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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1956)
Given Welcome Iy Acini. Byrd r mix rirr ABOARD I'SS WYANDOT, Ant arctira un Hear Adm. Ri hard I'.. Byrd has wthomed the Run alum lo the Antarctic's Wilkri Land with subtle reminder that the Arwrk an got to much of it Iirst. The director of 1)8, Antarctic programs disclosed that he had aent a message to Dr. M. M. Sam v, leader ol the Soviet expedition hoard the ship Obrot which re , portedly reached the Kno coast Jan. I. Byrd's message was courteiy gesture. Rut It was also clear that the Russians were being told American fliers of Operation Deepfreeze already had flown ever Die area aliened to the So viet under the International Geo phisical Year's program ot scien tific observation. . This could ba significant when and If the I'nlted States lavs claims to the large slices of the Antarctic It has explored In recent weeks. Thus far the U.S. govern ment says It had made no claims -and recognizes none. Ged Lara ' "I welcome you to Wilkes Land," the message said. "Hope you are having good luck finding your 1GY bane site. We recently flew over Interior in vicinity of your planned inland bases, aur face docs not appear rough but glacial plateau ranges between 11.000 to U.000 feet elevation. We would like to exchange weather Information. . . VS. Navy fliers flew four mh aions deep Into the unexplored area where the R a s s I a n s are scheduled to set tip their bases. One of these flights, on Jan. 5, went all the way (b the Knox coast. Operation 7)eepfreexe closed the book oa its program of long flights for this season with three weekend missions deep into the interior of the continent. The , expedition s four long-range' planes two twin- engine NeptXines and two four-engine Skymasters were to fly to day to New Zealand ea route home. Leag night One of the weekend flights was the longest ever made here. Cmdr William "Trigger'' Hawkins of Chevy Chase, Md., piloted a Nep tune all the way across the conti nent to the Wedell Sea and back. The round trip of 1,450 miles took 19 hours. In another mission, Skymas ter flew 550 miles beyond the South Pole and over the pole on the way back LL Cmdr. Henry P. Jorda of San Francisco piloted another Skymaster to U south lat itude 62 east longitude, En route the pilots discovered the highest Antarctic plateau yet reported a broad plain that - reaches an elevation of 14,000 feet MO-MUe Trip At Little America No. I a small tractor party led by Lt. Cmdr. Jack J. Bursey of Grand Rapids, Mich., began a 500-mile Journev deep into Byrd Land, where a U S base will be set up next 'year Bursey's party, which will mark the trail and pick the exact bat aite, reported all going well 40 miles out. Four of the 17 buildings to be erected at Little America are al ready up and being used. Eighty per cent of the total cargo for the base now has been unloaded. The expedition suffered one set back at McMurdo Sound. Ice floe pinched the tanker Nespelen. As a result, 107,000 gallons of aviation gasoline leaked into the - sea ar were contaminated, by water in the bold. "X 6-Year Itch Said Hazard To Marriage LONDON (fi A matrimonial expert reported Tuesday the big hazard to marriage in Britain is the six-year itch. John Wallis, a member of the British Manage Guidance Coun cil, said the sixth year la the time when the other manor other womsn is most likely to appear. The age of the bride also is a main factor in the success or failure of marriages, Wallis said in an interview. If a British bride is 23 to 27 years old, it's 16 to 1 the mar riage will last. If she's 19 to 22, the odds fall to 10 to 1. If she's under 19, the chance of success is only 4 to 1. "After 10 years of any mar riage," Wallis said, "it's 99 to I the union will last." Wallis based his findings on an analysis of two million British - wediingi performed In the last 10 years. Wallis himself has been mar ried 21 years. Anti-Reds Briefly Hold China Town TAIPEI, Formosa UB Tatao Newt Agency said Tuesday more than 100 anti-Communist guerrillas captured the town of Jung-Cheng on the Red Chinese mainland and held it several hours last Septem ber, Jung-Cheng la on the coast of Shangtung province, M miles east of Chefoo. Tatao, which claims to have sources on the mainland, said the guerrillas landed from the sea and were Joined br a starving mob. The agency said food captured from the Reda was distributed to the people sad the raiders with er ew. n. --,, " . ' ' ifl fiiQi mi- -: m 1 - i! r. a; -v'.i ; . II III J I ' , .f r a', J ' . -efc. . ' r' . :... . jl - Jk . . , , J 1 T - ....... ... - -- f ,J , 1 I i '- 1 , I f . I ! , '' J f I n r. rs ,CS Din VHDI? An(oDULo)2S youp oinieclhiiniee . - : ' ' for ea full yer fi-o get? -LIFE, regularly for only caboy f 1 ca copy 8 Look in your mailbox. Today or, to morrow at the latest there should be a letter from LIFE. Read it care'fully. 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