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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1955)
J-Sec 2-StaMnun, Uom, Of4 FrWjy, Jon 5,- If SI' Many Salem Area Residents Bit by Uranium Bug; Seek Magic Metal in Valley; By CONRAD G. PRANGE ', Staff Writer, The Statesman The uranium-hunting but is be ginning to kick up its heels in the Salem area. Doctors, dentists, housewives, secretaries, fishermen are among the several hundred "weekend i fact one claim is supposed to be prospectors" who, geiger counters pretty hot in hand, are searching Willamette Valley hills and stream beds for the magic metal No real strikes have been .re ported, but there are rumors. In r a 1 ' lTii ,v 4. i ,f . '1 V' i 11 If- 1 r "Politically-active ain't the same as radio-active," as one part-time .snooper puts it. SeM Iastrnments John R. Langrell, Salem repre sentative for Precision Radiation Instruments, Inc., has sold instru ments to many local uranium hunt ers. He's talked and discussed the so-called uranium boom with many others. "A prospector used to be thought of," says Langrell, "as a stooped, whiskery faced old coot with squinty- eyes, wearing shapeless, alkali-stained clothes. He always prospected in a Death Valley set ting, complete with a sad-eyed burro, two circling vultures and a bleached cow skull." But times have changed. Vacation Prospectors Today "prospectors include a couple on vacation, a fisherman who packs a Geiger counter with his pole, secretary on a weekend outing, a doctor' who lights up like a counter at the word uranium, and many others in all walks of life and professions. Included in La ngr ell's recent customers were a 65-year-old east ern Polk County woman, a dentist, loggers, construction men and sev eral women who know little about uranium, except that it Is worth a lot of money. The lure of possible easy riches is what does it. During the past two years over four million dollars have been paid out in government i commercially-valuable amounts in bonuses alone to uranium discov- western Oregon remains to be erers. And over half the strikes i seen. Many claims have been filed have been made by amateurs. Uranium, a thousand times more plentiful than gold, has been found in every section of the United States. Whether it can be found in in Eastern Oregon, but no big strikes reported. , j In fact Oregon is me only state on the West Coast which has not come up with a producing claim.! The Colorado olateau (includes! the states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona) has been the scene of the biggest strikes. And last year an estimated 1,250,000 ra-dio-aclive prospectors, mostly ama teur, were searching for treasures in that area. V ' V Shows here testing nraninm-b earing rock with a geiger-counter la his Salem office is John R. Langrell Sr. U.S. government esti mates more time has been spent in the last five years searching for uranium than for all other metals in all of history. (States man photo.) 86 Salem Area Students to Receive Degrees From DSC CORVALLIS Eight-six stu dents from the Salem area will be among 1,015 seniors and grad uate students receiving degrees at Oregon State College's 86th annual commencement exercises June 6. . A record number of advanced degrees 52 doctors and 214 mas ters will be conferred by Presi dent A. L. Strand along with 764 bachelor's degrees. Fifteen stu dents will receive two degrees. - " ; Student from the Salem area and their degrees include:' .-. "Robert Wesley Mounteer and Leona lither Todd, master of science: Wit 11am Jan Mets, Carl Vincent Nebel. John Richard Norman, and -Frank Beeljr Walton, master of education. Salem students receiving bachelor of science degrees Include John Nich olas Caspar, Delbert Paul Davis. John Paul Enger. David Lowell Massee, Donald Louis Meyer. William Duane Note boom, Walton Hainsworth Reeve, and James Alfred Rock, agriculture. Receiving bachelor ol science oe- rees m science are oene wayne resory, James William Crothers. George Benjamin Durham, Ramon Leonard Peterson. Rodney Aran Jipp. and Max Lyte Morris. Sonia Lavonne Nohlgren. Donna Jean Hothelfer, Marjorie Madeline Davey, and Celia Ann Weaver will receive bachelor of education degrees. - - Kaija Leiutuvietis. William Clark Johnson, and Dorothy Helen Miller will receive bachelor of science de grees in education, and James How ard Chidsev and Cliflard Leo Jenson 'will receive bachelor of science de-l a reel in engineering. Other Salem students, receiving bachelor of science degrees include Betty June Andresen. Mary Lee Fei ke. Norma Mae Kolln. Jacqueline Prall Grubb. and Beth Ann Wendt, home economics; John William An' tmsen, James William Crothers, John Dennis Feike. Lloyd Raymond Ham' lift. Jean Baines Proctor, and Wl lace 'Wayne