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Show AMOS BURG PLANS TRIP Amos Burg is preparing for another expedition into strange, far lands. This time, he will do Alaska, from one end to the other, oth-er, and he plans- to leave within a week or ten days in his 36-foot ex-coast guard motor lifeboat, the Endeavour, which is being remotored, remasted, and outfitted outfit-ted at Portland Yacht club by Russell Sells, marine serviceman at the club. The Portland explorer has ta whole kitful of commitments in Alaska. He will seek materi il for two articles on "everybody and everything" in Alaska for National Geographic Magazine. He will take movies for Dr. Vil-hjalmur Vil-hjalmur Stefansson, the arctic explorer, and he will film Eskimos Eski-mos for the Smithsonian Institute. Insti-tute. Just to keep busy, he will make phonograph recordings of folklore and music of the people of the far north for the Library of Congress. ' -10,000-Mile Trip Planned Accompanied by Willis John-- John-- son of Bingham, Utah, Amos" Burg plans to go as far west at Unimak pass, , and to travel . 10,000 miles through Alaska by plane, dog team, rail, auto and boat in his quest for views and news. Johnson accompanied him on his 1938 descent of the Grand canyon of the Colorado. A new 52-horsepower Gray marine motor is being installed in the . Endeavour, this week, while one mast was removed and the other is being rerigged. The single masy will improve the conditions for making ' photographs photo-graphs from the boat. Burg said. from the Oregonian of May 16 O |