63rd' Year No. 5
NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1962
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Avalanche Buries
Village . .. Fear
3,000 are Dead
LIMA, Pern </B — Rescue
planes flew into the Andes Valley
of Huaylas 20 miles north of Lima
today, where 3,000 to 4,000 per
sons are feared dehd under an
avalanche of ice, snow, rock and
mud. The disaster virtually wiped
out two villages and 14 settle
ments in eight minutes.
Before darkness yesterday, 'SO
bodies had been recovered. :A
doctor back from the stricken
area said rescuers would have
little to do but recover the dead
—“there are no injured.”
umy t wo pianes were a Die to
fly Into Caraz, about miles north
of the disaster area, before dense
fog and bad weather set in yes
terday. But this morning, planes
began a shuttle to carry in doc
tors, nurses, medicines, food and
clothing for victims of Wednes
day’s tragedy.
The exact number of dead may
never toe known. Roberto Thorn
dike, chairman of the Peruvian
Red Cross, said initial estimates
by representatives in the area
put the number of missing at
2,$00.
The village of Ranrahirca and
450 of its 500 people were buried
under a mass of muck a mile wide
and nowhere less than 12 feet
deep.
harts^" disappeared undsr ■ the bug®
said 14 smaller
settlements were destroyed, and
that none of the residents of seven
at them had been found alive.
More than 7,000 persons lived
in the ranching and mining valley,
2,000 feet up with the snowtopped
peaks of the Cordillera BJinca
mutilated
and Navy
» tocftim averai
Retired Gen. Ed Walker
Thinks U.S. Will Drop
Out of United Nations
LOS ANGELES IE — Retired
Maj. Gen. Edwin Walker says he
does not think it is inevitable that
the United States will remain in
the United Nations.
Walker, who quit the Army last
November after a controversy
over his troop indoctrination poli
cies, spoke at a rally in the sports
arena, sponsored by a Freedom
Chib of the First Congregational
Church.
~ Hie 52-year-old Texan said of
another retired General, Omar N.
Bradley: “Gen. Bradley holds to
a doctrine of ‘inevitablism’. ” He
feared a mistake over Berlin be
tween the United States and the
Soviet Union. He said the recog
nition of East Germany is in
evitable. He said the recognition
of Bed China is inevitable.
“I disagree with him on every
opinion. I do not agree that it is
even inevitable that we remain
in the United Nations."
JUNEAU {R — State Demo
cratic Chairman Wendell Kay of
Anchorage, frequently mentioned
as a possible gubernatorial candi
date, said today he is not a candi
date for office “at the present
1W. I)
Kay is here for the Southeast
Divisional Democratic Convention
KEN AX ADVANCED MONEY
TO PLAN SEWER SYSTEM
WASHINGTON (R — Advances
to finance planning of sewer and
water systems in Kenai were an
nounced by the Community Fa
cilities Administration yesterday.
A $15,042 advance will be used
to plan a sewer system to cost an
estimated $424,236. A $33,794 ad
vance will be used to plan a
system to cost an estimated
In‘an intnayiaw which ranged
a number of subjects, Kay
was asked If he thought a man
could be a candidate for governor
and presiding officer In the Leg
islature at the same time, with
out being suajpect. : "
Australia Warns
Indonesia That
They Will Fight
CANBERRA, Australia (*> —
Prime Minister Robert Menzies in
effect warned today that Australia
would fight to protect East New
Guinea should Indonesia expand
its territorial ambitions beyond
Dutch-held West New Guinea.
Menzies said Indonesia had
several times given assurances it
would not try to take West New
Guinea by force and that it has
no territorial ambitions in East
New Guinea, which Australia ad
ministers as a U.N. trusteeship.
“We are reluctant to believe
that such threats of war now
being made by the Indonesian
government in breach of those
assurances are to be followed by
action,” Menzies said in a state
ment after he and his cabinet re
viewed the New Guinea situation.
But Australia, he said, recog
nizes and will discharge its prime
responsibilities for protecting the
security of Australia and its ter
ritories.
Menzies expressed hope the
Netherlands and Indonesia could
settle their dispute through nego
tiation.
Juneau
rage SBA branch of
“C” St., will advise
on financing, man
production problems
vide help in obtain
mt contracts.
TICE
Rancher Revives Old West
With Cattle Drive
WINNER, S.D. UP) — “Biggest
check we've ever drawn up here,”
said Eldon Daughters of the Win
ner (Livestock Auction.
He then casually handed to
rancher Don Hight the piece of
paper calling for payment of
$353,549.
Hight, pocketing the check,
agreed that it represented a fair
price for his 1,883 cattle and 18
horses, brought here in a 65-mile
drive that stirred echoes of the
Old West.
