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THE BIG HOOK This monster crane is used by Kingsley Field firemen in emergen
cies to move jet planes around. The crane is capable of tiffing a plane weiqhing hun
dreds of tons and moving it rapidly out of danger. The crane is shown here at a mock
fire exercise Wednesday.
COMMANDS FIREMEN Chief Howard Larman com
mands the Kingsley Field Fire Department. Larman is a
civilian commanding six other civilians and 48 enlisted
airmen.
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FIRE TRUCK ROLLING This is one of the Kingsley Field Fire Department's three
major pieces of equipment, a 1,000-qallon pumper equipped with water cannons and
able to move in close pn hot aircraft fires. The department has three of these pumpers
and numerous other pieces of equipment
GRIM REMINDER This grim display at the entrance
to Kingsley Field was set up by the Kingsley Field Fir
Department as a warning during Fire Prevention Week.
Kingsley firemen, along with others throughout the coun
ty, made a special educational effort for fire prevention
during the week.
arge Kingsley Field Fire Crew Well Equipped For Dangerous Work
Klamath County's largest fire
department covers one of the
mallest areas geographically.
But the area Kingsley Field
is a vast array of complex,
expensive equipment in constant
danger from volatile fuels and
complicated electrical equipment.
r ires at the installation are few
and far between, but when they
come, they are likely to be hot
and dangerous.
10 extinguish these lues, or
prevent them when possible, is
the job of the 55-man Kingsley
Field Department.
The department is part of the
U.S. Air Force and 48 of the men
in the department are enlisted
Air Force personnel.
There are seven civilians in the
department, w hich is led by Chief
Howard Larman, himself a civil
Quints Four Weeks Old
ABERDEEN'. S.D. (UPD The
Fischer quintuplets were four
weks old Saturday and James An
drew, the huskiest of the lot, may
soon make the big jump from
his isolette to an incubator.
Sister M. SICDhen adminklm.
tor at St. Luke's Hospital where
the quints were born to Mrs.
Mary Ann Fischer, said a deci
sion on whether. to take the boy
from his isolette would probably
be made today.
She said the normal nrnrpHuro
is to place a premature infant in
World's tiniest people are the
Bambuti Pvemies of the . lturi
Forest in the Belgian Congo.
an incubator before exposing him
to the "outside world" of life in
a bassinet.
James, the only boy among the
quints, weighs 5 pounds 7 ounces.
JOIN'S NEWSDAY STAFF
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (UPD-
Marguerite Higgins, diplomatic
correspondent for the New York
Herald Tribune since 1956 and
winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has
joined the staff of the Long Is.
land newspaper Newsday, News
day President and Publisher Har
ry F. Guggenheim announced
Saturday.
service employe. Larman is aid
ed by assistant chiefs Kenneth
VanArsdale and Jim Paxton, both
civilians, and Sgt. Richard Gray,
in charge of the Air Force per
sonnel. Another civilian is Fred
Barmore, who serves as fire in
spector. The Kingsley Field department
is one of the youngest in the area,
having been formally organized in
1937.
Besides fire prevention and sup
pression at Kingsley, the depart
ment is also responsible for fire
training and prevention at three
radar sites away from the field.
To fight the severe fires which
may break out suddenly at the
Air Force installation, the depart
ment maintains three major
pieces of equipment and numer
ous other smaller pieces.
The three major pieces arc
1,000 - gallon pumpers, equipped
with water cannons and outside
nozzles so they may move in close
to a fire while keeping men pro
tected inside the truck. Each of
these trucks, in addition to 1,000
gallons of water, carries 100 gal-1
Ions of fire-suppressing foam and
40 gallons of "CB," another fire
suppressant.
Airplane crashes arc the realm
of the Ofi Crash Truck, w hich car
ries 4,000 poiuids of carbon diox
ide for dousing aircraft fires in
quick order.
In addition, there are two pump
ers which carry only 150 gal
lons of water each, but which are
capable of pumping 750 gallons
of water a minute from outside
supply.
Another specially - equipped ve
hicle is a rescue truck equipped
with saws, cutting torches and
other gear for cutting into a
crashed plane to free persons in
side. And still another special truck
carries 200 pounds of Carbon diox
ide and 40 gallons of CB. This
truck is used for stand-by while
jet planes arc started.
The final piece of equipment is
a 1,000 gallon tanker which is used
for emergency water supply. This
tanker also carries 100 gallons of
foam.
Another machine used by the
fire department in emergencies,
but not regularly assigned to the
department is a huge crane, ca
pable of plucking jet planes weigh
ing hundreds of tons off a runway
and carrying them to another part
of the field. This vehicle is brought
into action in case planes have to
be moved quickly without time to
start them.
The fire-fighting power of the
Kingsley Field department was
demonstrated Wednesday morning
in a mock emergency drill at the
field's main hangar.
Upon the alarm of a fire in the
hangar, the huge building's sprink
ler system was turned on and the
giant crane went into action, car
rying planes out. The fire trucks
rolled, as did those of the Klam
ath Falls and Suburban fire de
partments, demonstrating the mu
tual aid principle.
WASH - DRY FOLD
Experienced
2 Hour Servica
Ironing - Stretching
LAUNDERETTE
6th at Owens
SUNDAY
BETHEL 6, Job's Daughters,
10:30 a.m., members to attend
services with Queen Laurie
Bruns, First Methodist Church.
ART EXHIBIT. 2 to 5 p.m.,
works of Jeancnc Villair Davis.
Grants Pass. Klamath Art Gal
lery, Link River Bridge.
MONDAY
DEGREE OF HONOR, 7:30
p.m., business meeting, refresh
ments, KC Hall.
GREAT BOOKS DISCISSION
GROUP, 7:30 p.m., Sophocles
"Antigone," City Library base
ment. CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS, 8
p.m., meeting, Sacred Heart Par
ish Hail. Rev. David Hazcn. speak
er. TUESDAY
AMERICAN LEGION AUX., 8
p.m., brief business meeting, Le
gion Club.
DEGREE OF HONOR, 7:30 p.m.
executive meeting. Ruth Kunz
man, 1275 Lakeshore Dr.
RIVERSIDE PTA, 3 p.m.. meet
ing, school cafeteria. Mildred
Lovrden, speaker on child thera
py, family counseling.
MERRILL CHAPTER 18,
WOTM, meeting, initiation, recre
ation hall. Refreshments, Moose
heart committee.
CHAPTER U, PEO, 2 p.m.,
meeting, Mrs. A. M. Collier, Pine
Grove.
EVERGREEN GARDEN CLUB,
7:30 p.m., meeting, Rita Boudon,
4310 Highland Way. Speaker on
trees, landscaping.
POMONA GRANGE, 9 to 10:30
am., canning contest, Joan's
Kitchen, Fairgrounds.
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Kennedy, surrounded by rela
tives of the late First Lady, said
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tive of "the best of our national
purpose."
! Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. am
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