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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—-MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIX No. 84 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1957 _Per Copy—15?
Governor ana Mrs. MiKe Stepovich receive their first Salk
vaccine shots at the Health Center in Juneau to launch the
medical profession's Territory-wide campaign to vaccinate
all persons against infantile paralysis.
Needling the Governor is Dr. Cassius C. Carter, Juneau physician.
Boy Scouts at
Jamboree Having
Fun Swapping
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (^—Tex
as boys swapped horned toads for
hard coal lumps from Pennsyl
vania. Scouts from the far north
ern reaches of the country piled
into the camp site of the Panama
Canal Zone to look with fascina
tion upon an eight-foot snake. A
boy from Denmark, with a touch
of awe, wondered whether a Boy
Scout from Peru could produce a
shrunken head.
Thus, life in this Boy Scout
Jamboree city covering 1,500
, acres and lodging nearly 55,000
lads and leaders is getting back
to normal today after a memor
able weekend.
Yesterday, after a subdued
pause for religious services by
various denominations at widely
scattered points, the Scouts en
tertained a multitude of relatives
and friends. Thousands came
from neighboring states, joining
the usual, day-to-day flow of
sightseers.
Scout officials and state police
in charge of traffic control esti
mated that more than 30.000
toured the camp yesterday.
Dodgers Will Get
Flatbush Stadium,
Paper Reports
NEW YORK, !/P)—The Dodgers
are going to get their new stadi
um in Flatbush and remain in
Brooklyn, the World - Telegram
and Sun said it learned today.
In a front page story, the paper '
said the Brooklyn Sports Author- |
ity will urge at the Board of Esti- |
mate’s July 25 meeting that im
mediate approval be given the
ball park project.
The BSA is a three-man body,
headed by Charles J. Floyd, con
cerned specifically with a sta- j
dium to be built in the Flatbush
and Atlantic Aves. site, where ■
the Dodgers would like to build j
their new park.
Mayor Robert F. Wagner will ■
soon have the engineers’ report j
that it would be practical, from i
the city’s standpoint, to make the |
desired site available for stadium
purposes, the paper said.
Walter O’Malley, president of
the Dodgers, who repeatedly has
said he would keep his National
League club in Brooklyn if he
could acquire the desired site for
a stadium, declined comment on
the story.
Nuclear Test of ’Diablo' Gives i
Stunning Purple Color Effects
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., iff)
—“Diablo,” the nuclear device
that behaved like a dud two
weeks ago, burst with a stunning
purple hue over the Nevada des
ert at 4:30 a.m. <PDT> today.
The explosion, seventh of the
current summer test series,* was
described by newsmen as one of
the most beautiful they had ever
seen.
The blossom atop the cloud was
surrounded by a fluourescent
purple color which began to fade
about a minute after the blast.
The stem supporting the blos
som also had a new look. It was
not straight, a's most have been in
previous shots, but bulged a little
at the bottom.
The cloud from the blast rose
j swiftly to an altitude of about
30.000 feet. The portion above
15.000 feet then began heading!
toward southeastern Utah. The
Atomic Energy Commission said
the air mass probably would alter j
direction later and head for Wyo- j
ming.
i
The portion of the cloud below |
15,000 feet dispersed rapidly. j
The blast was about half nom
inal in size, or roughly one-half j
as powerful as the atomic bombs j
dropped on Japan during World
War II.
“Diablo” was orignally sched
uled from June 27*, then was put
off a day. On June 28 it failed to
fire because of a power failure.
Several other postponements
were made before the device was
exploded this morning from atop
| a 500-foot steel tower.
Stepovich’s Start
T erritory-W ide
Polio Program
Gov. and Mrs. Mike Stepovich
help launch the territory-wide
polio vaccination program by re
ceiving the first of a series of
three shots from Dr. Cassius C.
Carter at the health center in
Juneau.
The seven Stepovich children
have already received one or
more shots of vaccine and will
complete the series during the
summer.
Polio vaccinations, sponsored
by the Alaska Medical Assn, and
local physicians, will be conduct
ed thruout the territory during
the next few weeks with the first
clinics beginning in Juneau on
■Friday, July 12.
Alaska chapters of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paraly
sis and the Alaska Health De
partment are cooperating with
local doctors in organizing and
financing community vaccination
programs.
It is hoped that at least 90 per
cent of all persons in Alaska will
avail themselves of the polio vac
cine’s protection. The vaccine
will be offered free for persons
under age 20 and for a nominal
charge, not to exceed one dollar
per shot, for persons over 20.
The polio season is at hand.
Salk vaccine will protect against
this crippling disease that has
stricken 650 Alaskans sincg 1950.
Don’t wait—vaccinate!
Floods in Metropolitan Chicago
Block Traffic, Inundate Basements
CHICAGO, — Boats plied the
flooded streets of metropolitan
area Chicago Saturday after a
614-inch rain took at least nine
lives and drove hundreds from
their homes.
The downpour, concentrated in
a severe six-hour electric storm,
flooded tens of thousands of base
ments, blocked streets and under
passes, and cut power and com
munications lines.
