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' Dr. Edward Teller, director
of the Radiation Laboratory of
the University of California, at
Livermore, will be honored with
a degree at the 37th Annual
Commencement May 18 at the
University of Alaska.
Dr. Teller has been referred to
cften as the "father of the H
Bomb." He will receive a doc
tor of science degree in recog
nition cf his efforts to strength
en the U.S. against the menace
of tyranny, according to Dr.
Patty, president of the Univer
sity.
CHARLEY EVERN DIES
Curt “Charlie” Evern was laid
to rest in Homer, April 18.
Evern came to Candle in 1905,
engaged in mining for 35 years
before joining the CAA in 1940.
He was 76 when disability
forced his retirement in late 1958.
He went home toiibalyt p....s
He died at his home in Puyallup
April 14.
At his request he was buried
at Homer which had been his
family home until 1952.
He is survived by his widow,
Alice and four grown children.
4,000 M.P.H. Will be Expected
From X-15 Rocket Research Plane
WASHINGTON, OP) — The gov
ernment officially disclosed today
the expected speed of the X-15
rocket research airplane — 4,000
miles an hour. Ira H. Abbott, of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, told the
Aviation Writers Association in
a prepared breakfast talk that
the X-15 will “leap out of the at
mosphere into space much as a
fish jumps out of water.”
The X-15 currently is under
going exhaustive captive flight
tests under the wing of a B-52 jet
bomber. ,
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3-Year-Old Son of Army
Man Drowns at Play In
Ft. Richardson Gravel Pit
ANCHORAGE, UP — Gerald |
Clyde Covey, 3, the son of an I
Army man stationed at Ft. Rich
ardson, drowned Wednesday when
he fell into some water ,in a
gravel pit.
The boy was the son of Spe
cialist 3/c and Mrs. Jack M. Co
vey, from Flint, Mich.
Police said the boy was playing
with two olders brothers, Michael,
5, and Martin, 4, in the gravel pit
and refused to leave when the
two older boys decided to play
elsewhere. ,.
The boy’s father discovered the
lad’s body in the water later.
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ROBERT SERVICE LEAVES
LARGE CASH ESTATE
VANCOUVER, B. C., UP — Rob
ert W. Service, the bard of the
Yukon, left a net estate of $297,
| 874, most of it in cash in Canadian
banks, when he died last Septem
ber 11 in Monte Carlo.
The will of the 85-year-old poet
was filed for probate here.
He had established a trust fund
of $100,000 for his two grandchil
dren, Anne and Armelle Davies,
both of Monte Carlo.
Under the Monacan law, his
daughter, Mrs. Iris Davies, takes
half the estate.
The will dealt with the remain
ing half by leaving it equally be
tween his widow, Mrs. Germaine
Service, and the daughter.
BRIGHT-EYED
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., UP) — At
torney A. A. Semaan, defending
a salesman accused of drunken
driving, heard a policeman say
Thursday the defendant was
“glassy-eyed” when arrested.
Seamaan smiled and asked,
“Would you say I was glassy-eyed,
too?” The policeman said he
wouldn’t.
“That’s funny,” Seamaan said.
“I do have a glass eye.”
The defendant was found in
nocent.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Adsuna are
the parents of a daughter born
this morning at the hospital. Mr.
Adsuna is with the U. S. Smelt
ing Company.
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FAIRBANKS, GP) — Four moun
tain climbers, turned back by bad
weather in a 17-day attempt to
scale 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley,
said yesterday they planned to
try again next year.
The party, led by Dr. George
Cloutier of Fairbanks, was trapped
10 days in an improvised shelter
at the. 17,000-foot level by an
Arctic blizzard. Cloutier said they
decided to abandon the climb when
food supplies ran short.
With him were Dr. Ted Ander
son, 28, Springfield, Mo.; Henry
Marshall, 29, Fairbanks, and Gary
Kinwood, 29, Three Rivers, Calif.
Cloutier said much was gained
by the climb, despite failure to
reach the top. He explained:
“The mountain served as a med
ical laboratory. We lived on ‘sus
tagen,’ a powdered food concen
trate and conducted several high
altitude tests on each other. Since
we carried no oxygen, conditions
were ideal to study man’s reaction
to prolonged periods in the thin
.atmosphere, so important to the
space travellers of the future.”
Cloutier continued: “We spent
three days cutting steps in a huge
azure wall of glacial ice which
we named ‘The wall of blue ice.’
“At first the snow and winds
lashed away at us beginning
about noon each day. But on the
fourth day, the morning let-up
didn’t come and for the next four
days our home was two small
tents sandwiched in a crack caused
by the splitting of a huge block
of ice.
“Above us was a 60-degree wall
of ice which led to a ridge about
800 feet above us. If we could
have made it to the ridge, the rest
of the climb would have been
easy. But our food supply was
growing short and the elements
eventually won out.”
He added that he will try it
again next year.
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BARTLETT RELEASED FROM
MARYLAND HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Bob Bartlett was released yes
terday from nearby Bethesda, Md.,
Naval Hospital. He entered the
hospital Tuesday for treatment of
an infection.
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