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8 A. SUNDAY. APRIL 7, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Air Age Brings Humor With It ... . . . .... . .i.. ..Ml- I ill a. PaHarian. It la ihair Br ROBERT J. SERLING UPI Aviation Editor Waslilnglon - (UPD - The air age has brought humor along with its headaches. Take, lor example, the sto ry of Aviatrix Jerrie Cobb, first woman to pass the same physical tests given to astro nauts. The Naval Medlcai school at Pensacola, Fla., wanted to put Jerrie through a series o additional special tests. It sent this message: "Request authority for ci vilian Miss Jerrie Cobb to fly in Naval aircraft for the pur pose of baseline studies to determine fundamental dif ferences between male and female astronauts." Came this reply from the Chief of Naval Operations: "If you don't know the dif ference already, we refuse to put money into the project." The airlines in any yr are always good for a col lection of anecdotes. Charles Ruby, president of the Air line Pilots association, likes to tell this one on himself: In his early days as an air- Una captain, he arrived at operation for a flight from Miami to New York and in quired of the dispatcher who his copilot was. "A new man named Smith," the dispatcher seid. "Is Smith around?" Ruby demanded in a loud voice. "I'm Smith," came the re ply from a young man wear ing a blue uniform. "Well, let's get the show en the road, son," said Ruby. They .boarded the plane and took off. For the re mainder of the trip. Ruby was sharply critical of his copilot's performance. He handled the plane poorly, he botched up the check list, and in general proved to be the worst and most nervous copilot Ruby had aver seen. After landing in New York, the captain look ed at his youthful colleague and shook his head. "Son. whan we get back to Miami I'm going to rec ommend they put you back in flight school. How the hell did you ever get to be an airline pilot?" I'm net." was the reply. "I'm ramp agent Joe Smith and I've never been In a plana before. They told ma always to obey a captain. When you told me to climb aboard. I did." Even harried air traffic controllers have their chuck les. At one Western airport recently the tower was swamped by arriving and de parting planes and commu nications lines were crackling. For Just a few seconds, there was silence. The chief controller flicked on his mi crophone to all frequencies and said calmly: "Okay everybody. Dis mount, regroup and prepare to fight on foot!" The Cleveland newspa per strike brought laugha to the crew of one North west Orient airlines plane. For years. Northwest pi lots have referred to the Cleveland control tower as "Patterson tower" - after United Air Lines President Twice as convenient . . . twice at economical . . . this It where you SAVE time and money. 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It is their firm, if perhaps erroneous, belief that the tower gives landing preferences to Unit ed flights. During the strike. North west had been flying in copies of newspapers from other cities. One night, a Northwest plene asked for landing clearance. "You got any newspapers en board?" asked the tower. "A f f i r mative," replied Northwest. "Okay. Northwes t." snapped the controller. "You are cleared number one to land." The most widely-publicized among pilots cabin public ad dress announcement of recent times came from an Eastern captain who for months had been complaining about At lanta's airport. The field has a new $20 million terminal building but also lacks dual runways - which causes fre quent traffic delays. Eastern's man was coming into Atlanta on a clear night and was advised that due to runway congestion, no ap proach or landing clearance could be expected for an hour. The captain flicked on the cabin P.A. "Ladies and gentlemen," he Intoned, "air traffic control advises we will be unable to land for at leapt an hour be cause of runway congestion. I know all you folks aboard who are from Atlanta are mighty proud of your new terminal building. It's the most beautiful I've ever seen. But unfortunately I can't land this monster in the lobby." Steward esses are the source of many airline sto ries. There was one girl who had been flying for five straight days, got back to her apartment and was just about to crawl wearily into i bed when operations telephoned. "We need a girl for a night coach flight and you're on reserve," opera tions said. She put on her uniform again, went back to tha airport and was complain ing to the captain about her unhappy late. "Look, it's light load with no meal service." he told hex. "The last row of aoati in the rear haa a re movable arm rest. Block it off and after you get every one settled down, just lake out the arm rest, curl up and take a nap." The stewardess thought that was a fine idea. She put two "occupied" signs on the last two seats, even tually went back for her nap, and found a woman passenger had moved into one of the two seals. "Mam'm. would you mind moving up to the seat ahead of you?" the stew ardess aike-i politely. Why?" .he woman de manded. "These seats are reserv ed." the girl replied. "For whom?" said the woman. "Frankly, they're for me," said the stewardess. Young woman, pro claimed the passenger. "You are nothing but my servant. You are on this aircraft just to serve me. I repeal, you are just my servant!" "Okay," said the stew ardess. "Then would you mind getting the hell out of the servants' quarters and letting me go to sleep?" 