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Off to So. Pole for Night (Which Will Be 14 Months)MCMURDO, Antarctica OP—U. S. Navy Lt. Vernon N. Houk, 26, of Firebauch, Calif., went to the South Pole yesterday for the overnight shift.It will be a long night. He won’t be back for 14 months. Houk flew to the bottom of the world to replace Lt. (jg) John Tuck Jr., of Auburn, Mass., as military leader of the South Pole station during the International Geophysical Year.He and his companions will have to wait until the end of the Arctic Summer for night to come, and then they will see no daylight until next year.
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Wilkes Barre Sunday Independent
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Oct 27, 1957
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