Show on out leave after trip to An autarkic tartie sidney benson alc son of mrs gracia benson of los angeles left wednesday after a visit in tooele thoele with his sisters mrs florence los see of lincoln and mrs lourraine peterson of grantsville Grants ville mr ben son was on a 30 day leave from the navy and is reporting back to bew bork ork city he has been in the service 3 and one half years and was rationed tation ed aboard the mt olympus flagship and was in tok 3 50 0 bay on VJ day and v ith adm adin byrd on the antarctic Ant artic expedition operation H gh jump while he has been home mr benson a former tooele thoele high school student has made several talks to groups at the high schools in tooele thoele and grantsville Grants ville review ing some of his experiences on the antarctic ant artic expedition their trip down took 32 days from norfolk va then they were frozen in 3 weeks in the ice pack at little america the r destination was camp 3 20 miles inland where they unloaded 10 tons of food a years supply he said they were there from dec 1946 to march 1947 and never saw the sun or night as it stays light all 24 hours a sort of dusk during their stay there the coldest weather be low zero and the warmest was 78 below winter starts on march 21 when little america was left in 41 the camp was on top of the |