10— Section I Monday, Jimmy 26, 1970 THE REGISTER
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O'Hare Snow Removal 'Really Big Job'
The Lighter Side
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by DICK WEST
WASHINGTON UPI - The biggest hits,
both critically and financially, in the motion picture line lately have been such low
budget productions as "Putney Swope,"
"Alice's Restaurant" and "Easy Rider."
Meanwhile, a couple of lavish musicals
like Hollywood used to make have been
disdained by the reviewers and are in big
trouble at the box office.
Well, I try to keep abreast of cultural
trends in this country, so I arranged an
interview with Eric von Frugal, the producer-director known as "the king of the'
quickie-cheapies."
Von Frugal first achieved international
acclaim for his film treatment of "The
Threepenny Opera." He made the picture
so economically it was renamed "The
Onepenny Opera."
He then scored a triumph with his
award-winning production of "Tightwad,"
a psychological thriller. His latest release
is "Skinflint," a sociological Western, and
he has just finished filming "Cheapskate,"
a zoological comedy.
"How is your new picture doing, Mr.
Von Frugal?" I asked.
"Great. Just great. It has already
grossed 29 million and is still playing the
art houses. Once it hits the neighborhoods,
the sky's the limit:"
"How much did it cost you to produce
It?"
"Our budget was -19 cents, plus postage,
based on a shooting schedule of 2 and %
days. Unfortunately, we had a 4-cent overrun."
1 said, "'Skinflint' has been getting rave
reviews because of its photography. Did
you use a hand-held camera as so many
movie-makers are doing nowadays?"
"Absolutely not. Our budget wouldn't
permit us to use any kind of movie camera. So I borrowed a brownie."
"A Kodak Brownie or a Girl Scout
Brownie?"
"Both. I would shoot a roll with the'Kodak Brownie and then the Girl Scout
Brownio would take the negatives to the
drugstore to get them developed. When the
prints came back, we pasted them together to make a movie film.
"That was how wo created the jerky effect that the critics described as 'n sensual
Joycean montage with sixth dimensional
overtones of spatial timelessness.'"
1 said, "Did you use professional
actors?"
"Horrors, No! The entire case came
from the express checkout line a t ' the
Feathercut Barber College commissary."
I said, "Could you sum up for me the
cultural significance of the low budget
trend?"
"I certainly can," Von Frugal replied.
"It means that America has finally
learned to make foreign movies."
TheAlmanac\
by United Press International
Today is Monday, Jan. 26, the 26th day
of 1970 with 339 to follow. .
The moon is between its full phase and
last quarter.
The morning stars are Mercury
and Jupiter.
The evening stars are Venus, Mars and
Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1815 the 7,000 volume library of
Thomas Jefferson was bought by the government to be used ,to start the Library of
Congress.
In 1918 Food Administrator Herbert Hoover asked Americans to observe "wheatless Mondays and Wednesdays, meatless
Tuesdays and porkless Thursdays and Saturdays" in a war effort to save meats and
grain.
In 1945 the New York Yankees baseball
team became the property of a syndicate
headed by Larry McPhail and Dan Topping.
In 1965 Harry Stuhldreher of Notre
Dame's "Four Horsemen" backfield died
at the age of 63.
In 1969 the worst flooding in 32 years hit'
California and led to declaring the state a
disaster area.
A thought for the day: Joseph Chamberlain said, "I never like being hit without
striking back."
You think you've got it tough pushing a
couple of inches of snow off your sidewalks and driveway? Consider the job of
clearing more than 500 acres of runways,
taxiways, ramp .and parking areas at
O'Hare International Airport.
Even that fancy self-propelled snow
blower you keep thinking about couldn't
keep up with the wind-whipped snow at
O'Hare.
Clearing the snow, from the operating
areas of the giant airport and more than
20 miles of service and access roadways is
a monumental task which is approached
with the precision of a military maneuver.
Capt. M. E. Volz, a United Air Lines flight
manager at O'Hare and chairman of the
local Air Transport Assn. operating snow
committee, said one. of the most effective
ways to control snow is to, "Stop it before
it starts."
"OBVIOUSLY WE can't control weather
to the point of stopping a falling snow but
we can, and do, control snow build-up by
melting it," he said. Volz explained that
from November through March members
of the ATA's snow committee, look for, and
listen to, every weather forecast available
and "think green."
"Try as we might there is no way we can
wish snow away so the next best thing is
to watch for it and be prepared to handle
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the snow when it falls. We gather weather
information from the meteorology departments of all the airlines operating at
O'Hare, the U.S. "Weather Bureau and
each of the committee members has a favorite television weatherman he watches,"
he said. When a snow fall is forecast men
and machinery are marshalled for the attack. "Even a light snow can seriously disrupt the operation-of the airport and a
heavy wet snow or freezing rain could
close it down if we don't' move quickly.
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Volz explained that urea has been used
in snow control programs at O'Hare since
1967. "We began experimenting with the
chemical as a replacement for heated
sand because the sand was being ingested
hi turbine engines and caused extensive
damage. Initially we spread it from light
aircraft in the same way crop dusters fertilize large fields from the air.
"HOWEVER, spreader trucks were lat-
"There are two reasons for our concern
with snow. First is safety — by cleaning
the runways and keeping them clean you
eliminate the possibility of an accident due
to the slippery surfaces," Volz said.
"The second principal reason for doing
all possible to keep O'Hare open and operating, as close to capacity as possible, is
the cost and inconvenience to both passengers and the airlines created by schedule
disruptions. Delays of only a few minutes
can cause hundreds of passengers to miss
connecting flights, and overflights or diversions because of runway shutdowns are
bothersome to travelers and extremely
costly to the airlines."
SNOW REMOVAL OPERATIONS at
O'Hare are coordinated by the ATA "snow
desk" which is staffed by eight former airline pilots and two other men who have
been closely associated with the airline industry. Following guidelines and procedures established by the snow committee
in cooperation with airport officials the
"snow men" coordinate the operation of
nine plows, five 16-foot-wide brooms, nine
giant snow blowers and seven spreaders in
the task of getting rid of snow.
One of the primary weapons in the fight
against snow is urea, a common type of
fertilizer, in pellet form which has proven
very effective in melting snow, freezing
ram and sleet, Volz said. The chemical reaction of urea and moisture (under most
circumstances) is sufficient to melt the
snow which then runs off as water.
er found to be more efficient. Approximately one-and-one half pounds of urea
are required for each 1,000 square feet of
runway surface treated," Volz said.
"The first application takes about 30
minutes —10 minutes for spreading and 20
minutes for the reaction to begin. Reaction
to a second application is instantaneous
due to the moisture present from the previous treatment."
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