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thing was known as the “Polar
Year.”
One of the strangest places to
which expeditions were sent was
a spot called Ft. Conger, way up
the east coast of Canada, clear be
yond Labrador, just a couple of
jumps from the North Pole. The
man in charge of Ft. Conger in |
1882 was no less than Gen. Gree-J
ley himself.
Well, that first “Polar Year”
turned out all right, so in 1932-33,
the nations got together for an
other one. Meantime, our Mr.
MacGregor had been born and
had grown to large proportions
and was busy studying the wea
ther, so they sent him to Alaska.
Officially he was “Commander of
the Second International Polar
Year Expedition to Pt. Barrow,
1932-43.” He had a fine time.
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Radio played a dramatic part
in safely guiding an airplane to
the Fairbanks airport, recently,
when Lou Joy, in constant com
munication by radio telephone
with Pilot Bert Lien, directed
him homeward when the altitude
flyer was almost literally skimm
ing the tree tops under low-hang
ing clouds, says the News-Miner
in its issue of October 10th.
Pilot Lien had emerged from
the clouds at a spot later calcu
lated to be about 20 miles south- ■
west of Fairbanks, close to the
Tanana River, and with only 300
feet between h:m and the ground
and a horizontal visibility of less
than two miles, he found the tele
phoned instructions of inestima
ble value.
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But money was short in '32, and
one of the places they couldn’t
afford to send men to was Fort
Conger, where General Greeley
had been. That grieved our Mr.
MacGregor. He believed there
was some fine weather to be ob
served at Ft. Conger. So he set
about promoting an expedition.
He got it promoted all right.
That's what this next trip of his
is. The government is sponsoring
it, and supplying the equipment,
and Mac is raising the rest from
individuals. He will take about
20 people—10 government scient
ists, and 10 civilian volunteers.
Incidentally, the volunteers will
have to chip in to help finance
the jaunt, so poor but honest
folks needn’t be nagging at Mr.
MacGregor to take them along.
It will take a year to get ready,
they have to buy a boat, and
stock it up. They’ll be gone two
years. They’ll take an airplane,
two tractors, several dog teams,
a thermometer and a few cans of
beer.
They leave next July. It’ll take
them two months to get to Fort
Conger. They won't have to
send word ahead, for nobody
lives there anyhow, not even pol
ar bears. They’ll set up camp at
Ft. Conger, and make meticulous
records, and twice a day they’ll
radio back to Washington that
“It’s 80 below zero right behind
the kitchen stove. Wish you were
here.”
Also, they’ll haul stuff on trac
tors 70 miles north from Ft.Con
ger, and set up another camp on
top of a mountain 5000 feet high.
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Sailing Schedule for Southeastern & Southwestern Alaska Ports
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Joe Harnish, Agent
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Making a regularly scheduled
altitude hop for the United Sta
tes Weather Bureau in a Gillam
Airways plane, Pilot Lien flew
upward for 1,600 feet before he
! entered the clouds.
From then on for the next 10,
! 400 feet, or until he emerged into
the clear sunshine at 12,000 feet,
he winged his way through mist
and rain.
| As the plane went upward into
i lower temperatures ice began to
form on the wings. A minimum
temp nature of six degrees below
zero was encountered at the max
imum altitude of 17,000 feet and
ice remained on the ship until the
descent was well underway.
During the flight the wind was
strong from the west-southwest.
It was a ticklish job bringing the
plane down under the clouds with
the ceiling so low, and the flyer
straightened his craft out without
delay once he sighted the earth.
From there north the going was
difficult but was made infinitely
easier than otherwise it would
have been t>y reason of radio com
munication.
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Mere they’ll study solar radiation.
And when they get tired of all
that, they’ll jump in their air
plane and hop out over the Arc-1
tic ice toward the North Pole.
Mac has an idea there might be
something up there.
One other thing. Mac says that
up in Alaska the natives claim
that you can hear, as well as see,
the Aurora Borealis. But he says
that even if it did make a noise
| you couldn’t hear it. He’s going
to listen, anyhow, on this trip.
Listen scientifically, of course. If
you hear anything this winter, J
Mac, send me a postcard. I’ll be I
in Florida.—Reprinted from The
Washington Daily News.
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