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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1951)
lil Boss Cites rim's Toll . l TUonf Lto Food Supply tS?1.. k.n taking from the 'W mile more than meet the needs of the 'Sutton. H. H Ben wnservation chief, Baid wW jaKlP orocress I such projects .rwMhita Valley, Scientists Trap Cloud Storms To Study for Weather Effects Okla., ntrol program, uenneii 1 .till remains to be ;;,h.venot caught up with .whole; he said I, to questions By Hep, Sam (D-Okla) in a Iran 1 1 recorded program for ::!nit in Oklahoma. Ii,t Finished .itnn has been com- 3uo to the maintenance and ttnt stage on about 11 M rtOtOime iui..- o h declared. kTnart of the conservation I .jnportant, he explained, .'nation 'rk is a continu "a until the basic conserva . ..mires have all been ap- tj to the land, he asserted. 5 and improved. Lilj Ejpandinr incalture productive capacity i tem expanding because of xntinueu, u wed, the nation cannot in- e!y produce enough to iin the good standard of j now enjoyed. :, Bid it would be difficult i, any exact time when the might run short in land 'v. .in order to produce needed i mps and other essentials, Bid. the remaining produc ed must be safeguarded by i:-jble conservation measures. iilVG BOY SOUGHT !LA WALLA If) One i-ed volunteers pressed a fi Saturday for 14-year-old fcrr Boatman, missing In the rTT Blue Mountains after find. r.iw evidence that the boy Mt Boy Scout markers. TOYS Hie Our Lay-Away Plan S & H Green Stamps MAGAZINE EXCHANGE Inrlojr and Hobby Store 115 E. 11 SOCCOHO, N. M. (fl) Scien-i tists are bringing thunderstorms back alive to watch them sputter in a lest tuDe. With that start, Dr. E. J. Work man hopes to learn how to tame lightning and possibly stop hailstorms. The president of New Mexico! institute of Mining and Tcchnol. ogy, probably best known for his research on the proximity fuse, is a pioneer of scientific rainmaking. He began his study of thunder storms in the late 30s with a fel low physicist, R. E. Wolzer, while they were at New Mexico Univer city. Among other things, they found lightning Is caused by freezing of glaze Ice In a cloud. The experiments have been car ried further by workman and Stephen E. Reynolds at the thunderstorm laboratory. They found that when Ice freezes, a difference of as much as 290 volts can be measured be tween the ice and water not yet mrnea sona. Impurities In rainwater there is no such thing as pure water tear the water molecules apart. une part ot the molecule gets positive electrical charge, the other part has a negative charge, When these charged molecules are frozen, the charge builds up as the Ice mass grows, and boom you've got lightning! But this was learned In the lab. To test their theory, Workman and his colleagues flew a B-17 into the business end of a thunderstorm. The plane was struck and the scientists were happy. They col lected cloud samples amlxture of supercooled water, snow and hall. Supercooled water, thev ex plain, Is water that is below the freezing point but not frozen be cause it has no crystals to form ice around One day, after bringing their thunderstorm down to earth, the scientists were going through routine experiment. Suddenly the laboratory loked like Alaska in December, scene of a miniature blizzard. Checking, they discovered that there was some ammonia in the air from an earlier experiment, Purposely they released more am monia gas, and presto, another bilzzard. Apparently, the ammonia calm. ed the lightning and caused snow instead. Reynolds theorized that if there were enough ammonia in a cloud, lightning might be elimi nated altogether. The theory is being pursued. One thing is known: There Is more ammonia in the air over I wooded areas than over the ; desert of New Mexico. This ; possibly is the reason there is more rainfall over such areas than over the desert One reason silver iodide has been used in cloudseeding is that like ammonia, It gives the air something to latch on to and give off moisture when it's used cor rectly. The Signal Corps, cooperating in the experiments, is furnishing an airplane for use In gathering further data. But so far there hasn't been the right kind of thunderstorm in this area to allow extensive field work. Such results as have been ob tained, however, Indicate that electricity is generated whenever moisture is released from a cloud. Workman and Company, under Signal Corps sponsorship, are con tinuing research in this direction, But the scientists cautions: Tiffany-Davis Drug Co. Jib and W illamette !0 Franklin Blvd. POSTHUMOUSLY AWARD TACOMA-r-WP) A Bronze Star for bravery in action was pre sented posthumously to Cpl, Everett L. Elmore of Carlton, Ore., at ceremonies at Fort Lewis Saturday. The award was re ceived by his father, George L. Elmore. DON'T forget Jaycee-ettes Rum mage Sale at 31 W. 7th, Oct. Z3 F.H.A. HOME LOANS We Give You Quick Service 10th & Willamette Sr., Eugene "With all the interest in rain for arid regions, we do not yet know enough about nature's devices to apply weather en gineering to the atmosphere. We need to know more of the things one finds out by being curious about nature." If being curious about nature Is all it takes, Workman should find out. He went one step farther than Benjamin Franklin, who started it all with his kite 194 years ago. Workman went up with the kite and brought the lightning back. The Sour Notes MONTREAL (A1) A speaker at the Notre Dame Community Council, discussing the train whistle nuisance, said some residents of the district suspect that some of the "un necessary tooting" may simply be signals such as one train engineer telling a pal down the line that he won $10 in the poker game the night before. He said they communicated by a sort of Morse code. Skeleton Clues To Be Studied DALLAS, Ore. (A) A skele-. after a white beaver was sighted ton in a shallow grace near the there. The only known missing railway station at Vnlsetz may! person was A. K. Handy who answer a 40-ycar-old question:! went hunting and didn't come What happened to A. K. Handy? back. Coroner Paul Billman said het would ask the state crime labora- Ll'PINO DIVORCED tory at Portland to study the MiNDEN, Nev. (U.R Screen thov had lain for. many years. nere A resident of the area said In dians never went into that area, Register-Guard. Eugene. Ore.. 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