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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.
ART WARNING
VATICAN CITY (B-Pope Plus
XII warned sternly Wednesday
against forms of art which "de
form the design of the creator"
or "excite the more vulgar pas-
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