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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER I. 196C, 8 n Industrial Supply Firms Plan Outlets Two Portland industrial supply firms will open south' ern Oregon branches in Med ford soon, according to Lester E. Andersen, Portland busi nessman. The two firms are General Bearing compony, which has purchased Fam Bearing Com pany Inc., 126 North Front St., and Power Transmission products, distributor of me chanical power transmission equipment. The second firm will open a branch office and warehouse at the North FiCnt St. address. The Fam company was for merly known as the Pritchard company and operated in the southern Oregon-northern California area for many years. Les Frisk, owner of Fam Bearing, will hold a sale position in the new company to be called General Bearing Company-Medford. Bob Seymour, assistant manager of Power Transmis sion, is currently in Mcdford organizing the new branch and setting up shelf stock in ventories, Andersen said.' Electra 'Fix-It' Program Costing Lockheed Aircraft Firm S25 Million By ROBERT J. SERLING (Latt in a Series) Washington - IUPII - The Electra "fix-it" program is under way. It is costing Lockheed $25 million to modify 135 Elec tras now in airline service so that the vibrations bug guilty of causing two fatal crashes will be eradicated. Three Electras already have been modified, and are un dergoing flight tests. The Fed eral Aviation agency then will run them through further tests before certifying t h e plane for resumption of nor mal cruising speeds of more than 400 miles an hour. It is now limited to a maximum of 259 mph. The "fix-it" program in volves: -Installing additional front and rear engine supports; this will stabilize the propel ler should any mount fail. -Strengthening the entire engine nacelle structure with metal reinforcements and di agonal braces. -Increasing wing strength by adding various reinforce ments to ribs, spars and skin. The extent of this modifi-cation-about 1,400 pounds of additional metal is involved might indicate that the Elec tra was structurally unsound to begin with. This is not the case. Lockheed simply has gone far beyond what actu ally was necessary to cure the fatal vibration bug. In effect, it is changing the Elec tra from a strong airplane to one that is super-strong. . How about the 135 unmod ified Electras flying around? Are they safe as long as they adhere to the speed restric tions? The answer is an un qualified yes from those who should know - not only Lock heed and the airlines involv ed, but the FAA, Civil Aero nautics board and the Air line Pilots association. The attitude of the pilots toward the Electra's troubles is significant. Pilots have strong likos and dislikes about airplanes. They are the most hyper-critical group in avia tion. Yet, from the very start, they have supported the Elec tra without reservation, ALPA's own evaluation re port on the Electra, written after grueling flight tests, was Systemic I nsecticides Added to War Against Tree Pests in State C o r v a 1 1 i s - Entomolo gists waging the war against forest insects are adding a weapon-tnat of systemic in secticides. The insecticides get that name because they are ab sorbed into and circulated throughout the tree's entire system, an Oregon Stale col lege scientist explains. This means that gnawing or suck ing pests that eat into the bark or leaves will set lethal dose of the insecticide as part of their meal. Much research still needs to be done on systemics for forestry use, Dr. Julius A, Radinsky emphasizes, but they show, great potential for selective and extended con trol of some insects that have largely defied control before. They may be especially useful, for example, against such Insects as bark beetles, mites, and aphids that have been able to "hide" from oth- . er chemicals, he believes, Forest Insect Research Rudinsky, who heads up forest insect research at OSC was chosen to present a paper on systemics and other new forest pest controls at the .' Fifth World Forestry Con- i grcss earlier this fall. Insects are tile forest's worst enemy, killing five or six times as much timber each year as 1 st lo forest fires. Systemics will not replace other conventional insecti cides, Rudinsky noted, but do have some special important advantages. These include seed treat ment and soil applications for the protection of seedlings during their first season; trunk and root applications for younger and mature trees; complete treatment of trees with limited spray coverage; and "selective control" pos sibly of particular pests with out killing off other bene ficial insects as well. Surprisingly Low Rates - Protection from rystcmics may be achieved at, surpris ingly low rates of apt ication, research shows, and lasts tor nn extended period. Applica tion may be made either by painting the insecticide in a band around the trunk, by ; needle injection, foilage spray, ! or soil application. Small plot studies in this; country and Europe are en couraging, Rudinsky said, but additional studies are needed before practical methods of large-scale systemic applica tion under forest conditions can be developed, ... Future research will Include work on time of application, mode of absorption' by' the tree, detoxification or "wear : out',' of the tree protection, and development of com pounds less toxic to warm blooded animals -and to fish Tremendous Forest Losses Few people realize U.e tro mendous forest losses inflict ed each year by insects, Ru dinsky reported. Last year In the United States, forest In sects killed enough timber to build 600.000 M-v-c-room houses and killed one-fourth as much pulpwood as con - sumcd by the manufacture of , the nation's newsprint Added losses were . caused by forest infestations which did not kill trees outright, hut (lowed growth and deformed trees. Oregon, the nation's num ber one forestry state, is among the hardest hit. The recent bark beetle epidemic saw