Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon
2A Sunday, February 21, 1960
Plane Crash
Laid to Error
In Diagram
Manual Is Blamed
In CAB's Probe
An error in an aircraft
manual diagram led to the
plane crash Jan. 20 in which
the pilot was killed at the
Springfield airport, according
lo nnciings ot an investiga
tion just released by the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Wash
ington, D.C.
The report on the lest flight in
which pilot Lcland Urban De
Jean, 34, of Springfield, was
killed, stated that the aileron
(wing) control system was in
stalled in reverse but was identi
cal to the diagram in an aircraft
service manual.
The plane, a Piper PA-24, had
been rebuilt by DeJean from sal
vage parts taken from three air
craft, according to Mill Ruberg,
owner of the McKenzie Flying
Service.
The plane crashed on the run
way during its initial test flight.
A NORMAL TAKEOFF
A preliminary investigation
made by the Federal Aviation
Agency showed the apparent
cause of the accident was the
inadvertent reverse connection of
the aileron controls.
Robert L. Kagy, FAA district
supervisor from Medford, who wit
nesscd the accident, explained
the reverse controls would cause
the plane to turn or bank in a
direction opposite the normal
path of flight steered by the pilot
The CAB report noted that the
plane followed a normal takeoff
and was airborne some five feet
when the right wing lowered
then struck the ground.
The CAB also stated the plane
had been rebuilt by DeJean, a
certified and qualified mechanic
who held a commercial pilot's rating.
IDENTICAL IN INSTALLATION
The rest of the CAB report
reads: "Subsequent investigation
failed lo reveal any evidence of
a malfunction on the part of the
aircraft or any of its components.
However, the investigation did
disclose the aileron control sys
tem was installed in such a man
ner that movement of the pilot's
control wheel caused the ailerons
lo move in the opposite directions
from which they should.
"A comparative study of the
aileron control system as installed
in N5286P (DcJcan's plane) with
the aileron control system dia
gram found in the Piper Service
Manual, PA-24 Commanche, Copy
right 1959, Page 54, Figure 7-2,
disclosed the two systems to be
identical in installation," the re
port concludes.
The general sales manager of
Piper Aircraft Corp., J. W. Miller,
of Lock Haven, Pa., in a tele
phone conversation told the Register-Guard
that the firm's "service
organization is of the opinion
that the service manual could
have been interpreted in the
Wrong manner." Miller said Piper
has not completed its investiga
tion of the matter.
REVISION IS CLAIMED
A revision of the cable dia
gram in the Piper service manual
on the PA-24 was received dur
ing the past week by the McKen
lie Aircraft Repair in Springfield
according to Charles Wells ot that
firm.
A regional FAA official in Los
Angeles said last week that re
sponsibility for the correct opera
tion of an aircraft prior to its
flight would fall on the mechanic
and pilot as well as the manufac
hirer. t I
The official noted that prior
to each flight an aircraft must be
inspected to insure "normal
function of all moving surfaces.
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Three Inducted
Three Emerald Empire men
were inducted into the Armed
Forces in Portland Thursday. The
draftees are Gary N. Pruett of
Maplcton, Richard A. Dinner, of
Eugene and Walter K. Wcisc of
Springfield, according to a report
by the Eugene Selective Service
System board.
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Ex-Italian
Premier Dies
ROME un Former Premier
Adone Zoli died Saturday night.
He was 72.
The former leader of Italy's
Christian Democrat party was
taken to a hospital Friday after
suffering a stroke.
Zoli survived a death sentence
by Mussolini's Fascists to become
a premier of republican Italy. He
held the post for a year in 1957-'58.
The one parly government head
ed by Zoli, a portly Florentine
lawyer, kept Italy firmly In the
Western Alliance.
One Jailed,
Fined; Other
Forfeits Bail
One Eugene man was sentenced
to ten days in jail and another
man forfeited bail last week in
Eugene Municipal Court on
charges of driving under the in
fluence of intoxicating liquor.
