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FOUHTEEN MET3FORD (OHEOON) MAI1. TRIBUNE Monday, April IS, 1937 Air Traffic Statistically Safer Than Ever, Growing Increasingly Hazardous Editor' note: Government and In dustry leaders arree that U. R. air line today are fared with increasing ly sertou safety problem. The fol lowing dipatrh is the firit in a serle of Lnited Pre report on thee problems and measures being taken to overcome them. By ROBERT J. SERLING United Press Corraipondant Washington (U.R Air travel today is statistically safer than it has ever been before. Poten tially, it is growing steadily more hazardous. The supreme irony of the serious air safety problems now confronting the nation is that they stem largely from past achievements in making it safer to fly. Twenty years ago, the sched uled airlines flew 10 million miles for every fatal accident. In 1956, they flew 100 mil lion miles for every fatal acci dent and carried 30 times more passengers, a 1,000 per cent im provement in safety. That is doubly impressive because it was achieved under the pressure of fantastic expansion. In that very expansion, how ever lies the seed of potential disaster. The air age has grown too fast. The nation is now faced with an aeriel traffic jam that will get wnrse .before it better. Plarres literally are fly- gets ing too fast and too often for man to control their movement efficiently. Antiquated System Airliners now operate in weather that 10 years ago would have grounded them. In effect, the airlines keep pumping more traffic into an antiquated sys tem which had difficulty hand ling the traffic of only five years ago. A modern commercial trans port plane is the product of en gineering genius, equipped with safety devices that turn what Mayor of Milwaukee Successful Despite Socialist Affiliation Milwaukee 0I.R) Frank S&. Zeidler is the most successful Socialist ' in America. He has len Milwaukee's mayor for 10 years, but he admits it is in spite of his politics, not because of them. The 44-year-old Zeidler con cedes he doesn't get far with So cialist priciples against a "capi talistic" city council and a com munity that resists public owner ship. But he hasn't given up. "Society cannot continue with out practicing some of the prin ciples of Socialism," he says. "For example, take the baseball stadium, the home of the Mil waukee Braves. It's owned by the county because private en terprise failed to meet the need." Zeidler says his success may be "an accident of time and place." Milwaukee's city elec tions are non-partisan and it has had a number of Socialist mayors who proved good administra tors. One served 24 years. Zeidler's father, Carl, was elected mayor in 1940. He served only two years, then went into military service and was killed in action. The son was elected in 1947 at age 35. Distinguished Serrice Zeidler is also national chair man of. the party. A one-time Sunday school teacher, he is Endorsement Given To An Intermediate Penal Institution Salem (U.R) Dr. Sanford Bates, former director of feder al, prisons, late Friday gave hearty endorsement to construc tion of an intermediate penal in stitution in Oregon. "There .has to be. something between a 17-year-old boy and the state prison," Bates reported to the State Board of Control. Bills appropriating money for the penal institution near Salem are now up for consideration by the state legislature. Bates, a national prison au thority, said there were at least 300 men in the state prison who should not be there some of them first offenders who had never been to jail before. In general Bates gave a clean biS of health to MacLaren school for Boys at Woodburn which he was assigned to inves tigate. He said that if a 100-bed dormitory currently requested were built, the Woodburn school should continue to operate ef fectively through 1959. A 90- bed unit will be ready for oc- cuwncy by Sept. 1. &stes predicted that popula tion at the school would con tisue to rise from today's 358 to aaeout 439 in 1958 and 513 in Sweden Holds Two A$ Russian Spies Stockholm U.R) The De ferr9 Ministry announced today that two government workers m javal draftsman and an offi- of neutral Sweden's atomic fiaergy commission have been jtrested as spies for the Rus- A spokesman said the secrets two men are suspected of straying to the Soviet Embas s oncerned "conventional mil' itary questions'' rather than Sweden s atomic energy pro gram. The official announcement identified one of the prisoners as Robert F. Damstedt, an assist ant secretary of the local AEC. The other was described merely as a "military official." Informed sources said the second man works in the naval bureau thai processes important blueprints including the plans of new submarines. The submarine plans were among the secrets handed over to members of the Soviet Em bassy staff, these sources said. 1959.' He said there was no rea son for a sharper rise and said the state did not need a second training school. Lists School Helps An average stay of 11 months. increased foster care and an ex panded camp program should all help the school's population problems. Bates said. Bates also advocated that the governor assign persons to ac quaint local authorities with their responsibilities toward ju venile offenders. He said cities should take some of the load off the state and make an effort to handle the problem locally. He suggested changes in the intermediate penal institution law so that tfle institution would not be limited to accepting felons, although he said there was some disagreement among circuit judges on this point. Pro vision might be made, he said. for restoring civil rights of young offenders to help them get rid of the stigma of a felony conviction. At MacLaren, Bates said the staff, discipline, morale and or ganizational set-up were all good. He ' suggested minor changes in accounting for ware house supplies in the business office. ' Discipline at the school was not harsh. Bates said, but was .not too informal, either. He said a better daily report on boys in segregation quarters , was needed. Eyes Truck Tax Other legislative highlights: Trucks: The House Taxation committee continued its hearing into a bill that would enable the state to tax trucks for hire the same way rail, air and water carriers now are taxed. Battleship . Oregon commis sion: The Senate approved House bill 279 looking toward orderly dissolution of the Bat tleship Oregon commission.