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Stenographers Transcribing Words of Tower Men, Pilots New York-OM-The Federal Aviation Agency today rushed to complete the trans script of the last recorded words between the airport lowers and the pilots ot two airliners which collided over New York, killing 134 persons. A FAA spokesman said the transcript, which may shed additional light on the cause of the world's worst air dis aster, should be ready for re lease sometime during the afternoon. Still Transcribing The agency originally planned to release the records at 7 a.m. (PST) but the spokesman said stenographers were still transcribing the tape recordings made in the planes prior to their crash. The 60-page transcript of the conversations was expect ed to provide clues in the mystery of how the Trans World Airlines Super Constel lation and the United Air Lines DC8 jet collided Friday in a snowstorm while under ground radar observation and instrument flying rules. The jetliner crashed into Brooklyn after the collision, setting fire to four blocks of apartment houses, shops and a church. The TWA plane smashed down in Slaten Is land in a field. There were no survivors in either crash, FAA Administrator Elwood Quesada has said the UAL jet was off course from a pre landing holding pattern by at least seven miles. But the statement was criticized Tues day by United and brought a rebuff slap from the Civil Aeronautics Board which is charged by law with the in vestigation. Objects To Impression W. A. Patterson, president of United, said it was "out of order to make public state ments until the facts are made known." He said Quesada's statement left the impression that United's flight was care lessly operated. "We cannot permit such an impression to exist," Patter son said. G. Joseph Minettl, a mem ber of the CAB, warned in Washington that only his agency was authorized to in vestigate air crashes. He said he spoke out because of "complaints that statements Rogue Valley Edition Page 2A MedfordJTribune concerning the probable cause of the mid-air collision have been issued." MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1960 3.49 I . ( m i In K' INTIMATELY HERS laPoinla's Magic Price 329 LaPoinle'j Magic Price 3 49 She will love a sleek and beautiful nylon tricot slip, trimmed with lace and embroidery. Half the fun of giving it choosing at LaPointe's. Clash Expected In Inquiry Info Fire on Carrier New York -IUPH- A formal inquiry today into the disas trous 12-hour fire that swept the super-aircraft carrier Con stellation Monday was ex pected to produce a clash be tween city fire officials and the Navy over safety meas ures. ; Fire officials, who sent more than 60 pieces of equipment into the Brooklyn Navy Yard to fight the $75 million fire and rescue scores of the 4,000 civilian workers aboard, were critical of the flammable con dition of the ship. The death loll in the fire rose to 49 Tuesday night, the Navy said. Of the bodies re covered, thirty -eight have been identified and 11 remain unidentified. Commissioner Critical Fire Commissioner Edward Cavanagh, who will testify be fore the Navy Board of In quiry headed by three admir als, has been openly critical of wooden staging and plat forms used by workmen to in stall wires and pipe. "There is just no excuse for these things that go on hap pening," Cavanagh said in dis cussing the Constellation and fire safety. . The Navy said the fire started when a 500-gallon drum of kerosene-type fuel was cracked open in an acci dent and the fuel was ignited by a welder's arc. Flames feeding on a river of fuel spread the length of the ship setting afire the staging and platforms. Metal Staging Required Cavanagh had pointed out that civilian shipyards in the city are required to use metal staging. Navy Secretary William B. Franke, who inspected the blackened interior and trod the heat twisted deck of the carrier Tuesday, questioned Cavanagh s criticism. He said as far as he could tell, neither carelessness, poor housekeping nor economy measures could be blamed for the fire. The Navy secretary said the Constellation would be paired. The fire will delay commissioning, scheduled for March, by a year. t xvt" ' -rv, 'a k?Kf 4 ' hi... 7 ' , ' " CAPSULE RECOVERED The U. S. Marine Corps helicopter which recovered the unmanned space capsule fired 135 miles high and 235 miles out over the Atlantic Ocean is shown as it approached the USS Valley Forge. The capsule was washed down aboard the aircraft carrier and then returned to Cape Canaveral, Fla. The U.S. hopes to put a man into orbit in one of these capsule's early next year. (UPI Telephoto) Strong Oil Group Stimulates Market New York - (UPI) - Stocks were mostly higher at the close today stimulated by soar ing prices for American Tele phone and a strong oil group. AT&T, which announced a rights offering to shareholders and plans for a dividend boost next year, vaulted nearly 7V4 points to an all-time high be fore receding to close up around 6V2. Jersey Standard rose- a large 1V among the oils most of which added a point or more. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York-flJI'll-Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 615.42. up 0.60; 20 railroads 128.08, up 0.12; 15 utilities 98.47, up 0.09, and 65 stocks 204.2, up 0.19, Sales today were about 4.06 million shares compared with 3.34 million shares Tuesday. 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Fin letter, was expected to confer in Washington today with Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert S. McNamara. American Tanker Capsizes at Sea Norfolk, Va. - IUPD - The American tanker Pine Ridge broke in two and capsized in a bitter gale 100 miles off Cape llattcras today and loss of life was feared, the Coast Guard reported. A Coast Guard plane ra dioed from the scene near the legendary "graveyard of the Atlantic" that it spotted crew men "in the water and on the stern half of the ship." The 10,417-ton Pine Ridge was in ballast en route from New York to Corpus Christi, Tex., when it ran into a gale with "monstrous waves" 109 miles off the North Carolina coast. New Verbal Blast Directed at Castro Washington -fUPD- The State Department aimed a new verbal volley today at Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, charging that he has made life unbearable for the Cuban people and they are turning against him. 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