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6 B THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963 MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORlJ. OREGON Static Discharge Still Seen Cause Of Airplane Crash By ROBERT J. SICKLING UPI Avlalion Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) - Federal Aviation Agency has added fresh impetus to belief lhat lightning or a massive static discharge blew up the Pan American World Airways jet lhat crashed at Elkton, Md., Dec. 8 killing all 81 aboard. The agency disclosed yester day it was considering an order requiring installation of a de vice lo prevent electrical dis charges on the wingtips of all iets. The modifications would wick which "bleeds off" static discharges that might interfere .jg I with radio communications. But mure is aume uviucntc un--jr also serve as tiny lightning rods and are capable of rendering a onc-million-volt lightning strike harmless. The Civil Aeronautics Board said last week it had found evi dence of a lightning strike on the left wing of the Pan Amer ican plane. It also said that a fuel-air mixture explosion had occurred in a left wing fuel cell, although it carefully avoided saying that the explosion re mit involve grounding the suited from the lightning strike. planes. Early Model The FAA said the Pan Amer ican plane was one of 98 early model Boeing 707's which car ried the so-called "static dis charge eliminators" on horizon tal tail surfaces but not on its wingtips. A few early DC8's also are believed lo carry them only on Die tail surfaces. The device is a small metal Exposed Previously The FAA emphasized there was no evidence that the ab sence of the discharge wicks in vited a lightning strike. Jets carrying the static eliminators only in their tails have been ex posed lo lightning bolls and huge static discharges hundreds of times without experiencing difficulty. The agency also noted that an 2,300-Pound Cooky Wins Baking Prize MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) Bethel College sophomore Paul Goodman, San Jose, Calif., won a Christmas cookie baking contest Wednesday by submit ting a 2,300-pound cookie. Goodman said he sold shares to about 250 classmates, raised $350 and bought the ingredients more than 1,000 pounds of cookie mix, about 800 pounds of powdered sugar and large quan tities of shortening. Sam Sherwood, the somewhat shocked radio station KDWB program director who set up the contest, gave Goodman $3,749, based on an earlier agreement to pay $1.63 a pound for the biggest entry. Sherwood said he had expected a five pound cookie. aircraft itself is its own best protection against lightning be cause it is not grounded. But, an FAA spokesman said, safety experts arc concerned that ab sence of discharge wicks from the wingtips if accompanied by unusual circumstances might be a final loophole for tragedy. 1,250 Students Enrolled In OSU Graduate School CORVALLIS Students from all 50 states have been drawn to Oregon State University for graduate study this year, ac cording to a report prepared by Dr. Henry P. Hansen, dean of the Graduate School. A record 1,250 students are enrolled in the OSU Graduate School this fall. This represents about one out of every eight stu dents on campus. More than 500 of the 1,250 received their bachelor's or master's degrees or both from an Oregon college or uni versity. Now they are working for either their master's or doc tor's degree at Oregon State, Hansen noted. There are 138 graduates from California schools; 124 from Washington; 42 from Utah; 33 from Iowa; 32 from Illinois; and 29 from Colorado colleges and universities. Remarkable growth has been made by the Graduate School in recent years and it is a re flection of increasing demands for highly-trained specialists, Dean Hansen noted. There are three times more students work ing for advanced degrees now at OSU than 10 years ago and five times more than 15 years ago. About half of the graduate students are majoring in some field of science. Graduate work at the master's level is given in nearly 100 dif ferent fields at OSU. Doctor of philosophy and doctor of educa tion degrees are available in about 70 fields of study. Ex Convict Admits False Tax Return PORTLAND (UPI) -A for mer state pentitentiary inmate pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here Wednesday to a charge of filing a false income tax return while he was behind the walls. Thomas D. V o r s e, 39, of Olympia, Wash., admitted he re ceived a $97.09 refund after filing a 1960 tax return showing gross income of $907.36. The government contended he was not entitled to the refund. 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