Huge Navy
Balloons To Test
Spaceman Effects
By VERN HAUGLAND
ABOARD CARRIER VALLEY
FORGE (En route to Caribbean),
Iff) — The Navy is considering
launching manned balloons al
most a half mile tall to an alti
tude of nearly 30 miles for studies
of human reactions to space en
vironment.
Such a structure would be five
times as tall as the two unmanned
balloons expected to be sent aloft
' from this carrier off the West
Indies next Monday.
Plans for some years ahead
were disclosed in a shipboard lec
ture on the balloon program by
Lt. Cmdr. Victor Prather, of the
Navy Medical Research Institute,
Bethesda, Md.
Prather said plans call for a
balloon of 50 million cubic feet
to carry a 3,900-pound gondola
with four or five men to about
150,000 feet. He said tests to date
have shown the value of ballons,
since in no other way can space
flight be simulated with such
roominess and efficiency.
The men aboard will experi
ence psysiological effects of real
space flight, knowing they can
not panic and jump out unless
they want to endure a 110,000
foot free fall to a parachute open
ing at a livable altitude.
On next weeks flights, un
manned ballons of 20 million cu
bic feet, almost 500 feet high, will
carry photographic emulsion
sheets to about 120,000 feet to
' record primary cosmic ray im
pacts. The data is expected to
shed significant light on the na
ture of high energy radiation in
space.
Fate of Hawaiian Village
Rest on Strength of
Hastily Built Lava Dike
HONOLULU. Iff) — A river of
molten lava pushed against emer
gency turf dikes outside tiny Ka
poho village today. Kilauea vol
cano continued to feed the stream
of fire at an almost steady pace.
The fate of the small farming
village on Hawaii Island’s south
east coast depends on the mounds
of rock and earth. The lava
oozed against the dikes around
Tuesday afternon, said Civil De
fense Major John D’Araujo.
“The dikes are holding so far.
We’re just keeping our fingers
crossed that they will be strong
enough,” D’Araujo said.
“If the dikes fail, the homes of
Kapoho’s 300 evacuated residents
will be wiped out.
Nothing is left in Kapoho but
empty buildings — a ghost town
waiting toi die. .
U. S. Admiral Thinks
U.S.-Russian Cooperation
Possible In Missile Firing
LOS ANGELES, Iff) — Can th^
U. S. and the Soviet Union co
operate on missile firing?
The commander of the Navy’s
Pacific Missile Range thinks so.
Admiral Jack P. Monroe told a
news conference Monday that
cooperation is a good thing even
though the missiles the’ Soviets
expect to fire into the Pacific
have intercontinental potential.
Monroe, just returned from an
11-day tour of rp^ge facilities, said
the Navy is capable of locating
the. spots where Soviet missiles
will land in the ocean. But he
said present radar facilities —de
signed for a narrow field — are
unable to track missiles fired from
the U.S.S.R.
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Yale Students Arrested for
Dormitory Sex Parties I
NEW HAVEN, Conn\ (41—New j
(Haven police have arrested three j
Yale students — and plan to
pick up more — in an investiga
tion of dormitory sex parties in
volving a 14-year-old girl.
The arrests were the first since
city police moved into the inves
tigation Friday. Yale officials had
learned of the case earlier. Twelve
undergraduates resigned as stu
dents before the arrests.
Police Chief Francis McManus
said about 15 students would be
questioned. Assistant City Attor
ney Gilbert Winnick said a war
rant would be issued for “every
student we think we have a case
against.’
Those arrested Monday were
charged with lascivious carriage,
a charge often used in Connec-'
ticut in cases of minor wrong
doing of a sexual nature. Bond
was set at $500.
Police said the girl is known
to have visited Calhoun College,
one of Yale’s residential colleges,
twice.
England’s Queen Sets
High Maternity Fashion
LONDON, (41 — Queen Eliza
beth II has launched a new
maternity fashion — high heels.
Most British doctors put wo
men into flatties for the last two
months of pregnancy. But the
Queen, whose third baby is ex
pected late this month or early
next, came back to London from
her Christmas holiday Monday
| with three-inch heels.
A physician consulted by a
London newspaper took the high
heels as a good omen.
“High heels are a sign of the !
Queen’s high spirits and show
that she is physically well,” he
said. “Like other modern mothers
she believes it is not necessary
to be dowdy.”
RONALD SENUNGETUK
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
R.I.T. STUDENT CLUB
Ronald Senungetuk, son of Mr.
and Mrs. .Wille Senungetuk of
Nome, has been elected president
of Rochester Institute of Tech
nology’s International Student’s
Club for the current academic
year.
Ronald, a 1953 graduate of Mt.
Edgecumbe High School, is a
senior in RITs School for Amer
ican Craftsmen.
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50 Perish In Crash
Of Airliner On
Virginia Swamp
HOLDOROFT, Va., Wl — A Nor
folk-bound airliner groped errat
ically through dense fog, then
plunged into a swampy ravine
near here late Monday night.
Fifty persons died in the flaming
wreckage.
The crash of the Capital Air
lines prop-jet Viscount was the
nation’s worst air disaster in
nearly a year and the worst in
Virginia history.
It wasn’t until nearly 8 a.m.
more than nine hours after the
big four-engine plane dropped
nearly straight down into the
mush ground — that rescue work
ers could enter the cooling wreck
age in search of the 46 passen
gers and four crew members.
The first body was brought out
at 7:50 a.m. <
“Have you ever seen an old
shed that’s been set on fire and
fallen down with the tin roof on
top of it,” asked John Finnegan
Jr., a Richmond fire battalion
chief. “That’s what it loked like.”
