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Newspaper Page TextAT LEAST 11 (0) JO U DISASIE - ,i. . ,. I , 'Jets Go Home' Industry To Curb Noise Of Jet Planes Editot'i not: Thii is in lint in a three-part series on tha t aircrait noiia problem, how it affecti com munities and what is being . done to solve it. . - v By ROBERT J. SERLING Washington - (UPD .- The Jet noise-problem is just as bad, and in some ways, worse, than it ever was. i ..a ... Civic groups still hold pro test meetings, airlines still get swamped by calls and letters from angry citizens and signs .still appear - on homes and apartment houses reading ,"Jets Go Home." The gripes are. loudest and ;most frequent at three cities New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. But the avia tion industry is girding for a new flood of complaints from cities which are just getting jet service or will get it in the -near future. - i -i. . The list of such cities is ,long. For the airlines are in troducing new, shorter-range, 'smaller jets like the Convair 880, Boeing 720 and Cara .velle. They can operate in and tout of airports which previ ously have not been able to handle the bigger jetliners. .And every time jets come into a community the noise prob lem arises. .Spending Millions '" '' One thing can be said with out fear of contradiction: The aviation industry is trying to do something about the prob lem, and it is spending mil lions in the process. . But the National Aircraft Noise Abatement council con cedes that no dramatic break through or overnight panacea is likely. No matter what is being done in trteAvayJjoJL. te search and 9HPfi txh niques, the jet remalhsToday what it was three years ago a noisy be&st. y 'T i- The council is supported by ' three major segments of the aviation industry: the Air Transport association,' repre senting the airlines; the Aero space Industries association, representing the airframe and engine manufacturers, and the Air Line Pilots association, representing the nation's 17, 000 transport pilots. -. . ' The council has been in ex istence less than a year. But in that short space of time, it has tried manfully to educate communities on what is being done about the noise problem. It also works closely with the Federal Aviation agency (FAA) in various antinoise projects. It has set up at least 15 special, committees which try to head off noise com plaints before they get start ed, through educational meet ings with civic groups. These committees literally "accent the positive" pointing out : what the industry is doing to reduce noise annoyance, yet frankly warning that no one can eliminate it completely. "We have said," said Coun cil President Jack R. Cram, "that if people understand the problem before the jets actu ally arrive, there are fewer complaints." The attack on jet noise is many-fold. It has concentrat ed on these areas: - Sound suppressors, cost ing $240,000 per aircraft, are used by all jets. These are tubes which scatter and dif fuse the jet blast instead of al lowing it to blow out in one large mass. They are more ef ficient than commonly sup posed; if you think a jet en gine with suppressors is noisy you should hear one without a suppressor. . Research is being pressed on the development of more efficient suppressors, In addi tion, the new turbofan en gines coming into prominent use are considerably quieter than current engines on take- B52 Tail Gunner Didn't See Missile Which Hit Bomber Over New Mexico Albuquerque, N. M. -(DPD-The tail gunner of a B52 bomber said today that a Side winder missile which blasted the bomber out of the sky Friday struck so swiftly he couldn't see it. The tail gunner is S. Sgt. Raymond H. Singleton, 27, Havre De Grace, Md. He held a news conference in Sandia Army Base hospital. - Wreckage Inspected ; As Singleton told his story, part of an Air Force investi gating board was up on a mesa inspecting the wreckage of the $8 million B52. The crash killed three men. The Tries off (although they also noisier on approaches), called "hush kits"- also are So are available. They modify sever al internal parts of current en gines and- -reduce noise - to some extent. Special Techniques Pilots are following spe cial FAA prescribed flying techniques designed to reduce the time jets spend over noise sensitive areas." They accept preferential runways to direct takeoff s and landings away from residential areas. They select power and flap settings for the- best possible noise abatement performance on takeoff and : approach. They plan turns and flight paths to move away from inhabited areas as quickly as possible. They attain maximum altlt tude as soon as possible. They maintain maximum: approach altitudes . as long as possible fore descents. All of which helps a little. But as FFA Ad ministrator Najeeb E. Halaby has said: "Safety comes first and noise ' abatement . second; if. the latter interferes with the former,:, it; won't be al lowed.", i - The ..airlines voluntarily have moved training flights away from heavily-used air ports. For example there used to be about . X ,000 training flights monthly at San Fran cisco. Now there are virtually none; they are being conduct ed airports located away from settled areas many miles from San Francisco. Shifting train ing flights this way costs mon ey because the planes still jnuet be based at the regular airports. :- Longer. Runways,. . . , ? --Airport improvements are helping ..