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VOL. LXI No. 136 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1959Per Copy—15^
Borisov Claims His
Bering Strait Dam
Could Tliaw Arctic
LONDON, Uft — A Soviet en
gineer said yesterday his proposed
dam across Bering Strait would
open vast Arctic areas to farming
an'd industry for the United
States, Canada and Russia.
The engineer, P. M. Borisov,
said in an interview broadcast by
Moscow Radio that his plan would
make the’Arctic winter “no fiercer
than it is now in Belgium and
France.”
Borisov said 47 per cent of
Soviet territory, 60 per cent of
Canadian land and 70 per cent of
Alaska now affected by perma
nent frost “would thaw out, open
ing up vast agricultural and in
dustrial prospects.”
“Thus the tundra, an area of
about TVz billion acres, could be
come a splendid agricultural
base,” he added.
Borisov proposes pumping cold
water from the Arctic into the
Pacific once his dam is built. This,
he claims, would cause a rise in
temperature in polar regions be
cause warm East Coast gulf waters
would mix with Arctic waters.
He said his project was being
considered by the Soviet Academy
of Sciences and that a preliminary
study had shown it to be feasible.
At the time it was proposed,
Senator Gruening said the pro
ject should be studied thoroughly
by a joint commission of experts.
The project was estimated by the
Russians to cost more than 17
million dollars.
Volcano Erupts
200 Miles S. E.
Of Honolulu
By HENRY HARTZENBUSCH
HONOLULU, UP) — Angry Ki
lauea volcano belched streams of
searing hot lava and sent a gray
pall of thick smoke high into the
sky today as the eruption roared
into its third, day.
The 4,090-foot volcano’s Kilauea
Iki crater showed little sign of
abating its fiery temper. Two
waterfalls of liquid rock—bright
'red-orange in daylight — gushed
from a 300-yard rift in the crater’s
inner south wall into its pit some
300 to 500 feet below.
Kilauea Iki — or Little Kilauea
— on the southeast side of Hawaii
Island some 200 miles southeast
of Honolulu, began erupting Sat
urday night. White-hot rocks
were blasted up to 100 feet in the
air before they tumbled into the
mile-long, mile-wide crater.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter
Mark Waters, in a telephone call
from the volcano site, said last
night, “One huge fountain of
erupting lava is pc 'ing tremen
dous streams of m< en rock into
the floor of the ci :er.”
“The noise from the erupting
fountains is akin to the roar of
the ocean pounding against a
rocky cliff.”
Six volcanologists, led by Dr.
Jerry Eaton, of the Volcano Ob
servatory on Hawaii Island,
climbed into the fiery pit Sunday,
wearing thick asbestos gloves and
protective hoods, the group
walked between streams of mol
ten lava. They stuck thermome
ters into liquid rock and took
samples of lava for testing.
Wealthy Kansas
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Family Murdered
At Farm Home
GARDEN CITY, Kansas, UP) —
In a farm home far off the beaten
path of this vast wheat area, four
members of a respected, well-to
do family were murdered over
the weekend.
Hubert Clutter, 48, his wife
Bonnie, 45, their daughter, Nancy
Mae, 16, and son Kenyon, 15, were
bound hand and foot and gagged.
All were shot in the head. Clut
ter’s throat was slashed.
The victims were slain by a
shotgun. Neither the gun nor the
weapon with which Clutter’s
throat was cut have been found.
Nothing in the house was in dis
array. No valuables appeared to
be missing. Money which Nancy
had placed in an envelope for
church lay on her bedroom dresser
beside a diamond ring.
The coroner said Mrs. Clutter
and Nancy apparently were not
molested otherwise. He placed the
time of death between 11 p.m.
Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday.
The Clutters gave a ride each
Sunday to two of Nancy’s school
mates. The girls stumbled on the
killings when they were driven
to the Clutter home.
Clutter was a founder of the
Kansas Association of Wheat
Growers. He was a past president
of the National Wheat Growers
Association.
The family apparently had been
ready to retire when they were
attacked.
The home, seven miles west of
Garden City, is nearly a mile
away from any through road.
The only persons living close by
are the family of Alfred Stoeck
lein, who has worked 11 years as
a farm hand for the Clutters.
Stoecklein said he saw the Clut
ters early Saturday evening, be
fore he and his wife and three
children went out. They returned
about 9:30 p.m. They heard no
disturbance.
