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Americans in Antarctica Trying
Hard to Get Spirit of Christmas
By DOH GUY
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica |
(jB—The men of Operation Deep
Freeze are trying hard to bring
the spirit of Christmas to • Antarc
tica—but the boys of home and
family are half the world away.
Three thousand Americans will
spend the holiday at a handful of
tiny bases on the snow-capped
continent and i in ships battling
the pack ice at sea.
Cooks are preparing for holiday
dinners. Christmas trees brought
all the way from Oregon have
been put up. There will be reli
gious services.
And the men here don’t have
to dream about a white Christmas
—there’s more snow and ice sur
rounding them than in all the rest
of the world combined.
But the effort to create a home
like Yuletide atmosphere has
brought a fresh realization to
many of the great distance they
are from home.
The largest group of men on
shore at one station, numbering
240, will celebrate the day at this
coast base of MoMurdo Sound.
Navy cook Harold D. Upton of
Colorado Springs is planning a
main course of ham, with pump
kin pie few desert.
Two bearded Navy Seabees
have built a manger in a corner
of the Quonset hut where Catho
lic Chaplain Joseph C. Condit will
conduct Christmas services for all
faiths.
Robert Barger, an 18-year-old
Civil Air Patrol cadet from Pe
oria, 111., helped arrange New
Zealand pine boughs and Oregon
fir trees around the altar.
At the South Pole base, Cook
Ray Spiers of Bowers Hill, Va.,
will serve steak to the 24 Seabees
building a station for American
scientists in connection with the
International Geophysical Year
program. A Christmas tree was
parachuted to the South Pole
camp.
•The menu will be a turkey din
ner for five men at another iso
lated base at the foot of the
mighty Queen Maud Mountains.
44 Passengers in Crippled Airliner
Have Tense Moments Before Landing
By CHARLES WEST
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (*—A young
mother prayed, using the words
of the Christmas carol “Silent
Night," and a male passenger
worked a crossword puzzle, but
“wondered if it was worth fin
ishing.”
That was the reaction of two of
the 44 passengers aboard Capital
Airlines flight 77 which landed
here Friday night on a blanket
of firefighting foam spread over
a runway.
The four-engined, turbo - jet
powered craft made the emergen
cy landing after circling the Char
lotte airfield for two hours as the
pilot attempted to remedy a de
fective landing gear and burn up
the highly flammable fuel.
Meanwhile, on the field below
the overcast, murky skies, ground
crews worked hastily to spread a
soapy foam blanket over half of
the runway.
Flight 77, a New York to Bir
mingham and Mobile, Ala., run,
was scheduled to stop in Charlotte
for fueling. When the pilot, Capt.
H. A. (Corky) Corcoran of Alex
andria, Va., started to set the
craft down he discovered there
was too much hydraulic pressure
on the cylinder of his right wheel.
Corcoran, a veteran of 16 years
with Capital, began to circle the
field. He and stewardess Eve
Madsen, 25, of Atlantic High
lands, N.J., and Helen Nagy, 23,
of Chicago, told the passengers
the trouble and kept them in
formed of developments.
Mrs. Faye Layne of New York,
a passenger, said she decided to
pray silently.
“All I could think of,” she re
called, “was ‘Silent night, holy
night, all is calm, all is bright’.”
Her son, Hayden, 7, slept thru
the episode.
Capt. Corcoran set the Viscount
down with the defective right
wheel sliding on the foam while
the left and nose wheels ran on
the concrete runway. It was his
first experience with such a land
ing but he “slid in as smooth as
ever.”
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Soviet Forces Told
To Pay Attention
To World Events
MOSCOW, The Soviet na
vy newspaper advised the nation’s
armed forces to pay “extraordi
nary attention” to current world
events and “draw the necessary
conclusions."
It cited both the Hungarian up
rising and alleged violations of
Soviet air space by American
bombers as signs of danger from
abroad.
The editorial in Soviet Fleet
was the latest in a series of “in
crease your vigilance” warnings
to Russian soldiers, sailors and
airmen.
The newspaper claimed recent
violations by three American jet
planes of Soviet air space over
Vladivostok are “proof of the ac
tivization of imperialist intelli
gence aimed against the U.S.S.R.
and the people’s democracies.”
(Russia protested Dec. 16 that
three U.S. B-57 jet bombers de
liberately flew over Soviet terri
tory near Vladivostok five days
earlier. It said the midday intru
sion was “clearly a reconnais
sance attempt on the part of the
American military forces.” In
Japan, where American B-57s are
stationed, U.S. Air Force officials
said they had no knowledge at
such a flight.”
NEWS NOTE FROM DIOMEDE
( From the ANICA News )
Frank Elasanga, the very like
able ANICA director from Dio
mede, has for his hobbies hunting
and trapping. He is a World War
II veteran, 34 years of age.
He owns his own skin boat,
which he uses for lightering cargo
and making charter trips.
Frank recently built himself a
nice new home.
Airliner Finishes Flight
With One Motor Dead
LOS ANGELES, M—A four-en
gine transport carrying 53 pas
sengers and a crew of five landed
safely yesterday after flying the
last part of the trip from Hono
lulu on three engines.
United Air Lines described the
flight as routine. A spokesman
said the fourth engine began to
miss 270 miles west of Santa Bar
bara and the pilot shut it off.
The Coast Guard at San Diego
dispatched an amphibian plane
which met the DC-6 over the
ocean and escorted it here.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CHATTCM rt. I
Order of Eastern Star
1st a Sr* Monday of each
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Worthy Matron
W Helen Dunbar
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