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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1956
Russia Making Strides in Base
In Wastelands of Antarctic
Sydney (U.PJ Russia has al
most completed an ambitious
base in the Antarctic less than
five hours jet flying distance
from the Australian mainland,
as part of the Soviet Union's
participation in the International
Geophysical Year 1957-58.
Australian Antarctic explorers
who were guests at the Russian
base at Mirny in that portion
of territory claimed by Australia
in Queen Mary Land, said the
Russians made great progress in
the seven months after their ar
rival on the frozen continent.
They added that Soviet base is
well on the way to rivaling
Australia's base at Mawson, the
first permanent station on the
Antarctic mainland.
Although Mirny, 2,500 miles
south of Perth, Western Austra
lia, is located in the Australian
sector of the continent, the Sov
iet Union did not seek Austra
lian permission to establish its
base. Like the United States,
Russia does not recognize any
claims by other nations on
Antarctic territory and makes j
no claims on its own behalf. i
. Russia's interest in the stratcg-
r "
ic wastes of the South Polar con
tinent is based on its contention
that an Estonian, Adm. Fabian
Bellinghausen, in the pay of Czar
Alexander, discovered the Ant
arctic in 1820.
Little Activity
The United States, however,
claims that Capt. Nat Palmer,
Yankee skipper of the sloop
Hero was the first to sight the
icy coast of the Antarctic, also
in 1820.
Compared with Australian and
U. S. exploration, Russia's activ
ity in the area since Belling
hausen's voyages has been vir
tually negligible. This apparently
would account for Russia not
pressing too liard in claiming a
slice of the Antarctic "pie."
Australia broke off diplomatic
relations with the Soviet Union
in 1954 after the Petrov spy sen
sation. This apparently accounts
for Russia failing to consult
Australia on the establishment
of the base at Mirny, which is
800 miles closer to Australia
than is Mawson to the southwest.
When Russia announced its in
tention of establishing a base
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I in a part of the Australian sector
of the , Antarctic. Australian
Foreign Affairs Minister R. G.
Casey made an offer of "facili
ties'" for nations participating in
the IGY investigations. Austra
lian diplomatic sources regard
this offer as a clever piece of
diplomacy by Casey, designed to
avoid international embarrass
ment when it was learned the
Russians planned their base
along the Knox Coast.
Large Group
The Mirny venture was or
ganized by the Soviet Academy
of Sciences last year. The acad
emy assembled an expeditionary
force of 226 with the apparent
intention of dwarfing the ex
peditions of other nations de
signed to lay the groundwork
for IGY research.
The Russian expedition used
two of the Soviet Union's most
modern icebreakers, the Ob and
Lena, two high-decked sister
ships of 12.600 tons built in the
Netherlands. The icebreakers
were supplemented by a vessel
known simply as Refrigerator
Ship No. 7.
Using charts drawn by an
Australian pioneer Antarctic ex
plorer. Sir Douglas Mawson, the
Russian expedition arrived off
the desolate coast of Queen
Mary Land late in January.
Seamen trained as riggers and
builders set to work erecting
the base before the 24-hour
nights of the Antarctic winter
set in. The first project was the
construction of five houses con
taining two' three-room flats
each, for senior scientists, and
six big dormitories for the
others. In addition, foundations
were drilled in rock and ice a
polar observatory, a 600-kilowatt
generating station and a 2,500
ton fuel dump.
The Soviet flag was hoisted
over the base Feb. 13 after pre
liminary steps in establishing
Mirny were completed.
Fresno Doctor Faces Deportation To Korea
Fresno, Calif OJ.P.I Dr. Yong
Ja Chai, a Japanese-born doctor
of medicine, faces the grim pro
bability of deportation to a na
tion she has never seen as the re
sult of a legal technicality.
Immigration officials are ex
pected to send Dr. Chai to Korea
late in September. She knows
no one there and cannot speak
the language. Ironically, her par
ents are citizens of Japan, where
she was born and lived most -of
her life.
The legal technicality that
threatens Dr. Chai results from a
ruling by Japanese immigration
officials. Upon application for a
temporary visa to the United
States, it was decided she was
Korean because her father was
born in that country, and her
passport had to be obtained
through the Korean embassy.
Dr. Chai came to this country
on a fellowship to study as a
resident doctor at Fresno County
Tuberculosis Hospital. She is a
I graduate of Tokyo Women's
j Medical College and holds both
j Japanese and California medical
j licenses.
Sept. 28 Deadline i
Although Dr. Chai's passport
status was changed from a tem
porary status to that of an cx
chanee visitor, no further exten-
I sion is available and the visa
expires Sept. 28. Deportation
seems almost a certainly.
About her only hope of re
maining in this country would
. involve her marriage, and that
I possibility is unlikely. She had
talked of marriage with a young
I American doctor she met while
I taking advanced studies at the
University of Illinois several
months ago, but he has said he
must complete some special
studies before marriage. That is
several months away and would
be too late to prevent Dr. Chia's
deportation.
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: her to start over in a strange
I country.
I If she were married. Dr. Chia
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