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Show DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY, COLORFUL DESERT1 FIGURE LEAVES ON TRIP FOR GOLD CACHE LAS VEGAS, New Death Valley Scotty breezed through Las Vegas this week, headed for his hidden cache of gold ore, subject to public conjecture for the past forty years. "I've got my mules already, and as soon as I hit the Valley, I'm starting start-ing after another load of gold. Everybody else is howling, but while they're howling yours truly is going ahead and bring out some more gold," the famous desert character said, his eyes twinkling. Asked if he wasn't afraid someone would follow him to his secret source of wealth, he said. ''Let 'em. They've been following me for forty years and I've been losing them right along and I guess I can do it again." Scotty still maintains that his $2,-400,000 $2,-400,000 Death Valley castle will remain re-main closed. ' "Of course I still live there when I'm in the valley, but I refuse to be a tourist attraction for all the hot dog stands and hotels within a hund-! hund-! red miles of the Valley," he said, his traditional red necktie fluttering in ; the breeze. Scotty was conveying cargo of presents sent him from a party of friends touring Europe. The ship-' ment included perfumes from Egypt, ; silk blankets from Afghanistan and ; assorted unmentionables for his pri-; vate bedroom in the Castle. j |