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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ;eyH Do It Every Time SAT LITTLE lODIfJE LAST HlGHT AMD COMPLIED OF HER F41LIMG EYESIGHT uu r, rvvrv: fl fx E I .i;uf'; mdc L r 1 H I CL ' E-EYE 1 I IrTa 5 WE M0ST GET VOO TO-ffi If? Odds Against Plane Passenger Being Sucked Out Very High Kdltor'i note: A nasacnarr fell to death through a broken window on an Air France plane Sunday. The fol lowing dispatch discusses why such mishaps occur and what Is being done to solve the problem. BY ROBERT TTSERLING United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The odds against being sucked out of an airliner window or door are 150 million to 1. They will be even greater in the coming jet trans ports. Civil Aeronautics Board files show only two passengers have been "blown out" of U.S. air liner cabins since pressurized planes went into general serv ice in 1946. In that period the regularly scheduled U.S. air lines have carried nearly 300 million persons. Cabin perssurization is re quired for planes flying above 15,000 feet. At 20,000 feet the pressure inside an airliner is 8V4 pounds per square inch greater than outside the plane and a fractured window or suddenly opened door can whisk a 200 pound man through the opening in a. split second. Smaller Windows in Jets When the' window on the Air France plane broke over Iran last week end, the ill-fated pas senger was suddenly subjected to 850 pounds of pressure on his head enough to suck him to ward the window. Once his head Vas through, his entire body Tas jolted by approximately i,700 pounds of pressure and was drawn out the window. Designers of the new jet plan js have taken special steps to pre sent this from happening. These include: 1. Windows so small a human ifrady cannot go through. Now... more Extra Protection ! Over 20 new protection features have been added to the Allstate Crusader Policy to give you more protection than ever before! Outstanding Claim Record! 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Triple-strength windows with three glass panes, each so strong that fracturing of the other two will not affect the re maining one. Current airliners have double pane windows; while they are designed so breaking of one will not affect the other, there have been rare instances when both cracked open. 3. The doors on jetliners will be of the "plug type" designed so pressurization merely locks them tighter instead of exerting a pushing force as in present planes. Even on present airliners the danger of a double-pane window fracturing is extremely rare. A CAB official said the govern ment requires regular inspection of plane windows for scratches that might weaken the glass. A scratch can lead to a crack and a crack will mean an eventual break. Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) When she was the wife of a big movie star, the woman lived in a fabulous happy one about success and bosoms, and the to Tita Purdon ,1 Beverly Hills mansion, but today she look ed around her shabby, bare apartment and cried. "It's that frantic fear that I c a n't pay the rent!" Not every story ' in Hol lywood is a Alln Mosby than ever hands with::i W' aV . Wednesday, April 24, 1957 By Jimmy Hatlo IODINE.' LOOK ST EIGHT TMlRTy-SEVEN.' JB RPnTIMP WE MOST GET VDO TO "Windows can be scratched when the plane is cleaned and also, by passengers themselves," he said. "We've had cases where passengers scratched their in itials into windows and I my self once stopped a youngster who was banging on a window with an iron toy. His mother got mad and told me the boy wasn't bothering anybody." CAB records show these fatal instances of unexpected depres surization, most of them caused by door failures: 1947 An astrodome in a TWA Constellation blew out while the navigator was making star sights, sucking him to his death over the Atlantic. 1950 Awoman passenger in a Pan-American Stratocruiser was pulled through a cabin door that suddenly opened. 1952 Another passenger went through a PAA Stratocuiser door that unexpetedly opened. By ALINE MOSBY United Preas Correspondent I her four years in movetown have been sad. She and Edmund Purdom ar rived here from London to live in a garage while he looked for acting jobs. It was an exciting story when the garage-dweller turned out to be signed by MGM in 1953 for such big films as "The Student Prince." Seeks to Rebuild Career After studio and personal dif ficulties, Purdom left Hollywood and now is trying to rebuild his career with a new bride. . But back in Hollywood his ex wife said wearily, "I've had no thing but $1,100 from him in a year. I expect nothing for my self, but his two children!" After being evicted from two apartments for not paying the rent, Tita is living in a $60-a-month, three-room apart ment with her daughters, aged 2 and 4. Her doctor and Norma Shear er "who has been wonderful" gave her odd pieces of furniture, a stove and refrigerator. "My American friends have been very kind to me," smiled Tita. "Jan Sterling gave me a dress. Thanks to my friends, we have food." Her doctor says Tita and both children "definitely 'show signs of malnutrition.." Tita, and actress, tried a night club act for a while and works ocasionally in television on the Alfred Hitchock and Loretta Young shows. "It hasn't been enough to live on," she said. 