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NEW RESEARCHER IN THE FIELD OF SUBSTITUTES
PLANE CRASH IN
ALGERIA KILLS 34
ALGIERS, UD—Air France offi-1
cials said 34 persons died in the j
flaming crash of a DC-3 transport j
Monday night at Biskra in north- |
east Algeria.
The victims were 5 crew mem- I
bers and 18 Moslem and 11 Eu-;
ropean passengers. There were,
no survivors.
The Europena dead included j
two women and two children.
Official reports said the plane’s j
left engine failed when the craft i
■was about 30 feet off the ground
after takeoff. The pilot apparent
ly tried to make an emergency
landing, but the maneuver failed
and the plane plunged to the
ground and burst into flames.
Strong Quake
Recorded From
Alaska Peninsula
SEATTLE, UR—A strong earth
quake was recorded on seismo
graphs in many parts of .the na
tion and Alaska early today, and
a University of Washington ex
pert pin-pointed the center in the
Alaska Peninsula area.
It was described as being strong
enough to have been damaging in
a populated area.
Frank Neumann, the university
seismologist, said the series of
tremors apparently is moving
eastward aicng the fault system
that extends south of the Aleu
tians and the peninsula that juts
down from southwest Alaska.
If the trend of the tremors
should continue along the "fault!
network, Neumann said, they
would seem likely to continue up j
the peninsula and across the 1
Alaska mainland to around the j'
Russia Protests *
U.S. Inspections in
Panama Canal
WASHINGTON, UP)—State De
partment officials today put a
“propaganda” label on a Russian
protest over the handling of So
viet ships in the Panama Canal.
Moscow radio, heard in London,
reported that the protest, alleging
long “discriminatory” inspections
of Russian ships transiting the
canal, had been handed to the
State Department Monday.
The note, as reported from Mos
cow, said since Jan. 1 American
armed guards have stopped three
Soviet vessels for many hours
while inspectors made a minute
check of cargo and photographed
“all technical equipment.” The
ships had been rerouted because
of the closure of the Suez Canal.
A spokesman said “one thing
the Russians can’t stand is any
thing resembling peace and order
ly processes.” He went on:
“They feel their mission is to
keep things in turmoil. It’s obvi
ously a propaganda movfe, aimed
at seeking to muddle things in the
Middle East.”
The Panama Canal Co. office
here recalled that an official of
the company said when Russian
ship captains first protested, that
the Soviet vessels were given rou
tine handling in accordance with
regulations governing safety of
the canal. j
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Fairbanks area.
He said a fault system which
extends toward Seattle from off j
the southeast Alaska coast is a
separate system fom the one along
he Aleutians and the peninsula,
vith a “quiet zone” between.
Chamber Hears
Resume of
Legislature
By RUTH McLEAN
A first-hand account of the ac
tivities of the Territorial Legisla
ture just convened in Juneau was
made to the NWA Chamber of
Commerce at their regular week
ly meeting yesterday by James A.
von der Heydt, representative
from the Second Division.
Von der Heydt first thanked
the Chamber and the members as
individuals for letters., telegrams
and .telephone calls received dur
ing the Legislature which were a
great help to the delegates in ad
vising them of the feelings at
home on current issues.
Mr. von der Heydt then dis
cussed the five major tax mea
sures passed to supply revenue
for the budget of over $136 mil
lion. He also commented on the
National Guard armory, the men
tal health bill and the Liquor Con
trol Board, in answer to questions
from the Chamber members.
Wilbur Arnold’s guests were his
son Ray, one of Nome’s young
merchants, and Mr. Tom Holland
| from Seattle.
Three other guests were intro
duced by Rev. Willard Mecklen
burg: Mrs. Mecklenburg, Mr. W.
S. Reasonover, and Mr. Robert B.
Goodman.
