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...Utica, Kans. (pop. 300) have worried that youngsters might be injured in the boisterous yearly initiation of high school freshmen by the senior class. So Mrs. Betty Stevens, English teacher and sponsor of this year's senior class, decided to try something different. Instead of seeing her charges mill around all evening at a rough-house gymnasium party, she would get the seniors to lead the freshmen on a pre-Halloween trip through a haunted house. Principal William Hobert Sallee, 60, got into the spirit of the thing, thought the kids might get a kick out of finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNITIES: Something for the Kids | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Last week Ambrosia Lake got another big lift. Phillips Petroleum Co., which is sinking two mines there, contracted with the Atomic Energy Commission to build a $9,500,000 mill to process 1,725 tons of ore a day into uranium concentrate. Like many another oil producer, Phillips is hedging its bets against the day that uranium becomes a major source of the world's energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corp. (which is 51% owned by Oklahoma Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr's Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.) is digging four mines and for $16 million is putting up a 3,300-ton-a-day mill, which will be the biggest in the U.S. Homestake Mining Co. has joined with Sabre-Pinon Corp. to build a 1,500-ton mill, which will go into operation by mid-1958. This December, Homestake also will finish a 750-ton mill, under construction in partnership with J. H. Whitney and Co., White, Weld & Co., San Jacinto Petroleum Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Search. Altogether, one mine is producing, one is near completion, nine more are being dug and four processing plants are going up. Companies are spending $75 million to burrow, build, and explore in this area. Within a year, Ambrosia Lake will have 7,275 tons of uranium mill capacity a day-about half the U.S. total. But Ambrosia Lake's mining men are plowing up surrounding areas in search of more ore. Floyd Odium's Lisbon Uranium Corp. is prospecting around nearby San Mateo Dome, and Superior Oil Co. (California), has struck ore 30 miles west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Uranium Jackpot | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...eighth House will occupy the city block bounded by DeWolfe, Mill, Plympton, and Mt. Auburn streets

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Corporation Approves Designs for New House | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

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