De Soto County (LST 1171) - Naval Cruise Book

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I-IEADED HERE - The .USS De shown plowing the Atlantic Ocean stop at Rochester on Great Lakes to build up good will for the Atl Fleet Amphibious Force. An LST I to SI-IE'S -A BIG 'UN - The Uss DeSoto -County, the Cunard Lines freighter and a passing rnotorbpat in the foot ship, which will be open 'NaxyfLST visiting the Port of Rochester, dwarfs a harbor. Belowfvisitors swarm over dooir of the'442- here through Sunday. It - THis is the Navy LST USS De Soto County, which is ciue here 'today for public viewing tlmghtn meeting John S' LS Used in Cuban Crisis Duemem e av if The LST that evacuated 92 persons from Guantanamo Naval Base during the Cuban crisis, the USS DeSoto County, will tie up at the Port of 'Rochester this afternoon for a five-day stay. The 442-foot craft will display S15 million worth of exhibits, and Navy frogmen will demonstrate their equip- ment and techniques. The DeSoto County also will carry a Navy helicopter, the Sikorsky Hl9, used extensively in antisubmarine war- fare. Color films of the Navy-Marine Corps team in action will be shown on the LST. Called the Cine-Globe Cruiser Theater, this show is similar to the one at the Navy's New York World's Fair exhibit. Marine Corps firepower and equipment will be dis- played, including a giant 8-inch, self-propelled howitzerg an M48 medium tank, and a track landing vehicle known as a Night audience at the U.S. Naval Rest 131-S have io be Spent to Navy Comes Through with Assisi' UR Researchers to Probe Lake By JOHN VAN BUREN Democrat and Chronicle Science Writer .With assistance from the U.S. Navy, a team of Uni- versity of Rochester researchers tomorrow will probe the bottom of Lake Ontario about a mile off Braddock Bay. , They are planning to take a series of core samples from the lake bottom at various depths and to make un- derwater photographic studies with the aid of Scuba divers. The work will be carried out in the area where an artificial reef of junked cars is to be created. The reef would attract fish, according to the sponsors nf the pro- posal. Dr. Robert G. Sutton, chairman of the UR geology department, and Assistant Prof. Edward L. Towle of the UR Canadian Studies Program explained that the re- search project has several purposes. For one thing, the researchers want to get a clear idea of what the lake bottom looks like before the auto junkyard is established. By repeating the studies after the reef is made, they will have a basis for measuring the effect of the reef on currents and the deposition of sediments. The UR researchers alsorarg inter-oehsd in +1-oana Q.. mobile foxhole because it movesfronj onto a beachhead to penetrate, inl The ship will be open for public to 5 P-HL on Wednesday. Friday andnow tied up at the Port of 111 12 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, with a day Thursday. The 25-voice Marine che in a concert with the Monroe Count? Sunday at the Ontario Beach band In conjunction with the DeSoto Adm. John S. McCain Jr., commando U.S. Atlantic Fleet, will be in Roches ' He is slated for three addresses the Four Ocean Challenge to Bausclii tive and supervisory personnel, and ' eon of the Government Affairs Counci of Commerce and the Industrial Ma Rochester, the other on Showdown 2 R .S. Fleet .rlhcaI, ays' Admiral ice Admiral John S. Mc- i Jr. commander of the :ed States Atlantic Fleet , .. NU, e p hlb10llS r ..-,. A -rr' .-. i ,A,,, , s, said last 5 fig.. it that the r o, ..., NEWY '-has reached a fli- tical point o b s o l e s - re. e addressed ..a sQ,isgt' a Veterans' Vice Adm. attended by McCain Jr. serve, the American Legion and Veterans. 'of Foreign Wars, held in the Naval Re- serve Training Center. The admiral was here in conjunction with the visit of the LST USS DeSoto County, Rochester. The public make shipboard visits 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, morrow and Saturday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Simday. Referring to the mothball fleet, Admiral Cain' termed it only a gap under the best of circum stances. The ships, he added still deteriorate in and' when they are missioned thousands HY them up to date. He continued: Less than ships have ' V-J Day have in our fleet 850 ships. More than by analyses of the core samples. Fo 1 the late UR geologist, Prof. Herr! Um' S111 bulidm and postulated a theory that the lake wa P E sion program by the this year, and at the pres ing the glacial 3395- The UIEOFY WC rate over 300 will be o , l fossil remains of marine life are uniletef' ' The project was speedily coorf Adlllifal MCCHU1 Said