Car Driven by Son
Of Irish Envoy Kills
Washington Maid
COURTLAND, Va., UP) — From
the pulpit of a small Negro coun
try church, an Irish diplomat has
expressed deep sorrow for the
death of a maid hit by his son’s
automobile.
John J. Hearne, Irish Ambas
sador to the United States, told
an overflow congregation of more
than 500 at Zion A.M.E. Church
Sunday his government “will do
everything in its power” to help
the family of Jossie Hamlin, 56.
She was struck down on a Wash
ington street last week by an auto
driven by Hearne’s son, David, 21.
The young man, who claimed
diplomatic immunity, said he hit
Mrs. Hamlin, a widow, while try
ing to avoid another pedestrian.
Ambassador Hearne was invited
to the pulpit by the Rev. M. D.
Nathan, who assured him that
“our people do not have any ill
will. It was just an accident —
something that couldn’t be
helped.”
William S. Thompson, attorney
for Mrs. Hamlin’s family, said he
held two conversations with the
ambassador before the funeral. It
was indicated that a financial
settlement will be made, the at
torney added. ,
! Chamber of Commerce j
Honors Mr. and Mrs.
Jim von dfcr Heydt Today
The Chamber of Commerce
made its farewells to past presi
dent Jim von der Heydt this noon
and presented him with an ivory
gavel, a token of his high office
as Judge of the Superior Court
of the State of Alaska.
Roy Walker of the State Judi
cial Board, stated that Nome has
been honored by having both
Judge Walter Hodge and Jim von
der Heydt' appointed to these im
portant state offices.
In response Mr. von der Heydt
said that he had spent all of his
adult life in Nome, except for the
time he spent in school and will
still call it home.
“I take pride in my recent ap
pointment but leave with mixed
emotions — we’re coming back,”
he said.
A beautiful cake inscribed
“Judge James von der Heydt”
was presented and an ivory
handled cake server to Mrs. von
der Heydt in recognition of her,
civic service in the community^
with, the Cancer Society and the ;
KK Library of which she is a
past president.
The von der Heydts leave next
Monday for Juneau.
Don Hoover was appointed as
chairman of the Junior Miss Con
test to which Diane Lee was
sent last year and from whioh
she returned with high honors.
Joe Kroninger announced the
glad tidings that the Nome-Fair
banks road is now in the intra
state highway plan and he has a
map showing the route.
Bad Cranberries
Seized, Berry Sales
Banned in Chicago
By JOE F. KANE
WASHINGTON, OP — The Na
tional cranberry stew bubbled
again today with a new protest
from growers.
Chicago health officials were
holding a shipment of Wisconsin
cranberries which they said were
contaminated with the same kind
of weed killer found earlier on
some West Coast berries.
C. P. Olsson, president of Ocean
Spray Cranberries, Inc., a nation
al cranberry cooperative, a^ked
President Eisenhower to declare
as disaster areas the cranberry
growing states of Washington,
Oregon, Wisconsin, New Jersey
and Massachusetts.
In a telegram, Olsson asked
Eisenhower to “provide imme
diate relief to thousands of small
farmers for losses caused by the
unnecessary, untimely and impru
dent action” of Welfare Secretary
Arthur Flemming.
Last Monday, Flemming said
traces of a weed killer had been
found in some of the cranberries
grown in the Pacific Northwest.
He said the weed killer, aminotria
zole, had caused cancer in rats
when it was included in their diet.
The cranberry growers imme
diately protested that Flemming
had pulled the rug from under
them just before the holidays.
Saturday, the Chicago Board of
Health seized 20 tons of cran
berries grown in Wisconsin and
impounded them.
Sales of all cranberres and
cranberry products were barred
in Chicago.
New Storms, Intense Cold, Hit Western
Section of U. S. In Weekend Discomfort
DENVER, (jPi — A fierce new
storm, sending temperatures dip
ping to record lows, lashed most
of the Rocky Mountains and
northern Great Plains today.
Temperatures dropped as low
as 41 degrees below zero during
the pre-dawn hours. The storm
roared out of Canada yesterday
into Montana, already numbed by
a blizzard which struck four days,
ago.
Parts of Kansas, the Dakotas
and Montana were battered yes
terday toy winds up to 60 miles
per hour, which reduced visibility
in some localities to near zero by
whipping the air with blinding
snow.
The mining city of Butte in
western Montana reported a tem
perature of 41 below zero shortly
before dawn. Drummond and Hel
ena both had readings of 39 below.
