New Quake Adds More
Deaths In Iranian City
TEHRAN, Iran, (tf) — A new
heavy earthquake yesterday struck
the runined city of Lar, adding
five more deaths to the 36Q per
sons known to have perished in
Sunday’s quakes.
The victims were caught while
searching the rurts of the southern
Iranian city for bodies of missing
relatives and for personal effects.
Most of the area’s 17,000 inhabi
tants are housed in tent cities or
simply living out in the fields.
LUCKIEST CATCH
SEATTLE, OPI — Richard Taylor
and a friend were strolling back
to work after their coffee break
Wednesday when a baby dropped
out of a third-story window, right
into Taylor’s arms.
They were returning to work
when they saw Richard Hudson,
16 months, clinging to the win
dow sill. Taylor ran over and
caught the infant as he dropped.
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Alaska Police Officers
Dubbed State ‘Troopers’ •
JUNEAU, UP) ^— Hereafter,
Alaskas state police officers will
be known as troopers.
Public Safety Commissioner
Martin B. Underwood officially
applied the designation of State
Trooper today on all uniformed
personnel up to the rank of
sergeant.
The uniformed personnel were
originally known as highway pa
trolmen, then Territorial Police
ofifcers after 1953.
The state troopers are charged
with enforcement of all Alaska
criminal satutes, including high
way and traffic laws and regula
tions.
New Seattle Skyscraper
Will Tower 35 Stories High
SEATTLE, UP) — Plans for a 35
story downtown office building
costing between 15 and 18 million
dollars were announced Wednes
day by Seattle financier Charles
F. Clise.
Clise said the skyscraper, at
Fourth and Stewart Streets just
north of the Bon Marche, will have
a five-story base structure and
3C-story tower.
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Project Chariot
Harbor Blast
Slated for ’62 -
LOS ANGELES, Wl — Nuclear
tests in a remote coastal area of
Alaska could lead to atomic
created harbors and even a new
Panama Canal, says Dr. John
Wolfe, Atomic Energy Commission
scientist.
He made the prediction at a
news conference on “Project
Chariot.”
Four nuclear devices equal to
260,000 tons of TNT would carve
a key-shaped harbor near Point
Hope on the Chukchi Sea — about
120 miles north of the Arctic
Circle, Wolfe said Wednesday.
The devices — the largest equal
to 200,000 tons of TNT and farth
est inland — wbuld be buried 400
to 700 feet deep.
The planned result of the simul
taneous explosions — a harbor 900
yards long, 200 to 300 yards wide
and at least 60 feet deep. The key
hole shape would allow ships to
turn around.
If the test proved successful, the
method might be used to create
canals as well as harbors.
Wolfe said the blast would dis
place 90 million cubic yards of
rock and soil. Atom-'blasting
would cost 3 cents a cubic yard,
compared with $2.50 a yard for
present-day excavation, he esti
mated.
Wolfe, a botanist on leave from
Ohio State University, said there
would be very little fallout be
cause in the underground explo
sion 95 per cent of the radioacti
vity would be contained in the
earth. Radioactivity in the inrush
ing sea would dissipate in three
months, he said.
Radioactive fallout' of less than
5 per cent, he said, would drift
westward toward nearby Siberia
if the test were conducted in
March, the time he termed best
for the project.
“This -might not -be politically
the best direction for- the cloud
to travel — toward Russia — but
it is the best way for us, biologi
cally,” the scientist said.
His part of the program is to
determine what effects the test
would have on plant and animal
life. He said there are no indica
tions that the blast or radiation
would -have any.
If -plans are approved, Wolfe
says, March, 1962, is the earliest
possible date for the project.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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No. 140
BYRON O. REED. W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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nAstr Craft
President
Herb Jenks
- Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER, President
VESTA 8UNDSTROM. Secty.
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