from the li-1ke'S dim past might wel them are obsolete and something radical happens . . . y X act, con end former Navy salvage officer, after 'United States must rconiflgl USS De Soto County, a Navy LST, Eoigafhgglz week. The Navy agreed to providetical, eggnqmjc and other e ui ment and crews for the ri Our 'sea owe-.r h E350 vy LST Due Heie Tomoirow water come and fum, mon memsifrmgi-h fffgivs Us the .C?Pa'- Lsr L d' ' - ' ter Sports rlgivers Club :ill use tab'-my of applymg Sufflclenty - C an mg Ship' -A 28 foot Polaris photographic Studies for the researclpressme to defeat guy moveve times as large as with mock warheadg a that Lhe Communists com-d War Il counterpart pionship Marine Karate team biO1oggt'UiZh1 1f5aiL0Hj,fgEitCg1ggmit.i' . F U Fu ive at the Port .of a demonstration squad -- and Marine project, and Columbia Uaivoi-says Lamont Geophysical Ochesief tomorrow to BWei Ff021I1eIf': an M-18 Marine shown. fl P p . ,e , In adaiuoo, Eastman Kodak co. 'must have Sufflclen been the er Theater w h i c h S S emi - circular creen. A movie Obsel-vaio,-y has loaned 3 nigga,-,iype coriug device. chester area residents aitank and a self-propelled 8-y . '. be yesterday. wer and technique. rus, and an anti-tank hicle' 0 In to 5 pm' I Dr. Sutton explained that sediment core samples Ab carrying six will be taken at 20 specified points fiaed by triangula- De Saad Eginggogjggjnusitgqi eter ns and called the Uontos, and Saturday, a noon to 5 m The COUPE,-anon has been excellent, Towle Smd ok at Navy and Marine fire- mch homtzer, 3 Marine cho- 1 'Ighe ship will . . ., Z ii 1 - ll H f 'l t tion. They mil be taken at depths ranging from 10 to 45 three .month tour of tgh feet. Analyses of the cores is expected to take several Great Lakes are 184 months. Norman Rukavina, a UR research assistant in A 125 ' meh, QAAIAR.. Jmu -..a,n.. ,Q..u..... r.. nas- ..x.-.. ..a.ir.- ---s , , for 'fthe thin h p. . , Marine choral gry' Monroe C o u n L will give a co

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7 000 Erie and area resl were conducted by Navy and aboard the USS Marine Corps personnel. fl County at the Public The day's activites were high- p es seaman s lighted by an underwater demo- a Marine lition team demonstration at 6 p m., when frogmen were lined b lucked from the bay in a mock I mn .fr , sea rescue. I events will occur Maj. John A. O'Brlen, com- Weaver, the Marine karate team will attend o F MA N is nnssue, a yeuow Navy helicopter, a three without glasses and watched demonstrations of during tour of the USS DeSoto County at the ,day's activities was a mo k ad a demonstra' n an Clubs In the Bostonl area residents yesterday saw c A.n underwater demolition team from the USS DeSoto County presented onstration for visitors at the Public Dock Tuesday night. A bright The USS DeSoto County approaches the Public Dock Monday to begin a three-day open house. The Navy. LST, complete with a Marine detach- ment, will give a variety of exhibits during its visit here as part of a Great Navy helicopter participated in the free show, during which frogmen Lakes tour. were plucked from the bay in a mock sea rescue. HOUSE CONTINUES RECEPTION : GWARMEST, to hispeciiw tp SS DGSOU' To Sem ,E 'i HOUSE SET SS DeSoto ere Today ta li ding officer of the ship's detachment, will b ' at the noon meet Exchange Ciub at th Club. on Tuesday, the be on the Jeanne on WSEE-TV. Rep. and Navy band from will participate in a ceremony at Todayfs Timetable The USS DeSoto County will be open to the public from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. Wednes- day and from 9 a. m. to noon Thursday, with an underwater demolition team demonstration scheduled for 2 p. ni. at the Public Dock. . tio by years teon Cpl. Earl Chrlsteon Cpl. Frank Poilluccl . . . hard fall ahead arines' Bare Hands To teal -Age Show LETHAL--The most basic of all weapons-the human hand- wlll be given a prominent place ln an exhibition of modern U.S. Marine firepower Thursday when the USS DeSoto County ar- rives ln Buffalo for a four-day stay. Although lt is the nuclear a-ge, visitors to the Niagara Frontier Port Authority pier, 901 Fuhnmann Blvd., will be surprised to discover that an 800-year-old technique of hand- to-hand combat, karate, ls re- lied on heavily by today's ln- fantryfman. n board the 8,000-ton tank iding ship CLSTD DeSoto Coun- will be a .four-man champion- lp team from the Camp Le- ine, N.C., Shorin-Ryu Karate ib to demonstrate daily the htnlng-fast moves and awe- ' wer of this ancient Chi P0 . . e art of bare-hand fightingf ECEPTIVE-Director of the is a mild-ma-nnered clerk- ist who, in his spare time, has so mastered the deadly