Three Alaska RR Workers
Killed by Runaway Dinkey
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Three
Alaska Railroad employes were
killed yesterday when they were
struck by a runaway personnel
carrier, a speeder, on a bridge 24
miles north of Anchorage.
The three men who died in the
mishap were identified as Carl
Owens, 55, Seward; Nels Bysheim,
60, and Ben Larsen, 62, both of
whom lived in work camps oper
ated by the railroad. All were
longtime Alaska Railroad em
ployes
Railroad officals said the three
men, members of a bridge and
building crew, apparently were
unable to hear the approaching
vehicle over the noise of an air
compressor.
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CHICAGO, UP) — Alaska had a
sharp decline in traffic deaths in
the first four months of 1959, in
contrast to the general trend, the
National Safety Council reported
yesterday.
Traffic fatalities in Alaska
dropped 33 per • cent in the four
months, compared with the same
period in 1958. Louisiana had the
next best showing with a 26 per
cent decrease. The report for
Alaska gave only percentages.
Nationally, traffic deaths to
taled 10,680 in the first four
months of the year — an increase
of 4 per cent from the 10,270
deaths in the same 1958 period.
The Safety Council estimated
that highway accidents also in
jured 400,000 persons seriously
in the four-month period. Unless
the trend changes, the council
said, the nation is headed for a
death toll at least 1,000 higher
than the 37,000 recorded last
year.
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Monkeys Recovered In Good Shape
After 10,000-m.p.h. Outer Space Ridej
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., UP> —
Two monkeys returned alive yes
terday from a space ride in the
nose cone of an Army migsile.
The Army announced that both
monkeys were recovered alive
from compartments in the nose
cone of a Jupiter missile fired
from Cape Canaveral. The rocket
had climbed to an altitude of 300
miles and flown at speeds up to
10,000 m.p.h.
The little female monkeys
named Able and Baker are the
first living creatures the United
States has hurled into the farther
reaches and brought back alive.
The Russians claim to have
brought back two dogs by para
chute last August from a ride 281
miles out. And the U. S. Air Force
in 1953 recovered two monkeys
after firing them some 40 miles
high over New Mexico.
The feat represents a major
break-through in the U. S. effort
to put a man into orbital flight.
Scientists saTCP*’instruments at
tached to the monkeys showed
they suffered little ill effect from
the stresses of blast-off and the
weird experience of weightless
ness.
Only the bare announcement
that the monkeys survived was
contained in the initial report re
ceived by the Army from a Navy
ship which recovered the nose
cone. This was near the Island of
Antigua 92 minutes after the Ju
piter was fired.
“Both animals are alive and
perfect with no injuries,” the Ar
my announced 6Y2 hours after the
launching.
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One important Scientific check
failed because of telemetry diffi
culties.
Able had been trained in re
sponse tests to push a telegraph
key at the flash of a red light
in her capsule.
The light was set to blink once
each second during the flight.
Medical scientists said Able be
came very proficient, in training
at responding.
The scientists especially wanted
to know how she responded in the
period of weightlessness. That
would be important in relation to
what might be expected of men
released from the gravitational
pull of the earth.
Instruments did record and re
lay information on heartbeat and
breathing/ rate.
The monkeys were hurled aloft
at the tip of an Army- Jupiter
rocket at 2:35 a.m. The nose cone
was recovered from the water
near Antigua Island at 4:08 a.m.
by a Navy ship. Their 10,000
m.p.h. journey into space took
15 minutes.
Hawaii Governor Files
For July Election
HONOLULU, Uf) — Governor
William F. Quinn filed nomina
tion papers Wednesday to seek
election as Hawaii’s first chief
executive under statehood. .
The 39-year-old Republican was
appointed by President Eisen
hower.
His Democratic opponent for
Governor in the July 28 election
will be John A. Burns, 50, Dele
gate to Congress.
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House Committee
Cuts Defense Fund,
Blasts Missile Fuss
By WILLIAM F. ABROGAST
WASHINGTON, (Sh — With a
blast at Pentagon rivalries, “con
fusion and duplication,” the
House Appropriations Committee
Thursday recommended $38,848,
399,000 in new funds for the De
fense Department.
In cutting $399,861,000 from the
amount requested by President
Eisenhower for the year starting
July 1, the committee told the
Army and Air Force to cease bick
ering over who has the best mis
siles, called for a general tight
ening up on defense operations,
and spoke of a growing Soviet
miltary threat.
On the face of its action, it
sided with the Army in its mis
sile war with the Air Force by
boosting Army funds and cutting
Air Force money for missiles.
It approved funds to strengthen
the Strategic Air Command, to
shore up the Navy’s antisubmarine
warfare program, and to expedite
work on atomic airplanes.
It disapproved the President’s
plans to reduce the strength of
the National Guad and the Re
serve forces, but went along with
his figures for active military
manpower.
It refused the Navy’s request
for 260 million dollars to build a
new aircraft carrier.
It voted to authorize the Pres
ident to keep bombers in the air
around the clock if necessary to
prevent their destruction on the
ground by a sneak attack.
These and other actions were
included in a bill the committee
sent to the House floor for debate
next week.
“The nation must always be
prepared for the worst,” the com
mittee said in a report written for
Rep. George Mahon (D-Tex). “The
threat is expected to worsen. As
long, as we are well prepared for
general nuclear war, such a war
is much less likely. The nation is
prepared today to meet the mili
tary threat it faces.”
Testimony taken during months
of hearings behind closed doors,
the committee said, “clearly indi
cates that there is something
wrong in our present military
planning, there is so much confu
sion and duplication” and too much
bickering over “who gets what.”
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