Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 03, 1963, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Text4 B THURSDAY. JANUARY 3, 19S3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDPORD. OREGON IT SfllCtV OOntrOHCCl bV FAA KlQid TrSffiC ulsSdnd E Q U l D IT! G n "n.Wi.;-im-Men Otherwise an astronautlches.s'' not fou, F 'mmmmm HVlWlrllVII will, "a lot of heart" may might become headachy, nau- dwellers. The next step was to find Later studies showed tl,a. re", or'i nalat E.rh tlm. , ri a ,..,i.ii. i. i ..i ...,u:..-1 i i -i. , ..... . be better suited for snace Unn snri mil nf hroaih His Thi. same farinrc n,t . ..nt-:n r siuaies snowia mat re. I THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1S63 Editor's notei Each time there's an air disaster, :ha public wants io know again what is being dona to makt airliner travel safer. Here is a report on one phase of the situation. By AL KUEi TNER United Press International. Atlanta -IUP1I- Anyone look ing toward the main jet run way of the Atlanta Municipal airport might have wondered what kind of foolishness was being permitted. A two-engine DC-3 came out of low clouds to what seemed to be a normal landing. But at 200 feet, the pilot gunned the engines, flashed along the entire 8,000-foot jet runway No. 9 and roared back Into the sky. In the cockpit, pilot Harold Little was not indulging in torn iooicry. "FAA-2, you are cleared for a low level approach," said the voice from the control tower. The plane circled and start Pd down again. "Give me the high intensity lights, please," Little said Into his speaker. Suddenly, a huge cross shaped cluster of lights with a running scries of strobe bulbs in the center flashed on at the end of the runway. Safely Check ' Little, a highly skilled Fed eral Aviation Agency inspec tor, was checking if the air ports instruments and safety equipment were functioning to the nth degree. A similar cheek not long ago showed that landing instruments were giving incorrect information. The runway was closed to aircraft arriving under severe weather conditions until the trouble was corrected. Little is one of thousands of experts whose job it is to make flying as safe as human ly possible. When you're in an airliner in weather so thick you can't see the wing tips, a team of Federal Aviation Agency (FA A) controllers has your aircraft plainly in sight on about three radar screens. Your pilot is in contact wilh ground stations on up to 10 radio frequencies. These controllers are Hip traffic cops for skyways that have become increasingly crowded wilh aircraft. On a normal day, an aver age of 70,000 persons are in the air in one of the peak nours oi travel. An estimated Sj.000 aircraft are in flight in me nation at any given nine oi nay. to Keep this traf fic sorted out requires not only rigid traffic rules but some intricate equipment. "I remember when I went lo work at the airport some years ago, we controlled in mining and departing air planes by running out on the runway wilh a red flag," Richard Cosgrove, chief air port tower controller here, said. Part Of Network Today Cosgrovc's lower Is part of an FAA air traffic con trol network thill covers the southeast and interlocks with other FAA centers. One of those regional cen ters is near Atlanta and is somewhat typical of the man ner in which the air traffic cops work. It is a bomb-proof structure with self . contained features for survival of personnel in event of nuclear war. In a room the sue nf a small (healer - air condition ed and sound proofed - a group nf highly trained and dedicated men under the su pervision of control center chief J. B. Smith work at tele phones and over radar screens. They have under their control every aircraft in the skies in the southeastern United States - each one designated by figures and symbols written on small wooden blocks. From the moment your plane takes off, it is visible as a "blip on the screen of a radar set before which an AA controller is sitting. Your pilot has been given precise flight instructions by the FAA. As your airliner roars off, your flight is "handed off" by the local control tower to the FAA air traffic control cen ter. There are 17 of these in the country. These regional control cen ters maintain radar surveil lance oi a Meruit within a radius of 200 miles. One team of controllers is keeping tabs on all aircraft flying at al titudes of 24,000 leet and above. Others are watching planes at lower altitudes. Airplanes Slacked When your plane gets with in about 30 miles of the At