HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1958-06-26, Page 7Safe Passage
Through The Skies
Safety, in the air hasbecome
an accepted thing. Passengers
fasten seat belts as casually and '
automatically as they button -
their coats On 'overseas flights,
there is additionally a brief
demonstration of how to don a
Mae. West jacket. It is done
quietly, almost inconspicuously.
But not so with the military.
At least, I can recall a "ditch-
ing" briefing at a Florida air -
base some years ago that was
both explicit and graphic. We —
a group of newspaper corres-
pondents — were about to take
off over the blue Caribbean for
Puerto Rico to cover the war
maneuvers off Vieques Island,
Coming down for refueling
before the long over -water hop,
we were conducted into a sort of
classroom, equipped with rows
of chair, a blackboard, chalk,
and on prominent display for
demonstration purposes—a Mae
West life jacket.
It was a violent, unbecoming
shade, of yellow, and was adorn-
ed with more gadgets and im-
plements than a carpenter's
overalls — including a clearly
marked supply of "shark repel-
lent." A rather meager one, it
seemed to us. .
"When that is gone and the
sharks aren't — what then?"
Someone put the question in all
our minds. The briefing officer
brightened, as if to say, "I'm
glad you asked that," and whip-
ped a savage -looking dagger out
of its sheath at the waistline of
the vest. We all lapsed into sud-
den silence.
First of all, we were told, the
jacket must be inflated. One
gadget does this. automatically
— but just "in case" there is
another tube. "Just blow,"
beamed our instructor. Then he
held up a small container of
bright yellow liquid -to be squirt-
ed over the water, Even a ship
looks small from the air, and a
bobbling life raft is a mere pin-
point without something to
mark the spot.
As for the lift raft, the thing
to remember is not to lose your
head and inflate it before you
leave the plane, or you'll never
get it out of the door. Above all,
don't enter a life raft with your
shoes on — if you have spike
heels, that is.
At this point, most of us were
contemplating a little war
maneuver of our own, known
•s retreating. Once airborne
again, we forgot the whole thing.
Or did we? The fact that I can
•
recall it so clearly today indi-
cates it must have been a pret-
ty good safety drill at that.
After all, these wise precau-
tions are not unrelated to the
boat drill on shipboard. No good
skipper • omits this little exer-
cise. Passengers obediently don
baggy life jackets and report
to their alloted lifeboat stations.
The only time. I ever experi-
enced a Serious alarm, when our
ship came within a few feet of
crashing into another in the
fog, I stood rooted to the spot.
My life jacket was under my
berth several decks below. The
ship could have gone down be -
for 1 could have found it and
got topside again.
Crew members whipped past.
me on the dead run, shrugging
on. their life jackets as they
sped to their stations. I recall
the captain of the ship bragging
later on of the calm, obedient
way in which every passenger
rested to the signal, reporting
to his lifeboat station fully
jacketed and without panic,
writes Josephine Ripley in The
Christian Science Monitor.
I remember saying I thought
it was fine and that I was cer-
tainly grateful we had a captain
skillful enough to avoid an al-
most certain collision. 'In his
flush of pleasure and relief, I
hoped he would fail to notice
that ,my face was considerably
redder than his.
Boat drills, ditching briefings,
air raid drills, fire drills in
schools — all constitute an ex-
pression of wise preparation, not
for disaster but for safety. The
tremendous increase in air traf-
fic and air speeds is even now
bringing about new air, traffic
regulations to meet the new con-
ditions.
Military transport planes have
adopted as a safety measure the
installation of seats which face
the rear of the plane. The theory
is that the back of the seat acts
as a shock absorber in the event
of a crash landing.
Commercial planes so far
have refrained from adopting
this unusual arrangement fear-
ing unfavorable passenger reac-
tion. It does seem odd to take
• off and land backwards, al-
though once in the air it is hard
to tell whether you're coming' or
going anyway,
TURNABOUT
In Birmingham, England, Nick
Brookes, manager of a Royal
S.P,C.A, home for the protection
and care of animals, resigned
to become handler of fox -hounds
for the West Warwickshire Hunt.
GENERALS MEET — French Premier Charles de Gaulle_ (right),
wearing two stars ,of a brigadier general -his 1940 rank -is
greeted by Gen. Jacques Massu, one of the chief military leaders
in Algeria. De Gaulle was given a hero's welcome on his
arrival in the city from Paris.
THIS IS BASEBALL?—Giants' star Willie Mays tackles teammate
Orlando Cepeda at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field during a game
with the Pirates. Willie tackled Cepeda when the latter attempt-
ed to come to the aid of pitcher Ruben Gomez with a bat.
Gomez and N. -ate Manager Danny Murtaugh were squared off
in a battle over a "duster" pitch, Giant Manager Bill Riglaey
(No. 18) rushes to the struggling pair.
Why The Giants
re Going Good ,
Willie Mays took time out to
think. To .the Milwaukee crowd,
he seemed simply to be rubbing
dirt onto his palms, But, bent
over just outside the batters'
box at County Stadium, Willie
was contemplating his next
swing.
The score was tied, and Mil-
waukee's unbeaten Warren Spahn
had pitched effectively against
the San Francisco Giants. Now,
in the ninth inning, Willie was
up with a runner on first base.
