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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH I . Stratosphere Balloon Poised for the Take-Of- f. the Stratocamp for weeks. Three railWashington, D. C. WNU Service. road cars filled with heavy steel cylinflight by a huge ders containing compressed hydrogen will the stratosphere ANOTHER in the summer of 1935, arrived in Rapid City. Thanks to the of the National jointly by the National Geo- generous Guardsmen of South Dakota and their graphic society and the United fleet of trucks, these tons of steel were States army air corps. Capt. Albert soon neatly piled along one edge of ,W. Stevens will be in command of the balloon which will be piloted by Capt. the camp. Collecting the Equipment. Orvil A. Anderson. Like the expediThe gondola rolled in by truck, after tion of last summer, the flight of 1935 . will take off from a natural basin in a journey of more than a . thousand the Black Hills, eleven miles south- miles, from Midland, Mich., and was Installed in the commodious gondola west of Rapid City, S. D. Preparation for such a flight Is or house, the entire front of which could stupendous task. From the inception be opened up. A few days later another truck of the last flight, in the fall of 1933, With the guidance of the scientific combrought in a huge box containing the balloon bag, which weighed two and a mittee appointed by President of the National Geographic so- half tons, carefully packed In a waterciety, no pains were spared to pro- proof container. The largest truck of all to traverse duce the best possible instruments and equipment for collecting scientific data the winding road down into the basin in the stratosphere. The instruments arrived the following week the generator truck of the army were to be of full laboratory size to insure the greatest attainable ac- air corps. It supplied the essential curacy. This meant that some would liquid oxygen used to make breathable air Inside the gondola during the flybe both bulky and heavy. ers stay in the stratosphere. To house these many large instruSeveral airplane loads of instruments ments, it became necessary to design a gondola larger than any that had were flown to Rapid City; and daily freight and express packages arrived, previously been sent aloft Finally, it became apparent that to their contents varying from machine-sho- p tools to delicate vacuum tubes. lift the gondola and its cargo of ap.The last of the preparatory work a into the paratus high stratosphere, very large balloon would be required. was completed on July 9. From that Experts were consulted, skilled in such time on the flight could have taken construction, and a contract was given place any day, so far as the equipto design and build a larger balloon ment was concerned. But it was esthan any previously constructed a sential that the flight be made during bag which, when fully inflated, would very special and, unfortunately, rare weather conditions, covering the contain 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. It required five months to fashion area for seven or eight hundred miles this gigantic bag, and into It went two east. At last, on July 27, the and a third acres of area had drifted in cloth made from long staple cotton. While it was being built, work was from the west and promised for the next day the conditions wanted both begun on the gondola, a globe of lighter than aluminum; and in at the Stratocamp and to the east a score of laboratories and workshops When, at noon, Major Kepner an. from New York to California special- nounced officially that the weather was ly designed instruments were being satisfactory for the flight and that the inflation would begin that evening, the i constructed. Meanwhile a site for the base camp camp was galvanized into activity. " Off for the Stratosphere. of the stratosphere flight had been chosen in western South Dakota. Guests were barred from the floor of Three considerations determined this the bowl; only men with definite choice: the point was far enough west jobs to perform were permitted in the to permit the balloon to drift even 700 camp. The balloon box was opened or 800 miles to the eastward and still and the huge, billowy mass of fabric come to earth in relatively level, unwas spread out on the circular forested country ; the record of the re- -covered bed that gion was promising for good summer had been prepared for It Bus load after bus load of soldiers flying weather ; and the site was shelarrived from Fort Meade. They were tered from surface winds. the men of the ground crew who were Making the Stratocamp. to hold the balloon in leash while the estabwas a in June camp Early poured Into it lished in the deep, cliff encircled nat- hydrogen On all sides the preparations moved ural bowl near Rapid City. It quick- ahead like clockwork. At dusk the ly became known as the Stratocajnp. floodlights in the great ring that exCapt Orvil A. Anderson was on the tended around the floor of the basin scene from the start Under his capa- were turned on and a little later the ble direction the camp developed from the hydrogen gas was started an almost deserted basin Into a bus- canvas tubes into the vast through maw of the d tling little village of more than a balloon. Inhabitants. By shortly after five oclock there Within a few weeks it had its draln-remained only a few tasks streets, to be performed the careful placing age system, and sawdust-pavea waterworks, two electric lighting of rope ends for valve and systems, a sewage disposal plant, park- the lashing on of a small mall sack; ing spaces, traffic officers, a hospital the loading of warm flying clothes and ' and ambulance. There was even a fire parachutes. e hose department with a Captain Anderson and Captain Stevwagon, two professional fire fighters, a ens climbed into the gondola; Major dozen fire extinguishers, and a volunKepner to its rope enclosed top, the teer corps to operate them, providing better to direct the take-ofa safeguard against accident in han- The outer ropes were dropped ; only the gondola and ten small hand ropes dling quantities of explosive gas. Two weeks after the camp was start- attached' to It held the gigantic bag of ed Captain Stevens went out by plane gas to the earth. Major Kepner difrom Washington, taking some special rected the final ground activity of the instruments. A few days later Maj. flight before the ascent the weighing William .E. Kepner flew into Rapid off. Ropes were slackened to test the balloons lift Ballast was adjusted City, and the flight personnel was comuntil the upward pull seemed just right plete. loads of truck and Then came the order, Cast off! loads car Freight ' the equipment necessary for a strato- the balloon was away for th on been had converging stratosphere. sphere flight Prepared by National Geographic Society, ( . Deal With Eye Trouble Without Loss of Time Of the great number of symptoms of eye disease, there are four that are outstanding in their significance, Dr. Hyman Cohen points out In Hygela Magazine, In the chapter of The Eye Book dealing with Disease of the Eyes: General Considerations. The first of these is the dimming of sight. Especially when it is the only apparent symptom, this is of the utmost gravity because it is liable to be overlooked for some time, especially when the vision in the fellow eye is good. Pain in the eye is frequently mistaken for an ordinary headache or an attack of migraine. 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