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Special Problems Of Men on Ice Are Noted in Report Washington-Science Serv-ice)-Men on ice have special problems. A U.S. Navy-sponsored study of 700 men isolated in the vast, white, cold Antarctic during Deep Freeze II ana in oDerations found that: Some men were more con cerned about the lack of fresh fruit than the lack of women. Others sat for hours listening to phonograph rec ords. Some became rumor mongers. Some slept most of the time ' - and others could manage only an hour a day for lone stretches. Six of the men became so emotionally disturbed thev had to be evacuated. In charge of the study was a Georgetown University psy chologist, Dr. John H. Rohrer. He reports his findings, made during his six months on the ice cap, in Research Reviews, published here by the Naval Research Laboratory. The study's purpose was to neip ic Naw in selection of per sonnel f or duty in rigorous isolation. ., n.r.prallv. the factors af fecting a man's adjustment to isolation from all outside con tact in an extremely harsh environment are the length of his tour of duty and tne number of men he has to live with at his station (from as few as 12 men to more than 100V Dr. Rohrer reported four stages in this adjustment: 1. New arrivals exhibited an increase in anxiety, which for men so predisposed is enough to trigger psycnosia or hvsteria. The six evacuees developed mental symptoms n in four weeks aixer opttinff on the ice. For most of the men, the anxiety is relieved when they start working. In fact, work becomes the most meaningful social role. The cooks, who provide one of the few gratifi cations available, assume a higher social level than, for example, the scientists. 2. More depression appears during the winter, probably due to the cold (below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit at times), the dark, the vicious winds (often more than 100 miles an hour), and the lack of outside work. This is the stage In which sleeping habits change. The men sometimes hallucinate, " cannot concentrate, become irritable and sensitive to the slightest sounds, and suffer headaches (those with more intellectual jobs are more bothered by headaches). Some men alleviate the boredom by inventing rumors. (One man found copper trim mings near a drill press, melt ed them and formed them into lumps. He surreptitiously denosited them in the filter of a snow melter and then told the operator that a doc tor said a nearby volcano had erupted gold. When the nag Mts were found there was a sudden increase in volunteers to assist in snow meltine.) . 3. With the coming of the sun. aimlanes and airdrops. the men knew that isolation was about over. Their depres sion, boredom and other symptoms lessened. Oddly enough, there were more neao ache. 4. When they were nearly ready to go home, their rou tines were interrupted and thev became less efficient. Once off the ice cap, they readily readjusted. Ice Skating Makes Comeback in West Chicago-flJTO-Ice skating, a popular sport before the days of radio and television, is stag ing a remarkable comeback in the middle west. Warmer winters, a lack of suitable ranks and intense competition from other forms of entertainment have failed to squelch the boom in skate sales, which this year may be the highest in history. . The sport has become so popular again that a city plan ning committee, which recent ly proposed a multi-million- dollar government center in the heart of Chicago's Loop, also suggested including an ice rink similar to the one in New York's Rockefeller Cen ter. .., Howard Shore, business manager of Mages Sport Stores, one of Chicago's larg est, said ice skating now ranks second in popularity as a win ter sport only to skiing, which is also enjoying a boom. He attributes this to a gen eral step-up of interest among Americans in outdoor living of all sorts. A spokesman for the John son Skating company of Chi cago, the largest manufactur er specializing in ice skates, said: "One reason more people are skating is that there are far more youngsters per per centage - of population. But we've also found that a great many adults are starting to skate because their kids are San Juan Cruise by Ferry Rewarding TIM following H cofuSsraalisaKaf mororlos whtcB appeared m ftw Sunday Oresonian. one of an annual series sponsored i canity fay The Or. eniaa and the Oregon Stat Motor Assn. Theso travel articles describa vacation spots of particular interest to Northwtsterners as well as visitors who have come Into the area for the Ores on Centennial celebration. By SID KING Oregon State Motor Assn. "The