Show The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 23 IMS ’Copter Airlift Brings Out Stores at Little America By Walter Sullivan apparently was due to settling of the rest of the hut under the New York Timea Writer load of snow OFF LITTLE AMERICA A FANTASTIC crystallization ANTARCTICA Jan 22 — By means of 50 tightly scheduled of water had taken place inside helicopter flights the USS Atka the'eamp during the eight years last Sunday was able to move a when man and his heating apworking party ashore at Little paratus had been absent The America bring it back aboard humidity which the first occuand haul out more than a ton pants had left behind clung to of equipment everything in the form of broad It was the first such flat ice crystals At the slightprobably t airlift in the history of Antarc- est touch they shattered with tic exploration It was neces- dainty tinkling sounds Never was a Quonset hut— sary since there no longer is that drab structure 'born of any way to get ashore here exWorld War II— decked out in cept by air For 50 years there such splendor In the light of was a harbor at this point with the gasoline lanterns its walls bay ice alongside to which as though solidly enships could moor Snow ramps sparkled trusted with diamonds gave easy access to the plateau of shelf ice LITTLE AMERICA SINCE THE LAST visit ide(of the harbor hag Ijrofen Into icebergs leaving a ihidlow tMejot&Uoa in the coast now an unbroken line of ice cliffs 80 to TOO feet high Little America’s history as a base for polar exploration has come to an end Helicopters operating from a flight deck on the stern of the By Walter Sullivan icebreaker Atka are able to New York Times Writer leap over this barrier of cliffs to the” former camps at Little ABOARD THE USS ATKA IN America It is doubtful if these ANTARCTICA Jan 22 — This camps will Jong survive for fur- - Uxpedition has closed the histor- ther breakouts- of the conti- ic camps at Little America probnental icecap are foreseen When the Atka left Monday ably for the last time This Navy night to seek a new foothold on icebreaker then sailed eastward the continent at the bottom of along the coast to seek a substithe world man’s last visit to tute site from which to launch Little America may have ended future explorations For 44 years the Bay of The men who went ashore Whales on which Little AmeriSunday salvaged some small ca was situated was the chief Items which could be carried center for antarctic exploration It was the southernmost point by the small bell helicopters that could be reached by ship They lifted cameras survey- and its harbor made an ideal ing equipment medical books to unload spot expedition sup and a case of cocoa to replenish plies the ship’s short supply The THE ATKA IS on a prelimilargest item was a generator to strengthen the ship’s radio nary survey for a large United power States expedition next year It was dismantled' in the which in turn will look to the dark freezing chamber of the activities of the international d radio station NLA geophysical year 1957-5The whose voice has been silent Atka is scheduled to go besince 1947 and then flown out yond Palmer Peninsula below in pieces South America and across the The heaviest section was the Weddell 'Sea then head for base plate which technicians Buenos Aires From the Bay of Whales Capt dragged alongside the hclicop ter and heaved in unison onto Roald Amundsen began his the aircraft’s pontoon where it dash tQ the south pole in 1911 was lashed Rear Adm Richard E Byrd established his first base at the Cautiously thepilot lifted the craft two feet off the snow It Bay of Whales in 1928 and shuddered and the engine named the site of Little Amertrained The pilot shook his ica head negatively and set the TIIIS SHIP’S officers discov-ere- d plane down again Monday the the Bay of Whales had disshipfitters cut the base plate in integrated with the cracking off two so it could be hauled out of a large section of the polar in two trips icecap which has drifted out The progressive disintegra- to sea Because there no longer tion of the barrier facade is harbor the installations any which ultimately will spill the at Little America are virtually surviving camps into the sea useless was evident from the helicopBefore the Atka party sealed ters as they shuttled back and up the best preserved buildings forth The vibration of their at Little America III the 1940 engines dislodged sections of camp a letter from Cmdr Glen the white ice cliffs which Jacobsen captain of the Atka gdunged into the greenish and expedition commander was waters at the base left inside the entrance welThe crest of the cliff was coming any future visitors "smoking” with the eternal drift of the Antarctic— snow that is blown from the direction of the South Pole by constant winds This drift swirled off the crest of the barrier in white clouds that curled down and dissolved Reuters News Agency in the aea a hundred feet below BONN WEST GERMANY Sunday’s activity centered 22— West Jan German Chanen the Quonset hut built as a radio station by the Navy in cellor Konrad Adenauer Satur1947 day rejected a Russian offer to A heliport was established negotiate on German unificaalongside the poles protruding tion if West Germany discards from the snow that were the rearmament plans only signs of the camp visible In a radio speech Adenauer above the surface East-Wesaid talks at present A ring Qf trial flags marked would “devoid be of any hope a landing circle for the aircraft A signalman by arm motions of success” He emphasized his coached each plane down onto government is pressing for the snow Fifty flights were quick ratification of the Paris rearmament treaties necessary since the cargo caHe said he did not think Rusis small the planes pacity of sia could really consider West and they can carry only one "so stupid or frivoGermany passenger to as lous” give up the Paris Under the guidance of MaJ treaties in return for agreement Murray Winer of the Air Force on "a few uncertain and quesa memas who once lived here tionable points in the matter of ber of the earlier expedition of unification which would bring Adm Richard E Byrd the us into direct or indirect deworking party toon uncovered pendence on Moscow” the escape hatch in the roof The speech was Adenauer’s of the Quonset hut The crown first public comment on RusOf the roof was two feet below sian declaration last Saturday the surface that Russia would recognize Whereas the temperature West Germany if plans for West outside was slightly above German rearmament under the treaties were abandoned freezing In the hot' It was Paris statement also sugSoviet Thp 11 about degrees Fahrenheit on reunifying East talks gested Scientists ferried over by and West Germany through helicopter tested the snow "free” elections under internatmade careful measurements of ional supervision Wit did not the earth's magnetism and ex- specify what arrangement they amined the effect on the hut of bad in 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