MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
THURSDAY. AUGUST 23. 1962
Aviation Editor
Finds Airline Work
Trying Experience
Editot' not UPI Avia
tlon Editor Robert J. Serling
recently donned the uniiorm
of a United Air Lines passen
ger agent and worked a
"PA's" trick at Washington
National Airport. This is an
g-count of his experiences.)
By ROBERT J. SERLING
UPI Aviation Editor
Washington - WPU - Well,
there I stood in my new pas
senger agent's uniform with
blue trousers, blue shirt, blue
jacket and a blue cap with
United's silver wings and the
first thing the supervisor said
to me was:
'Who the Hell told you to
wear brown socks?'
This naturaly got me off to
a poor start but, as it turned
out, it was the least of my
worries. I learned a lot in the
next six hours, chief of which
was the realization that pas
1 senger agents (some air car
riers call them ramp agents)
do more than check names off
passenger manifest lists as
the customers board flights,
push the loading ramps to and
from planes, and wave good
bye to the stewardesses.
This and a lot more. They
answer myriad questions, mol
lify angry passengers, pay
special attention to the very
elderly, the very young and
the very ill and also figure
out answers to such problems
as what to do when you have
a sold-out flight ready to de
part, with no airplane.
Assigned lo Center
My first assignment was
United's planning center, an
office resembling a small con
trol tower overlooking the
airline's ramp area. Coordi
nator Warren Gamble wel
comed his new "agent" in the
soft, calm tones of a man at
peace with the world and
commercial aviation.
"You picked a blankity
blank fine time to arrive!'" he
roared. "I've got a possible
cancelled flight to Norfolk
with a full load, and I've got
45 minutes to decide what to
do!"
His problem was simple. A
Viscount was supposed to be
used as Flight 200 Washing
ton to Norfolk but the plane
had been delayed in another
i ity and would not get into
Washington in time to be used
for the Norfolk trip, And
ihere were no spare ships
available.
Obviously, Passenger Agent
Serling was not going to be
much help in this dilemma,
but Gamble solved the situa
tion neatly. He had a DC7
coming in from Chicago
which theoreticaly could be
used for Flight 200 and still
return to Washington in time
for a return trip to the West.
But DC7s are too heavy to
land at Norfolk. Gamble met
this challenge by "swiping" a
smaller DC6B scheduled to
leave as Flight 417 to Colum
bus and Dayton, Ohio, assign
ing this to the Norfolk trip
and substituting the DC7 for
Flight 417.
Simple? Not quite. One of
Gamble's first calls was lo
Dispatch to find out if there
was a DC6B captain available
who was qualified to fly the
Norfolk route. Dispatch lo
cated one a Capt. Jurnigan
who was about to dead-head
back to his home in Chicago.
"Grab him," Gamble said.
"Tell him he has to fly 200
to Norfolk." Short pause. Dis
patch phoned back.
Neck Looked Red
"Capt. Jurnigan says he's
very pleased and accepts the
invitation."
Gamble pointed out Capt.
Jurnigan to me. He was walk
ing away from the Chicago
flight and even at a distance
of several hundred feet, his
neck looked very red.
Gamble introduced me to
Pat McDonald, in charge of
special passenger handling,
who in turn introduced me
to some mysterious symbols
that appear next to passenger
names on manifests.
"Mrs. J. Smith, S 1, 2. 3."
That code means Mrs.
Smith is an elderly person
who requires a wheel chair
that must be raised to the
plane door with a special
"fork lift."
"S-4" is a woman with a
small child who will need as
sistance. "S-10" is a VIP pas
sengerand one of the S-lOs
I saw on a manifest that day
was an "S. Carpenter." He de
served the S-10 code. It was
Astronaut Scott Carpenter.
"S-6" is a passenger who
does not speak English. "S-13"
is a blind person. "S-12" is a
passenger requiring special
meal service. "S-8" is a per
son on emergency travel.
"S-5" is a child under 12
traveling alone. And then
there's "S-9" a passenger
who has been mishandled on a
previous flight.
Check for Codes
"We check every flight for
those codes," McDonald said.
