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THURSDAY. MAY 18. J961 10 A Better Parachutes May Save Space Program Millions of Dollars MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Manchester, Conn.-fflPB-Bet ; ter parachutes could save our space and missile program tin- told millions perhaps halt billion dollars a year, Michael Kagan, president of Pioneer f Aerodynamics Systems, says, J Pioneer, ' which has plants i here and at Columbia, Miss : has roughly, one-third of the nation's parachute business. ! makes everything from the t ordinary- "bail out" chute , huge ribbon chutes, weighing ' half a ton, whose purpose to advanced even K a g a , hasn't been Jet in on the se- . cret by the government agen r cies that ordered them. A ribbon chute is made of ' ribbons of tough fabric, fr through which the air flows. ; It is used mainly for deceler- i ating planes and parts of mis- .- sites. i Pioneer developed much of ? the parachuting . system for the Mercury man-in-space ; project. . - In the Mercury project, ; complex system of exploding parachutes , takes over the ' : spacecraft after it separates l from the rocket. In spacecraft tests, the 4,000-mile-an-hour speed at an altitude of 40 '. miles is reduced by retro-rock- I' eta to the prow of the cap ' sule. As the capsule plunges to 21,000 feet, a stabilizing para chute pops out, and at 10,000 feet a big canopy chute blos- : noma., to, lower, the capsule, f gently to earth or into the sea, "At present comparatively . little recovery is accom- J plished, though," Kagan said ' "Our military and space proj- ' ects are losing several million dollars worth of valuable en ' fines, casings and instruments each year that could be Used ' over and over again, we and other companies are working with government scientists to design parachutes that can halt a lot of this loss." - Pioneer has another big project ' a parachute that somewhat resembles a huge revolving helicopter rotor in the air. It's called the vortex ring parachute and it works in the air much as a boat pro peller works in . the water when it is thrown in reverse. It is said to give 40 per cent more decelerating effect with 60 per cent less cloth area. In stead of being solid, it has four blade-like gores. "It is the most radical change in parachutes in years," Kagan said. "Among other things, makes possible landings pin-point accuracy undreamed of in the past, he said. Final Tasting The parachute is undergo ing final testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Although most of Pioneer business is with military and space agencies, the company still makes a lot of parachutes for private and commercial fliers. 'We still are working perfect a chute that will land disabled small plane intact with its crew from altitudes as low as 1,000 feet," Kagan said. Another growing market Is parachute Jumping clubs, much favored by college stu dents. , :.. The idea," Kagan ex plained, "is to jump out of plane and by manipulating the chute shrouds, to travel as far as you can belore landing Some of these lads have suc ceeded in landing 60 miles away .from where tlhey Jumped. ; Like other legitimate sports, parachute jumping has its lunatic fringe, Kagan said. "Some crazy kids out on the West Coast have been buying surplus military parachutes and experimenting with cut ting out sections of them to make the Jumps more 'sporty.' That's really flirting with the undertaker." : i i j. $ " w ' 'A ol " . ' " ' - FISTS FLY - Blocking traffic in downtown ' their ' hecklers . which disrupted a dem Seattle as they square off in the middle of : onstration against the U.S. foreign policy the street are two of the many pickets and . toward Cuba. , (UPI Telephoto) Cigarette Tax for Education Urged Washington -(DPI)- If a New Hampshire senator gets his way, . cigarette smoKers win help finance federal aid to education. But' indications are the senator's plan will be de feated. Sen. Norris Cotton (R-N.H.) planned to ask the Senate to day to help meet state school needs' by refunding 25 per cent of each , state s federal cigarette tax collections. . ' The cigarette tax amend ment was scheduled to go be fore the Senate as it resumed debate on the $2.5 billion school aid bill. ; " The Cotton amendment, of fered previously in aid . to Indian Technique May Be Used In Building Homes College Station, Tex.-OlrH-The adobe building skills of the American Indian, coupled with .scientific soil-additive ' formulas 'tested at Texas ; A&M college may soon pro- vide technical Information for Search To Resum For Two Fishermen '.. - Bend dirt Search for the v bodies of two fishermen, miss- ing and presumed drowned in the Wickiup reservoir May 8, ' ; will be resumed this week 1 The men are Herbert Chll- ton, 62, and Wayne E. Olson, 54, both of Portland. Their , boat 'was recovered May 10. ; High' winds and heavy rain have hampered search efforts. J construction of low-cost hous ing in undeveloped areas of the world. ,. ! The. goal of the research project under way in- Texas is to find the right proportion of lime and cement to mix with various soils for best re sults in constructing build ings. A 128,000 grant from the International Cooperation Ad ministration is part ot an el' fort to allow construction of housing ' developments 1 with earth blocks in nations In the Far East, Asia and Africa, project In Korea, using some lumber and lime stabilized soil bricks,, has kept building costs for small houses to less than $500 per unit. A report from three re search . associates at Texas (EflMDSsED) REDEEM COUPON AT BOTTOM OF THIS AD AT THIS