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If WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Invasion of World's Last Uninhabited Continent Has Been Completed By MARTIN GERSlifl"' I McMurdoSEnd and the land warm," explained 1 Equipment found in rear echelon eom- mm 5 - - VVjVSv""" v s' jjjj PRACTICED MARKSMANSHIP Floyd Davis displays the No, 8 shooting position at his Sportsdrome bhooting Kange in Dallas, Texas, where Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, allegedly practiced his marksmanship prior to the assassination. Two other men who shoot at this range have identified Oswald from pictures as the same man whom they had seen practicing at the range. Davis here is pointing to a target on the No. 8 position. This is not a target that Oswald is believed to have shot at. 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DEC. 22 50-55 59,62f 172-78-83-88 v M r3i ;4 CAPRICORN DEC. 23 JAN. 20 1t:9S.1c.4l k47.8487VS; AQUARIUS JAN. 21 -ft. 1-19-21-28 P2-37 52 riscis FIB. 20 MAR 21 2?23-39-46rCH The, Medical Roundup By Kmorltat roniultanb In Medicine 1 Mayo Clinic Sinerltui Trofemor or Wedicln Miiyo Clinlo CRtfUtsr and Trihuno Syndicate, 1963). Ml Serum Hepatitis As I have Bald several times in this column, there are two main types of hepatitis or in flammation of the liver. One Is the usually mild, harmless dis ease which we physicians have known about for centuries. We used to call it Infectious jaun dice. It is due often to drinking contaminated water. It doesn't seem to be due to contacts of an infected person with mem bers of his family, or with neigh bors or friends. The hepatitis which is very dangerous is the ono that comes usually two or Ihree months aft er a person has had a transfu sion. I was just reading an im portant editorial in the JAMA, In which the statement is made that a blood transfusion "causes death in approximately one of every 150 transfusions, in per sons over 40 years of age, as a result of serum hepatitis." That is so big a risk that no one is ever going to give me a trans fusion unless I verv definitely need one to keep from dying. Blood experts keep telling us that today thousands of trans fusions arc given which weren't really necessary; It just has be come the custom to give people transfusions when, perhaps, they have lost a little blood, or are somewhat anemic. As the editorial writer said, many hun dreds of transfusions are given In this country every day. One of the most distressing features about a transfusion of blood is that, in spite of every care that is taken, some of the sary, donors will be found to be car riers of the virus. It is a curi ous fact that the virus which lives in the donor doesn't socm to bother him at all, but if It gets into someone else, and he is over 40, it may easily kill him. In some age-groups, the Incidence of a serious hepa titis after a tranfusion runs from eight to 20 per cent which means that one in five persons can get into serious trouble. An editorial writer went on In say that if a person who jusl must have a transfusion of blood is given some gamma globulin with it, he can be saved from getting serum hepatitis. Gamma globulin is a part of tlic blood which has a decided tendency to save people from getting a viral disease, such as measles or hepatitis. The gamma globu lin can be Riven in two doses of 10 milliliters each, a month apart, the first ono immediate ly after the transfusion. At present, much of the gam ma globulin that Is available is being given to children to im munize them against measles. Fortunately, today, with the de velopment of a good vaccine against measles, there will be much less need (or gamma globulin, and then it can he used to protect people from get ting scrum hepatitis. Also, as many blood special ists have said, It will be a great day for medicine when wo phy sicians slop giving transluslons that are not absolutely ncccs- Written For UP! McMURDO STATION, Ant arctica (UPI) The invasion of Antarctica is over. Man has occupied the last continent on earth, wresting it from the grasp of a furious mother na ture whose awesome powers kept this vast land mass devoid of human life for at least 135 million years. The final assault on this white continent began on July 1, 1957, start of the International Geo physical Year, when 12 nations pooled their scientific knowledge to establish permanent stations on this 5.5 million square miles of land mostly buried beneath at least a mile of steel har dened ice. Little more than 50 years ago, a few men gambled their lives against raging snow bliz zards, 100-knot winds and tem peratures known to plunge 100 degrees below zero just to see the Antarctic. As recently as 1957, the trip from the United States to Ant arctica took 54 days aboard bouncing ice breakers which had to grind their way through rigid frozen seas. Today Americans come to the ice-bound continent on planes which can make the trip from New York in 44 hours and from New Zealand in as little as sev en hours. This summer, according to Rear Adm. James R. Reedy, commander of U.S. Naval Sup port Forces, Antarctica, some 3,000 men from a dozen nations live at more than 40 outposts, field bases and permanent sta tions across the length and breadth of this land. Antarctic Summer Most men come here for the Antarctic summer, a period of daylight lasting ' from October to March. At least 20 per cent volunteer to winter over during the dark days when transporta tion between Antarctica and the rest of the world ends for six months because of the forbid ding climate. Even communications break down during the winter period because of magnetic storms and other natural phenomena. McMurdo Station is the Am erican beach head of Antarc tica. The Navy's logistic base is the largest outpost of civil ization on the continent. More than 1,000 servicemen and scientists live here in the summer months; some 250 men remain here all year. I he station, located on the Cape Armitage tip of Ross Is land, is built on volcanic ash not unlike the earth found in Hawaii. It lies in the shadow of smoldering Mt. Erubus, Ant arctica's only active volcano, and it overlooks the frozen bay ice of McMurdo Sound. Itoyal Society Range In the distance is the stun ning Royal Society Range. The cold blue, ice -covered moun tains topped liy white froslincs of frozen snow