Show - Sunday Morning- - (Tljc pa Salt £akc (Tribune n i MarcTi 10 5 n rm nn : JUDli L 1910 ) 'm iu J last July a large force of forest fighters in the Siskiyou Na- Forest Oregon were malt-lin- g rapid progress in extinguishing a eerious blaze when to their dismay their food ran out Under ordinary conditions it would have been necessary to truck LATE aupplies 31 miles over mountain roads and to pack them by horse 22 miles over a difficult trail A radio message to the Fortland headquarters of the U S Forest Service iaved the day Within two hours an airplane in four trips dropped 1857 pounds of supplies using the parachute method Items transported included groceries meats vegetables grains first aid equipment bed rolls radio tubes and batteries All 'chutes functioned properly and the loss was negligible Incidents like these are common in the annals of the U S Forest Service these days Airplanes have a place in the Federal system of fighting the red enemy of valuable timberland Airplanes have been found valuable in scouting above bad fires in patrolling areas during periods when heavy smoke blankets obscure the vision of the ground lookouts and in spotting fires caused by lightning They furnish a means of direct vertical view and without the Usual interference from intervening ridges The airplane is mobile and in the quickest possible time can go to the "blaze circle above it determining its status its location and character of the material in which it is burning Use of aircraft by the Forest Service has been most common in northern Idaho western Montana Oregon Washington and California but planes are now beginning to play an important part in the protection of the national forests of Minnesota and the Lake States The Forest Service has been conducting an exhaustive scries of tests aimed at greater efficiency in transportation of men and equipment by airplane Experiments have been made to determine the feasibility of dropping water chemical retardants and explosives upon forest fires New emergency landing fields especially in the Western states have been built or improved in the regions least accessible by roads Extensive experimental work has been carried on in California in fighting fires by dropping chemicals from the air d yi Vf When a fire is discovered in rugged ground crews are dispatched from the most convenient points and set to building fire control lines They must have food camp equipment tools and medicines Foods packed with great ingenuity may he assembled flown to the designated area which has been marked with flags or a smudge fire by the ground crews and" dropped either-wit- h or without parachutes to the waiting men below A package may contain vegetables on top canned goods in the middle and loaves of bread on the bottom Bread has been found to be such an excellent and indestructible shock absorber that forest workers have dubbed the lower layer of such packages War leave of influenza in its w ake Ohio ferrets will help combat the deadly disease Ferret breeders southwest of Cleveland are filling rush orders for laboratories all over the United States where the streamlined agile cousins of the polecat are literally used as "guinea er is especially useful because it usually floats above the brush and small trees and makes it easier for the ground crew to spot packages that fall some distance from the target In many parti of the national forests this type of package dropped from airplanes is and will continue to be a vast aid in equipping amt supplying firefighting crews Foresters have accustomed themselves to the use of lueh terms as free descent loose package yid retarded descent In the loose package system a quantity of supplies is discharged from the plane loosely tied in large sacks with flapping ends The loose flapping end meets a certain amount of air resistance and the packages land with less impact This plan is useful in delivering small articles on a large scale For heavier articles and larger quantities the parachute method is most practicable Even cases of eggs and radio apparatus are dropped with minimum damage to container and contents Applying the same principles of retardation special packs are devised to spread the load and other types to prevent the articles in the bottom of the package being damaged by the impact of the articles on top In the last year Forest Service engineers have advanced to the point of deCans veloping standardized packages back-countr- y "bread-springs- ” Much of the 200000 pounds of such e commissary carried in a year now settles down from the planes attached to parachutes The Forest Service has devised a special parachute made from the almost universally available material which can burlap be made at very low cost A good woolsack will make a parachute about seven by seven feet To its corners are fastened rope ahrouds 17 feet long to be tied to the bundle of food to cans of gasoline or to sacks of parts for the pumps To its top is attached a atreamer cf cloth 30 to B0 yards long preferably of chrome yellow color This gay atream wool-sac- k Vi -- aJ t‘il j V II 1 f f Ill e - &£§ r- - i r in the Olympic National Forest State of Operating an Antomatie M with Men on the Ground ashington At All Time Airplane Observers in Locating Rlazes Blondes Preferred are also preferred by the an instrument used by the United States Forest Service for the determination of relative humidity in fire control Fifty blonde hairs which are stronger and more aensitive than dark ones are used in the basic element of the device Blondes Paradoxically “Howling” Detector special instrument for detecting old metal left in trees which would endansaws is now used by ger lumber-mil- l the United Slates Forest Servire The device consists of an exploring coil which emits a "howl” when it approaches metal A the s Two Fitch Ferreta of the Type Now Being Used in Laboratory Experiment in the Crusade Against Influenza ATypewriterThat Also Keeps Books NEW and ingcalou combination f typewriter and adding machine greatly facilitates many kind of buiineis correspondence A device like the dial of the tele- phone Is conveniently attached to the cylinder within easy reach of the It ia only nece-aar- y typist to dial a arriei of which ara autofigure