needle of the scintillator began to "go crazy." Bartlett and his friends began to "go scrambled out, soon found the reason: a big granite outcropping studded with pockets of radioactive ore (autunite). When they tunneled into the mountainside, the Sunday...
Last week the treasure hunt in oil-and-cotton-rich Kern County had reached feverish proportions, as shoe clerks, tin smiths, bankers, doctors, and Hollywood bit-players filed some 200 claims in the county recorder's office. Thousands more rode into the hills in everything from jeeps to Cadillacs; in their spare time, even housewives hopped into the family car and cruised hopefully about the area...
...doctors' meeting in Louisville last week, Dr. Richard A. Kern of Philadelphia's Temple University reported the latest findings on suicide. Key facts...
Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Soprano Dorothy Warenskjold singing selections from Bizet, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern...
...open the trunk. He failed. Mrs. Krone had crawled in with the key in her hand, and the door had locked on closing. Cursing her wildly, he demanded that she pass the key out to him. He had driven the automobile to a high and lonely bluff overlooking the Kern River and he threatened to run it over the cliff if she refused...