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Show HILL TOP TIMES March 14 Page ; 1l Squadron Wins Trophy TWo-Sf- CLARK AB, R.P (AFNS) The 1867th Facility Checking Squadron, which " V Mineral Deposits, Stones has maintained a perfect flying safety record despite Is it a ruby or a garnet? its aircraft having been hit 27 Leon Stanley can tell you times by enemy ground fire, instantly. won the Air Force ComHe is an industrial engineer munications Service's 1970 in the and Packaging achievement commander's Support trophy. Its aircraft are used Transportation Division of Distribution, and to evaluate the performance spent approximately half command's has the of of his 31 years federal service navigational aids and air with the Department of the traffic control facilities in the Interior and Corps of Pacific Air Forces theater of and half with the Engineers, operations. Air Force. Get ready for the hot summer months Air Coolers, Roof Complete!, TV & 58 W. Gentile Phone Mount $325 (Juty Brimley Hobblf FetlfureS Appliance St - Layton 376-926- 3 Heavy Demand for It was in 1939 that he became a charter member of the Mineralogical Society of Utah and found a hobby of endless fascination. He knows the terrain of Utah like his own backyard. He worked as a resident engineer when ground was broken for the Veterans Hospital at Ft. Douglas. He was an assistant area engineer in the construction of Wendover AFB. He helped locate the area that was selected for Dugway Proving Grounds. The Mineralogical Society of Utah was a natural outlet for Mr. Stanley's absorbing interest in geology. Its purpose, which has not altered through more than 30 years is "to foster and promote the collection of minerals, rock specimens, fossils and gem materials". This includes classifying and labeling the finds and aiding in the location and utilization of the state's mineral resources. d Mr. Stanley's hobby is in that he collects and polishes gem stones and also seeks out mineral deposits and maps their locations. He can tell by looking at a two-side- Computer Programmers YOU CAN QUALIFY NOW!!! Enroll at Western Institute of Technology for Key Punch and Typing Course. Look at these advantages lump of green variscite whether it came from Promintory Point, Lucin, Grantsville or Clay Canyon. Low Low Training Cost 5peed & That's expertise! As for the gems, he has copied the faceting of the world's famous diamonds in quartz. His collection of these replicas and other gems is impressive and beautiful in the extreme. One of his tools is a identifies which polariscope the crystals in a gem stone and shows the axis for determining the faceting. Another tool, a dischroscope, which looks like a small lipstick holder, can tell him whether his stone is a ruby or a garnet. (There is a great difference to a jeweler.) Mr. Stanley has a real affection for his fossils. He prizes a trilobite from the Middle Devonian Age, found in Southern Ohio, that he believes to be 260 million years old. It is a perfect specimen of animal life that has long departed from the earth. "You see," he commented, "it was originally flat, but it folded over and puffed out under the enormous pressure of flood waters all those aeons ago." He carefully returned his treasure to its little box. All of this is but a small - MINERALOGIST Leon Stanley, Distribution an authority on gemstones and rock formations in this part of the West, displays (from left) variscite, petrified wood and three very different geodes of Utah origin Small trilobites (in foreground) are believed to be 250 million years old. 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