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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Aviation experts believe the chances of surviving an air crash will improve when science devlops:

- Rupture - proof gas tanks.

- Stronger airliner seats.

The survival question was underlined recently in two crashes with a grim similarity: there was only one survivor in each accident.

One man escaped alive when a Piedmont airlines DC-3 crashed near Charlottesville, Va., killing 20 passengers. He was sitting in the rear of the plane.

The other fortunate survivor was on an Allegheny Airlines Martin 202 which hit a mountain near Williamsport, Pa. This man was sitting in the center of the cabin, next to the window. He was the only escapee out of the 22 passengers.

Lady Luck was about the only thing the two fortunate survivors had in common. They were seated in different areas. They were saved largely because the fuselage happened to break open just where they were sitting. The impact totaled both free of the wreckage.

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In the Allegheny crash, the impact force apparently was less and most of the deaths are believed to have resulted from fire. The lone survivor said later he could hear people screaming.

Thus, in one accident stronger seats might have cushioned the impact; in the other, rupture-proof gas tanks might have prevented fire.

What is modern aviation doing to develop safer seats and tanks?

Much already has been accomplished in seat research. Seats in the new jetliners, for example, offer considerable crash protection.

The gas tank problem is not so easy to solve. Many companies are working on rupture-proof tanks and tests have been promising. The chief goal is to develop a tank that is lightweight as well as strong. All present types appear to be too heavy for practical use, and weight is an airliner's greatest enemy.

# Charge Drug Firms
'Brainwash' Doctors

By DICK WEST

beautiful natural monopoly."

WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A small drug manufacturer charged Friday that the industry's major companies overcharge the public at least 275 million dollars a year to pay for "brainwashing" doctors to prescribe big name brands.

The accusation was levelled by Seymour N. Blackman, executive secretary of Premo Pharmaceutical Laboratories of South Hackensack, N. J., in testimony before the Senate Anti-Trust Subcommittee.

Blackman said he spoke as an insider who had tried similar selling practices but was unable to match the "propaganda" output of his bigger competitors.

He said the "tremendous" advertising expenditures were directed solely at doctors.

He said that 71 per cent of all prescriptions written in the United States last year specified the trademarked brand names of 15 companies.

In many cases, he said, the same medicine was available at far less cost to the consumers under its chemical name or the brands of major producers.

Blackman noted that Premo had the market cornered.

LANGSTON HUGHES

Dec. 19, 1957
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## The Meaning Of Faith: Catholic

Among the more than 30,000,000 Roman Catholics in the United States, the "World Almanac" lists some 700,000 as non-white. One of Harlem's largest groups of colored communicants is that of the Church of St. Charles Borromeo whose popular Father Drew has seen a long service in the area. Here follows "A Statement of Catholic Faith" by the Right Rev. Monsignor Cornelius J. Drew, written especially for "Defender" readers:

The simplest, surest Statements of Catholic Faith is the Apostles Creed, originally written for the instruction of those who wished to follow Christ, and to distinguish them from heretics and unbelievers. It has admirably served its double purpose throughout the Christian centuries. It is the symbol which has preserved us in the "One Faith, One Lord and One Baptism" preached by St. Paul, and which one day will unite all Christians in the "One Fold and One Shepherd" prophesied by Jesus, who prayed that His Disciples would be "One."

The Creed was composed and taught by a Church established by Jesus, who made Peter its foundation stone. "Thou art Peter, and strengthen and rule His Church, with a human Pope. Since Jesus did upon this rock I will build my

Church." Since Jesus did this, tion for all time. "I will be with you all days to the consummation of the world I will send on you the Spirit of Truth who will abide with you forever. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against My Church." The Redemption of the Human Race, earned by His Life and Death, was at stake. As God Man He had the wisdom and power to insure that men always would have the means of salvation. So He established and guaranteed a Church. Since Jesus did this, Catholics accept it.

He commissioned human Apostles to "preach My Gospel to all nations, baptizing all who believe." He said, "As the Father sent Me, I send you, He that heardest you, heareth Me. He that despiseth you, despiseth Me, and he that despiseth Me despiseth Him that sent Me." How closely right to interpret. For individuals He identified them with Himself! to read into it their varied, unauthorized opinions only negates the system set up by Jesus and you shall retain they are tained." frustrates His Prayer for Unity He went even further with Peter: among His followers.

Catholics centre their Faith, Moral Code and Worship in Jesus Christ, who was both God and Man. To accommodate divinity to humanity unto the end of time, to assure man His Way of Life, Peter at their head to teach, Jesus founded a human Church with a human Pope. Since Jesus did He set up this system of salvation, Catholics accept it.

LOUIS MARTIN