McKinley Climbers
Set Records For
Scaling Peaks
SEATTLE, Wl — To John Day,
the world was a cup of adventure,
which, as a man of wealth, he
drank from as often and as deeply
as possible.
.Middle-aged, middle sized and
crippled somewhat by an old back
injury, Day made’ a bold bid this
week to attain the title of the
fastest mountain climber in the
world.
He was at the mercy of the
elements today, a man in pain,
on the snow-covered flanks of a
mountain he was seeking to tame,
lofty Mt. McKinley, highest peak
in North America. -
John Day, from his Gold Rey
Ranch near Medford, Ore., roamed
the world, with seemingly only
one. ambition in mind, to excel at
whatever he happened to be doing
at the time.
He spent time and money with
out end in an effort to bag a
brown bear which he could call
the largest ever shot in Alaska.
He never succeeded.
Three years ago John Day, now
51,' caught the climbing bug, bad.
After climing a few “walk-up
mountains” in Oregon, he came to
Seattle with a proposition for the
Whittaker twins, Jim and Lou,
young, big and rugged with ex
perience as mountain troops and
guides on Mt. Rainier. They were
mountaineers of standing.
John Day wanted the Whit
takers to climb, with him, all of
the 16 major peaks on the Pacific
Coast in one year. He wanted to
climb the eight “majors” of west
ern Washington faster than they
had ever been climbed before.
That’s precisely what the trio
did in 1958 — Mt. St. Helens on
Aug. 26, Mt. Adams on Aug. 27,
Mt. Rainier on Aug. 30, Mt. Baker
on Aug. 31, Glacier Peak on Sept.
2, Mt. Olympus on Sept. 3, Mt.
Whitney on Sept. 10.
This yeat, Day decided to make
his drive into the big leagues of
climbing. He picked isolated,
treacherous Mt. McKinley, a true
expedition mountain which
looms 20,320 feet into the Alaska
sky.
With Day and the Whittakers
was Pete Shoening, a veteran of
Himalayan expeditions. They left
Seattle last week. They flew to
the 10,000-foot level on McKinley,
and made camp.
Then they set out to climb Mc
Kinley faster than it had ever been
climbed before.
They were on their way down
Tuesday after scaling McKinley
when fate stepped in. Somebody
slipped as the four men descended
down an ice wall. The four cata
pulted down the mountain.
Day’s left leg was broken. His
hands and feet were frozen.
Schoening’s feet were frozen and
he suffered a kindey injury. One
of the Whittaker twins suffered a
bad head injury. The other’s feet
were frozen.
For Day, a man who always is
on the lookout for adventure,* a
goal of three years evaporated in
a few terrifying ■ seconds, only a
few feet from the point where he
could qnit calling McKinley a foe
and start calling it the first “big
league” mountain he had whipped.
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Offers U.N. Help to
End Cold War
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y„
Dag _ Hammarskjold Thursday
urged both East and West to make
all possible use of the United
Nations to spare the world from
a prolonged cold war crisis.
The U. N. Secretary General
made the appeal as the Security
Council prepared to meet, prob
ably Monday, to take up a Soviet
charge that U. S. spy plane flights
constitute a threat to world peace.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko is due here today to
take personal command of the
Soviet campaign to brand the
United States, an aggressor be
cause of the U-2 incident.
U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge will confer with President
Eisenhower in Washington over
the weekend on the President’s
plan to have the United Nations
take over aerial surveillance to
guard against the threat of a sur
prise attack.
Wade Appoints Three
District Election Chiefs
JUNEAU, Wt — The apponit
ment of election supervisors in
three Alaska districts was an
nounced yesterday by Secretary
of State Hugh Wade.
The $650 a month posts went to
Katherine Nordale, Juneau, South
eastern District; Lillie Anger
man, Fairbanks, Central District,
and Pearl Gibson, Anchorage,
South Central District. A North
western District supervisor Will
be named shortly, Wade said.
Mrs. Nordale, in addition to su
pervising the Southeastern Dis
trict, will serve as assistant to
Charles Preston of Fairbanks, who
recently arrived here to take the
post of State Director of Elections.
The State Election Code pro
vides for appointment of district
supervisors, for a period extend
ing 90 days before the primary
voting and until 10 days after the
general election.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Gene Adams, John
Kost III, Billy Auliye, Robt. Ko
mukhuk, Roy Kavairlook, Richard
Nassuk, Joe Burnett.
Discharged: Mike Douglas, Vir
ginia Henry, Caron Nassuk, Perry
Kagoona.
