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Thunder, April 21, I960
The Bellingshausen-Amundsen Sea Venture
flrDvoftaftooir to Polloir Epeirieinice Accepted
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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
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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-
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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.
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way and into the blackness.
Instructions were given as to
procedure in case of emer
gency, the location of escape
hatches and the use of life
jackets. I was relieved, natu
rally, to note that equipment
included shark chaser and
dye marker.
In Expedition
Some of our party I met at
the protocol office at Travis
base, the others I met on the
plane. 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. Once
again, as before, I found it
difficult to realize that these
friendly, good humored Mel
anesians sprang from savage
ancestors and this lovely trop- called a visit with a native of
ical paradise was once a "can- nearby Mbengga, the island
nibal isle." of firewalkers, and I resolved
Here Bob Miller of UPI re- to come again to Fiji some
day and see the mysterious
spectacle of Mbegga tribes
men, a veritable ceremonial
"hotfoot."
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