never-to-be-forgotten ferry cruise into the heart of the enchanted "San Juans, where a golden summer sun paints coral clouds as it sinks into a crimson sea . . ." That's the way the travel folder describes the famed . "Scenic Circuit Cruise" to Vic ' toria, Canada, and that's the way you'll find it if you take this fascinating ferry cruise motor trip some week-end this Bummer. - With the Washington State Ferry system taking over most of the ferry service between the Washington mainland and Victoria this year, the Ore-gonian-Oregon State Motoring Assn. white motorlog car fol lowed the scenic circuit route up the Hood Canal to Port An geles, Wash., across the Juan De Fuca Strait to- Victoria, then from Sidney to Anacortes through the San Juans, down Whidbey Island to Columbia Beach, across to Mukilteo and on to Seattle and Portland. Statistics Listed Here are the statistics of the trip: Portland to Port Angeles 234 miles; Port Angeles to Victoria via ferry, an hour and a half; Victoria to Sidney, 17 miles; Sidney to Anacortes via ferry, four hours, 40 minutes; Anacortes to Columbia Beach, 59 miles; Columbia Beach to Mukilteo, 15 minutes via ferry; Mukilteo to Seattle, 25 miles; Seattle to Portland, 174 miles. Following the beautiful drive from Olympia to Port Angeles along the Hood Canal, you cross to Victoria aboard the streamline .Kalakala, skip pered by Capt. Asmund Rindal, Cr'0UMPIAj PORTLAND " ' I 77 A Washington State Ferry negotiates Wasp Pass between Oreas aad Shaw Islands la (be San Joan Island group in Paget Sound. These scenic islands ara seen at close hand oa tha ferry trip Between Sidney on yanconvar isiana um n one of the old-time ferry skip pers schooled in the days of "whistle toot navigation." This weird system is still followed during foggy weather, -even with the fancy radar equip ment now carried by the larg er iernes. ,une gets me. im pression that the skippers pre fer their whistle-toot naviga tion to the radar, perhaps checking one against the other. The San Juan skippers honed this system down to a fine edge as a result of years of experi ence threading . their tortuous way through the narrow pass es in the San Juans. You know how it goes? To find exactly where you are m tne cnannei, vnn tnnh the whistle, count the seconds till the echo returns. Allow 1,100 feet for eacn sec ond, divide the total feet by two and vou know how far vou are from the point off which you bounced your wrusue toot. , Sounds weird, but it works perfectly under the experienced The Port Angeles-Victoria crossing is pretty routine, un less it's a bright, clear day when- the wind may toss up vimpthinc of a sea. That's when the dramamine comes in handy for rocking chair sailors. Victoria, is fust what the travel folders say it is a little hit of old Eneland with em phasis on the English skill at rock gardening. For garden lovers, it's mandatory to take the trin around the Marine Drive through the fabulous Oak Raw arpa where the beautiful old English homes are sur rounded bv colorful gardens landscaped into the natural rock outcroppmgs or tne region. And don't miss the Up lands, an area in which there are many lovely new homes, e a u a 1 1 v ' handsomely land scaped. . - Victoria Scenic Victoria certainly is worth more than a paragraph of any one's time, but since our mo tnrln? was keved to the Scenic Circuit Cruise, we move on to Sidney and the Ban Juan cross ing aboard the new Evergreen . . i - i yi i. r: state, sKipperea ay capi. oig Sande, Leaving Sidney, the ferry rmiisps nast San Juan itself. one of the larger of the 172 islands constituting the group. The first stop in the cruise is Friday Harbor, picturesque mimtv seat. The ideal wav to enjoy the cruise is to stop at one or two ot tne lsianas ana take time to travel about them to t.rtp various snots of interest. . A week would be well spent in this way. There are ex cellent resorts and good camp ins areas on all the mam iclanrls From Friday Harbor, the route winds through narrow ormnnplc nast Shaw Island to Orcas island where the second stop is made. One of the trav el folder's "never-to-be-forgotten" sights' is that of 10,000- foot Mt. Baker in the evening, spn throuffh narrow WasD Pass between Shaw and Orcas islands, wife the islands and mountain reflected in the smooth waters of the sound. On Orcas Island, vou can drive to the top of 2300-foot Mt. Constitution from which may be seen the cities of Van couver, Victoria and Port An geles on a clear day. Moran State Park offers 6.000 acres of beautiful scenery, fishermen find salmon, coq, jed snapper and halibut cooperative ana hunters find deer much in