Home-Owned Newspaper
volume xvi
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
. Monday, October 24, 1955
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_ INUMBER 222
Quakes last night and today
rock San Francisco Bay area
Repair of damage
will run into j
thousands |
SAN FRANCISCO (IP) After \
blocks continued easily today
from the sharp, jolting earth
quake which struck the San
Francisco Bay area at 8:11 o’
clock last night.
No new damage occurred.
The cost of reparing the dam
age caused by the big shock
will run into the thousands oif j
dollars. It upset the Sunday j
evening calm of a broad area
from Sacramento to San Jose, j
Shocks were recorded at
10:04 Hast night and at 12:181
and 1:45 a. m. today. <j j
It was the second damaging
quake in the area within seven
weeks. f
Windows shattered, telephone
lines went dead, statues fell
from niches in a chapel, dishes
fell from shelves and overhead
lights swayed dizzily hack and
forth. $ s
At Oakland an apartment
house fire started soon after
the quiake and burned to death
an 85 year old woman, Ora Bel.l
Torn Dolan, a battalion fire
chief, estiimlated damage at $25
000 and said the fire was “defin
itely caused by a gas explo
sion.” F
Ruth Aldinger, 49, jumped
out oif a second story window
during the fire and suffered ser
ious injuries.
Oakland firemen also blam
ed the quake for a $3,000 house
fire.
V eotchcombing
• Well Ithat was quite a storm
— not only to be out in — 'but
to Ibe safely sitting beside a
nice warm fire — with a good
.book and {plenty of food to eat
and a cheering cup.
—M—
0 With tomorrow’s issue tne
Daily Sitka Sentinel will start
a column on sports — local
basketball! in particular — it
wiBl ibe known as “Nettings’ by
Gil Truitt. Gil who has been
attending college in the states
is t aking physical education and
knows Sitka ibasketlballl as he
was one of the Stars of the ANB
• The Journal oif Commerce
in Seattle featured the Sitka
timber sale much more than
some of the Southeastern Al
aska papers. Evidently what
happens here is of much more
interest in Seattle than in our
“big cities.” l
-M
• Was up near Blue Lake on
Saturday — just looking to
see if there were any bucks.
Plenty of sign — but Ace want
ed to know why no one had
fired a gun by three o’clock in
the afternoon. x
Battalion chief Bernard Dool
ey said it either cracked gas
pipes or extinguished a pilot
line, causing an explosion. Man
uel Ortega was hit Iby 'flying
glass and injuried slightly.
At Sonofa, the Buena Vista
winery said 'the jollt shifted a
1.200 gallon wine cask in its
cradle. A seam split and work
men balked it, a geyser of wine
sprayed out. There was not
much loss, the winery said, be
fore repairs were made.
Pacific Gas and Blictric Co.
said a neighborhood substation
in Walnut Creek went out of
service termporarily shortly af
ter the quake. The firm said
that probably two live wires
brushed together.
Two pinball devotees declar
ed the jolt was stronjg enough
to “tilt” the machines they
were playing.
Dr. Charles Richter at Cali
fornia Institute of Technology
said his seismograph at Pasad
ena rated the tremor alt 5.5 “en
ough to cause damage in the im
mediate area of source.”
Father John Weiber at Santa
Clara university reported the
quake a Richter rating of 4 and
said it was 50 miles away, whi
ch would put its center in the
San Francisco area. Barbara
Amiberson at the University of
California at Berkeley rated it
4.5 and said her machine did
not show any distrance.
Will probe further
into North Pacific
fishing situation
SEATTLE (A5) Further steps
to investigate North Pacific
fishing will be taken in Tokyo
next week at a meeting of the
commission representing the
United Sites, Canada and Japan
Edward W. Allen, Seattle
lawyer, a member of the com
mission, leaves Wednesday ev
ening to attend the sessions-.
Already in Tokyo, for a pre
liminary meeting of the Unit
ed States advisory commission
are several Seat tile residents,
including John L. Farley, dir
ector of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, Dr. W. F. Thompson,
director of the University of
Washinlg'ton’s fisheries institute
Clinton E. Atkinson, director of
research ait the Fish and W'illd
life service laboratory in Seat
tle; and Harold E. Lokken, re
presenting fishing vessel oper
ators.
At senate commerce cornmit
> tee hearings last week, Ameri
can fishermen expressed belief
that Japanese were faking im
mature salmon and reducing
Alaskan runs.
WASHINGTON UP) The U.S.
census bureau estimated (today
that Alaska’s population increa
sed more than 79,000 in the past
four years. It estimated the ter
ritory’s population at 208,000,
including military personnel,
compared with 128,643 in 1950
’freak deer-doe
\‘
with horns - is
bagged near here
j When is a doe not a doe?
i When it has horns, of course.
I On Friday Bill Bernhardt
| sounded his deer call in the
Neva 'Straits area and was
(nearly charged by a two-point
' deer. After shooting the ani
mal, he found it was a doe
with a set Of horns — one
1 fork and one spike.
j He brought the doe to town,
reported the matter to author
. ities and found it was open
! season on does with horns,
j The doe dressed ou t at 120
pounds.
Western Big Three
i ...
agree on joint
memo for parley
PARIS (/P) The Western Big
Three foreign* ministers com
pleted work today on the first
part of a joint memorandum
they will submit at the Big Four
•onference 'at Geneva. The first
point concerns proposals! for
German reunification within a
European security system.
The ministers, u. ». secretary
off state Dulles, British foreign
secretary MacMillan and Fre
nch foreign minister Pinay met
with experts from 10:30 a. m.
i to shortly after 1 p.m. They
i met again in later afternoon to
' examine 'the remaining points
. of the memorandum, concern
| ing disarmament and East-West
I relations.
j French sources said the min
s rsters quickly reached complete
1 agreement on details of a joint
Western position regarding Ger
many.
