THURSDAY. MAY 18. J961
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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
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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
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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
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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."
Evidence Received '
Earlier today, the court re
ceived documentary evidence
which the Israeli prosecution
asserted - proved that Eich
mann sent at least 16 Jews to
the gallows in the Theresien
stadt ghetto for trying to
escape or smuggle letters into
and out of the camp. -
Diamant testified that he
was one of 24,000 Jews in the
Theresienstadt camp called
before a Nazi selection board
in September, 1944. Each Jew
had to pass before a group of
SS officers, he said. Those
whose names were marked
with a X were sent to the
death camp at Auschwitz. The
others had a P marked
against their names and were
saved. " '
Among Those Saved
Diamant said he was among
about 11,000 against whose
names a P was put.
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The man who ran the selec
tion board, he testified, was
Eichmann.
The selection took about
one month, he said, and as far
as he knew Eichmann was
there the whole time. '
Servatius asked, "do you
still stick to your testimony
if I tell you that Eichmann
was in Hungary at the time?"
Amid a general commotion j
in court, the witness replied,
"Well, people said it was he." I
Pre-Sehool Visitation ;
Set in Jacksonville
Jacksonville The Jackson
ville school will hold a pre
school visitation Friday, May
19, from 1 to 2:30 pjn. All
children who will enter the
first grade next year are in
vited. . ,
' First grade classes will
have a special program and
pre-school children will be
asked to participate.
Mothers will meet in the
multi-purpose room with the
principal and the new Parent-
Teacher association president
to discuss the program and
to answer questions. Refresh,
ments will be served by the
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