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Twin Otter departed from Rothera at
10:34 a.m. EDT to retrieve Dr. Ronald
S. Shemenski at the Amundsen Scott
South Pole station.
The Twin Otter and a companion
plane had arrived at Rothera from Punta
.Arenas late last week. Blowing snow and
low visibility had postponed the flight
for two days. Carroll said clear skies and
improved conditions at the pole allowed
the departure.
The plane was expected to reach a
point of “safe return” at 5 p.m. EDT, she
said. At that time, the pilots were to decide
whether conditions allowed them to
continue on to the pole, where they would
refuel before returning widi the 59-year
old doctor.
The only physician among 50
researchers working at the polar station,
Shemenski recently suffered a gall bladder
attack and has been diagnosed with the
potentially life-threatening condition
known as pancreatitis.
A registered nurse at the South Pole
helped take ultrasound images that were
sent back to doctors in the United States
for diagnosis. Pancreatitis is the
inflammation of the pancreas and can
happen when a gallstone passes down the
bile duct, irritating the gland.
Dr. Gerald Katz, Shemenski’s
personal physician, said Shemenski needs
surgery and that authorities wanted tc
evacuate him before harsher winter
weather set it, making a future rescue
impossible.
“There’s no doubt that the proper
treatment for him is not available at the
South Pole,” Katz said in a telephone
interview from Englewood, Colo. “In
this case, most people would have
considered treatment within three weeks
after the condition was diagnosed.”
The rescue team included two pilots,
an engineer, a nurse and a replacement
physician for the polar station. The plane
was expected to arrive with the dark,
bone-chilling cold with a sheet of ice as
a runway and no tower to guide the
landing. Barrels of flaming debris were
to be set up to light the runway.
Swollen Mississippi River threatens Iowa
by Ken Thomas
Associated Press
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Chet
Simpson had two pumps humming away
Tuesday against water seeping into the
basement of his home near downtown,
where the swollen Mississippi River was
creeping toward a near-record flood
crest.
“Mother Nature rules everything,”
said Simpson, 61. “When it happens it
just makes you a stronger person.”
The crest of a flood that already has
caused millions of dollars in damage
in Minnesota and chased hundreds of
people from their homes in Iowa and
Wisconsin was expected to reach
Davenport late Tuesday.
It was expected to crest somewhere
between 22 and 22.5 feet —just short
of the 1993 record of 22.6 feet.
Davenport is the largest urban area
on the upper Mississippi without
permanent flood protection. Volunteers
and National Guard soldiers scrambled
to build a clay-and-sandbag levee
spannir^ 1,200 feet to protect downtown
businesses. The 12-foot wall is high
enough for a 23-foot crest.
City development official Clayton
Lloyd estimated that fewer than 100
homes would be affected by flooding.
About 70 already had been flooded in
a low-lying neighborhood a few miles
from downtown.
Statewide, 1,115 homes, most of
them secondary or vacation homes, had
been damaged. Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack
formally requested federal assistance
Tuesday.
Workers standing guard behind the
Davenport levee monitored nine diesel
and gasoline-powered pumps removing
water that seeped through stomi sewers
and bubbled up through cracks in the
street from the saturated soil.
“Wall looks good. I see no
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problems,” city construction inspector
Ron Hocker said as he made his morning
rounds. “I'm not worried about leaks in
the levee. I'm worried about keeping up
with the problems in the street.”
Volunteers dumped truckloads of
sandbags on trouble spots wliile resident
Bill Walv spent his lunch break in a park
south of the downtown area.
“Probably the most interesting tiling
about it is all the attention it's getting,”
said Walv, 47. “Probably too much.”
Rather downstream from Davenport
and the rest of the Quad Cities —
Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and
Moline, 111. — workers in Niota, 111.,
shored up levees where the river was
forecast to crest Wednesday.
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