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VIII, No. 6
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1951
Price 10 cents
(icopter Delivers
tienf To
spital Steps
t a few minutes before mid
it Saturday, Sewardites be
e excited over a helicopter
ch circled several times over
lower end oi town, then
led down on Second Avenue
ront of Seward General Hos
1.
fc. Wm. C. Dodd, 537th En
■er Base Survey Company,
?ken with a sudden attack
cute appendicitis, was flown
rom Moose Pass for surgery.
'copter, piloted by Knute
Flint, settled down on the
et as steadily and softly as
ragon-fly, and the sick sol
was under surgery in a
r short time. Mr. Flint is a
Iian pilot for A. F. Helicop
Co., supplying 'copters for
30th Topographical Engin
; working on the Peninsula
l headquarters in Seward.
That was the neatest piece of
>ulance service I ever saw,”
mented an officer standing
•by.
nskan Water To Be
idied by Scripps
a Jolla, Calif. (AP)—Another
edition into the vast depths
the Pacific gets underway
» this weekend with de
ure of the research vessel
izon.
he ship, with the 1 a t e s *
mographlc equipment, will
rey the virtually uncharted
i of the North Pacific be
en the Aleutian Islands and
San FranciscoTInwaii steam
anes.
If is being sent ouf by the
liversiiy of California's
ripps Institution of Oceano
iphy here, in cooperation
th the U. S. Navy Electron
Laboratory, San Diego,
e Office of Naval Research
sponsoring the expedition,
cripps’ scientists explained
the Horizon’s new voyage
be an extension of expedi
s which last year discovered
surveyed the submerged
-Pacific mountain range
t of Hawaii, and the Mendo
> Escarpment—g r e a t sub
“ine cliff that extends for
dreds of miles off the north
California coast.
The new expedition will
amine the northern ridge
the escarpment, dredging
Horn samples and making
mdings. It will turn north
the center of the Gulf of
aska.
ther samples will be dredged
n the tops of sea mounts
h of the Alaskan Peninsula,
fter a call at Kodiak, the
r stopover, the Horizon will
tinue the research south
tward along the Aleutian
rich to Unimak Pass; then
i southward on an 1.800-mile
age to a point about 500
;s northwest of Honolulu. It
return to the California
»t along a suspected escarp
it facing the Mendocino Es
>ment.
L.E STUDENTS
IFEIT BAIL
wo young men, both aged
^ears, students at Yale Uni
;ity. forfeited bail of $25
i today when they failed to
?ar in police court on a
•ge of destroying city prop
ae young men, members of
irty of five, who are work
for the summer on the dock,
e charged with breaking
et lights after a drinking
y. They were taken by the
it patrolman who caught up
i them on First Avenue.
Fire And
Huse Toll \
es
\ansas City
Seward Man Injured
Saturday on
Salmon Creek Bridge
Wallace Wiegand, a local resi
dent. was injured Saturday
morning at about 11 o’clock,
when struck by a length of roll
ing piling.
He was rushed in to Seward
General Hospital by ambulance.
Extent of his injuries have not
been fully determined. Although
it was feared at first that his
back was broken, Dr. R. O.
Sellers, attending physician,
stated today that he has hopes
the injury is not as great as it
seem.d to be and that Mr. Wie
gand's back is not broken.
The accident occurred at the
Salmon Creek Bridge, about 5
miles out of Seward. The bridge
is new construction directly east
of the present structure.
COLONELS ON SUMMER
TOUR IN ALASKA
Elmendorf Air Force Base.
Alaska—Nineteen Army colo
nels, representing various Army
headquarters throughout t h e
United States, arrived here yes
terday for an Army summer
orientation tour of Alaska. Tnis
morning they were welcomed
by Lt. Gen. W. E. Kepntr, Com
mandcr-in-Chief of the Alaskan
Command.
Tiie group will visit posts and
bases of the Army, Navy and
Air Force in the Territory, com
pleting their vist on July 27.
