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Lonley Eight Hours . . .
GLENDALE. Calif. ,? - For
eight lonely hours, a little tree was
all that stood between a slight.
58-year-old widow and a deadly
150-foot plungv into a rocky can
yon.
Mrs. Gertrude Long clung to the
tree after her brakeless car hurtled
down the steep preemice. She was
virtually blinded by loss of her
glasses, bleeding from cuts and
stung by insects.
Tortured by heat and thirst, from
11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
she yelled for help — and could
hear voices and laughter of near
by residents.
Once she got desperate and tried
to climb back up the cliff but
realized quickly she couldn't make
it — the tree had broken her fall
about halfway down.
"I just hung on," said Mrs.
Long. "It seemed like years, there
in the hot sun. When I looked
down the car was. away down
there below me."
Finally a neighbor responded to
her cries and called the sheriff's
office.
Mrs. Long, a domestic, was taken
to a hospital where 17 stitches
were sewn in her scalp and she
was treated for exposure.
Electronic Fence
\\ ill Protect
Jungle Fighters
SEATTLE W — Devices rang
ing from an electronic fence to
protect jungle fighters from sur
prise attack to a jet injector which
can shoot vaccine into the arms
of 1,400 soldiers an hour were de
monstrated by the Army at the
World's Fair Wednesday.
The show, at tire National Ad
vanced Technology Management
Conference, was presented bv Lt.
Gen. August Schomburg, who was
introduced by Dr. Finn Larsen,
Asst. Secretary of the Army for
Research and Development.
The fence is made up of antennae
spaced around an area. An alarm
is triggered when a signal passing
through them is broken by some
one passing between the antennae.
Schomburg said the fence can
operate six months on the power
of one flashlight battery.
“As far as we know, there is
;... way of fooling this device as
compared, for example, to a light
beam in an electronic eye or a
radar type device,” he said.
The general said the jet hypo
dermic injector will enable mass
immunization of people. The vac
cine is injected in a fine stream
at h'gh pressure so the liquid
makes its own opening in the skin
and penetrates to a suitable depth.
The liquid travels at a speed of
more than 700 feet per second, he
said.
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Freezer Sliips
JUNEAU .1' — The territorial
waters of the State of Alaska in
Bristol Bay are those waters with
in a line from Cape Newenham to
Cape Menshikof, on the Alaska
Peninsula, First District Superior
Court ruled Wednesday.
The decision was issued by Su
perior Court Judge James von der
Heydt and represented another
victory for the state in the pro
longed legal battle over the state’s
right to tax freezer ships.
The long, involved case was
touched off in 1951 when the legis
lature imposed a license tax on
freezer ships and floating cold
storages equal to 4 per cent of the
value of the fish products obtained
for- processing through freezing.
The freezer ships, which gen
erally move into Bristol Bay from
Puget Sound ports, return to their
home bases at the close of each
fishing season, where the frozen
fish are finally processed.
The first court case was filed in
1955 by the then territory of Alas
ka against five freezer ships and
their owners.
U.S. District Court for the ter
ritory decided in favor of Alaska,
but the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals, after two hearings, over
turned the District Court ruling.
Alaska appealed to the U.S. Su
preme Court, which ruled that the
freezer ships were engaged in a
taxable business operation when
the business operation took place
within Alaska’s territorial waters.
The high court noted, however,
that the extent and localities of
the operations in question were not
a part of the court records and the
high court, therefore, was unable
to make a final determination as
to tax liability.
question resolved, which resulted
in the case coming before Judge
von der Hevdt.
Tiie defendants and the state
agreed there was no dispute as
to the location in which the freezer
ship operations occurred, but there
was dispute as to whether the
waters in which the freezer ship
businesses were operated are or
are not Alaskan waters.
Attorneys for the freezer ships
argued that the greatest area which
could rightfully be found to bo
Alaska’s territorial waters in Bris
tol Bay were those waters “within
three miles of mean low tide mark
on the coastline of Alaska, to
gether with the waters of Nusha
gak Bay northerly of a line drawn
from protection to Etolin point,
and all waters northerly and easter
ly of a line drawn from the north
ern shore of Bristol Bay to the
Alaska Peninsula, which line has a
distance of 10 miles from shore to
shore at mean low tide.”
Judge von der Heydt disagreed,
stating in his opinion that the fed
eral government “has asserted a
claim to all Bristol Bay waters
landward of a line drawn between
Cape Newenham and Cape Men
shikof as island waters through
inter-related administrative and
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Ivt'fls T:i Cuba May
Interfere With U.S.
Missile Launchings
MIAMI. Fla. t.T' — The Cuban
Rcvolut mnary Council said on
Wednesday night that arms ship
ments being sent into Cuba by the
Soviet Union would be used to
interfere with U.S. missile launch
imps.
Dr. Jose Miro Cardona, presi
dent of the Cuban exile group, said
in a statement: "In different sec
tions of Cuba, principally in the
north coast of the Province of Pinar
Del Rio, missile rocket bases and
electronic equipment are being in
stalled for warlike operations.”
Cardona said the equipment
would be used by the Fidel Castro
regime to “detect and interfere
with the launchings from Cape
Canaveral in Florida.”
Look Before You Leap . . .
NIAGARA FALLS. Ont. M —
Dick Nicholson. 17, who was pulled
out of the Niagara River just 300
feet above the Horseshoe Falls,
says you shouldn’t leap a fence
until you know what’s on the other
side.
Dick, on a picnic Sunday with
his family, vaulted a stone fence
in a field and found himself tum
bling down a 20-foot embankment.
The Tonawanda, N.Y., boy landed
in the raging Niagara River.
legislative action.”
Judge von der Heydt said that in
order to control the fisheries of the
area, “jurisdiction has been, and
must be, asserted to that extent."
The defendants in the action arc
the Arctic Maid and Arctic Maid
Fisheries, Inc.; the Pacific Reefer
and Pacific Reefer Fisheries; the
Pacific Queen and Pacific Queen
Fisheries; the Alaska Reefer and
Alaska Reefer Fisheries; and the
North Star and North Star Fish
eries.
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From Sputnik IV Is
Found In Wisconsin
WASHINGTON t.ft — The Space
Agency disclosed Thursday that the
main part of Sputnik IV has re
entered the atmosphere, and that a
piece of metal found in Wiscon-in
is being studied as a possible rem
nant of the Soviet satellite.
Sputnik IV, launched 28 months
ago, apparently broke up over Wis
consin early Wednesday, causing
a rash of reports of flaming uni
dentified flying objects.
The chunk of metal was found
on a street in Manitowoc, 85 miles
north of Milwaukee. It was spotted
first by two patrolmen who thought
it was cardboard in the pre-dawn
darkness.
The patrolmen returned later
and found the metal too hot to
handle. When they heard the re
port that flaming objects apparent
ly were part of Sputnik IV they
went back and retrieved the
chunk.
Police obtained the help of a
steel expert, Kenneth Gevers of
Hy-Ten Steel Products of Chicago,
who was in Manitowoc. Gevers said
the metal appeared to be of high
temperature resistance steel, prob
ably from the main portion of a
satellite’s nose cone.
Gevers took the object to Ed
ward Halbach, Director of the
Milwaukee Astronomical Society.
Halbach shipped the piece of metal
by plane to the Smithsonian Ob
servatory in Cambridge, Mass.
The object buried or burned a
hole three inches deep in the
street. Limestone in the road was
powered as if by extreme heat.
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