Unfavorable weather and low
prices on (Midwest livestock mar
kets kept Hight’s take a bit under
the $360,000 he had estimated he
would get. His 1,054 cows brought
$210,774, the 779 steers $141,700.
Making up the difference were
proceeds from the horses, used to
pull hay wagons and ridden by
the seven drivers who helped
Hight on the five-day trek that
brought the herd here.
Despite the sub-zero cold, snow
and high winds that beset the
drive along the trail that ended
here Tuesday night, Hight still
estimated he had saved about
$2,000 under what trucking the
animals would have cost.
SEARCH MADE FOR TWO
KOTZEBUE SEAL HUHTER8
ANCHORAGE t» — The Kot
zebue Civil Air Patrol Squadron
began an aerial search along the
coast near the community todag
for two men overdue on their re
turn from a seal hunting trip.
A Civil Air Patrol spokesmar
at Ebnendorf Air Force Base iden
tified the missing men as David
and Roger Wright of Kotzebue.
They left the community Sun
day and were to be gone three
days.
The Kotzebue CAP Squadron
is commanded by Warren Thomp
son.
Note for Tongue
Wagging Patients
NASHVILLE, Tenn. UP) — “A
good look at their tongues,” is
one technique advised iby a Penn
sylvania medical educator for
physicians with over-talkative
patients.
The method was outlined yes
terday for students at Vanderbilt
University School of Medicine by
Dr. Francis Wood, chairman of
the Department of Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania.
An alternative, Dr. Wood said,
would be to "put a thermometer
in the mouth and leave it there.”
In really extreme cases, he said,
the thing to do is to send the
patient back to the waiting room
with pencil and paper to list his
symptoms.
WISE GAL . . .
COLUMBUS, Ohio iff) — “How
cold is it?” a feminine caller
asked the Columbus Dispatch
on Thursday.
The swtichboard operator re
plied: “It is now two above zero!”
“Now,” queried the caller, “is
that inside or outside?”
WEATHBt OUTLOOK
sequent snow and blowing
State Makes
Formal Objections
To S.S. Rate Hike
WASHINGTON UP) — The State
of Alaska objects to a rate in
crease sought by Alaska Steam
ship Co. and wants the Federal
Maritime Commission to hold a
hearing in the matter.
The State, in a protest filed
with the Commission Monday,
also asked that the increase be
stayed until a hearing is held.
The new rates are to go into ef
fect Jan. 18 unless the Commis
sion takes other action.
Now pending before the Com
mission is a 10 per cent increase
allowed, subject to refund, in
January 'I960. Hearings have been
held on that increase and recom
mendations of a Commission ex
aminer are being awaited.
The State in its current brief
protests against:
A 10 per cent increase in the
charge for all shipments of freight
between ports in Washington
State and Bethel, Platinum and
the Alaska ports described by
Alaska Steamship Co. as being on
its Alaska Peninsula dr Bering
Sea routes.
A 10 per cent increase in rates
for canned fish being shipped to
ports in Washington and to As
toria, Ore., from ports on the
Southeastern Alaska, Southweat
■. Alnalre n One AMut ■
ern aisiu, nenng s»ea ana Alas
ka Peninsula routes of the com
pany as well as from Excursion
Inlet.
A 20 per cent increase in rates
for boxes, cans and salt being
shipped from ports in Washing
ton to ports along the Southeast
ern Alaska, Southwestern Alaska,
Boring Sea and Alaska Peninsula
routes of the company.
The state claimed that in 1959,
which it describes as a poor year,
the company earned an adequate
rate of return and that .1960 and
1961 were better years for the
company. The State also pointed
out that the January I960 increase
is still pending before the Com
mission.
“Even as a simple matter of
public policy, it is certainly un
desirable to allow a carrier to
pile increase upon increase, when
It has failed, to date, to sustain
its burden of proof as to its prior
increase/*
SENATE-HOUSE FINANCE
COMMITTEE MEETS SUNDAY
JUNEAU Ub—The joint Senate
House Finance Committee is
scheduled to open a pre-legisla
tive meeting here Sunday, execu
tive director John Doyle of the
Legislative Council staff said to
day.
Doyle said he was advised of
the Joint Finance Committee’s
plans by Hep. Frank Chapados,
(D-Fairbanks), chairman of the
group.
The pre-legislative meeting was
ordered by the last legislature
as a means of speeding the Joint
Finance Committee’s work on the
all-important appropriation bill.
GAEL SWANSON WINS
TRIP FOR TWO TO C21
Carl Swanson has won the ex
pense-paid trio to the Geutenr 21
Exposition in Seattle for two,
which was given by the Galvin
stores Nome Hardware and the
VS. Merc.
Mr. Swanson was quite over
whelmed and has not decided yet
by whom and ijvhea the trip will
be made. Tickets are good April
through October.