Mclvin Wayne Walthrop, 30. of
480 E. 30th Ave., pleaded guilty,
was sentenced to ten days in jail
and was fined $200. He was ar
rested on the charge Feb. 14.
Willem Anthony DeZeeuw, 43,
of 155 Frontier Dr., forfeited $200
hail when he failed to appear in
court Monday. He was arrested
Feb. 12.
Drunken Driving
Conviction Upheld
Circuit Judge A. T. Goodwin
Thursday upheld the conviction
of a Eugene man who appealed
hugenc Municipal Court ver
dict on a charge of driving under
the influence of intoxicating
liquor. (DUHL).
James Albert Lancaster, 51, of
290 E. 31st Ave., was found guilty
in a jury trial Sept. 24 and was
fined $200 three days later in mu
nicipal court. The charge had
been filed July 25.
Greyhound Buses
Collide, 13 Hurt
EVERETT, Wash, (in Two
Greyhound buses collided Satur
day on the west" side of Stevens
Pass, injuring 13 persons.
Three persons, including the
driver of one bus, were hospital
ized after the vehicles slammed
into each other on a highway
glazed by freezing rain. The
others were examined at the scene
and released.
Wilderness
Bill Is In For
A Rough Time
More Amendments
Due in Committee
By JOHN KAMPS
or the Aiioclaled Preii
WASHINGTON tfl) A
highly controversial wilder
ness area bill, almost amend
ed to death last year, will run
into more proposed amend
ments at Senate Interior
Committee meetings this
weeK.
The measure, strongly opposed
would set up and preserve wilder
ness areas throughout the country
Opponents include:
Ranchers, afraid they might
lose the right to graze cattle and
sheep on federal land: lumber
men, anxious to preserve the
right to cut timber on federal
land; oil and gas drillers and
prospectors, who continue look
ing for petroleum and minerals
on public land and reclamation-
lsts, who claim irrigation projects
would be blocked.
GET 10,000 LETTERS
The Interior committee heard
about 500 witnesses testify for
and against the bill last year at
hearings in Seattle, Phoenix and
Washington, D. C.
An estimated 10,000 letters and
postcards received by the commit
tee. Memhers of Congress, includ-1
ing the 17 senators cosponsoring
the bill, got thousands more.
The bill was revised dozens of
times at numerous meetings of
the committee in 1959. It finally
was put aside at the request of
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-
Wyo) after he suffered a stroke.
15 OUT OF 600
The committee resumed con
sideration Feb. IS. After an hour
of discussion members were able
to agree on about 15 lines of a
bill which is expected to run
about 600 lines averaging 10
words each.
Before the committee comes up
with a bill it will have to dispose
of:
A substitute proposed by O'Ma
honey: 16 amendments offered by
Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo), and
others proposed by Sens. Wallace
C. Bennett (R-Utah), Henry
Dworshak (R-Idaho), and Ernest
Gruening (D-Alaska).
IN SOME FORM
Most of the amendments arc
aimed at fully protecting exist
ing rights to use federal lands
which would be included in the
wilderness areas and restricting
additions to the system. Several
would require an act of Congress
lo add any area to the system.
The bill, in some form, is ex
pected to clear the Senate In
terior committee.
The committee plans to resume
work on the bill Tuesday.
UAR Seeks Place
On Security Council
UNITED NATIONS WV The
United Arab Republic has an
nounced its candidacy for the Se
curity Council. It is unopposed so
far to succeed Tunisia on the 11
nation council for a 2-year term
starting Jan. 1, 1961.
German Envoy Coming
PORTLAND im The German
ambassador to the United States,
Wilhelm Grewe, will visit Port
land Feb. 29.
His scheduled itinerary in
cludes a talk at Portland State
College. The subject of hl ad
dress will be: "On the Evo of
the Summit"
Typographical Union Head
Asks 'Strikebreaker' Laws
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Wl El-I
mer Brown, president of the In
ternational Typographical Union,
Saturday urged state laws against
importing "strikebreakers" to
work during newspaper walkouts.