GOLD BOND MERCHANT, IVERSOM PAINT , Corner of ; BARTLETT AND 4TH listen to GOLD BOND DIAL-A-PHONE KYJC-10 time daily 53 FREE GOLD E0I3D STAMPS IYERSPPAI?ITS Cmf lirtitn t 4th N furcktM Rtiilra4 A&M sa4d they had completed the first phase of the project that of compiling pertinent available Information on the use of soil for home building purposes. . .. , ,t . More Experiments The next steps in the study will be further laboratory and field experiments, Investiga tion ot the practical aspects ot soil treatment and con struction operations, and fi nally, the preparation of home-building manual for use in underdeveloped countries. Much of the data on con struction of buildings in the United States and soil - is based on the . work of the American Indians, who built homes principally of soil more than-100 years ago that are in excellent condition to day. The arid climate of the re gion helped extend the life of the soil buildings, according to lexas a&m scientists. The high rainfall in other parts of the world, however, manes it necessary to add oth er Ingredients to the soil used in construction to -keep the blocks from washing away. i n is -sou stamnzatlon" re search is a major part of the Texas A&M study. One phase of the field ex periments involves comnarl. son of soil blocks stabilized with 2, 4 and 6 per cent port land cement. 'Observations after several months indicate that under moderate exDosure to uipttlns and drying, heating and cool ing, and driving rain, all the stabilized blocks performed in, a satisfactory manner," the experiment station reported. , An Instruction manual to be translated ' Into several lanffuaffes Is belntf nrennreH in simple language to tell the people of under-developed areas how to select the pro per soil, how to stabilize it most economically and how to lay out and build a nlmnle anil comfortable home at a cost within their ability to pay," It added. education debate, would pro vide about $250 million an nually to the states. The Senate was expected to reject the proposal. . Two NAME'... COUPON EXPIRES 6161 tin. Look for more FREE Geld Bend Stamp on peget 1 OA, SB, 2D, SD, 8D. Water Hauling Permit Granted Salem - (WO - A Portlaqd trucking firm today won a license to transport watcr-the first time water has been a regulated commodity in Ore gon. Public Utility Commissioner Jonel Hill said the authority of Transport Service, Port land, was expanded to Include permission for statewide trans portation of water. James E. Singleton, trans portation director, said no one had applied for such a permit before, since water generally was hauled In the users' own trucks, He said highway contrac tors have been the hlsaeat ran. sumers of water, often using several nunarcd thousand gal lons a day for cement and grading operations. SMALL REWARD Columbus, Ohio-(IIPD Durgiars -wno broke into an office here early this week could have earned more with honest labor. They cut a Dad- lock on a gate, broke an over head window door, pried off two inner doors, carted a safe from the office ' into a back room and then pried it open. They "got less than $8. . , Oregon Director Resigns Position - Portland -UPD- Kenneth W. Sawyer, Oregon director-of the Farmers Home Adminis tration, has resigned effective Friday.' ...''..' ; .j,',", ' ' Sawyer held the position approximately seven years. 1 G. C. Hendry, acting direc tor, said no successor had been named. , ' The new electronic type writer, developed by scientists fit Kyoto University, convert ed spoken Japanese words in to printed form. Central Oregon Plans Fast Time Bend -0IPB- Central ' Oregon will go on . "sunshine time' starting June 1. Members of Chambers of Commerce from Bend, Prine ville, Redmond and Madras met here Wednesday night and agreed to recommend to their communities that mer chants and others adopt the new time schedule. "Sunshine time" is the same as daylight saving time. But members felt adoption of the different name might avoid the stigma the term daylight saving tune has in some areas. The recommendation is ex pected to take general affect in the area June 1 since indi vidual chambers and other groups such as Prinevllle city hall have said they would fol low the decision at Wednes day night's meeting. USSR Said Gaining Maritime Strength Washington -WPB-Rep. Thor C. Tollefson (R-Wash.) warned Wednesday that the Soviet Union might become - the world's leading maritime na tion. Tollefson, in a House speech, said the United States was in danger of losing control of the seas if the merchant ma rine is not kept strong: : "We are not ; replacing quickly enough our merchant fleet which is fast approaching block obsolescence, having been built hurriedly during World War II," Tollefson said: The Washington Republican said the Soviet Union not only had built a fleet of some 500 submarines but was engaged in a seven-year program for building a commercial fleet. Eichmann Accuser Fails To Identify Man in Courtroom Jerusalem (UPD A ' Jewish witness testified today that Adolf Eichmann personally selected thousands of Jews for extermination.' ' ' But the witness, Viteslav Diamanti 40, failed to identify the man in the glassed-in dock of the Jerusalem court as the Nazi secret police . officer whose word sent Jews to their deaths. When Eichmann's W e s German defense, lawyer, Dr, Robert Servatius, challenged the testimony with the asser tion that Eichmann was in Hungary when he was sup posed to have made the selec tion in the Theresienstadt ghetto, the witness said, 'Well, I was just told it was Eichmann." 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