'I've tried to get other jobs. I've been to depart ment stores but when they hear my name I can't type, but I've tried to find work as a file clerk." Recently Tita spent the night in jail for five overdue traffic tickets on a car she long ago lost. The judge let her off with a small fine after she explained four of the tickets were her ex husband's. She goes to court next month on a $60 -milk bill she claims was incurred while they were married. Local Man Bound Over To Grand Jury Monday Donald Babcock, 27, of 1427 Lawnridge drive, Medford, was bound over to the grand jury Monday, after appearing for pre liminary hearing in district court. Babcock, charged with lar ceny in a building, is being rep sesented by Ed Kelly, Medford attorney. Red Fir Slabwoad SUMMER SPECIAL J Loads J J 1 LOAD $12.00 Immediate Delivery Ph. 3-5878 or 2-5055 PHELPS FUEL CO. 1337 So. Peach St. Save this ad for reference American East in Search of Employment St. Louis (U.R) The Amerl can Indian is heading back to his "happy hunting grounds" in the East to hunt for a job. And he is taking his family with him. That's why the new relocation office at St. Louis turned a re ception room into a nursery. The uprising of Indian tiny tots forced the U.S. Bureau of Ind ian Affairs to forget dignity and turn to graham crackers and rattles. ... Since the St. Louis office join ed a chain of relocation centers from San Francisco toChicago, 93 Indian families and 23 per sons have found homes, jobs, hot and cold running water, and the white man's addiction to super markets here. Director C. E. Hazard said the men walk into the office with long braids and the women some times wear full skirts with red blouses and maybe $200 worth of jewelry. Braids Disappear A month later the braids are gone and the men are complain ing about income tax and the women, who rarely speak Eng lish, are chatting for hours on the telephone to each other. Hazard said no government office deals so intimately with people as does the Indian reloca tion office. "I once made the mistake of telling a Navajo woman to slap her husband back when he beat her,"- Hazard said. "She thought it was official government per mission, and her husband came to me to register a complaint." For Choctaw and Kickapoo and Apache who have never seen a city of more than 1,000 popula tion, metropolitan industrialized St. Louis is a foreign world. Their first big step in assimila tion comes on the job, Hazard said. More than 300 St. Louis indus tries have listings with the re location office and the Cherokee or Sioux who says he likes mech anics soon finds a place. But, said Hazard, their idea of mech anics usually is limited." Disappointed in Work He described a Kiowa who said he wanted to make farm machinery. Hazard found him such a job, but the next week New Same time Saturday night at 11, Medford changes to new phone numbers. The new numbers you'll be dialing are in your new phone book. Medford's new numbers will start with prefixes: SPring 2 and SPring 3. We've mailed you a new number sticker for your telephone, along with infor mation about the change. Youll find that dialing the new numbers is easy. To call SPring 3-1080, for instance, just dial the prefix S-P-3 . . . then 1-0-8-0. Saturday night at 11, Phoenix and Talent served by a new telephone office get hew numbers, too. So will Indians Emigrating To the man said he wanted to quit, He told Hazard. "I've been there all week and I haven't even seen a complete machine, let alone build one." So Hazard explained the white man's assembly line. The relocation office sponsors the families here until they be come settled, usually about one month. Hazard said a recent sur vey showed that the government was getting back its money al most immediately in income tax es taken out of the Indians' pay checks. Home visits by relocation Grange Notes Gold Hill Grange Gold Hill Grange met April 18 with overseer Alva Walker in the master's chair, due to the un avoidable absence of Master Hal Bishop. The meeting was conducted in the usual manner. The minutes were read and approved, com mittee reports were given and new business and good of the order were taken up. The group voted to send Mr. and Mrs. Alva Walker as alter nates to the state Grange. Herman Kamping informed the Grange on some of the reso lutions that are coming up at the state Grange. There is a worth-while resolution on meat inspection in the state legisla ture, that will benefit everyone if it is passed. The lecturer's program was spent in reading and group singing. Last-minute details for the float to be entered in the Pear Blossom parade are being worked aut. Gold Hill Grange members are pleased that their candidate was chosen queen of the annual Pear Blossom fes tival. ' It was reported that the dances held Saturday nights at the Grange hall continue to 'be successful. The next serving committee will be Mr. and Mrs. Page and Dorothy Parker. Grange closed at 10:30 with the retiring drill. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a m Monday to: Monday; other days 5:30 Drevious dav y - phone numbers for MedforeSI Saturday night numbers change in Ashland, Gold Hill, Jacksonville workers are made about four times in the first six months, Hazard said. The workers give advice about shopping in super markets, how to keep payments on furniture within a budget, how to unglue children from television sets. "It makes no difference wheth er the person is a Chayenne named Roman Nose or an Ara paho named Murray" said Haz ard. "They are people with a great deal of courage and as many hopes and fears as the rest of us. They are making a tre mendous change in coming' east." Pear Blossom Festival WHILE THEY LAST! LAY THEM YOURSELF AND SAVE DYKE'S FLOOR COVERING 227 East 6th Pacific Telephone Approaches to Bridge Under Construction Crews are working on earth to County Engineer Paul Eyn- approaches to the new concrete county bridge recently construct ed about a quarter-mile upstream from the old McKee bridge over the Applegate river, according PI INLAID LINOLEUM TILE aaaaaaaam'iya j j.m.gi!qmmmmpmmmmmm a HI and the new Phoenix-Talent Exchange Ashland, Gold Hill and Jacksonville. It's all explained in the pamphlet we've sent you. Please read it. More toll-free dialing starts Saturday night. Starting Saturday night at 11 youll be able 'to dial toll-free from Medford to Phoenix-Talent, Ashland and Gold Hill. That's in addition to Jacksonville, Central Point and White City, which you already dial toll-free. From other points in the Medford-Ashland area, the toll-free dialing range expands, too. To see where and how you can dial toll-free . . . look at the pamphlet, or the map on Page 2 of your new phone book. ning. The new bridge is expected to be open to traffic in about a month if weather conditions per mit completion of the approaches on schedule. ' i I if . means real cheese -agect nafurafy Each PHONE 2-5168
