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8 MAIL TRIBUNE. McdfarJ, Or., ShrSekfing (Boeing 707 To Launch U-S. Dnto Commercial! Jet Age in November By ROBERT J. SERLING UPI Correspondent Washington-UPD- Sometime this November, the voice of an air traffic controller, at New York's International Airport will crackle imper sonally in the earphones of a pilot . . . "Pan-Am 114. you are cleared for takeoff." The pilot will shove four throttles forward. Four jet engines packing the equival ent power of 40 piston en gines will shriek like a thou sand banshees. The plane, a Boeing 707 Jetliner,- will move down Idlewild's long est runway. And as she lifts her 125- Crowded Airways Expected To Handle Jetliner Traffic Burden Editor's note: The jet flying age bringi problems of air traffic con trol. In this dispatch the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administrator tells what they are and how they are being met. By JAMES T. PYLE Administrator of Civil Aeronautics (Written for United Press International) Washington-fUPD - Can the Nation's crowded airways handle the additional burden of jetliner traffic? We haVe a lot of experts working on the answer to that question. As of now, their answer would be a qualified "Yes." It is qualified because for about a year, the number of jet transport planes operating . will not add much of a load to our airways. By the time the jets are flying literally in flocks, we will need a better answer- Russian Short-Cut Beat United States To Commercial Jets WaShington-dJID-Russia beat the United States to the com mercial jet age by a full two years. But the Reds achieved their victory with an. easy short cut: they merely modified a medium jet bomber, revamp ed its nose, stretched the fuse lage and put in seats. The result was the TU-104, a plane that Russia's state airline Aeroflot, has been fly ing all over Europe for two years. The TU-104 (Aeroflot has an estimated 40 in service) also has made three trips to the United States. Wouldn't Be Accepted But American aviation ex perts who have closely ex amined and flow in the TU 104 reported it would never be accepted by U.S. airlines, or even U.S. passengers. It is under-powered, short range and gorges fuel in such Bill Jess Speaks At Noon Meeting The Rogue river in the course of an average year bears five per cent of the total water carried in all the rivers and streams of Calif ornia, Bill Jess told The Jack son County Chamber of Com merce weekly roundtable yes terday. Jess, president of the Rogue B a si n Flood Control and Water Resources association and chairman of the Jackson County Water Resources com mission, compared flood con trol and development of the Rogue resources with pro gress in California. He also told the approxi mately 20 people attending the luncheon at the Jackson hotel of alternative plans be ing considered by the Army Corps of Engineers and the bureau of reclamation. Jess asked those interested in the Engineers' plans to be come well - informed of, the facts and be ready to express opinions one way or another at the public hearing sched uled for sometime in the next 60 days. Edith Green Named As 'Woman of Year' Washington-(UPD-Rep. Edith Green D.-Ore.) has been, pre sented the "woman of the year" award for 1958 by the Amvets auxiliary. . The award, voted by the auxiliary at its recent St. Louis convention, was in recognition of Mrs. Green's efforts during two terms in Congress to promote school construction and solve the problem of juvenile delin quency. The presentation was made by Mrs. June Abenshein, retir ing auxiliary president. Tuesday. September 16, 1958 ton bulk off the ground and heads for Paris, the United States will have entered the commercial jet air age. This is what the entry will mean to the people who will ride in, command and operate the giant jetliners: Passengers To the traveling public, the jet age will bring a world of incomparable speed, smooth ness and comfort. Speed that will whisk you from New York to Paris be tween breakfast and lunch . . from New York to Los An geles in about five hours . . . you will board a jetliner in New York at 9 a.m. and when you land in Los Angeles, the The air traffic control prob lem often has Been described as a race between the arrival of the jet age and the means of handling that age. The jet age is now here ahead of the means. But that does not mean it will be dangerous to fly in jetliners until better control of airspace is available. The Federal air traffic control system merely will absorb jet air traffic in whatever volunie it can be handled safely. It will not absorb any traffic it cannot handle safely. Much more has been done in the field of jet traffic con trol than the public realizes At the Civil Aeronautics Administration's Tech nical Development Center in In dianapolis, CAA researchers for some time have been de veloping and testing theore tical new "holding patterns mammoth amounts tht it would bankrupt an American carrier. Swiss