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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1957 Page 14 Section 3 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Navy Winds Up Operation Deepfreeze 11 By JAMES F. TOML1NSON MCMURDO SOUND, Antarctica (fl Operation Deep Freeze !I ended today with a farewell flight to the South Pole. A U.S. Air Force Globcmastcr ' roared off the ice runway at this antarctic base to parachute last minute supplies to the 18 Ameri cans manning tho scientific out post at the bottom of the worid. The flight wound up man's big gest assault to date on this ice bound continent. lions cost five lives during thcS 1956-57 antarctic summer. Four men died in a Navy plane crash and one drowned when a vehicle plunged through the ice on Mc Murdo Sound. Three Globcmasters worth three million dollars each were damaged in crash landings on icy runways. One was a total loss, but there were no fatalities. A half dozen ships were bat tered and bruised in the crushing ice that rings the continent, Brakes Were Overtaxed Part 1 of Operation Deep Freeze, which ended Inst Janu- T. ary, included the establishment of IV tV Mirifrt main bases at McMurdo and Lit- (J y OtlCllllISlo tie America V and exploration ior other scientific stations. It was described as the "biggest base I building and aerial exploratory j mission ever mounted in a single; antarctic expedition." Operation Deep Freeze II saw, the work fan out to set up and supply other basos m the snowy wastes. Operation Deep Freeze III, expected to start next Octo ber, will bring in supplies and fresh personnel to replace the men who will serve at the sta tions through the antarctic win ter. The operations are being car ried out as part of the United States' role in tho International Geophysical Yeary program. Highlights of Operation Deep Freeze II included tho first air plane landing at the South Pole, the first parachute jump to the pole and the construction of the first village there. "This has been a very happy operation," said Itear Adm. George J. Dufck. "I couldn't be more pleased." Dufck, the silver-haired com mander of the Navy task force In the antarctic, plans to fly to New Zealand tomorrow. He Is scheduled to be in Washington March 15. Tho second year o( Operation Deep Freeze closed with Dufek's task force steaming for home. Left behind at six science sta tions and this air base were near ly 300 scientists, technicians and Navy support personnel. They will live and work in their snow-buried huts through the long antarctic winter night. Darkness soon will cloak the ; continent. Temperatures will sink far below zero. Shrieking winds and stinging snow will lush the lonely outposls. At the South Pole, nntarctic ex plorer Paul Siple and 17 olher men will attempt to bo the first to survive a winter there. Siple expects temperatures of 120 de grees below zero. Scientists at all the scattered bases will study weather condi tions, movements and structure of ice and local phenomena as part of the IGY program. Other nations also have esta llshed antarctic bases for the sci entific study. The IGY program begins officially in July and con tinues through December 1951). The U.S. outposls are scattered along the rim and in the heart of this ice-covered land of 500 mil lion" square miles. They are at Little America V, the South Pole, ' Mario Iiyrd Land, Capo Hallett. Clark Island on Knox- coast and near Gould Bay on the Wcddell Sea. Miles of snowy wastes and jag ged mountains separate the bases. Some 3,000 Navy men wilh a dozen ships and 30 planes battled blizzards and fought through end less ice to set up the chain of bases. A squadron of' tho big Air Force Glohemnslers pitched in lo drop 1.0M Ions of cargo In the South Pole and Byrd stations. An Army-Navy team led by Maj. Merle Dawson of Williams burg, Va., blazed a Mil-mile trail over tho ice between Little Amer ica and Marie llyrd stations. They used electrical crevasse de leclors to find hidden ice pits in their nath. Building and supplying the sla- Study Fluoride Effect on Food Atmosphere Pollution Might Be Linked To Cancer By DKLOS SMITH United Press Science Editor NEW YORK (UP) Because plants breathe, like people, it should surprise no one that science is keenly interested in what pol luted atmospheres do to growing plants, especially plants which peo ple cat. A team of scientists has dem onstrated that one thing atmosph eric pollution can do is to give plants a content of hydrogen fluor ide they wouldn't have otherwise. Although a fluoride In a large cnougli amount is very poisonous, no conclusion-jumping Is permiss ible at this stage of knowledge. There is reason to suspect atmos phere pollution has a part in caus ing some' cancers in the lungs of people, but that isn't proven cither. Polluted atmospheres are creat ed by cities. These atmospheres drift outward for surprising dis tances. Some of the nation's most productive food-growing areas New Jersey. Long Island, and Southern California, for instance aro within reach of drifting city atmospheres. Fluorine, a gaseous clement and extremely poisonous, Is to bo found among industrial and other fumes rising into city atmospheres. It combines easily with other ele ments. In Ibe almsphcrc it com bines with hydrogen, milking hy drogen flurido. Plant Sicknesses What Interested tho plant scien tists of the University of Washing ton was whether