; Mr. Reasonover is from An
■ chorage and is the business man
ager for the Alaska Methodist
College Crusade Organizatino. He
outlined the liberal arts college
i for which funds are being raised
■ at this time and which is planned
! to open in Ancorage in 1959.
i “One of the purposes of the
j new Methodist college is to devel
op a loyalty in Alaskan young
I people to stay and live in the
| territory,” Mr. Reasonover ex
j plained.
| Mr. Goodman was sent to Alas
j ka by the Black Star Publishing
j Co. for a picture story of the peo
. pie in the territory. Over the
I past weekend he has worked on
I a story of Nome teen-agers for a
j new magazine “Dig.”
Two Men Die
In Snowslide
EMPIRE, Colo., LP)—Deliberate
ly started with cannon fire, a
snowslide Monday killed a cam
eraman filming the action and a
highway worker warning motor
ists to stay away.
The photographer’s helper, Ro
land Wyatt, 18, was • trapped in
the fringe of the avalanche and
clawed his way out from under
two feet of snow.
John Hermann, 26, the camera
man, and Wayne S. Whitlock, 21,
maintenance worker, suffocated
under tons of snow, rock and
trees.
The snowslide was set in mo
tion on purpose as part of the
highway department’s avalanche
control work along U.S. Highway
40 about 40 miles west of Denver.
Experts for the department
keep close tab on snow accumula
tions along the highway and at
proper - times kick off the ava
lanches that menace travel. This
is done by gun fire after the high
way is closed to travel.
The avalanche snapped pine
trees like matches as it hurtled
down the mountainside, flowed
over a 100-foot-deep gulch and
shot up the opposite slope, bury
ing the highway under 20 feet of
snow, trees, rock and dirt. The
slide was 1,500 feet wide.
STATEHOOD BILL
AMENDED FOR
FISH AND WILDLIFE
WASHINGTON UP)—An amend
ment to the Alaska Statehood Bill
would leave management of the
territory’s fish and wildlife af
fairs with the federal government
for five years after statehood.
Rep.’ Jack Westland announced
today that such an amendment
had been apprvoed by the House
Interior and Insular Affairs Com
mittee. The amendment will be
incorporated in the statehood bill
when it goes to the House.
The amendment, Westland said,
was to assure an orderly period
of transition.
Jet Age Board
Asked by
Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower will ask Congress la
ter this week to create an Airways
Modernization Board to deal with
jet age aviation problems.
The President’s plans for a spe
cial message to Congress were
announced by Senate Republican
Leader Knowland of California
after he and other GOP congres
sional chiefs concluded their reg
ular Tuesday morning meeting
with Eisenhower.
Knowland told a news confer
ence at the White House that the
President’s message will be ac
companied by an interim report
prepared by a study group.
The study group was set up by
the President shortly after two
commercial airliners collided in
the air over the Grand Canyon
several months ago with heavy
loss of life.
Knowland said the board would
deal mainly with research, navi
gation and development problems
“confronting the nation coming
into this jet age.”
The safest way to hold a good
job is to know more about it than
the other fellow.
Radio Fills
Will Give
Inside Story
NEW YORK, Cff)—A plastic pill
packed with a tiny radio is ready
to tell the inside story of man’s
digestive tract. ,
The one-inch radio station was
demonstrated Monday at the
Rockefeller Institute.
A patient can swallow the pill
with a drink of water. The radio
in the capsule broadcasts informa
tion as it passes thru the stomach
and intestines.
A doctor holds a radio receiver
close to the patient’s body and
picks up signals from inside. The
traveling radio transmits data on
muscular contractions and fluid
or gaseous pressures.
Tlfe radio is a tiny transistor
oscillator. It has a life of from
15 to 24 hours.
The capsule takes from two to
six days to pas thru the body.
Heretofore, doctors have stud
[ ied the digestive tract with X rays
j or with tubes inserted in the pa
tient.
| The cost of development was
| $10,000. It is estimated the pills
can be mass-produced for $25 or
$30 apiece.
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