| Summary: | Mass Moving Upon Highway, Home, Stream: Dynamite, Bombs Would Not Halt Monster, Savant Says; Is Threat To Bottle Up Possession's Interior. MASS MOVING UPON HIGHWAY, HOMEJ5TREAM Dynamite, Bombs Would Not Halt Monster, Savant Says; Is Threat to Bottle Up Possession's Interior. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 16. (/P)-Dynamiting of Black Rapids glacier to prevent its advance on a roadhouse and the Richardson highway would be as ineffective "as an attack by fireflies," Otto William Geist, recorder of the glacier's movements for the University of Alaska, said today. "There are not enough bombs or dynamite in America to even make an impression on the main body of the glacier, and if all of them were dropped at once, they would be as ineffective in destroying the colossal mass as an attack by fireflies," Geist said. The glacier continued its slow, steady movement down the big Delta River valley, 125 miles south of here, threatening to dam the two-mile wide river, destroy a roadhouse, and block the highway, interior Alaska's only highway outlet to the coast. Scientists, however, said they believed the glacier would cease moving before it reached the roadhouse, owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Revell. Today the glacier was slightly more than a mile from the house. It has moved between three and five miles. Geist said the ice mass, 30 miles long and 3,000 feet thick, has moved over another glacier, probably a million years older than the Black Rapids sheet. The roadhouse shakes perceptibly as the glacier groans like a huge dredge.
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