Four Corners Uranium Mine Operations At Camp Venura
A detailed look at Four Corners Uranium Corporation mining at old Camp Venura near Green River Utah. The Drift Mining Company uses a 30 ton ore bin and 16 foot drop, with ore sorted above ground by Joe Baker. An air powered jack hammer and a 100 to pounds air compressor drive drilling and blasting. Miners earn about 2.00 a hour and muckers 1.75. Next week continues Four Corners operations at Camp Venura.
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Drift Mining Company
Four Corners Uranium Corporation
Four Corners
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Old Camp Venura
Green River
Joe Baker
Muckers
Bananas diet case highlights rare child illness in Baton Rouge
A Baton Rouge Welfare Board discussion described a child with a rare disease called velic that requires a strict food regimen of 200 bananas weekly plus chicken and meat. The family, nine members with $105 monthly income, faces the challenge of managing medical needs and funding.
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Baton Rouge
State Welfare Board
C. C. Sills
Sills
Pinkham's Tablet Relief for Pre Menstrual Tension
A Reader's Digest feature claims pre menstrual torment can be eased with Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound or new tablets with added iron. It promises relief from headaches cramps and nervous tension and suggests many women avoid suffering entirely by starting the remedy this month.
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Reader's Digest
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dru
Pointers for Prospectors By D L Blake
A vintage column urges beginners to hunt for uranium as a national treasure open to amateurs and professionals. It stresses determination and funds as key factors, noting uranium tests span many states and that modern travel enables weekend prospecting adventures.
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U.S
New Instrument Co Opens Grand Junction Office and Plant
AnMIC engineering corporation opens a Grand Junction facility at 230 Pitkin offering modern repair service for radiation detection instruments and accessories. It markets a model 1000 gamma logging probe and matching reel accessory designed for deep holes and field operation, staffed by experienced engineers ready to assist miners and operators in the area.
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Anmic Engineering Corporation
Pitkin
Grand Junction
Atomic Engineering Corporation
Woman With Nation Seeks Red Refuge
VIENNA AUSTrian police report to the British Embassy that Mrs E E W Grossett a British citizen of Edinburgh Scotland asked the Russians for political asylum. The Austrians said she arrived in Vienna by air and went to the Russian control post at Semmer ing on the Russian British zonal border. The husband told interviewers at his Edinburgh home that he expected his wife back in a few days. You know how women take notions he said She often goes away and runs out of money and then comes home.
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Vienna
E. E. W. Grossett
Edinburgh
Scotland
Semmering
Eskimo Seal Hunters Bothered by Walrus
Eskimo seal hunters at Point Barrow in Fairbanks Alaska report walrus trouble. An Eskimo correspondent says hunters like Ernest Kignak see walrus daily and many hunters return home empty. Walrus seen as enemy to seals, driving seals away despite good ice conditions.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Point Barrow
North America
Fairbanks News-Miner
Ernest Kignak
Ferron Feed Mill Sold to Fullmer and Jensen
Ferron News reports the Ferron Feed Mill, built and owned by the late L W Killpack, was sold on Saturday June 25 by the estate administrator to Gene Fullmer and Sherril Jensen. They will run full time offering seed cleaning grinding chopping and prepared feeds in the Ferron area. Also noted are visits by Bill Harvey of Columbia and Miss La Rue Thomas of Ferron with Norma and Jerry Thomas. Mr and Mrs P H Corbett of St George and Mr and Mrs Alvin Harris of Logan with their three children recently visited Ferron.
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Eva Killpack
Ferron
L. W. Killpack
Gene Fullmer
Sherril Jensen
California
Bill Harvey
Columbia
la Rue Thomas
Norma
Jerry Thomas
P. H. Corbett
St. George
Alvin Harris
Logan
Ferron Residents Watch Big Drill Move In
Ferron residents on the riverfront watch as large drilling equipment arrives for a test. Spectators keep claims in order while buyers and sellers show excitement and hope for major news from the operation.
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Ferron
Also Mentioned on This Page
Four Corners Properties
Venura
D. S. Gillies
Atomic Energy Commission
Keld
Happy Hunt
Krishna
Andhra
India
Kurnool
Hatts Mobil Service
Mobil
Norge Appliances
Western Machinery and Western Powder
Rocky Mountain Machinery
Green River Mining Center
Hatts Trucking
Frank J. Hatt
Mobil Gas
Motorola
ARBON
D. L. Blake
Purday
Green River, Utah
S&m Sales Co
Equip. & Supplies
Plastic and Steel Pipe & Filfings
Butler Steel Buildings
Prospector’s
Hurst
New Instrument Co
Woman With
Ferron News
Ross Utoco Service
Utani
Ray’s
Peacock’s Market
Crisco
Borden's Seed Pressire
MR. and
Mrs. C. P. Tasker
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