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THE WELCOME MAT
Senator Objects
To Private Jet
‘Taxi’ for Nixon
WASHINGTON, W>—Sen. Mon
roney (D-Okla) Saturday protest
ed what he said was the conver
sion of a “vitally needed Boeing
KC-135 jet tanker into a taxi” for
Vice President Nixon.
Monroney said he had sent a
telegram to Secretary of Defense
McElroy about the matter. Mon
roney is chairman of the aviation
subcommittee of the Senate Com
merce Committee.
‘TJnless we have provided a
sufficient supply of (the KC-135s)
to fill Strategic Air Command
needs, and I do not believe we
have, I question any diversion of
KC-135s on a permanent basis,”
Monroney’s telegram said.
Party Turns to Tragedy
When Little Girl
Suffocates on Balloon
BOGATA, N.J. —Seven-year
old Valerie Viola, 10 minutes be
fore her brother’s fifth birthday
party, inhaled to blow up a toy
balloon Friday and Sucked it into
ber windpipe.
She was dead within 10 min
utes and the party never started.
Valerie’s parents phoned police
when she was unable to breathe
after the freak accident. A police
oar rushed her to a hospital in
only 90 seconds but doctors were
unable to revive her.
The last rites of the Roman
Catholic Church were adminis
tered and she died.
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What It Takes i
To Move Troops
To Alaska Training
SEATTLE, WP)—What does it j
take to move troops? It takes
plenty! i
The Army announced Friday
that 1,400 men of the Fort Lewis
2nd Battle Group, 39th Infantry,
set sail today from Seattle for
two months training in the arctic.
Their equipment was packed with:
A hundred pounds of nails,
4,000 board feet of lumber, 1,200
pounds of wood Excelsior, 13 gal
lons of stencil paint, 360 card
board boxes, 500 pounds of steel
straps, 500 rolls of moisture- and
grease-proof sheeting and 1,200
yards of adhesive tape.
Each of 28 metal shipping con
tainers was crammed with 10,000
pounds of equipment.
This does not count 61 winter
ized vehicles shipped last month.
It also does not include the duf
fle bag in which each man carries
his arctic clothing and a two
month supply of personal articles.
Preliminary instruction in arc
tic survival was given to the men
at Paradise on Mount Rainier. At j
Fort Greeley, Alaska, they will
get more training and then go to i
the Big Delta region for 10 to 14
days of maneuvers.
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Beans and Hot s Feast Enjoyed by Hillory and
Os e” Upon • • v’ng at U.S. Station at South Pole
By RENNIE TAYLOR
U.S. SOUTH POLE STATION,
UP)—Sir Edmund Hillary and his
band of New Zealanders feasted
on navy beans and hot dogs Sat
day after completing their trek
o the South Pole over 1,200 miles
of snow and ice.
The 38-year-old conqueror of
Mount Everest pulled into the
American scientific station Satur
day after camping in sight of it
the night before with tractor gas
oline left for only'20 more miles.
The five-man band was the first
to make it overland from the
coast in 46 years. Later trips to
the Pole, including the ones that
set up the 17-man station here,
have been by air.
"Glad To Be Here"
Navy Lt. Vernonhouk, military
commander of the station, and
scientific leader Palle Mogensen
went out to meet Hillary in a
show tractor. “Glad to be here,”
the lanky New Zealand beekeeper
told them.
The Americans led the New
Zealand caravan of three tractors
two miles to the spot which U.S.
scientists compute as the geo
graphic bottom of the world. It
s encircled by oil drums.
Outside the Circle
TV.o group stopped to look at it,
but Hillary did not step inside the
.rcle. Then they went to the sta
tion mess hall for their first hot
meal in several days.
The four men who accompanied
Hillary are Murray Ellis, Peter
Mulgrew, Jim Bates and Derek
Wright. Their party made a forced
march of 70 miles in 24 hours to
arrive in sight of the U.S. base.
Hillary is now awaiting the ar
rival of a British party led by Dr.
Vivian Fuchs, who set out on a
trek across Antarctica from the
opposite side at Shackleton Base
below South America.
Was Not a Race
In Wellington, the New Zealand
half a day the 1,200 miles it took
him llVi weeks to cross by tractor.
The rangy 38-year-old New
Zealander pushed on immediately
to his country’s nearby Scott Base
to begin preparations to join Dr.
Fuchs.
Fuchs messaged last night that his
12-man expedition, which has
been bucking bad weather and
tricky terrain, was within 357
miles of the Pole.
After they arrive at the Pole,
the Britons will press on to meet
Hillary at a station he established
700 miles inland from Scott Base.
Hillary said his perilous trek
proved that tractor trains to the
South Pole were feasible if econ
omy was not considered. He said
that, except for crossing crevasses,
the tractors proved superior to
the dog teams which accompanied
him part of the way.
„ i, r .ic expedition headquarters
a"'sed Hillary’s polar dash
no, for honors or a race but
to ease the route-finding burden
c uchs. Fuchs was expected to
arrive at the Pole on Tuesday at
the earliest.
A headquarters spokesman said
Hillary fully completed his orig
inal assignment by establishing
fire, food and fuel depots marked
by astrofix and arrowheads of
snow cairns along an almost cre
vasse-free route.
Dogs Abandoned
Full credit was given in Well
ington to Hillary’s mechanics,
Ellis and Bates, for keeping the
tractors going. The tractors were
originally intended only to supply
haulage between the ship and
Scott Base on the edge of the ice.
Headquarters tribute also was
paid to Hillary’s courage in aban
doning his dog teams at Depot 703
—thus relying entirely on the
three tractors for the final dash.
* * *
McMURDO SOUND, Antarctica
UP)—Hillary arrived back at Mc
; Murdo Sound from the Pole by
plane today, covering in less than
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