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Died. Clifford Mooers, 67, horse breeder and onetime Alaska gold prospector, dirt-track auto racer, World War I flyer, lawyer and oil wildcatter, who settled down to horse racing after his wells started to gush, hit the big time fast (1949) when his Old Rockport went to post at 33 to 1, copped the $141,800 Santa Anita Derby; between planes at New York's LaGuardia Field, en route from Kentucky to Pawtucket. R.I., to see one of his horses at Narragansett Park...
Stomping into the office of Four Corners Uranium Co. in Grand Junction, Colo. last week, a dog-tired amateur prospector from Missouri tossed a bundle of papers to a vice president. "I've had it," he said. "Here are my location certificates. They're all yours." As late as last winter, uranium claims sold for as much as $1,500. But last week small operators were glad to get a few hundred dollars, and some were even turning their claims over to bigger companies for nothing but an agreement to do the assessment work ($100 a year) needed...
Born in Brazil, Ind., Hoffa at four lost his coal prospector father, at 14 quit school to go to work full time. His self-introduction to the labor movement came at 19, when, as a 32?-an-hour warehouseman for a Detroit grocery chain, he led a successful wildcat strike of fellow employees. Within three years he had taken over Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, was president of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters...
...southwest Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft., their shoulders cloaked with snow; on the way out to the horizon, amid intervening tiers and hollows, lay places like Clear Creek, where Colorado's first important gold strike was made in 1859. ("Panned out eight treaty cups of dirt," the prospector said, "and found nothing but fine colors...
...Vailima, their home on Upolu. Louis, who was tubercular, had traveled the globe in search of health, and the Samoan climate seemed to help. Indianapolis-born Fanny had been a pioneer of sorts in California in post-Gold-Rush days. She was married to a restless clerk-soldier-prospector, later divorced him. The easy, outdoor life in Samoa was made for her. Her enthusiasm seems to have cheered Louis; it only annoyed his mother, who hated Samoa. Fanny wrote: "She dislikes the life here which we find so enchanting, and is disappointed and soured that she is not able...