Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 29, 1950, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday- May IB. 1880 Military, Transport Planes Now in Operation Far Short of Wartime Need Washington, May 29 U.R The total number of military and airline transport planes in the United States today prob ably falls short of 2.200. That is well below any relia ble estimate of needs at the out set of a war. Authorities believe air force troop carrier units would be hard pressed at present to move an airborne army division over any appreciable distance. MATS Would Be Strained The military air transport service (MATS) would be strain ed to the breaking point in an emergency, as its normal world wide services almost were when it was contributing heavily to the Berlin airlift. And the airlines, which might have to give up from one-third to two-thirds of their planes to the military, would be severely taxed 10 handle essential civil ian traffic. All these agencies now are trying to map plans for meeting a war siutation, in the event that one should develop. A survey shows these trans port planes in operation: Scheduled domestic and inter national airlines, 1,083; MATS, Sfifl: air force troop carrier groups, 250 (estimate): strategic air command support squadrons, 24, and navy support squad rons, 70. AHriiiinnallv there are 33 four- engine airplanes being operated 60 zamdj WITH A POLAROID LAND CAMERA W a thrill to se your pictures a mtnute after you snap them. You'll make better pictures, too for when you see the results on the spot it's easy to improve lighting, composition and pose. Prints are btg, beautiful and lasting. Anyone can take them . , , the camera and film do all the work. This is truly modern photography. '89 .75 Eaty tirmi if you like Ander's Photo Shop 232 East Main xuM tr Dr. Id'Hi H. LmO rVareJcf (H) hv non-scheduled air carriers, according to government rec ords. There are about 150 air force C-82 packets doing miscel laneous jobs. Beyond all these there may be a few hundred as sorted miiltary and civilian transports unaccounted for but they would not be of appreciable significance. Few Are Postwar Of all the transports, fewer than 300 are postwar, 300-mile an hour, four-engine types like the stratocruiser, stratofreight er, DC-6 and constellation. The airlines have 231 of these. It is doubtful that more than 150 are on order. Nearly 700 of the planes list ed are twin-engine DC-3's, called C-47's by the military, which were new 15 years ago. They never are included in studies of future wartime military trans port capabilities. The army today is putting ma jor emphasis on training for air borne operations. Two of its 10 divisions comprise paratroopers and materiel to be carried by air. Army officers talk of mov ing entire corps, even field arm ies, by air. But in the 48-group air force there are only six troop carrier groups. Two are in Eu rope, one in the far east air force and three in mis country. Two, one in Germanv and one in the U.S., have C-82 packets and the improved version known as the C-119, both designed for that type of work. The others have wartime C-54's, not ideally suited for troop carriers. Soon one of the C-54 outfits will be getting giant C-124's which can carry 25 tons. Services Drained In the recent Exercise Swarm er. it was necessary to drain al most 100 C-54's from MATS' global services to supplement troop carrier units. In a five-day period, the MATS planes and a similar number ol packets and marine commandos ferried 14, 329 tons including 17,117 men over simulated distances of 125 and 200 miles. For comparison, an airborne division on a war footing might weigh 15,000 tons. As a result of the exercise, some high air force officers are talking of tightening the rela tionship between MATS and the troop carrier groups. MATS now flies 70,000 miles of routes link ing U.S. supply depots with in stallations all over the world where American forces are sta tioned. MATS Has One DC S MATS has one DC-6 (Presi dent Truman's Independence), 10 constellations. 10 strato- freighters. 10 C-74 globcmastcrs, 240 C-54 S. 245 C-47's and 25 C-82's. It also has six squadrons of B-2B s copverted for weather reconnaissance. Most or its planes are therefore obsolescent. Mai. