MERCURY FALLING

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 23

MERCURY FALLING

Record Low Expected A record low temperature tn Antarctica is expected to be made this winter at the American Plateau Station. On Monday minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded at the station. Because of this scientists are anticipating that it will plunge below the minus 127 degrees Fahrenheit recorded on August 20. 1960. at the Soviet Vostok station. Scientists have discovered! that the exact altitude of the| station is 11.890 ft above seal level. This is 400 ft higher I than the original figure. Snow Problem A major problem for men! st the station lately has been! connected with snow melting activities. What at other stations is considered a routine job has become, due to extremely low temperatures and the thin air. an all-day task. This is so because the men have to haul s'edves laden with snow manually. The blood pressure of men I st Plateau Station, which was high to begin with, has now stabilised and become closer to normal. At the Soviet Vostok station, located at a slightly lower altitude, very’ low blood pressures had been recorded. All the men at the American station are fit and well. Sun Shining In snite of the cold the sun «t»q shwrrn o brightly over the stMion. The highest tem-l at the station last W3<: minus 65 degrees F" l t The »-’-m"st place among the A merman Antarctic bases last week was P lmer Station o" the AntwrcU- Peninsula wb«ro the lowest temperature v degrees above freezing point. Leg Ininries.— A motor'S’ md his r>*l'ion passenger were treated at the Chrstehiireh Wospital for nrnor inior cs suffered in a <~' , l ; won w ‘h » car at the in‘en-o-t- rm o' Tmm street ’tie*) street about 7 n.m. y— The' are John J'weoh Van Udon of 101 H-herden avenue the rider, a'l Dudlev Stace. of 18 Campbell street. Sumner.