The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 26

Page iWThurv, April 20. 1972 byage Home Starts for the Gjoa ong Uv ken Wong coat inu MM "Shine for '39" program for the Golden Gate International Imposition V. ('. Preston, a model maker, made 10U models of the Gjoa to sell at $10 each as a benefit in I'J-IO. Former Grace II was in MW that the Gjoa underwent the most extensive restoration.

The City gave $22,500 and the Gjoa Foundation raised $12,00 to renovate the historic sloop. All her wooden structures except for a few beams were replaced with new oak. Only the engine, winch and windlass remain of the original fitting. Rolf H. Schou.

secretary-treasurer of the Gjoa Foundation, said the Norwegian government will spend some half a million dollars to restore the Gjoa to her former grace. She will be lifted by a crane onto a truck and towed via Daly City to Pin-Hi where a Norwegian ship will bring her to Oslo. The Gjoa's mast will be taken dow for I he trip. Tins is the mast that replaced the one that was snapped by a violent windstorm in Amundsen later paid them off with money he earned lecturing. The (I joa was locked in ice half the time she was at sea.

sailing through the Strait to Nome, Alaska The trip took three The nights were long, the temperature dropped to till below zero. The dogs got sick. The (Ijoa lost her keel when she as grounded on a reel and the captain had to jettison precious equipment refloat. Reaches the Ia The three-war trip ended San Francisco Kay on October 10. MXi.

The (ijoa dropped anchor olf Honda Cove by Sausalito. The next da she was toweil across the Hay by the tug "Alert" and followed by another tug. the "Vigilante" with music by the U.S. Marine Rand. She docked at the foot of Mission Street.

Amundsen and his crew paraded up Market Street in victorias drawn by a team of dapple gray horses. The (Ijoa was towed back to Mare Island where she was inothballed lor three years. To Hoth Poles The people of Norway presented the ship to The City on July 5. l(Mli). At ceremonies held bv the ocean Is Top i VU -A Yfk, beach, lalM) people watched the (ijoa being pulled ashore and hauled by a "donkey engine" to its resting pi ace on a pile of sand and stone.

Aimmdsen later made history again as the first to locate the magnetic Nor'h Pole, lie was also the first to reach the South Pole. In I'Xiil he took off on a rescue mission in the Arctic in a light plane and was never seen again. The last of his crew, Charles P. Peterson, died in San Francisco in Mill, lie was tift. Vandals, Neglect The Gjoa with her square yards of sail could do ll) knots when she was seaworthy.

She had a 13 horsepower cylinder gasoline engine to keep her moving when the wind was low. Her keel was made of oak; planking, decking, spars and mast were of Norwegian pine. Wind, rain, sun. rot. vandals and neglect killed the (Ijoa a by day.

Hut friends kept her alive. In llJ27 the C. C. Thomas Post of the American Legion gave her a new coat of paint. She was given new planks by a WPA in Ship Painter Union local No.

901 gave her another minium Pastry. Posman's. Europa. Rodriguez, Mt. Vernon.

Stempel's. Red Cherry, be Lee's. Golden Brown, Fantasia. Petrini Plaza. Hearing Tesls More IYeiienl Stanford Research Institute at Meiilo Park today reported that an increasing number of employers are requiring hearing tests as a condition of employment.

Loss of hearing may entitle the worker to compensation unless his employer can prove his hearing was defective before employment. Nov; in psDcrDacR! Cranes lift 74-ton Gjoa, cradled in large timbers out of its bed for loading onto flatbed truck Examiner Pnoto Conservation Issue' Bakers Add leinii lo Easier Seal Appeal Ali'm Duskin Sees a Close Ixvlationship less than a premeditated av sault against the people, landscape and culture of Indochina this is ecocide." he said. Joe Nielaiids. University of California professor of biophysics, protested the use of dangerous herboeides. "I believe the scientist has a special responsibility to protect wha he sees as a perversion of his work." he said.

