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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOlTlIX No. 93 ~ NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1957 1 Per Copy—15*
Fairbanks Engineer
Starts Checking Maps
For Sewerage Project
Mr. E. Philleo of Philleo Engi
neering, accompanied by Mr.
* Haight, arrived from Fairbanks
to start checking maps, records
and markers of the townsite pre
paratory to the preliminary sur
vey for the water and sewerage
project now underway.
Boy Pinned Down
By Elephant After
Stumble in Stockade
SEATTLE, Uft—A 15-year-old
boy stumbled in an elephant
stockade at Seattle’s Woodland
Park Zoo Sunday and when he
fell backwards he was pinned
• for several harrowing minutes
between the tusks of one of the
animals.
Young Kenneth Berry, whose
father*owns the four elephants
kept in the stockade, went in to
feed the animals. He tripped over
a leg-chain on one of the ele
phants and fell on his back.
One of the elephants, Tung-la,
lowered his head and held young
Berry to the ground. The foreman
. of the zoo, Charles Bradbury,
heard the boy’s cries and chased
the beast away with a pitchfork.
The youth was hospitalized
with head and body bruises and
a possible wrist fracture.
Six Men Injured When
Army Truck Overturns
Near Yakutat
JUNEAU UP)—Two Coast Guard
men were hurt critically and four
civilians suffered less serious in
juries early yesterday at Yakutat.
The six men were hurt when an
old Army truck in which they
were riding overturned off a
gravel road near Yakutat, 275
miles west of here. .
A U.S. Coast Guard plane,
which had been flying ne£r Hoo
nah, was sent to Yakutat and car
ried the injured to Juneau for
treatment.
The most severely injured were
James Poppell, 33, and William
Bacon, 32, both from the Ocean
Cape Coast Guard station at Yak
utat.. Doctors say both men are
recovering.
Pan American
Plans North Pole
Route to Europe
NEW YORK Iff)—Pan American
World Airways is setting up plans
for a pole-vaulting route to Eu
rope.
The airline said yesterday it
will file schedules Monday with
the Civil Aeronautics Board in
Washington for West Coast to
Europe flights over the North
Pole.
If given approval, Pan Am said
it would begin service Sept. 10.
Planes would make one refuel
ing stop at Frobisher Bay on Baf
fin Island, Canada. Initial plans
call for four round trips a week,
including flights from Seattle,
San Francisco and Los Angeles
to London and Paris.
3 Dams Burst,
Flooding Homes
Near Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, N.M., UP)—'Three
dams on the Gallinas River burst
early today, sending an estimated
90 million gallons of water rush
ing thru Las Vegas and flooding
homes above and below the city
to a depth of 7 to 14 feet.
There was no loss of life re
ported, altho damage to livestock
and property was heavy. National
Guardsmen and lawmen evacuat
ed hundreds of persons from Riv
erbank homes. The river, swollen
by heavy rainfall, was falling as
dawn broke this morning.
Many of the homes had been
built along the normally trickling
river during the past seven years
of drought.
Las Vegas itself, a northcentral
New Mexico city of about 14,000
some 50 miles due east of the
state capital of Santa Fe, escaped
flooding. The river banks held
well within the city.
Northwest of the city in Galli
nas and Montezuma Canyons,
where the reservoir dams were
located, more than 12 homes were
hit by the flash of floodwaters
released when the earth fill dams
burst under pressure of heavy
mountain rains. Water ran three
and four feet deep there.
Five-Day ‘Endurance Flight’ Tests
Airmen for Possible Atomic Flight
DAYTON, Ohio, UP>—Five Air
Force officers Saturday woundup
a five-day “endurance flight”
without ever having left the
ground.
They completed—in a mock
airplane cabin—the first of a ser
ies of tests to determine ability
of airmen to fly for long periods,
possibly ih atomic planes of the
future.
The men, all volunteers, spent
120 hours in close confinement at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
during which they engaged in a
simulated global mission.
Their radio contacts at various
clearance points were the only
times they heard an outside voice.
Included in the exercise were
bombing runs, landings and vari
ous “emergencies” including two
minor unscheduled ones caused
by power failure.
The men lived, ate, and worked
together as long as 16 hours in a
24-hour day, rotating - assign
ments, all in the interests of sci
ence.
Leader of the group was Maj.
John D. Calhoun of the Air Re
search and Development Com
mand, who served as airplane
commander.
The five men entered the 17
foot by 7-foot by 6-foot cabin at
Wright-Patterson’s Aero Medical
laboratory shortly before 9 fl.m.
last Monday.
Nez Perce Unhble
To Pull Barge
Off The Beach
The Upper Columbia River tug
the Nez Perce has spent the last
two days attempting to move the
barge containing contractor sup
plies which went aground back
of the N. C. store last Friday
morning during rough weather.
Some of the supplies have been
removed and the barge is now
away from the shore but listing
badly.
Emergency Landing for
Plane Carrying Norstad
LONDON, —An airliner car
rying American Gen. Lauris Nor
stad made an emergency landing
here Saturday but the NATO
commander and all others aboard
escaped unhurt.
Norstad was flying from Goose
Bay, Labrador, back to Paris in a
U.S. Air Force Constellation when
the big airliner developed engine
trouble.
The plane made a perfect land
ing at London airport with one
of its four engines out.
First Cable Laid
From California
To Hawaii
SAN FRANCISCO, (4>>—1The ca
ble ship, Ocean Layer, messaged
the first cable in a 2,400-mile twin
cable telephone system linking
the U.S. mainland and Hawaii
was completed Saturday.