Airline officials who inspected the TU-104, with a view to buying a few, said even if the Russians gave the plane away free, no priv ate airline could afford to op erate it. The TU-104 also lands at 150 miles an hour, too fast for American safety standards- Its brakes also are reported to be inadequate, causing several TU-104's to overshoot run ways. Its pressurization sys is weak; fountain pen leakage is common. No Western expert has been able to judge the Russian jet liner's safety record. Aeroflot crashes are seldom reported unless foreigners are involved. Britain Beat Everyone Britain actually beat every one to the jetliner age, start ing Comet service in 1952. But the Comets were ground ed following several crashes, and Russia introduced jet service in 1956 while most American manufacturers were still in the blueprint stage. Russia has several turbo-jet and turbo-prop airliners in the testing stage. These are real transports, not modified bombers. And with Aeroflot threatenting serious competi tion in world commercial avia tion, experts agree the United States is launching its own jet age none too soon. Private Auction Set by Collector Ashland - A unique private auction of a number of an tique articles - ranging from a Lincoln autograph to an old hand - operated milkshake mixer will be -held Sunday by C. M. Bailey at his home at 440 Chestnut St., Ashland. Bailey said the collection of objects and memorabilia has been assembled as a hob by over a period of 15 years from throughout southern Oregon and northern Califor nia. . Other items in the collec tion include a number of piec es of early-day glass, porce lain, pottery and bottles; an old Oregon map which showed stage roads, cemeter ies and blacksmith shops along the way; a slave mort gage, some English newspa pers dating from 1671, varied autographs, and other items. KEPT HIS WORD Des Moines, Iowa -(LTD -A stickup man who took $20 from grocer Frank Comito back in 1936 left with the promise, "You'll get your money back." Monday Comito received two S10 bills in the mail, along with a note that said: "This is yours. I took it from your grocery store back in the thirties. Forgive me. clocks will say 11:15 a.m. In the huge, luxurious, fluorescent-lighted cabins you will notice such things as:- A complete lack of noise and vibration. Ceiling dome lights with color controlled to match the natural light outside the plane. Far less turbulance, be cause jetliners (1) will fly above 98 per cent of the weather and (2) will have swept-back wings designed to absorb turbulance. Windows spaced at 20 inch intervals to give an un obstructed view regardless of seat spacing, plus smoke-tint ed shades to cut glare. for the high-speed plans. They are determining at what alti tudes jets can be "stacked (holding a plane at a specific altitude and course) letting it down in stages while traffic below is gradually brought in for landing. They are learning what patterns jets can fly in such situations and how they can be mingled safely with piston plane traffic. Appetite Problem The chief problem is the jet's fuel appetite, which gets hungrier the lower it flies. Far less of a problem is the jet's speed; the Boeing 707's approach and landing speeds are only 10 knots faster than a DC-7. Originally, our CAA and in dustry planners figured that jets would have to hold at about 20,000 feet over a stack ed airport, because of the fuel consumption problem at low er altitudes. But CAA tests have' shown that keeping planes this high near an air port merely cuts the number of aircraft a control tower can bring down over a certain period from a so-called nor mal acceptance rate of 35 an hour to. only 24 an hour. We believe it will be more economical and efficient for the jets to maintain a low-altitude holding pattern- It will mean higher fuel consump tion, but we can bring them in faster and this will offset the fuel factor. . As newer and better traffic control methods come with operation, the jets will pre sent no insurmountable prob lem. t Enroute, they will be pro tected by long range radar which will keep them safely separated from other traffic. In the future they may be assigned pre-arranged arrival times, determined by an elec tronic system that would di gest the flight plans filed by all aircraft and assign specific landing times to the various flights: Such a system, when perfected, could eliminate virtually all "stacking. Estimates Reduced Earlier estimates for jet cruising altitudes have been revised. It was at first planned to cruise them between 30,000 and 40,000 feet, again because of economical fuel consump tion, but flight tests show that jets fly so much faster be tween 20,000 and 35,000 feet that the time saved is worth the money spent. As the pres ent top cruising altitude for piston aircraft is generally 21,000 feet, there should be no difficulty Keeping the two types apart under current en route traffic control practices. The CAA already has estab lished five