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wirccntv. JULY 14, 1988 - - PAGE POUKTEEN HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON r l J TALKING OVER PLANS for the Basin Grain Improvement Clinic scheduled for Tulelalce, July 30 and 31 are Don Potter (left) and Charlie Weise (right). The clinic is being sponsored by the Tulelalce Growers Association. Potter is chairman of the association's Grain Committee and Weise is president of the association. Fat-Chance Gold Panning Easy on The Old Spine IDAHO 6PRINGS, Colo., July 11 I Here's hot-weather mining venture whoe operators guaran tee you can't lose. But, tongue in cheek, they call It the Fat Chance Mining Co. The invest ment? 75 cents. , . This entitles you to a pair of tweezers, a pan, water and some gold-bearing dirt. What you get out of it is up to you. After paying his six bits, the "miner" gets a scoop of dirt, stakes out a claim at a long sluice box which is belt-high to save wear and tear on the back mus clesand then goes about his busi ness. K. D. Kaasch, director of the Man Appeals Firing For Assumed Name NEW YORK uFI A 74-year-old man, fired after 45 years as a city laborer because he used an assumed name, has ' asked the State Supreme Court to order his reinstatement. . Nicholas Laa said in his peti tion yesterday that he had used the name "Joseph Porgic" while on the city payroll because that name appeared on his original employment card. He did not ex plain why. operation, offers free , advice. ' "That's it rotate the pan In the water. Now scrape off the top gravel. There won't be any gold in that . . . Cold's heavier, you know, goes to the bottom of the Pn. . "Whirl It some more. Not so fast. That shine? Mica. Now we're getting down to the black stuff. That's magnetite and ilmenlte. Easy now. Ha here It is. Color. See It?" . The "prospector" uses the pair o! tweezers to pluck the little flakes of gold from the pan and deposit them into a small vial. He also is given a certificate for shares in the "common rock'! of the corp oration, s . .. Some tourists, eyes agleam, try pan after pan ot the gravel. The operation should take 10 minutes, Kaasch says, but the "eager-beavers" go through a panful in a couple of minutes and thereby miss the gold. , Others figure they can do bet terfor free in the nearby creek. They take off their shoes and wade in but the results are almost always disappointing. . Business is good at the Fat Chance. Kaasch says the firm plans to open up a similar opera tion in Central City, another tour ist haven. ' Man Who Takes Robin to Work Has Other Woes CLEVELAND Ml Woe is Mike Megyas. In the past live weeks: A tornado toppled his chimney. He went on duty as an auxiliary policeman to help other tornado victims and got a parking ticket. . He took home a homeless robin, -which now refuses to leave and won't eat anything but meat, po tatoes and prunes. He has to take the robin along to work at a sewage disposal plant because the cat wants to eat it. His pocket was picked. . . Senate Ratifies Wheat Pact ; WASHINGTON tmA three-year extension of ; the International Wheat Agreement, under which 41 nations pledge to buy 505 million bushels from four major exporters. was ratified by the Senate late yesterday.. . The V. S. export quota is 270 million bushels. The government pays subsidies to exporters if the price they receive la lower than the domestic price. Such subsidies so far have cost 570 million dol . jars.- - -. i OLD STUFF LOS ANGELES W A superior c'ourt jury has decided the basic melody of "Buttons and Bows." composed by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston, Is in the public domain. The Jury yesterday ruled against band leader Freddie Rich's 1600.. 000 plagiarism suit brought In con nection with the song. 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