"I oughta go for it," Mays
thought, "I ain't swung for a
homer all year, but this time I,
got to." He stepped back into
the box and, swinging from the
heels, slammed one of Spahn's
sliders deep into the left -field
bleachers for two runs and the
ball game.
"Every year," Willie explain-
ed later, "there's maybe ten or
twenty times when I go for. a
homer. The other times they just
come natural."
Even New York baseball writ-
ers are conceding that Willie,.
the natural, and a prize batch of
San Francisco rookies made the
1958 Giants a racy -looking im-
provement over the club that
pulled out of 'New York last
year. "A cable car named desire,"
cracked Dick Young in The New
York Daily News. For their new
home city, the Giants had pulled
out half a dozen victories in the
ninth, were running bases with
great daring, and were slugging
their homers (team total: 64)
with dramatic timeliness. Sixth
last year, the Giants were lead-
ing the National League pennant
race by one game late last week.
The difference was easily spot-
ted: A rookie first baseman
named Orlando Cepeda (thirteen
homers), a rookie rightflelder
named Willie Kirkland (four
homers), a fine rookie catcher
named Bob Schmidt, a slick
rookie third baseman named
Jim Davenport, strong relief
pitching from veteran Mary Gris-
som, plus, tremendously improv-
ed play by stortstop Daryl Spen-
cer and a suddenly matured cen-
ter fielder named Mays.
"Did you notice," asked mana-
ger BillRigney, his eyes spark-
ling behind steel -rimmed 'glasses,
"how Willie' has grown up?
Whenever he plays between two
kids (Kirkland and Don .Taus -
t
GIANT TOADS INVADE FLORIDA-S.P.C.A. Officer Frank Blair 'distastefully holds aloft one "of
several giant South American toads recently discovered, in Florida.- Bigger than a bullfrog, the
toads are. poisonous. A dog that bit one died. Goernment naturalists suspect that some-
body, planted the toads (possibly the Calif'ornia Chamber df Commerce)..
sig), he's ]ike a' coach, the way
he moves them with the hitters.
Then, when the kids come up
against • a new pitcher, there's
Willie off talking to them. 'Watch
this guy's screwball,' he says.
He's even dressing better. Things
like that. I mean, Willie isn't a '
kid any more;"
At 27, Willie Howard Mays Jr.
might well be the finest all-
around player in baseball—bet-
ter than Mickey Mantle defen-
sively, comparable to Stan Mu-
sial at bat, and more dangerous
than either on the bases, When.
he came up seven years ago, a
bubbling, implausible rookie, he
possessed immense raw talent
and immense naivete. "I like to
sign papers," he once told a
friend, "because whenever I
sign, somebody sends me money."
After day games at the Polo
Grounds he played stickball with
school children in the streets of
Harlem. Willie knows more about
papers now, and hey has given up
stickball. But he still plays im-
plausibly thirteen homers, 36
runs batted in, seven stolen bases,
eleven amazing catches, and a
.402 batting average after 44.
games — and he still bubbles
just as he always has done when
he talks about his game.
Recently, before the Giants
defeated the Phils, 7-6 on a ninth -
inning homer by Willie Kirk-
land, Mays lounged on a bed in
his hotel room and discussed San
Francisco, the rookies, and him-
self.
"It's a nice town," Willie be-
gan, but "you can't tell how
much the town's helped us, 'cause
you don't know what the rookies
woulda done in New York. Up
in Harlem I knew everybody, In
San Francisco, I don't know the
place yet, I'm a little afraid"
"Scared and hitting .400?" a
reporter asked Willie.
"I ain't afraid on the ball
field," Mays said. "I know what
to do there. We got these kids,
I got to help them, like Leo
(Durocher) and (Ed) Stanky and '
(Alvin) Dark tried to help me.
Or (Ted) Williams. Last year I
was going bad around the time
•of ..the Ali -Star game and Wil-
liams saw me at the station.
'Hey, Willie?' he. says, 'you ain't
hitting like Willie should. What
you doing with your front foot?' "
Mays sprang up and demon-
strated a foot -in -the -bucket
stride. "Great hitter 'like Wil-
liams helps me," he said, "1 got
to help; the kids. I only wish Wil-
' Hams
il-''liams was on this club so he
could help me all the time."
Willie began pacing back and
forth. "I don't like to watch
games," he said.' "2 see a guy
do ' something wrong, it hurts
me. I don't even know how much
I.like to play."
"You're • beginning to sound
,,like a veteran," the reporter
'said.
"I love tocatch fly balls and 1
love to 'steal bases, and I love to
throw guys out and, man, 1 love
to hit," Mays said. "I love it
when I'm doing something. It's'
just when I ain't doing some-
thing, when the ball don't come.
to me, that I don't know how
much I like it."
He paused, then: "I. don't figure.
I'll ever be a veteran. A veteran,
he's a guy. like Williams He
knows it all. Me, I got to keep
learning. I .never had nobody
could teach me the biggest things.
Leo tried, but hewas a .250 hit'
ter. I' learned about hitting by
myself. I figure i got to . keep
learning._ for myself. Each . time
I make a play that I don't think
I'm, gonna make, I try and figure
out why."
That's one big reason Willie's
a better ballplayer this season
and the San Francisco Giants are
'big men in the -National League.
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