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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuraday, May 5, 1953 Heavy Mail Indicates Uranium Rush Will Be Bigger Than Ever Editor' Note: Cranium mining has become in the apace of a few year a SI 00.000.000 American Industry, grow ing bigger bv the day. t" ranium stock Investors are confident there is an unlimited horizon for this industrj which supplies the raw material tot atomic energy. For an up to the min ute report, a United Press correspond ent visited the "capital" of the uran turn boom on the western slope of UA Rockies. . By JAMES M. FLINCHUM , United Preis Correspondent Grand Junction. Colo. (U.R) The mail sacks have been get ting heavier at the Atomic En ergy Commission office here and this can mean only one thing more prespectors than ever be fore are hitting the vfranium trail this sumemr. "We thought 1953 was a big year," an AEC spokesman said today. "And last year, we de cided it couldn't be any bigger. But now it looks like this sum mer will top them all." Although the snow hasn't melted yet in the high country, you can already tell the big pros pecting season is near. The vol ume of letters received by the Grand Junction operations of fice of the AEC was never greater. Thousands of prospectors, or would-be prospectors, are writ ing in for information about how and where to go to look for uranium. The AEC is happy to oblige. "We'll do everything but point in a place on the map and say, 'Dig there'," one AEC official said. The uranium boom is a na tionwide affair. From New York to San Francisco investors are sinking cash into uranium stocks. But out here on the 170, 000 square mile Colorado plateau where the uranium is. the boom means sinking a pick into the ground. Many of the prospectors will be vacationers from far corners of the country. Others will be "week end prospectors" from towns in or near the uranium fields. A small number will be new "professionals." launching a f ulltime career with pickaxe and Geiger counter. A few of them may become millionaires. Most of them won't. Every day scores of prospectors show up at the AEC's 10-acre compound lugging ore samples to be tested and the majority go away disappointed. But the uranium boom has created a new crop of million aires and revitalized little vil lages that a few years ago were known onlyto a few Indians and sheepherders. The plateau which covers parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah is alive with activity. Private planes fly in and out of mining towns daily carrying wide-eyed investors and specul ators. Many of the investors are oil men. Something about uran ium mining appeals to oil men. Wall Street Names More and more old Wall Street names are becoming asso ciated with uranium ventures, but the industry seems to be dominated by youth. The most famous uranium millionaires, Charlie Steen and Jack Turner, are in their mid-thirties. Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Las Vegas. Nev. (U.R) Car men Miranda, Danny Thomas and other big money entertain ers here are be- ing upstaged by a new star that dances, is pretty but has no sex appeal. The curvy chorines and even Liber ace's $50,000 act get stiff Aline Mosbjr compet i t i o n from this new celebrity plain, ordinary water. The act is called . "Dancing Waters," five supercollossal fountains. Nightly it stops the show at the new Royal Nevada hotel, that is, if you like a musi cal shower with your steaks and scotch. While the orchestra plays and the tourists oh and ah, the color ed waters cavort to the mambo, waltz and skip around. Show Veteran Dancing waters is not a new idea. It was developed in Ger many in 1952 and is a veteran of New Yoork's Radio City Music Hall and state fairs around the country, from Shreveport to Al buquerque. This is the first time the waters routine has been used in a nightclub act with stars. . "I developed it with an elec trician and we first showed it at the Berlin industrial exposition," explained Hans Hasslach, who brought the Dancing Waters to this country two years ago. Hasslach operates the gurgling gadget and his actions are so in teresting the audience often wat ches him instead of the water. The industry abounds with youngish executives. Arnold Kimmes of Grand Junction is un der 35 but he heads a consult ing firm which owns three air planes and is chairman of the board of an investment company with headquarters - in Denver and branches here and in Salt Lake City. "Last year the uranium in dustry was where the oil indus try was 60 years ago," says Kimmes, who would pass for a young movie hero. "This year it s where the oil industry was 40 years ago." Financier T"loyd B. Odium has sunk considerable cash into uranium ventures such as the Hidden Splendor Mine and says the uranium horizon "seems al most unlimited to me." Like others in the uranium business Odium bases his op timism on peaceful application of nuclear fission atomic pow er plants, atomic ships, planes and trains all of which will create a steady demand for uranium whether atomic weap ons stay with us or not. m miK,n " a.m. m, "w My wan DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS HEAR HIGHWAY PROGRAM The Democratic Na tional Committee invited Democratic state governors to hear Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee (left) outline a five-year $21,300,000,000 highway construction program, approved bv his Senate subcommittee on highways, as a substitute to President Ei senhower's '$101,000,000,000 10-year plani Governors in front row, left to right, are: Ernest W. McFarland, Arizona; Orval Forbus, Arkansas; Marvin Griffin, Georgia: a. Mennen Wjlliams, Michigan; Allan Shivers, Texas; Frank Clement, Tennessee; Ray mond Gary, Oklahoma and George M. Leader, Pennsylvania. , Wafer Chi ori nation To Continue in W. Germany Bonn, Germany (U.R) Grumbling West Germans have been told that the end of Allied occupation does not mean the end of chlorinated drinking water, which they claim causes everything from sterility to baldness. Minister of Interior Gerhard Schroeder told the Bundestag (lower house) Wednesday chlori nating will continue because the water isn't - fit to drink otherwise. Celluloid inventor John Wes ley Hyatt also invented the flex ible roller bearing. f r-ij W5 Schilling Goldenfest the coffees with that special Western Flavor! Enjoy the of really good coffee, v '.muni r- " tile I n I The $250,000 piece of plumb ing consists of pipes in various designs installed slightly below stage level on the back of the Royal Nevada stage. How the chorus girl keep from falling into 'the pipes during their rou-1 tines is another feat. Waters Leap The pipes are connected by wire to 400 buttons on a console that looks like a pipe organ. Has slach "plays" the buttons and the streams of water 38 tons worth leap into the air. "There are 20 basic combina tions of water designs and I can mix them in various ways," the German impressario added. The current headlirier at the hotel is opera star Helen Trau bel, a singer of renown who is not used to being upstaged. Yet the dancing water is given the choice closing spot in the show. I asked the star how she liked playing second fiddle to some wiggling waves. "Oh, they're very pretty," she smiled. "But I have to wear a shawl backstage because the wa ters make it very chilly." After the show this new wa tery star goes down the drain. No other Las Vegas act can make that statement. Court Records POLICE COURT Harold Herbert Vessey, no atop (light). $5. Melvin Lee Saltmarsh, excessive noise. S10. Earl Stanley Robbing, Lillian Gert rude Barney, violation of bosie rule. S10 each.- . CIRCUIT COURT Stella June Fairfield vs. Robert Wal lace Fairfield, divorce complaint. 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