John Hewallan. author ol a bombers on Vietnam over the past two weeks have "created an estimated 10,000 new craters on the face ol Vietnam. "Jungles have been transformed into deserts, forests leveled to the ground, rivers poisoned, half the total acreage under intensive cultivation has been deslrowd through defoliation." he said "This represents nothing The Easter Seal Society of San Francisco received an additional during its spring fund drive through a unique silver coin collection at 21 bakery shops in The City. Bakery customers "planted" quarters, dimes and nickels into the icing of cakes specially placed on counters at the shops as donations a providing services to the physically handicapped Cakes and Easter Seal posters were on display at these bakeries: Lafayette urge sen, Hilda's. La Seine, Knopp's, Schubert's, Eppler's.

banish, Carl's. Ha-ronial, Hokamp's, Stella Prydocked in Golden (late 'ark's sand dunes lacing the Pacific tor the past Oli years, historic sloop (Ijoa was trucked away to-iIhv to begin the long voyage lionie to port in Oslo. Xor-wy. HHl-vear-old (Ijoa was Hie first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage in She sailed under Captain Roald Aimmdsen who did what oilier explorers failed to do in lour centn-ijes: Kind a new route to the Orient. 'the (Ijoa a I i u.

which will he celebrating its W'tiJ anniversary on April has raised to send Norway's pride home where she will he enshrined in the National Maritime Museum in 0lo. Captain Amundsen and the (Ijoa (pronounced "yo-ah" were both 31 years old when they made the historic journey. The ship, originally a fishing boat, was named alter the tirst owner's wile. Youige Amundsen wrapped strips i 'I steel around the tubby ship's hull and crammed her with food, dogs, sleds, skis, kayaks, a crew of six and set sail on dune 16. -pursued by creditors.

'War How do 10,000 new craters on the landscape of Vietnam relate to the conservation movement in this country? Alvin Duskin, arch conser-wihonist, thinks the relationship is "intimate." "Our money is being drained off to support the ecocidal destruction of Vietnam," he told a press con-terence yesterday. "Unless liie war stops, there is no no tor the cities, no hope i conservation in this country." buskin, one of the leading iniiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiii The Coming Mission Stations The i i Miracle Mile" played an important part in BART planning. A rapid transit subway station has been built at each end of the famous shopping sector. The stations have brought with them attractive plaza entrances, furnished with trees, benches and extra illumination, located at opposite sides of 16th and 24th the plazas are projected to cater to a combined toted of 211,000 HART passengers a day by 1075, plus an inestimable number of persons using them for relaxing or as crossovers of Mission St, As one descends into the station, he sees huge cast i 1 1 I I. Hnwtm Concrete sculptures on lo in ol 3 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinii i mi A novel by Edwin Fadiman, Jr.

A DELL BOOK $-50 fa" 4tf book on the ecological destruction of Indochina, said bombing in the countryside has caused floods of refugees to move to Indochina's bigger population centers, "where I hey depend on U.S. economic aid." Weisberg said people "involved in the environmental struggle" will man booths at Kezar this Saturday. He said the march, which departs from Baker and Fells Streets at 10a.m.. will be led by a contingent of Viet naniese. iiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii niiinii "Tw.

mm. 1 St. stations identical i ft i Get the picture on KGO Rsdio. And the sound. 11 (W 9 r1 1 LA a'" fl-- -'A i ft opponents of highrise here, said the war has become "the number one conservation issue in the world." lie said he expected a big turnout of conservationists at this Saturday's march and rally against the war in Ke-ur Stadium.

Harry Ueisbcrg. ol the Hay Area April 22nd Coalition, hich is sponsoring the march and rally, said that bombs dropped by American iiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiniiiiiiii niiiiiiiiuii HART Si reel the Same concrete sculptures on the walls, designed and executed by William Mitchell ol London, Ceilings are acoustic pan with wood panels and recessed lighting. Floors aie quarry tile on the coucoiiiw level with terrazo tile on the platform. Sloping concourse walls at liith St are murals ol brown, gold and rust tile created by San Francisco artist Janet Bennett. She applied similar designs to the 24th St station walls in blue, olive and gold on white Both stations are 70!) lect long.

From one to the other on a BART run is only two walls by William Mitchell 0 Just see. You can win. We'll give away over $8,000 worth of Zenith 16" Space Command Remote Controlled Color Television Sets during the week of May 1 st through 5th on KGO Radio Morning Newsbeat. Just listen. And you'll win.

We'll draw one name every hour between 5 AM and 9 AM. Each hour we will play the voice of a different "Mystery Newsmaker." If the person we call can correctly identify the sound he'll get the picture! Wood panels and recessed lighting at 16th and Mission Street station minutes. From Kith to Center stop both, and they were built by ell St will take only three San Francisco architects Ralph Larson Son, con-minutes, including a Civic llertzka Knowles designed tractors till I mm I I I ML 16th and 24th and Mission M. I. if -r 'Jv "1 -J I I I I Use this entry think, poMnar'l or f.irsimilc nnd PICTURE San Francisco, CA 94102 Name Address Phone WakeUpTime (So we don't call you too early!) ABC employees and tlinr IiiHhiiI'Ip t-i lo: r.i London Escalators;.