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MAIL TRIBUNE, Meeter, Or. Thunder, April 21, I960 The Bellingshausen-Amundsen Sea Venture flrDvoftaftooir to Polloir Epeirieinice Accepted M ........ 1U. Highly Important Voyage Noted by Captain McDonald Herb Grev. advertiilna manager ol the Mail Tribune, recently returned from trip ie Antarctica at an ob server in Operation Deep Freeie 1960. an expedition by the Nary in cooperation with the National Science Foun dation. The expedition, aboard the USS Glacier and USS Bur ton Iiland, both icebreaker!, went into the Bellingshau-en-Amunden Sea area. It wai the lint time the Bell inghauien Sea had been penetrated by land or lea. Grey'i account of the expedition, from the lime he was invited to the time he returned, will appear in continued leries of articlei, occasionally illuitraled, In the Mail Tribune. Following ii the first Installment of the account of the expedition by Grey. It will continue daily. BY HERB GHEY Mail Tribune Advertising Manager "The Bellingshausen-Amundsen Sea Venture." ' That's the way Capt. Edwin A. McDonald, in a letter last September, described an expedition planned by the U.S. Navy and the National Science Foundation in the Antarctic during February and March, 1!)80. The Navy, with long experience in Polar operations, would provide the logistical support. The NSF would supply the scientists. Captain McDonald is deputy commander and aide to Rear Admiral David M. Tyree, Commader U. S. Naval Support Forces, Antarctica, and is also in command of Task Group 43.1. He has had much experience in this sort of thing, with six Artie and five Antarctic expeditions to his record. He has flown over both Poles; certainly a good man with whom to ail. "This will be a highly important and historical voyage we will make to unexplored and virgin land," he continued. "No one has ever set foot on this coast and the area is unclaimed by an nation. I hope that you can make arrangements to join us. Of course, I wanted to go! If successful, this expedition would rank with some of the most dramatic events in south Polar history. Antarctica has, after all, the last great unexplored Smog Said To Render Flu Virus Impotent Chicago -(Science Scrvlce) Somebody has something good to ' say about smog, fur a change. The good word comes from two scientists who live in Los Angeles, considered by many to be the most smog-smitten city in the U.S. They found that smog af fects influenza viruses in such ) a way that they are unable to infect. Here is what Drs. Robert D. Boche and James J. Quilligan of the College of Medical Evangelists did: Mice Exposed They exposed black mice to high concentrations of syn thetic smog for two months. These mice were then more resistant to influenza virus in fection than their correspond ing controls if, after virus in oculation, they were again al lowed to reside in smog. ' This led the researchers to the conclusion that smog de stroys the virus in the infected animals. To test this explan ation, they bubbled various quantities of smog - like gases through suspensions of vir uses. Repeated studies showed that the synthetic smog de stroyed the ability of the virus to infect, the scientists report ed to the meeting here of the Federation of American So cieties for Experimental Biology. Another group of mice, lo cated In a spot in the U. S that is diagonally opposite Los Angeles, have produced evi dence that humans may some day be able to supply each other with blood-building tis sue as easily as a blood trans fusion. Marrow Transplanted Dr. Elizabeth S. Russell of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memor ial Labratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, showed this could be done with anemic mice. She transplanted bone marrow from normal mice to their anemic "cousins." She found areas on earth. It is the last frontier! Dr. Alan T. Waterman, di rector of the National Science Foundation, made this state ment concerning the project ed scientific expedition to the Bellingshausen sea: Valuable Data "If the penetration of these uncertain waters by the U. S. Navy icebreakers is success ful, the scientific party will gather valuable data in a re gion never bctore explored." I wanted to witness, the piercing of this great ice pack which, like a giant curtain of Ice, has kept hidden secrets of this vast continent. After arrangements had been completed with the Navy department in Washing ton and proper accreditation secured from the department of defense, I arrived at Travis Air Force base near San Franqisco, Calif., my arms looking like pin cushions and throbbing from required in noculations. Passing Hours Once before, 30 years ago, I had sailed from' San Fran cisco for South Pacific seas, a green member of the crew of the old Matson liner, Sierra, I recalled the dark and driz zly day when we first hit rough waters off the Farallon Islands, when 1 was attempt ing to act like a sailor without knowing the difference be tween the bow and the head. This time it would be dif ferent. I thought, while passing the hours away nt the big Travis ';" ymmmim "" "" f f :. " " : fit "'""taw !:. ! . VH COMMANDS EXPEDITION - Capt. Edwin A. McDonald, formerly of Medford was commodore for the Navy-National Science Foundation's Operation Deep Freeze 60 expedition into the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica. A graduate of Medford High school, Captain McDonald is aide to Rear Ad miral David Tyree and commander of Task Group 43.1. He is considered an expert in polar exploration. -(Offical Navy Photo) terminal, how nice it would be to circle over beautiful Suisun Bay, over Benecia and the Berkeley hills, then Oak land and San Francisco with her two giant bridges, Alca traz and the Marin slopes, on out over the gleaming Pacific. But delays held the big Navy R7V Super Constella tion on the Travis ramp until midnight. When the "load up" order was given, I was seated away from small portholes with no possible chance to see outside. Just after the big plane roared down the run- Civil Service Job Open at Domiciliary Civil service examination is open for general firefighter at the veterans administration domiciliary, White City, Enid L. Brown, executive secretary of the board of U.S. civil serv ice examiners at the doni' iciliary, announced today. Information concerning ex perience requirements Is con tained In the examination an nouncement i.nd may be ob tained at the local post office or board of U. S. civil service examiners at the