1 Wtt&d Dr. Wilson Speaks About Education at Meeting Paying for education should not be a burden but an oppor tunity. Dr. O. Meredith It son, former president of the University of Oregon, told members of the Rogue Valley Knife and Fork club Thursday in Medford. Now president of the Uni versity of Minnesota, Dr. Wil son spoke on the "Future of Higher Education." The speak er reviewed education in the The speaker explained that the average family loaay wants their children to have more education than the par ents. He added that in 1930 12 per cent of the college age group were in college; in 106a it had increased to 39 per cent. It has been forecast thai this figure will be 67 per cent by 1985. Dr. Wilson stressed that no one is denied educational fa- ITnitorf Claln nvnliiinmff that ' 1'ilitiCS to SllOW his talents. when public schools started in New members of the board the 19th Century, it was a j of directors who were elected program not seen elsewhere, j were Mrs. Lawrence Buono He quoted James .Madison, core, the Rev. John O. Reyn who said that popular govern- j olds, and John Winton. Otto ment. without popular educa-! Frohnmayer, president, prc tion. is a prelude to a farce or 1 sided at the meeting, which is a tragedy. the last of this season. BECOMES MEMBER Gov. Mark O. Hat field is shown above as he received an honorary life membership in Hillah Temple. Sen. Lynn Newbry, Potentate Hillah Tem ple, made the presentation. With him were L. B. Mayfield, past Potentate, and Repre sentative W. O. Kelsey of Roseburg. Gov ernor Hatfield is a member of Al Kadar Temple of Portland. Principle of New Bill Is Favored By ColC Group The new ordinance regulat ing signs along the freeway through Medford, adopted by the city council Thursday night, was approved in prin ciple only by the govern mental operations commit tee of the Medford Chamber of Commerce at the second meeting devoted to the sub ject by the committee mem bers. A motion, passed by unan imous vote, asked that some changes and modifications be made in the ordinance, and that a further study of the whole matter be made in cluding an analysis of the sign industries' proposals. The committee concluded that "a serious attempt should be made to bring both views into compatability." The "important elements basically affected by the ord inance were listed as: the sign companies, the businesses de pending on sign advertising, and the traveling public util izing the freeway." Al Bradford, president of the city council and chairman of the mayor's committee on sign legislation, explained the ordinance and described it as less restrictive than the reg ulations made by the state. He said there were still some areas of the ordinance that might be modified but that his committee had brought in a "fair ordinance." Sign company representa tives appearing before the committee described the ord inance as "restrictive, arbi trary and discriminatory." They asked for further study and modification. Robert D. Heffernan. chair man of the governmental op erations committee, asked for a motion which he could p:iss on to the chamber of com merce expressing the commit tee's views. The motion was then passed supporting the principle of the proposed ord inance as outlined by the mayor's committee and ask ing for some changes and modifications. Extension Granted To Consider Lease For Property Use a I jflTnair An extension of two weeks was granted to Rogue Flying Service by the Medford city council Thursday during which to negotiate a new lease agreement with the city for use of property at the municipal airport. The request for (he exten sion was made to City Mana ger Robert Duff by the firm s attorney, Frank J. Van Dyke, who reported that one of the principals to the lease was out of the city. Action Is Deferred The vote to extend the ex piration date of the temporary term to April 18 was unani mous. The group also voted to de fer action for two weeks on a new lease for Valley Aviation at the municipal airport. In other action the council voted to: -Approve plans and speci fications and provide electri cal energy for traffic signal installation at Interstate 5 in terchange at Crater Lake highway and Biddle rd. -Call for a public hearing April IB to consider removing recent Capitol Hill annexation tetritory from Medford Rural I Fire Protection district. Award a contract for audit of city accounts for $1962-63, 1963-64 to Oliver P. Taylor. -Establish Biddle Road Wa ter Main Fund No. 3. -Accept the completed Rogue Valley Estates area san itary sewer. 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