plants took up hydrogen fluoride and in what amounts and at what rales. Plant sicknesses have been appearing in a number of agricultural areas which were attributed to hydrogen fluoride "breathed" in by the plants. The scientists grew 40 kinds of plants In fumignlion chambers where the chemical nature of the atmosphere could be precisely con trolled. They found that only one and one-half parts of hydrogen fluoride per billion parts of atmos phere, were enough to produce, vis ible leaf Injury In 22 of tho 40 in a matter of weeks. Tho plants were exposed at this rale for eight hours daily. They accumulated more hydrogen fluor ide than plants which were ex posed cither to an atmosphere containing five parts of fluoride per billion parts for eight hours every third day, or lo an atmos phere containing 10 parls per bil lion for four hours every third day. This suggested, the scientists said, Hint plants have a natural ability lo recover from periodic exposures, even at rather high rales. Atmosphere Vary Which is well because city at mospheres vary in their degree of pollution from day to day, even from hour to hour. And, or course, the diffusion of city atmosphere NEW YORK Tax experts running establishment on 1 C9(li Street, in the Bronx, are going to have a headache figuring out damage deductions caused by milk delivery trucked that barged in today. Truck, double parked on street, coasted downhill when brakes failed. It sideswiped three cars before plowing into store front. No one was injured in accident. (AP Wircphoto). Call Off Dogs, Studio Pleads, Especially the Bagel Beagles By JAMES BACON HOLLYWOOD 0B Columbia Pictures wants the dogs called off especially the bagel Beagles. Director George Sidney told this reporter the. olher day of his prob lem in finding a dog with a kosher appetite'. He needs one for the up coming movie t'ay Joey. ino script requires that Frank Sina tra's pet dog cat the same kosher diet he docs, including lox, ba gels, cheese bllntzcs and all the olher delicatessen delicacies. Sidney's plight made an Asso ciated Press item Monday. When Sidney reported for work yesterday, all his phone lines were tied up, telegrams were ttacked in bundles of 100 and his waiting room was filled with barking dogs. He left town today, Sinatra's office, already up to its hind legs with Jicx Harrison slappings and Marilyn Monroe raids, got tho same response. Sinatra' left for Palm Springs. Sidney said that many of his phono calls from all pails of Can ada and the United States came collect. One Columbia execulive reporl- out over agricultural districts is much more variable than thai. The scientists were D. F. Ad ams, J. W. llcndrix, and II. G. Applcgale. They reported lo a technical journal of the American Chemical Society. A few more words about the fluorides we now have them in tooth pastes, and in the drinking water of many mu nicipalities, In very tiny amounts they harden teeth and bones. Bc foro they poison, the amounts have to be considerable. So a very little bit of hydrogen fluoride In a car rot could help rather than barm the rabbit or person who ate it. ' r ' is- " B7' 7 W If WNCARW 1 1 I I J )) ALLEY'S Sr' h -fcW V' ugs, kisses mid trngnmt flowers arc svmlinls of praise for tin niee things you ilo . . . like serving Nnlley's Chili Con Came. With appetites shnrpened by blustery winter weather the invigorating, spicy flavor of Nnlley's Chili Con Carne is n lirarl v welcome. U N ALLEY'S rvA WESTERN STYLE CHILI ; ,V, J i Tu ot Inn.nrnHA lann and lender boons. Delicate, ! MUD flavor. fO mi RECIPES j write te Hons frencmltl Dipt.,. N ALLEY'S VERY HOT CHILI is seasoned in the original mexicon style. Extra hot with ling and zip. II Hi HAtLtY S... us r.o, LiL--i lllli ed that the item practically dis rupted the whole studio opera tion for 24 hours. "Important business calls and messages just couldn't get through, " he said. All the telegrams and letters boast of dogs with kosher appe tites but many have other talents. P. Stephen lleilbroner, New York City, said his French poodle will yodel in Yiddish. Mrs. Morris Jacobs Baltimore, has a dog that can open pistachio nuts. Ann and Frank Polito, Gary, Ind., "have a black cocker spaniel that will cat anything except binatra. t,ikcs beer, too. ' Florence Levy, Brooklyn:. "My dog will sing 'Happy Birthday' on request." Columbia said it plans an audi lion for Eastern dogs at Lindy's Iteslaurant in New York City at a aaic 10 pe announced later, Gypsies Must Go to School PORTLAND Wl Portland gyp sies were told Wednesday that their children will be taken away from them unless the youngsters start going to school regularly. Judge Virgil Langtry of juvenile court said that if the children dp not begin attending school, they will be put ih an institution or in foster homes. The 17 sets of Gypsy parents in court gave out wilh a murmur. And later, two of their leaders assured the judge that from now on, the children will go to school. Langtry was acting on depend ency and - delinquency petitions, covering some 30 children, filed ,inst the parents. -'Some people tell us we can't do this, that the gypsies will never attend school," he said. "I think when they realize we mean busi ness, they'll keep their kids in school. We intend to follow this thing up." Earlier a Portland school offi cial said records show no gypsy child ever has finished the eighth grade Here. ' ' The judge said