lanta terminal, you are "hand ed off" to the Atlanta control tower. If it's between 1 1 a.m. and noon or from 5 to 6 p.m., Atlanta will be the busiest airport anywhere and you will have some sky waiting before you. Your pilot will be given a "hold" position in what's call ed a "slack". While in the stack, your pilot will circle at a prescribed altitude (1,000 feet of altitdue between planes) around a radio beacon. As one stack is filled, another is started. Sometimes there arc as many as eight or 10 of these stacks around the At lanta terminal. Planes are peeled off the bottom as the busy tower brings ships down. Suppose the weather is bad. That no -wing -lip visibility might bother you, but It docs not faze your pilot. As one put it, "when we near a busy airport, we pray for minimum ceiling and visibility because that clears out about half the air traffic." 'More than six out of 10 air accidents occur at or within one-half mile of airports, so the safety precautions are in tensified in the terminal areas. Your plane is brought down through the clouds by instru ments that double and triple check against each other. But in the final analysis, it is the captain of your craft who de cides whether he should land. 'Rabbit' Key Lights At each end of instrument runways at airports like At lanta, the raBDil runs in bad weather. This is the key part of the Instrument Land-. ing System (1LS)). these are the lights you can see on de clining altitude stands at the ends of some runways. When this system is opcrat ing, strobe lights with an in tensity of three million can dlcpowcr for each bulb flash in scries every two seconds. A pilot landing in foul weather sees the lights flashing with the appearance of bunny-hopping toward the center of the runway. rilots quickly dubbed the lights "the rabbit" and they swear by them as among the finest inventions in aviation. If these lights can't be seen by the time the pilot is 200 feet from the ground, he is re quired lo pass up a landing, resume altitude and get furth er instructions from the tow er. The air enthusiasts can bol ster with statistics their con tention it is safer to fly than to go by some oilier means. In 1961, .31 persons were killed in plane crashes for every 100 million passenger miles. Translated, that means you could figure on circling the earth 10,400 times in a good airplane without cracking up. For the same mileage, the automobile fatality record was 2.2 persons, trains .08 and buses .11. Narrow Margin But the pilots are constant ly after the airlines, the air ports and the FAA to narrow the safety margin. "After all, we're the boys up front and I've never heard about one of these things crashing tail first," said Vie Hughes, chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association fira salety committee here. With all the safety devices, ' why do we still have acci dents, you ask the aviation experts. "It's all a problem of mo tion," said Cosgrove. "There's the explanation that the ele ment of danger was intro duced to air travel when Or ville Wright turned lo his brother, Wilbur, and said 'let's build another one'. I guess that about sums it up." wilh "a lot of heart" may be better suited for space travel than others, a' Univer sity of Wisconsin Medical school pathologist indicates. A man with a large heart and more numerous and big ger blood vessels and cells can belter adjust to the low oxygen pressure found at high altitudes, Dr. Enrique Valdivia said. "Should the oxygen pres sure suddenly drop in the next astronaut's space jhip," he said, "he'd have a t-ettcr chance of surviving : his cardiovascular system were so constructed." seous and out of breath. His toes and fingers would begin to tingle. He would probably even become too weak to move if the pressure dropped to half the 760mm. of mer cury found at sea level. Researchers now n.ay have solved the puzzle of how the mountain Indians of Peru and Chile manage to work so hard and avoid disease in the thin mountain air. Barrel Chested Studies indicate these In dians have unusually large hearts and huge "barrel The same factors that helD the Indians adjust lo the high altitude may also dp future astronauts in space ships. To study how these adapta tions develop, Valdivia and his associates hav been studying guinea pigs who grow up in a low pressure environment. They found that the ani mals who are native to the mountains of Peru have many more capillaries in their mus cles than lowland specie.". Ca pillaries are the tiny blood vessels which help carry oxy gen lo the