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Is Biggest
Underground Blast
ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev., UP>
— The biggest underground atom
ic explosion ever touched off by
the United States blasted up
through the top of a mesa Thurs
day, and shot a column of dirt
more than 1,000 feet into the air.
The shot rocked the ground
where newsmen were stationed
4V£ miles away, and shook large
boulders off the edge of the mesa.
The completion of this test in
a tunnel left just one more to go
Thursday before the test deadline
set by President Eisenhower at
midnight Thursday night.
How long the ban remains in
effect depends on the outcome
of talks between the United States,
Britain and the Soviet Union.
The underground explosion,
Blanca, was touched off in a tun
nel that had been dug 2,600 feet
into the side of a mound and un
der a mesa.
The great column of dirt that
spewed up, probably 500 feet
thick, began subsiding five min
utes later and drifting away.
This explosion was rated as
having the force of 20,000 tons of
TNT, the same power as the atom
ic bombs dropped on Japan in
World War II. This force is equal
to that of a 40-car trainload of
TNT.
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Twelve More
Miners Brought
Out Alive
SPRINGHILL, N. &, UP) —
Twelve miners brought to the
surface Thursday after being
trapped nearly a week in a
wrecked coal mine told of pray
ing and singing hymns to keep
up their courage as they waited
out the lbng, dark hours.
Some of the sturdier ones told
of the ordeal after their dramatic
rescue early* Thursday from the
Cumberland No. 2 coal mine,
where they were trapped by a
massive earth shift last Thurs
day night.
The force of the shift tossed
them against the roof of the tun
nel where they were working
more than two miles from the
mine entrance.
The 12 found themselves
trapped in a pocket 100 feet long
and 3 feet high. By some miracle,
there was no gas and some fresh
air seeped in through the debris.
One of them 9aid:
“At first we tried to dig our
way out, but soon we got so weak
we had to stop.” He added, “We
had no food and no water since
Sunday or Monday. The last
thing we ate were a few crusts
of bread.
“We rationed out lights and cut
some batteries off the dead men,
but on Monday we were in dark
ness.”
The air gradually became bad.
There was no room to stand. In
their struggle to stay alive when
the last water was gone, they
drank urine mixed with bark, they
told physicians.
Their rescue brought to 93 the
number saved. Twenty-six bodies
have been recovered. There were
174 men below when disaster
struck.
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Mining Stock
Profits Contested
By Internal Rev.
WASHINGTON, UPP-The U. S.
Tax Court has been asked to rule
on a difference of opinion con
cerning the value of an Alaska
mining stock.
The Internal Revenue Service
contends that the estate of Rob
ert W. Vinnedge owes $46,585 in
estate taxes.
An appeal filed with the court
by the Pacific National Bank of
Seattle, estate executors, denies
the government’s claim in its en
tirety.
The case centers around a de
termination by the revenue serv
ice that common stock in the
Goodnews Bay Mining Co. should
be $70 a share rather than the
$27 fixed by the executors.
Vinnedge owned 7,338 shares of
stock in the company which is
engaged in placer mining of plat
inum group metals at Goodnews
Bay, Alaska.
In their petition to the court,
the executors said the company
began operation in 1935 and has
continued seasonal operations
since. They said the operation has
a remaining life estimated in 1954
at six years, depending upon mar
ket and mining conditions.
As of December 31, 1954, the
petition said, company stock had
a book value of $48.82 a share.
A realistic adjustment, it said,
would lower this to $28.80.
While there have been no re
cent transactions in company
stock by which to determine a
market price, the petition said
the price of capital stocks of other
similar companies ranges from 30
per cent to 60 per cent of related
book values.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
Nome Alaska, an Alaskan banking cor
portion, has been appointed the Admin
istrator of the Estate of James Campbell
Cross, deceased.
All persons having claims against
the said estate should present them,
with proper vouchers attached, to the
office of the said Administrator at the
banking ^ouse at Nome Alaska, within
six (6) months of the date of this
notice.
DATED this 8th day of October, 1958.
MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK
OF ALASKA,
An Alaskan banking corporation
By JAMES G. MANNING,
Executive Vice President.
James A. von der Heydt,
Attorney at Law
Nome, Alaska.
Publish Oct. 10 17, 24, 31, 1958.
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Bill G. Batton
Killed In Wreck of
Car At Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, UP> — A Fair
banks youth, Bill G. Batton, 19,
was killed shortly after midnight
last night when his car careened
off the road and overturned at
the bottom of a 15-foot embank
ment, pinning him underneath, j
The accident occurred a half mile i
north of here.
Batton, a native of Oklahoma
City, was a graduate of Fairbanks
High Sahool and was employed at
Eielson AFB by the Tuttle En
gineering Company.
Ironically, Batton’s car radio, |
still playing as police attempted
to free the body, told of his
death.
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The Alaska Department of Avi
ation has become aware in recent
months of certain problems that
will be encountered by the Terri
tory during its transition from
Territorial to Statehood status.
One very important item con
cerns the economic regulation o'
intra State air traffic. Apparently
economic control of intra state
carriers as presently exercisdd by
the Civil Aeronautics Board wi'l
cease Upon proclamation by th ?
President that Alaska is. a State.
The Department of Aviation
has engaged the services of M~.
Ralph Brown of Anchorage as a
special consultant to study aero
nautical problems brought abo t
by the transition. Mr. Brown’s
final report is due November 11,
1958, and it is intended to pre
sent his findings to the Alaska
Aeronautics and eimmunications
Commission at its meeting No
vember T2. Following the Com
mission’s review of Mr. Brown’s
report, the Department plans to
submit to the Legislative Council
its recommendations for proposed
legislation.
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