Brown sent a letter from his
headquarters hero to his union's
SC locals attacking the Macy and
Newhouse newspaper organiza
tions for bringing in "rat hordes"
to work in their plants during
times of labor disputes.
Brown attacked in particular
the American Newspaper Publish
ers Assn. and Bloor Schlcppcy,
71, Zionsville, Ind. Schlcppcy is
now charged in Bucks County,
Pa., with breaking a 1937 Pennsyl
vania law against outside parties
recruiting workers during a
strike.
Brown said more than 400 ITU
members have been forced out at
the Portland Oregonian and the
Oregon Journal in the Portland
strike. Another 150 union mem
bers were displaced in Westchest
er County, (N.Y.) in the JIacy
group strike, he said.
Newhouse, reached for com
ment at his country home in New
Jersey said, "Brown is completely
misinformed, as far as I know, as
it applies to me or the Portland
newspapers.
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Injured U. of W. Coed
Out of Her Long Coma
A 21-year-old University of
Washington coed who was crit
ically injured Dec. 29 in a truck
car crash that claimed the lives
of four others north of Eugene
has regained consciousness.
The coed, Barbara Jean Hill,
of Seattle, was listed in satis
factory condition for the first
time Saturday at Sacred Heart
Hospital.
Miss Hill had been able to
recognize visitors and to say
few words with "coaching"
this past week, according to her
mother, Mrs. Dorothy Brodd.
Mrs. Brodd, who flew to Eu
gene from Seattle the day of
the accident, has been here
since that time.
She said Saturday that her
daughter has been able to eat
for the past few weeks and is
making improvement daily.
Miss Hill was one of five stu
dents en route to the Rose
Bowl game when their station
wagon and a truck-trailer col
lided in heavy fog six miles
north of Eugene on Highway
99. The other four students
were killed.
Miss Hill received multiple
fractures and a head injury in
the early-morning accident. She
was unconscious for more than
30 days.
She was scheduled to gradu
ate from the university this
month. Her major field was zoology.
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Rebels Oppose Castro
MEXICO CITY W) A new tab-!
loid-sized newspaper called "Bar-
agua" is being printed here by a
group calling itself "the Cuban
rebel army." The first issue at-!
lacked all phases of the Fidel
Castro regime and claimed 200,-,
000 Cubans are preparing a rebel
lion inside the island.
Reports Due
On Payola
WASHINGTON OD House in
vestigators ordered two big gov
ernment agencies Saturday to re
port early next month on steps
they have taken to stamp out pay
ola.
Shifting the spotlight from disc
jockeys and record companies,
the probers scheduled new hear
ings for March 34 to hear from
the Federal Communications
Commission and the Federal
Trade Commission.
The announcement by Chair
man Oren Harris (D-Ark) of the
House Legislative Oversight sub
committee shed little additional
light on the group's future plans.
Harris said merely that the FCC
and the FTC will testify on "their
actions and activities to date on
payola."
The FCC, which regulates the
broadcasting industry, has asked
each radio and TV station in the
country to report whether its per
sonnel have been involved in pay
ola, or undercover payments for
plugging records.
And the FTC, which polices
the trade industries, has filed
complaints against more than 40
record distributors and manufac
turers accusing them of payola
practices.
They Go Together
LONDON (UPI) Burglars
stole Alan Matthews' record col
lection last month. He said they
returned Friday and took his rec
ord player.
Ex-Eugene Woman Dies in New York'
Mrs. Richard O. (Barbara)
MacLaren, 34, a former resident
of Eugene, died early Saturday
morning in Buffalo, N.Y., after a
sudden illness.
Mrs. MacLaren was the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Wil
liams of Eugene. She attended
Eugene schools and the Univer
sity of Oregon. Her husband, whs
survives, is also a former Eugene
resident
Other survivors include two
children, Tommy and Ann, at
home and one sister, Mrs. Gens
E. Cash of Eugene.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
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