body tissues. Thus out how non-mountain am mals adapt to high altitudes Special Chamber The research team set up a special pressure chamber in their UW laboratory which reproduced the high altitude environment of the Peruvian mountains. They discovered the right ventricle of the heart pumps blood to the lungs. Valdivia concluded that high blood pressure in the lung's vessels means extra work for the heart's pump. The strained muscles of the right ventricle must expand as the animals "clini'cd the mountains" of the pr ssure chamber, their capillaries be gan to increase. Cell Changes Found Changes in the animals' muscle cells were also found. These cells contained a great er number of mitochondria than those control animals who were left "at home." Mi tochondria are the cell power houses which convert body fuel lo chemical energy. Thus, high altitude animals have more energy available. The doctor's latest research indicates that the blood itself responds to low pressure. Red blood cells, which carry oxv- gen, increase In number and size, apparently to help them operate more efficiently. All these factors-nigh blood pressure, strain on the right side of the heart, oversized blood cells - offer clues to further heart research, Val divia said. He is now seeking the relationship of these fac tors to heart failure. His present studies are sup ported by the UW Research committee. Wisconsin Heart association and National In stitutes of Health. B 5 Exclusive Hotel Caters To Research Volunteers By ROBERT MUSEL United Press International London ll'PB The manage ment of Britain's most ex clusive hotel is delighted to be able to report that it can now guarantee most of its guests a streaming cold. And this little announce ment, extracted from a scien tific paper, should be good news all around the world for it means that British scien tists arc at last in sight nf a breakthrough In the cure of the common cold. This breakthrough could come in 1963 - although re search workers at the Har vard hospital in Salisbury have long since learned not to underestimate the baffling virus which is apparently re sponsible for our watering eyes and plugged noses. Happily sneezing away to day in isolation huts on the grounns of the hospital are the volunteers who in relays since 194B have acted as hu man guinea pigs In one of the most intensive attacks ever Hugging Collar Good Sign of Fit in Furs Chicago - flpr - The first thing to do when purchasing a fur coat is In look at the back of the neck, says A. L. Mellzer. founder of the Evans Fur company, a firm lh.it boasts more women buy furs from it than anywhere else. M e 1 1 ze r said Ihe collar should hug the neckline so that the coat rests on the shoulders where II belongs. Be sure the coal Isn't cut loo low, pulling the coat away from Hie neckline. Dried Milk and Eggs Show No Flavor loss Chicago - (I'PIl - The G.I. who turned up his nose at dried milk and eggs during World War 11 wouldn't recog nize thn.se products now. The chemical Industry has developed a jet spray di ver that not only dries eggs and milk, hut nlher foodstuffs, with little or no loss of taste and quality, according to a paper read at a recoil imvt ing nf ihe American Instltu'e Chemical Engineers here, i mi? c I U.IIamilJI i" . WMkHaattM M ,i!..J.'l..-fc" 4! UJlU rW 1L haa 0) .1 rrm ii i I V - 1 I ek I l iiU WHITE SATIN limit 2 bags please 66 lb. bag 00 99 BIG Y auu at Tar BAKERY DONUTS SNOWDRIFT hortenin COTTAGE limit 5 lim please J lb. tin No. 1 tins DETERGENT limit 1 box iant Ti GIANT SIZE BOX HILLS BROS. Coffee - 49c 2 97e 6-oz. Instant 79c 10-oz. Instant $1.19 mmum 5s1 29 98 499 CUT-RITE WAX PAPER 125-R. Roll Abundant with lean, meaty pork . . . PICNIC STYLE BUTTER 3-lb. Jar SNIDERS CHILI PEPPER Tomato Catsup l0;le FRUIT COCKTAIL Hunts TREASURE 300 Tin BRAND 00 TOILET TISSUE Waldorf . . . Facial Quality 4 Roll Pkg. n Sfioo limit 1 m i for plena I SLAB BACON Midway . Any Site Pioca lb. U S D. A. 