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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1948)
rHUKMMY, MAY 6, 1948 HfcRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACE SEVEN Pro-School 1 fNPW 7. ' Children Examined i mm 1 n ii 1 1 ' T 1 II in. iii ii 1 1 w asssssi mmmm I I Tule Assembly To Entertain TUI.EI.AKE, May , The Tule luke Assembly, Order of the Rain bow for girl which l supportlnit two war refugee girls, one In Prance and one In Finland will entertain Hunday, Mother'! Day at a silver tea In the annex of the Tulelnke Community Presbyterian church Hours will be from 2 to 4 o'clock. California time. The program will Include a musi cs I number by Helena Fischer; vo. cal number. Mrs. Ward Devlin; pit no number, Bally Thomas; vocal numbers by Janice Schroeder and a piano selection by Rosalie Wil kinson. A group of Olrl Scout will present a skit. Mothers of the Rainbow girls will be especially honored but anyone Interested la cordially Invited to ftt tend and support the worthy cause of the tea. It Pays to Use the Want-Adsl Soyle's Column The Hardest Thing To See In A Gold Mine Is Gold Scores of youngsters who will go to school for the first time tills fall were eiamlnrd this week at the Klamath rounly health unit In a program sponsored by the PTA. Known as the Mummer Roundup, the pre-srhool eliminations were conducted by local physlrians and dentists, who donated their lime. The pirtures show, right, Eewls tierber re ceiving a stethoscope examination from fr. Ilean II. Ostium, Eeft, Dr. John A. Negrerskl. dentist, examining Dlann Smith while her father, A. W. Hmllll. watches at left. I.KAI). rl D , May ft A gold miner ; Is ntxml as likrly to see an elephant ( underground as he Is gold' And It he did see It ho protmhly ' wouldn't recognise It. This Is one of ' the oddities of digging out the yellow metal that gives the boys at Fort Knox something to guard and provides the na tton'i ileutL.ts something to fill a tooth with be sides an ache. "It Is very rnre In find tree si-.ks of gold." Mai. novi.r. said Iturlnn Walker, assistant gen eial manager of the llomeslake mine, largrst In the Americas. "Miners can work yeais and never are any " Many miners can t even deter mine ore-bearing rock from waste or country rock " Hites worth working are outlined by skilled mining en gineers. (iold mining I an intricate In dustry comparable in many ways to L Ja ,S ii automobile factory. It lake many ftkllN la itlruu inmi our ton of uir flitiil product barely rum.Kh Rold to make tt man urd dlnK rlnu. And 11 limy rni '.!00,000 ur mure to IjUu throuKh cminiry riK'k to rrurh nn ore body worth workkiur Put Hark I'liutu ully PvrryihniK Wikeit nut of ihr mine In put fonrk In with one noteworthy exception 1 1 Kold. After the ore hit been crtiAhed and , putted thrnuKh mpAheii o( a ncreen finer thitn the nlftliiR rloth Ued in ; flour millh. the uMr Mind l piimed bark into the mine nn "fill" to pre- ' vent wall collapw.v i Gold ml nerd are n hnrdy. ntiuff ; chrwinK crew who hold hitch dlh- I I dnln for ronl mine. They work a I evcii-hoiir. ntx-duy week nnd the '. ' top wotkrrK earn $12 to tli a dny. I They live a mile atone .en level here and work a mile fnun their, , hnmeff HtralKhl down. I Their chief tk in drilling nrven- ' foot holes in the tunnel Inrc and Ntufftnit them wllli dynnmlte which j they net off at the end of their tthlft. j loud 1 1 tK the blamed ore with power j shove U. Some Idea of the size of the opera -: tloiiH In thla matatslve mine that has produced t400.OUO.000 In 70 yrura: 11 produccjt 1,400,000 tons of ore In normal year. i It pumps out, MM) Bulloiift of water ' a minute and pump In 225.000 cubic feet of frcjih air. It haA 37 level. 120 milea of tun- ' nelx. 1 It burns 773 miles of fue a ycur to (vrl off 3.000,000 stlckfi of dyim- j mite dome 100,000 pounds a month. 1 It uxea 1,000.000 feet of timber a month. I u. Kiant main hoUu can haul up nine -ton louds of ore at three time the a peed of the f ah test piuutenKcr elevators In New York AkyAcrapers. j In Slump ' At pievnt the Bold minUiR Indus- , try tn the United Slates m m a I itlump. The H omenta ke mine i op- ' eratlng at only about 60 per cent capacity. Before the war the United Stairs produced M per rent ot the world's Bold each year." Walker said. "Now ll produces only about five per cent. 'The reaj,ons7 The present reilinit price on Rold, shortage of labor. It Hikes 20 days and Incredible labor to harvest from 35 tons of un dUK ore In the mine the one pound or Ii ajl of Bold bullion that emerges from the refinery. Iiul Wulker Is weary ol people who nay: "Why ko to all that trouble? It Is JUM Ukcn out of one hole here and put back Into another hole at Fori Knox." Mis reply: "If the gold wa.sn't mined the country would soon find out how important It ts. It has many Indus trial UJes and there never was a nation that felt It had enough for money." One indication of its value: They can burn the suit of overalls worn by a refinery worker here and re cover enough gold dut to buy three new suits. SEE US FOR COMPLETE BODY and FENDER WORK We'll restore your ear's lost glam our , , . skilled body repairmen , . prompt service , . . reasonable prices. GET Ol'R ESTIMATE ON A COMPLETE DUPLICATE FACTOR V PAINT JOB EXPERT TRIM WORK ALTO GLASS INSTALLED HEAT CISHIONS REBUI.T ESTIMATES GLADL! Open 7:30 to 6 p. m. daily 7:30 to 1:00 Saturdays BALSIGER MOTOR Main at Esplanade CO. Phone 31 il riay Ball! GEMS Tonight! MOUNTAIN orr y ST s Tim f laborers then do the mucking higher costs and high uxea." X FLOWERS , NO. 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