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MEDFORDJltife Tribune Uiutea Press Full Leasea Wire United Pres Full Incased Wire Second .Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1956 Pages 1 to 10 Impossible Task of Building DEW Line cross Wastes of Arctic Progressing Editor'! not: Building a string of radar base in the frozen wastes of the Arctic is an -impossible" task but the United States and Canada are doing It. Charles Corddry, CP Wash ington correspondent who covers the Defense Department, was in the first group of newsmen allowed to tour the 3000-mile-long "Dew Line" of Arctic radar stations. In the following dispatch, datelined Yellowknife, Can ada, he tells how the biggest Arctic construction job of all time is being carried out against Incredible ob-stacels. By CHARLES CORDDRY Yellowknife, Nwt., Canada (U.R) "We didn't tell the pilots and airmen it was impossible, so they went ahead and did it," said Maj. Gen. Chester E. Mc Carty, U. S. 18th Air Force com mander. Capt. R. F. Pryce of the Mili tary Sea Transportation Service added: "The Russians must have been shocked to see 126 ships go up there and bust the Arctic wide open. The gargantuan task of pour ing construction equipment and supplies into the Dew Line thus was summarized for reporters leaving New York a few days ago on a tour of the 3000-mile radar warning net at the top of the continent. Statistic! Impressive The statistics are impressive 128,000 short tons by water, 50,- 000 bv air and 3500 by over- snow sled-train in 1955 and PLEASE OPEN CAREFULLY (Cannon kitchen towel packed right inside) There's; a big Cannon kitchen towel inside every Giant Economy size of this fine all purpoje detergent, a pastel -Cannon lace cloth inside Regular size. Breeze carries Lever Brothers' uncondition al, money-back guarantee. tens of thousands more this year. But they take on real meaning only after one experiences the ( subzero temperatures and swirl ing snow, linds on ice strips carved on frozen lakes, witness es the northland's poverty of navigation and communication aids, and comes to roost at re fueling stops like the ones here and at remote Frobisher Bay on Baffin island. The problem is ' driven home further when the freezing cold causes a succession of minor me chanical troubles to grip a giant C124 Globemaster, some of them delaying it for two days, as happened to the one in which 31 U. S. and Canadian newsmen toured the line. Greatest Operation The Dew Line construction job, the biggest Arctic operation of all time, has been likened in its immensity to the building of the Great Wall of China. A lit tle more than a year ago, there was nothing but snow and ice and desoUtion where hordes of men now work and vehicles move and airplanes drone, t Of all the resources and ma terials needed, only gravel and water from melted ice and nat ural gas in Alaska were avail able in this frigid wasteland. Everything else tractors, oth er heavy equipment, food, avia tion gas, diesel oil, recreation facilities, the simplest necessities of life had to be brought in by air and water transport. Many Sites Opened Many sites were opened by four-man teams that went in by small ski-fitted plane and got supplies by parachute drops. Even eight-ton tractors were dropped so they could plow the snow off frozen lakes and from runways, for big supply planes. Civilan and military planes skimmed over Baffinland's treacherous mountains, Northern Canada's flat, foggy terrain and the serrated mountains of Alas ka's Brooks Range. Except for about 260 Eskimos employed on ."the line," all labor forces were brought over vast distances from Canadian, American and over seas points: New Airlift Underway The big 1956 airlift is now under way. And the American and Canadian navies are pre paring again for the brief August-September period when the Foxe Basin west of Baffin Is land and the Beaufort Sea north, of Alaska and the Yukon ter ritory are free enough of ice for navigation. The Army is getting ready its stevedoring teams 3000 men were employ ed last year to unload equip ment over the rocky beaches. Administration Fears Conflict - Washington (U.R) The Eis enhower administration fears that Israel and her Arab neigh bors may "stumble into war" ev en though neither side wants a conflict nor is fully mobilized for one. They fear that with border in cidents mounting, hot-headed militarists on either side might touch off full-scale fighting. This is the reason Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, on President Eisenhower's instruc tions, alerted congressional lead ers Tuesday to a possible re quest for authprity to use U. S. forces if full war breaks out in the Middle East. Strategists see the situation this way. There is no big build up of military forces suggesting aggression in the Middle East. Egypt has not yet mastered arms it has received from the Soviet bloc. .Israel and the Arab states don't- want war. But the current Israeli-Egyptian fighting contin ues despite efforts to stop it. Ac tion, leads to counter-action. Tempers rise higher until, as one American official said, "They could stumble into war in an hour's time." Klamath Considering City Manager Plan Klamath Falls (U.R) Her man Kehrli, director of the bu reau of municipal research and service of the League of Oregon Cities, conferred with a city committee Tuesday on the proposed revision of the city charter with an eye toward pos sible change to the manager plan of city government. SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, APRIL 13-14-15 Full Dozen Count Baskets SO SORRY WE RAN OUT LAST WEEK! Same Low Price Per Basket RADISHES and GREEK OHIOflS 3 bunches 19c U.S. Ho. 1 POTATOES........ ... 10-lb. bag 49c mmmt mm SET OF FOUR TUMBLERS AND 12 SEGO MILK COUPONS iiiy SEGO MILK 6 cans 81' CRISCO Pure Vegetable Shortening ib. nr 3 '195' Pillsbury's FLOUR M 25-lb. bag $1.98 WESSON OIL Quart Bottle WILSON'S TAMALES WITH SAUCE 1-LB. GLASS JAR 4 fo!00 Original EdMb Hood The Birds and the Bees' Blouse . Onry $3.00 and 2 Drai Wrappers Bath Size 2 for 37e BEEF STEW, Wilson's! lb. 8 oz. cans, 3 cans$1.00 NEBERGALL'S WIENERS BEEF ROASTS All Meat-No n jl Cello M Q U.S. Grade "Good" & "Choice" M f filler added I'lPe Pok 4yC Blade or Shoulder Cut LB. HVC We Have the Best Price on Grade "CHOICE" Locker Beef SrPVSTifS 'IS! n AH Departments at jSpSbyjyyga grand view market Store Hours Week Days 8:30-7:00 Sundays 10:00 to 7:00 .,llUll,lMl..l,.ISf tU.U,-,... LMII.IIII MIL - .11.111 L.N. S6! This year, there is this tremen dous advantage: They have been there before. One of the great unknown quantities last year was the ice landing. There were no air strips on the ground and there was no way to get badly needed 20-ton tractors to Dew Line sites but to transport them in C124 Globe-masters. So snow was cleared from lakes frozen to depths of six feet, old fuel cans were used to mark off runways and the Globe- masters came down weighing 168,000 pounds. Several hun dred such landings were made. The equipment needed to build gravel runways, roads and per form other earth-moving jobs was delivered. Lighter weight materials were flown by commerical carriers, using an amazing variety of air craft including one old German Junker, 1931 vintage. In the 1955 period, commerical carriers had 18 accidents with 15 lives lost and the U. S. Air Force had four with no lives lost. A Nichol's Worth of . . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Feature Writer Uarmas Nichols for $500 and Washington (U.R) With a new ink on the market today, the modern crook is going to have a rough time making a dishonest liv ing. This ink, perfected by a pen company, defies the scoundrel. Say you are the scoundrel. You have a check want to hike it to $5000. You rub it out and change the 500 to 10 times it's size and do the same on the line where you put an "no-1.00." Well, with the new ink any expert can turn on the black or ultraviolet light, and a lum inescent additive goes to work. When exposed the original writ ing shows up fine. Banks are interested. So are other catchers of forgers. Ink is Ancient Which brings up the subject of how did ink really start? No bcdy knows really, but a little research at the Library of Con gress and other places is of more than considerable interest. The Chinese claim to have in vented the stuff 4500 years ago. But the first mention of H is said in most books to run back to the 6th century B.C., back to Jeremiah in the Latin Vulgate written by St. Jerome about 380 A.D. Jeremiah is quoted as 'writing with ink." Incidentally, not all of the writing fluids across the cen turies have been made by man. One was made by a fish. It was the "inky" fluid shot out by the cuttlefish to hide himself from his naturdal enemies while flee ing. The Spartans following the fish, captured the protective juice and put it to work in the writing business. The golden days of Rome, and ahead of it Greece, were said to have been written in ink. Horace, Roman poet, mentioned the word "ink" in his Odes. Red for Royalty Pliny, the Roman historian, wrote that "ink is made of soot with burnt resin or pitch, x x x Wormwood preserves manu scripts from mice." In ancient Egypt, inks were made of a fine powder of carbon stirred with gum water to keep it in "suspension." Often copper preparations were used for dyes. Most of the early inks were black or red. Writing in gold, though, was called "chryso graphy." It was a profession in itself in the days of the "lower Roman Empire. In about . the First Century B. C.'red inks were reserved for the exclusive use of emperors, their sons and other close kin. Today, a person can get ink that matches the gloves or hat or nail polish of milady or the suit of the man. Most inks today are 98 per cent water. And the new kind that may throw the crook out Oil Tank Truck, Train Collision Fatal To Two Wauchula, Fla. 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