Bare-Faced Messiah (PDF) - Apologetics Index

was angry that Marnie should involve them in further expense and dashed off an irritable reply
telling her it was none of her business and she should have waited until they got back. Marnie
responded furiously: 'What kind of heel are you?'
Despite these trials, Ron did his best to invest the trip with scientific purpose. In mid-September,
he despatched a package of sailing directions and eleven rolls of film to the Hydrographic Office in
Washington DC with a note expressing the hope that they would prove of value. He was also able
to report favourably to the Cape Cod Instrument Company in Hyannis on the accuracy of its 'Cape
Cod Navigator', which he had tested with 721 bearings on radio beacons. 'It has at all times
performed its duties like a true shipmate,' Ron wrote.
A solution to their predicament presented itself later that month in the shape of Jimmy Britton, the
owner and president of the local radio station. KGBU Radio was a home-spun operation which
proclaimed itself to be 'The Voice of Alaska' since it was virtually the only radio station in the area.
Jimmy Britton made all the announcements, read the news, conducted interviews, played records
and filled in time as best he could.
KGBU was usually so short of material that anyone in Ketchikan was welcome on the air to talk
about almost anything. It was hardly surprising, then, that the arrival in town of Captain Hubbard,
leader of a scientific expedition carrying the flag of The Explorers Club of New York, was nothing
short of a godsend to Britton, particularly as Hubbard was not only willing to broadcast, he seemed
positively eager to do so. He was soon regaling listeners with a gripping account of his expedition
and his adventures navigating through fog-bound, tide-bedevilled and uncharted waters.
Britton recognized that Ron was a natural broadcaster and storyteller, with a seemingly limitless
reservoir of material, and his talks on KGBU became a regular and popular feature for several
weeks. In one of them he revealed how, after only a week in Alaskan waters he had discovered,
with the help of his advanced radio navigational instruments, a source of interference which had