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LAST WEEK'S WINNER: Almyra Walter, 807 Gibbon Rd, Central Point, Ore. n mi 7 V7 iV ii Girls COATS ENORMOUS SELECTION NOW DRASTICALLY REDUCEDI Sizes 2 to 14 Valuat to $21.95 99 to SUBTEENS - 8 to 14 Values to $24.95 199 to r 95 I I 17" 16 PRESTONE ANTIFREEZE T4g) I I Gallon Women's Storm Coats Sizes 10 to 18 Values to $19.95 Mil WHILE SUPPLY LASTS WOMEN'S W00L SK,RTS Men's Dress SHOES BOYS & GIRLS RAIN BOOTS Ovenhoa WOOL SWEATERS $V199 One Entire Table Full $5.99 pair Values to $11.95 Lined 1 J White, Red II j I Jr-JJ I launched against any malady of man. Good Accommodations More than 7,500 uf them have offered their respiratory tracts to science in return for 10 days of good hotel-like ac commodation at Salisbury with three (food square meals served in the rooms and three shillings a day (42 cents) pocket money. The intrepid British came forward in their thousands 16 years ago when the Medi cal Research Council and the Ministry of Health, In a joint appeal, stated that science could learn nothing further about colds from the guinea Pig or the chimpanzee and needed human subjects. Many of the guests, until this past year or two, went home well-rested, without a single symptom of cold, be cause of the cussedness of the offending virus which refused to act in any predictable man ner. One old wives' tale after another was shattered. Men and women sat in drafts, were drenched with water and al lowed to dry off in the chill air, chummed around with people who had colds and even had fluid from cold aui-, fcrers transferred to the ' own noses. Faw Cot Colds Far fewer of them got colds than the disappointed scien tists hoped would be the case. Obviously the old wives-and the rest of humanity - got their colds from something else. And only in the past year or so have the scientists at Salisbury begun to find out from what. In a summary of the work of Harvard -hospital, Its di rector, Dr. M. L. Bynoe, re ported that the common cold research unit had discovered a new group of viruses known as "rhinoviruses" and that volunteers infected with these definitely caught colds. In science, learning how a thing happens is only one step away from learning how tn keep it from happenine. Sn Bynoe's paper was greet- Dr. IPS M W,; SlM M SJ . t . . ; ! i 1 DRISTAN vi T8 CORICIDir. "D"SL8 ?VICKS TRISPAN W i? AIM SELTZER M EV3ICRIN ANTISEPTIC Mouthwash Large 14-oi. 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NOW $1.00 GERITOL LIQUID $1198 12-ounce Bottle Reg. $2.98 r VICKS VAPOSTEAM OK Guarantied not to Clog Vaporixerl 3 Ounce Bottle Reg. 98e o f.iby ihe medieal periodical inc rracuuoner' with the words: "It now looks as if a breakthrough were in sight." wjun mis win occur is unpredictable," The Prac titioner said editorially, "but the mere fact that it is even in sight is a notable tribute to the patience and ingenuity of the common cold research unit." Dr. Bynoe gave this outline of the current knowledge ot science about man'a most widespread ailment: Colds are spread hv nr. sonal contact and children are the best spreaders of th in. fection. Inhalation One Cause Transmission seems to oc cur by inhalation of infected droplets but this is not the whole story because many volunteers exposed to cold sufferers do not catch It. In these cases the virus had to be dropped up their noses be fore they succumbed. Colds die out in closed com munities, such as Soitzbercen and the island of Tristan da Cunha (recently evacuated be cause of an erupting volcano) but they recur when the com munity Is visited by a ship even mougn those on board may not have colds. This suggests the possibility that there are "cold carriers," people who have the virus without any cold symptoms. Why we get more colds In winter is still uncertain. Low temperature itself cannot be the cause since polar explor ers living In intense cold do not suffer from colds. Damp ness and chills apparently aren't guilty either as the hu man volunteers proved. Humidity Important Humidity may be impor tant - a relationship has been noticed between the onset of autumn colds and the lower ing of relative humidity in doors. It may be possible to pre pare a vaccine giving protec tion against one or more rhinoviruses and this Is being studied but the trouble is there are so many different types nf virus. In this connection research Is continuing Into "inteferon," a substance discovered tn cells by one of the unit's execu tives, Dr. Aleck Isaacs, which appears to Inhibit the growth of viruses. It will shortly be tested in volunteers. In Its continuing research Harvard hospital is tempting volunteers with the sort of brochure a hotel puts out ex tolling the opportunity to rest, (when not sneezing, of course), or to Indulge tn in door and outdoor games "not Involving more than two per sons." Isolated In Couples This is because the volun teers are now Isolated in twos after solitary accommodation proved loo lonely for the first arrivals. Married couples are encouraged and, the brochure says, "almost all have enjoyed their stay and have thought it worth (.-etching nothing more than a Mimmrin rold."