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8D Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.Thur., Apr. 21, 1955 Plane Crash Survivor Suggests Better Emergency Equipment SEATTLE W) A feminine purser who survived the ditching of a Pan American World Air ways plane off the Oregon coast March 26 asked at a federal hear ing on the mishap Wednesday: "Why, why wasn't there some thing to throw to survivors from the life rafts?" The question was raised .by Natalie R. Parker, as she made a series of suggestions for im provements in emergency equip ment She testified before a Civil Aeronautics Board panel in the second day of its inquiry into de tails of the ditching of the Hawaii-bound Stratocruiser. Four out of 23 persons aboard lost their lives in the accident, which occurred after the big plane's No. 3 engine started vibrating violent ly and then fell from the wing. LIFE LINES Suggestions of Miss Parker, as a result of the harrowing exper ience at sea, included; Life lines near the emergency exits, lines on life rafts which can bo tossed to persons in the water to keep them from drifting away; stowing of life jackets under scats in stead of behind them; protective webbing to prevent galley equip ment from flying about the plane in case of an emergency landing; a corrugated floor in life rafts, instead of smooth rubber, as an aid to footing . "I never doubted that we would reach the raft," the purser told the hearing board, ''and I felt there was a strong hand helping us." Joseph Adams, vice chairman of the CAB, commended the pur ser for "calmness and efficiency" in the emergency. Stewardess Elizabeth M. Thompson testified that her seat was torn loose when the and was out to sea on the flight to Hawaii. The ship was on automatic pilot and Joslyn grabbed the con trols just before No. 3 engine dropped off the wing. The pilot said the crew had no time to lighten the load by dumping gaso line and was unable to bring the three remaining engines to full power because "a circuit breaker had popped, plane struck the water and shelp STEADILY docs not recall how she got into the life raft, but she said others told her later that she had helped pull some of the passengers out of the water. ONE WHO PERISHED She told how one of the pas sengers, David E. Darrow of Aub urn, Wash., kept crying: "I can t make it; I can't make it." he was one of the four who perished. The hearing is expected to con tinue into Thursday. Seven of the 32 scheduled wit nesses told their stories as the hearing got under way Tuesday. Capt. Herman S. Joslyn, pilot of the ill-fated craft, described for the panel the anxious minutes preceding the crash-landing at sea and told of desperate efforts by the crew to keep the plane airborne. Joslyn and M. P. Kerwick, the second officer, agreed the first hint of trouble Was a sudden and "severe" vibration shortly after the plane left the Oregon coast fell was Joslyn said the plane steadily an dthe ditching "smoother than I expected." Two passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Claude .Hollister of Portland, Ore., also told of the ditching. Mrs. Hollister testified: "First I heard an explosion and then a crackling sound, and then this tremendous blue explosion. The engine seemed to fall down under the wing. The engine was in flames, like a ball of fire, as it fell." Hollister, an aviation advisor for the Indonesia government, praised the plane crew but was critical of equipment on his life raft. Kerwick said for a time the three life rafts on which passen gers and crew were evacuated were threatened with being punc tured by metal from the shattered plane. When the rafts floated i free of the debris, he said, they, drifted away from several per-; sons in the water. I British Tax Cuts Aid Conservatives LONDON ( The welcome tax cuts in the new British bud get were widely regarded Wed nesday as strongly enhancing the Conservative governments vic tory prospects in the May 26 national election. Newspaper and parliamentary comment on Tuesday's budget message by Chancellor of the Ex chequer R. A. Butler mainly fol lowed party liens. The opposition labor party was quick to denounce it as a "rich man's budget," giving tax relief to the wealthy. The Laborite cri tics did not mention that exemp tions were increased all along the line and some 2,400,000 peo ple in lower income brackets will cease to pay altogether. A number of sea animals swim by jet propulsion. Pole Arrested BEgLIN W East German au thorities say they have arrested a Pole whom they claim was hired by U.S. intelligence agents to force a Polish jet fighter pilot to defect with his plane to West Berlin. To Edit Yearbook CORVALLIS KB Shirley W. Schultz of Bend has been ap pointed editor of the 1956 Bea ver, Oregon State College's year book. She is a junior student in education. 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