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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1960)
4 a Co) ' . 0 Bit T t ' eilmasMuiettWDl 4 s rine dsen iea F5 - 6 tc-r f-t a hill' .. . 1 1 I . ., 1; II rail Ciiileffi M - - - ' m- ' - - Jr o - - Sir Craaa !eftiewi (Wilr' ot Tfi i nor ia th tarl ( iosWl (nrH Xcli Sraf ' cunt of lri i kaictia a a .W ofeaHTw a tk 0ia. Tafictr't irticle wrriB lh ion"f t f la ilai Sir Viaiaa 8 ne a? Mail Trifcuna JUaarliraa Msnseej It'wM not until 40 p.m. OUcier, most powerful icebreaker in tha 1m world, was bl to awash her way to the side of !be little maroon ahip. In the tradition of the w a. f.ngK wen dird. Lining the rail of the Danish ship were the 61 scientists and members of the crew, relief showing in their factta. Sir Vivian Fuchs, who won fame in this bleak and chilling land, was on the bridge with the Kista Dan'i captain, Kag HineV brg. . Far In the distance, nearly the rayi of the setting sun on Alexander I Island. Immediately the Glacier began sn almost round-the-clock battle of freeing the beset ship, .lanes Ship list the USS Glacier ae the world'a most powerful tug with the power ol 10 conventional sea -gome tugboats. Thie talent of the icebreaker could not, however, be put to aood u.se. Her tavline was Kills Dan'a hull construction. Twice the smaller cable of the Danish ship snapped in two when attempts were mede te tow the vessel through the ice. The alternative was to clear the channel through which the smaller ship might follow under power, utilizing the awlrline hack-wash from the Glacier'e churning propeller to help move great blocks of ice. the Americen ship, designed to 10 deareaa. wae in constant use This tent 140,000 gallons of from side to iide when the vessel fcung ob top or the ice peek. When darkness fell, Sir) Vivian Fuchs, Captain Hin4.i nerg ana in scienusis im crew of the Kista Dan paid us a friendly visit, and enjoyed a moving picture show at the two ships moored in the ice. I met Sir Vivian in the cap tain's cabin on board the Gla cier that night. He voiced warm p r a 1 1 e for Medford made Tucker Sno-Cats and I knew he meant it, having read his dramatic account of the crossing of the Antarctic continent in the National Geo graphic magazine kid in his book. The British explorer told us how the Danish ship had not moved for 13 days when a sud den northwesterly wind closed the ice pack like springing a trap. The stern of their vessel was raited five feet above the water line and the Kista Dan listed over 10 degrees because of the ice pressure. It was a severe test for her heavy all ateel, egg-shape hull. Wina Ease Sri? . A change in the wind final ly eased the grip of the ice, and the ship assumed an even keel. "We began to feel that one leg was little longer than the other," Fuchs told us with a smile. "We felt that a bit of help wouldn't do us any harm," he added. Leter in the evening the Glacisr'e captain was back at the ehip's conn-controls, driv ing the icebreaker back and forth along the most difficult few hundred feet of the chap nel through which the Danish ship would be led the next day. Below deck, hour after hour, the noise of the laboring engines was deafening; vibra tion shook the entire ship as the icebreaker hurled herself Into hard ice like a great bat tering ram. Change to Goad At daybreak the men of both ehipe nervously eyed the wind, whkb could tighten the Ice is a giant vise anal beset them foe the long dark Ant eretie winter juel ahead. For tune!!?, however, .i change wsa for the goo. Tt win ablfteg around ae swept tf? tee rainier reiwneu'a froat tna east n goutfe. It tta'.pa4 to speed the rescue. ( Uaing Iter orange helicrtp tort te eeaut the wa ana final (ha leads Ha (J'io bto&g a trtfil t ahtul88 mils through ttt in iq Mttina th 8is'j T)aO te eras waive, 'Such o?i s tfeaseos wuafflia tonfeiMto ithfr on ft. fi9ie ftfarnoon. QHijriui' ($) th two wiips part?! in tile) 9 flfW trieiajy jsjewens tvw .o'W by radio. The (B&m AOArican stfTf turped fav KiO'-S) on Vj'er xoa Bgll&r ititt vessel and fielded irth ftr tf inland passage thg) PSlmer Ayehipelago, fj.8 ihiEiQiless sCS(Qry and "mi a fcsii ii Ittlf o Sunday, March t. that th 100 miles away, we could see the white crevaised elopaa of too large to use because of the The unique heeling system of artmciauy rou me iceorsaaer to looaen the grip or tna ice. liquid balart shifting rapidly many aesie. whalee n4 pen- guins. Wa were amused at Sir Vi vian Fuchs' noncommittal at titude throughout the opera tion. The small 1,500 horse power Danish ship was so solidly beset in an icepack that the Glacier's 18,900 avail able horsepower was hardly enough force to penetrate it. When wa arrived at