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TV-RADIO Today's Program Schedules and Special Notes-TV Page TEE EVENING SUN LOCAL NEWS City Marriage Licenses, Classified Advertising PAGE CI BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1066 PAGE CI Antarctica: The Last Frontier 1 Optical Illusions Among Strange Effects i INSIDE BALTIMORE Of Weather; Winds Give Cold Its Severity (Third in a series of five articles.) wmmmm By William J. Perklnsoa Scienc tutor, Th Xvtning Sun October is a good time to see a cross-section of Antarctic weather, Cmdr. Vincent G.

Law remarked, as blizzard winds 'and blowing snow gusted and moaned around the single story, prefabricated weather shack at McMurdo Station. "It's the worst month of the year for flying. You'll see why we are still at the mercy of the wind and cold down here," the Chief Meteorologist of the Navy's current Deep Freeze Operation added. The giant storm that had sprung up, almost undetected, in the Ross Sea was now in its second day. Storm Condition One Two red triangular flags flying one above the other and just below the American Flag at McMurdo indicated the base XJ "4 rpA I f.

-vO sorbed a good share of ridicule and abuse for his quotations of election odds. The odds, as noted at the times of quotation, were relayed from my friend, the statistician, who remained unwavering jn his insistence that more wagering wherewithal was being offered in support of Agnew than in support of Mahoney. My friend, the statistician, also gave me his county-by-county handwritten analysis of the campaign about one week before the. November 8 election, and I took the liberty of sharing this with a few other friends and colleagues. It was not until yesterday that I had an opportunity to compare this analysis with the actual results and, despite my great regard for the statistician's reputation as a political analyst, was surprised.

Of the results in 23 counties and Baltimore city, he was wrong on only two countiesKent and Charles, both of which were carried by Agnew. My friend, the statistician, called every other subdivision correctly and came within 983 votes of predicting Mahoney's acuta! margin in Baltimore county, where 92,119 votes were cast. I may someday doubt my friend, the statistician, but it will not be soon. Laurel Left-overa Things I wouldn't know today if I hadn't gone to the International horse race at Laurel: Carlton Sickles is looking fresh and rested again after his unsuccessful quest for the governorship and plans to practice law until the 1968 elections. Then? "I assume," he said, "I'll run for something." If you're still planning a career, you could do worse than try to become a steeplejack.

John Chandler, Laurel PR boss, says the lines on two flagpoles at the track snapped about a week before the big race and the flags couldn't be replaced in time because of a steeplejack shortage An off-duty policeman and an off-the-bench judge may have good information, but not about horses. The officer's tip ran last in one race, and one of two steeds selected by the judge in another race ran third, the other out of the money. Joe Curnane, the friendly undertaker from Boston, was back in town for the weekend and had another story, this one about an elderly tightwad. Leaving his vigil at the bedside of his seriously ailing wife, he said, "I'll be gone fo a short while, dear. If you find yourself slipping, would you be kind enough to blow out the When Roger Conklin talks about porpoises, he uses expressions like fascinating, warm, affectionate and intelligent.

Then he tells stories supporting theses expressions. Mr. Conklin is from the Miami Seaqua-rium, and he was in town last night to help promote Florida. This he did, in the meantime unloading enough facts, anecdotes and opinions about porpoises to make you wonder. Nearly everyone who has seen the "Flipper" television series, which is filmed at Mr.

Conklin's place, or who has read of Navy experiments with porpoises has some Idea of their ability as swimmers and their talent for imitating such human landborne pastimes as bowling and basketball. They Communicate "And, of course, we know they can talk," says Mr. Conklin. "They use squeaks, twitterings and high-pitched, noisy, strident tones, but they definitely communicate with each other." As a matter of fact, says Mr. Conklin with a smile, some investigators think there is a definite possibility that man and porpoise may someday wind up talking to each other.

"But I doubt this," he adds, "because the porpoise sometimes seems so intelligent that I doubt it wouid want to talk to us. What we have to say may not, as far as the porpoise is concerned, seem worth listening to." Such a suggestion invariably leads to a discussion on the relative intelligence of man and porpoise. Both can learn quickly, although man often requires more incentive in the process. A porpoise will settle for a fish as incen-. tive, which is a cut below the demands of most men.

