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Show B. II. S. AUDIENCE HEARS MEMBER OF BYRD EXPEDITION i Raymond Mercola of Chicago, Illinois, youngest member of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's first antarctic trip and his flight over ov-er the south pole lectured to a large audience at the Bingham high school Thursday afternoon. He told of preparations 'made for this trip to Little America and experiences of the ccmipany there. He said that there were only three days out of the year that a plane trip could be made over the pole and that Admiral Byrd picked one of these days for his flight. Mr. Mercola is lecturing to different high school student bodies throughout the state. He was seventeen years old when he went as a. member of the expedition. The trip took twenty-two twenty-two months to complete. ' w |