"We don't always have them
marked down, of course, be
cause a reservation may have
been made by phone and we
don't know whether we have
a special handling situation
until the passenger shows up.
When you go down to the
ramp and work a flight,
watch for ticket envelopes
that have the United shield
.stamped on the cover with a
figure "1" inside the shield.
That indicates it's the first
time the passenger has flown.
It's a good idea to be just a
little extra polite and pleasant
when you see one."
Now it was time for me to
actualy "work" some flights.
This exposed me to the public
but, worse than that, it ex
posed the public lo me. Unit
ed had the foresight to as
sign veteran PAs Larry Rice,
Willie Thomas and Jay Dan
iels to work with me so I
wouldn't set commercial avia
tion back 20 years-but even
so, these gentlemen were not
quite prepared.
I was at a gate helping to
check boarding tickets when
a passenger approached.
"Can you tell me how far
it is from Newport News to
New York?"
"By plane?" I asked.
"No, by car."
PA Looked Green
"About 900 miles and it's a
single-lane highway all the
way," I told him-proud of my
striking a blow in behalf of
scheduled air transportation.
PA Rice looked a little green.
"He's only joking, sir," he
informed the passenger. "I'm
not sure what the driving dis
tance is so why don't you
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Politicians Added To Natural
Hazards of Week End at Beach
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By DICK WEST
Washington -UTfl- A week ;
end at the heach is. under the ;
; best at conditions, rather i
perilous r e c
reation. If you
i a r e lucky
; c n o u g h to
i a v o i d sun
bur n, shark
! b i t c s and
I drowning, the
chances are iri j Rockefeller chose
good thai one jjufc"' $m i Wisl Sunday.
They must have thought ducing himself to sunbathers,
they were at one of Atty. Gen. ! who previously had only sand
Robert P. Kennedy's poolside : fleas to disturb them,
parties. The way things are going, ,
One reporter described the 1 America's beaches will soon
scene at Santa Monica as 1 1,ave "ore candidates than
"reminiscent of Conev Is-; sa"d crabs. I personally view
land," perhaps not knowing ' ,ne situution Willi alarm, but
how right he was. 1 there is one small consola-
Conev Isl.inH hfinnoncri to ' tion.
be one of the four New York
I beaches that Gov. Nelson A.
to stump
At least the candidates
won't be handing out cam
paign buttons. Swim suits
being what they are today,
U.J A
of those mils
ciooouncl nuts i !
who insist on exercising will '
flatten you with a beach ball.'
To this formidable array ,
of natural hazards lias just
been added an artificial men
ace: Politicians.
Almost everywhere that
you looked last week end,
what was left of serenity at
the shore was being shattered
bv office - seekers who have
i I I, ; ! by office - seekers who have
J xA ITJ it Kp12?- mm suddenly discovered that a
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COLLECTOR'S ITEM-Romaine Fielding Jr. of Los An
geles has a new and rare item in his stamp collection. It
is an envelope mailed in Moscow bearing three four-kopeck
Russian stamps lauding the Soviet Union's Sputnik sat
ellite series and one four-cent American stamp commem
orating the U.S. Man-in-Spacc Mercury program. Field
ing, a manufacturer of laundry equipment being installed
in Russia, received the stamps from one of his cmplo-'cei
who is in Russia. (UPI)
Justice Breaks Precedent To
Speak on School Prayer Ruling
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Correspondent
II is extremely rare for a
member of the U. S. Supreme
Court to comment publicly on
') a decision
that has
aroused con
troversy. Custom de-
i crees that a
formal opin
io n must
speak for it
self, without
off-lhe - bench
Cassrii interpretation
from individual justices.
In view of this tradition,
considerable significance may
be attached to a speech which
Justice Tom C. Clark deliv
ered this month before the
Commonwealth Club of San
Francisco.
Justice Clark said the furor
which followed the June 25
ruling on prayer in public
schools stemmed, at least in
part, from misunderstanding
of the court's position.
He said many people got
the impression that the court
had "outlawed . religious ob
servance in public schools."
"In fact, the court did
nothing of the kind," he de
clared. Nor did the court hold
check when you gel to New
port News?"