A winter and summ.r tour
of this kind is made each year
to familiarize senior Army offi
cers with problems of planning
and supply in Arctic operations.
BRITISH CONSUL TO TOUR
ALASKAN THEATER
Elmendorf Air Force Base,
(AP) — Captain J. R. B. Long
den of the Royal Navy, Naval
Attache of the British Embassy
in Washington, D. C., and Mr.
F .C. Ogden, British Consul of
the Pacific Northwest area of
the United States, with offices
in Seattle, have left Elmendorf
Air Force Base to tour the Al
askan Theater, after having
spent four days here as guests
of the Alaskan Command.
Itineraries of the two British
representatives differ, but they
will jointly inspect several of
the naval bases. Mr. Ogden’s
trip is one of his periodic visits
to the Territory.
The men expect to return to
the states Thursday.
O. M. BEAVER TO MEET
WITH CITY COUNCIL
Mr. O. M Beaver., CPA, An
chorage, will meet with the
Seward city council tonight to
discuss the city budget for 1951
1952.
Mr. Beaver is auditing the
city books. He has been the city
auditor for the past three years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—
The nation s costliest flood pass
ed its destructive peak in the
Kansas City area today and
surged on eastward in Missouri.
But this metropolitan area
of 900,000 persons and eastern
and central Kansas still reeled
from the impact of high
waters.
The twin furies of fire and
flood lashed at Kansas City,
Mo., and Kansas City, Kas., for
the fifth consecutive day.
Four industrial districts were
under water. Transportation was
crippled. The water supply was
curtailed. A seven-block fire
burned fiercely and destructive
ly—just as it has since last
Friday.
In eastern and central Kan
sas. the swollen Kansas River
and Rs tributaries receded
generally, permitting some of
the thousands of homeless to
return to mud-caked areas.
More than 75.000 persons in
both states were driven from
their homes. But many of the
towns still lacked power and
water facilities.
Eastward in Missouri, the Mis
souri River crest rolled towards
the central part of the state.
Its destructive power was still
there, but there were no great
industrial cities in its path.
The towns along ihe river
are sill tiingi-ig out of a flood
that hit earlier this month.
The Mi'sour'’ runs 200 miles
across the state from Kansas
City on ihe west to St. Charles
on the east. There it empties
into the Mississippi.
All vehicular bridges between
Kansas City and St. Charles are
closed because of high water.
Seventeen deaths have been
caused by the gigantic flood.
Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of
the Army Engineers, said last
night it appeared the cost will
run considerably over the S500
000.000 he estimated on his
arrival from Washington last
weekend. President Truman,
who requested Pick to make a
personal survey, designated
flooded parts of both states as
disaster areas.
Train and highway trans
portation in both states is dras-'
tically curtailed. The National
Guard, the Fed Cross. Army,
Air Force, Navy and Coast
Guard have thrown men and
money into the fight against
high waters.
.Aid has poured in from coast
to const and from Canada.
In this metropolitan area,
muddy waters still swirled over
thousands of acres of industrial
districts. Waters, ranging from
a few feet to 20 feet deep,
stretched over railroad yards,
livestock industries, grain ele
vators, oil refineries, and manu
facturing plants.
Truman lo Fly Over Area
WASHINGTON (AP)—Presi
dent Truman will fly over the
Missouri-Kansas flood area to
morrow.
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Gurnard Engebretb
Senate President,
Died Sat. in Seattle
SEATTLE, (AP) — Gunnarcl
M. Engebreth, 42, president of
the Alaska Territorial Senate,
died here Saturday while under
going an operation.
He left Anchorage June 25
for a medical checkup after
steadily losing weight.
Engebreth was serving his
second term as Senate president
and was the only man ever to
hold the office twice. Ke re
garded himself as a liberal Re
publican.
He went to Alaska in 1936 as
a Public Works Administration
official, taught in the Alaska
Native Service at Kaltag and
later entered business at An
chorage.
His widow, Violet, and their
six children were in Oceola,
Wis., at the time of his death.
They went there last Monday to
visit Mrs. Engebreth’s father,
Oscar Swanson.
