Displaced Vipers,
Floods, Take Huge
Toll in Mexico
By CHARLES H. GUPTILL
COLIMA, Mexiro, OP — With
1,000 or more believed dead from
a sneak hurrirane and widespread
floods, the dazed people of this
smallest of Mexico’s 23 states
today struggled against privation
and swarms of poisonous scor
pions. •
The disaster — Mexico’s worst
in recent history — covered an
area on the Pacific Coast slightly
larger than New Jersey with a
population of about 100,000.
The violent storm that roared
through the port of Manzanillo
Tuesday and the floods that fol
lowed drove thousands from
homes, knocked over communica
tion lines and overran highways,
hindering rescue efforts.
The dead may include three
U. S. women who were aboard a
small coastal freighter apparent
ly lost at sea.
Colima State Governor Chavez
Carrillo estimated that about 800
persons were killed in Minatitlan,
a farming village of about 1,000.
The federal government offi
cially put the known dead at 438
but conceded that many hun
dreds were missing.
Emergency appeals for food,
clothing and . medicine continued
throughout most of the disaster
area despite ’round-the-clock sup
ply drops by all available planes
and helicopters. 1
There were urgent calls for
vaccine against the deadly sting
of scorpions — driven from, their
nests in flood-crumbled adobe
walls.
“Thousands of persons have
been stung and need innocula
tions-,” Governor Chavez Carril
lo reported. “Scorpions are every
where.” .
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Improper Plastering at
Anchorage Hospital Brings
Judgment for Contractor
SEATTLE, UP) — A judgment
for approximately $269,000 will
be awarded the prime contrac
tors on an Anchorage hospital
building job which developed
plastering troubles.
Superior Judge James Hodson
announced from the bench he will
grant the judgment to the con
tractors who built the 4V£ million
dollar hospital for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
They comprised ^ partnership
of the J. C. Boespflug Construc
tion Co., Peter Kiewit Sons Co.,
and the Morrison-Knudsen Co.
The judgment will run against
Stuart S. Wilson and the Amer
ican Surety Co., which bonded
him and his partner, Arthur C.
Steeves, on their plastering sub
contract on the hospital.
The judgment will not run
against Steeves, because he has
since gone through bankruptcy.
Wilson now runs the cigar shop
at the Edmond Meany Hotel.
THe prime contractors’ lawyers
contended the plastering subcon
tractors used too little gypsum
plaster in proportion to the mount
of sand and vermiculite, also, that
the sand was too fine, and car
ried too much water.
When the plaster dried, it
cracked. The shrinking was so
pronounced that the walls in
places bowed out, bending the
steel lath behind them, according
to the testimony.
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Champion Musher
Holds Open House
In Seattle Anniv.
SEATTLE, IP — One of the
greatest dog mushers of all time
and the Belgian girl he married
in Nome, will celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary here
this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs .Leonard Seppala
will celebrate with an afternoon
open house in their home at 5405
Eighth Ave. N. W. Many of their
Alaska, friends are expected to
attend.
“The coffee pot will be on the
stove all day,” Mrs. Seppala said.
Seppala’s wife, Constance, was
born in Antwerp, Belgium. She
met her husband in Nome when
he was driving dog teams from
Fairbanks to Nome.
Seppala was born in a little
town inside the Arctic Circle in
Norway. He went to Alaska in
1900 seeking gold.
Seppala failed to find gold but
found work in Nome as superin
tendent of sluicing-ditch con
struction in the summertime and
dog-sled driving in the winter.
The dog-sled driver won the
All-Alaska Dog Racing Sweep
stakes in 1915, 1916 and 1917. He
made world headlines in 1925 for
sledding serum from Fairbanks
to diptheria-strieken Nome.
Seppala introduced the Siberian
husky dog to the eastern United
States.
NOTICE
Sales Tax Reports on Sales and
Services for quarter ending Sep
tember 30, 1959, must be in the
City Clerk's Office by Friday,
October 30.
—ROBERT F. SCOTT
City Clerk.
Public Whipping
Recomnmeded for
Teen-Age Gangs
DALLAS, Tex., UP! — James C.
White, 75, a law enforcement
agent for 42 years, advocates a re
turn to public whipping to
straighten out youth gangs.
White, of Austin, is in Dallas
for a conference of former FBI
agents. He was with the FBI from
1924 to 1947.
In an interview Thursday, he
said youngsters who cannot be
straightened out need humiliating,
not pampering.
“Kids need whipping at home
and in public too. The old public
whipping post ought to be used
again. Nowadays, you have to
raise children right or they’ll
grow up to be criminals,” he said.
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Stubborn Storm Leaves
Snow Covering in Rockies
DENVER, Uf) — A pre-Hallow
e’en storm chilled the Rocky
Mountain region with snow and
icy winds today and spread a
thick white blanket over the
Great Plains.
The persistent storm left a
snow covering in Colorado rang
ing from 3 inches in the plains
area to 15 inches in the moun
tains. Highway traffic was ham
pered by slick surfaces, plane
takeoffs were delayed at Den
ver and schools were closed in a
dozen towns in eastern Colorado.
The storm began with steady
rain Wednesday night, turned to
snow and was continued almost
without a letup since.
The U. S. Weather Bureau here
said Colorado should have at
least six inches of snow east of
the mountains by nightfall with
heavier depths in the mountain
sections.
Plains areas were expected to
be hardest hit by the brunt of
the storm. Stockmen and motor
ists were warned to take pre
cautions.
BRING YOUR
WATCH
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
EXPERT REPAIRS
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