Boy Freed From Well After
Being Trapped 24 Hours
MANORVILLE, N.Y., UP>—The
seven-year-old boy rescued Fri
day night after 24 hours of en
trapment in a dry well was re
ported in good condition Satur
day. He took his first solid food.
Lying under an oxygen tent in
a hospital, Benjamin Hooper Jr.,
7, was able to recognize his par
ents and to ask for a toy automo
bile for his birthday in July.
The boy was pulled alive from
a depth of 24 feet below the sur
face after even the rescue work
ers had despaired of finding him
alive.
Efforts to tunnel horizontally
to him proved futile until atomic
scientists from the Brookhaven
Laboratory arrived late Friday
with gamma ray shields.
The shields, shaped like cylin
ders, were about four feet in di
ameter but of graduated sizes so
that one could fit inside another.
Fii'st one was pushed horizon
tally into the sandy soil, the sand
was scooped out, and then another
would be pushed thru it until a
tunnel was formed to the boy
from a neighboring vertical shaft
that had been dug hastily.
The cylinders were driven into
the soil by jacks in a horizontal
position.
Sarn Woodson, 39, a Negro em
ployed by a construction firm,
was the first to reach the boy.
The bov was carried out and in
minutes was on his way to the
hospital.
The Hooper’s agony began as
the sun set Thursday. Hooper had
just struck water after several
Sergeant’s Sixth Sense
Brings Him to Mother’s
Deathbed Just Too Late
CHICAGO, LD—An Air Force j
sergeant, who said a hunch
warned him to speed to his ailing j
mother’s bedside, lost a 5,000
mile race with death Friday when
she died just as he reached the
' door of her hospital room.
So Sgt. David Hunt Ellis, 28,
grasped the handle of his moth
er’s door just 29 hours after leav
ing his base in Madrid, Spain. At
the same instant, hospital author
ities said, Mrs. Florence Ellis, 54,
died from a kidney ailment.
Ellis said he received a tele
gram from the Red Cross Thurs
day telling him his mother had
“less than 60 days to live.”
“It was a sixth sense, a hunch,
that told me to go right away,” he
said. “I argued with myself. I
hated to leave my wife and baby
alone in Spain.”
CLEAN-UP NOTICE
May 26 io June 8 has been des
ignated by the Health Committee
as Clean-Up Weeks. Property
owners are requested to clean up
their premises during this period
and pile debris in small contain
ers that can be easily handled
such as boxes and sacks (not in
metal drums) and place near the
curb for truck disposal at City
expense.
The Health Committee and the
Chief of Police will make a tour
of inspection and report viofe
tions which will be prosecuted
under Ordinance 355.
The Health Committee is asking
for full cooperation from every
one to make Nome a more pre
sentable and sanitary community
to live in.
CITY OF NOME
By Robert F. Scott
Citv CWk
Publ. May. 15, 17, 20, 22, 24.
days’ digging in the back yard of
his modest ranch-style home.
He went to get a piece of piping
for the well. Then Benny tried to
leap over the foot-wide opening.
He landed short of his mark.
The terrified boy slipped swift
ly down into the pitch-black pit.
Hooper ran to the well, shouted
encouragement to his son and
dropped him e rope. The boy tried
to hold on. He couldn’t.
The doctor credited the oxygen
hose with saving Benny’s life.
The mouth of the hose was found
only about an inch from the boy’s
mouth.
The boy’s mother told newsmen
later that during the long wait
for the boy’s rescue she had tried
to prepare herself for word that
he was dead “and to build myself
up to the feet . . . and how to cope
with it.”
Both parents spent the night
at the hospital but were too over
joyed and excited to get much
sleep.
Benny’s temperature this morn
ing was 99—almost normal—after
“a very good night.” He was still
in an oxygen tent as a precaution.
His doctors say he’ll need an
other week or 10 days to shake
off respiratory ills.
Dr. Joseph M. Kris said X rays
today showed the boy’s lungs
“are now clear.”
