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WHITE SANDS, N.M. — Like a
jblay with 10 acts and a new charac-
for each scene, the Victoria Peak
)ld treasure search unfolds with
lodern mystery.
What, if anything, lies inside the
esert peak behind the rubble from
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Residents of Bryan-College Sta-
on seem generally optimistic about
year ahead, according to a sur-
ey by Texas A&M University stu-
ents and political scientists.
Of 200 citizens randomly con-
icted, 60 per cent expect to earn
lore money this year than last year
id 70 per cent think they will have
happier year than last, said Dr.
m Dyer, assistant professor of
olitical science, and Dr. Robert
ernstein, associate professor.
Bernstein and Dyer, who di
eted the survey, said optimism is
lore restrained in regard to the na-
onal economic picture.
Just over half the local residents
iterviewed expect a drop in unem-
loyment, and 45 per cent think
rices will rise faster this year than
ist.
“All the economic questions show
berals more optimistic about the
ear ahead than conservatives,” ex-
lained the two faculty members.
and the dynamite in another cavern
known as the Dome Room?
A professional treasure-finding
firm has centered its search for a
legendary treasure trove on a fault
in Victoria Peak which would dwarf
the gold in Fort Knox. The fault
leads into two separate rooms about
300 feet below the surface.
Norman Scott, who heads the
“Liberals are more likely than
conservatives to forecast a decline in
the unemployment rate, a slow
down in price hikes and an increase
in earnings”
The interviews were part of a
class project involving 50 A&M stu
dents.
Teacher loses bet;
then half of beard
BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) —A sub
urban Buffalo math teacher has let
his students get the best of him.
Joe Rich recently greeted his class
at Cleveland Hill High School wear
ing a half beard as a result of losing a
bet to his students.
The teacher bet his charges that
they couldn’t raise $50 for a local
telethon, but when they raised $54,
he fulfilled his promise to shave half
his face on the first day of spring.
search which began Saturday, said
yesterday enough information has
been gathered to lend credence to
some of the legends.
“We re trying to do this right and
we have a little time to do it. You’ve
got to do this thing scientifically or
you’ll end up like everyone in the
past has,” Scott said.
“This is not a process that you’re
going to go in and grab a bunch of
gold bars and come out.”
Modern stories of the treasure
date back to 1937 when Milton E.
(Doc) Noss said he found piles of
gold bars inside the peak. He said a
dynamite blast covered the
entrance to the peak before he
could remove all the gold.
Noss was killed in 1949 in an ar
gument with a would-be partner.
Several persons who claim
knowledge of the treasure or where
it may be hidden have joined the
search. Ova Noss, who was married
to Doc Noss at the time of his find,
is among them.
Mrs. Noss is represented at the
site by her lawyer, David Daar of
Los Angeles, who produces a new
witness daily for a news conference.
Yesterday’s witness was Joseph An-
dregg, an electrician from Santa Fe
who said he helped Noss carry gold
bars.
The search is concentrated in an
opening called the Snake Hole
about two-thirds of the way up
Victoria peak, which rises about 700
feet above the dusty Hembrillo
Basin on the White Sands Missile
Range.
The army has given Scott 10 days,
until next Monday, to produce posi
tive evidence that a treasure exists.
Scott has several other sites
where his crews are working, in
cluding a site named Bloody Hands
because of some red-colored Indian
petroglyphs on a limestone cliff
hanging over a dry arroyo below the
peak.
A backhoe excavated an opening
into the Snake Hole yesterday and
several searchers crawled inside to
photograph and map a 320-foot long
fault which leads to the Dome and
Ring Rooms.
One of the researchers, former
Air Force Capt. Leonard Fiege,
said he believes a passage from the
ring room has been closed off by a
cave-in. He said the passage, if it
can be excavated, leads to another
room where he saw piles of gold
bars in the late 1950s.
Fiege, who passed a polygraph
test of his story, said he believes if
the gold is not found it has been re
moved by the Army.
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