Adapting To Change The porpoise seems to have some difficulty adapting to a change from his routine on short notice. Man may have an edge here, but some wives are bound to disagree. The porpoise is big, strong, handsome and frolicsome. So is man, even though some wives may disagree here, too. The porpoise, for all his ability to batter the life out of a swimmer with his powerful tail, has never been known to intentionally harm a human being.

Too bad, isn't it, that as much cannot be said of man? About Thoae Odds During the election campaign, this dedicated servant of the reading public ab- was under Storm Condition One. All outside work and flights were halted. Not even tracked vehicles were to leave the perimeter of the base except under orders in an emergency. The temperature at McMurdo dropped to minus 18 degrees Fahrenheit or SO degrees below the freezing point of fresh water. Winds blew steadily at 20 to 30 miles an hour.

Occasional minutes-long, hut-shaking gusts hit 50 to 60 miles an hour. The barometer was standing at 28.780 inches of mercury and still falling. "Not The Cold, But Wind" The visitor who had just walked the quarter of a mile or so between Press Hut and the Weather Shack was chilled despite the nine layers of polar clothing he wore. The reason was the wind. Antarctica has its own counterpart to that Baltimore saying, "it's not the heat, but the humidity that bothers you." In Antarctica: "It's not the cold, but the wind that chills you." Antarctica weather can do strange things, Chief Petty Officer William K.

Horner, of Norfolk, said. "Winds Are Katabatic" "Look out the back window and you'll see what I mean." The view from the back window was fantastically beautiful. Mountains in Victoria land more than 45 miles away could be seen clearly in full while less than 100 feet below the window the ice shelf of the Ross Sea was invisible beneath the blowing snow. "The winds here are katabatic," Chief Horner explained. "That means they follow the slope of the hill and when the hUl drops off, the blowing snow they carry with them follows the slope downward." Reason For Beards That type of wind also explains why 4 Italy and Sicily, to a submarine castle of Fata Morgana, the Italian name for the Celtic enchantress called Morgan le Fey, the fairy half-sister of the legendary King' Arthur." Captain's Concern Capt.

V. Don Bursik, "the Hawk of Ant-arctica," and better known as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the United States Naval Support Force, Antarctica, wasn't overly worried that the early October blizzard was playing hob with flying schedules this early in the season. He is more concerned about what tha past record warm winter will do to flying schedules later this year. It may cost the Navy the use of th Williams Ice runway a month or so earlier than had been planned. There is also the fear that cracks may develop in the ice barrier itself near where the ships unload and cause a complete revision of schedules for both unloading supplies and withdrawing personnel before winter sets in.

Seals Arrive Early An unusually heavy ice break-up would also force the Navy to reroute its hose lines filled with aviation gas between McMurdo and Williams Field. As Captain Bursik, who will be 48 years old on Thanksgiving Day explained it, "you can lay hose lines across ice, but you can't just let them float on the open water. Storms and waves would tear the lines apart." The early arrival of the seals this year has added to the concern caused by sea ice and temperature reports from around the Antarctic. Seals need holes to climb out of for breathing. Normally the seals don't gnaw their way through the pack ice at McMurdo until mid-November, shortly before breakout.

Piece Of Good News This year there were seals off McMurdo Station when the vanguard of the summer support forces flew into Antarctica on October 1. The past month did bring Task Force 43 one piece of good news concerning weather. During the wintering over season, there were continuous reports that there had been trouble "interrogating" the automatic nuclear weather station built by the Martin Company and installed on Minna Bluff. There was fear that some electronic trouble had developed. When daylight returned the answer to the trouble was found.

The ike flow on which the generator had been placed had drifted around behind what is called White Island. "Really Too Close" The 700-foot-high peaks of White Island make it Impossible to use line of sight communications to interrogate the nuclear powered Snap generator, Commander Law explained. "Minna Bluff," he added, "is really too close for an automatic station. The only reason we put it there in the first place is so we could keep a visual check on the answers the automatic station gave. We can see what the weather's like ti Minna Bluff by merely looking put the window." That's another example of just how good and clear visibility is in Antarctica.