- in noise " reduction.' Longer jet runways, for . ex ample, . premit jets to reach higher altitudes before they go over populated areas. They alstffermUlaridinlr'uch-" downs to be made farther down the runway, thus en abling pilots to maintain high er approach altitudes over the noise sensitive areas. " And some airports " have erected acoustical barriers ' between takeoff runways and nearby housing developments. .-, Despite all these : moves, however, there still is a noise problem. The jet engine, no matter what is done in the way. of noise suppression, re mains noisy.. And there is a limit to how much noise you can suppress; because suppres sion cuts power and cutting power brings in the far more important element of safety. (Next: The cost of the noise j problem.) a Local Pilot Escapes Injury in Accident Othello, Wash."- (UPD - A Medford, Ore., pilot and his passenger escaped injury Sun day when a light plane struck high voltage wires near the old Othello airport. - The accident caused a pow er outage here and in the near by community of Brice. ; The pilot was Frank A. Mil ler, former" owner of Bell's Beverage shop. His passenger was Allen R. Bullock, Othel lo. The plane landed with a sheered - off landing - gear, damaged cowling and minor wing damages. . Marijane Duncan,. Daughter Now Home " Salem - (UPD - Mrs. Marl-, jane Duncan,-wife of House Speaker Robert B. Duncan,, has left Salem General hos pital with their new daugh ter born March 31. ' The Duncans named the blue - eyed, reddish - haired daughter Bonnie Dee. The Duncani now have six children. other five members of the crew bailed out and survived. though all were injured. M Singleton said he saw two FlOOs that were ' practicing passes at the bomber clearly, but though he was sitting in the B52s tail, he never did see the missile that 1st Lt. James W. Van Scyoc's Air National Guard fighter acci dentally launched. - . - . -. Plane in Steep Bank "We were above the clouds and I saw both fighters clear ly but I didn't see the mis sile," he said. "The aircraft (bomber) went into a steep bank. . .j.'I saw flames but I couldn't . ... . ( . - ? CHAClt INVESTIGATED San Francisco newspaper report er George Murphy sticks' his whole hand into a crack in .the concrete in the highway west of Hollister, Calif. The crack was caused by an earthquake late Saturday . It was the worst quake in the Hollister area since the; 1906 temblor.; See Picture on page 2. , :,r ; . ' (UPI Telephoto) Extensiye! Caused by In SF Bay '' San Francisco (UPD - The San. Andreas Fault, which caused big 'San Francisco earthquakes in 1906 and 1957, is restless again,. - V 5 ;V It stirred sharply late Sat urday night with two distinct shocks that rumbled 'through a 225-mile area from Paso Ro- bles to San Rafael. There Five reasons have beerr giv en by Cole Rivers of the state game and fish commission as to the causes of muddy condi tions In the Rogue river. .' Salmon f ishermen ?'h a v e; complained that the .muddy. water has.made fishing impos sible. Reports- from the Say-age-Rapids dam show that the first run of Chinook salmon is under way as they have begun climbing the 'ladder .there. . . Rivers said that the muddy condition is because of:-Jackson county highway construc tion work on. Bear creek; gold mining on Foots creek; Foots creek and Rogue Tiver gravel crushing and washing opera tions;, loggin, changes in the channel and county road work on Evans creek; and the low ering of waters in anticipation of the opening of irrigation channels. . ! y In making the report . this week end Rivers explained that the conditions would not be continuous. He added that all of the causes at , one time make salmon fishing impossi ble with the resulting murky water. Congressman Durno Returns to Capital Congressman and Mrs. Ed win, R. Durno left Sunday to return to Washington, D.C. after, two weeks in southern Oregon during. Congress' Eas ter recess. . . ' During his visit here, Con gressman Durno spoke at a number of meetings.; Friday in Grants Pass he said that either the bureau of reclama tion or the Army corps of en gineers could build the high dam in the . proposed Rogue Basin : development project, ; In commenting on the pro ject, he said that the engineer ing studies by the corps of en gineers are nearly completed. He mentioned that there had been a delay when funds were not available. see the left' wing at all. We went into the clouds. The plane began shuddering as it was building up air speed.' I jettisoned the tail section and bailed out. I remained con scious all the time." -Landed in Tree He was burned around his