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Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 8 Pages ? v . 21 VP ' 4f " I ? S-'kV ' i t z , If miH ,! hi run mi i i 'Si?' iv " . TACKING UNDER GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, Chilean training ship Esmeralda enters - . T-i f I mIVtR f rotnme Ti-plrnm in rr qnlilf p (lyifprnfi finnsrl ) San r rancisco cay. oinuivc is uuiu un as one iv.. 0 , Air Force To Hold B52 Bomber Production To 15 Planes a Month Washington U.R The Air Force has announced that it will hold B52 heavy bomber production at the 'present rate of 15 a month instead of expand ing to the 20 a month goal given Congress last year. The service said that the total number "of the intercontinental HA bombers to be produced is not being changed but that pro duction will be stretched out an extra six months. The planned total production of eight-jet B52s is now 603. The stretchout will keep pro duction going longer and thus make a "favorable" situation for the 'Air Force and the Boeing Airline Co., Seattle, if it is de cided later to buy more of the aircraft. ' The Air Force said the new production schedule will make it possible to obtain "a substan tially greater proportion" of Quotes From the News Br UNITED STATES Lo Angeles U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., in aying that Communism should be taught in American schools, but not by Communists: "A Communist -steadier forfeits the. privileges of academic freedom because his training, purposes and design are all at odds with It." Dlroii James H. Hoffa, Taamiterg union vic president, on the recent meeting of the' Teamsters Executive council: "We agreed that Dave Beck is entitled Jo his constitutional rights aqd we are not making any judgments about him until he has his day in court on any and all charges.". Cairo The Mid East News agency, quoting a "responsible dip lomatic source" on progress in American-Egyptian negotiations on the Suez canal: "I am optimistic and it can be said the next few days will bring good news which will inspire confidence." Washington President Eisenhower in congratulating U.P. photographer James K. W. Atherton for his prize-winning photo graph of Mrs. Eisenhower at a GOP rally: "Wait till Mrs. Ike sees that in the papers." Belgrade Jugoslav Vice Premier Aleksander Rankovic, tak ing notice of a renewed Soviet campaign of words against the Tito government: "We are again witnessing really comic accusations." Vew Orleans Don Inman, one of the divers who went over a capsized oil drilling barge to determine whether the six men in side might be alive: "I'm sorry to say it. but these men are dead." Westinghouse AUTOMATIC FRY PAN W iWw WQXUtTK OCUICtl luui.ro omuw shape of pan. giee even beat over h ma e) Thtf mounter-type ttxamuetat eoa trofc heat from edge to edge, not jo m one spot as in ordinary fry pans. Open Handle prevents burned fin gers, permits easy balancing when filled. iMt tar ttm man pan wK tguan i you can be sube if ns Westinghouse BIG V APPLIANCE DEPARTMENT In The Big Y Shopping Center PHONE 3-3052 a new B52 model which is re ported to .have considerably in creased fuel capacity and thus greater range than the models now in the Strategic Air Com mand. Fewer Tankers Present plans call for equip ping 11 heavy bomber wings with the airplanes. There are 45 planes to a wing. The Air Force also announced that production of the KC135 jet tanker plane will be held to 15 a month, a goal to be reached in about one year. Previously it had been planned to go to 20 a month. Under congressional pressure resulting from concern about Russian air power progress, De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son increased the B52 produc tion goal to 20 planes a month last year. Wilson took credit at the time for pushing the Air Force somewhat faster than it had plann, ? to go. Air Force production experts testified to the Senate air power inquiry at the time that 20 a month was a larger than "opti ura" number for a production program calling for some 600 airplanes. As a result of the congres sional concern, and over Wil son's objections, Congress ap propriated $900 million in extra Air Force funds of which the lion's share was supposed to go for bombers and jet tankers. Ahead of Soviet Meanwhile, the Pentagon learned that it had overestimat ed the number of Bison jet bombers Russia had produced. The Reds actually possessed, it i- now known, probably no more than 50 and had no expec tation of overtaking U.S. pro duction of the B52 for some years. Also the Air Force in Janu ary came to the conclusion