' Alaska gold mining on upsurge
By WARD SIMS
Associated Press Writer
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -
After a long slide that took pro
duction to a low of 7,107 troy
* ounces in 1973, gold mining in
Alaska is on the upswing.
Production went up to 9,146
ounces in 1974, to 14,980 ounces
r in 1975 and to 17,660 ounces last
year.
And state assayer Don Stein
says prospects for mining gold
j’ in Alaska will always be good,
“because the gold is here.”
A fixed price of $35 an ounce
all but nailed the lid on gold
. mining in the state, but interest
picked up soon after Congress
freed the price of gold in 1968.
“At $35 an ounce, the Alaska
, gold miner could barely oper
ate unless he had a pretty good
placer mine,” Stein says.
“When the price went up, a
* lot more operations came into
being, because you could mine
lower grade claims.”
Many of those new operations
represented so-called “week-
* end prospectors” who turned to
full-time mining with an im
proved price picture.
“It made it worthwhile for
’ them to work their properties
on a full-time basis,” Stein
said.
Stein said recent sales of gold
e by the International Monetary
Fund have acted as a buffer on
the price of gold, but that it
still remains extremely strong.
n Another factor affecting gold
mining in Alaska is inflation,
but Stein sees that as a two
edged sword.
On the one hand, inflation
cuts into the ability of miners
to work lower grade deposits,
he said.
“However, with increasing in-
* flation conditions, you're going
Honor graduate’s lack of sight
no bar to life of acheivement
By ANDREW ROSENTHAL
NEW YORK (AP) —
“Society is not yet enlightened
enough to allow you to be aver
age. I really think the only way
for a handicapped person to
make it is to be way above av
t erage,’’ says John McCann,
who has been blind since birth.
McCann certainly is “way
above average” himself. His
Phi Beta Kappa key, his gradu-
* ation as valedictorian from the
State University of New York
(SUNY) at Binghampton, his
overall college average that
•' was just one-tenth of a point
shy of perfect and his up
coming matriculation to the
Harvard Law School all testify
t to that.
McCann has accomplished
these things in the face of his
blindness and an automobile
accident that damaged the
f nerves in his fingertips, making
it almost impossible for him to
read braille.
But although the 22-year-old
* said in an interview that he’d
“rather play it safe and be
twice as good as everyone
else,” he still insists he’s “look-
z ing forward to the day when
what I’m doing won’t turn
heads.”
Meanwhile, though, the soft
» spoken young man in jeans and
sieakers is turning quite a few
heads indeed. McCann has been
hired temporarily by SUNY at
, Syracuse to head that school’s
summer program for blind col
lege freshmen.
With remarkable independ
/ ence McCann moves freely with
a cane through Ozone Park, a
quiet, out-of-the-way, residen
tial neighborhood in the New
York borough of Queens. He
* rides subways and buses rou
tinely and walks in his own
home with confidence and agil
ity.
* While still in college, McCann
managed to find time to be a
founding member of the Associ
ation for Disabled Individuals
.Gordon Junior College
to hold commencement
Summer graduation exer
cises will be held at Gordon
Junior College on August 18,
<*■ with President Jerry M.
Williamson giving the com
mencement address. The public
is invited to the service which
will be held in the auditorium of
the student center at 10:00 a.m.
This is the first time that
Gordon nas held a summer
commencement.
Candidates from this area
are:
* Terry Joseph Baxter, Griffin
Tyna Bell, Orchard Hill
Barry Gregory Clark, Griffin
, Catherine J. Coker, Griffin
Judy L. Coleman, Zebulon
Nancy Elizabeth Costy, Milner
Virginia Fears, Griffin
* Patsy Fields, Griffin
Wade Farley Finch, Griffin
Deborah Galletly, Griffin
Eddie Ross Hays, Griffin
* Paul D. Lamb, Griffin
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OLD GOLD dredge, shut down years ago before the
price of gold was freed from its longtime fixed
price of $35 a troy ounce, slowly rots in a pond near
the old gold rush city of Nome, Alaska. Only two
gold dredges are now active in Alaska, both at
Nome, as gold mining picks up again.
to find that pressure is on the
price of gold to go up,” says
Stein.
Other upward pressures on
gold prices come from new and
increased industrial uses of the
metal.
and to maintain his own physi
cal fitness regimen.
McCann says he loves to ski
and ice-skate, in the company
of a sighted guide. And he also
enjoyed running on his college’s
outdoor track.
“I found that if I dragged my
cane along the inside of the
track, I was all right,” he said.
McCann attended the Lavelle
School for the Blind in New
York for the first nine years of
his education. It was there that
he learned to type, a skill he
says is the single most impor
tant one any visually handi
capped person can learn.
The Lavelle experience was a
vital one, MCCann admits, but
he fears that such places can
lead to “ghettoization” of the
handicapped. He transferred to
Christ the King High School in
Middle Village, near his fami
ly’s home.
“I felt strongly at that point
that it was time to develop my
social skills,” said McCann, an
aspring politician. “It was time
to meet and get along with
seeing people.
“It’s really a trade-off. There
is no easy way to decide when
to make the change.”