transcontinental "super-airways" ranging from 17 to 22 thousand feet pri marily for high-speed, non stop piston engine air traffic, and has a half dozen mop ready to go into operation. Similar new routes will most probably be established at higher altitudes (25 to 35 thou sand feet) for jets. It is at the lower altitudes, while approaching or leaving airports, that the jets may give air traffic controllers some gray hairs in the interim before jet-age control methods are fully developed. At the lower altitudes jets will be mixed with piston air craft. The jets turn more slow ly because of their size and speed, which means control lers must wait longer for a jetliner to change course. Aerial Cloverleaf And because the jets climb j and descend so much faster, they may have to be assigned ! takeoff and landing "corri- j dors" to keep them from run ning over slower aircraft literally an aerial cloverlefa I that will allow the jets to I climb and descend over con-1 ventional traffic So long as the jets remain in relatively few numbers, the present air control system ap pears adequate to handle them. Moreover, the Federal Airways Modernization Pro gram and the many research and development projects now under way will keep us well ahead of the problem. Toilets that flush. For safety, passengers will find: Oxygen masks at every seat, in case of sudden de pressurization at altitudes of up to 35,000-40,000 feet. Triple-pane windows to make a window "blow-out" next to impossible. Inflatable escape slides by all four doors; a steward ess merely opens the door, pulls a bar on the ceiling and the escape hatch automatical ly slides through the door and inflates. Pilots To the men who will fly them, the jetliners bring, mix ed blessings. The giant planes are inher ently safer but in some ways inherently more tem peramental. Jetliners are the strongest aircraft ever built, with wings that could carry a load of au tomobiles stacked as high as the Weshington Monument. Their engines are up to six times more reliable than piston-power plants because a jet engine is simpler. Fire dangers are substantially re duced because jet engines are mounted in "pods" under neath the wings, thus remov ing the source of fires from vital structural areas. In most ways, the jetliners are easier to fly than con ventional aircraft. Despite their tremendous bulk, they are maneuverable, stable and far less complicated. They have at least 100 fewer cock pit instruments and controls than a piston-engine trans port. But in bringing crew and passengers alike a new world of greater air safety, the jet liner also presents a host of new problems. Big Fuel Tanks It gulps fuel in awesome quantities 4,000 pounds an hour with the engines just idling on the ground; 12,000 pounds an hour a t normal cruising speed. It is .8,000 pounds lighter 150 seconds after it leaves the runway. All of which requires fuel tanks that hold up to 23,000 gallons enough to operate the average automobile 25 years. The high fuel consumption will require meticulous flight planning on an order never before approached in aviation history. Planning for a typi cal New York-Los Angeles non-stop flight will involve eight to 10 hours of blue printing - weather, winds. speed, altitude, fuel consump tion, run-way lengths, tem peratures, pay-load and other traffic. The jetliner's swept-back J 1 1 wings are a tacior xor doiu speed and safety. They cut wind resistance and, as noted, are less affected by turbul ence. But tney are aesigneu for high-altitude operation; at low altitudes, swept - back wings create nanaiing prou- lems in cross-winds. The jet liners will be simpler to fly. but landing one in a cross- wind calls for a lot of flying skill. The nation's scheduled air lines are betting $3 billion on the jetliner. In aviation s most expen sive gamble, they have order ed more than 400 new planes at a cost of $2.5 billion. An other half-billion will go for new ground facilities, rang ing from a $50 million elec tronic reservations system to a new kind of self-propelled vacuum cleaner for keeping runways clear of foreign ob jects (which could ruin a jet engine). The cost of entering the jet air age is staggering. A jetliner costs an airline $2,500 a day just sitting on the ground for insurance and depreciation. A single jet engine costs a quarter of a million dollars more than what the airlines paid for an entire plane a few years ago. OBEDIENCE CLASSES HAVE YOU A DOG! His obedience reflects your training or neg lect. Bring your dog to the Phoenix Com munity Hall, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 at 7:00 P.M. and enter the training classes with the SOUTHERN OREGON KENNEL CLUB. All you need is a dog, a choke chain, six foot leather leash, and a willingness to work with your dog. Your dog must have had his shots. i CALL Theyll Do It Every Time ' . According to the wsraJCTOiJS ONtHE CARE OF THECOOMg UTENSILS;4H4MDLE WITH KID GLOVES. ITdtrW ,, n n & m ' . NEVER SCROHfc ,"tyf mri