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Show stotoakrk. SUNDAY Asked For Interstate 15 9 Bids HERALD Mighty Nuclear Blast Near Earthquake Size SENATOR CRITICALLY WASHINGTON A con- (UPD Miraculous Rescue of German Sailor ILL his office, ment, issued through The stant vigil was maintained today broke a recently imposed official SALT LAE CITY (UPJ) Utah Highway Department has at the bedside of critically ill Sen. silence on hi condition. asked for Ibids on a $2. million Clair Engle, and his Persons close to the senator section of Interstate Highway sl5 brother was on his way said his condition was not critireported Weber to in .the North Davis-SoutWashington. cal. f County area. who will be 52 on Sept. Engle, Engle is partially paralyzed and Two other contracts wjlll follow 21, was suffering from a maligusable the to complete shortly nant brain tumor and was report- suffers from a speech impairment section of the interstate system ed to be slowly but resulting from Twain damage, it near Ogdeh, according t C. Tay- his chances of a improving, full recovery was learned. His doctors made lor Burton Utah director, of high- remained uncertain. ro mention of the extent to which ways, said it was impossi- his faculties had been impaired, Pnysiclans The first contract calls. to determine definitely the however. ble section of course of his illness. of a His brother, Fred J. Engle Jrf, Their state- the interstate highway from South Calif., was reported Sacramento, Lay ton to Hill Air Force Base inon his way to Washington. Fred i h TEST SITE, rev. Francisco would have been equal ;.; (UPD Scientists have sought to 10 a reading lot about eight on the ' determine how strongly a mighty Richter scale; ' underground nuclear blast here Dr. Charle? F. Richter of Cal-tecFriday registered as an earth-- i who the scale, quake, in California seismological said studies conceived j! were underway to es: laboratories. tablish the relation of the bomb r The explosion, possibly equal; to blast to the f earthquake" record. 1 million tons of TNT, was one! of He said it was extremely difficult ! two detonated by the Atomic En- to tell the d fference between an (AEC). 'It underground shot and an earth terchange. ergy Commission . rocked the gambling center of A second contract, costing nearfrom cursory evaluation of quake .Las Vegas, Nev., about 65 miles a seismograph record. ly $3 million,, will be advertised from here. NEVADA j -- h, , fr six-mi- le ; con-structi- on i for bids Sept. 21, and a third, in- Engle heads the conservation divolving $1.5 million of work will vision of the California Departfollow sometime this winter. ment of Corrections. game. He was iclad only in Ithe The sailor had no life preserver. shirt and undershorts. The, husky bachelor, an excelThe ship sudolenly pitched in lent swimmer, told his rescuers seas aid Starcbanjzyk he conserved energy ;by, doing heavy in the "very little swimming.' Aside overboard plummeted darkness. No one 'knew he was from sunburn and salt exposure, sjone, and his freighter steamed his condition was described as' on. "excellent." he "I said: thinkthe But harrowing moments filled Saturday 15 hour ordeal, lasting 12th was my unlucky day because flie "Some NEW (YORK (UPD in the Frans white" waves, thing Maria Starchare zyk's waving undershirt,! caught the eye of a searcher on the Coast Guard cutter Absecon. The German sailor had spent 15 hours, most of them nuie, in the sWmy mid Atlantic, j The survival was termed "miraculous"! in itself, but the plucky seaman, third engineer of ithe freighter' Freiburg, still had ienough energy to clamber up aj cargo net of the Absecon. Then he collapsed. It was 10 p.m. EDT Thursday, and the Freiburg was 810 miles northeast when Bermuda, Starcharczyk strolled on deck to take a breather from a poker . j lost all my money playing poker and fell over the side, but Friday the 13th Was my luck day because you (the Coast Guard) picked me up Credits Stamina Cmdr. Jack E. Forrester, commanding officer of the Absecon, discounted luckl Starcharczyk's "stamina and presence of mind" were mainly responsible, he said. I . I through Thursday night addpart1' Friday. Turbulent waves and lashed the . winds man. He became frightened - and, he told rescuers, prayed liberally. HOLLYWOOD (UPD Swiss " Miss Lilo Pulver has flown to Hollywood from her home in Genrole oppoeva for a site Bob Hope in "Global Affair." co-starri- ng Some structures in downtown Las Vegas vibrated for 15 min-jutfrom the force of the expjo-- i sion, but no damage or injuries ? es were reported. "I felt like 1 was getting seasick," said Mrs. Louis Martin, a clerk in the Clark County sheriff's records department in the county mmyjz jo courthouse. Other witnesses said the effects i in Las Vegas of the test shot simulated those of a strong, rolling V J3 earthquake. Seismographs ,.; Institute of Technology in Pasa- about 290 miles Calif. dena, and at the University f away California at Berkeley near San Francisco - about 600 miles from recorded a fairly strong here temblor in southern Nevada at 10 a.m., PDT, (1 p.m.r EDT) which lasted 15 minutes. The AEC said it touched off the . 6 ' L Intermediate blast at "about 10 a.m., PDT." Technicians said the shock may have reached a magnitude of six or seven on the Richter scale, equal to a strong earthquake. The .1906 quake that devastated San mmmwm o ivicivixxriiM a 44tn mnituJAi . . 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