- Hiehway study: Senate bill 455 was introduced to appropri ate $30,000 for a legislative in terim committee study of high way legislation. Mobilgas Economy Run Starts Today Los Angeles !U.R) Twenty four spanking new 1957 automo biles hit the road today on the first lap of the four-day Mobil gas Economy Run, which was turned into a virtual powder puff derby by the admittance for the first time in history of lady drivers. With a four-person "crew" in each competing model, a 90 per cent cross-section of the Ameri can motor car industry rolled out of Los Angeles Sunday night en route to San Francisco, first stop-over on the 1,568-mile jour ney to Sun Valley, Idaho. Winners in four classes and the over-all sweepstakes are de termined by multiplying the average miles-per-gallon for each car by the weight in tons of the greatly respected here and won the Junior Chamber of Com merce Distinguished Service Award in government this year. Martin Schreiber, Republican president of the city council, says Zeidler won election over whelmingly three times because "he's earnest and honest in de cision." "It's my experience that Zied ler doesn't follow the Socialist line as mayor of Milwaukee," says Schreiber. Zeidler says he and the coun cil "see eye to eye on many things" and have little difficulty reaching agreement on practical, everyday problems. But if he had his way he would "take a good look" at the transit system and replace slum areas with pub lic housing. He points out that many cities own much more than Milwaukee which controls only the munici pal waterworks. He wants to erase the idea that the word "So cialist" means something bad. Propagandists, both Commu nist and members of monopolis tic public enterprise, are to blame for this," he says. "Communists try to adopt the name to cover their real pur pose and monopolistic public en terprise uses the word in a nasty tone to keep their interests in tact." American prosperity is one of the main reasons the Socialists do not make headway, he claims, adding that the prosperity is due in considerable part to the two big parties adopting Socialist ideas. Zeidler admits his chances of winning elections elsewhere are not good. I really can't tell you why I win here," he said. "If I could figure it out, I'd move up the political ladder." Eisenhowers Attend Palm Sunday Services Washington OJ.PJ President and Mrs. Eisenhower attended Palm Sunday services at Gettys burg Presbyterian church Sun day before driving back to Washington from their farm home. The President played 18 holes of golf at Gettysburg on Satur day; The Eisenhowers' son, Maj. John Eisenhower, his wife Bar bara, and their four children were week end guests at the farm. PRINCESS DIES Lyons, France U.R) Prin cess Alexandra Sonderburg Glucksburg of Schleswig-Hol-shtein died at a hotel here Sun day night at the age of 70. used to be emergencies into rou tine situations. Yet this same plane must fly under a traffic control system 22 years old and into airports that are obsolete and inadequate. It is a statistical fact that a passenger could fly around the world once a week for 118 years beiore ine law or aver-: ages, and an accident, caught j up with him. You are five times safer aloft in a scheduled air liner than you are driving your own car. Safety Record Endangered But aviation experts warn that today's mushrooming air ' traffic is endangering that safe-j ty record. In 1938, there were 345 com-! mercial airlines flying 284 daily ; schedules in and out of 183 dom estic airports, all under a traf fic control system that was set up in 1935. - j .Today, there are 1,637 com mercial airliners flvine more than 3,000 daily schedules in and out of 549 airports, under what is basically the same sys tem established in 1935. The congestion problem would be serious enough if air ports and airways had only the 1,600 commercial transports to handle. It reaches staggering proportions when you include the rest of the nation's airway users, 42,000 military planes, and 19,000 aircraft used by bus iness and industry. Daily Near Misses One year ago, a special presi dential commission warned that scheduled airliners were report ing four near collisions daily. The Airline Pilots Association, representing 11,000 , scheduled airline captains and co-pilots, re cently told the United Press: . "Despite the shock that revel ation caused and all the talk about correcting the situation, our pilots are still reporting an average of four near misses daily, most of them occurring within five miles of airports.'" That ALPA warning was but tressed only a few days ago by an official report from the Civil Aeronautics Board. CAB said it received 452' voluntary reports of near collisions in the last four months of 1956. Eighty three of them were from sched uled airline crews. Ninety per cent of them occurred in "con trolled airspace," which means the incidents happened in spite of air traffic control safeguards. Airports Outmoded Handmaiden to the traffic problem is the dismal condition of the nation's airports. Most pilots regard even the major terminals as outmoded, poorly designed and in many cases po tentially dangerous. "Airports aren't designed to handle heavy traffic," one vet eran American Airlines pilot i said. "The ideal airport should have one-way runways just as busy streets are one-way to con trol heavy automobile traffic.'' He explained that under this idea, some runways would be used only for takeoffs and oth ers solely for landings, with the airport terminal located in sucn a way as to avoid the long de lays that occur moving planes between loading areas and op erational runways. The present traffic control system has been known to vir tually collapse under the strain of heavy traffic combined with bad weather. Nationwide Tieup On June 21, 1956, a day the airliners - have dubbed "Black Thursday," an estimated 100,000 passengers were subjected to lengthy delays or cancellations because bad weather in one large area caused a chain reac tion of air traffic delays throughout the entire nation. Fortunately, there were no crashes. But no one in the in dustry would like to say how many close calls took place. A veteran airline captain, rommenting on the strain of such bad weather flying in high density traffic, described his job as "hours of boredbm punctuat ed by moments of sheer terror " For 20 years, the airlines have been lengthening the hours of boredom and reducing the mo ments of terror. years, terror But in the past two those few moments of have been getting alarmingly more frequent. Tomorrow: The two-way goal in a grim race. I v- " y ftEaslerthi PflMF 4Nn 5FF THF V REVISED STANDARD AM irncinu bibi r l ItnOIUtl DI3LL. 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