In Chicago itself, airline traffic
was halted at flooded Midway
Airport where at least 1,000
stranded passengers and motor
ists spent the night, splashing
barefoot in waiting rooms or cat
napping in chairs or atop news
stands and counters.
At Joliet, a city of 51,000 just
southwest of Chicago, 200 persons
were taken from their flooded
houses by boat, and a refugee
center was set up in the VFW
hall. Coast Guard craft were put
on trucks and sent to Wheeling,
northwest of Chicago, where a
number of houses were flooded.
Gusty winds knocked down a
tent theater on the southwest side
slightly injuring 30 persons.
The battering winds and rain
played havoc with transportation
and communication. Hundreds of
cars stalled in deep water.
Two of the city’s main trans
portation arteries—the Outer and
Lake Shore Drives and the Con
gress Street Expressway—were
. closed for a time when as much
as four feet of water piled up in
spots. Traffic was tied up for
miles at the height of the storm.
Floods threatened some areas
in downstate Illinois and Chicago
suburbs today in the wake of Chi
cago’s record rainfall.
The Illinois River was at flood
stage at Ottawa, a city of 19,000
some 85 miles southwest of Chi
cago where the flow was backed
up by a 600-foot dam.
Altho water in the Chicago
j metropolitan area still caused
! some hardship and inconvenienc
es, most of Chicago and nearby
communities had finished their
| cleanup jobs.
Rail, air and bus traffic was
almost normal again as was tele
phone service. Some 33,000 tele
phones were knocked out by the
storm.
26 Telephones
Installed on Mt. Fuji
TOKYO, (44—There’s something
new atop Mt. Fuji—a switchboard
and telephones.
As of Saturday the swarms of
tourists who scale Japan’s sacred
mountain every summer can call
any place in the country from the
12,425-foot summit. Twenty-six
phones were installed, operating
over a radio-telephone circuit.
The number for the top is Fuji
Summit Zero.
Over Half the Population of U.S.
Lived in Areas Supposedly Blasted
By Mock H-Bombs in Defense Drill
NEWSPOINT, Operation Alert,
UP)—Officials estimated Saturday
that 95,521,526 persons—over half
the population of the U.S.—lived
in areas supposedly ravaged by
mock “enemy” bombs in Opera
tion Alert 1957.
At least 191 vital U.S. targets
were theoretically smashed by a
presumed enemy who swept
across the North Pole Friday
with H-bombs to spare and super
sonic bombers to deliver them.
There were hitches and foul
ups a-plenty in this make-believe
nuclear holocaust, a test of the
nation’s civil defense and mobili
zation organizations. As the exer
cise continued, officials struggled
Sen. Green, 89, Suffers
Collapse From Heat
WASHINGTON (#)—Sen. Green
(D-RI) rested in Bethesda Naval
Hospital Saturday after collaps
ing during a reception at the
embassy of Pakistan.
Green, 39 years old, is chair
man of the Senate Foreign Rela
tions Committee.
He lost consciousness only for
a short time, later walked into
the hospital without assistance.
“It was just heat exhaustion,”
one of Green’s aides said.
to overcome them.
Officials estimated, that 55 per
cent of the nation’s population
lived in areas “struck” by mock
bombs. Many major cities were
presumed to be destroyed.
New York City civil defense
officials estimated 2,339,012 per
sons were “killed” and 2,261,238
were “injured” when the city
was struck by a hypothetical
super bomb.
Today the clock was jumped
hypothetically to 15 days after
the attack. Purpose of this phase
of the drill, to last until Friday, is
to determine how a govemmenf
in-hiding would bring order out
of chaos.
President Eisenhower flew by
helicopter to a secret “command
post” today to help top officials
test the nation’s ability to recover
from the mythical H-bomb attack.
Eisenhower’s small blue and
white “whirlybird” put down at
9:12 a.m. in a clearing in a hilltop
area after a flight from his farm
at Gettysburg. He took off from
there from a pasture. »
The command post to which he
flew is within 200 miles of Wash
ington, D.C., but its exact loca
tion is a secret.
Eisenhower became the first
President ever to ride a helicop
ter Friday when he led a simulat
ed mass exodus from America’s
cities as mock air raid sirens
screamed. In theory 166 H-bombs
were dropped on 155 targets in
the United States and its territor
ies. Eisenhower was “evacuated”
directly from the White House.
Only one strike of H-bombs
was supposed to have occurred.
Presumably the U.S. hit back
with such massive retaliation that
the “enemy” itself was reeling
and unable to launch a follow-up
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270 Drown When
Boat Is Wrecked
In Caspian Sea
TEHRAN, UPi—Press reports
reaching here said 270 persons
were drowned when a Russian
fishing vessel was wrecked yes
terday in the Caspian Sea.
Russian officials at Port Pah
levi, on the Caspian, said the
fishing boat Eshghabad crashed
into rocks between Salyany and
Baku during a heavy storm yes
terday while enroute to Baku.
The reports said none of the
270 people on board survived.
The boat belonged to the So
viet Fisheries Ministry and had
been carrying passengers and
food supplies to Baku from Rus
sia, the reports added.
Nearly five tons of fish and
other food were reported lost
when the ship went down.
A spokesman at the Soviet em
bassy in Tehran declined to com
ment until the arrival of an of
ficial report.