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Friday, Jan. 12, 1962 Navy Officers to Be in Union
Landslide Danger Still Present in Peru
LIMA — (UPI)—Authorities here said today there is danger of a repetition of Wednesday's tragic, 6-million-ton avalanche, which wiped out nine villages in the Peruvian Andes.
They said there are masses of ice poised dangerously on the slopes of towering Mt. Huascaran, Peru's tallest peak, which might break away and plunge at any moment into picturesque Huaylas Canyon, scene of Wednesday's disaster.
OFFICIALS ON THE SCENE were reported "working at top speed" to prevent another snowslide, but it was not certain whether their efforts would succeed.
Bad weather and blocked roads hampered relief efforts, making it difficult to reach the scene of the mountain disaster by air or by land.
The government launched a massive effort today to provide shelter and relief for scattered survivors of the devastating avalanche, but they were working against heavy odds.
A particular problem was posed by the town of Yungay, north of the slide area. Yungay's 20,000 people suffered no direct injury from the avalanche, but their town was completely isolated and its water supply was cut off.
GEN. LUIS F. URRELLO, chief of the relief operation, arranged to tour the area by helicopter today to try to find out how many people he must provide for.
No accurate count had been made of the number of people killed by the slide — estimated at 3,000 to 4,000 — or the number of homeless survivors.
Most of the bodies, entombed in the millions of tons of rock and earth that cascaded down the mountainside, may never be recovered. About a dozen bodies had been fished out of the rain-swollen Santa River, and a watch was set on the river-bank downstream from the slide area.
Grad Student Sells Gem Book
Samuel L. VanLandingham, Midland, Texas, graduate student, recently sold the rights to a book entitled "Ornamental and Gem Rocks."
The book will first be published in serial form as 10 to 14 articles in Gems and Minerals Magazine and The Mineralogist. After the completion of the series of articles, the book will be published in 1 to 4 volumes, sometime in 1963 by the Gemac Corporation of Mentone, California, leading publishers of gemological literature.
"Ornamental and Gem Rocks" deals with instructions on how to find naturally occurring rock materials suitable for use in jewelry, novelty and stone industries. Van-Landingham has spent five years in research on the book which contains descriptions of rock gem localities in all 50 states of the United States and eight Canadian provinces. Over 1,200 localities are described in detail. In addition there is an atlas of over 60 large scale maps.
VanLandingham is presently engaged in research on fossil diatoms in the department of botany. He has published a number of articles in various journals. His most recent publication was a bulletin on coal flora which was published in the University of Kansas Science Bulletin.
One of Gen. Urrello's most pressing concerns was the task of finding shelter and arranging care for about 200 Indian children left homeless by the avalanche. About half of them were orphaned.
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The difficulty of determining the number of survivors was heightened by the fact that many of those able to walk fled the Huaraz Valley Wednesday night or early yesterday, fearing a repetition of the disaster.
A Navy Officer Information Team will be in the Student Union today and tomorrow to brief students interested in the Naval officer programs.
Included in these programs are officer's candidate school, pilot, navigator, and supply training, and civil engineering.
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