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.
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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.
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Japanese Ladies Quarrel Over
Etiquette in Public Bathhouse
TOKYO W Japanese ladies are
quarreling over female etiquette
at that time-honored Institution,
the public bathhouse.
The neighborhood bathouse is a
Japanese community center
where children and adults pay
about a nickel for a hot bath. Men
and women soak in separate
steaming pools separated by a
thin wall. While soaping and
scrubbing, they discuss the day's
news and exchange neighborhood
gossip.
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."
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