eyes and under his neck and over his hands. He said he landed in a tree and a heli copter picked him up before dark Friday, a few hours af ter the- crash. ' The fourth and fifth surviv ors of the crash were found Sunday, nearly two days af ter they had bailed out of the donated plane. -. ! -.1 Damage Quake Region were no reported injuries, but extensive damage occurred at Hollister 100 miles south of San Francisco. The University ; of Califor nia: seismograph station -at Berkeley said the temblors were centered about 30 miles southeast of Hollister. At least four of the city's tallest build ings were damaged, and bot tled and canned goods were jarred from, the shelves in flrocerv and liauor- stores. . -'i.The first shock occurred at 11(23 p.m. and had a Richter magnitude of 5.8. The second came afew., minutes' later; . withta, magnitude of" 5.3. .While the, first iquake was' in progress, lit -swayed power lines against: each other caus ing if ire and burglar alarms to short put.. Some transformers exploded, causing flashes to light up the sky as power fail ed, v- . ; Bier Shake 55 Years Ago . . The earthquake was felt in Paso Robles, Hollister, mo raga, Hayward, Berkeley, San Mateo, Menlo Park, San Jose, Watsonville, : Monterey, , San Francisco, and San! Rafael -all , of :which. are . located roughly on the San Andreas Fault, one of the largest such systems In the world. . :; It : was - just : 55 years ago this month that a shift in the fault touched .off -the great San Francisco earthquake and fire1 of 1906. The: magnitude of that temblor, on, April 18, was 8.5 on the Richter. scale. Plumbers Settle ; ; On New Contract - With the signing of a new contract, union plumbers set tled an eight-day strike here late Saturday. . ' ' ; E: Sherb Bowers, president of the Master Plumbers as sociation in Medford, told the Mall Tribune, that those con cerned had formulated agree able terms for the new con tract and that plumbers were to be "on the job" this morn ing. ' - Union plumbers had not re ported to work this month pending the agreement on a contract between the Piumo ers and Steamfitters Union Local 418, and the Plumbers Employers association. In the last few days, : negotiations had been under way here be tween the union and employ er's officials with a represent ative of the states conciliation board assisting. The announcement that an agreement had "been made came after many hours of deliberation Saturday, accord ing to Bowers. About 45 area plumbers had been Involved in the strike which started with the expiration of their contract March 31. ' Confessed Murderer Taken to California James Edward Blackwell, 28, confessed - murderer of a southern California woman, was taken to Los Angeles by Los Angeles county sheriff's deputies late Saturday from Jackson county. Blackwell was arrested by Oregon state police Thursday near Rock Point. He admitted to state police and California authorities Friday that he killed a woman in California Afril 3. J Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Russian ent Into Astronaut Said To Be Undergoing Investigation' Confirmation or Denial Lacking Moscow - (UPD - Unusually reliable but unofficial sources reported tonight that Russia may have launched the first man into space and brought him back alive. Thousands of persons throughout Russia believed the report was true. But there was absolutely no official con firmation - or denial - of the reports. There have been repeated signs in the past few weeks that the Soviet Union would rocket the first man into space about this time - pos sibly in connection with the annual May Day celebrations. Announcement 'Soon . The report that the Rus sians had orbited a man in space and brought him back alive said the astronaut was undergoing "scientific investi gation" and an announcement would be made soon. Soviet Premier N 1 k i t a Khrushchev was not in .Mos cow. He was last reported va cationing at the Black Sea re sort of Pitsunde near Sochi in the Caucasus. .Excitement over the. space man reports grew in Moscow throughout the day and there were visible indications that something . big was in the wind. ".:'..'.".:,.' ., ; Bengfson Trial Set for May 15 Trial of O. H. Bengtson on further charges of embezzle ment is scheduled for May 15, according to the trial docket in Jackson county circuit court. Mrs. Rachel Peterson Car ter, former employee of the Medford Escrow company, may appear some time next week, Paul Haviland, Med ford attorney and special prosecutor indicated today.' Haviland, who is also spec ial prosecutor of the case in volving Bengtson, said Mrs. Carter ' is charged with em bezzling $200 from' the com pany. Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly late in March overruled demurrers filed in December concerning eight indictments pending against the Medford lawyer .charging him with embezzlement. Bengston was found guilty ,of the two other charges of embezzlement from the Med ford company by juries in Oc tober and January. He was sentenced to three years in the Oregon Correctional insti tute on the first charge and, for a period not to exceed two years in. the Oregon state pen itentiary on the second charge. Appeals on both charges are still pending before the Ore gon supreme court. Judge Kelly has appointed James McGoodwln to repre sent Bengtson. Hatfield, Morse Schedule Meeting Salem - (UPD Gov. Mark Hatfield and Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) were to hold a rare face-to-face conference in Hatfield's office this after noon. Hatfield declined to sny what the two would discuss. Morse is in Oregon for a se ries of meetings. WEATHER , Fore cat t: Fair through Tues day, Not much temperature chance. Low , ton I it ht 32. High Tuesday 5-70. TKMPERATURE ' Highest Yesterday' , 2 Lowest This Morning 31 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today .. .......:47 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow t:3S a.m. The Moon rises 3:411 a.m. tomorrow and is In Perigee. New Moon -..Friday night The planet venua is now Be tween, the Earth and the Sun and eannot be seen. It Is nearer the F.arth, being only ?8(j mil lion mile away wo ay. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1961 humors Sav ian Space, Returned VISITS EICHMANN Robert Servatlus, that the State of Israel did not exist when center, Adolf Eichmann's lawyer, leaves the Eichmann allegedly committed his crimes compound of . Beth . Ha'am- Communuity and that Eichmann was illegally kidnaped center In Jerusalem after visiting his client, and hijacked by plane to Israel. Servatlus' Servatius has Indicated he will challenge, challenge is apt to touch off a legal wrangle Jerusalem court's jurisdiction on grounds . when Eichmann's trial starts Tuesday. . ...... i : , , . ' . (UP! Telephoto) Timber Taxation Problem Might i . SaJem-fliPn The '-gnarled problem -' of timber ' taxation threatened to put off the leg islature's ' April 22 : adjourn ment target date 'as the law makers moved into their 14th week today.' -i r: At the same time, decisions were imminent on big educa tion and welfare budgets, hun dreds , of spending requests and a set of bills to permit interested firms, to probe the Oregon coast for oil. One of the mammoth Is sues three-way workmen's compenstation was slated for a second House hearing Tues day, and a set of tax reform measures from the House was ready for a Senate committee airing: Senate President Harry Boivin (D-Klamath Falls) a chief advocate of early ad journment, himself gave no tice timber taxation might stall the session's end. Bill proposing a variety of reforms for the present tim ber tax law have been stuck in the House Tax Committee, where Reps. W. O. Kelsay and Clarence Barton continue to feud over the best way to tax trees. ',. At issue Is the degree to which the timber tax struc ture, should encourage a su stained yield cutting opera tion in order to protect Ore gon's primary resource until young trees can grow to re place the old.' Orchards Heated as Temperature Dips Temperatures in the coldest orchards hr the valley drop ped to possibly 26 degrees ear ly this morning causing scat tered firing of orchard heat ers, County Agent David Pas- son said today. First firing occurred about 1:30 a.m. and some orchards continued heating until 6:30 a.m. All varieties are In full bloom or past depending on the location of the orchard, Passon noted. Low tempera ture limit for Bartletts is 29 Bosc 29, D'Anjous possibly 31, Cornice 28, and Nells 28 de grees. This means that the fruit buds are approaching the very critical stage and damage can occur very quickly in the case of trees in the petal fall stage. Passon said only blocks of trees were heated in some or chards. ; Final South Viet Nam Vote Tally Delayed 1 Saigon, South Viet Nam -(UPD - Communist terrorists cut off roads from polling places to district centers today, de laying a final tally of votes in the election which swept pro Western President Ngo Dinh Diem back into office in a landslide. '' Tribune rMwm V it Gov. H atfield Lists Needed Legislation in Hooper .....Salem -(IIPD.,- Gov.. Mark Hatfield declared today mo's1tJ, of the "needed legislation-- is still pending, and warned it will look bad if the legisla Meet Under Way Approximately 300 Rotari- ans are expected to attend to night's banquet at the Rogue Valley Country club, accord ing to Fred Brennan, presi dent .of the Medford Rotary club, which is hosting a three- day district Rotary club con ference. An estimated 180 Rotarians attended a buffet dinner at the country club last night. The conference will adjourn Tues day. District 511 encompasses 26 Rotary clubs in the southern half of Oregon. An estimated 500 persons are expected to attend the Medford confer ence, according to Brennan. s. Following last night's buf fet the Rotarians split into five "fireside" groups to visit the home of local Rotarians. At tonight's banquet the featured speaker will be Ar thur F. Briese, Hot Springs, Ark., who is nationally known for his performance as a hu morous