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.
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of shrimp more than one
pound per person were sold in
the U.S. in 1953.
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ventional planes, avoiding bad
weather with ease, and their
swept-back wings are less affect
ed by turbulence.
Jets in many ways are easier
to fly and handle than a piston
engine plane. The Boeing 707
jet transport contains only 180
cockpit instruments; the Boeing
Stratocruiser, a c o n v e ntional
four-engined plane, has nearly
500 cockpit instruments.
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?
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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. Phoenix four and
Talent and Trail, one each; Ger
man measles 14, Sams Valley, 11,
Medford three; pneumonia six,
Medford five, Ashland one;
chicken pox 14, Medford nine,
Gold Hill two, Central Point,
Eagle Point and Applegate, each
one: whooping cough three, Med
ford; mumps two, Medford; and
rheumatic fever one, Medford.
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