Minna Bluff is about 50 miles south of McMurdo Station. Current plans are to dig the Martin device out from under an estimated 8 feet of snow and ice and transfer it for operations at Roosevelt Island, 400 miles to the west of McMurdo Station, near thp former site of Little America. TOMORROW Antarctica's mysterious, dry valleys and a Russian named Lee. -A JT 1 i Sit Ls lL4jilLJ Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

A MAN FROM OUTER It's just Navy Photographer's Mate Charles L. Curtis, of Rockland, Maine. He is demonstrating how an Antarctican looks when he puts on his wind mask and his specially made sun glasses that protect eyes from sun. ca's equivalent of the desert mirage occurs most frequently. On four of the five days during which the blizzard blew continuously, the Fata Morgana appeared and lasted from four to twelve hours.

That's when phantom cliffs and coast lines are plainly visible. Mountains take on strange shapes, sometimes appearing to grow atop each other upside down. Other mountains seem displaced as peaks 120 miles away or more can be seen as if they were just across the ice-covered McMurdo Sound. The Fata Morgana, Chief Horner explained, is an optical illusion caused when the air is clear by the fact that the air aloft is warmer than the air at the surface of Antarctica. "Just Kept Popping Up" Rear Adm.

Fred E. Bakutis, commander of the Navy Support Activities in Antarctica, recalls that he first experienced the Fata Morgana while "flying at marginal altitude in a C-47. "We were going along smoothly and all of a sudden a mountain peak seemed to rise up out of nowhere up head. We looked again and it was gone. A couple of minutes later it popped up again risimg some 300 feet higher than our altitude.

"We never seemed to get any closer to it. The peak just kept popping up and down, getting higher and higher and higher every time it reappeared." The tall, Navy double ace of World War II held his right hand out in front of his face and bounced slowly up and down in 1 his chair as he spoke. Gear, Cold Blue Eyes His clear, cold blue eyes that give away his Lithuanian descent widened as they rose above his outstretched hand and then closed narrowly and peeringly as they slid below the outstretched hand. There was no doubt that he had seen the Fata Morgana in flight and was literally reliving that experience as he talked. The Fata Morgana derives its name from the mischievous enchantress, or fairy, called Morgan le Fey.

"A Complex Mirage" One Navy glossary of weather terms describes it thusly: "Fata Morgana A complex mirage that is characterized by multiple distortions of images, generally in the vertical; so that objects such as cliffs and cottages are distorted and magnified into fantastic castles. "The name is due to Italian poets who relate this type of mirage, often seen near the Straits of Messina between southern winds of up to 100 miles an hour or more are quite common along the Antarctic coasts. As Chief Horner puts it: "The winds in the interior of the Antarctic are usually mild. But the cold air picks up speed, like a snowball rolling downhill, as it moves by gravity from the high polar plateau down to sea level. "There are no trees or buildings to obstruct the wind build-up for more than 1,500 miles.

By the time the winds hit the Ross Sea area, they are really moving." "The winds," Lt. Stephen Riley, of Rochester, explained, "are one reason why so many men grow beards in Antarctica." Trapped In Hut The photographic officer of VX-6, who is clean shaven himself, added: "When you first come down here and shave regularly, the wind gets at your pores and leaves the face raw and sore if you shave every day. Try shaving only twice or three times a week at the most and your face will feel much better." The winds also are a source of controversy between Cmdr. Robert Miller, Mc-Murdo's public works officer and fire offi-cisls "Just today, at Outer Williams Field," he explained, "two men were trapped in a heated hut because during the time they were inside the wind had drifted the snow outside so high they couldn't get the door open. "Weren't In Danger" "They weren't in any danger, because they had radio communications inside the hut But we couldn't get anybody to them to dig them out for three to four hours.

"I think all the doors on our exposed buildings should open inward. Then when the men are drifted in they can at least open the door and dig their way out. "But fire regulations require that all out doors be based on the panic principle; that is, they must open outward. Down here, however, when the snow drifts in the blowing wind often the doors can't be opened outward at alL The snow is piled too high against the doors." October is also the month when Antarcti- that landmark that has been handpainted since it burned down on June 17. Native Dancer, the heroic Maryland gray of yesteryear, is shown winning a race on the track.

