Military Planes Join
FAA Control System
By ROBERT J. SERLING
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Federal Aviation Agency (FAA)
is bringing all military aircraft
on interceptor missions under its
Air Traffic Control (ATC) System.
The move is designed to reduce
the possibility of collisions be-
daylight, in clear weather and in
the en route portion of the flight
(contrary to a common belief that
the congested airspace near air
ports is the main breeding ground
for incidents).
Filing an IFR (instrument
flight rules) plan offers no full
protection if the other guy .
tween fast-flying fighters a n d flying VFR (visual flight rule); in
private planes. The FAA has tried
out the COnceDt in the Imlianannlis.
Detroit and Chicago Air Traffic
Control Center areas with "very
successful" results.
This major air safety action was
revealed in the FAA's monthly
publication "Aviation News,"
which contained a digest of a
the agency's top ATC official,
David Thomas.
Thomas said nearly half of the
2,500 near-collisions reported to the
FAA in the past five years in
volved military aircraft. Several
near-misses between fighters and
airliners have occurred this year.
Changeover Soon
Thomas said as soon as ex
panded equipment and personnel
requirements are met, all inter
cept activities will be under ATC
guidance except for the actual
intercept portion of a mission.
He said the FAA also is provid
ing personnel to assist the Air
Defense Command in setting ud a
training program for all personnel
in fighter-intercept operations. The
civilian agency also is encouraging
the military to conduct as many
flights as possible under the
FAA's ATC system such as filing
instrument flight plans which en
ables ATC to keep better track of
military aircraft.
Thomas said the FAA's study of
2.500 near-collision reports since
1958 showed that:
About 20 collisions involving
civil aircraft occur each year. This
rate has been fairly consistent
since the immediate post World
War II days.
Luck Not Skill
Sixty to 100 incidents annually
were so close that collision avoid
ance was pure luck rather than
resulting from evasive action by
pilots.
Most "near-misses" occur in
1962 alone, there were 156 near
collisions between planes operating
IFR presumably in protected air
space, and aircraft flying VFR.
For no apparent reason,
Thursday is the "most prevalent
day for near-accidents."
Thomas said there are four
main causes of near collisions:
trying to fly without guidance
from the federal ATC system
too much reliance on radar with
out understanding its limitations,
lack of pilot vigilance, and con
troller error.
The FAA official said the agency
is striving to reduce control in
structions to a minimum to pre
vent overburdening of already busy
pilots
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Mon., Oct. 7, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3
SERVICES HELD Funeral
services were held today for
Dr. Roy Leland Dunn, well
known chiropractic physician
of Roseburg. He died Friday
at his home following a long
illness. He had practiced in
Roseburg for the last 34 years.
He was also a former mini
ster of the Pine Grove Com
munity Church. ,
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Fourteen Americans and three
Mexicans who were feared lost in
the wild canyon country of north
western Mexico are all safe, a
pilot reported from the scene said
today.
Jesus Acosta Munoz, a pilot who
took U.S. Vice Consul Robert
Homer to the area where the men
were feared lost radioed back that
all were safe.
Acosta Munoz said he was able
to land and talk with the explor
ers and said they were in good
shape. Three Mexicans were with
the Americans.
The semi-scientific group ran
short of food when their rubber
rafts got into deadly rapids, pro
truding boulders and had to por
tage their floats over jagged ob
stacles. Dean said some days
they floated only 100 yards.
Hopes For Escape
Dean expressed hope the ex
plorers may have scaled the
brush-littered walls of Barranca
de Cobrc (Copper Canyon) and
started walking through the
mountainous country toward civ
ilization.
Demos Delay
Vote To Fill RYBirS M A D it FT F IRT-flr-THr'-lr r H
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Party Post
Executive Board Meet
Set At Scotts Valley
A meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Scotts Valley PTA is
scheduled for tonight, according to
Mrs. Karl Hummel, correspondent.
Mrs. Hummel said matters for
discussion will be the budget and
the program for the coming year.
At this week's meeting of the
PTA, the following officers were
elected: Mrs. Otto Feucht, presi-
dent; Vivian Furrier, vice presi
dent; Mary Tollefson, treasurer;
Mrs. Bob Templeton, historian; and
Otto Feucht, parliamentarian.
