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4 B SUNDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1962 MCDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON jet Airliners Surpass Expectations in Success and Problems Created (Editor's note: America entered the jet age lour yean ago next Friday when a Pan American World Airwayi Boeing 707 took off for Peril Oct. 26, 1958. The following dispatch discusses the achievements, setbacks and still-unsolved problems of the four years that have elepsed since that flighi.) By ROBERT J. SERLING UPI Aviation Editor - Washington (UPll The jels have surpassed all expecta tions not only In their spec tacular success but in the problems that success created. This is the irony of the jet age's fourth anniversary. Al most every achievement has been tempered by eceompany Ing headaches. The jets liter ally shrank the world by 40 per cent almost overnight. In the same breath, they present ed the airlines with massive economic problems not only In their enormous cost but their immense carrying capa city, which adds up to supply exceeding demand. The cost of the jet age is best expressed by these figures: Most jets originally were priced about $5 million, In cluding spare pails. A 1962 Jetliner sells for more than S6 million. Invested In Fleets The major U.S. airlines have $2.5 billion invested in their jet fleets, which is 50 per cent more than they had tied up In their propeller-driven fleets at the start of the jet age. In 1955, a single airliner seat represented $20,000 in MONTGOMERY WARD 'J'-L II I ,'.-: .- mm LET WARDS INSTALL YOUR NEW WATER HEATER . . . FAST! 1 52-GAUON ELECTRIC HEATER 69 95 Quiet, depend- ; able, fully auto- I ; malic. Installed within 24 hrs. . Ph. 773-7301 ;j . y properly investment. In 1962, the investment cost per jet scat was $46,000. A piston-engine DC7 or constellation requires 14 pieces of supporting ground equipment valued at $42,000. A jet needs 15 pieces costing nearly $150,000. Airport costs have mush roomed because of the jets. The New York port author ity's pre-jct investment at Idlcwild was $221 million. Interest Payments In 1955, slightly more than a half-cent of every air line revenue dollar went for interest payments on new pis ton equipment. The figure for the jet age is 3 cents out of every revenue dollar. The price tag on spare parts inventory for a mujor carrier was $19 million in 1957. It is now about $50 million for the average airline. Balanced against these astronomical costs, however, is the productivity of the jet liner. A single jet can do the work of three or even four piston-engine planes. For ex ample, a DC3 In 19:18 did a day's work when it flew from New York to Little Hock, Ark. A four-engine piston plane's daily utilization in volved a New York-Los Ange les flight. The Jet's minimum workday covers a round trip between the east and west coasts. Are Money-Makers This productivity has add ed up to one prime fact about jets: Basically, they have been money-makers although not to the extent the airlines hoped. If they were flown full or nearly full more often, they would be unbelievably profitable but their very size which has led lo excess capacity keep the black ink from flowing very heavily. Even so, the jets are so basi cally efficient it is possible to I word: Excellent. In four I The three accidents took make money on jets flown years, there have been only 194 lives, underlining the in only half-full. i three fatal accidents involv- escapable fact that when a The U.S. jets' safety record I ing pure jets on scheduled giant jet crashes, the death can be summed up in one flight, plus a sabotage case, toll can be extremely high. 111., 2 L - si-.' JslUJeasMM,, , veg-e NON-STOP FLIGHT This Boeing 707 In tercontinental jet of El Al Israel Airlines is reflected in a taxi-way puddle as it takes off. The jet makes a non-stop flight from New York to Tel Aviv, Israel, for El Al. The Jet Age, now upon its fourth year, has brought increasing investments into airline operations, but has justified them by in creased productivity. (UPI) U3 Billion Feet Of Timber Down On BLM Disfricls Union Threatens To Close Mills Gardiner - lUPH - A spokes an for (he Plywood, Lum ber and Sawmill Workers un ion has stated Hie union may shut down all Interna tional Paper Co. operations in Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia. The statement was made by Don Farrier, business agent of the Coos Bay area district of the union. 11 followed disput which closed down the firm's plant here last week Some 250 members of Local 2195 of the union left (he job here and put up picket lines. About 400 other em ployees were affected. Farrier said the walkout was brought on by an over time dispute and the suspen sion of two workers, lie said there were no negotiations scheduled with management. Portland Approximately 1.23 billion board feet of tim ber was blown down on lands managed by the bureau of land management in Oregon and Washington during the Confessed Soviet Killer Sentenced Karsruhc, Germany - HOT - The West German Supreme Court Friday sentenced con fessed Soviet agent Bogdan Stashinskiy to eight years at hard labor fur killing two Ukrainian exiles in Munich on orders from the Kremlin. Stashinskiy, 31. was con- viclcd of using a bizarre cy anide poison spray gun to slay his victims instantly with hardly a trace. The victims were Prof. Lev Rebel and Ukrainian national ist leader Stefan Bandera. Stashinskiy said he killed Re bel in ll).')7 and Bandera in 1959 on orders of the Soviet Ministry of Stale Security. The prosecution had asked for a double life sentence, one for each murder. West Ger many does not have the death penalty. Stashinskiy also was found guilty of spying for the So viet Union. recent high winds, BLM of ficials have estimated. The Mcdford district esti mated 15 million board feet and had the second smallest amount of reported damage. Smallest was 1 million board feet in eastern Oregon. Largest was 330 million board feet In the Eugene district. Other damage estimates were 170 million board feel in the Roseburg district, 240 million board feet in the Coos Bay district, 330 million board feet in the Eugene district, 240 million board feet in the Bids Called for Water System Work Bids for a water system for the