De Soto County (LST 1171) - Naval Cruise Book

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Rochester Great 4 . -4-c ..,..,..,.,, . ..... 7 vvvr. .,.,...V.V, , ,...-.,,.e.-w,....,.....,,-.t.....,,,..., ,V,,. I, ,...vV. ..- .,......e,..-...wa-....., M.. nr, .s . .....,,,.W.,.,.,.,. ,,, Lt. Cmdr. Horace D. Manngcaptain of the USS'De Soto County, the LST which left the Port of Rochester last nlght after a five-day stay here, putit this way: Wow! - 'tThe general opinion of the men on ship is that Roch- ester is a finelliberty port, Manniwent on to explain. l Most of the men interviewed yesterday aboard the De Soto County agreed with their skipper. Comments on the city ranged from It's a really fine place to Roches- ter ain't a bad town. , The majority of the crew members 'expressed the feeling that the people here are really friendly, some of them addlngthat Rochester's girls are especially friendly. You're got ft lot of girls here in Rochester, I'll say that, one Navy man said. And most'of them are, pretty Power boat churns 'out into lalce to get .closer look at visiting LST. 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. 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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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