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.
Immigration authorities said j
that although her visa allowed
her to travel in the United States
she would have had to have doc
uments from the Hungarian Le
gation to get back to that country.
Seoul, Korea OP) Gen. Alfred
M. Gruenther ret., president of
the American Red Cross, arrived
Friday for a three-day visit with
U. . Command personnel and
Korean government officials.
San Diego flP) Aircraft
sources said that a speed-up in
testing of Atlas intercontinental
ballistic missiles is underway.
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cians will leave Monday for the
United States to attend interna
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TAKE OVER BASES
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the fledging West German air
force next spring, German of
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