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First Airdrop Made At South Pole Base By CHARLES MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent Over The South Pole TP A U.S. flag atop a pole jammed into an empty oil drum at the bottom of the world waves proudjy. I saw the flag from the U.S. Air Force Globemaster which made the first airdrop of mail, fresh food supplies and other equipment to the 18 men at the U.S. Navy South Pole Base in eight months. "We have you in sight you are big and beautiful," the ra dio crackled in the lumbering four-engined aerial freighter. The message came from the men who had "wintered over" at the South Pole for the first time in history, cut off from the outside world except by radio. "On Target" The plane went down to 750 feet in preparation for the air drop. The terrain below looked like a midwest prairie after a blizard. The half-dozen small buildings which make up the pole base were impossible to see until we were almost on top of them. The drop zone was marked by fluorescent red cloth panels. We watched as the packages drop ped out of the open cargo hatch and parachuted downward "on the target." The supply drop was completed in eight seconds. The giant plane banked for a second run to drop mail and oth er small packages. As we droned toward the drop zone, a Seabee on a weasel tractor en route to begin the pickup jumped from the seat and scurried away. Some of the sacks landed close to the snow-jeep. v"ork Stops "We almost put that one in his rumble seat," said Capt. Victor G. Stianchi, of Lansford, Pa., the co-pilot. A radio message from the base said all "work came to a dead halt after the drop and every body is reading mail." It aded that the men intended to have the newly-arrived freshly-killed chickens fried for breakfast. We made the 730-mile flight from the main deep freeze base at McMurdo Sound in four and a half hours. Col. William G. Forwood, Spokane, Wash., was at the controls of the Globemas ter on the takeoff from the bumpy blue-green ice runway. The plane was loaded to near full gross weight of about 90 tons. It was the first to take off from the ice runway this year with an operational load. Sophia Loren Said To Be Disturbed Rome Of) Movie producer j Carlo Ponti said Saturday his bride actress Sophia Loren was "upset" by bitter Vatican Press attacks on her marriage to a divorced man. "Something like ' that would upset anybody," the 44-year-old producer said as he stepped off a plane from Paris without his 23-year-old bride. Ponti, who married Miss Loren last month in a proxy Mexican ceremony, refused comment on the possibility of legal complica tions arising from the wedding. The Vatican Press has criti cized Miss Loren for marrying a divorced man and said she had made herself liable to excommunication. Fire Extinguished Before Queen's Visit New York (IP) Firemen quickly put out a small fire Fri day night at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in which Queen Eliza beth will stay when she visits New York Monday. The fire was confined to a window air condition unit in one room. It was put out in five minutes. Return Of Refugee Probably Assisted By Hungary Aides Dayton, Ohio TP) A Hun garian refugee woman who left Dayton and her husband to re turn to Budapest with their 18 month old son was believed to have been helped by the Hungar ian Legation in Washington. The Rev. Andrew Hamza, in charge of relocating Dayton ref ugees, said he believed Mrs. Theresa Teteranecz, 21, could not have returned without help. She knows only about 50 words of English, he said. The woman's husband, Steven, 27, would not talk much about his wife's disappearance, discov ered when he returned from his work Wednesday. The couple arrived in Dayton with their son June 21 after a six months flight from the occu pied nation. Reverend Hamza said Mrs. Te teranecz was expected to be back in Communist Hungary this morning by Orient Express from Vienna. 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