matically added up and the result diiplayed in plain view The addition may then be Included In the letter without taking one’i fingers from the The new device which was demonstrated at the Lcipxig fair prove an impottant labor laving ievice for the bookkeeper as well at in key-boa- IS EPILEPSY INHERITED? irdinary letter writing Vrjt - WHAT CAUSES IT? cm artnally Image projection television engineers report Station for television should be 1 least 160 miles apart U TELFVIS10N The Mother Ferret le Carrying Ilrr Table to the Ground Bible from ’1M Will C SiMer £h fcxC3V3tlOtlS 111 prevent interference booklet containing the opinion of famnoe doctors on this Inleteallng mb-Je- rt will he rnl F lie K while they last to ny reader wilting to the pivialon tptV Fifth Avc New fork N V Dept M 21 (Adv) A — UkrtMlC in the Ukrainian village of Gremach have revealed flint weapon and bone utensils belonging to the Severyans' ancient Slavs w ho existed from 4000 to 2600 B C Recent excavations enough this discovery aalviged the unique ferret industry and it captains a group of farmers southwest of Cleveland who raise 90 per cent of the ferrets used in the United Stales snd Csnads When the depres- aleek-furre- of fruit and vegetable are plared one board about 22 layer deep on a inches square snd tied sround with twine Another board is placed on top and tied securely and the package suspended flat from the parachute In general the smaller the ran the better it stands the ride to earth Fresh and cured meats are placed in individual sacks and all the small sacks placed in a gunny sack well tied Glass jars of food and the lke are wrapped individually in flour sacks and loaded with canned goods But beneath the board is placed the bread shock pad made by loading loaves of bread sliced Fire-Finde- death-‘bringi- of hunters and ratters all over the country the ferret men of New London Brighton and Wellington Ohio practically gave away the animals Last summer substantial contracts with such mediral laborstortes ss thou at Pearl River and Rockefeller Institute in New York and Johns Hopkins Hospital and Harvard and Yala universities filled ferret pens with thousands of little animals now destined to becoms martyrs to science Dropping Supplies from a Dane Into an Oregon Forest Fire Region of Parachute Is Being Used d I i ) Special Parachute Can Drop a Lnd of Bedding or Fire Fighting Equipment to Fire Fighters in an Otherwise Almost Inaccessible Region of the Forest Notethe Streamer anti-toxin- purse-atring- r Koreil A pigs” sion tightened bnic 8 Food a second World Being cheap prolific and easily handled these lively animals of the weasel family are ideal for experimentation to s for influenza develop Some years ago w hen medcal science first tried ferrets in the struggle to conquer the flu a remarkable discovery was made This lithe "hunter' helper" is hardier than white rat and guinea pigs also used in laboratory work and can be innoculated with the germs of five diseases at one time Swoop Low and Gauge the Extent and Seriousness of a Conflagration Faster and More Accurately Than Any Other Method li'hoiot tourim I - V -tV H" The Airplane Can J rVr Ferrets vs Influenza SHOULD w 'ill and placed in a sack side by side The sack is drawn tight and tied underneath the pack Usually the bread also arrives undamaged A sack of bread tied to a loose wool sack may simply be dumped overboard ami it will land safely Vegetables ar packed loosely lettuce on top Potatoes lots Dry foods are dropped in like sugar and rice are packed in small sacks in a shallow load within a larger sack or box Butter can be lowered in lots of not over 10 pounds Lard well wrapped in paper and a small sack is dropped safely in a tied gunny sack Nine dozen eggs in an ordinary half crate the top stuffed with rags and with a "bread-springunderneath the box are parachuted down without breakage But the flying foresters do not guarantee safe conduct at all times Waterbags half full are delivered intact Gasoline water and milk are lowcans ered in milk cans Three-galloare filled to the cone slung in a rope A piece of wood harness and dropped fitted inside the flange under the bottom serves as a buffer Boxes of matches are" put in individual lacks several of them put into a gunny aack and pitched overside Cooking kettles and tins are simply tied in gunny sseks one to the sack and several sacks tied in a circle about a foot apart Thb type of plane generally used is a with the door monoplane preferably back of the wing struts and the door and all chairs except the piloti seat removed The assembled packages with parachute and colored streamer attached ara rolled up carefully " high-win- g -' A Special Type Strong materials and fastenings are to prevent the opening necessary chute from ripping the package Wire fastenings are not used for that reason The pilot approaches the target while heading directly into the wind When the bundle is dropped the pilot begins to turn so that the dropper may watch hi The dropper spot the marksmanship landing and marks each landing on a map w ith referenee to the marking aig- nal or smudge fire built by the ground crew When all packages have been dropped the map also is dropped to the ground crew to assist in finding all the packages No easy job has the dropper He ha to wear goggles to keep oil particles from his eyes and he wears a lineman’ belt and strap securely fastened to a structural member inside the fuselage He sights his target by the vertical door jamb and drops the pilot load when directly over the target He then drop the firvt load nf supplies at the same distance on the approach side as the pilot load foil beyond the target If ha has made a good landing ha will aim subsequent packages at the same spot By a slight change in direction the pilot can make allowances for wind drift The dropper holds both the load and the ’chute with one hand sometime assisting the shove with a foot In dropping the ’chute he must be sure that the load also is free or he may foul the tail parts The of the plane and cause a wreck ’chutes act with surprising uniformity Very few catch in trees apparently because the weighted shrouds tend to push them away from the branches EVERY SINGLE NIGHT E QUINS HAVE A PALMOLIVE BATH! |