SHARP AFTERSHOCK OF QUAKE
JOLTS SAN FRANCISCO AREA
SAN FRANCISCO, UP—A sharp
aftershock of Friday’s big earth
quake series jolted San Francisco
and the Bay area early Saturday.
A three-alarm fire in midtown
San Francisco followed on the
heels of the tremor that jolted
many residents out of their sleep
shortly after midnight. But Asst.
Fire Chief Bruno Bassi said the
fire “was probably not” caused by
the shake.
Friday’s quakes jolted San
Francisco and the Bay area, in
juring 30 persons and causing
minor but widespread damage al
most impossible to assess.
Friday’s tremor was the worst
since the disastrous 1906 earth
quake hare.
Buildings and Bridges Sway
Tall buildings and the great
bridge spanning the Golden Gate
swayed. In south San Francisco
and adjacent Daly City plate glass
windows shattered and supermar
ket shelves spilled their goods
onto floors. Slides blocked parts
of state Route 1 along the ocean.
That was the result of two rapid
fire heavy shocks at 11:45 a.m.
After-shocks continued thruout
the afternoon and night. At 11:30
p.m. the seismograph at the Uni
versity of California—across the
bay in Berkeley—had recorded
49. Most of those were so weak
you couldn’t feel them.
Daly City at Center of Quake
The center of the quakes ap
peared to be in the Daly City area,
where more than 30,000 people
reside.
But the tremors extended near
ly 100 miles eastward to Sacra
mento, the state capitol, and 75
miles southward to Hollister, be
low Sen Jose at the base of the
Jjlan Francisco peninsula.
The quakes originated in the
San Andreas Fault. San Francisco
sits on the edge of the fault,
which runs diagonally from the
Salton Sea area of southern Calif
ornia and into the Pacific off the
coast of Oregon.
20 Inches in 10 Years
The San Andreas Fault is a gi
gantic flaw in the earth’s crust.
Pressures built up far below the
surface push against it. Every 10
years the coastal (western) side of
the fault moves 20 inches north
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ward relative to the continental
(eastern) side, a U.S. Coast and
Geodetical Survey reported.
Shock waves are sent out as the
two sides rub together. Occasion
ally a major slip causes a heavy
quake.
Richter Rating of 5.5
The major quake had a Richter
magnitude rating of 5.5, compared
with 8.25 for the, 1906 quake. The
scale progresses on a logarithmic
pattern, meaning that a rating of
2 is 10 times as great as 1, and
3 is 100 times as great as 1.
Hence, Friday’s quake was one
one-hundredths of the 1906 con
vulsion.
But it was violent enough to
alarm the entire region. And de
structive enough to cause cumula
tive damage probably ranging into
the millions. In addition to minor
damage to countless homes and
road damage, several reservoirs
were cracked.
Snowbound Kansans
Find Canned Dog Food
Okay in Emergency
DODGE CITY, Kan., UP) —
Canned dog food and steamed
wheat kernels provided the, week
end menu for five snowbound
Kansans.
It was their first food for 24
hours and was eaten after a doc
tor — contacted by long distance
telephone — assured them the
supplies found in, a grain elevator
I where the five took shelter from
| a blizzard would be safe for
human consumption.
Asked how they liked the dog
fod, one of them replied:
“It would be better if you’d
| send us some catsup.”
Panties’ Snap
Imperils Soldiers !
LONDON, UPi — Britain’s lady j
soldiers were warned today to:
j keep a tight grip on their army
issue panties — the elastic may
be too old to hold.
The horrendous threat of a
wholesale spectacle on some cere
monial occasion involving the wo
men’s Royal Army Corps f WRAC)
was raised by Sir Frank Trize,!
auditor-general.
He put it simply: Because of
persistent overbuying, the Brit-,
ish army now has enough panties
and bras to last the WRACs for
20 years. But the elastic in these
items is good for only 7 years.
This, a WRAC spokesman told
a reporter, is something of a
problem.
“There is,” the spokesman ex
plained, “no date stamp on our
undies.” And she added dubiously:
“The only way a girl can tell
if the elastic is ail right is to
i pull it and see.”
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I Salary Increases
For Teachers
Requested
JUNEAU, [R)—Salary increases
for teachers came up both here
and in Anchorage Friday.
At Anchorage, the Alaska Edu
cation Assn, was in session at its
annual meeting.
At Juneau, a charter planeload
of members of the Alaska Federa
tion of Teachers, an AFT, union,
arrived at the legislative cham
bers to lobby for higher pay. Their
goal: pay boosts of $800 a year.
At the Legislature, the chair
man of the House Ways & Means
Committee said he has been in
formed some teachers at the An
chorage meeting are accusing him
of being against any pay increases.
Anchorage Democrat Ken John
son said this isn’t so.
Johnson said he had some of the
teachers from the Juneau-Douglas
area before the Ways & Means
Committee, and they told him
they wanted total wage increases
of $3 million.
Johnson says he advised them
Alaska couldn’t afford such a
large increase at this time.
Johnson is In the process of
drafting the budget bill.
Johnson said the proposed
budget contains what he described
as “an undisclosed sum” for
teacher salary increases. Just how
much he was unable to say until
revenue measures now before the I
Legislature are acted on.
SMALL PLANE HITS
MOUNTAINSIDE;
ALL THREE SURVIVE
PETERSBURG, UP)—Three men
escaped with only minor injuries
Friday when a small Alaska
Coastal Airlines plane crashed
into the side of a mountain on the
eastern slope of Baranof Island as
its pilot attempted to turn back
to Sitka.
The lucky occupants of the sea
plane were Robert A. File, 26,
Sitka, the pilot; Dr. R. McGraw,
60, Sitka businessman, and Joe
McCarthy, 28, Petersburg, a taxi
cab driver.
The trio disappeared on a 100-:
mile flight from Sitka to Peters- i
burg, and an intensive aerial !
search failed to locate them.
The Juneau headquarters of the
airline announced that two of the
survivors walked into the village
of Baranofo about 3:30 Friday
night, about nine and a half hours
after the plane had taken off from
Sitka.
A spokesman for the airline
said the plane brushed the moun- ^
tain as the pilot tried to turn in a [
mountain pass and start back for
Sitka. The plane had run into
snow and fog among the moun
tain peaks.
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
NOTICE IS hereby given
that the Annual Municipal
i and School Board Election will
i be held April 2, 1957, in the
City Hall, Nome, Alaska, for
the purpose of electing the fol
| lowing officers, viz::
Mayor; three members of the
: Nome Common Council, for a
j two year term; City Treasurer;
C'ty Clerk; one member of the
Nome School Board for a five
year term, and two members
of 'he Nome Light & Power
Utility Board, for a three year j
tern and five year term, re
j spectively.
A qualified voter must be i
twenty-one (21) years of age; ,
a resident of Alaska for one
year and of the City of Nome
for thirty (30) days prior to
election.
Polls will open at 8 a. m., and
close at S p. m.
—Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk. 36
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