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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. April 1. 1957 Jet Transport Age To Bring Need for Modification in Air Safety Measures (Fditori note: Following It fourth in a series of articles dealing with lir traffic congeiUon and the need for freater safety regulations). BY ROBERT J. SERLING United Press Correspondent Washington (UP.) Amer ica's first scheduled jet transport flights will take place late in 1958. And with the birth of the jet age will come the safest form ' of aerial transportation known to man. Jelg will be safer for several reasons: Their high-speed, high altitude the i reanirements have resulted in I the design of the strongest planes ever built. The wings of a jet transport could support the weight of automobiles piled as high as the Washington Monument. Jets fly higher than con-1 the same stall characteristics as Jet engines are more reli able, less prone to failure, than piston engines. Capital Airlines' Viscounts, which use a jet engine hitched to a conventional propel ler, have had only one in-flight engine failure since they were first placed in operation nearly two years ago. Gash Across Lisbon Said To Be Justified Program Lisbon (U.PJ There is an ugly gash across Lisbon'! fair face these days, but it is not a deep wound and the experts say there will be no lasting scar once the subway is finished. Practically every white-collar worker in Lisbon goes home to lunch, the partisans of the proj ect point out. The commuting habit at midday is traditional, and, with business steadily ex panding, which means more people employed in offices and shops, it is on the increase. The snack-bar has never be come popular here, and the sand wich, s in other Latin coun tries, is regarded strictly as a bite to eat between meals, not even though it may look square as a substitute for one. The residential districts fan out from the center of the city (very little of which is flat) along the north bank of the Tague or away from the river, across uneven ground, toward the hills. Thus a fair number of wage-earners live too far from their work to make the round trip twice a day, but they are still the minority among em ployees. The Opposition The street car and" bus serv- Ices are packed in downtown Lisbon during the rush hours. The subway now under con struction should do a lot to elim inate this rush when the first section is completed in a couple of yearsBut by then the city's need of extra transport is likely to be even greater, according to official estimates. Disgruntled Lisbonlani of the old school are not so sure, how ever, that it is worth seeing their city's principal thoroughfare dug up and traffic disrupted for the sake of a tunnel whose conven ience they despise as of doubt ful value at some uncertain fu ture. They deplore the present as pect of the fine, broad Avenida da Liberdade, Which has been stripped of its grass border and most of its trees along one side, i Where swans used to drift sedately in shady, terraced pools in pleasant contrast to the noisy, clattering bustle on the street, 2,000 workmen have hacked a wide, shallow trench that slits Lisbon's main artery all the way uphill from Restauradoes Square to the massive statue of the man who rebuilt the town after trie earthquake of 1775 the Mar quis of Pombal. The thoughtful contractors have provided neat peepholes at short intervals in the boardings that enclose the excavations like a stockade so passers-by may look in on the work. A row of onlookers is always there except when it rains. This pleasant pastime will be interrupted tem porarily in February when the excavation scene will be tidied up during the state visit of Queen Elizabeth of Britain and the Duke of Edinburgh. Little Tunneling "We are a little behind sched ule at present," a spokesman for the subway company admitted recently. "Even so, I think we can count on finishing this first section of the line before the end of 1958, according to plan." He meant the four-and-a-half-mile, double-track stretch, shaped like a somewhat crooked figure Jif, that will fork in two direc tions from the Rotunda, below the park named after Eliza- 1 beth's great-grandfather, Edward VII. The stem or trunk of this "tree" is the straight route al ready mentioned. Its branches at the outset will stop short at the stations of Sete-Rios and Entre-Campos, but are to be pro longed at a later date as far as Benfica and Lumiar on the city's rim. A lengthier riverside track, a loop and another branch line will complete the network, cov ering a total distance of 25 miles. Only about one-seventh of the first section (1,400 out of 7,000 meters) will require deep tunnel ing; the rest will be built on the American cut-and-cover system. At the start, with trains lim ited to two cars running between 11 stations stations at two-and-a-half minute intervals, the com pany reckons to carry anything up to 6,000 passengers both ways every hour. Later on, each train may consist of four cars, and the intervals on the timetable could be cut to one and a half min utes, to provide transport for 20,000 passengers an hour. ichigan Indians Said on Warpath Allegan, Mich. '(U.R) Michi gan's Indians are on the war path. The enemy is the United States government. At issue is a treaty negotiated by G' . Anthony ("Mad An thony") Wayne more than 150 years ago after the battle of Fallen Timbers. Representatives of the Otta was, the Pottawattamies and the Chippewas held a quiet war council at Allegan's Griswold Memorial Building recently to draft a plan of attack. In 1795 the three Michigan tribes signed a treaty with Wayne that 'gave he Indians the right "to hunt r nd fish with in the lands they have now ceded to the United States with out hindrance so long as -they remain peaceful." Col. Willard Bush, a Wayland Indian, was jailed 160 years later and convicted on a charge of hunting without a license. For the first time since the battle of Fallen Timbers, Michi gan's Indians united in the cause of Bush. Silas J. Bush, the colo nel's father, said he will carry the battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. At their powpow here, repe sentatives of all three tribes were on hand to discuss what may be the big stumbling block in their case. A clause added to later treaties said the Indians have the right to fish and hunt "so long as the land remains the property of the United States." The Ottawas, Pottawattamies, and Chippewas see this to mean land within the United States boundaries. But the courts have interpreted the clause to signify government land as against state-owned land. It appears that the only chance the Indians have to win their case is to prove that certain "verbal understandings" carried over the original rights granted by Wayne to later treaties. More than 170 million pounds of shrimp more than one pound per person were sold in the U.S. in 1953. to ' r - -T a W It VT T A VT 5-15-26.31 jg taunts 7 MAY H a a t m t-A S)53-78-S-a7 to CBMM MAY 23 JUNE 22 52-64-73 caNca jwi 23 JULY 23 --11-1.25-3J 48-59-70 LfO AUG. 23 c c it teiyd vneo AUG- 24 SEPT. 22 1 1 q na.jri yuvA3-82-8 -By OAT R- POLLAN- K Tor Caitr Acffvrrr Gokfc K ' Actor ding fo thw Sion. 