Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 130, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1954 — Page 12

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tells Precautions Taken By Airlines Tells Os Wearing Nylon Life Vest By LAURA Z. HOBSON (Copyright 1954 by I. N. 8.) HONOLULU (INS) — Flying about four miles above the Pacific, 1 asked if I could try on and inflate the yellow nylon life vest—aa if we’d been alerted to "ditch” Into the ocean. The person I asked was only W. A- Patterson, president of United Airlines for 25 of its 27 years, so permission was forth-

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i-ominh. "But not aloft," he said. •’l’ll send one over to the hotel later.” j We’d just had the life vest demonstration, mandatory at takeoff on all overwateri flights, and I’d asked him whether this drill might not scare the daylights out of any nervous passenger. "Sometimes it does.” “Pat“ said. "Once I saw an old fellow about 70, who’d never been up before, clutching his life vest in both hands for the whole 2,600 miles, holding it out in front like a bouquet of flowers.” That got us going on the psychology of fear about flying, from memory I told him of an article I’d recently read somewhere that put safety statistics into unforgettable terms. If a baby were born aloft, it said, and stayed put in a modern plane day and night, landing only to refuel—that baby would be 76 years old before its statistical death occurred. "I must dig that out and read it.” Mr. Patterson said delightedly. “The usual charts and tables just don’t put it across.” All airlines try to forestall tension of the inexperienced passenger. Vnited’s “Flight Information packet.” for instance, shows a colored picture of a DC7 engine head. Which blue and red flames shooting out of the exhaust stack. ”Don’t let it concern you,” the text reads. "It’s part of the normal operation during take-off and climb.” An “alarming” change of sound in the engines is dismissed as a mere “gear shift aloft,” and using the landing gear in flight is an extra "air brake." But these tension-pacifiers don’t always come via print and picture. Not long ago, on another long flight, the captain matter-of-factly told us over the plane's loudspeaker why the “fasten seat belts”

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sign had just flashed on. “Well be running into a storm soon," he said conversationally. “You can see the thunderhead now. and it’ll jar us a bit when we pierce it,, but well „be Jn the clear soon after." ’

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Jar? It was like butting at a black brick wail, but his casual briefing certainly gave the air to many potential jitters behind the seat belts. On this wonderful flight to Htw wait however, nothing was jarring at all. I forgot about my life vest until I was handed one next day. I slipped it over my head like a yellow horse-collar, fastened the tapes and then yanked down on the two pull tags. In a flash 1 knew- why our genial host hadn’t let me inflate in the plane. A loud hissing as the vest automatically sucked in air —I had fully expected that. But I’d had no.idea or warning that there’d also be a sound like a pistol shot right at the head. No wonder even the leaflet marked “ditching procedures” says, “Caution: Don’t inflate vest while Inside plane.” Outdoors, in a life raft, maybe it wouldn’t sound like a firing squad or the crack of doom. All of which .leads to the one and only suggestion I could ever dream up for improving the deluxe DC7 and its equipment: —“How’s for a nice pair of heavily padded yellow ear-muffs to match those trigger-happy life vests?” Sweeper Warning FORT SAM HOUSTON, Tex., (INS) — Children living on thd Fort Sam Houston army reservation are warned to “beware of the street sweeper.” The post’s safety' director warned parents that too many small children are playing in the streets and seem to have a “fatal attraction” to the fascinating mechanism of the big sweeper. Bag Deed BUFFALO, N. Y. (INS) —Good deeds are in the bag —old ones, that is — at Electro Refractories & Abrasives Corp. Under a plan conceived by management, old bags, rags, packing containers and other scrap ordinarily not considered salvagable materials are collected and sold. The money goes into a charity fund for worthy local efforts. <jgjw J yV ■ JRfiiilf W. KERR SCOTT, former governor of North Carolina, raises his hand in victory in Raleigh after winning nomination- for U. S. senator. He is Haw River dairv farmer. (International)

Half-Buck Haircut Is Moscow Bargain Biggest Bargain In Capital Os Russia MOSCOW, (INS) -4 Haircuts are only halt a buck in Moscow and, even though the standard tip doubles .the priee, it’s still easily the biggest bargain in town. This is especially true for foreigners whose rubles cost four for a dollar at the official rate< One of the favorite barber shops of Moscow's foreign colony is just off the lobby of the National, a state tourist agency hotel just across from the northeast corner of the Kremlin. ’ The National Hotel’s "ParikmakTerskya” (from the German for “wig-maker”), like many Soviet barbershops, shares quarters with a beauty parlor. Lady Barber A male haircut customer passes (through the red velvet-draped doorway and dodges between the manicurist and the cashier. He quickly turns right past a row of seated ladies with towelswathed heads fresh from the driers who are waiting to have their nails done (95 cents), scoots past the open door of the drying room into the barber shop itself. But women have invaded this male sanctuary as well — and not just as illustrations from the Police Gazette. Like many Russian barbers, one of the two attendants is a woman —a plain, but jolly, buxom, white-smocked dark blonde of about 35. At the other chair works a stooped, balding oldtimer in a tattered clean white smock with a near-white moustache and a straggly spade goatee. The waiting customer may try either of the publications in the reading rack—a copy of "Pravda” the Communist Party’s morning newspaper, or a booklet of world champion chess master Botvinnik’s notable games. If the customer demands lustier literary fare he may be in for a dull wait after a quick look around the room — noting the shabby though clean old-fashioned fixtures, the aged table top gas wa-ter-heater-towel steamer and the shiny new hand hair-drier. Head Shave The customer may, however, get a chance to watch the lady barber perform a Russian specialty — a head shave, also 50 cents — on a stout, fiftyish executive who has everything shaved but his eyebrows- and moustache.

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bers of the male glee club of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry say there is no better way to get away from it all. so to speak. The group stages an

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annual two-hour concert. The “boss” qnd “employe” leave their worries al the office to harmonize to the tunes of folk music, religious songs and choral ballads.