science that he has attained one of the highest degrees of skill in karate, the Black belt. Cpl. Glenn R. Premru of Pittsburgh, Pa., is now a qualified karate instructor. runner-up in World Karate Chicago two Earl Chris- Ill., Cpl. Stoughton, a rl Joining class The team, which has tenta- tively scheduled some exhibi- tions for groups ln the Buffalo area during its stay, will be aboard the USS DeSoto County from noon to 5 Thursday after- noon, and from 10 in the morn- ing to 5 ln the aftemoon Friday through Sunday. They will dem- onstrate their skills at regular intervals. CHORUS, CANNON-Among other features of the USS De- Soto County, whloh ls touring the Great Lakes area this sum- mer, a re a 26-man choral group made in of the 2nd Ma- rine Division Security Platoon, a Navy Underwater Demolition Team, and several mechanized weapons such as a tank, howitz- er, helicopter, Polaris missle, landing vehicle and O nto s tank-killer. Four area Marlnes are serv- ing aboard the craft. They. are L-Cpl. Gary C. Nelligan, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Nelligan Jr., of W. Yorkshire Rd., Chaffeeg Cpl. Robert D. Best. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Miller, of Rt. 238, Darien Center, Pfc. John H. Cauley, son of Mrs. Sarah Pat- 'terson, of 2816 Tenth St., Ni- agara Falls, and L-Cpl. William Crawford, son of Mrs. Willie- mae Crawford, of 105-B Willert Park. COURTESIES - and it l I1 Extra Da The ship's band punched out a LST here an extra day, depart- uund of bright, syncopated ing Thursday afternoon. nes, and the USS DeSoto Coun- Mayor Chalres B. Williamson eased up to the Public Dock termed the DeSoto County not d what its skipper termed only the first arrival at the re- pe warmest reception we've furbished Public Dock fwhich d so far. was rededicated shortly before n fact the size of the dockside the ship tied upl but the first big Ewd prompted Lt. Cmdr. Hor- attraction of the summer. D.M J.to Alth hth hihdb ann r announce oug e s p a een he hopes to keep the Navy scheduled to sail Wednesday for Mayor Charles' B. Williamson, left, a former LST skipper himself, receives the plaque of the USS DeSoto County from its commanding offi- cer, Lt. Cmdr. Horace D. Mann Jr., shortly after the vessel arrived at the Public Dock. ' Working together, Mayor Charles B. William- son and City Council President Michael A. Can- navino cut the ribbon Monday at the official re- dedication of the renovated Public Dock. The re- construction of the superstructure and resurfac- ing of the dock itself were supervised by the Erie Port Commission. I 'Port Commission's efforts - . l t I E ' Toledo, Ohio, the next stop on itinerary, Cmdr. Mann said will have the vessel open to t public from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.1 day and Wednesday. Th we'll be open Thursday moi ing, leave that afternoon, a steam all night to reach To do, he added. The ship-with a crew of sol 200 officers and men, plus a 1 man Marine detachment-vi: ed Ogdensburg, Rochester a Buffalo, N.Y., before reachi Erie. In addition to tours of I vessel, the public will see u.nd water demolition exhibits, ns copter rescue operations, M ine karate demonstrations, a performances by the M a rin chorus. I hope everyone in Erie v visit us, Cmdr. Mann declan In fact, since my wife is fri Oil City, we'd like people fn miles around to come aboard. Cmdr. Mann presented t plaques to Mayor Williamsol one, proclaiming Seapov Controls the Land, from 1 commander of amphlbia forces ln the Atlantic Fleetg a the second the ship's plaq showing the alligator symbol the amphibious forces, Bra Bold, Resolute, commemor ing the visit to Erie. The ceremonies had spec significance for the mayor 1 for his executive assistant, Wesley Martin Jr. Mayor li liamsoncori-imanded an IST the Pacific during World War and now holds the rank of cc mander in the Naval Reser while Martin retired from Marines several years ago as lieutenant colonel. Cmdr. Mann termed his the most exciting in the wo -it's the last of the absolute 1 narchies. The DeSoto Cou: built in 1958, has served on variety of missions, includ evacuation duty in Cuba. Mayor Williamson and L Council President Michael Cannavino jointly cut the ribl officially opening' the rededii ed Public Dock an hour bef the ship arrived. The dock's perstructure recently was built at a cost of S54,220, and surface repaved. Edward Doll, Port Comr s ion member and progr chairman, noted that the or nal dock was erected 56 ye ago. It had an interesting hi ry during its first 56 years, said, and I am sure it will joy an interesting history in community for many years come. l . c Frank Anasti commis chairman, termed the ren tion another milestone in uplift the bayfront area ' In addition to open h aboard the DeSoto County,

