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a I 1 Improved Machine Guns, Rifles Developed For Use By U.S. Army And Air Force By ELTON C. FAY Associated Press Military Affairs Reporter WASHINGTON - (AP) -The army is considering changing over to ney and better models of two of its most widely used weapons machine guns and rifles. The decision isn't easy. And if made, the transition undoubtedly will be a slow, steady process taking years instead of a sudden tossing away of existing weapons and piciung up 01 new ones In the instance of machinp Guns the army has hundreds of thou sands of caliber .30 and .50. Its rifles, automatics and carbines number in the millions. The cost of a shift to new and better arms is only one factor. It would mean not only that produc tion lines for guns would have to be stopped and new ones set up, but facilities for entirely new types of ammunition production, on mass scale, would have to be provided. The army showed experimental types of the machine guns and ri fles to President Truman in a dem onstration at the Aberdeen, Md., proving ground, where it also pre sented for him shows of other new ordnance materials including tanks. It is considering adoption of a I I i "CAR IREPAINTING I $65 AND UP Brighten your car's turface with a I new paint job. The value of your I ear it retained and the beaut" in creased. Bring in your car soon for I a new paint job. I HANSEN Motor Co. I Oak & Stephens Phone 446 !j81 1 I 1. 1 I liSSMMSSI I WOOD FOR SALE 16" Core Wood $8.00 per load Split Log Ends not to exceed 16" 8.00 per load Unsplit Log Ends ...... 4.00 per load Extra charge for any load more than six miles from the plant. The Martin Brothers Box Co Oakland, Oregon NOTICE Dog licenses ore due the first of each year and for your convenience will be available at the following placet till March 1st. County Clerk's Office - Hebard's Market Camas Valley Store Veda S. Meredith -Taylor's Hardware Hedden's Grocery Taylor's Grocery City Recorder's Office -Mrs. Geo. Edes Oakland Feed Store City Hall City Marshall Post Office Hamlin's Market Riddle Hardware -Ada's Photo Shop - Aft.r Morch lit . penalty of on. dollar will b. added and after Jun. 1st o two dollar penalty will be odded for anyone owning or keeping any unlicensed dog over the age of eight month; or any newly acquired dog over thirty dori. Anyone living within tlut city limits of the City of Roieburg mult get your dog'i license at theltity Hall. GEO. WESEtN County Dog Control Officer .60 caliber machine gun appar ently far faster and harder hitting than anything used now. Experi mental types of this gun are not new. Army ordnance produced the first ones during World War II for the air force, then part of the army. It contemplated their use in aircraft. Since then improvements have been made on the experi mental models and "bugs" r e moved from their performance so that now they appear about ready for production. T.ams With Jit Plants ' Among the advantages of the .60 caliber machine gun are two di rectly related to the problem of modern fast jet planes a high rate of fire and a velocity which gets the bullet to the target faster. These are important to the army because ground forces must defend themselves against air attack. The heavy, fixed type of .50 caliber ma ll chine gun used by the army has a II rate of fire of about 450 to 570 rounds per minute. The .60 caliber gun has a normal rate of 750. At I Aberdeen, it sprayed bullets like water from a hose. I The new gun has another highly I important feature a develop ment since its first wartime in- vention. In a minute, it can be I converted from a .60 caliber to a 20 millimeter weapon, merely by unscrewing the smaller size bar- Irel and putting in the 20 millvne ter, with no special tools required. Thus, the gun can be used as a .60 ' caliber for such conventional ground targets as enemy infantry Ii in the open or changed swiftly to a caliber more effective against strafing aircraft or infantry mov- II ing behind light shielding, i Moreover, it is fired electrically. I That means the crew can place I! the gun, get away from it in case i the enemy starts pouring in mor tar or other fire, and fire it by re- Imote control. Featherweight Arm Sought I The lightweight, caliber .30 r I- fie still is definitely in the experi mental phase. The goal of the de signers is to get the weight down SLABW00D in 12-16 and 24 in lennths OLD GROWTH PlR DOUBLfc LOADS WESTERN BATTERY SEPARATOR Phene 651 - Phone 2211 and 2212 - Court House Umpqua, Camas