Funeral servees will be held
in Minneapolis, the Fisher-Kal
fus Funeral Home said today.
The body will be forwarded
there.
Many former friends and rela
tives live in the Wisconsin-Min
nesota area. He was born in
Chicago.
Besides his wife and children
he is survived by his father. Le
vord Engebretsen, Hawkins,
Wis., two brothers, Ralph and
Arthur Engebreth, Anchorage,
and three sisters, Mrs. Hilda
King, Seattle; Mrs. James Smith,
LaPorte, Ind., and Mrs. Edward
Cook, Minneapolis, Minn.
C OF C LUNCHEON
TUESDAY
The Chamber of Commerce
luncheon tomorrow noon will
be the scene of a discussion on
plans for a golden anniversary
celebration in Seward next year.
It has been suggested that such
a celebration should be contin
gent upon the official opening
of the Scward-Anchorage high
way.
Awarding of the prize for the
best lie submitted by visiting
editors will also be a part of the
luncheon. The public is invited
to attend the meeting held in
Kenai Lounge every first and
third Tuesday.
VOTING LIGHT IN
SPECIAL ELECTION
Voting was very light today
in the special election on the
proposition to exclude a section
of the north-east end of town
from the city limits.
Eligiblity was confined to real
property owners, but at that,
only 20 persons had voted by
1:30 this afternoon. Total regis
tration is just 137.
(By The Associated Press)
MUNSAN, Korea — United
Nations negotiators reported
they made "some progress"
2oday in Korean war cease
fire talks held in a friendly at
mosphere with Communist
delegates.
It was the first formal an
nouncement of progress.
Negotiators are still working
on the agenda. It may be "24
hours or 24 days” before the
agenda is completed and actual
negotiations on armistice terms
get underway, a spokesman said.
Two 55-minute sessions were
held Monday in neutralized Kae
song. The next meeting was
scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday
(6 p.m. Monday PKT).
Thera wasn't an armed
Communist visible within half
a mile of the house where
talks were held.
“It is much better now that
we are not surrounded by
guards,” said Vice Adrn. C. Tur
ner Joy, chief U.N. delegate.
“The Communists have ful
filled their agreement with re
spect to the neutrality of the
conference site,” a U.N. com
munique said, “in that no armed
personnel was observed."
Armed Red military police
were in the war-baiterad cTy.
They were there by agreement
reached Sunday. Some smiled
at the second group of 2G U.N.
newsmen to go into 2he city.
Others scowled.
The negotiations themselves
were conducted in a formal at
mosphere across a green-topped
table in a secluded conference
room,
"But it was not a formality
that would prevent an agree
ment,” said Lt. Col. Howard sL
Levie of New York, a U.N. staff
officer who was present.
"Everyone was more friendly
today than ever before.”
The two Chinese generals on
the five-man Red delegation es
pecially seemed to be in good
spirits at the afternoon session.
"The Chinese smiled when
they came back into the confer
ence room,” Levie said. “They
nodded to General Craigie.”
(Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie is one
of the five U.N. delegates.)
"Maybe." ihe spokesman
suggested. "ihe Communists
have learned we are not the
man eaters they were led to
believe from their propagan
dists."
Newsmen on the spot said
both sides appeared to be in
harmony at the end of Mon
days session.
Tuesday's meeting was sched
uled for 11 a.m.—one hour later
than usual—at the request of
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REDS PREPARED TO LAUNCH
HUGE ATTACK
IF PEACE TALKS FAIL
U.S. Eighth Army Headquar
ters. Korea (AP)— Allied offi
cers said today the Reds are pre
pared to launch a massive attack
if cease-fire negotiations break
down.
A pooled dispatch from the
advance base at Munsan quoted
the unidentified officers are say
ing the Reds could throw 72 di
visions at the Allies. A Red di
vision is usually figured at 9.000
to 10,000 men.
They said the Reds could sus
tain such an attack five to seven
days.
Eighth Army plans in case the
cease-fire talks fail are of
course secret.