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Note I seed l00kiflg, f00. ,hiS Marine buddy added- . About 200 Navy men and 100 Marines are aboard the ship, which will be touring the Great Lakes this summer. . ' The next stop is Buffalo. Rochester was the second port II1 S 9 B OI' i'liSM' . ' N I like Rochester just fine, a Georgia sailor said. ' ' We've had a mighty fine reception here. Pm going to be MURPHY The 442-foot craft, built bottom, thus preventing the emi' to leave- , , f A Tennessee Marine described Rochesterians as wind, on her in New Orleans in 1958, is bow of the ship rom. mean-, . , , H , , the LST Uss hereto show off its crew, its aering off course. esvwally fflendly Pearle- He Sald he thought the diy .- - . - -- ---- - - - -- -- ..-.-t.t--,, -. t .1 f-...t..t.. was a verv'clean.one. . 4 Place to Drop Anchor preparations for leaving the port. As many as 2,000 waited in line at one time, one officer estimated. Some of the men complained that downtown Roch- ester IS too far from the boat. Those that did--get into the Main Street area seemed to like it. ' You've got some pretty good night spots, a Virginia sailor said. . I only hope the rest of the summer is as fine as' these past few days in Rochester, an Oklahoma ensign said. The De Soto County will visit more than 20 Great Lakes ports before it returns to its home base in Norfolk, Va., on Sept. 14. As the ship turned around in the port and pulled out of the harbor at 7:30, two city Fire Bureau pumpers and a truck shot a stream of water across the river. The fare- well was organized by Deputy Fire Chief Vincent Clinton. . . 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' with Monroe County Park Band, Marine chorus trom visiting LST entertains audience on benches and bothers on beach. dding Gets Military Honor Guard A warship captain visiting Rochester military wedding yesterday for one fut re officers. under arched sabers outside More Cnurcn are Carol Naylon, of Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Nay- 34 Astor Drive, Brighton, and Ens. eseph L McEntee Jr. of Ridgefield McEntee received a Navy commission Beaches Draw Huge Crowds By MICHAEL WHITNEY With sunny skies and high temperatures and hu- midity, summer arrived-in Rochester one day early yester- day. Officially the new season didn't arrive until 4:47 this morning. . The city schools just out for- the summer and temper- d atures in the mid-80s, Monroe County beaches an the Seneca Park pool were packed. It was opening day at Ontario, Mendon, Webster and Durand-Eastman beachf Down. dawn he floats, a lone sailboat far below.. and the Seneca Park pool. The pool reported the biggest opening day at-,x tendance in its 30-year his- tory. More than 1,500 swim- ,mers went through the turn- stile to swim ln 73-de- gree water. , Ontario Park Beach also reported the best open- ing day we've had in many years. More than 10,000 sunned and .swam there, where the afternoon high reached 96 degrees. The water, though, was still a it chilly-68 degrees. actual conditions the men would have been carrying. munitions capable of de- stroying amphibious weap- ons, according- to Lt. tj.g.J R. J. Durant of the LST. The program will bere- peated today at 2 p.m, with six frog men parachuting from a plane. A speed boat UDT demonstration will also be presented. .' Well over l2,000 per- sons' trooped through the De Soto County yesterday, the largest crowd that has toured the boat yet in its V 7-'e lands in the lg'-A with .1 molina snlash. A. water 1lfive'day Rochester gf-f f: :Vf3 ffIii3-I-.-f:i:'ff.f'5'f: '-'72'f'ff,Iff.f .i:,'-'iii'-E:'2'-'Ig,- '-'gl-,.'.-:LI-2g': v-f' :-g.g.:..-., ...- .,... Pttt on by the Navy at Mem' ef them were On' ..... . '-'-i if ,..... l.lfQ5ff':S5l' Ontario may have helped fafie Beach leathers: The draw some of- the bathersf Ship Will be Open far tours according to the bathheuee today-at 10,a.m. manager, Mrs: 'Win Heeks' - . .. a The LST De Seiefeuntyf docked at the Port Of H0611-A f ester through feeey- Pei fm 3 Speclal P1'0El'3m'ln mid' afternoon dlfecfy 0 e ein .: in . beach Shore-' fu. . . -- learned that. the 'DeS0t0 County WGS In fThree Navy men Para- ,- ' - ' V ---' 1 i' .- 4' ff'-wif chuted fl'0m 3 tml' Piper 1-rw-fr -. . , --'- -- .:::':-:.s.:r::s-'. 'F-1-35-seex-iars2'Si1:2:22v02-'-:- -:feffrfghs-iii' ' ., .cw--'H cub IMO the lakes Waters 5Zf3::,1ifI, .- , f :, .Q. 'Z ' -. '.,.e'32a3:5'fi'?f. in 2 flemenetfeiien of the Navyrs underwater demoh- ., ,.,,.,. , . 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