1PC3, World's Most Famous
Airliner, Refuses To Retire
$T ROBERT J. SERLING
3fiied Press Correspondent
Washington iW The
3Pcld's most famous airliner
rUstf to retire.
Thtt would be the DC3.
Th 25-year-old transport
plane is known as the C47 to
the Air Force, the Dakota
to the British, R4D to the
Navy and "the best plane
ever built" to thousands of
pilots.
Recently the International
Air Transport association
found that 694 DC3s are still
being used in scheduled pas
senger service throughout the
world, more than any other
single type. For a plane de
signed a quarter century ago,
that is the most remarkable
record in aviation history.
The Douglas Aircraft Co.
began building the DC3 in
1933. It turned out nearly
12.000 and half of them are
still flying. About 250 are
used by 22 scheduled airlines
in the United States.
Carries Many Passengers
Douglas estimates that the
DC3 has carrier nearly 500
million passengers in the past
25 years.
The DC3 always has been
a "pilot's plane." Easy to han
dle, untemperamental, respon
sive as a baby carriage and
almost completely forgiving of
mistakes made in the cockpit.
Its one fault: Leaks in the
cockpit windshields during
rain, which led one pilot to
radio "light rain outside,
heavy rain inside."
It is one of the strongest
planes ever built.
A year ago, a frontier air
lines DC3 ripped 12 feet from
its left wing when it hit a
mountain. The pilot turned
around and flew 40 miles back
to an airport.
The DC3 was designed to
carry 21 passengers and a
crew of three. Later models
carried 26 passengers.
Used in World War II
In World War II, a DC3,
operated by a Chinese airline
took off with 74 passengers
aboard.
Other DC3s have been
known to carry 60 persons.
Domestic airlines limit the
DC3 to a gross take-off weight
of a little more than 25,000
pounds. During the war, the
Air Transport Command regu
larly flew its DC3s with a
gross weight of 31,000 pounds
WRITER DIES
Brooklin, Mass. 1? Don
ald Moffat, 63, book and mag
azine writer, died at his home
here Sunday. He was a fre
quent contributor to the New
Yorker and other periodicals.
and they have been known to
fly safely with 35,000.
The DC3 was a Godsend to
the nation's struggling airlines
in the early 30s. One airline
president called it "the first
plane that could make money
just hauling passengers."
Five years after it was in
troduced by American Air
lines and TWA, the DC3 com
prised 90 per cent of Amer
ica's commercial air fleet.
No pilot was surprised when
the plane also became an
aerial workhorse in Vorld
War II. DC3s flew millions
of tons of wartime cargo, serv
ed as airborne ambulances,
flew paratroopers into combat
and became a welcome sight
at allied airfields all over the
world.
Europe Makes Ready For Recession
In Case Decline Spreads From U. S.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Men Jay, May 5, 1958 7
London (IPI - The U. S.
recession so far has stayed on
its own side of the Atlantic.
But Europe is getting ready
for economic trouble just
in case.
A United Press survey
showed today that Western
European nations have suf
fered few, if any, effects of
America's economic trouble.
And countries which have
been hit are not even close
to serious trouble.
Despite rising unemploy
ment figures in the United
States, more American tour
ists than ever are expected to
spend their vacations and
money in Europe during
the summer season.
Possibly the country with
the most economic problems
is Britain. Unemployment is
on the rise and some sections
of. the nation's economy have
been hard hit. But the overall
figures do not show any sig
nificant downward, trend.
Aid To Unemployed
However the government is
gearing itself to take meas
ures if a recession does hit
Britain.
Last week the government
announced it will pay house
hold expenses for transfer
ring an unemployed person
to an area where there are
jobs available and pay for
half the legal fees involved in
getting a new house.
Other- Western European
countries seem to be relative
ly unaffected. Some are even
prospering.
No Effect on France
Trance is unaffected by the
U.S. recession although
outgoing Finance , Minister
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ly before Premier Felix Gail
lard's fall on April 15. that a
prolonged American slump
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In fact, foreign trade is going
steadily up despite a slight
slump in sales of steel and
some other products.
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with Germany, Austria and
other nations.
There has been no notice
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feeling the recession as the
volume of orders drops. How
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yet taken any action since
most economists agree it is
not yet necessary.
Indians Win Issue
Of Turnpike Fee
Syracuse, N.Y. OP) The
Indians won a new battle with
the paleface Saturday.
Four Tuscaroras arrived in
Syracuse via the New York
state thruway to continue
moves to protest a state plan
to take over 1,300 acres of
their land.
The car, driven by Clark
Rickard, 28, drove up to exit
36 on the thruway.
An attendant asked for
$1-75.
The Indians drew out a
copy of McKinney's "Con
solidated Laws of New York"
and pointed out that members
of the Six Nations could
"travel free on any turnpike
from Canadaigua leading to
or from Buffalo Creek."
The attendant signaled to
another attendant. Both were
stumped.
A state trooper was called.
He was perplexed.
The trooper called his su
perior. The superior was non
plussed.
The superior called trooper
headquarters in Albany.
"Let them through," head
quarters said.
The trooper signed a report
for the thruway toll booth de
scribing the incident as "an
unscheduled occurrence."
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eastern Oregon.
The students are complet
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ernor's Inter-Agency commit
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by Cecelia Gayley, chairman
of the Unemployment Comp
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The students will return to
campus Monday after inter
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Nyssa areas.
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walking distance of the down
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tance of restaurants, theaters,
shops and other metropolian
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