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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LXI'I No. 61NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960Per Copy 151
Stymied Rescuers Continue Attempts
To Reach Stricken McKinley Climbers
World Altitude Record
Helicopters Enroute for
McKinley Rescue
ANCHORAGE, UP) — The Air
Force said today that two H43-B
turbine powered helicopters which
recently set a new world altitude
record of 30,000 feet, are being
dispatched to Alaska to attempt
a pickup of five injured mountain
climbers on Mt. NcKinley.
Responding to a request from
the Alaskan Air Command, Air
Force headquarters has directed
a C-124 to Stead Air Force Base
in Nevada to pick up the two heli
copters with air and maintenance
crews for imemdiate airlift to
Elmendorf AFB.
The helicopters will fly to Tal
keetna from Anchorage, and will
proceed to Mt. McKinley. The
C-124 carrying the ’copters is
scheduled to arrive at Elmendorf
AFB early Saturday morning.
U. S. Air Force
Plane Down In
East Germany
WIESBAiDEN, Germany, UR —
A twin-engine U. S. Air Force
transport has landed in Commu
nist East Germany after straying
off course in a flight from Copen
hagen to Hamburg, East German
police announced tonight.
A police spokesman said seven
men and one woman aboard the
American plane were immediate
ly arrested.
The Communist official said
the C-47 made an emergency land
ing near the village of Brunsha
gen. None of the eight persons
aboard was injured, he said.
Earlier, President Eisenhower
in Washington had been told of
the plane’s disappearance and had
said, “We cannot be sure the
worst has not happened.”
Shark Chews Young Girl
At California Beach Resort
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., UR — A
huge shark attacked a 1’6-year-old
girl off Hidden Beach yesterday
and mangled her left leg so severe
ly it had to be amputated below
the knee.
Suzanna Marie Theriot was
swimming 150 feet offshore when
the shark struck.
The attack was another in a
series along the California coast
that authorities blame on a warm
ing trend of the waters and the
movement of warm fish north
ward.
Two Californians have been
killed in the past year, one off
San Francisco, the other off La
Jolla, near San Diego.
Suzanna and 38 sophomore
classmates were on a parochial
high school outing.
She underwent a four-hour op
eration at Santa Cruz Hospital but
surgeons were unable to save her
leg.
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BULLETIN
ANCHORAGE — An Alaskan
bush pilot has landed his small
plane on the icy slopes of Mt.
McKinley and picked up a ser
iously ill woman mountain climb
er. Rescue officials said the pilot—
Don Sheldon — would fly Mrs.
Helga Bading to the town of Tal
keetna. An Air Force plane will
be waiting there to take her to
an Anchorage hospital.
Meanwhile, ground parties are
pushing their way up the moun
tain in an attempt to rescue four
other injured climbers.
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ANCHORAGE, UP) — Helicopter
rescue efforts failed today and
two mountaineers started descent
of Mt. McKinley with a critically
ill woman, leaving four injured
men awaiting aid from ground
parties.
“We are getting desperate,” An
chorage mountaineer Paul Crews
radioed to communications head
quarters here.
Then Crews reported he and
Charles Metzger of Anchorage
would try to bring the sick wo
man, Mrs. Helga Bading, down by
sled from the 15,000-foot level to
a point where she could be
reached by helicopter.
Four climbers from the Pacific
Northwest, all injured in a fall
Tusday night, remained in a
makeshift camp above 17,000 feet.
Five ground parties of six men
each, most of them flown here
from Seattle and Portland, had
climbed to an estimated 12,000
feet today and rescue leaders said
they could not possibly reach the
injured men until tomorrow or
later.
An Army jet helicopter tried to
reach the stranded climbers today
but was turned back by mechani
cal trouble. Anchorage rescue co
ordinators then said efforts to
reach the scene by helicopter
would have to be abandoned.
Plasma was dropped for Mrs.
Bading, but it fell in a glacial area
and Crews said he and Metzger
would start down without trying
to retrieve it.
“We feel it is more important to
try to get her down,” he said.
Before deciding on the hazard
ous descent, Crews made a fran
tic appeal for helicopters.
“If we have to wait for the
ground parties,” he radioed, “the
outcome will be doubtful.”
BLM Staff Offers Help
Here Next Wednesday
Members of the Fairbanks Op
erations Staff, Bureau of Land
Management, will be stopping at
the Polaris Hotel on Wednesday
evening, May 25, and will be avail
able for discussion of land prob
lems that evening, writes Robert
Coffman, Acting Operations Su
pervisor. No formal public meet
ing is planned, but persons with
specific problems are urged to
contact the reresentatives at that
time.
Mr. K. Prop oses i
Another Summit
In 6 or 8 Months
BERLIN, lift — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev promised today to
preserve the status quo in Ger
many until another summit con
ference in six or eight months has
a chance to settle the problem.
The Soviet Premier vowed to
do nothing to “bring back the
worst times of the cold war.” But
he said there was a hidden
struggle among variolas U. S.
circles “which makes us fear
serious developments.”
“We believe,” he told a fran
tically cheering East German
audience, ‘that although reaction
ary powers blew up the summit
conference in Paris, the next sum
mit conference will take place in
six to eight months.
“Under these circumstances it is
sensible to wait a bit and try by
common efforts of all the vic
torious powers to seek a solution
of the question of the signature
of a treaty of peace with the two
German ' states which actually
exist.”
Khrushchev has said that if he
is forced to sign a separate treaty
with Communist East Germany,
the Big Three’s garrisons will lose
their right to stay in Berlin.
“We do not let this subject of a
treaty out of our sight,” he said.
“Let’s wait a bit. It will ripen
better.”