too. however. that gypsy children do not come before him for "stealing or beat ing up on people." GOPTakesUp Attack on Soil Subsidy Boost Democrats Accused of Trying to Wreck Program WASHINGTON Wl An early battle over farm legislation took shape in Congress Thursday as House Republicans opened a con certed attack on a Democratic proposal for new soil bank subsi dies. "A 1 vehicle for cheap' political claptrap," charged Rep. Hill (R- Colo.) in a statement aimed at the bill approved by Agriculture Committee Democrats last Tues day. " Rep. Andrescn (R-Minn) ac' cuscd Democrats of "attempting to wreck" the Eisenhower soil bank program passed by Con gress last year. Ren. Hoeven (R-Iowa) predicted President Eisenhower will veto the committee bill if it passes Congress. He accused Democrats of "scuttling" the administration's current emergency program to stabilize corn prices, Democrats, ' meanwhile, went ahead with plans to bring the bill before the House as soon as pos sible. The .' Agriculture Committee, usually unanimous on farm mat ters, split along party lines Tues day in voting out a measure to provide supplemental soil bank benefits to corn growers and most other farmers during 1957. - There was no firm figure on the cost of the proposed program but estimates ran-up to half a billion dollars. The bill carries authority to increase soil bank acreage reserve funds a quarter billion dollars. Hill asserted that "practically nobody seems to understand what the bill will actually do," and said: "Tlie hidden purpose back of the committee action is to give an extra benefit for acreage di verted from cotton, peanuts, to bacco and wheat sometimes many years ago under 20 years of Roosevelt-Truman agricultural programs that never worked and never could." - Japan Refloats Sub IAWAKUNI, Japan Wl The Japanese today refloated an Im perial Navy submarine sunk in 1943 during a training cruise in the inland sea. Cause of the sink ing has never been determined. The hull Is believed to contain the bodies of 79 crewmen. The ship will be broke up for scrap after the bodies are removed. Morgan Claims 20 Pet. Profits EarnedbyPTC Hearing on Restoration Of Shuttle Buses Conducted PORTLAND WV-The State pub lic utilities commissioner, contin uing to clash with the Portland Traction Co., presented figures Wednesday intended to prove the firm had big profits. Commissioner Howard Morgan said the profits averaged more than 20 per cent annually from 1950 through 1956. He introduced the figures as a hearing nded on whether the company should restore shuttle bus service between west side Portland and its suburban trolley lines on the cast side of Portland. The company cut off the shuttle- bus service Dec. 31. Morgan earlier ordered the service restored, but a circuit court judge ruled that order pre mature, since hearings on the matter had not ended. Morgan is not expected to again issue the order at once. Attorneys were given five days more to sub mit briefs. Morgan said the figures on prof its were computed by his staff from monthly reports of the com pany. The firm twice has attempted to halt passenger service on the trolley runs, while retaining freight service. Officials said the passenger service runs lose money. Morgan contends that since the overall operations make a profit the passenger service should be continued. ; The City Council has threatened to put the traction company out of business by denying it use of city streets. That is because the company's allied firm, Rose City Transit Co., has threatened to stop operating the mass trans portation system in- Portland. Charles C. Bowen, traction com pany president, was the last wit ness. He said a fair selling price for the company would be five million dollars. "We'd rather not sell," he said. "If you did sell at five million dollars, what would bo your long term capital gain?" asked Mor gan. , 'It would be about four million dollars before taxes, but we've held the property 10 years and we took a risk when we bought it," said Bowen. Meanwhile the City Council de manded the financial records of the Rose City Transit Co. and hired Ernest C. Willard, engineer and rate accountant, to go through the books. Council members said the com pany had not made enough finan cial information available to justi fy the rate increase the firm had asked earlier. STORE HOURS MONDAY: 12 NOON TO 9 P.M. FRIDAY: 10 A.M. TO 9 P.M. OtHER DAYS: 9:30 A.M. 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But Miss Ayako Taimaki, - 39, wants to know: "Why has honorable female be havior reached such a disgusting low at our honorable bathouses?" In a, letter to a Tokyo newspap er Shimbun, she objected to too much laughter and loud singing in the bathouse, especially of bawdy male songs audible over the wall. She added: . "Some ladies literally tear off their honorable kimonos, and dash for the honorable bathtub, waving their hands like a bunch of pri mary school children on picnic. "Some stand without their pan ties in front of the mirror to ad mire themselves." Mrs. Kiyoko Kosuge, 35, dis agreed in an 'answering letter: "Let those who want to, stand without their panties and admire themselves they probably can't afford a large mirror at home like those in the bathtub. "After all, it is a feminine privi lege to admire one's own figure." 2020 Blind Address READING, Pa. 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