IT rtPkm V USE HO ABRASIVES OF AVf KIND MUCKLE WON'T BUCKLE IP YOU BREAK IT in cm". SEASONING THE METAL WITH ATTAR OF RC&fci anu -v. ur nrni 'Lunatic Fringe' Gives Progressive Education Bad Name By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Correspondent New York - (UPD - It's the "lunatic fringe" in education that has given progressive education a bad name with some Americans in the opin ion of youthful Prof. Law rence A. Cremin of Columbia university. Cremin, head of the depart ment of social and philosophi cal foundations at Columbia Teachers college, has spent the past year studying the history of the progressive movement in education. He expressed his views at a meeting of the Associated Public School Systems, a na tional organization- represent ing about 2,500 public schools in 40 states. Whether parents know it or not, he said, the best of pro gressive education has been incorporated into the main stream of modern education in this country. It was the "lunatic fringe" that Cremin blamed for the finger - painting, sand - pile studies and other assorted trade-marks of progressive education. Off the Track When such diversions be come more important than the A jetliner carries a $6 mil lion price tag more than double that of the DC-7. It adds up to $42 A pound for the DC-8, compared to $29 for the DC-7. Millions Already Spent The airlines already have spent millions in jet-age plan ning, ranging from million dollar flight simulators for pi lot training to a new $16 cof fee maker. They are spending $100, 000 per plane for noise sup pressors for engines and $100 per plane for a mechan ical refrigerator - that will make ice cubes for pre-dinner cocktails. They are working on new methods of air traffic control and more pleasing color schemes for cabins. They are writing up intri cate new schedules and lit tle handbooks that tell pas sengers how a jet engine works. How to pay for all this is one eieantic headache. The airlines admit to being $825 million short of necessary fi nancing. They hope -to win a fare increase from the Civil Aeronautics Board that will helD them climb out of the red ink ocean into which they are diving. This, plus what they pray will be increased rjasseneer volume, should bring reasonable returns from their $3 billion dollar gam ble. In short, the airlines are ready for the start of the jet air . . . Ready but with fin gers crossed. SP 2-9333 KE 5-2243 BE DONE, g 'J.NT come v FINE WATCH-- rrni iez IN IflE IUO three R's progressive educa tion is off the track, accord ing to Cremin.1 He said progressive educa tion, as such, really began back in the 1870's as a reform movement and at a time when there was a real need to up set the notion that school chil dren are just so many waste baskets into which teachers toss scraps of information. To counter this, the pro gressive education movement pushed the idea of educating the whole child, helping his personality to develop at its own level. And in some quar ters, this led to sand-pile study as a graded subject on the report card. , Extremists, according to Cremin, have given pundits plenty of ammunition and this, he said is probably why the. term "progressive educa tion" has a bad connotation in many persons' minds. Mostly Quite Sound A cartoonist recently pic tured progressive education by showing a little girl very V E U1H 1 COULD GET I I Ig ,nc mllinoo out ! fik OF My TEETH . i Swisses? i47- -em ,7 i Visit the "Garden Room" of your favo rite Safeway store for more outstand-' ing values. Kleenex Tissue Perfect with cabbage . . . Safeway's Boneless Brisket Corned beef and cabbage is always a favorite at the dinner table, especially when the fine meat is "U.S. Choice" boneless beef brisket care fully prepared for peak tenderness and flavor. By Jimmy Hatlo BUT TPy TO GET THE LABELS OFF WITHOUT SANDBL4STiKir.,T7 BROTHER - IT CJNT BE DOME.' HERE ""3 .T ME TAKE A CRACK AT IT WITH THE BLOWTORCH.' Portland-OJPD-The tanker W. H. Berg, which went aground in the Willamette river near the Hawthorne bridge with 75,000 barrels of oil aboard, was pulled free Monday after noon. dismayed, asking her teacher: "Miss Jones, do we have to do what we want to do to day?" This, said Cremin, is the wrong way to picture pro gressive education, which most of the time is quite sound. He said the incorpora tion of industrial arts into school programs probably is the best example of the "good" part of progressive education. He noted that during his study of the progressive move ment he had occasion to at tend meetings of the Madi son, Wis., school board. At one meeting, he said, parents warned the school board that they didn't want any part of progressive education in their schools. Five minutes later, he said, the same parents were pre senting arguments in support of a driver's education pro gram in their schools. Prof. Cremin said "they don't realize that driver edu cation is a part of progressive education." 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