Show Rex Rode Craft To North Pole In Navy Victory BY GLORIA DEROS Rex Diamond a student in the surveying class at Tra Trade Tech was vas wasa vasa a reactor technician on the S u b- b marine Nautilus which cut through the ice at the North Pole in 1958 for a great US U.S. scientific and military military military mili mili- tary triumph I didn't think anything about it at the time said Rex But when he and the crew of returned to the States they found t they ey were vere heroes There were vere o 0 only n 1 y about three weeks of the year that the ice pulls back enough so that anything can break through at the North Pole and the submarine found foun 1 a spot on August 3 1958 The Nautilus u uses use s e s the same navigation system used in rockets It can stay down for 49 days at a time and has traveled miles mileson on 14 14 ounces of fuel A leA submarine isn't a bit cold and its it's really very comfortable said Rex He was vas discharged f from r o m the thes s service in 1960 and will finish his class in surveying in May after which he will vill work vork in construction as a surveyor At t the h e time of t the h e Nautilus t tr triumph r i u m p h Russia had orbited its Sputnik and was vas using this to the utmost as a propaganda victory But the North Pole breakthrough gave gavie America something to cheer about Before the North Pole adventure only f four o 0 u r people knew What the Nautilus was ab about ut to attempt One of them was President Ei Eisenhower and the others were ranking high-ranking Naval officers Rex Diamond a native of Springville Springville Spring Spring- ville yule is the only Utahn who vho was on the Nautilus at the time of the first North Pole visit by a submarine Although Rex was vas on that sub he didn't get a chance to see the country except through a television set which revealed only something that looked like clouds and snow The story had a sad sea sequel u e 1 though Last y year e a r the skipper of the Nautilus on that North Pole trip and 15 other former s shipmates of Rex's w were e ere r e lost when t the h e submarine submarine sub sub- j marine Thresher dived to its destruction destruction de de- in the Atlantic J |