leave even the most cynical sailors struck by their majestic beauty. It is moro beautiful than anything at home," admitted Swiss scientist Bernard Spociil, Baden, Switzerland, who is on a research project In Antarcti ca with the University of Minnesota. Air transportation to all U.S. stations in Antarctica begins from new Williams Field, a run way carved out of the 70-foot thick ice on McMurdo Sound. The reason (or the "new" Williams Field is that the old one is drifting off to sea. Each summer the bay ice breaks and moves slowly seaward When Williams Field drifted four miles south, it was abandoned and a new runway scraped in the ice. Hazardous Air Untile McMurdo Slnlion is connect ed to the nearest point of civil ization, Christchurch, New Zea land, 2,130 miles away, by one of the most hazardous air routes In the world. There are no 'alternate land ing fields for U.S. planes mak ing Ihe dally runs, meterologl cal reports are scanty, the planes can't carry enough fuel for a round trip non-stop flight and Ihe unpredictable Antarctic weather can keep a plane from landing after it arrives at Us destination. bordering the station is littered with barrels of oil, venicles, food supplies and assorted equipment brought here in sum mers gone by. The scene resem bles a wartime beachhead after the battle has passed. But while equipment in the rest of the world rots or rusts when left unattended, the cold of Antarc tica has preserved the material cast aside here. Surrealist's Conception McMurdo Station is a mixture of the past, present and future, resembling some surrealist's conception of a frontier town. An assortment of 109 insulat ed huts are clustered about the station's one main but unpaved street. The huts are made of canvass, wood or corrugated metals. The street begins at the Chapel of the Snows and ends at a huge mess hall where servicemen all ranks eat cafe teria style. Everybody includ ing officers stand in line for chow. The interdenominational chap el, which also houses the brary, is built at the foot of Observation Hill, a solid mound of volcanic rock and ash top ped by a huge memorial in me mory of Capt. nobert falcon Scott who conquered the South Pole but died on the Ross Ice Shelf en route back to civiliza tion. Half way down Observation Hill, overlooking the Chapel, are two green Butler huts which house the nuclear reac tor which one day will provide heat, water, electricity and even flush toilets for the sta tion. The reactor was installed In December, 1061, but has not been working properly, so that all buildings still must be heat ed by kerosene stoves. A con ventional generator provides electricity. Since the blinding sun never sets during most of the six month summer season, service men and scientists work busily around the clock to accomplish a year's activity in half the time. Navy workshifts are 12 hours, six and a half days a ween, but nobody seems to mind. Sci entists set their own hours. The men work better here than elsewhere because they have to if they want to keep Operator 1-C Willard Cousins, 31, of Goldsboro, N.C., now re siding at 22 Saratoga Road, North Kingston, R.I. Most of the important work of settling into the Antarctic is done during the summer months. In the winter, Navy men stand by for maintenance work. The scientists continue their experiments all year. Commissary Steward 1-C Rob ert Smith, Carmel, N.Y., said he spent one year at the isolat ed station working, sleeping and playing darts, pinochle and cribbage. And growing a fine beard. McMurdo Station's master at arms, Chief Equipment Opera tor John Hutchinson, 38, of Oys ter Bay, N.Y., devoted his win ter to studying Russian, Alge bra and a correspondence course in naval regulations. "Tourists Come" "We only worked eight hours a day in the winter because there was less to do. The chow was better then. Things change in the summer when the tour ists come," Hutchinson said. But things are changing ev erywhere in Antarctica now that the battle for the conti nent Is over. In other years sailors at McMurdo were grant ed special concessions just as servicemen on combat duty are permitted certain privileges not mands. But with the assault over and the lengthy occupation be gun things are changing at Mc Murdo. "This is the first year enlist ed men saluted me here," said one naval officer who visited here several times before. And beards, once the sign of the veteran Antarctic explorer, are on their way out at McMurdo. While Antarctica was consid ered a battlefield, money was no object and much equipment was wasted as Americans fought to get a toehold in the ice. But Congress last year cut the Navy's annual Operation Deep Freeze budget by 25 per cent, although the new annual allotment of $19.5 million will be provided for five years. But Navy Captain Marshall G. Nicholson, Reedy's chief of staff warned that scientific re search and costs in Antarctica were going up 2V'z per cent each year, and said his new budget would be insufficient. Capt. James Elliot, McMurdo Station commander, said he had only 13 mechanics to main tain 384 pieces of equipment. "Under our present budget, we're not making any progress forward; we're merely holding our own on the ice," Ellio said. OPEN NIGHTS UNTIL 9 P.M. Week Christmas Except Days Until ijl SAvf "SjfolS ! Shop Member! ROBINSON BROS. 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By this method, Uhler hopes lo determine Ihe genetic basis of Ihe blue color. Uhler savs il takes these species about two years lo grow from the egg to Ihe breeding stage, so It will necessarily be a long-term project. Blue frogs apparently are not uncommon. Since his attention was first called to them, Uhler had advertised in several pro fessional magazines in an effort to obtain live specimens. Though a number of people have reported seeing Ihcm, he has received only several. Ever see a blue frog? 1959 CHEV. IMPALA CONVERTIBLE Radio Healer, V-8, Standard Tram. $1349 PAUL LEA MOTORS 12TH AND RIVERSIDE Save Time . . . Gas . . . Coins USE OUR CONVENIENT Fluff & Finish Service 30 1Q 11 Each Additional Pound 13c All Flat Work Ironed! Drop otf your laundry on your wy to work. Pick It up In lh tvening. Bring your dry cleaning, too. Dumas Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners 30-32 N. 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