Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1951 — Page 5
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THIRTY-TWO years ago, newspaperman: and sometime poet William M. Herschell first sprang upon his
unsuspecting public a ques-
tion which has been debated
ever since. He asked: ! “Ain't God good to Indiana?” The Almighty lavished corn uhon Hooslerdom with a bounteous hand. With most other crops, He was equally generous. Yn many respects, this trapezoidal land has cause to bless His gifts, Buf Indiana was behind the door when gold, gems and uran- ! fum were passed out, In the June edition of State Conservation Department's “Outdoor Indiana,” an article entitled “Hints to Gold, Gem and Uranium Seekers in Indi.ana” contains probably every hint available. But author
Richard Erd, of the Industrial
Minerals Section, U. 8. Geological Survey, paints a discouraging picture of mineral prospects.
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MR. ERD points out that gold has been found in “profitable quantities” in glacial drift areas in Brown and Morgan Counties, But the finding, he said, was BO vears -ago, when a hardworking prospector might pan a few dollars’ worth of gold in a
..fday-~hardly a bonanza. In 1874,
‘tétal production was about $10.000. It has declined since then to nearly none, However, anyone energetic enough to work, for it still can pan-trices of gold from Greenhorn Creek in Brown County State Park, and perhaps from other streams in the area. The gold occurs, according to Mr. Ford, in little flakes in dark,
U. S.-Born Young Nazi Now Student At Annapolis
By United Press WASHINGTON, July 5-
Thanks to two former American
Gls, a former Nazi seaman and member of the German Youth]
at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Knope Jr.-first realized.he was» an American citizen after the] United States took ower the Munich Seeberufs - fach - schule—
An Army sergeant captured, Knops as he tried to escape,; checked his papers and told him. he was ah “American citizen. An-| other asked: “What are you doing
here? Your: belong to the ites)
States.” Mr. Knops then began to learn what being born in Mount Vernon, N. Y., could mean.
Long, Long Road
It was one year after his birth that his parents, both native Germans, decided to return to
their old home in - Dusseldorf,!
Germany. That was in 1931. Only after hard work and perseverance did their son 18 years later begin the long road of service to the United States at the Naval Academy. The hard wrk came in when the youth returned to the United
States at the age of 16, decided |
to switch to an Ameyican naval career. More than two years of study at night school and by correspondence courses preceded nine months of intensive study at an
academy preparatory school be-:
fore the young “German” could qualify for entrance to Annapolis. — The boy was brought up as.an average German youth in Dusseldort. Attended Youth Camps He attended three German Youth Movement camps and then
BRIGHT SIDE—Income tax is a minor worry of Hoosier gold prospectors.
heavy sands composed mostly of magnetite. But if it is hard to scratch with a knife or cannot be beaten easily into ex-
tremely thin plate, it is not gola. .
More probably it is pyrite (iron sulphide), which is nicknamed “fool's gold” for an -obvious reason. Pyrite is one of the most common minerals in indiana; it can be found in almost every type of rock. 1d n o
IN HIS REPORT on things precious, Mr. Erd tells of a four-carat diamond discovered some years ago in th#s ‘state. That's the record size, how-
ever, And only «20 diamonds® have been found $m mearty 100
vears, most of them too small to be cut on a lapidary’s wheel. Should you find what you be-
lieve to be a diamond, advises
Cavalry Cook ‘Busts’ a Bull For GI Buddies
WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN| KOREA, July 5 (UP)—Pfc. Lyle! E. Zaun, former broncho buster from Edmunds, N. D., recently| found himself riding the range|
again.
{Korean bull.
Pfe. Zaun, a cook with the 5th Movement is ngw a midshipman {Cavalry’s Troop B, got his chance {when the unit came upon a bull
In fact, Frederick William rogming aimlgssly around the
t Korean front. } td 2 ”n
| THE 22-year-old trooper wasted little time. He tied a rope to a trade school for seamen—in 1944. ring in the bulls nose, fashioned
a rope halter, and hopped on.
It was like old times,” Pvt. \Zdun ‘said ater. “He's easy to manage, although he does get al little excited once in a while and|
bucks.’
cook on the critter.
“It's probably the last thing they thought they'd see in Korea,”
laug hed Zaun.
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CALERA, Ala, July 5 (UP)— A Navy trainer plane which disappeared last Saturday on a flight | from the Pensacola Naval Air] Station to Bloomington, Ill, was found wrecked near here. The two bodies recovered were identified as Lt. William Pruitt, Pen-| sacola, and Seaman S. Logan, |
Mr. Erd, try the ok test of
quartz (silicon dioxide) is even more common than pyrite.
broken, its surface is curved like broken glass, whereas the broken surface of a diamond is smooth and flat, If you are serious about diamond hunting, _ you ought to carry a jar of heavy liquid with high specific gravity (such as bromoform) “into which you can pop your find. Qud'rtz Will float in bromoform; a diamond will sink. Othér precious stones may be found ih the glacial drift areas, but almost always they are so tiny. they must be identified under a microscope.
o 2 o NOW WE COME to the $10. 000 question: Is there uranium? No, Mr. Erd 8aid no uranium is known to be present in the shales and sandstones of Indiana, although the same type of rock in Colorado and Utah will bear it. |. > If enough of the mineral were present to be seen, it ‘would appear as a coating of bright yellow powder, easily confused ‘with another mineral, limonite. All specimens sent to the Industrial ‘Minerals Section at Indiana University to be tested with a Geiger counter have turned out to be a limonite—at least, so far. As Mr. Erd put it:
“An easy test for distinguish- | ing between the two is ‘not !
known,» but if the mineral is
it is limonite.”
Oh, well. There's always corn. day.
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scratching glass with it. Even | if it scratches satisfactorily, it ! may "be quartz, instead, and |!
But/quartz does not have the |
brilliance of the diamond. When | Forca was
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Jet Pilot Wins Harmon Trophy ‘For Nonstop Flight
By United Press
NEW YORK, July 5-Col. Da-| vid .C. Schilling of-the U. 8. Air named winner today of the Harmon International Avi-§» ation Trophy as the world's out-| standing aviator of 195 50. Col, Schilling, now temporary commanding officer of the 31st. Fighter Escort Wing in England,’ {received the trophy for making | ithe first nonstop jet flight be- | ‘tween Britain and U, 8 ' On Sept. 22, 1950, Col. Schilling | flew a single-engined F-84-3 Thunderbjet 3300 miles from! Manston, England, to Limestone,’ {Me., in 10 hours; 1 minute. Alr Force tanker planes refueled his
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Red Cross Ready ' For First Aid at PAL Club Circus
Red Cross volunteers trained in first aid will ‘be on hand at the! Police PAL Club Circus tomor-! row, Saturday and Sunday to give! emergency help in case of acei-
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