Valley, Lookingglass, Reedsport, Scorrsburg, Elkton. Drain, Yoncalla, Oakland, Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Oregon Sutherlin, Glendale, Azalea, ' Canyonville, Riddle, - Myrtle Creek, PROTEST GERMAN GENERALS' VISIT French police act to keep order during a demonstration in Place De I'Opera protesting the presence of German generals attending the European army con ferenee in Paris. Demonstrators included Communists and persons who were in German concen tration camps during the war. The striped coats are worn to resemble the garb worn in concen tration camps. IAP Wirephoto) to about seven pounds. This, for a gun which can be used to fire fully automatic as well as semi-automatic, would be remarkably feath erweight. The most popular World War II and present weapon of sim ilar performance is , the BAR, weighing 17 pounds. The gun is fed by a 20 round magazine. It has a stabilizer to reduce the kick, but, in the dem onstration at Aberdeen, seemed to have the tendency of all auto matic guns to "climb" as the gun fires. The extreme lightness many contribute to the trouble of the muzzle moving up at each of the automatic shots. The obvious advantage of t h e gun is that the infantryman can have the same firepower with less weight to tote. Along with the gun design, ordnance experts are working , on a new and lighter weight ammunition for it. Five Farm Groups Advise Against Freezing Prices By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON P Five ma jor national farm organizations say any government move to freeze farm prices at "unfair" lev els would end in food shortages, black markets and collapse of in flation conirol measures. They said in a joint statement that fanners are ready and willing to produce abundantly in an effort to keep prices from going too high. But to accomplish this, the state ment said, ianners will need es sential production materials such as fertilizers, machinery, gasoline, insecticides and labor as well as "equitable" prices. The organizations are the Amer ican Farm Bureau federation, the National Grange, the National Farmers union, the National Milk Producers federation and the Na tional Farmers union, the National Milk Producers federation and the National Council of Farmer Coop era lives. The group declared organized agriculture will fi.-jht any move to change present laws relating to ceilings on farm commodities. There has been no official word the administration will seek a change. The government is pro hibited now from placing ceilings on farm products at less than their parity prices. Parity prices are standards for measuring farm commodities, de clared by law to be equally fair to the farmer and those who buy his products. Spokesmen said three of the or ganizations oppose use of govern ment subsidies to hold down food prices. They told a reporter they expected the Truman administra tion to propose subsidies soon, sim I ilar to those used duria" World War II. Packers Accused Of Plot To Sell Army Poor Meat WASHINGTON P) The gov ernment has charged a New Jer sey meat packing firm,- its vice VM RECORD CHANGER Playi Automatically O All Records t) All Sizes t All Speeds Complete Sets or . . . Separata unitl inltolled in your radio. Modernize your old coniole, now. Trade in your old player if you like. Let our expert repairman service your radio. F Kluver Radio Service Pec. Hwy. N. at G. V. Roo! Ph. 1372-J w V, J -"-' it Viz. flCLV Yg. '1.7 ' " i PUSH HIM UP, JOE These engineers of a 1st clvalry ''Zloi h"V I?1 0f ,falth in thelr worlt M ,hV "''der .weakened brldgenea. Yangzi, Korea, to shore It with 1ms. 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The National Production author ity revised its previous order concerning new construction t o permit larger expenditures for al terations and additions to hotels, omce duiiuuiks ana loit buildings. Beginning Monday, such build lilts may be improved at a cost that does not exceed 25 cents per square foot of the occupied space during a 12-monlh period. In computing this cost, NPA said, both actual construction and all work must be included in the total. For commercial buildings Gen erally, the permitted outlay for Goodyear'i amazing new machine the "Tractlonizer" will give your present lint a "cat's claw" grip on wet, slippery roads . . . and do it right en your carl Tractionlzing ' is the BEST method known to give tires extra grip on wet, slippery or Icy roadsl This method uses no recapping materials mixed with sawdust or abrasives that fall out, leaving a number ol tiny holes riddled through the entire thickness of the tread. 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