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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1953)
Auxiliary Buys Hospital Beds for Home Use ' Two more hospital beds have been purchased by Salem Unit 136, American Legion Auxiliary. Left to rifht are Mrs. Jack E. Simklns. president of the unit, Stephen Hoage, whose wife will be theH first user of the bed, and Mrs. Bert Walker, chairman of the committee purchasing the beds. This com munity service project of the auxiliary has resulted to date in nine such beds now in home use in the Salem area, purchased from funds earned in the magazine subscription drives. Navy Pilots Look For Jet Streams PATUXENT, Md. UP) Two pi lots at the Navy's big air test cen ter here are launching the first systematic hunt for jet streams of air moving at up to 300 miles an hour high in the skies. Purpose of their hunt is to lo cate exactly these ghost rivers of air and record scientific data about them. They are the first men ever as signed to fly into the jet streams five miles up and attempt to tap their secrets. Thet ow fliers are Li. Loren C. Whitney, who says his 11 years in the Navy makes it inmaterial where he came from, and R. G. Kirschner of Omaha, Neb., one of the Navy's few enlisted pilots. Whitney is 28, Kirschner 29. They are flying F3D Skynights, night fighting jets, on their search missions and their project .ddes behind one of those alphabetical Jumbles which spells out to air research operation weather analy sis. What is the mystery they are trying to help solve? Apparently as old as the earth, it came to man's .attention less than a decade ago. Strange Streams B-29 crews bombing Japan in World War n reported they had tangled with something strange at 20,000 to 30,000 feet. They would suddenly seem to hang still in the air. Just as suddenly their ground speed would jump to twice their air speed. The air outside their planes would register tropical warmth and change quickly to Arctic cold. Such reports grew more fre quent as planes flew higher and higher. Meterologists started rec ognizing data on the phenomena in readings from the instruments attached to high altitude-weather balloons. As evidence mounted, the sci entists concluded narrow jet streams of air whip through the skies at speeds twice and three times as great as a hurricane. Perhaps the jets are caused by warm air from the equator col-J Jidlng with frigid air from the po lar regions. Balloons Used It became possible to plot the general location and direction of the let streams by readings from the high altitude balloons. Their courses shift from day to day and week to week. Some days only two can be spotted over the entire Nor thern Hemisphere. Whitney and Kirschner have the Job of finding; them, reporting their exact locations, and flying through them at right angles. Nine gauges and meters take measurements as they fly alti tude, temperature, barometric pressure, speed, direction, and so on. Cameras focused on dials of the nine instruments record the readings every five seconds. Whitney and Kirschner call themselves "the drivers on the job." Their films will go to the University of Chicago for study and interpretation, under Dr. Her bert Riehl in the meterology de partment. Cover Wide Areas The pilots will cover the area from New England to Florida and the Atlantic west to Chicago in their hunt. The project calls for flying four or five days a week, depending on the weather. Most of the flights probably will be 600 to 700-mile round-trips out of Patuxent and back again. The most persistent jet stream pattern is across the Southern and Middle Atlar';c states within easy reach of Patuxent, which is on Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Potomac. Whitney and Kirschner have learned a lot about high altitude weather in getting ready for their job but primarily they still are fliers. They got the jobs more because they were interested in doing a lot of uying rather than because they were interested in the weather. Th Navy wants to know more about the racing rivers in the sky because of the bearing they may have on high altitude flights and weather forecasting. SHS Speech Students To Entertain P-TA Speech department students of Salem High School will present a program for the school Parent Teacher Association buring its 8 p.m. meeting Wednesday in the school library. Participating willbe James Hershe, Tom Sauerweine, James Burkett, Glen Hall, Louise Owens. June Lytle. In addition, Gary and Jerry Neal will dance. Refresh ments will be served by the P-TA. Inspection of Guard Units Set This Week Annual inspection of Salem's three National Guard units will be held this week by Sixth Army. Annual inspection of Salem's three National