JiRP AIRLIFT ENDS
PREPARATIONS FOR
1950 EXPEDITION
With benefit of last year’s ex
perience, favorable weather and
perfect coordination among par
ticipating units, preparations for
the main 1950 Juneau Icefield Re
search Project i JIRP i of the Amer
ican Geographical Society have
been completed in record time and
efficiency, according to Field Di
rector Maynard Miller.
The Air Force and Navy aircraft
which made the supply landings
and drops have returned to the-r
bases, and the remaining a tPP
members plan to be hi the:: camps
on the Juneau Ice Cap the end
of the week.
Miller and two companions—
possibly four—will be flown to Taku
Lodge this evening, to^try a new
route up the west side of East Twin
Glacier. The U.S. Forest Service
. is considering the four-mile ascent
as a possible easy trail to the ice
field.
With Miller will be Calvin J.
Heusser, Oregon botanist, and Fred
erick A. Small of New York, who is
expedition secretary and food chair
man. Miller hopes that two others
will arrive from Whitehorse in time
to join them. They are Gerald Was
serburg. University of Chicago min
eralogist, and Charles O. Harring
GENUINE
OLD STYLE
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KENTUCKY
• STRAIGHT
BOURBON
WHISKEY
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ton, Massachusetts micro-meteorol
ogist who was on the expedition
last year.
With those who already have
made the steep climb to the Ico
Cap, this will total 15 men in the |
field by July 7, with progress well I
under way. The JIRP party, which |
will have the benefit of part-time
consultants during the summer, ex
pects to remain until winter snows,
about October 1.
Four men left Juneau Tuesday
to establish a new base (Camp 15'
on Lemon Glacier. They are An
thony (Tony) Thomas of Juneau,
on loan from the Forest Service,
who will establish a meteorological
station before going to the main
base (Camp 10' Saturday; Roberti
B. Forbes, geologist and former
parachuter who was in charge of i
the first supply operations: Arthur1
K. Gilkey, Columbia University j
geologist, and Frederick A. Milan 1
of the University of Alaska, whose J
classification is meteorology, me- j
chanics and communications.
Two twin-engine transport type;
aircraft have maintained the airlift
to supply the JIRP bases. The serv
ice sister ship of the commercial
DC-3 (like that used most com
monly by Pacific Northern Airlines)
are the Air Force's C-47, equipped
with both wheels and skis, and the
Navy's R-4D, which made both
free-fall and parachute drops.
In the seven flyable days out of
the eight days used, the Navy drop
ped a total of six tons in eight1
flights, including essentials for
four new camps.
About the same amount of equip- I
ment was delivered by the Air i
Force plane, which made six ski |
landings in three .days. The eight
day combined operation compares
to that which took three weeks last
year.
For the 10th Rescue Squadron
the JIRP operation also provided
a proving ground for pilots. Two
B-17’s (Flying Fortresses) arrived
Sunday, one of them bringing five
Air Force pilots to be checked out
on experimental ski landings.
Capt. Roy Holdiman, 10th U Z.
executive officer, made his first ski
landing of the season Sunday—the
fifth one on the Ice Cap “strip," and
made one take-off from there with- !
out using JATO (jet-assisted take- ]
off), as the snow-ice was hard and ]
firm. He checked out Lt. Larry j
Cronin on the next flight, Cronin j
making a perfect ice landing on!
his first try.
On two trips Sunday and Monday. |
several persons associated with the |
expedition were taken on familiari- j
zation flights. These included Bob;
Davlin, Ranger Mel Hardy and Glen '
Kirkham, contact man, all of the
Forest Service here; Dr. John Reed |
of Washington, D.C., former Alaska i
chief for the U.S. Geological Sur- |
Dr. Ted Dberman
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Eyes Examined Telephone 266
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director of the USGS.; William E. j
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local Geological Survey office.
Delivering miscellaneous sup- !
plies, instruments and lumber to
JIRP bases, one week-end trip of
the Navy aircraft was for two hours
clear across the ice field, chuting
and free-falling loads to eight
camps on the way.
These new camps were established
air drops: Camp 16 on Lemon
lacier; Camp 15 on the high ico
5,000 feet behind the peaks of
e Coast Range east of Berner's
ly, and another far off to the
irtheast on the divide between the
ewellyn Glacier ice drainage to
ird Lake Atlin and that which
>ws into the Taku. This base
lamp 8) is located directly on the
ternational border between South
st Alaska and northwestern Brit- |
l Columbia. Like the Berner’s j
iy camp, it is in unexplored
untry.
JUNE SUNSHINE
IN NEAR RECORD;
MONTH WAS DRY
According to information re
leased by the United States
Weather Bureau the month of June
was sunny, warm and dry. The
amount of sunshine was the highest!
ever recorded in June since the air
port station was established in July
1943.
The mean June temperature
reached within .4 of a degree of
that in 1946 which is the highest
on record. This is the first month
since October 1949 that tempera
tures have been above the normal
mean. Both the maximum and
minimum temperature readings
were equalled this June. The high
est temperature of 83 degrees equals
that of 1946 and 1948 and the lowest
temperature of 33 degrees equals
that of 1949.
The total precipitation of 1.08 was
well below the June normal and
equaled the lowest previous re
cord in 1946.
Airport Data
Highest temperature: 83 in 1946
and 1948; this June, 83. Lowest
temperature: 33 in 1949; this June.
33. Mean maximum temperature: |
average 62.9; this June 67.6. Mean j
minimum temperature: average
44.5; this June 44.7. Mean monthly
temperature: normal 53.0; this [
June 56.4. Total precipitation: nor
mal 3.66 inches; this June 1.08
inches. Maximum wind: S 35 in!
1949; this June S 35. Average
cloudiness: average 74 percent; this
June 63 percent. Percentage of pos
sible sunshine: average 36 percent;
this June 51 percent.
City Data
Highest temperature: 82; lowest |
temperature: 39; mean maximum1
temperature: 66.8; mean minimum
temperature: 49.0; mean monthly
temperature: 57.9; total precipita
tion: 1.55 inches.
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