lil Boss Cites
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Lto Food Supply
tS?1.. k.n taking from the
'W mile more than
meet the needs of the
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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..
Sun., Oct. 21, 1951 Page f
Voters Okay Medford
Airport Work Bonds
MEDFORD OI.R) Medford
voters Friday, by a vote of 1210 to
202. authorized the city to issue
$250,000 worth of general obliga
tion bonds which will be used for
from where' . T, t .,;. j,- .improvement and repairs to the
apparently, 1V, f'u u.u Medford Airport.
Saturday and Immediately!
announced she will marry actor
i Howard Duff tomorrow. I
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