some 6,000,000 acres of Douglas fir forests infested. And from 1031 to 1942, the western pine beetle riddled pondcrosa pine stands to the extent of 6,000,000,000 board feet. Control is Complicated Control of forest insecls Is complicated by several things, Rudinsky explained. One is that the Northwest's great, Chemical control programs that have worked wonders on farm crops-including the use of syslcmics-are vastly more complex on forests be cause of the tree size and the great areas involved. Predators, or insects that prey on the damaging pests, are being tried with some success. Careful and proper management of forest stands also can help check losses, Rudinsky stated. Tile systemics represent a continuous stands of the same I powerful new control ap kind of trees arc highly sus-1 proach that will be incrcas- ceptible to spread of an insect Ingly important in coming over a huge area. ; I years, he concluded. . WINDOW SHOPPER - Little Gail Kadlac, 4, of Miami Springs, Fla., visiting at Jacksonville, doesn't like shrubbery in front of the windows with all the toys. Gall wanted to gel a good close look at all the pretty things in the store window. (UPI Tclephoto) Caller Apparently Believed Sign Was for Real Ontario, Calif. - Wll -Mrs, Bernard Pennino opened the door of her home and was astounded to see the man standing out side turn pale, spin around , and dash out the yard by vaulting a three-foot fence. It took the housewife sev eral minutes , colore she realised what' caused the man's apparent terror, she explained to police Tues day, When the doorbell rang, said Mrs. Pennino, she trip ped over the toy gun of her son, Jimmie, 15, and car ried it with her to the door. She discovered she had the gun in her hand while the man, apparently a sales man, must have been read ing a sign her son had tacked up on the front door. The sign read: "We shoot every third salesman and the second one just left." VERTICLE MILEAGE There' are about 250.000 elevators in use in the U.S. 'nmeat liver 'n meat i kidney chicken meaty mix chopped fish the most laudatory ever hand ed a new airliner. Shortly after Northwest lost an Electra at Tell City, Ind., this writer prepared a story pointing out the plane's good points. He received three letters, one long distance phone call and two personal visits from Northwest pilots thanking him for the article. There's a good reason for the pilots' affection for this controversial plane. The Elec tra is a pilot's plane. It has more reserve power than any transport plane ever built, in cluding the pure jets. It han dles like a compact car, and has the best cockpit visibility of any commercial plane fly ing. No other airliner has as many pilot suggestions incor porated into its cockpit de sign. And no pilot ever has asked to be transferred from an Electra to another type of plane, even when the Tex as and Indiana crashes still were unsolved. No amount of pilot praise, nor even the massive modifi cation program, will guaran tee the Electra's return to complete public confidence. The tragedy of this proud and powerful airliner Is that no matter how safe it is, it prob ably will be criticized again the moment any Electra gets into trouble for any reason whatsoever. It happened last September vhen an Electra landing at LaGuardia field in New York hit a dike at the end of the runway and flipped over. No one was killed. It was a clear case of pilot error, but de mands for grounding the Elec tra were revived. Ditto when the starlings vs. Electra inci dent occurred at Boston last month. All the airlines hope for is a common-sense reali zation by the public that few crashes in aviation history have ever been caused by the plane itself. Hurts Lockheed Lockheed, which is footing the entire modification bill, obviously has been hurt by the Electra's difficulties. Only one airline. Capital, has can celled its Electra orders, but this was for financial reasons. As of now, the airlines are not ordering new Electras not because they lack confi dence in the plane but appar ently because they are not sure yet about the public's reaction. To aviation people, includ ing Lockheed's competitors, the Electra is an unfairly ma ligned plane. It is not the first transport to suffer seri ous and fatal bugs. The Con stellation, DC-6 and Martin 202 plus Britain's jet Comet all were grounded because of design flaws that led to fatal crashes. It took some time, but eventually all these air craft won back confidence. Lockheed - in fact the en tire air industry believes the Electra will do the same. BOAT KITS Have Fun This Winter SAVE MONEY With a Do-lt-Yourielf Kit 27 Models To Choose From 12' Fisherman $86 $8.60 Dcwn Johnston Stores 112 S. Riverside Deed Accepted for Road Right-oi-Way The Jackson county court yesterday accepted a deed for a portion of a county road right-of-way cxeculcd by Ray and Inez Cherry, The rlghl-of-wny is along the Griffin Creek rd. in the Cherry Heights subdivision. County Judge Earl Miller said. During a discussion on plac ing fog posts near the John Darby driveway on Griffin Creek rd., County Engineer Robert Carstenscn said it might be possible to ccntcrline stripe the road and eliminate the need for fog posts. The county court had re ceived a petition containing 49 signatures of residents of the area requesting fog posts. The petition noted that several ears have gone into a ditch by the Darby place on foggy nights. WANTS DRY WASH Monterey, Calif.-OIPIi-A 45-year-old woman walked into an automatic laundry uncloth ed Wednesday and tried to take a "bath" in a clothes dryer. Police arrested her on a drunk charge, but they couldn't resist asking why she chose a dryer instead of a washing machine. "I didn't want to gel wet," she replied. BETTS WIN BET Sharkvillc, Miss.-nJPli - Bill Bctts, a senior at Mississippi State College, won a $14 bet Wednesday by running 20 miles in four hours and IS minutes and doing the last "DON'T GUESS"... 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