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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1955
Pages 1-6
Plain Utah Citizen Has Look of Misery
After Turning Dirt Piles Into Fortune
New York Xl.R) Jack
Turner, a mudfence-plain,
leather-tough citizen from Utah
who grew up among cattle,
sheep, cactus, and acres of
throwaway dirt containing a
worthless mineral called urani
um, is in town with a look of
misery on his face.
He is struggling under a mon
estrous burden: 21-million dol
lars. And it's growing bigger
all the time. Being a multi-millionaire
can weigh down a fel
low like . . . well a yoke of solid
gold.
Turner came out of the Army
broke at the end of Worl War
II. Before the war he had made
a so-so living mining venadium
around his native Moab, Utah.
When he was drafted, he sold his
four mines. One of them, in Wild
Steer canyon, which he sold for
$500, has since made five mil
lion dollars.
Scrap Piles Pay Off
He was working at a $4,000-a-year
job in California when,
in 1948, he read that big money
was beginning to be paid for
the uranium-laden ore that he
used to throw away in big scrap
piles. He hurried back to Moab,
traded his antiquated Chewy for
a truck, and began hauling, ore
from dumps that he knew about.
Turner, at 37, is a wiry sort
with blue eyes, hornrim glasses,
a receding hairline, and the
slightly lined face of an outdoor
man. He has a tendency to talk
like Herb Shriner, the Hoosier
entertainer.
"I went, out as soon as I got
back," he said, "to one mine
I'd. had well, it was right out
side town, was there where it
was and shoveled up dirt I
had thrown away before, and I
got paid for it. That was the
initial start.
Twisted Knobs on Oil Job
"In California, working for
an oil company, I set on my hind
end and twisted knobs. It was
a dewaxing plant, was what it
was. My first year in the urani
um business, 1948, 1 doubled the
S4.000 I'd made the year before.
In 1949, I doubled my intake of
1948 and I just kept on doub
ling. My wife, Aggie, used to
drive a truck and come out and
do the cooking for us when I
was getting started."
In 1952, Turner discovered
one of the most valuable ore
bodies in the whole uranium
rich region. Now he owns some
1,000 claims, 15 to 20 operating
mines, and as many more non
operating mines.
How does it feel to make a
quick switch from low income
to millions?
"The only difference it's made
for me is work harder, that's
all. It's a terrible lot different
from working with a pick in a
mine- It just seems to keep a
guy busy every minute, that's
all conferences, mergers, law
yers, paperwork. I'd like to be
able to spend some time with
my family.
Fun Must Wait
"I want to do things I'd ex
pected to do if I'd ahad that
much money. Make a few trips.
Why, I been planning a fishing
trip to Vancouver for 18 months
now. Aggie is waiting for me
right now, to come get her and
make that trip. And she's Tun
ing out of patience."
Didn't he turn his millions
into some luxury living for him
self?
"We're simple people," Turn
er said. "We have two cars is
all. We remodeled our house
some. It's a three-bedroom place.
I think we have the nicest kit
chen in Moab. Aggie built that
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SWELL STORY
Des Moines (U.R) Two bro
thers got mumps the same week
although they were many miles
apart. Roger Caliger contracted
the disease the first week in
March. The family learned later
that his older brother, Wesley,
with the Army in Korea, came
down with mumps the same
week.
kitchen jest the way she wanted
it. She's a wonderful cook, can
cook better'n my mother, even,
and that's going some.
"My boy Kent, he's 10, and
my girl, Kathy, 7, go to school
in Moab. Aggie was a classmate
of mine in the same school."
Moab has jumped from 1,200
population to 6,000 in the last
year and a half. But the Turners
are thinking of moving to Salt
Lake City, and getting a new
house. Aggie wants a five-bedroom
place.
George Margreiter Dies in Washington
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Jacksonville News "of the
death of George Margreiter on
May 14 at Snoqualmie, Wash.,
has been received , by relatives
in this area. He was working in
the Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany woods when he collapsed
and died before aid could reach
him. '
Mr. Margreiter was born in
Jacksonville in 1893, one of nine
children, and lived here during
his early life. During World War
I he served in the Army. He was j
a logger all his life and ran I
his own gypo camps and at one
time a sawmill.
In 1926 Mr. Margreiter was
married at Yreka, Calif.,- to Lil
lian Lott, who survives. They
lived in Snoqualmie since 1944.
Other survivors include a son,
John Margreiter, Snoqualmie,
two stepsons and two stepdaugh
ters, six grandchildren, and
three sisters, Mrs Elizabeth Van
Galder, 836 North Central ave.,
Bedford; .Mrs. Leslie Rogers,
Klamath Falls, and Mrs. E. Hop
kins, Portland.
Funeral services were held at
Meadowbrook . and interment
was at North Bend cemetery.
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