Repeatedly he leveled h i s
sights at President Eisenhower,
whom he denounced in Paris in
personal terms and blamed for
the collapse of the summit con
ference.
He said bluntly that Eisenhower
would not be in the next summit
conference.
His accusation of struggle in the
(United States reversed the usual
charge that there was a hidden
struggle going on in the Kremlin
which obliged the Communist
leader to take a hard attitude
toward his repudiated friend,
Presient Eisenhower, at the
wrecked summit conference. He
coupled this claim of a new
struggle with further denuncia
tions of Eisenhower.
“The President of the United
States intentionally sent a recon
naissance plane over the borders
of our country,” he said. “Think
of that — on the eve of the sum
mit conference.
“Everything seemed to indicate
that the United States did not
want a solution of problems and
sought only a new occasion to
worsen the situation and heat the
atmosphere to the most extreme
point.”
WASHINGTON, UP) — A Senate
Interior Subcommittee today ap
proved a bill which would restrict
federal use of Western lands.
The bill, which goes now to the
full Interior Committee, would re
quire Congressional approval be
fore the federal government could
take over land in excess of 5,000
acres for any federal project or
facility.
The bill was introduced by Sen.
Bartlett.
U. S. Capitol Stages Warm, Tuniuiltuous
Greeting for Returning Chief Executive
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower returned today from
the wreckage of the summit to a
warm show of unity and affection
from the people of the capitol.
By thousands, they gathered at
the airport and along vantage
points of the 15-mile route to the
White House to display the tradi
tional American solidarity in dif
ferences with other nations.
It was a demonstration welling
from the emotions aroused by
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s truc
ulent, often-insulting, behavior at
the Paris gathering of heads of
state.
Officials said it wasn’t planned
— in just grew. But school chil
dren were released from classes
so they could join in the wel
come. Government workers were
not officially authorized to leave
their jobs, but everybody under
stood an absence wouldn’t be
officially noted.
Most of the top ofoficials, and
many Congress members, were at
the air field at Andrews Air Base,
in nearby Maryland, long before
there was any sign of Eisenhower’s
big jet airliner in the hazy sky of
a warm spring day.
Congressional delegations on
hand to give the President a “wel
come home” included Democrats
as well as Republicans.
Yet there were Democrats
primed to ask, at the proper mo
ment, for a full account of what
they called administration “blun
dering” in relation to the spy
plane flight over Russia. Khrush
chev used this incident as his take
off point for wrecking the summit
hopes.
A group of House Democrats
drafted a series of questions they
said Eisenhower should answer in
a nationwide address.
And too, Eisenhower brought
back from Paris all the interna
tional problems that accompanied
him there — now grown more ur
gent and uglier than before.
Eisenhower said Soviet Premier
Khrushchev’s breakup of the sum
mit conference is “a mystery and
remains a mystery.” ,
It was not the downing of the
American U-2 spy plane that
wrecked the conference, Eisen
hower said in effect, declaring that
the Soviet leader “distorted and
overplayed” the incident.
The Soviets wanted no talks of
any kind and made it impossible
to begin,” he said.
Looking into the future, Eisen
hower said “We can be watchful
for more irritations and possibly
other incidents which can be more
than annoying.”
Committee Okays
Stockpiling Of
Domestic Tin
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate Interior Committee yesterday
approved a bill to authorize gov
ernment purchase of domestic tin
for the national defense stockpile.
The measure, sponsored by
Alaska’s senators, is designed to
provide an incentive for reopen
ing of closed tin mines in Alaska
and prospecting for new domestic
sources.
The bill would authorize the
purchase over a 10-year period of
up to 10,000 tons of tin at $1.40
a pound for lode production and
$1.25 for placer mine production.
The present market price is 99V4
cents a ound.
Mrs. Ralph Rivers Loses
Valuable Keepsake Watch
WASHINGTON, UP) — The wife
of Rep. Ralph Rivers reported to
day the loss of a diamond wrist
watch valued at $1,300.
The watch was a present from
her husband four years ago. He
bought it in Alaska.
Mrs. Rivers said she believes
the watch came unclasped from
her wrist when she was return
ing from New York City with her
husband last Sunday ight.
“I had a bunch of things over
my arm,” she said, “and I think
it fell off while I was jn the train
coach, or in the depot or in the
cab we took to pick up our car.”
The watch, she said, is insured.
Fault in Soviet Space Ship
Knocks It Off Course
MOSCOW, UP) — The Soviet
Union’s experimental space ship
developed a fault yesterday dur
ing an attempt to bring its cabin
back to earth, the Soviet news
agency Tass announced today.
Early yesterday, orders were
radioed to the ship to switch on
a braking device, detach the cabin
and bring it down from orbit.
“However, as a result of a fault
which had developed by that time
in one of the instruments of the
space ship’s orientation system,
the direction of the retrorocket’s
blast deviated from that planned,”
Tass said.
Moscow said the cabin was de
tached from the 4Vfe-ton space
ship successfully and was moving
along in the vicnity of it.
The Soviets announced last
Sunday when they reported the
new Sputnik in orbit that no at
tempt would be made to recover
the cabin and the dummy aeronaut
reported riding in it. The cabin
and contents, this announcement
said, could be expected to burn
up in the atmosphere during
descent.
MIDNIGHT SUN FESTIVAL
FILM ON TV TONIGHT
The special film on the Mid
night Sun Festival of 1959, which
was to have been shown last
evening on KNOM-TV, was post
poned until tonight at the same
time, due to the Commencement
program. It will be shown at
7:30 p.m.
PIONEER WOMEN ATTENTION
MONTHLY MEETING TONIGHT
AT 8 P.M.
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