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 " '
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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. But the General de
cided it would be Improper
for him even to receive the
message.
The name Tennessee cajne
from a Cherokee Indian vil
lage called Tanasi.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforo, Or. 7
Thursday, August 6, 1959
Psychology Instructor
Uses Psychology
Jromona, Calif. (UPD L. J.
King, psychology instructor at
Cal Poly, lists the following
points for one of nis courses:
Course pre-requisite: An
open mind.
Basic needs: Good penman
ship or typewriter.
Attendance: Not compulsory
just demanded.
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