Both pictures are the work of Jack Enge-man, a Baltimorean and retired Navy officer who is better known as a photographer and author of numerous books about the military academies, nurses, etc. He has been painting on the side for years and has developed a precise, colorful, "naive" style thai has earned him the nickname, "Grandpa Engeman." His pictures remind one of the work of America's most famous modern "primitive," Grandma Moses. Mr. Engeman's topical World Series and Pimlico pieces incorporate enough enduring artistic merit to have impressed the "Life in Baltimore" judges. If this diary may advance a philistine opinion, they depict life in Baltimore more movingly than, for example, those paintings hung in some past shows that were blobby abstractions labeled "Rain on Pratt street," etc.

Various Superlatives The Western Maryland fun formerly known geographically as the Marsh Mountain-Deep Creek Lake Ski Area, has been renamed "Ski Wisp Area." The new title is less whimsical and incorporates more regional association than is first apparent, though. One of the most energetic boosters of the Garrett county playland is also proprietor of a motel in the heart of the resort which includes "Wisp" in its title. The organization called the Maryland Industrial Development Association is, figuratively speaking, dedicated to turning whatever it touches in the State to gold. And its code name, derived from initials, is Midas. A celebrated Italian restaurant in the Little Italy part of Baltimore has posted a sign at the door which states in no uncertain terms: "We do not serve pizza pies." Which is the management's prerogative, of course but the situation reminds an old Texan of the days when Texas was completely segregated.

Persons of Mexiean descent were barred from restaurants that specialized in Mexican food. J.G. The prize-winning Baltimore student poster that promotes use of the Zip Code is the work of Mark Wagner, a sixth grader at St. Anthony School, and his presentation, now on exhibit in the Main Post Office lobby, renders a public service in more ways than one. Master Wagner's poster displays an envelope addressed to "Cadet Gordon F.

Wagner, Air Force Academy, Colorado 80840." In addition to showing the correct way to address mail to the Air Force Academy, it also leads, with investigation, to the considerable confusion that can prevail if one tries to find all three military academy Zip numbers in the Post Office directory. The Air Force Academy number is listed in the Colorado State listings, not in the Colorado Springs listings as the United States Air Force Academy, not as the Air Force Academy. The Naval Academy, on the other hand, Is listed by that simple title, not as the United States Naval Academy. It appears in both the Maryland State listings and the Annapolis listings. Its Zip Code number is 21402.

The United States Military Academy at West Point, on the third hand, is not listed by name at all A simple West Point Zip Code 10996-is among the New York State listings. The same Zip number is shown in the same listings after USCC, Sta. West Point with no explanation of the initials. The Zip number of the winning poster maker, Mark Wagner, is 21206. Life-Study Art Two handpaintings accepted for the annual "Life in Baltimore" show at the Municipal (Peale) Museum are more topical, more lively and more uncontestably Baltimorean than some of the artwork in past exhibits has been.

One of the exemplary new canvases de- Eicts the last play of the 1966 World Series i Memorial Stadium with Paul Blair, of the Orioles, catching the hapless Loi Angeles Dodgers' fly ball while thousands cheer. The other shows the old clubhouse at Pimlico Race Track, the first portrait of 1 1 v'l 4 DIGGING OUT Navy men of VX-6 Squadon shovel away drifting snow piled Ugh around a C-47 type, gooneybird aircraft at Williams Field. The "field" is built atop the seven to eight-foot thick Ice, floating above the freezing waters of the Ross Sea. LIEUT. STEPHEN RILEY tells why some Antarctkans grow their beards.

PIXIES P4 0T P0 YoO tkti kicked (I Jl F3 it If I slick come "Would you teU your husband to up his hair, put on a tie and please to the fHt CAPT. V. DON BURSIK, chief of staff, called th Hawk Of Antarctica. LciJt WHEN BLIZZARD WINDS begin to blow, men head for shelter as visibility drops en the main street of the McMurdo station..