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TO TEST HELICOPTERS FOR
FIRE SUPPRESSION
Six helicopters will be tested for use
in fighting fires in an experiment that
is to be carried out in California some
time during January. The U. S. army
and the forest service will cooperate in
the test.
The 4th air force search and rescue
unit will fly the craft and try dis
charging and picking up fire fighters
by rope ladders. The helicopters will be
tested also for fire detection and patrol,
game and cattle counts, sowing grass
seed in burned-over areas, photograph
ing and mapping, and stocking remote
mountain waters with game fish.
The aircraft, which are currently
used in search and rescue on the Pacific
coast, will try hovering from 100 to
300 feet above the ground to fight
fires. They will be tested over flat
lands, canyon bottoms, slopes and for
ested areas.
NOT A PRIVATE FIGHT
There is a tendency on the part of
labor and management who are parties
in an industrial dispute to regard it as
strictly a private fight. And they carry
on this fight with little consideration
for the public welfare, although it is
the public which gets caught in the
middle and suffers most.
The automobile strikes—and there
have been many of them recently in
addition to the General Motors tie -u p -
have deprived the Nation of hundreds
of thousands of urgently needed cars.
Now if the threat of strikes by the
steel and electrical workers is carried
out the country will be set back still
farther in its efforts to achieve post
war economic recovery.
The point is that the situation in the
United States has reached a stage where,
unless something is done to force both
labor and management to work out
their differences instead of merely sit
ting back and shouting at each other,
the Nation will suffer such a stagger
ing economic blow that postwar pros
perity may prove to be a myth.
America has the greatest productive
capacity of any nation in the world.
But the capacity means little unless it
is used to the best advantage. And that
certainly isn’t being done now.
Time is running out. If labor and
management go on kicking around
their golden opportunity for a great
prosperity they will wake up some day
to find that they have lost it by de
fault.
And not only they but the entire
nation will pay the cost of their folly.
So, labor management disputes are not
private disputes.
OREGON CULVERT &
PIPE COMPANY
Concrete Culvert, Sewer, Irrigation Overhead Pressure
Sprinkler Systems, Corrugated Pipe and Multi-Plate
(When restrictions are removed)
Lancaster 4 1 4 5
2321 S.E. Gladstone
Portland, Oregon
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