The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1949-06-29
NAVY AIDS JIRp,
DROPS SUPPLIES
ON TAKU RIDGE

A Navy ply swung over 2,OOt
foot ridge between Taku and Hole.
In-Wall Glaciers yesterday after
noon, and on signal, three loads
of supplies parachuted to an adj
vance party of five men from the
American Geographical Society.
Juneau Ice Research PROJECT
(JIRP).
The blue cargo parachutes carry
ing a complete meteorological sta
ticn, food and camp supplies anc
two jeep tins of gasoline. landed
neatly on the narrow ridge within
few feet of where advance climb
ers were SPOTTED in the high snow
fields up from the Taku River.
First men to leave on JIRP's full
summers extensive glacier study
on the Juneau ice Cap" began the
ascent to the ice fields Tuesday
morning with full packs. Two Of
the group are to remain at tho
2,00c-foot level on the ridge to Sc.
up an intermediate weather sta
ton, while the accompanying three
will proceed up the ridge to the
head of the Taku Glacier near
the center of the lice cap" where
a permanent weather station build
ing will be built from materials to
lie dropped in by plane later this
week. Food and supplies were
dropped for the advance party ao
the weather station site by JIRP
men from an Alaska Coastal Air
lines plane on a reconnaissance
flight last Saturday.
The Nays ply, with 1t. jeff
Baker and 1t. Felix Hart and a
crew of five men flew in from
the Naval Air Station at Kodiak
Tuesday to give air support to one
Of the most extensive glacier study
expeditions ever to &c undertaken
in the Western Hemisphere. The
plane and crew are scheduled to
remain here through the week to
drop eight tons of equipment at
five main camps out of the eight
planned for the summers eXplora-
tory program on the Juneau ice
field. The third week in July the
plane will return to drop in sup
plies at outlying camps on the ice.
Two seismologists from the STAN
ford Research Institute, Stanford,
Calf, arrived here yesterday
bringing with them 1900 pounds OF
delicate instruments with which
they hope to measure the depth OF
Taku and other glaciers which flow
southwark from the vast Juneau
Ice Field.
The two men are c. F. Allen,
geophysicist, and S. Miller, who
will begin their trek into the area
this weekend. One-thousand pounds
of dynamite which the research
scientists will use in setting Oft
man-made earthquakes in their
attempt to learn the secrets of the
sub-glacial rock contours is now on
its way to Juneau.
DR.. Thomas C. Poulter, associate
director of Stanford Research In
stitute, is due to arrive here satur-
day to direct beginning seismic
operations on the glacier. Dr..
Poulter, a pioneer in the seismic
study of ice, is veteran of two
Byrd Expeditions to the Antarctic,
serving as senior scientist and Sec
ond in command in the 1888 ex-
petition
Malcolm J. Creamy, local photog-
rapher, will be member Of the
second unit to leave for the lice
Cap" this weekend. A four-man
team will fly to Taku Lodge and
then go by river boat between the
Twin Glaciers. They plan to fol-
low the route of last summers re-
connaissance expedition to the
snow basin at the head of the two
glaciers where main camp and
a second weather station is to be
established. Plans are for the noun
taineers to be on the ice to re-
ceive drops of equipment made by
the Navy ply this weekend.