Training Program Set
For Camp Fire Leaders
The Camp Fire Leaders Associ
ation will meet Tuesday from 9:30
a.m. to 12:30 for a special training
session for all Bluebird and Camp
Fire leaders. The meeting will
take place in the basement of the
Presbyterian Church. Baby sitters
will be provided.
Two vice-consuls for the United
States from Juarez, Robert O.
Homme and Ralph G. Thorsland
were with the flying searchers.
They carried walkie talkies and
planned to drop one to the party,
if it were found.
The canyon, a slender gap in
the rugged terrain falling from
the Continental Divide eastward,
is heavily overgrown and so nar
row that helicopters would face
danger in descending. Updraft
winds also are hazards.
A Mexican government plane
was used today along with a heli
copter furnished by Gonzales ller
rera, secretary of the state of
Chihuahua. The plane had been
in the search since Dean brought
back word of the dilemma.
Dean and Larry Davis of Price,
Utah, were ordered by the expe
dition leader, John L. Cross of
Orem, Utah, to leave the main
party Sept. 28 and forge ahead
to a copper mine where a cache
of supplies was available.
They planned a one-day trip to
the food, but it took four days
of swimming, plunging over wa
terfalls, walking and scaling until
two Indians found them. The two
had not eaten in two ' days and
Dean was ill.
Took Supplies Back
Davis, together with three Mex
icans, . battled, back into tho .wilds
with supplies for the 14.
Dean traveled , by burro, truck
and rail to this city for help and
medical care. He was hospitalized
with multiple bruises and abra
sions and suffered from fatigue.
Missing adventurers, besides
Davis, were Cross, 34; his son,
John L. Cross Jr., 21, and daugh
ter , Janice Cross, 19, also of
Orem; M. Vern Thurber, in his
70s, of Orem; C. E. Barton of
Milmada, La Canada, Calif.; .
A. Moore of Burbank, Calif.
Mary Ellen O'Reilly, 26, of
Black Lick, Pa.; Dr. Willmer Jr.
Tanner of Provo, Utah; and Dr.
Fred Bischoff, 64, Al Morion,
Ward J. and Bill Roylance and
Leroy M. Sessions, 59, all of Salt
Lake City.
The group started the trip
Sept. 25, and had allowed 10 days
for the journey. Dean said he be
lieved they were the first North
Americans to try the 120-mile
trip.
"Our primary interest was to
conquer the river," Dean said.
SALEM (UPI) The Democratic
State Central Committee Sunday
postponed election of a new Dem
ocratic national committeeman
for Oregon for want of a voting
quorum.
The election of a successor to
C. Girard Davidson was post
poned to Oct. 27.
But at Sunday's meeting the
Democratic group voted unani
mous censure of the Republican
State Central Committee for its
lailure to take a stand on the tax
increase measure.
The Democrats also voted to
h'old their 1964 pre-primary plat
form convention at Corvallis on
Feb. 29-March 1. This will mark
the first time the meeting has
not been held in Salem. More
than 700 delegates are expected
to attend the convention.
The Republican State Central
Committee met Saturday in Port
land, but refused to take a stand
on the Oct. 15 tax referendum.
"Dismay Expressed"
The Democrats voted unani
mously for a resolution express
ing "dismay at the failure of the
state Republican organization to
take action in support of the tax."
The Democratic group voted
unanimously to support a yes vote
in the Oct. 15 election.
Democrats also adopted a reso
lution expressing sorrow at the
death Friday night in an auto
accident of Rep. W. O. Kelsay,
D-Roseburg.
Sunday's meeting was called to
elect a successor to uaviason,
who has served for seven years
as national committeeman.
Nineteen delegates were need.
ed for the vote. Seventeen ac
credited delegates, plus several
with Droxv authority were on
hand, but the committee decided
against honoring the proxy votes.
The committee also decided not
to accept Davidson s resignation
until after the Oct. 27 meeting
which will be held at 1 p.m. at
Harris Hall on the University of
Oregon campus in Eugene.
In a lenethv resignation speech
Davison said he was opposed to
selection of national committee
man by popular vote.
"The party organization is in
the best position to make a suit
able choice," he said.
"Through a party convention we
can be more assured of getting
the best qualified candidate and
also the most deserving one.
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ISTANBUL. Turkey (UPI) Jac
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tahul. an exotic city she plans
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