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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.
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2. 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
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Wednesday, April 24, 1957
By Jimmy Hatlo
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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