After examination by three
doctors yesterday, Benny’s condi
tion had been summarized as sim
ple inflammations of the right
lung, of the bronchial tubes lead
ing to that lung, and of sinuses.
House Burns to Water
Perry, Okla., Iff*—The home of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kopp burned
to the water line Friday as flood
water swirled around it.
An exploding butane gas tank
was blamed for the fire at the
home, four miles north of here.
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| Career Hereditary?
j No, Siy Researchers
j ' My mother died of cancer. Does that
[ mean I too will develop the disease?"
The answer to this frequently-asked
I question is: No!
Science has produced no evidence
that human can
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animals and in
TO CONQUER humans, how.
PAAPCQ ever' ,here !l
UAfluCn some evidence
AMERICAN CJ ,ha‘ ° ’enden
CANCER JL Cy °f pre'diS
SOCIETY P05'*10’' ‘oward
• cancer may be
inherited.
In animals this pre-disposition to
the disease has been strengthened in
strains by brother-to-sister matings
over many generations. It may become
so strong that more than 90 per cent
of a certain strain of mice eventually
will develop a particular kind of con
i cer"
Such inbreeding is unthinkable
among humans. And so is such a high
degree of cancer incidence.
Nevertheless, research supported by
the American Cancer Society shows
that the incidence of breast cancer is
particularly high in some families. One
such study indicates that sisters of
breast cancer patients have two or
three times the chance of breast can
cer as women in the general popula
tion. Research in basic biology, which
includes studies of heredity, receives
more support from the American Can
cer Society than any other field. Strike
Bock: Give to Conquer Cancer.
Home Arts Club Nets
$166 From Plant Sale
For Playfield Fund
The Home Arts Club, which
■held its annual sale of garden and
house plants Saturday, reports
it netted $166, which will go into
the Nome Playfield Fund.
The group expresses it appreci
ation to the donors of plants, es
pecially to Bill Gillis, who pro
duced a wonderful crop in his
greenhouse for the project.
The money will be used for
new equipment for the playfield,
which this organization has been
purchasing for the city for the
last 20 years.
They have also announced that
a supervised play period will be
held for pre-school children. Vol
unteer mothers who would like to
assist may contact Mrs. Russell
Herman.
Mrs. Luther Dunbar was award
ed a potted philodendron which
was given away at the sale.
Pope Pius Makes
Cardinal Wyszynski
Prince of Catholic Church
VATICAN CITY MV-Pope Pius
XII conferred upon Stefan Cardi
nal Wyszynski, primate of Poland,
the red hat and ring of a prince
of the Roman Catholic Church
Saturday.
A short time later the Pontiff is
sued an encyclical letter dramat
ically reaffirming the Vatican’s
opposition to Communism by call
ing upon bishops, especially those
in Poland, to follow the example
of a Polish saint tortured to death
by Cossacks 300 years ago.
The encyclical hailed the third
centenary of the death of St. An
drew Bobola. It called upon Cath- •
olics to fight hardest where en
emies of the church are most ac
tive. It urged them to find in
Bobola’s example a course to fol
low, “especially for Poles.”
Missing from the brief cere
mony in the Vatican’s little throne
room was the pomp with which
j Cardinal Wyszynski’s 22 col
j leagues from 11 nations were
j raised to the princehood in 1953.
I Cardinal Wyszynski , did not at-1
| tend that ceremony for fear the j
I Communist authorities in Poland !
j would not let him return. He was |
j made a cardinal in absentia.
Vatican sources said the quiet
l ceremony was decided upon lest
j a more colorful one might mis
! takenly be interpreted as Vatican
i approval of Polish Communism.
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Fire in Home Starts
And Ends in Strange Way
j CLEARWATER. Fla., IIP—'The
fire department reported a fire
| started in a strange way at the
' home of F. B. Cole—and was put
I out in even stranger fashion.
i The report said the sun’s rays
1 shining through a clear bottle
! Friday set a piece of canvas on
; fire on the back porch. The can
vas covered a case of bottled soft
drinks.
The bottles got so hot the bev
erage exploded and put out the
blaze.
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WATCH
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Nome Drug Store
for
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