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Died. Tasker Lowndes Oddie, 79, Brooklyn-born onetime prospector who went west as a young man, struck it rich in salver, became a Republican governor of Nevada (1910-14) and a U.S. Senator (1921-33); in San Francisco...
Three dry holes had been drilled in the dome before the arrival of an engineer, prospector and onetime Austrian naval officer named A. F. Lucas. Lucas drilled a fourth "duster at Spindletop." Undiscouraged, he set up new equipment and began again, determined to pierce 500 ft. of quicksand which lay beneath the surface soil...
After a weekend at Las Vegas, Nev., Songwriters Johnny Lange, Walter Henry ("Hy") Heath and Fred Glickman were driving back to Hollywood, and getting what enjoyment they could from the desert scenery. On their way through Death Valley they spotted an occasional prospector trudging along beside his burro. "Nobody said anything at first," recalls dark-eyed Johnny Lange, "but then it occurred to us, like spontaneous combustion, you might say, that here was an idea for a song." They forgot the scenery, worked out words & music before they hit Hollywood. Glickman, who owns a small recording company, made a master...
...lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...
...radioactive rock does not contain uranium. It may contain thorium (also radioactive), in which the AEC has only a faint interest. The booklet describes a rather complicated process by which the prospector can test his find with ultraviolet light...