AIRMAIL 
May 11, 19& 
Dr. Charles A. Sly 
6159 Pahukula Street 
Kuliouou, Hawaii 
Dear Dr. Ely: 
Communications are always a little vague over the phone so I have 
reanswered some of your questions below: 
Food: I an planning on taking an eight nan cook kit on shore and 
using one of the two burner gasoline stoves. Using an lee chest I 
think we could handle such things as eggs, hotdogs, and hamburgers with 
little trouble. Iky items such as macaroni and rice present no problems 
and canned soups, beans, fruit should round out the diet. This is not 
much compared to meals on board but a great improvement over C-rations 
and yet still relatively easy to prepare and clean up after, I imagine 
the ship will have all these items and ray original comaent on foods was 
only to inform them that we would like to draw on their stores. 
You know that the SI will have six people on board now that the 
Chief is not coming. This will create additional storage problems for 
blood supplies but I imagine these can be beat worked out on the spot. 
Doug Gill is the new man. GS-5* summer help, brother of Frank Gill 
(Indian Ocean), arrives 25th of May. 
Surprised that Capfc. Cummings reported that the lights were 
satisfactory since we used them very little and the ship depended on 
its radar almost entirely. These new battery powered lights will 
however, provide reference points on the island for the whole night 
without much fuss required by the crew ashore (the pressure lamps were 
often pumped several times during the night). 
I tear you are taking Ilackraan away for the rest of May. This 
complicates plans somewhat on moving supplies aboard. I had originally 
planned to have Doug spend the 25th~29th preparing equipment mid moving it 
in on board. If Larry is staying in Honolulu for this period I can 
turn most of this job over to him and then come out a day earlier to 
move everything on board (i.e., move on the 29 th). Please inform me if 