Aspen Point campground al the Lake of the Woods, will be opened Nov. 9, at 2 p.m. in the regional forester's office in Portland. The planned water system is the next step of develop ment of the campground, ac cording to Asa Twonibly, Klamath district ranger, Wi nema national forest. The Aspen point camp is located on the east side of the Lake of the Woods be tween the resort and the air strip. Salem district and 27 million board feet in the western Ore gon district. "Presence of clouds and fog and the remaining summer foliage prevented completely accurate mapping of the blow down areas," Travis M. Tyr rell, chief of BLM's division of range and forest manage ment for Oregon and Wash ington, said. "More systematic surveys, both ground and air, will be necessary to secure accurate data on which to build salvage plans," he said. The estimates were based on aerial surveys and limited ground checks. Yet despite these fatalities, the jet fatality rate since Oct. 26, 1958, has been only 0.41 deaths per 100 million passen ger miles flown, compared with a rate of 0.58 for pro peller-driven planes. As of mid-1962, U.S. air lines were operating about 340 pure jets. By 1965, the jet fleet in this country alone will total nearly 500. The na tion's carriers still have about 1,200 piston-engine planes in The airlines and their crews j service plus about 260 prop- deserve praise for that safety jets. The most startling slatis record. The achievement was tic of the jet age is that while no accident. The airlines have 1 only one out of six airliners made mistakes in the jet age, but the one department in which their performance can be rated as superb is training. A jet pilot flics his monster "by the book" and it is the uncompromising observance of the rule which make the jets inherently safer to fly. If there is any pilot criti cism of Jets as far as safety is concerned, it is directed at airports. The Air Line Pilots association has said most jet operational problems involve inadequate airports. is a pure jet, the jets are carrying seven out of every 10 passengers. Creates New Problem The jet influx naturally dumped hundreds of sudden ly outmoded piston planes on the market, creating a new problem for the industry. For the first time in aviation his tory, a new airliner rendered its predecessors obsolete over night. According to Curtis Barkes, united vice president for fi nance, the domestic airlines Rogue Valley Landlords Association Is Formed The Rogue Valley Land lords association was organ ized recently by landlords in the Ashland and Mcdford areas at a meeting at the Ash land Public library. The purpose of the group will be to acquaint landlords with legal aspects of land lords and guests, equalization of tax to rental ratios, joint purchases of furnishings, re sponsibility of guests to land lords and other problems re lating to the rental industry. The first meeting of the group will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in the basement of the Ash land library. E. Roy Bashaw, Medford lawyer, who is a for mer city attorney and Jack son county district judge, will speak on "Legal Aspects of Problems of the Landlord." Discuss Oregon Law He will discuss the Oregon law regarding the landlord's legal rights with relation to the guests. A question and answer period will follow 'the talk. Members may submit ques tions by mail prior lo the meeting by sending them to David Curtis, box 721, Ash land, or Mrs. Mark E. Boyden, 2541 Sandy Terrace, Mcdford. Elected to the board of di rectors were Mrs. Phil Bryant, Curtis, Arvil Hurt, Herb Lew is, Lawton T. Lewis, Willard Richards, John H. Schocne wald, and Charles A. Van Walker, all Ashland; and Mrs. Florence O. Bailey, Jack L. Bailey, Mrs. Boyden and Ver non V. Rasmussen, all Med ford. Mrs. Boyden was elected chairman. Annual Achievement Night for 4-H Set The annual 4-H Achieve ment night for Medford will be held Monday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the 4-H audi torium at the fairgrounds. Drick Payne of the Med ford branch, First National Bank of Oregon, will present the awards provided by the Oregon Bankers association All 4-H'ers, their parents and interested persons are in vited to attend. since World War II have sold between 750 and 1.000 planes for more than $200 million. But there still are about 350 piston-engine airline trans ports available for sale, today, and by 1970, when the air lines will have completed most of their jet purchases, the market will be gutted with aircraft. One of the byproducts of the jet age has been the steadily increasing trend to ward coach travel, more on the jets than older planes. TWA, for example, started op erating its jets originally with a cabin configuration one third first class and two thirds coach. Its configuration today on a 140-passenger jet is only 20 first class seats and 120 coach seats. Next Stage Anticipated Economically, some experts think the next stage of the jet age will be a shift to a single-class travel at fares ranging somewhere between present first class and coach tariffs. There is general agree ment that coach fares are priced too low, considering the jet investment and opera tional costs, while first class tariffs may be priced too high for the demand. The first four years of the jet age also spawned an un wanted child the noise problem. The industry, along with the Federal Aviation agency, has tried valiently to keep the jets in the air while keeping protests down. To a certain extent, they have suc ceeded although there un doubtedly is a residue of re sentment in many cities. Will Remain Unsolved The blunt truth is that no body has figured out a way to lower the noise level of the turbine engine. Until a scientific breakthrough can be achieved, the noise problem will remain unsolved. The i' -lines and the FAA have compromised as much as they can and still stay within a margin of safe operations with special noise abatement procedures. The carriers have done a magnificent job in the sur prisingly smooth transition to the jet age. The supersonic transport of the 1970 s will bring fresh design, manufac. turing, operation and finan. cial problems before the air. lines really have licked all the problems of the subsonic jet age. 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