evidence. Pheasant and quail also abound (quoting again from the travel folders). " Across tiie narrow passage from Orcas is Shaw Island, where the last stop is maae , and then on between Lopez Is land and Blakely Island and through Thatcher rass to An acortes. Vrom Anacortes. it is a short drive to Deception Pass where you cross on tne spectacuiar suspension bridge to Whidbey Island, largest of the San Juan group. Deception Pass pre sents a bird's-eye view of the famous tidal rapids, where on each change of tide the water boil through the narrow chan nel. iJT. There's so much to be seen vat, done along the Scenic Cir cuit "Cruise that the tiaveler always finds himself forced to plan another trip as soon as possible. .- . ' Honolulu Expects Mafia Trouble as Statehood Result Average Lawyer Has 21 Hours Per Week By WILLIAM MIAO -. . United Press International Honolulu (UPD-Dan Liu, Chinese-American police chief of Honolulu, is expecting trouble from the Mafia as an unwel come offshoot of Hawaiian statehood. The chief recently returned from the mainland where po lice officials and the FBI alert ed him to the expansion plans of the Sicilian underworld or ganisation. Liu said the Mafia was look ing for new operating areas after being forced to curtail its operations in California as a result of wide publicity and police vigilance. "Our new role as the 50th state," Liu said, "has brought Hawaii to the attention of the underworld, and mainland gangsters have visions of in vading the islands and setting ud organized gambling and vice that they feel certain will return huge profits. Continue Vigilance The tall, soft-spoken chief said law enforcement officials here are fully alert to the threat and will continue their vigilance. Liu said his information came irom t;aiiiornia ana Washington authorities who pointed out that Hawaii's rich tourist industry - along with statehood was bound to be an incentive to the Mafia. "The Mafia's first goal inj entering a new area," Liu said, "is to organize gambling. Only through strict enforce ment of the law can the Mafia be contained and Us activities prevented from mushrooming. And that," the chief contin ued, "is a vital police func tion which we are determined to carry out." Notoriously Clean Honolulu, which once boast ed of being "as wide open as the Pacific," has been notori ously clean since World War Two. The vice lords have giv en the islands a wide berth, and have reconciled themselv es to the fact protection is un obtainable and law enforce ment tough. Chief Liu credited his de partment's relentless a n t i gambling crusade for the lack of organized vice in Hawaii. "Organized gambling," Liu said, "is a racket that yields great profits. These profits create power which can cor rupt police and law enforce- St. Louis (DPD-The average lawyer in Missouri has only about 21 hours a week to de vote to his practice and, un less he's working for a salary, earns about $18,000 a year be fore taxes. These figures were deter mined by S. J. Capelin Asso ciates, who have been hired by the Missouri Bar associa tion to conduct an "engineer ing" program designed to tell attorneys how they can im prove their business. The Capelin firm has al ready discovered that the av erage lawyer has about 1,100 hours to "selT'annually, when you deduct days off, holidays, than $10,000 a year and that salaried attorneys averaged $8,463. The purpose of the Capelin study will help lawyers decide how much they should charge for such' matters as divorces and title closings where there is no way of fixing a flat fee since each case involves so many different factors. George Washington declines Top Meeting Ann Arbor, Mich. -0PD- The University of Michigan's Clements Library has in . its possession a letter .- which George Washington wouldn't charity work, politics and all even accept - containing an the rest. It also found that the aver age income of non-salaried lawyers in 1957 was $18,000 with a net of $11,834, that half of all lawyers made more ment officials. They also in itiate other criminal activities such as narcotics and prostitu tion. "The Mafia stands for all that is unclean and vile, and with the support and confi dence of the people in Hono lulu, we'll do everything pos sible to prevent it from estab lishing an organization here." informal British proposal for a 'summit conference" to set tle the American Revolution in 1776.' In the personal note to Washington, British Vice Ad miral Lord Richard Howe had suggested a "dispassionate consideration of the King's benevolent intentions" toward America. 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