Montana’s warmest morning
low was 7 below at Missoula.
The Helena reading was 5 de
grees colder than the all-time
November record set just last Fri
day. Forecasters said it was pos
sible later morning readings
could be even colder.
Billings in eastern Montana had
13 below. Two northern Wyoming
cities, Sheridan and Cody, charted
23 below zero. Akron, Colo., near
the Kansas line, had 2 below.
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Despite the blizzard, clearing
skies were reported in most Rocky
Mountain and Great Plains states.
The Weather Bureau predicted
slowly rising temperatures start
ing tomorrow and continuing the
rest of the week.
At Scottsbluff, Neb., the tem
perature dropped from a Sunday
afternoon high of 64 to zero by
midnight. The temperature in
Denver fell 29 degrees in one
hour Sunday night.
Helena, Montana capitol that
took the brunt of a record storm
last midweek, reported a 20-inch
snow depth with about six inches
of new snow.
Legislative Council Meet
Here Wednesday Open
For Public Presentation
Jack Doyle, executive director
of the Legislative Council, is ex
pected to arrive here on Tuesday
for the meeting of the subcom
mittee of the Council, which will
open here at 10 a.m. Wednesday
morning.
The meetings on eWdnesday are
open te the public, and are
planned to have the benefit of
local thinking on proposed merit
and retirement systems for state
employes as well as other matters
which will come before the Legis
lature.
Out of town members of the
subcommittee who are known to
be arriving are Senator Bill
Beltz of Unalakleet, Senator Eben
Hopson of Barrow, and Represen
tative Axel Johnson of Kwiguk.
'Local persons and organizations
are urged to make their presen
tations and present their views in
this matter.
Two Young Boys Buried
Alive In Gravel Pit
WELLESLEY, Mass., W — Two
young playmates perished yester
day when they were accidentlly
buried in a gravel pit opposite
Wellesley College.
The victims were Mark Ket
chum, 12, one of the three chil
dren in his family, and Harold
Adams Jr., also 12, an only child.
Police Chief Robert P. MacBey,
summoned by a playmate of the
two victims, said that when he
arrived at the scene three weeping
boys were trying to reach the pair
by digging frantically with their
hands. •
The bodies of the two boys were
found upright side by side under
three feet of sand.
A contractor estimated 30 tons
of sand had shifted while the
boys were digging a tunnel.
ALASKA FREIGHT DELAYS
COURT-ORDERED SALE
OF FIVE TUGBOATS
SEATTLE, UP) — The sale of
five tugs belonging to the Alaska
Freight Lines has been postponed
until November 30. Federal Judge
John C. Bowen, who had ordered
the sale as a result of court ac
tions involving the company,
granted the delay.
Two Americans
Elevated to
Cardinal College
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
John XXIII today named eight
new Cardinals of the Roman Cath
olic Church. They included two
Americans, Archbishop Albert
Gregory Meyer of Chicago and
Aloysius J. Muench of Fargo,
North Dakota.
The Pope’s action increased the
College of Cardinals to 79 mem
bers, its largest size in the history
of the churoh.
The elevation of Archbishop
Meyer, 56, had been expected
since he succeeded the late Sam
uel Cardinal Stritch as Archbish
op of Chicago just a year ago
today. His archdiocese is the larg
est in the United States, having
nearly two million members.
Both the new American cardi
nals are natives of Milwaukee.
Archbishop Muench, 70, has
been representing the Vatican as
Papal Nuncio to Germany since
World War II but has retained his
post as head of the North Dakota
archdiocese.
The eight new Princes V>f the
Church will be elevated to their
high office on December 14 in a
consistory in the Vatican’s Con
sistorial Hall.
The naming of Archbishops
Meyer and Muench brings the
total number of American Car
dinals to six, highest in the
church’s history. The others are
Francis Spellman of New York,
James F. McIntyre of Los An
geles, Richard J. Cushing of Bos
ton and John F. O’Hara of Phila
delphia.
Cardinals Cushing and O’Hara
were both elevated by Pope John
last December in the first consis
tory of his reign, when he in
creased the College of Cardinals
to 74 members. Previously it had
been limited to 70 members for
nearly 400 years. Since the De
cember consistory three Cardinals
have died.
SEOUL, South Korea, UP) —
South Korean police reported to
day Communist boats captured six
small fishing vessels with 13 fish
ermen aboard off Korea’s east
| coast last week.