dom Iciliary. that the blood picture of the anemic mice improved Im mediately and soon became normal. In addition, skin grafts lat er transplanted from the nor mal mice to their formerly anemic cousins were perman ently accepted. FreshWater From Sea Now Becomes Cheaper Cleveland - (Science Serv ice) - A simple evaporation system is the basis of a new million-gallon-a-day plant to make drinking water from the sea, soon to built at Freeport, Texas. F. C. Standiford Jr. of the W. L. Badger Associates, Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., told th e American Chemical Society here, that fresh water will be produced from the Gulf of Mexico at about one dollar a thousand gallons'. He also iaid that a similar plant ol ten times the size could produce fresh water at about 35c a thousand gallons, considered to be an economical price. The Freeport plant will be the first of five large plants to be built for the Office of Sa line Water of the Department of the Interior in an attempt to case the growing water shortage In parta of the United States. Cheap Evaporators The process, which has been tested over the last two yean in a pilot plant In North Caro lina, uses the cheapest evapo rators and materials, made possible by special techniques that combat corrosion and the build-up of scale. Twelve evaporator units are connected in series, so that condensing steam from each will heat the water in the next. Temperatures up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit are used. It has been found that corros ion is largely due to oxygen in the sea water, and this is therefore removed on the way in. To prevent scale forma tion, more scale is introduced, suspended in the sea water. It is then found that fresh scale deposits nn this rather than on the walls of the boil ers, where It would gum up the works. mm iuWieMnMMMl. 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Here were the men who would join the Antarctic expedition: Dr. Robert Cushman Mur phy, one of the world's lead ing ornithologists and repre sentative of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Warren Borgeson, topo graphic engineer, U. S. Geo logical Survey. Harold Hubbard, geologist of the U. S. Geological Sur vey. Philip Smith, representa tive of the National Science Foundation whose job it would be to coordinate the scientific phase of the expedi tion. Lt. Col. Herbert Nichols, observer for the U. S. depart ment of the Army, who would serve as PIO for the expedi tion as. well as write articles for the Navy and the Chris tian Science Monitor. .-Rob'irjtrG. Miller, corre spondent for United Press In ternational. . ' Grant Powers, representa tive for "Navy Times." Colombia Representative Also on board were a color ful and charming representa tive for the Republic of Co lombia, Col. Treves Cevera Valdera, and Lieut. Comdr. John P 1 o e t Z mcterologist. Both were headed for Mc Murdo base In Antarctica. The big RTV ' was also ferrying some Navy personnel along with a cargo of mail for polar bases and an airplane engine. Later we would be joined by Robert Starr, oceanogra pher with the U. S. Navy Hy-' drographic office; Dr. Camp bell Craddock, a geologist from the University of Min nesota; Robin Leech, ento mologist of Bishop Museum, j Honolulu, Hawaii; and Ray j Butler, operations analyst and map curator, who was a mem-' ber of the U. S. Antarctic j Service expedition of 1939-41 j and author of a history of ex ploration in the Bcllingshau sen and Amundsen sea area. Amory H. Waite, U. S. Army Signal Research Devel-, opment Laboratory, now on his eight expedition to polar regions, would join us at Wellington. i Times Correspondent I The last member of our ! group would be Phil Benja-1 min, New York Times. J. Q. Tierney and R. Evans, ocean-1 ographers, were travelling i southward on the Icebreaker, : USS Burton Island from the west coast of South America. 1 It was morning when we arrived at Hlckam field on OhIhi Island, Hawaii, and, as Comdr. Jack Pill'bury whisk ed our party off to the hospi tality of the BOQ. we could sec grim reminders of one Sunday morning Dec. 7 18 years ago. A different kind of a pall hung over the beautiful Island this Sunday morning, January 25. 1980. A blue sulphurous hate from erupting Kilauea Ihi over at Knpotio on the island of Hawaii enveloped Oahu According to the "Honolulu Advertiser" persona In down town Honolulu reported they could taste the Puna volcanic gas which clogged the atmos phere to 5,000 feet. Visits Ramsey Here I had a brief visit with Rear Admiral Paul H. Ram sey, chief of staff and aide to Admiral Herbert G. Hop wood, Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet at head quarters overlooking Pearl Harbor. Our fleet here is the world'! largest Naval com mand and probably history's most powerful. With evening, departure time approaching, we made a fast tour of Honolulu's fast growing business and hotel area, topping off with a few cool and soothing Chi Chi bev erages at the Tahitian Lain!. Winging southward at 12,- 000 feet, from a vantage point of one of the R7V's small ports', I could enjoy a scene of quiet peacefulness, with a big moon off the port side. I could not help but recall that the area quite 'some' distance off the starboard was reserved by the Russians for their cur rent ICBM tests and hoped that their trajectory calcula tions were, at the moment, reasonably correct. Tropical Storm At sunset the early rays shot colorful shafts through high-piled angry tropical storm clouds below. Never will I forget the grandeur of that scene! Years before I had swabbed decks and chipped paint for seven long days to cover the distance the giant U.S. Navy plane flew in just 12 hours that nighU At Travis Air Force base 1 had met a young Hindu lad, Kanchan Lodhia, who had en listed in the U.S. Air Force at the age of 19 and had been stationed at Hamilton field near San Rafael, Calif. Kan chan was returning to his home at Nandi, Fiji Islands. As we- flew along the sun drenched tropical shore of Viti Lavu, his delight in see ing his homeland after fife years absense was only sligK ly dampened by an attack- of air sickness. Homeland Beautiful Kanchan's homeland Is, in deed, beautiful. I had expec ted it to be, recalling my visit to Suva years ago. At the Nandi airport and at nearby Mocambo Hotel, dusky Fijians with gleaming white teeth, mops of fuzzy hair and happy smiles were scurrying about like characters from a Herman Melville novel. 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