Buenoa Aires later in the month, we found that the "Buenos Aires Herald" had devoted en en tire page to the Glacier and the Fuch'a affair. Thai heed lines read: . . "Fucks' mastespiace f -exav .dftTilsiemsBt, 'Siaa tb sg you if you're tki way' Double R as cut ky U... Glacier. TaaT juat vaa'i admit it aaa reatrua kat of couaa is Ywsl" e So, Sir Vivian'a farewell remark wan: "Thank very much for your help. It was for tunate for us that the Sen Martin asked for help. It will enable me to accomplish at least two mare week of our programme. Goo4 luck." With the successful pene tration of the Bellingshausen sea, plus two assists to beset ships, the Glacier pointed, her bow toward her home base at Boston. It wa to be a leisure ly trip, marked with a few goo ''-will visits, bird banairsg, ilecffonis Brains Talk Over PUsfies Canoga Park, Calif - (Sci ence S e r v i c e - Electronic "brains" are talking to each other over telephone line and microwave redio. They ere helping to manae th devel opment of some of America' big rocket engines. Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc., has link its engineer ing labs and test stand in Cal ifornia, Teiaeanj at iestmrl by leasts' win to two big "bi'ains" at fiaaSquarter hare. The th "bri9f' Witt by xe io wub Worth . Arrariean tVviation, lac., "brains" in Los Aria:, Thxa coBiputwrs tatfc about miitale bgiag developed. Stay cSat bout, whether (. grogrttsi itfon f lioSuteor not, Wf'. P8rt. rd ia rt ip ply, how tha profhictioa lirW prJ)iir flfh'Si.h' tiiaro.B):t iRithin th bud- their own. They comse in this mathematical langi2e at a rateQ! 7J.000 "words" a minute. ' 0 By keeping track of all the details ois-iuildinP missiles like Ttior and Atlas, the ma chines are expected to save $30,000 a month. tmt eth I Hslly DiffillT Acrow fort Office PHONE SP2-Wt We S1H GIH STAMPS QAgtom, 1 '-' - i r-- , ";t-r- " tsc -" f -k- I - ; ' . ' " ' X I 8b!83taiaitiiitii-- f ISLASD HARBOR Glimpse of the harbor at Deception Island, formed by the crater of a volcano, with the famous ornithologist. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, of the Ameri can Museum of Natural History, New York. seal counting, oceanographic stations and inseet studies. With a bright polar sun glistening on glaciers anfl ice bergs and turning th sea to a veh'et-blue, the ship slipped by the Biscoe Islands, rounded rounded Amver Island anS skirted Brambant Island into the de Gerlache Stiit, the fabulous innejf passage of Ant arctica. Here is soma of the world's $nost spectacular and beautiful scenery! S arrow Pttcaga With nippy breei blow ing, whales frolicked in large numbers as the ship slowly taverstd the miles of narrow passage. Hundreds of crab eater teals paid little atten tion to the Glacier and ker Kodachroma crew as they basked on chunks ol pancake ice. For th first iim in weeks, many species of birds wer out to greet u- Perhaps the best know islend in the far south Atlan tic, mad famous in sea stor ies of whalers nd windjam mers of the 19th Century, is Deception. This doughnut shape island, with its large harbor, is actually a volcano with the harbor a crater, very much lik another volcanic island I visited year ago in th Samoan group in th' South Pacific where legeri' dary Pago Pago is located. Deception Island, discover ed by Cptain 381 S. Palmer in 1820, is similar to southern Oregon Crater lake i? it had a narrow passage end was surrounded by the sea. It 3 similar in size, too, with en approximate diameter of miles. Mt. Pont 5 the highest slope 1,890 feet high with a glacier having alternate layers of ash and ice. Ola Wheiieg Staiiea The old whaling station, es tablished more than a half century ago, was in shambles, destroyed by a British cruiser in 191 to forestall its use by German commerce raiders. There are three tiny bases 1 " ; - ( TiSSKi. Ctt&Mfty i ttetf Portable 6-g j ' A f"$9 C6TS USIJMii a kaift-inf " " K7i q If requires NO plumbing pg9! 3 W f ' fke up HO cabinet space! 1 iC) i ADCJj a mavaabfa ceunfer top spasa I Sew I fef fPP'fS I i fV .1 -- -' And G-f it mors advanced tfhrft any 1 I - Horn Appliance Co. Famous for Top Quality Service aD j3 o SUiY, A? Freeze 80. on the island, opertd by the United KiniSsai, Argentina and Chili. We visitelt the British me-i teft-ologicai station, near the ol whaling station ruin along a beach lined with great bleaching whaift bones. Seven mtn are si t Uoned thera in the summertime, five in winter, and our welcome was a warm one. lam Jackson was station leader; Roger Matthews, ma- Stan hmi m lit Ssmrttfan Pittsburgh (Science Serv ice) All th kinds of stars now known can b found in each of the two main stellar groups, Dr. Wilhelmine Iwan-i owska of Perkine