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Show OIL & MINING JOURNAL Page 4 Sourdough of U. professor U. Wins Nobel honors Melvin A. Cook, Sez. . . . sign on a railroad crossing near Colorado Springs, Colorado: "The average time it takes atraiotopass this crossing is fourteen seconds whether your car is on it or not. hospital patient was looking at the bill for his oper"No wonder they ation. wore masks in the operating room, he said. A A Buy I know one man who has his wife's permission to go out once a week with the boys both sides have a bullhorn. Astronauts say the moon is just mile after mile of sand. It won't amount to a thing til Howard Hughes buys it. Ekker, corporation, Industries, The younger generation is soon to find out who the Man from U.N.C.L.E. really is the tax collector. doctorate from Yale University. engineering and mechanical engineering at the university. formerly Bishops has purchased a Ekker stated that Stan general manager for United Equities, informed him the company had purchased 51 uranium-vanadiumining claims m containing about 5,600 claims and that ample ore was available. He also said that it is the intent to begin construction immediately on a portable mill scheduled to handled up to 750 tons per day, so that ore purchasing and production can begin and continue through the construction period of the large permanent mill. Firecrackers help tap geology that travels correct data about the bedrock through the materials, and the surface. Criner said that it was then time it takes for the wave to to another one we started looking around that reach from in point experimentally making seismic surveys and maps of is measured. Each type of soil or for a new method, and it seemed sub surface soils, which are rock offers different resistance to us that firecrackers would useful in engineering and to sound waves, thus, help solve the need for accuracy, construction projects, according measurements of the sound speed and economy. waves reveal clues concerning to the U.S. Geological Survey. James H. Criner, a U.S. the relative densities and EXPERIMENTS have shown Geological Survey engineer here characteristics of the materials. that a small firecracker is In areas of sparse capable and a leading experimenter of of sending a shock wave Criner said, through e soil lo the technique, is enthusiastic population, are now being used wave is produced -- It sort of shakes you up to realize that your children have seen King Kong, "Dracula and Frankes-tei- n more times than you have. all-o- ut af- defeated, do we have to send government aid? es in the streets seem to be about the same no matter what city he visits. Maybe it's one of those franchise operations. Delaware MEMPHIS, Firecrackers- ordinary Tenn. salutes" husband to start a garden, the first thing he usually digs up is a good excuse. traveler says that chuck-hol- a uranium, vanadium and copper circuits. He also said that the company intended to set up an ore purchase station and begin custom ore buying. uranium mill site near Tanner, When a woman wants her A and Hanksville. Ekker said that plans call for a 200 tpd mill scheduled for elevator sandals. call for miner Equities Inc., The hippie down the way isnt ready to scorn all of societys values. He wears Senators Utah-R- iter long-tim- e that United ter its moonlighter is a man who holds day and night jobs so that he can drive from one to the other in a better car. masters degrees from the University of Utah and his at Hanksville resident of Hanksville, announced last week Population control is a fine idea, except tht it may mean fewer posterity will be around to pay off the debt we are leaving them. war on the Mafia. And A markets IRECO explosives around the world. He earned his bachelors and U-m- ill HANKSVILLE, he's a scoutmaster. dialogue these days is when in research in slurry mixes for mining operations. His firm now go with? I dyed my hair. . A IRECO Chemicals Co., Salt Lake City, has been named to receive the Nitro Nobel Medal in Gold for his contributions to the commercial explosives Held. Dr. Cook will receive the medal in Stockholm jointly with Dr. Cook has been a pioneer blonde your husband used to that the land he purchased was under water. Of course not, get to work and sell the man what he needs, a motorboat. president He is a of Dr. Allan Wetterholm of metallurgy, professor metallurgical Sweden. At a cocktail party: Say, what happened to that dumb A salesman asked his boss if he should refund money to a customer who found out April 7, 1969 sub-surfac- seismic surveying explosives are regularly used to create shock waves, but near tb use of potential involving firecrackers. large cities, this method is not Criner said that the desirable because of the noise development of the firecracker and potential danger. A common method, not method was spurred because we became som e w hat involving explosives, Criner disenchanted with the old said, is the thumper method thumper method during a in which a piece of metal is recent water resources project in placed on the ground, and struck which we had to determine the with a sledgehammer to produce location of bedrock over an area the shockwave. But the thumper that was too large to drill to method is not always reliable, bedrock for sufficient control." and in a recent project, after which we spent about two weeks IN THESE STUDIES, Criner explained, it is often covering only about 1,000 feet a necessary to delineate and map day, test holes drilled along the the bedrock surface, or to survey lines showed the thumper determine the nature of the technique had not provided geologic materials that overlie the bedrock. To do this, a shock about the KERtll UN MTS Mnsaftwiiirin of Nek MU )) Ills ForAlliypti Or Minins, MM MT recorders 700 feet Criner said, and a away, extends the one slightly larger shock to 900 feet, slightly less than the distance covered by a thumper crew in one day. CRINER, who has published two technical papers on his firecracker, seismic survey technique, said that he has received numerous requests for more information about it from other governmental agencies, universities and industries in the United States, as well as from Canada, Great Britain, Israel and South Africa. McFarland - Hullinger Nanying M Cutnwtlw. MMMftm ' geophone MFET" Sid Hullinger McFarland Hw-wirr- iir Dir 532W7S UTAHS FIRST HELICOPTER SERVICE MININS CONTRACTORS - ORE HAULING Latest, Most Modern Equipment- - Dependable Service 915 No. Main St. P.0. Box 238, Tooele, Utah 84074 Free Dialing from Salt Lake: KELSEY-ELLI- S Salt Lake Airport . . 359-20- 85 Long Distance: Dial: Tooele 363-168- 882-010- 3 3 |