Among the victims were Mrs.
Eugene Gilbert, 25, of New York
City, a partner with her husband
in youth research work; Albert
Rueff, 52, and Charles A. Truhn
Jr., 42, Ford Motor Co. execu
tives at Louisville, Ky., and the
wife and stepson of a pilot for
another airline.
The plane, Capital Flight 20,
was en route from Chicago to
Norfolk via Washington. It left
Washington at 9:45 p.m. and the
pilot, Capt. James Fornasero, 50,
a veteran of almost 20 years of
airline flying, made a routine ra
dio check with the Norfolk tower
while over Tappahannock. He was
due at Norfolk at 10:30 p.m.
Then at 10:20 p.m., farrier Rob
ert Tench heard the plane circling
over his home, 50 miles north
west of Norfolk.
It made one pass overhead, too
low, Tench thought, but “not so
severe.” Then a minute or so later
— "long enough to read a few
sentences in my book,” it came
over again. This time'the house
shook.
“The third time he came over,
the motors were wide open. Then
she hit. The noise just stopped,
when I heard the engines stop,
then I figured he’d gone into the
river.”
The cause of the crash, second
major disaster in Virginia within
three months, remained unknown.
Officials of Capital, the Civil
Aeronautics Board, the FBI and
other agencies made on-the-spot
studies, then moved to Richmond
to open official investigations.
A heavy fog blanketed most of
central and eastern Viriginia
Monday afternoon and night, but
the airport at Norfolk was wide
open.
IN THE PROBATE COURT
FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
SECOND DIVISION.
STATE OF ALASKA
In the Matter of the Estate of
ANTONIO POLET. Deceased,
ALVIN A. G. POLET and
EMILY P. BOUCHER, Co-Executors.
No. 1110
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That, by
order of the Probate Court for the
Cape Nome Precinct, Second Division.
State of Alaska, the undersigned have
been appointed Co-Executors for the
Estate of ANTONIO POLET, Deceased.
All persons having claims against said
estate should present them. With proper
vouchers, within six months from the
date hereof to the undersigned, at the
office of COLLINS It CLA8BY, Attor
neys for said estate, in ' Fairbanks.
Alaska, which office is hereby desig
nated as the place where the principal
business of said estate will be conducted.
DATED this, the 30th day of De
cember, 1959.
ALVIN A. G. POLET,
EMILY P. BOUCHER,
Co-Executors.
Pub. Dec. 30, 1958, Jan. 6. 13, 20, 1960.
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Passenger Airliners May
Be Required to Check All
Luggage For Bombs
WASHINGTON, UP) — A bill
which would require airlines to
make pre-flight searches of lug
gage and cargo for bombs and
other destructive items was in
troduced in the House today.
Rep. James O’Hara (D-Mich)
offered the measure which would
require examination of all articles
except mail taken aboard com
mercial passenger aircraft. Pri
vate planes and cargo carriers
would be exempt.
O’Hara said it would not neces
sarily require that passengers
open all luggage because X-ray
equipment “may provide ade
quate examinations.”
Senate investigators -have sug
gested that bombings have been
involved in the recent destruction
of two airliners with a loss of
76 lives.
FAMILY WIPED OUT AT
TEXAS R.R. CROSSING
AMARILiLO, Tex., lift — Five
members of one family met death
Tuesday hight when a fast pas
senger train struck an auto
mobile.
The accident occurred at this
Texas city’s southern edge as the
Santa Fe’s San Francisco Chief
No. 2 arrived nearly 30 minutes
late.
Killed were Dr. Robert Lee
Brown, 37, a Canyon, Tex., vet
erinarian, and his two sons,
David, 6, and Robert Jr., 9.
Brown’s wife, Dorothy, 34, died
an hour later, and a daughter,
Sharon, 11, died six hours after
brain surgery necessitated by the
collision.
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2 Mixers 18 6 .750
3 Polar Bar 20 8 .714
5 Linamenls 17 7 .708
5 Bering Sea 19 9 .679
6 Fed. Electric 17 11 .607
7 Airlines 12 12 .500
8 B.P.R. 11 13 .458
9 N. C. Co. 7 17 .292
10 North Star 7 17 .292
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Defense Chiefs
Blast Lack of Faith
In U. S. Strength
WASHINGTON, UR — The De
fense Department has told Con
gress the United States is mili
tarily ahead of the Sovet Union
and far excels the Russians in
ability to deliver nuclear weapons
on an enemy target.
This rosy defense picture was
given last week to the House Ap
propriations Committee by Sec
retary of Defense Thomas Gates
and General Nathan Twining,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. Their revised and censored
closed-door testimony was made
public yesterday by the com
mittee.
While cautioning against com
placency, both Gates and Twin
ing criticized what Twining called
a tendency to “degrade the capa
bilities of the American people
and the peoples of the free
world,” arid to picture*in glow
ing terms the efforts of the Com
munist bloc.
In coming summit negotiations,
Twining said, “We want to deal
from strength. We have terrific
strength. We have terrific strength
in the military and in our
country.”
Twining said he believes the
possibility of an all-out nuclear
war with the Soviet Union is
“very, very slim.”
U.S. Nuclear Warheads
Will Arm Canadian Forces
OTTAWA, UR—Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker says his gov
ernment will insist on controlling
the use of any American nuclear
warheads stored in Canada.
The Prime Minister gave this
assurance to Parliament Monday
night after opposition leader Les
ter Pearson declared the United
States should not have special
custody over any weapons in
possession of Canada’s armed
force.
Diefenbaker said negotiations
are under way with the United
States to arm Canadian forces
with American nuclear weapons.
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