observatory, Delaware, Ohio, reported toi th American Astronomical socity meeting sr. Th Pofisfi astronomer, who on leave from the Observa tory of Copernicus university, Torun, Poland, said that stars can be 'assigned to one of two large groups, known as popu lation I or II, depending on their origin in a galaxy. This division hs been accented bv astronomer for several years. Dr. Iwannwska's new sug gestion i that tha different kind of tai-4 - red or blue giant, dwarfs, whit dwarfs, planetary aebuls. novae or other kin& of variable stars should not ba assisned to one population typ but can oc cur in both. This arrangement would al low for considerable rang of ages with the possibility of present star formation in both population type. Astronomers hava found stars as young at) 300,000 yars and mora than three billion years, Tha pres ent classification of a Star, Dr. Iwanowska reported, results from its population type and age, with Its life history be ing governed by its mass. musk, main 1, Cape pigeons dot the waters of the land locked harbor. This picture was taken near th small British meterological base, visited by the USS Glacier during Operation Deep Official Navy Photo) teorologicai officer and Flight Lieut. A. H. Lord, Hs?yai Air Force and pilot of the litU Beaver airplane on a sr!! field neerby, and others who came and went, saw ftat we were entertame! in. the gal ley and small corner "gub." Everything at this uniqu base is housed in a sirg'a building, with all activities ra diating from the small livir-, and sleeping room with it small peat stove Like the crew quarters of th Argentine icebreaker. General San Martin, photo of American movie stars are popular pin-upsj i found. Over Roger Matthew bunk 'as a life-size lithograph of Ava Gardner. Among tha hwkie dogs staked outside was old "Spud," a friendly old veter- Big Lidy 5M Has 114 Imhm Washington (Science Serv ice) - "A marvti in fish ob stetrics" has been brought to light in a world-wide census of shark attacks now being conducted under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution here. A pregnant female shark; containing 11 embryos, each about 10 inch long, was found off the Hawaiian Islands. The total mass of em bryos amounted to about five gallons, probably a record for the fish race, Dr. Leonard P. Schuliz, Smithsonian curator of fishes, reported. The shark belonged to a species of the bramble sha.'k, with a body covered with short, sharp spines. About JO f wt long, it is not really dan- gerous and dwells on th bottom in deep water, gtldom coming near enough to the surface to molest humaaa. As far a It known, th spe cies is not especially numer ous despite the apparently enormous birth rate,' an o foi iaW is 8gnt" j be !.tca j Cida6t6a, 1 ;rolhrj alcg Ova U t)tS clouds 9 aseam r.a psi ; t !'::: waieit) !! its! ..t t at. a ! . .e w:. wa'.er wa a imn4st !t fjaiptirt !tia, it ol- cax. In !! an ets'.huaa occur !! which lottrg tit totloffl c th ijarbot lj It. In th Giacser'a li'5e Ciajan ian4 cruiaer, wa beaded ba.-s to t'r ship by way of the har bor entrance so that we might inspect tiie wreck of a whal ing ship impaled m the rocks. Although few ships visit this remoia little land-lockea har bor, two hapfjened to meet at th annt tsmSj in the narrow entrance, a rar quirk of fate. That was eight years ago and only one survived. There are reminders of other sea trage dies in the tiny censs'Scry near the British base. With Ensign Philip Smith, Glacier gunnery officer, in command of the little cruiser, we headed back across the harbor, drenched with saiiy spray and riding high on the wind-tossed waves. Our visit to Deception island will long Se a pleasant memory the hospitable Britishers, the fas cinating iflstory of the island, the picturesque setting. V mt. - M it V Tx? . km W M m m 1 (f4 , ertytim vo wont a) REAL TSfAT, sheet this grand-totting fiESTA ICS CREAM , , 't o combinoHon f fhm tb burterfof from Rogu Rivtr oiiy eiairy forms PIUS Shot eddtd !srdini -NUTRSMIX-whith gives added energy and "oomph." ADD te this th fin) ef flavoring. AND th kil) of Jorgtrtttrt't Dairymen end you have th FINEST ICI CREAM YOU CAN SUYi " - - - -v" , ' - - - -- f s 411 i -Si COiBaTIVE 1Z This picture, taken by helicopter Majch 8, 1940, in the icepack off Marguerite bay, Antarctica, shows the comparative size of the USS Glacier and the amsSer Easish polar ship, Kista Dan. The j J ' ' ' aN I l lk l Of Tops Always Ask for "Jorgensen's v American Navy vessel interrupted explora tion in the BelHnghauscs and Amundsen seas Jo rush to the aid ef the Argentine Navy ship. General San Martin. The rescue of the Kista Dsn followed. iOifscssi Navy Photo) V ainiic,fni In Taste! it 9. (6)
