Show r Professor H Heads ads For Antarctic Dr F. F Alton Wade who I In past years ears conducted field fieldwork fieldwork fieldwork work In Moab Lot for Texas Technological College ollege Is heading a new ambitious ambitious' exploratory exploratory ex ex- effort By y means of a leapfrog technique with helicopters rs motor toboggans and ski ski- equipped transport plan planes S' S the modern explorers hope to survey and study the mountains fringing 1300 miles of Antarctic coastline The Antarctic tour will not be foreign to Dr Wade who Is a veteran of the early early early ear ear- ly Byrd expeditions He will head the first portion pf the new exploration work beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning Oct 1 and Dr J. J Campbell Craddocks of the of Minnesota will FlU take take over over t Also Afsa taking aking par pan under the exchange program with th t the e Soviet Antarctic expedition will be Soviet geologist Dr Lev Klimov The fal lung program In n addition to the Byrd Land operations includes an eIfort effort effort ef eI- ef- ef fort to determine whether Africa South America and Antarctica now far apart were once part of the same continent This will be done by seeking out the fossils of certain shellfish Penguins Penguins Pen Pen- guins gums are to be captured for fora a study on how they navigate navigate navigate navi navi- gate by the sun how they keep warm wann In the frigid climates cli cli- climates mates and how their body chemistry has adjusted to extreme cold Two dozen penguin eggs will wUl be rushed to the University of California Cal California at Davis In a a special incubator to be hatched under under under un un- der laboratory conditions ns Dr Wernher von von Braun and others from the Nation National National Nation Nation- nal n al Aeronautics and Space Sp e Administration ar arc to study an all l free Joe e tree region regIa pear near ar M Me- Me Curdo Sound Soun to see it if t IS suitable for testing vehicle and other equipment slated for landing on Oll the moon r l on Mars The scientists scIentists' wIn will o operate oper operate oper- oper r. r ate from five stations in in- eluding Plateau Station elevation elevation ele- ele feet where temperatures will register as low as 1214 degrees berow be be- row low zero F. F a record for any American outpost New teams of 35 scIentists scientists scientists will relieve relle those who have wintered at the stations stations sta sta- to continue th the studIes stud stud- les Ies started by Dr Wade and his crews w l- l |