1 helped push boarding
ramps to and from planes. I
wished passengers a pleasant
trip and greeted them when
they got off. I watched super
visor Bruce DeGroff straigh
ten out a situation involving
51 passengers trying to board
a 46-passenger plane.
At the end of six hours, 1
have acquired new respect
and sympathy for airline oper
ating problems. Station Chief
Rex Garrel came over to say
goodbye while I was wearily
removing my uniform.
"I hope it wasn't too dull,"
he said. "Sunday's one of our
easiest days."
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thai "there could be no offic
ial recognition of a divine be
ing ... or public acknow
ledgment that we are a relig
ious nation."
All it rtift Plai-li nnntiminrt
was to rule unconstitutional I
"a state written prayer cir-1
eulated to state employed I
teachers with instructions to
have their pupils recite it in
unison at the beginning of
each school day."
The fact that student par
ticipation in the prayer was
on a "voluntary" basis "was
not decisive," Clark said.
"The Constitution says thai
the government shall take no
part in the establishment of
religion. No means no."
Clark did not seek to make
the press a scapegoat for pub
lic misunderstanding of the
ruling. He said the court itself
"might be blamed" for saving
up its decisions to be handed
down en masse on a single
day of each week, Monday.
On this particular Monday, he
noted, the court issued 18 de
cisions, and news agencies
were "pushed even to get the
result, much less the reason
ing back of each judgment."
Mail Trend Changed
Initially, the court's mail
was heavily critical. But "as
soon as the people understood
the holding, the trend
changed. In fact most of my
mail was favorable."
Clark's comments may put
the quietus on some of the
more extreme interpretations
which have been placed on
the prayer ruling.
But they still leave room
for debate not among ill-informed
people, but among the
best constitutional lawyers
about the effect of the ruling
on religious exercises in pub
lic schools. Clark said the
court did not "outlaw relig
ious observances" in schools.
But Justice Hugo L. Black,
who wrote the majority opin
ion, said in so many words
that the court was applying
the Constitution "in such a
way as to prohibit state laws
respecting an establishment
of religious services in pub
lic schools."
Opinion Explicitly Stated
The majority opinion also
! stated explicitly that govern
i mcnl has no business "writing
, or sanctioning official pray
ers." New York where the June
i 25 case originated is the )
only state that has tried writ- j
; ing an official prayer for '
school use. But a good many
states have laws which sane- j
j tion. or require, the daily re-
cital of the Lord's Prayer and I
: the reading of passages from I
the Bible. j
Do such laws constitute "an
establishment of religious i
services in public schools?" !
Three cases which have j
been npoealed to the court
from Pennsylvania. Maryland '
and Florida will give the jus- :
tiers an oportunity to answer j
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V B. Ward. Horse Creek,
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that question, unequivocally,
at their next term.
REQUESTS REVIEW
Portland - tJPti - Former
government officer Earl C.
Corey has asked the U. S. Su
preme court to review his
conviction of conspiracy and
conflict of inleresl in wheat
storage.
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President Kennedy's trip
lo the West Coast was billed
at non-political end he is
not up for re-election this
year. But his dip in the Pa
cific was typical of what
this type of campaigning
can lead to.
Bathers who were peace
fully enjoying the sea air at
Santa Monica found them
selves being swarmed over by
a tidal wave of President
watchers, some of whom fol
lowed Kennedy into the surf
fully clothed.
Descending on the half-
baked hordes by helicopter.
Rockefeller went around
eating hot dogs, shaking
hands and kissing babies.
There Is no telling how
many votes he lost by slap
ping backs that already had
absorbed too much sun.
In Maryland, three Reonb
, lican candidates made a heli
copter tour of six beaches on .
' the bay shore while a Demo-,
cralic congressional candidate!
worked the ocean front. 1
i The Republicans set up
j loudspeakers, which a beach
I needs like a hurricane. The I
I Democrat walked about intro-;
Forest Grove Man
Gefs Five-Year Term
Salem -ItiPli- Joseph Robert'
Manning. 20. torest Grove,
has been sentenced to five
years in the Oregon Correc
tional Institution for his part
in the $2f)7 holdup of the
Market Basket grocery last
April. Two companions ear
lier received prison sentences
for the robbery.
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