The $37 million project is a
joint undertaking of the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph Co.
and the Hawaiian Telephone Co.
The cable runs from Point Are
na on the California coast, north
of San Francisco, to Oahu Island.
The second cable will be laid
from Oahu to California and both
will be ready for service this
autumn.
Survey crews discovered an un
charted 11,000-foot submarine
mountain in the Pacific.
The submerged mountain was
named Mt. Huddell, in honor of
the supply ship. It will be shown
on future navigation charts, but
not as a hazard to ships.
Its peak lies about a mile below
the surface of the sea.
Boy, 4, Escapes Death
By Obeying Order
To Stay in Car
PERU, Indiana, W—Four-year
old Michael Patterson obeyed his
father’s orders yesterday and
miraculously escaped death by
remaining seated in a car for
nearly 30 minutes while it was
being showered by high-voltage
electric sparks.
Police said T/Sgt. Samual M.
Patterson, 29, Bunker Hill Air
Force Base, told the child to stay
in the car after it hit a utility
pole south of here.
Patterson and a companion left
the car before the wire touched
it. Young Michael was finally
rescued by linemen who cut off
the power.
Armed Forces Accused of Waste in
Building Officers Quarters, Barracks
WASHINGTON, WV-The armed
services have been accused of
getting away from military aus
terity and wasting money in
building officers’ quarters, bar
racks and other structures.
The charge was contained in a
report by staff investigators for
the House Appropriations Com
mittee. The committee made pub
lic the investigators’ findings yes
terday as part of the record of
hearings on defense financing.
Air Conditioning
The investigators said the Air
Force wants to air condition per
sonnel quarters and to provide
private baths.
They said the Air Force has de
signed officers’ quarters “which
are much more elaborate and ex
pensive in layout and treatment
than those previously construct
ed.”
The Army and Navy also were
included in the investigators'
complaints concerning increased
use of such features as brick fac
ings, aluminum windows, fire
places, maple dance floors and
window canopies.
Unnecessary Features
The committee probers cited
what they said were examples
that “not only illustrate depar
ture from austerity, but also de
scribe instances of waste or the
use of unnecessary contruction
features.”
Rep. Sheppard (D-Calif) said
the staff report backs up repeated
complaints that the military ser
vices will, as he put it, “spend
every dollar they personally can.”
These were among instances
cited by the investigators:
Treasure Island Naval Base,
Calif.: installation of ceramic tile
wainscots on outside concrete
block walls of enlisted men’s bar
racks. Estimated cost—$50,000.
I The Army’s Ft. Benning, Ga.;
construction of a “monumental”
boiler house with a rubbed finish
concrete exterior to match the
finish of the base hospital.
Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, N.
M.: 21-foot ceilings in the lounge
and ballroom of the airmen’s club.
White House
Still Favors
Budget Reform
WASHINGTON UP^-The White
House said firmly it still favors a
budget reform plan despite re
ported objections to it by Secre
tary of Defense Wilson.
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told reporters
there seems to have been “a mis
interpretation” in published stor
ies about Wilson’s recent testi
mony to a House Appropriations
Subcommittee.
Wilson was quoted yesterday,
when the transcript of a July 1
hearing was made public, as say
ing the budget change would
cause “a lot of future trouble”
and might disrupt the nation’s
defense program.
Hagerty said he had been in
formed, presumably by someone
at the Pentagon, that Wilson’s
criticisms applied to an aspect of
Air Force financing and not to a
budget change bill ’ recommended
by . the Hoover Commission and
already approved unanimously by
the Senate.
The proposal calls for a new
system under which Congress
would appropriate each year only
funds to be spent during that
year. The government would be
given authority to sign contracts
covering projects of longer dura
tion, but cash would be provided
only on a year-to-year basis.
At present, Congress makes ap
propriations to cover both imme
diate spending and needs stretch
ing beyond a year. This leads to
carry-over of money from one
year to the next.
Prisoner’s Pounds
Prevents Escape
JACKSON, Mich., A freedom
bid by two southern Michigan
prison inmates failed because one
was too fat.
Robert E. Crouse, 23, and Cle
tus R. McKeon, 24, tried to es
cape from the world’s largest
walled prison Sunday by crawling
\out' thru a narrow pipe hole in
the basement wall. McKeon made
it, but Crouse got stuck halfway.
His yells for help brought the
guards running.
Great and Humble
Mourn Passing
Of Sen. George
VIENNA, Georgia, (41—The body
of former Sen. Walter F. George
lay in state today in the red brick
Gothic First Baptist Church in
which he often worshiped while
the great and the humble alike
mourned his passing.
Organists played soft music as
friends and neighbors filed past
for a last glimpse of the Georgia
tenant farmer’s son who became
special ambassador to NATO af
ter a long and distinguished ca
reer as a Democrat in the U.S.
Senate. ,
Others in this little south-cen
tral Georgia town of 2,000 strolled
past the white frame house where
the 79-year-old statesman died of
a heart ailment at 1:52 a.m. Sun
day or looked again at the statue
the townsfolk erected in his honor
seven years ago.
During his 34 years in the Sen
ate, George twice was chairman
of the powerful Foreign Relations
Committee. He did much to de
velop a strong bipartisan foreign
policy.
President Eisenhower said in a
statement that George’s death
was “a great loss not only to his
native state of Georgia but also
to the entire nation.”
The President designated Hen
ry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, to repre
sent him at the funeral today.