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T MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. JULY 35, 1963 A 7 New Golf Course Voted at Ontario Ontario -(UPfr- Voters have approved by a margin of 20 votes a $200,000 bond issue for a new golf course. City Recorder Nadine Thompson said the vote was 451 to 431. One ballot was de clared void. Ontario recently deeded its nine-hole course to the new Treasure Valley Community College to serve as a campus A new 18-hole course will be constructed on municipal airport land. Overseas Plane Crews By ROBERT J. SERLING United Press International San Francisco lUPD "This class is just part of the count less hours you must spend t r a i n i n g for an emergency that probably never will hap-pen-because if it does happen, there isn't time to learn. . ." There were 24 in the class. Eight stewardesses and the rest pilots and flight engi neers. They looked strangely un glamorous away from their world of instrumented flight decks. Gods and goddesses re duced to mere mortals in slacks and sweaters and loud Hawaiian shirts instead of trim uniforms with gleaming wings. "Recurrent training in ditching procedures" was the official subject. These were flight crews assigned to Unit ed Air Lines' Honolulu route. They must go through a basic course before they are al lowed to fly the Pacific run. Once a year, they must go over the earlier lessons, brush up on the old procedures and get briefed on any new ones. No Pictures Allowed The classes are in such deadly seriousness that Unit ed will not allow picture-tak' ing of the proceedings. The UPI reporter who was per mitted to observe had to sign .!.e class attendance sheet "R. J. Sterling, captain, DCA based (Washington)," so the crews would not know an out sider was present. The instructor was Robert O'Leary, a former Coast Guard officer and expert on ditching, air-sea rescue work and emergency training. He's an articulate, affable Irish man whose teaching tech nique was part shock treat ment, part humor and part evangelism. He talked like a machine gun and had to be cause in a three-hour morning classroom session he covered many of the points in United's 171-page manual entitled "Emergency Techniques, for Overwater Operations." Shock Treatment "Don't ever think that emer gencies were eliminated when they took the props off and began flying jets," said O'Leary. "Nobody's ever had to deliberately ditch a jet yet but just remember that three fourths of the earth's surface is covered by water and it could happen some day. . . "Our seats are built to with stand a load of 9 G's. That means it takes nine times the weight of a 170 pound man to tear it loose. But if a seat belt isn't fastened tightly, impact Intensively for Possible Ditching deceleration could increase the G forces to 14-and that's why cabin attendants must make sure belts are fastened tightly. . ." "You stewardesses may run into something that's rare but possible a passenger who re fuses to leave a briefcase be cause he's got something in it that he acquired illegally, like diamonds. If he insists on keeping it, don't fight him for it. Get the hell out of his way because he might kill you to keep it. Arguing takes time and time is a precious com modity in an emergency, . ." "There's only one way to get passengers off an airplane and that's to open the door and lead them out. No one thinks logically at a time like this and all the signs and plac ards telling passengers where to go and what to do aren't worth a damn-you've got to provide the leadership. . ." "There are seasick pills in every raft but don't call them seasick pills because If you do everyone is guaranteed to get seasick. . ." "Then we have what we might call moral builders. Like a compass which the government requires. It adds a lot of class to the operation if the captain peers at is from time to time, but actually it's useless because you can't nav igate a raft and the whole idea is to stay where you've already told air-sea rescue you were . . the fishing kit is a morale builder, too, and be lieve me if you've got 100 peole who paid $200 to fly to Honolulu and they wind up in the water, you've got a morale problem. . ." "The first big problem to overcome is the natural re luctance of a captain to ask for help until a situation real ly gets hairy. United's policy is to order out an intercept plane automatically at the first sign of trouble, without the captin's having to request a o o USDA Choice Tp Well "Aged" CrOuE ijassw Close trimmed of o excess bane, fat and waste before weighing. Guaranteed to please you 100. You must be satisfied with your meat purchase or your money back. EXCESS FAT REMOVED Sliced Bacon Fillets of Sole Link Sausage Sliced Picnics Yorkshire brand. Always freshly sliced. 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"The line breaks when a force greater than 500 pounds pulls on it," she answered promptly. "What do you do with pil lows and blankets after im pact?" "Don't throw them on the floor because they'd slow down evacuation," another stewardess replied. "Good," O'Leary said. "That reminds me you're going to have to take high heel shoes away from women passengers because we've found in stu dies of other ditchings that a woman is liable to put her shoes back on even though she removed them in accord ance with the original ditch ing instructions. One airline had an emergency evacuation where a woman put her high high heels right through the slide chute. She was the sec ond one off the plane and she ruined the chute for every one behind her." O'Leary proudly showed off United's new atomatic radio signal successor to the old Gibson Girl" location trans mitter. The new device starts sending a signal three seconds after it hits the water. In one test, 67 planes picked up its beam even though they did not know ahead of time that the new signal was going to be used. A Qantas 707 heard it 280 miles away at 40,000 feet. O'Leary, who attends the training sessions of other over-ocean carriers like Trans World and Pan American just as they visit his, also report ed on what he had learned from their classes. Pan Am has a good idea which we're adopting, he said. "As you know, there's an awful lot of crockery In a plane and it must be stowed away fast because flying ob jects are a major menace In. dltchine impact. Fan Am has its girls go up the aisle with a large blanket and pas sengers Just toss in their aisn- es and glassware, it saves a lot of time." After lunch, the class went via a Coast Guard launch Into San Francisco Bay, where the hulk of an old Martin 404 Is anchored. It still has seats in side its battered, rusting fuse lage. Most of the class became "nassenBers." The remainder were assigned their normal roles of cabin attendants or flight deck personnel. Under O'Lcary's direction, the class went through a sim ulated post-ditching evacua tion comDlete with raft infla tion. Some of the "passengers" were handed cards with lines of dialogue to read at oppor tune moments. Where the hell are all the ships you said were coming?" one captain roared to a stew ardess. She looked a little shocked at his realism and Just gaped. Come on," O Leary cnia- ed. "We went over this in class you tell him that we knew the location of every ship along the route BEFORE we took off and tnat tney re on the way." All the rescue and survival devices O'Leary talked about in the classroom took on a new dimension of reality when the crew members ac tually used them. The bright green die markers. The huge raft itself, which resembles two giant doughnuts glued one on top the other. Red jackets for crew, yellow for passengers, fcven a tnroe-ioot doll to test a stewardess' abil ity to put a lifejacket on a child. Flares. Signal rhirror. Sea anchor. Before O'Leary finished, he had the class us ing or observing the use of every piece of equipment tn the raft. The flares brought one laugh. They worked fine but O'Leary asked a stewardess what she'd do if a flare didn't work. "Cry," she said simply. Net Farm Income Shows Decrease lAooMrtrttn.. -HtPrt- The Aff- IrtiiltiirA nunnrtmpnt unirf to day net farm income for the first half of 1963 was almost 3 per cent below that of the corresponding period of lBtu. The department estimated the aggregate net farm in come in January-June was running at annual rate of $12'3 billion. The rate for the same period in 1962 was $12.7 billion. Net farm Income for all of 1862 was $12.6 billion. In a review of the farm in come situation, the depart ment said the average Income of U. S. farmers during the first half of 1963 was about as high as a year earlier. The agency, pointed out, however, that the decline In the number of farms over the past year was about the same rate as the decline In Income. (c) COPYRIGHT 1961 to 1963, SAFEWAY STORES, INCORPORATED 1