U. S. secretary of defense
Charles Wilson, who is on his
way to the Geneva meeting,
also Sat in on today’s talks.
The big issues at the Geneva
conference -will be German re
unification, European security,
and disarmament. But side is
sues were coming to the fore
to plague the Western trio.
( Even -before they sat down
Israel’s prime minister, Moshe
Sharett, was all’ set to toss in
their laps a frying-hot issue —
what are they going to do a
bout the sale of arms by the So
viet bloc to Egypt?
Overnight two other thorny
problems arose and were likely
i to be tthrust into their consul
tations. These were:
1. The collapse in the Saar
plebiscite of Western plans to
“Europeanize” that frontier
valley as a keystone of French
German reconciliation; and
2. The overwhelming victory
of premier Ngo Dinh Diem of
South Viet Nam over chief of
gtate Bao Dai in a referendum.
This virtually eliminated any
possibility of a unification elec
tion in Indochina as proposed
by the 1954 Geneva armistice
conference at which the Brit
ish and Russian foreign minis
ters were cochairmen.
Starlight lost os big wind
storm hits this area Sunday
Gusts of 60 miles
an hour recorded
here yesterday
High winds, reaching a vel
ocity of up to 60 rnph 'buffet-j
ed Sitka yesterday, resulting
in the total loss of the seine
boat Staitiiight, a wirng fire a*t
the Sitka Cold Storage Co. and
ripping shinglles off some roofs
The official records at the
CAA installation at Mt. Edge
cuimlbe placed the peak of the
storm at 2:25 p. m. when winds
, of 45 rnph were recorded with
gusts up to 60 mph. The wind
during the morning blew at 25
mph with gusts up to 45 mph
at noon; began subsiding a
round 4:30 p. m. and at 5 p. m.
was blowing at the rate of 28
mph with peaks as high as 52
mph.
Anchorajged at Golf Island
just two miles below Biorka
the 45 foot seine boat Star
light dragged anchor due to the
Saar rejects 2-1
plan to Europeanize
Industrial area
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar (/P)
French premier Faure and Ger
man chancellor Adenauer mov
ed swiftly today to counter a
crisis ibrewing between their
' two nations as a result of the
Saar’s 2 to 1 rejection of the
plan to Europeanize the rich in
dustrial valley.
! Faura and Adenauer exchang
| ed telegrams! expressing their
' conviction that the outcome of
the Saar plebiscite yesterday
must not be allowed to upset
relations between France and
West Germany.
But already the vote had top
pled the Saar’s pro-French pre
mier and heightened demands
from other German leaders for
return of the German speakinlg
coal! and steel territory the
Reich held before Worhi War II
In Bonn, the West German
government called for “a new
i solution of the Saar.” A com
munique issued after a cabinet
meeting said this new solution
“must servel German-French
cooperation and the aim of
European unity.”
The communique left open
the question of whether anoth
er attempt to settle the ancient
dispute should be made by
France and Germany alone or
whether it should be put to the
newly created seven nation
West European Union.
In seeking' a new solution
the “overwhelming will olf the
Saar papulation must be taken
into account,” the communique
said.
A whopping 96.72 per cent
of all eligible iSaaiillanders went
to the polls yesterday to 'turn
down the European status plan
423.434 (67.7 per cent) to 201,
f 972 (32.3 per cent).
high winds, was pushed on the
beach and the rudder torn off.
i The captain, Louis Simpson,
and three other men had gone
ashore to hunt.
The Coast Guard was noti
fied and went to the scene,
'but by that time the boat had
sunk and beached on the rocks
at Goilf Island. Captain Simp
son. co-owner of the boat with
Charles Littlefield, (Harry John
son, Peter Simpson and Fred
[ Simpson were picked up by
small boat from the beach and
returned to Si'tfka.
The craft, covered by insur
ance, was valued at Ifrom $6,
000 to $8,000 with equipment,
it Was learned. The loss was
fuilly covered Iby insurance.
Later in the day a spectacu
lar fire, strangely resulting in
no damage, except to the wires
themselves, occurred at the
engine room of the Sitka Cold
Storage 'Co. Wires blown to
gether (from the force of the
winds arced a shower of sparks
and brilliant lights over the
face off the building.
1
Other damage by the wind
storm was reported to be neg
ligible.
j
Judgment of
$35,000 awarded
three Sitkans
JUNEAU (/P) A judgment a
warding recovery of furniture
in the Cathedral apartments at
Sitka, plus $240 a month rent
al for its use since the (building
went into receivership in Jan
uary 1954 was awarded the for
mer owners by district judge
Waller Hodge Saturday.
The intervening plaintiffs.
John and Martha Cushing and
Dr. William C. Charteris, all of
Sitka, won the judgement after
Hodge found a “preponder
ance of evidence” entitles
them to the furniture. Estimat
ed vallue of the judgment was
$35,000.
“The final test of ownerships
in the absence of title,” Judge
Hodge said, “is who purchased
the furniture.” He said there
was no question that all deal
ings were between John Cush
inlg and the Seattle firm from
which it was purchased.
The question of ownership
arose after the Federal! Hous
ing Administration foreclosed
on the apartment building for
default of mortgage payments.
National Football
League
toy The Associated Press
Pittsburgh 19, New York 17
Chicago Bears 34, San
Francisco 23
Los Angeles 24. Detroit 13
I Washington 14. Baltimore 13
: Cleveland 41, Green Bay 10 ’!
Chicago Cards 24, * H
i Philadelphia 24 r ""