that it could not afford to continue to expand the B52 production rate if it also started a large scale production program for the supersonic B58 bomber. It was forecast in January that by April flight tests would show whether the B58 should be pushed and the B52 schedule eased. Paradoxically, the B52 is a heavy bomber replacing the old B36 super bomber and the B58 is a medium bomber scheduled to replace the B47 stratojet. The B58's speed is estimated at 1,000 miles an hour. The Air Force said its new B52 schedule will "somewhat ease" training and conversion from B36s to B52s. It said the B52s supported by KC135 tankers, will "greatly in crease our deterent striking power and provide a powerful restraining force to Communist aggression." Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force chief and chairman designate of the Joint Chief of Staff, has proposed to his super iors that the Air Force build 17 B52 ' wings instead of the planned 11. The proposal so far has nei ther been rejected nor accepted. For everyone you know Easter- Cards Many religious, traditional, and humorous designs. Choose yours from our com plete selection. I -7.T-1 '24, r4l-4il4ll -UA ,l.T4d Rearward Seats Ruled Out as Safety Feature in Event of Airplane Smashup Frfttnr' nntc: Following is the last in i series of articles dealing with air traffic congestion and passenger safety. By ROBERT J. SERLING United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The build ers of America's new jet trans ports have decided that passen gers are just as safe riding front wards as backwards. British experts have been in sisting for years that aft-facing airline seats are safer in low speed crashes. The theory is that in the sudden deceleration, a passenger in a rearward seat is pressed against the cushioned back instead of being thrown forward. The U.S. Military. Air Trans port Service liked the idea and equipped all of its four-engined transports with aft-facing seats. But American aircraft manu facturers, who have received or ders for more than 200 new jet airliners, said not a single order specifies seats that face to the rear. They added that American scientists do not agree that such seating arrangements are any safer. "We figured that because of all the publicity about backward seats, some airlines would at least consider putting them in their new jets," said a Douglas Aircraft Co. official. "But they didn't." Backward Seats Heavier A Boeing engineer who has worked on that company's 707 jet transport said Boeing "went to every aviation research out fit that had done work on the subject and found unanimous op position to the idea." The research organization, he said, reported that in many acci dents occuring at relatively low speeds, aft-facing seats actually were more dangerous than con ventional seats. This was true in so-called "ground loops" or cart-wheeling. celeration threw passengers side ways instead of forward. Tests also showed that to with stand the same amount of de celeration force as a front-facing seat, a backward seat has to be three times stronger. This adds weight to the plane, and weight is an airplane's greatest enemy. If rearward seats are out as a safety device, how about para chutes for passengers? Aviation industry spokesmen list three arguments against pro viding parachutes: The majority of accidents occur while landing or taking off, at altitudes too low for use of parachutes, or happen with such suddenness that there would be no time to jump. Equipping every passenger with a parachute would add enormous weight to a plane. Safety Research Promising Unless a plane were disinte grating in the air or being con sumed by fire at a high altitude, it would be far safer for a pas senger to take his chances on riding a crippled plane to earth Even expert chutists frequently are injured. Jumping out of a plane at 30,000-40,000 feet (the altitude at which jet airliners will op erate) would require oxygen masks for every passenger, add ing further to a plane's weight. Aviation scientists see more promise in other air safety re search projects. The Guggenheim Aviation TRAIN BOWS TO AUTO Toledo, Ohio (U.R) Train men on a northbound train took one look at the southbound track early Thursday and flag ged down an oncoming south bound train. The southbound train stopped just in time to prevent a head-on collision with Marion T. Watson's car. Watson, 59, was locked up on a drunk when violent ac- and disorderly charge. Safety Center at Cornell Uni versity has 213 separate safety projects in progress. 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