Guard units will be held this week by CoL A R. Sewall, inspector general for Sixth Army, with headquarters at the Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. Inspection dates for the three companies are Company B, 162nd infantry regiment at Salem Ar mory, Monday, Jan. 12; Company D, 162nd infantry regiment at Salem Armory, Tuesday, Jan. 13, and Battery D, 722nd anti-aircraft artillery battalion, at quonset huts oa Lee Street, Wednesday, Jan. 14. v These troop inspections, which are to be held at night, are open to the public. Purpose of the in spection is to determine the unit's ability and fitness for call to ac tive duty. Dog Stuck in Can for Month GARDEN CITY, Kas. LB A dog named Sugar chased a rabbit into a milk can, got her head stuck in the can and was not found for more than a month but lived. Sugar is the pet of Sarah Nettrouer, 13 - year - old daughter of A O. Nettrouer, who lives northeast of here. The dog disappeared early in December. The Nettrouers adver tised a reward offer, with no re sults, and they finally got another pet for the disconsolate Sarah. The other day Nettrouer found Sugar stuck in the ruslg old milk can at a dump a half-mile from his home. He had to cut the can apart to free her. Inside were the bones and fur of a rabbit. With only the rabbit for food the 15 - pound Sugar had wasted away to six pounds during the cold winter month. The happy Sarah is nursing her little dog back to full strength. HATTIE J. BRATZEL ANNOUNCES The Removal of Her Office 0 For the General Practice of Law to 317-318 Oregon Blda, Salem Thone. 3-4628 tj I See ; ; :jj,y Mi! Salem's Oldest and Largest , TV and Radio Dealer . 1 1 20 Center St. Alt Court St. FOR THE BEST MAKES And BETTER SERVICE Missiles Flew At 1,500 mph By ELTON 1AY WASHINGTON (A An announce ment Saturday disclosed the United States was experimenting more than five years ago with anti-air craft guided missiles having speeds of more than 1,500 miles an hour. Presumbly the speeds of present-day missiles," designed to ov ertake the fast jet bombers and fighters of today, have been vastly increased. I ; - Boeing Airplane Co., now making, the long-range, neavy a 52 Jet bombers, was able to say only that HScurrent guided missile program "is one of the largest pro jects" of its i engineering depart ment and that even this priority will be increased. . The company said today' that as early as 1945 it received an Air Force contract to build experimen tal missiles. ! These became the "GAPA" (ground to air j?noOess aircraft) missiles. First firing ; of the slim, pencil like weapons were made at Wend- over, Utah, in 1946. The project was transferred in 1947 to Alama- gordo, N. M., where the first atom- le bomb had been tested two years earlier. n t f - I subsequent tests, the missiles traveled about 7,500 miles' an hour. ' The rocket-driven missiles, pre sumably with dar devices for "homing' on a target in. the final stage,, were 20 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. Control was by four movable fins, actuated by its rac'" ' and radar systems. ' v ? In 949, after 100 experimental missiles had been made, j manufac ture of the GAPA type was ended. Boeing's work is now so . secret that the Defensa Department will not even permit ' Indication 'of - its aims or size. i. . :-1 -'--v In the military budget for the next fiscal year starting July 1, Vie rec. mmendation for ' Air - Force spending . on guided missiles - is $158,703,000, about 21 juillion dol lars more than in the current fiscal year and about -45 million dollars more than in the previous one. : The program now includes , de velopment of interceptor-type mis siles for air defense.! pilotless bombers and remote-control planes. The latter could be used for send ing' extra heavy bomb loads, like atomic or hydrogen weapons, into a strongly defended enemy target area... WINNIE IN JAMAICA' TOWER ISLE. Jamaica UP) Britain's vacationing prime mini ster. Winston Churchill, 1 spent a Quiet day Sunday in his holiday house and its beautiful tree-shaded grounds. " ? The Stcrtesracm, Solera, Oregon, Monday, Tamaary Jf Life Saved by Cup of Coffee llv mMt Iff .fib.. ' If I M I it; i 1 if li K: LOS ANGLES Because he wanted to set a cup of eef fee, Fred Chrlstman (standing left), 14, get et this car in Los Angeles, Just ene minute before it was crushed by a huge lumber trailer. The seat of Christmaifs car was pushed halfway down to the pavement. The trailer rolled ever as It made a turn. (AP Wlrephoto to The Statesman.) , L0K1 I ! 1 ' STARTS TODAY! We're gelling ready lo remodel our slore and mnsl make room for workmen. Here's your opporlnnily lo buy at less lhan wholesale cosl! 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