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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1961-08-10, Page 6Sounds Good-- Mcybe Too Good' As every prospector worth his grubstake knows, there is gold galore in the dry, sandy creek beds of .Arizona, Nevada and southern California, Just waiting for someone to pick it up. And as many a frustrated prospector has learned, it isn't worth the Wort, The gold dust is so 'finely diffused among the particles of sand and gravel that the only way to get it out is through the costly, time-consuming sifting process called "placer" mining. And that has been uneconomical almost since the lush pickings of &utters Mill, For all this, a month -old -firm called United Placer Industries now insists it has the ingenuity and the wherewithal to succeed where the 49ers and all since have failed. Its chief and some- what incongruous assets: (1) Fi- nancial backing f r o nr Mrs C. Geraldine Freund, company pre-. sident, a vivacious, brunette Chi- cagoan whose most ambitious venture to date has been spon- sorship of the Winnetka Freund Pony Leaguers; (2) a battery of high-powered New York and Chicago public -relations men; (3) a 40 -foot -song, 18 -foot -high land dredge invented by two young Phoenix, Ariz., geologists and called "Geraldine" atter Mrs. Freund, which is claimed to Comfort For Baby f rAP-11.4W Babies can be cool this sum- mer --dress them in these suits. e thrifty — use remnants, Seersucker, nylon, light cotton are good fabrics. Pattern 842: transfer; pattern 6 month, 1 year, 18 month babies; directions. State size. Send THIRTY - FIVE CENTS (stamps cannot be accepted, use postal note for safety) for this pattern to Laura Wheeler, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St., New Toronto, 'Ont. Print plainly PATTERN NUMBER, your NAME and AD- iARESS. Send now for our exciting, new 1961 Needlecraft Catalog, Over 125 designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, quilt, weave — fash- ions, homefurnishings, toys, gifts, bazaar hits. Plus FREE — in- Itructions for six smart veil caps, Hurry. send 25e now! EXERCISER — Dorothy Coulter looks as if she may be doing a swimming exercise, Actually, the new Metropolitan. Opera soprano is doing a "singing" exercise, The diaphragm exercise points out that there is more to singing than singing, be able to process gold bearing placer sand for 6.2 cents a cubic yard vs. the 35- to 55 -cent cost of conventional methods. Last month "Geraldine" rum- bled along a dry creek bed in the Weaver placer district 60 miles northwest of. Phoenix, re- sembling a monstrous harvesting machine as it scooped sand into its innards. It was only a trial run, but even grizzled sour- doughs watched fascinated as the machine gulped sand and gravel it would have taken them years to sift by hand — a maxi- mum of 1,500 cubic yards every twenty hours, according to the company. Once inside "Geral- dine," the sand is processed in a filtration system using infra- red heat, aeration, and an elec- trostatic separator, Drying is the secret of "Geraldine," according to inventors Kelsey B 1 o t z, 31, and Donald Wright, 30, who spent five years, working on the process. Despite its apparent dryness, placer sand contains an average of 8 per cent mois- ture that locks gold dust in; by drying the sand completely, they explain, the, machine can easily extract the gold, $1,800 worth a day from the Weaver field where the gold assays at $1.25 a. cubic yard. The inventors' statistics are nothing to those envisioned by Mrs. Freund, who put up some of the $150,000 it cost to build the machine and who .thinks it will be "just as important as the reaper." The wife of a weal- thy Chicago psychiatrist, Mns. Freund has taken to gold mining with fervor. She has leased 18,- 000 acres of Arizona land which she claims contains "a billion dollars' worth" of placer gold. "It will be a gold rush all over again," bubbles Mrs. Freund — wibh United Placer presumably leading the rush and leasing its.. patented machine to other pros pectors. In Phoenix, however, mining people were inclined to be skep- tical. For one thing, there have been other placer -mining ma- chines that failed to pan out. the vast claims made for them; for another, United Placer's claims sounded to some like a sourdough's daydream slicked up for a press release. The idea of a billion dollars worth of gold on company land was "ridicu- lous," said one mining expert flatly. "That's more money than ever was baken out of all Ari- zona gold mines." HE ONLY HAS EYES FOR LIZ — Sitting in a Hollywood night- club, Eddie Fisher looks at his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, on her first night out since undergoing plastic surgery last month to remove a tracheotomy scar incurred during her double pneu- monia Illness earlier this year. HItONIC 1NGERF 6aendotine