speaker. Norman L. Easley, Portland lawyer, Is sceduled to speak at a Rotary luncheon tomor row noon at the country club. The Rotarians spent this morning in business sessions. Students To Talk About Legislature Ashland William Hampton and Richard Swinney, South ern Oregon college students, will give their impression of the state legislature at the Tuesday noon luncheon of the Ashland , Chamber of Com merce In the Mark Antony hotel. . - " Hampton worked in the of fice of Robert Duncan, house speaker, and Swinney work ed for Sen. Lindel Newbry, of Talent. The will be Intro duced by Dr. Marshall Wood ell of SOC. Money Sought for Pear Decline Study . Washington (UPD - Five Western congressmen decided today to seek a total of $180, 000 for research Into a disease that threatens to wipe out the West Coast's pear industry. Thei group met with Assis tant , Agriculture Secretary Frank Welch to discuss the problem of pear decline, which Is killing thousands of pear trees in California, Ore ga and Washington. 56th Year Price 10 Cents No. 16 turjB adjourns in two weeks; without passing priority bills. Hatfield listed medicare, homestead exemptions for the elderly, educational- finance. tax reform. -and traffic safe ty as major measures' the law makers should pass .on before quitting. ' ' , Might Veto Bill At the same time, Hatfield tossed out the possibility he might veto a bill to postpone, instead of exempt,, taxes on the homes of the elderly it such a measure reaches his desk. Hatfield called deferrals ad ministratively and morally wrong, and said he would be "hard put to make a deci sion" on a bill of this type. The governor, at his weekly news conference, said the peo ple "expect this legislature to enact needed legislation.1' ' I don t think they should go home until they do," Hat field said. The lawmakers have been pushing - for adjournment April 22. . Hatfield said he could go along with some revisions that have been made in major,tax reform measures. " -i, , He said he would like to see "the basic principle of a net receipts income tax" es tablished, as well as changes in the timber tax laws to en courage long-term cutting. ADENAUER DUE Washington -(UPD- President Kennedy prepared today for conferences with West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, due to arrive Tuesday "Cuba Si, Yanqui British Vessel Sinks Following Fire, Explosions American Couple Among Victims Bahrein - (UPD - The 5,030- ton British cargo - passenger ship Dara, swept for 48 hours by fire and explosions, sanle in the Persian Gulf today. A company spoKesman said at least 160 persons, Including an American couple, died in the disaster. The spokesman for Gray nnH MnrKenzlp. thft shiO'S agents, identified the Amer icans as Mr. and Mrs. L. v. Dorsch. He said Dorsch had lust rotlrprf after 25 voars with the Bahrein Oil compa ny. . Earlier, a spokesman for tha British resident here said a total of 187 persons were fear ed. lost. , . 563 Survivors Known The agents said a total ot 563 passengers and crew mem bers survived. The number aboard the Dara when it was ripped by explosion and fire in a raging gale Saturday has been reported variously be tween 723 and 752. The exact number aboard when the fira broke out is not known. "We have accounted for 563 survivors," the spokesman for the agents said. "We shall not know the final figures until Tuesday." 1 The ship sank In shallow wa ters off Ras Al-Ahalmah. Most of the passengers were Indians and Pakistanis but there also had been an undetermined number of Americans aboard. County Court's Requests Checked roup . Members 1 of the Jackson county : court will not receive any raises lor the new fiscal year and none were requested, It was learned, during this morning's session of the Jack' son county budget committee. Each member of the county court received a $1,000 raiso . 'previously for the current fis cal year, County Commission er Chester Wendt was the only member of the budget com mittee and the county court who opposed the raise. Total county court budget approved for the new fiscal year is $28,543. This is about the same as the current year's budget of $28,477. The county judge and tho two county commissioners will each receive $7,072, tho same salary they now receive. The county court secretary was raised from $353 to $371 In keeping with the general wage increases granted by the county budget committee for the new fiscal year. Travel Allowance ' the $600 travel allowance was raised to $800 since Coun ty Judge Earl Miller plans to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Counties this summer in Chi cago. He is a member of the urban affairs committee. The committee removed $500 allocated for equipment and put it under the newly created category of miscellan eous county equipment. The budget committee plan ned to finish work on the budget for the sheriff, Juve nile department and detention home and assessor this after noon. Thursday members will make a preliminary study ot the county clerk's budget. Nyetl - Oopi "