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Independent Voles May Be Decisive
Washington - (UPD -Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
returned from his first cam
paign swing Saturday con
vinced the presidential elec
tion may be decided by a rela
tively small minority of inde
pendent voters.
The GOP nominee, who
campaigned vigorously in Ne
vada, California, Hawaii and
Washington state during a
10,000 - mile foray, also is
known to believe that to win
the GOP must run about 10
per cent ahead of its normal
party registration.
Nixon further feels that the
Catholic religion of his Demo
cratic opponent, Sen. John F.
Kennedy, may be working in
Kennedy's favor so far. How
ever, he believes this may be
neutralized by election time.
The Vice President was ob
viously pleased with the re
sult of his opening swing.
But he also made it clear he
felt his campaign must be as
.. intense and vigorous as pos
sible until the actual election
Nov. 8 with particular em
phasis on keeping party pre
cinct workers laboring en-
thusiastically.
Those close to Nixon know
; that he feelsN the "real" inde
pendents must be wooed and
won if the GOP is to triumph.
U2 Pilot's Parents
Heading for Russia
.; Richmond, Va. - (UPD - The
father and mother of U2 spy
. pilot Francis Gary Powers
:flew to Washington today on
-the second leg of their jour
. ney to the Soviet Union for
their son's epionage trial
next week. - .
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Pow
ers, who left their Pound, Va.,
home Sunday, were expect
ed to meet Norton business
man Sol Cury-and Dr. Lewis
K. Ingram, Mrs. Powers' per
sonal physicians, at Washington.
But he also knows that many
of these voters say nothing
and only vote - often on the
basis of some last minute development.
Medford
Tribune
SECTION B
MEDFORD..OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1960
PAGES J to 8
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HELICOPTERS IN SPOTLIGHT A helicopter of the New .the first fatal accident involving passenger-carrying craft
York Airways, one of three scheduled helicopter airlines since they were put into operation in Chicago in 1956. Last
in the nation, is shown flying over New York harbor. The year the three scheduled airlines carried nearly 300,000
recent crash of a passenger-carrying helicopter in Chicago passengers.
put the "whirly birds" in the spotlight. However, this' was (UPI Telephoto)
Helicopters Said Ugliest and Safest
Airborne Machines Ever To Take To Skies
Editor's note: The crash of a
passenger-carrying helicopter in
Chicago recently put the "Whirly
Birds" in an unaccustomed spot
light. In the following dispatch,
a veteran aviation writer discus
ses these unconventional aircraft
and their safety record.
By ROBERT J. SERLING
Washington - (DPI) - If you
want to get purely technical
about it, the helicopter is 407
years older than the airplane.
The Wright Brothers first
flew in 1903. But in 1496, Leo
nardo Da Vinci published a
design for a flying machine
that remarkably like the mod
ern helicopter-even to its fly
ing characteristics.
It took another 442 years
for Da Vinci's contraption to
w
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achieve realty. The first work
able helicopter was built in
1938. Since then, they have
become the world's most ver
satile aircraft.
'Copters are simultaneously
the ugliest and safest airborne
vehicles ever built. With their
complete absence of wings
and big awkward rotor
blades, they seem about as
capable of flight as an out
sized brick. But they very
design contains built-in safe
ty factors that no conventional
aircraft can match.
Blades Manipulated
A helicopter operates sim
ply by pushing the air with
its rotor blades.. The pilot ma
nipulates the blades according
to what direction he wants
forward, backward, straight
up and straight down.
If he wants to descend, he
flattens the angle of the
blades. To climb, he adjusts
the blades so they push the
air down. To go forward, he
tilts the blades in the direc
tion of flight. If an engine
fails, he can glide safely to
the ground so long as he has
forward motion; the rotor
blades turn almost as fast as
if there still were power.
The first whirly-bird used
transmission gears from a
Mack truck, and had virtually
no forward speed. The latest
models can cruise 130 miles
per hour and there are 'cop
ters on the drawing board de
signed to top 200 MPH.
Two Main Types
There are two main types.
One is the single rotor heli
copter, with one set of blades
mounted in the center of the
fuselage, and smaller blades
at the rear which turn in the
opposite direction to offset
the "torque" or pull of the
main blades. The second type
is the tandem or two-rotor
'copter with giant blades at
both ends of the fuselage.
The latter is supposed to be
easier to control-just as if
you had a golf bag with
handles at both ends instead
of in the center.
Are 'copters safe? The Chi
cago crash was the first fatal
accident involving a passen
ger-carrying helicopter since
they were put into service
between Midway and O'Hare
airports in Chicago in 1956.'
Last year, the three scheduled
helicopter airlines, Los Ange
les Airways, Chicago Heli
copter Airways, and New
York Airways, carried nearly
300,000 passengers. The Chi
cago company alone operates
140 flights daily, compared
to only 16 four years ago.
Careful Training Needed
The military 'copter safety
record isn't as good as the
commercial. But most of the
military crashes involved
training flights. It takes care
ful and rigid training to pro
duce a capable 'copter pilot
because the whirly-bird's
flight characteristics are so
different from those of an
airplane.
Helicopter experts say that
a student can solo a 'copter
in six to eight hours-about
the same solo time as for a
conventional aircraft. But it
takes another 70 to 80 hours
to obtain a helicopter com
mercial license.
A 'copter pilot must learn
to use both hands and bbth
feet simultaneously, requiring
tremendous coordination. In
stead of the one "wheel" or
control stick of the fixed wing
plane, a 'copter pilot has two
control levers-one for speed
and direction and the other
for altitude changes.
The versatility of these fly
ing egg-beaters is underlined
by the growth of the 'copter
industry and related activities.
There are 10 companies pro
ducing whirly birds of vary
ing sizes, 156 helicopter op
erators in the U.S. and Cana
da, and 264 heliports-a fig
ure which does not include
regular airport space reserved
for 'copter operations.
Fame Came in War
'Copters achieved t h ei r
first fame in the Korean war
when they demonstrated their
remarkable versatility and de
pendability in rescue and artillery-spotting
opera tions.
They were so useful that one
Air Force general commented:
"I wouldn't be surprised if
somebody turned a 'copter up
side down and used the blades
against ground-troops." ,
.Helicopters also have per
formed countless mercy mis
sions during floods and other
catastrophies. They may be
the ugly duckling of the air
ways, but nobody has ever
thought up a job a whirly
bird couldn't do.
Katanga Army Is
Still Mobilizing
Elisabethville-IUPD- Premier
Moishe Tshmobe said Satur
day the Katanga army is still
mobilizing despite the United
Nations decision not to enter
the Province which has seced
ed from the Congo.
He told a news conference
he was confident the Katanga
question would receive fair
consideration at the security
council meeting scheduled for
Sunday night.
Asked if Katanga would be
represented at the security
council meeting Tshombe said
a Katanga delegation was
now in Brussels but that he
doubted there was time to get
any member of it to New
York.
Tshombe, who regarded
U.N. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold's decision to
call of a U.N. troop movement
into Katanga a great victory
for the Province, said a troop
entry would have meant an
archy and chaos.
Saturday he sent light
planes into the air throughout
the Province to drop leaflets
on native villages informing
them of the U.N. decision and
of this government victory.
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Dancer Gene Kelly,
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Beverly Hills, Calif. - (UPD -Dancer
Gene Kelly, 47, and
his bride, Jeanne Coyne,
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their surprise marriage Satur
day at Tonopah, Nev.
Miss Coyne had served as
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for the past several years. It
was the second marriage for
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