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In a takeoff or landing crash, a jet is less likely to catch fire because its kerosene fuel is less inflammable than high-octane gasoline. Manufacturers now are engag ed in the greatest flight testing program ever involved in the in troduction of new aircraft, "We know one bad crash could seriously damage public accept ance of this new kind of flying," one aircraft company official said, "we aren't cutting any cor ners in putting out the safest transport ever created." Long Range Plan Boeing's 707 protoype, for ex ample, took blueprint form in 1952, underwent its first test flight in May, 1954, and al ready has had more than 1,100 hours of flight operation. Boeing also is building a jet tanker for the Air Force which, except for certain modifications, is identical to the passenger carrying 707. Boeing estimates that by certification time, its jet transport will have had more than 65,000 hours of flight test ing. But the jet transport age also will bring safely problems. : The old "see and be seen" rules for so-called visual flight conditions won't work with jets. A jet transport pilot who sees an on-coming plane one mile away won't have time to take evasive action. At 600 miles an hour, the other plane will be upon him in four seconds. This means the jet airliners will operate under instrument flight rules, even in perfect wea ther. They will cruise at altitudes of 24,000 feet and higher, with flight paths centers on the ground. At such altitudes, they will be using air space hitherto reserved for military 'traffic. Jets do not operate efficiently at lower altitudes, . where they gulp fuel with enormous ap petites. The Boeing 707 which recently flew cross-country burn ed up 1,000 pounds of fuel just taxiing from its Seattle loading area to the takeoff runway. This means jet transports cap tains will have to plan flights with extreme care to avoid land ing delays which might jeopar dize their fuel supply. This in turn Makes the development of a better air traffic control system an absolute necessity for the jet age. - ; . . Electrically Controlled Experts predict that jetliners will 1 fly pre-calculated flight paths, monitored and guided electronically to assure them of nn-schedule landings. Such a sys tem, of course could virtually eliminate "stacking," not only for jets but all airliners. Despite their 600-mile an hour speed, the jets will be no harder to take off or land than a con ventional transport. . Boeing's 707, which, has al ready been flown by a number of airline pilots, lands . at the same speed as a DC-7 and has a piston-engined plane. However, it needs a bit more runway length. America's jet airliners are be ing designed to avoid the trou bles of British-made plane suf fered metal fatigue caused by rapid pressurization and depres surization in its swift climbs and descents. In effect, it was like bending a piece of metal back and forth until it breaks. The U.S. jets will be built much stronger than the Comet to eliminate this possibility. The 707, for example, incorporates "mult i-member" construction. The skin panel in any section of the plane can suffer a complete fracture without affecting the rest of the aircraft. Unlike the Comet, U. S. jets will have their engines mounted in pods underneath the wings in stead of building them into the wings. This will isolate engine fires from the rest of the plane. Tomorrow: Would airline pas sengari be safer if they rod backwards and won parachutes? " .' v - .- T,,.. Vi " " -.. - . t ... Jl i PLEADS POSTAL INCREASE Postmaster General Ar thur Summerfield appears before the House Postoffice Committee to plead for increase in postal rates. Com mittee members who said his squabble over postal cut backs would have little effect on his case for stamp price hikes, expected to question him closely on reasons for the postal curbs. Records Sold By Supermarket Methods Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Su permarket methods are used in the selling of recorded music at the new Foremost Record Center here. Attendants play 45 rpm rec ords at a counter, where a dozen or more customers may listen to as many different records with out bothering their neighbors. Attendants also play 33 13 rpm records for customers who listen in hi-fi booths served by co-axial speakers. Officials of the center and a sound expert worked out the details. They began with a sys tem of indexing records through use of album jackets mounted on huge panels. The customer notes the index number and let ter of the jacket and the attend ant does the rest. The center points out that wear and tear on the discs is re duced to an absolute minimum by the system. More than 5,000 record album jackets are on dis play, each indexed for easy se lection. The supermarket idea is ex tended to include ample park ing space for customers, an up-to-the-minute "scoreboard" of best sellers among the popular records, and a battery of vend ing machines to provide refresh ments. Foremost Records, Inc., which installed the center as a subsid iary enterprise, is new in the record world. It is headed by Blevins Davis, prominent New York theatrical producer and "angel" who maintains a home in nearby Independence, Mo. Ina Freeman Named President of TTA Talent Ina Freeman was elected president of the Talent, Teachers' association last week at Talent High school. The meeting was the last to be held by the association for resent school year. Outgoing President Merle Atkinson pre sided., Other officers elected were Esther Newcomb, - vice presi dent; and Doris Corry, secretary, treasurer. James Johnston of Medford High school discussed the Teach er's Credit Union with, the group. The credit union was originated in the Medford school system and has been ex tended to other schools in the county. 59 Cases of Measles Reported Last Week Fifty-nine cases of measles were reported in Meiiford to the Jackson county department of health for the week ending April 12, according to Dr. A. Erin Mjrkel, public health physician. About 73 other communicable diseases were reported during the week in Jackson county, Dr. Merkel said. Cases included measles 33, Ashland 27. 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