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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1951)
Rcgister-uunra, rngene, ure., page 2 Fri., Dec. 21, 1951 Service Appeals Loyalty Decision 1' Official Challenges -' Authority of Board " WASHINGTON VP) John S. Service, ousted Slate Depart ment official, appealed to the Loyalty Review Board Friday to set aside its finding that there was "reasonable doubt" of his loyalty. , '.. He challenged the authority of the board to make the ruling and asked for full reconsideration of his case "as an act of simple jus tice." a Service filed the appeal throush attorneys a day after loyalty board Chairman Hiram Bingham protested the State Department's Release of the board report that Jed to the firing of Service, a Bingham told Secretary of State lAcheson in a letter the release Violated President Truman's order for secrecy on reports dealing with the loyalty of government porkers. The board's decision on Service Reversed a State Department loy :alty board which had cleared him. J Service attacked the ruling on 'that point, contending the board's authority is limited to the review ,'of cases of employes who have been recommended for dismissal by departmental boards. Aircraft Engine Plant Forced To Cut Production Schedule By CHARLES CORDDRY United Preia Aviation Reporter EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (U.R1 Three times since the rearma ment drive started one of the world's chief aircraft engine man ufacturers has been forced to cut back production schedules. Executives of the Pratt & Whit. ney aircraft division of United Aircraft Corp. place the bulk of the blame on the government's delay in helping to expand ma chine tool output and in fixing reliable priorities "for materials. Expansion Slowed ' The effects of any slowing of Pratt ac Whitney s rate of expan sion are far-reaching. Piston and jet engines produced here power air force and navy fighters, B-36 bombers, Navy attack and anti submarine planes, long-range transports of the strategic air command and turblne-propellor transports now under develop ment. General Manager William P. Gwinn says the company is a year behind. It will reach maximum capacity in mid-1953 instead of 1952. Gwinn says the company originally furnished the govern ment an expansion plan based on World War II experience and the assumption of prompt federal aid on machine tools and materials. Machine tools both existing types and wholly new ones needed for advanced jets have been the worst problem, according to Gwlnh who at 44 has 24 years of experi ence in aircraft engine production. For example, it took 15 weeks before the Korean, War to obtain a 54-inch vertical turret lathe, a vital tool in machine jet engine parts. Today deliveries are prom ised in just under three years. The damage was done, Pratt & Whitney men say, when the gov ernment failed to tackle the ma chine tool problem until a year after the Korean war started. Up to now, at least, everybody has competed on even terms for scarce machine tools. Around the Pratt & Whitney plant a priority is call ed a "hunting license" and little more. Rigid Inspection Materials, which must be of the finest and subjected to rigid in spection, are a mounting problem here. Gwinn cites these facts: Alloy steel bar could be had with in 75 days of ordering in June, 1950. The time now is 240 days. The respective figures for alumi num forgings are 90 and 300; for heat-treated steel, 90 and 270. The Aluminum Co. of America strike hit Pratt & Whitney hard. While ample precision aluminum forgings now are in hand, the plant was forced to a 2 '4-day week during the strike and de livery of the 3500-horsepower en gines used in B-36 Supcrbombcrs and other planes suffered. Gwinn stays out of the contro versy about guns and butter other than to blame government "inde- icision ' aDour. a rauo Deiween tne iwu lui uiaiijr ui me aiivini, en gine industry's problems and shift ing schedules. Obsolete production methods have been an additional impedi ment in the expansion program, as Pratt & Whitney frankly con cedes. The production rates de manded by the Air Force and Navy have required new tooling methods for jet engines. Tools must be flexible to handle the great variety of sizes and shapes in such engines and to be geared to rapid advances in jet designs. An aircraft engine, especially a jet, is a different breed from the automitive engine. To avoid dam age to finely finished parts, each is individually boxed until ready for assembly. A variation of more than 11000 of an inch from speci fication is intolerable for parts like the housing for a compressor in a jet. 6 Operations Used This housing is finished In six operations requiring 10Vi hours in a turret lathe. You even have to be a weather prophet, explains Robert Coin of East Hartford, a lathe operator, because the weath er has an effect on the expansion of a part being finished. Farther along the line, Mrs. Helen Kopp, Colchester, Conn., stitchwelds combustion chamber liners just under five an hour. "There may be a faster way of doing this, but we haven't found it," a factory guide explains. RUSSELL'S I Headquarters For 9 tr' W Sin Francisco Candy Blossom This demure miss is a real doll. She conceals bunchos of Blum's little, pure flavored lollipops, snugly safeguarded by a zipper in her skirt. A double gift for a girl candy and a very pretty dolly. V150 Holiday House A world renowned artist's fantastic im pression of Old San Francisco adorns this huge gift. 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