Oregon Voters Show
Lukewarm Interest In
State Primary Battle
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
PORTLAND, Ore., UFl —
Oregon voted on a wet, grey day
today to settle, mostly, a running
battle between Sen. Wayne Morse
of Oregon and Sen. John Kennedy
of Massachusetts in the Demo
cratic Presidential Primary.
The early turnout was light.
It certainly didn’t match na
tional interest in the outcome of
Kennedy’s bid for his seventh
straight primary victory, this time
against a deeply entrenched fav
orite son.
Morse, who has never lost an
election in his home state, didn’t
budge from his prediction that he
would draw 60 per cent of the
vote. But there was a strong feel
ing that Kennedy, closing fast,
woulci pull off still another
triumph.
Reports from precincts in the
Portland area described voting as
moderate or slower than in pre
vious years.
Bartlett Bill Would Limit
Use of Federal Lands
WASHINGTON, UPl — A Sen
ate Interior Subcommittee today
approved a bill to permit the leas
ing of increased acreages of fed
eral land for oil and gas explora
tion.
The House-passed bill would
permit an operator to lease up to
246.000 acres in any state.
The law nbw limits leases to
56.000 acres and permits an opera
tor to hold an additional 200,000
acres by option.
Operators would ‘be permitted,
under the bill, to hold up to 246,
000 acres either by lease or o
tion, or in combination of the two.
TO ATTEND U OF A
COMMENCEMENT
Mrs. Pete Reader left today for
Fairbanks to attend the gradua
tion of her son Leroy from the
University of Alaska on Monday.
■Mr. and Mrs. Mike Walsh leave
tomorrow to attend the commen
cement at the University of Al
aska. Mr. Walsh was a regent for
many years and has not missed a
graduation ceremony for .16 years.
It has been announced that Sen.
E. L. Bartlett and Gerald Fitz
gerald will receive honorary doc
torates at this time for their out
standing services to the scientific
world and to the United States.
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Armed Forces Day
Audience Spellbound by
‘Magic Moments’ Show
The School Auditorium was
packed for the Armed Forces Day
special program Wednesday even
ing, at which time the 502nd Air
Force Band, known as the Mod
ernaires, presented a fine pro
gram of modern music, with spe
cial solos on both trumpet and
tenor saxaphone.
The concert was followed by a
“Magical Moments” show by Cap
tain Robert Falkner, information
officer at Eielson AFB, who held
the audience spellbound as he
performed his magic with talented
hands that moved faster than the
eyes of the audience, and quick
wit that delighted the crowd.
Solid steel rings which interlocked
by magic, live gold fish from out
of space, as well as numerous
card tricks provide fascinating to
young and old alike. Master of
Ceremonies for the show was Air
man Hugh Wilson.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, to
be held at Our Savior’s Lutheran
Church, will open Monday, May
23, at 9 a.m., for the fpllowing
grades:
Seventh and Eighth Grades —
Rev. Maakestad, teacher; Fifth and
Sixth Grades — Bertha Stedje
and Beverly Bohrer; Fourth
Grade — Mrs. Sandberg.
The second session will begin at
10:30 a.m., with the- fpllowing
grades scheduled:
Third Grade — Mrs. Benshoof
and Janet—Tocktoo; Second Grade
— Mrs. Figley; First Grade —
Bertha Stedje; Kindergarten —
Mrs. Engstrom and Bertha Atta
tayuk.
The school will continue for
two weeks — from May 23 to
June 3.
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Atlas Fired 9,000
Miles for Record
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UFl —
A U. S. Atlas missile streaked
9,000 miles in 52 V6 minutes today
in a record-smashing flight past
the tip of Africa to a chosen tar
get area in the southern Indian
Ocean.
Satisfaction with the results
was apparent in an Air Force an
nouncement that first reports in
dicated “all test objectives were
achieved.”
The list of objectives included
the 9,000-mile flight, far exceeding
any previously recorded missile
shot, and impact in a target area
small enough to demonstrate the
accuracy required for military ef
fectiveness.
It was the longest surface-to
surface missile flight on record,
surpassing the 7,760 miles claimed
by the Russians for a rocket they
launched into the Central Pacific
last January 20. The longest pre
vious Atlas flight was 6,325 miles.
The mighty Atlas powered into
the sky from this missile test cen
ter at 10 a.m. An hour later the
Air Force reported the rocket suc
cessfully dropped its tactical-type
nose cone in the impact area 1,000
miles southeast of Capetown,
South Africa.
An official said the Atlas was
aimed at a point exactly 9,000
miles from Cape Canaveral.
Home From The University
Returning from the University
of Alaska yesterday were Joe and
Stanley Senungetuk, Fritz CharriT
bers and Floyd Nagazruk. Stan
ley visited with his family for an
hour before taking off for An
chorage for a pre-induction phys
ical examination.
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