Nelson, business and technology. Bachelor of Science Other Marion county bachelor of science degree recipients include Janice Joan Baches. Turner, educa-' . tion: Joel Beach Wright. Silverton. business acd technology; Joyce Lou Rerigstad. Silverton. education; Car ol Louise Spicer. Willamina. science; John Weston Wells. Woodburn. edu cation: and Lawrence Ernst Weinert, Aurora, engineering. Polk county decree recipients In clude Anton PoctL Monmouth, doctor, of philosophy: Matthew Roy Thomp son? Monmouth, doctor of education; and Conrad Byron Howard. Mon mouth, master of science. Other Mon mouth students receiving bachelor of science degrees include Donald Gene Edwards and Richard Walter Hook, science: David Bruce Barrows, busi ness and technology; and Edsel Sydi uev Wulf, engineering. Dallas students receiving bachelor of science degrees include Kathryn Ann Kopp. home economies; Harry Lloyd Gillam. agriculture: James Kelvin Hods.es.' education: Eugene Roderick McFarland engineering; and Franklin Leewood Smith, Val setz. master - of education, la Agriculture Roland David Rogers and Darreli Lin Ward of Independence will be anarded bachelor of science degrees in agriculture Albany students receiving advanced degrees include Norman Keith Lovel. George Francis Perry, and Leo Floyd 'Walker, master of education, and Roger Ernest Vorderstrasse, master of science. Bachelor of science degrees wiU be awarded to Beverly Jean Bradshaw. home economics: Taft Norwood Hensley and Edward Knakal. agri culture: Thomas Joaeph Kuehlwein, education; Nancy Lucile Mcsnnt. nursing: Lew Barclay Myers and Kunito Sato, science. Master ef Education Enright Archie Lematta of Scio will receive a master of education decree. Lebanon students receiving degrees include Ralph Leonard Wood, master of education: Max Valmere Crossan and James Lawrence Gor man, bachelor of science in agricul ture: Edward Ray Baldwin, bachelor of arts in science:. Ricaard uavia it ters. bachelor of science in science; and Lela Madge Jackson, bachelor of science in education. Receiving- degrees from Sweet Home are Michael Aldo Fiasca. mas ter of science: Clifford Paul Kent. bachelor of science in agriculture; and Leroy Lawrence Presley, bach elor of science in engineering. Jefferson decree recipients include Anna Barbara DelezaL master of ed ucation; Gayle Wiedman Gilmour, Crash Victim Loses Appeal To High Court Patricia A. Tuite. a Portland girl severely injured in a bus- j automobile crash in Portland on j Nov. 13, 1951, lost her damage j suit Thursday when the state supreme court ruled against her. She was a passenger in a ear driven by Curtis W. Russell, which collided with a Union Pacific bus at N.E. 62nd and Sandy Boulevard. She sued Russell; Union Pa cific Stages, owner of the bus, and John B. Finn, the bus driver. The high court, in an opinion by Justice Walter L. Tooze, ruled there was no negligence. The car skidded out of control into the path of the bus. The court said that the bus driver did all he could do to stop the bus without letting it go into a U4 The decision upheld Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding. ', Other decisions: E. S. Biddle, appellant, - vs. Victor Maxxocco. Appeal from Clatsop County. Suit for dam ages for injuries received in auto accident Opinion by Justice Tooze. Judge Howard K. Zim merman, reversed, and new trial ordered. ' : Opal - Banta. appellant, vs. Madeline Leffler. Appeal from Benton County. Suit by a daugh ter to contest will of her mother. Opinion by Justice William JC. Perry. Judge Fred MeHenry, affirmed, and will is upheld. Margy McGetrick, appellant, vs. Harley McGetrick. Appeal from Grant County. Suit to mddify a divorce decree. Opinion by Chief Justice Harold J. Warner. Judge E. H. Howell, modified, with father permitted, to have his child for six weeks each summer. Myron Alden Fix, appellant, vs. Clarence T. Gladden, peniten tiary warden. Petition for writ of - habeas corpus denied. Fix was convicted of burglary in Wallowa County, and is serving 23 years as an habitual criminal. bachelor of science 1b agriculture: - a- T-- "d. bhtor ; Mrs. Hardman to Get Nurse Degree arts in rcience. i Honor students, persons ranking in : the top 10 per cent of their classes and having cumulative grade aver ages of 3-25 points or better on the b.sis of an A equaling 4 points in clude Rodney Jipp and Gene Greg- ory, Salem: Kuruto Sato. AiDan?; lc- roy Presley, Sweet Home; Carroll Spicer, wmamina; ana uayit iu mour, Jefferson. DUSTY ANSWER ALBUQUERQUE ( A dust storm threatened to smother her brand new lawn so an Albuquer que housewife went over it with her vacuum cleaner. Some of those who. snickered were seen later trying the same thing. 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