McCann said he uses primar
ily recorded texts and notes for
schoolwork, especially since the
accident a couple of years ago.
He jumped up and walked'
briskly across two rooms to dig
out his “steno-mask.”
A steno-mask is a large plas
tic cylinder that fits over the
user’s mouth and plugs into a
tape recorder. With the device,
a blind person can dictate notes
in a normal voice without dis
turbing his classmates.
Braille writers occasionally
are used, but McCann said they
really are too noisy to be prac
tical.
McCann said he gets most of
his books from Recordings for
the Blind (RFB), a free service
for all visually and per
ceptually disabled persons.
Annette Marie Melvin, Griffin
Debra Marie Mills, Griffin
Pamela Lindsay O’Dell, Griffin
Mark Allen Pilcher, Griffin
Dennis Wayne Reid, Griffin
William A. Roberts
Carol Denise Smith, Griffin
Laura M. Trice, Milner
James Kenneth Young, Griffin
Bundles of joy
RAINIER, Ore. (AP) - Lo
retta McKay, 30, welcomed her
third set of twins in six years,
a boy and girl, at a hospital
recently.
The new arrivals are Tivon
Douglas, 6 pounds, and Trudy
May, 5 pounds, 12 ounces.
At home were the children of
a previous marriage, Trina
Marie and Teresa Darlene Hig
ley, who arrived June 5, 1971,
and Tonia Sue and Troy Lee
Higley, who were born Feb. 15,
1974.
For instance, because it is an
excellent conductor of elec
tricity, gold is now a key in
gredient in the manufacture of
equipment such as computers,
Stein said.
Must of the gold operations in
RFB can produce a recorded necessary supportive ser
version of any book if a client 8 ’ ~ .
supplies two copies and gives is working hard to
them two months to complete dispel tEle notion that disabled
thg people are helpless people. “Up
McCann said RFB performs the middle of this century,
a vital function, insisting that it Jat attitude was generated by
not be thought of as a charity. the handicapped themselves,”
“No handicapped person wants McCann said. “Now we say,
a handout,” he explained. W. we want a P iece of that
“They just want to be given the P* e to °- ”
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Alaska are family-type under
takings, or partnerships of two
or three men, Stein said. But
two dredges were working near
Nome last summer, and they
will be back in operation this
year.
Alaska Gold Co. used the two
dredges to recover 14,320 of the
17,660 troy ounces of gold pro
duced in the state last year,
moving 1,194,620 cubic yards of
gravel in the process.
Another dredge is working on
a platinum property at Good
news Bay, and it is producing
some gold as a side product,
Stein said.
“Hard-rock mining in Alaska
is practically nonexistent, ex
cept for the Little Squaw Min
ing Co. property at Chandalar,”
Stein said.
He said Little Squaw is pro
ducing this summer with a 100-
ton-a-day mill the Spokane,
Wash., firm has constructed at
the mine site on the south slope
of the Brooks Range.
"That’s the one thing that is
going to be good in Alaska in
the future, hard-rock gold min
ing,” Stein predicted. “We’ve
got large low-grade gold depos
its in Alaska that have yet to
be discovered.”
He was also optimistic about
the future discovery of placer
deposits in the state — “There
are a lot of creeks that have
never been prospected.”
But Stein has a word of cau
tion for those who might be
lieve that gold in Alaska is an
easy quarry.
“It takes experience, work
and patience,” he said. “By the
law of averages, if you take 40
miners, prospecting all of their
lives, only one will find a really
valuable property.”
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Couple celebrates
50th anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Head,
Sr. celebrated their 50th wed
ding anniversary at their home
on Atlanta road near Sunny
Side. The Heads were married
July 2,1972 at the home of the
late Rev. John Norton.
Mrs. Kenneth Gamer, Mrs.
Charles Cardell, Miss Peppie
Noblis, Mrs. Wesley Stanley,
Mrs. Randy Head, Miss Cindy
Head, and Mrs. Dana Head
helped with the celebration.
Relatives of the couple in
clude: Mr. and Mrs. Horce
Head, Jr., 4 grandsons, Dana,
Randy, Tony, and Mike; 2
granddaughters, Cindy and
Lisa; and 3 great grandsons.
Approximately 160 friends
attended. Among them were
Congressman John J. Flynt,
Jr. and Senator Virginia
Shapard.
MR. AND MRS. HEAD
President and Mrs. Jimmy
Carter, Senator Herman
Talmadge, and Sheriff and Mrs.
Dwayne Gilbert sent their
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NORTHBROOK, 111. (AP)-Is
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acid, alkaline, or neutral?
This and 299 other questions
are being asked dealers in wa
ter conditioning equipment as
part of a consumer-protection
program being conducted by
the Water Quality Association.
Those who pass the test will be
permitted to call themselves
“Certified Dealer.”
As for rainwater, it’s slightly
acid.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 11,1977
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COCKER-TYPE, one black
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COLLIE—TYPE, one brown
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BEAGLE—TYPE, one male,
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POINTER—TYPE, one pure
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spots.
SHEPHERD-TYPE, one
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male; one tan mixed male and
one brown mixed male.
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