D. CLe.e'aa Has anyone found a way to beat the heat? If so we would like to know about it. We have tried just about everything — shutting all' the windows; open- ing all the doors and windows trying to create a draft; working outside; working inside; doing as much as we can in the basement. But nothing worked satisfactor- ily, Finally we were driven to the inconvenience at this time of spending $300 on an aircondition- er. Even so we had our problems. Two•years ago we wanted to rv,. one in; went so far as having a man come in to install it and then found it was impossible to find a place for it. The unit wasn't deep enough to go through the wall and we couldn't put it through any of the windows as - they are all plate glass with ten - inch louvres underneath for ven- tilation. This year we thought we had a solution when our appli- ance man found he could get a unit small enough to fit one of the louvres, by cutting a bit away from the sill. In talking it over he happened to mention that, because of it being low down it would throw an awful blast of air right across my bed, During the night I realised that would never do. And then I had a brain- wave . , . funny how we so often "see the light" during the hours of darkness! There was one cor- ner of the room, with an out- side wall, that none of us had even thought about. Partner agreed it would probably work fine if we could get the right unit. So back the man came again and by the next night our air - conditioner was installed .It was in my room — which happens to be the hottest in the house. It is. also the room where I do most of my work — writing, typing, sew- ing, knitting and reading. When the unit was in operation it was like living in a different world— and we thought our troubles were over. But oh no, Sunday morning we were changing the controls and suddenly the motor quit. We tried this and that, all to no avail. And then Partner said — "I'll bet it's blown a fuse!" "But why?" I wailed, "what did we do that was wrong?" We didn't know and we couldn't find out because the agent had omit- ted to leave us a book of instruc- tions. He couldn't find it. Don't forget — this was Sun- day. Naturally the store was closed and it had no emergency number listed. If only we could have contacted the manager at his home, just to ask advice. But we couldn't do that because we didn't know his name! That sounds crazy, I know, but it's true, We have always hesrd'him spoken of as "Al" and if we wanted to get in touch with him at the store we asked for Al, But how can you get a person on the phone if you don't know hiS full name? Well, after replacing two, blown fuses and experimenting with the various controls we finally got the thing going again -_. and got hotter in so doing than we would have been without itt Believe me, Al, will have to find that book. of instructions today , , . or else! What we don't know about elec- trical appliances would fill a book — and one can't afford to do too much experimenting where electricity is concerned. Sunday, Bob, Joy and the two boys were here and of course the main topic of conversation was the heat — or rather the humid- ity. We have had it hot before but never with so much humid- ity for so long a spell. It is cloudy today but there is no mention of cooler weather in sight. However, I suppose we shall live through it. Of one thing I am sure ... a person is far bet- ter off in his own home than by running around trying to find a a pace to get cool. After all, the relief can only be temporary — we have to come back home in the end so we are far better to stay put and make things at home as comfortable as possible. Dee and the boys are having a wonderful time at the cottage, TLat, of course, is a home away from home and I imagine their way to beat the heat is to spend most of their time in the water. All the boys can now swim, even four-year-od Jerry — that is with life -jackets on. Dave doesn't need one as he is ike a young eel in the water, Cousin Mike has been staying with them the last few weeks. He is five and yesterday hecaught six fish in ten minutes! Dee is a good swimmer too so I imagine they arefairly safe. Art goes down Friday nights so I get all the latest news Mondaymorn- ings. The whole family is agitat- ing for us to go down — but as I have pointed out we are regular old home -bodies — especially when going to the cottage in- volves a long car drive. Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. When mailing birthday cards to my women friends, whom my husband knows only slightly, should I sign both our names, or just mine alone? A. You need not include your husband's name on your person- al greetings. Q. Are silver crumb scrapers still in good use? A. Yes, if the tablecloth is of plain damask. But are not so practical on lace or embroidery. In this case, one may fold a naplcin to the thickness of a pot - holder for brushing off the crumbs. Q. When a girl is being Mar- ried in a simple, informal cere- mony, and she is wearing her going -away eostiune, does she have a number of bridesmaids? A. In an informal ceremony such as this, the bride usually has but one attendant — her maid or matron -of -honor. Q. When a girl is,wallcing along the street with a man and he speaks to Someone whom she doesn't know, should she, speak also? A. She should smile 'and nod her head, This holds true also for the man, should she speak to an acquaintance, Q. When having a piece' of sil- ver for a baby marked with only one initial_ should it be the first or the last? A. The first, ISSUE 32 — 061 King's Messengers Adventurous Lives The three Moyioan peasants stood uneoneernedly on the back of the truek, Their hands were, tied behind them and their legs were roped at the ankles, A noose was draped round each of their necks. They were about to die. The truok crashed into gear and lurched away. The ropes cracked taut and the three figures weaved and spun in a macabre dance of death. From his car nearby, King's Messenger Brigadier Sir Andrew Maclaren, D.S.Q., watched in horror. , Then Captain Ocampo, the Mexican officer who was accompanying him, walked back to the car, "Guerilleros,". he explained, "They admitted their guilt, so a trial was unnecessary!" Mexico was under the hard and fast rule of a dictator in 1931. Outlaws and bandits who dis- agreed with the regime abounded in the country and their looting and pillaging excursions were be- coming more frequent — hence Maclaren's escort on his journey from the British Legation in Mexico to Veracruz carrying vital diplomatic bags., Brigadier Maclaren settled. -back in his seat as Ocampo and two guards clambered in and the car began to pick up speed. He lit a cigar and was deep in thought as the miles sped by Suddenly the car jerked to a stop in front of what had been a bridge. A bomb had reduced it to ruins, As his companions quickly raised their hands above their heads, Maclaren saw several armed men emerge from some nearby bushes, One of them motioned Ocampo and the guards to get out of the car. They did so, and for a few minutes the officer and bandit spoke together. Then Ocampo returned to the car. • "I have told them that you are a very important man, and are to be treated with respect, He will take you to their leader. May God go with you, senor." The bandits hustled him away. A few seconds later, Maclaren heard a volley of shots and realized the three soldiers had been executed. Some hours later a tired King's Messenger found himself facing the leader" of the bandits , in- troduced by his men as: "General Hernandez Romoza, Seeker of Justice, Friend of the Poor and Oppressed, Governor of numer- ous states and the next President of the Republic." After his imposing references,' Romoza was something of a dis- appointment. He was a small man, with high cheekbones and narrow darting 'eyes. His clothes were even more fantastic than his titles — heavy gold epaulettes surmounted a bottle -green jac- ket and grubby white 'cotton trousers, while buckled to his side was an immense sabre. He wore no fewer than thirty medals including the Croix de Guerre, two Iron Crosses, a Star of David — and a bronze medal denoting third plaee in a swim- ming contest held ,at a Texas High School. Maclaren realized he was deal- ing with nothing more than a power -mad illiterate with an in- satiable thirst for recognition and fame. He explained his mission emphasizing its importance and concluding; "I must ask Your Excellency's assurance that my despatches will reach their des- tination intact." It was enough for Romoza — he immediately decided that Maclaren was nothing less than' a relation of the Ding of Ung land .and began to treat hire ac eordingly. Then he spotted the King's Messenger's badge -- Boyal Cipher with pendant sil- ver greyhound attached from sl blue ribbon, His admiration was Obvious, Realizing that he was in a position to bargain, Maclaren an- nounced that the silver grey- hound Was an honour given to few men — but he was willing to confer it on Romoza in ex- change for his freedom and safe passage, The General accepted like a shot — and later, Maclaren, armed with a sword, dubbed him a Companion of the Or•d4r of the Silver Dog! The King's ;Messenger reached Veracruz safely and eventually learned that Romoza had been, captured by an army patrol. Despite his frantic protests that he was practically a blood rela- tion of the King of England, he was executed by a firing squad, Authors Michael Bird and Geoffrey Kino tell this amusing and interesting story in their book "Foreign Office Confi- dential" along with other thrill- ing adventures of the King's Messengers, "What is a whisper?" asked a reader. 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