MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER I. 196C,
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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.
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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
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