The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 3

Nov. 16, 1959 HONOLULU ADVERTISER A-1B I I i -Uffll I III. IJllljlJ I 11,1 LIIIIMII IIIMJWMIiMMIli Cv I i Hi in 5- -iV 4 4. i' tk r' yQ St ir 7 H.I...T. n.lM This is the first photo taken of the 1959 Kilauea Iki eruption, shot by Carl Hammons at the scene.

Hammons, vho is promotion director for the Los Angeles Herald-Express, is vacationing on the Big Isle. He alerted The Advertiser within moments' after the first lava fountains leaped into the air on the Big Island. KILAUEA, CRATER; 11) Kilauea Iki, I iv Twin Thurston. -Vlr Lava Tube kj ,0 (( 7 I Sketch by CUrenct Ho Advertiser map of site of 1959 Kilauea Iki eruption surrounding area. Molten Lava Cinders Rain Down On 4 Photograph ers in Crater A Honolulu photographer three companions into the Tom Matsumoto of Fox Movie-: in August and led the party last night described how he crater shortly after midnight tone and Wenkam's Honolulu over it again in the pre- Robert a a Hilo couple share blanket as they sit on rim of Kilauea Iki at 3 a.m.

to watch eruption. the lava flows had wiped it two hours before," Wenkam1 then the wind shifted by the time they fell, but the and lava began raining down! larger cinders were still molt partner, Bob Goodman, whoijawn darkness vesterdav 'out the fur mcn climbed said 1 i fA.l 1 i 1. ,1 for and three other camermen Saturday climbed out at went through a ram of lava 7 am yesterday. was shooting the volcano At one point, they were! on us. It was lava cinders National Geographic en.

I hey would nit a trea branch with a plop and bond around it like a pancake, hanging there until they me irau ana stuiging vapur cinders to photograph the spouting fountains of Kilauea Iki. overcome by thick clouds of from the fountains and they sulphur fumes and had to 'were falling around us," pull back for a few mo-1 Wenkam said. ACCOMPANYING Wenkam were Claude Jendrush. shoot- poured from them. "WE WERE walking on Wenkam had been over the lava that had been molten 1 meats.

"The small ones were coolj cooled and trail leading into Kilauea Iki1 When the trail ended where Robert Wenkam led his ing movies for Walt Disney;.