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter, MATS commander, says that while no Increase in numbers of planes is planned, each replace ment triples the capacity of that unit because of the greater size and speed of modern planes Thurs in about five years MATS In the Day's News """ ' i mi';, iifrnia h tnii' ii " "" May 29 thru June 10 Only Lots to see I No obligation to buy I Come to our Lowe Broth ers 1'LAX Color Carnival and see for yourself why FLAX has become uni versally preferred aa the perfect finish for all enameling! See the IS ex riling Style-Tested Colors that are brightening woodwork, furniture, and walls everywhere! 1-aro all about the tents that prove the remark able elasticity anil amai ing TOi'CHSr.SS of lung wearing TLAX! ruitio PLAX-riimhrd metal panel is bent aharplr star and nrer without breaking the linlahl Come. In teat hi At 2. UNOAMASID IT IUININ1 if MartH.I Nanlha burn, off a 'AVfinislird panel, lra.,n( Tf uh l'l.AX finish just a. ' beautiful aa before I ,w 3- imiMjvsiB n mitm-mtim V)V C,BI I'LAX fini.heH melal Melal la ealrn away, leaving lilm of l'l.AX unharmni! 4. snail Maim wiih era until n.AX nniihed panel la badly marked with areaae rrarnn and ink. Markinga don't penetrate 11. AX They're eaaily washed awxyl 01 w raill Sample can al HA XI To oatrfti aoly, white supply lasts. fHI ot trill valuable corpoo bring ktatK PI AX Color Carnival. PI AX Color Carnival -19SO Thie eounon when filled out and prraenled dur ,n I LAX Color Carnival, entitles yon to tK t.h (ample em of (amnna (.owe brnlhera PUAX. To adults only, while aupply laata. Special price on cfTTji PLAX1 aJaaJpUJ Color 'aviliii' Big Pines Lumber Co. SIXTH and FIR STREETS PHONE 2 6251 By FRANK JENKINS Our Harry's Point Four (de scribed as a "plan to benefit backward areas of the world with American technological a i d") gets past both houses of congress with an initial authorization of 35 million dollars. The state de partment will have the say as to the spending of the dough and Washington dispatches say the boys in the striped pants aim to start spending the money quick. The dispatches add: "Officials (of the state depart ment) say the first Point Four project should be under way by the end of the summer. Included among the early projects prob ably will be AN ATTACK ON A MALARIA-INFESTED AREA IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR SOUTHEAST ASIA through a big scale DDT -spraying cam paign." THAT will be truly nice, and we all hope the natives in the areas to be sprayed with DDT will be so grateful that in the fu ture they will thumb their noses at the nasty communists and thereafter honey up to good old Uncle Sam. I rather expect they will AT LEAST AS LONG AS THE OLD BOY'S CASH HOLDS OUT. gPEAKING of foreigners The vigilant teletype informs us that "dark-eled Egyptian Prin cess Fathia" and her Egyptian commoner bridegroom (name of Riad Ghali) are honeymooning radiantly somewhere along the Pacific Coast after their Moslem wedding in San Francisco. BUT. the teletype clicks oh: "THE FURY OF EGYPT'S KING FAROUK HUNG DARK LY OVER THEM LIKE A DES ERT SANDSTORM." - WHY should Fathia and her Riad be ruffled by the fury of King Farouk in far-away Cairo? Why don t they just thumb their young and pretty noses at him and laugh merrily? Well, it isn't quite so simple as that. Farouk holds the familv purse strings and if he STAYS MAD Fathia and Riad will have to go to work. Going to work is one of the very worst things that can hap pen to these Old World aristocrats. DR. HAROLD V. ANDERSON, professor of chemistry at Le high university in Pennsylvania, gets into print with a statement to the general effect that stu dents of the present day are fully able to comprehend the funda mentals of atomic science. But, he savs a bit mournfully, THEY CAN'T SPELL 'EM. The highly important atomic word "nucleus," for example. He has been compiling a list of the ways in which "nucleus" can be mis spelled and to date his list in- will have the equivalent capa city of 1)00 C-54's compared with that of 300 today. STNOPSIS OF ANNUAL STATEMKNT for the yur ended Perember M. 1fl4 "f I he AETNA INSURANCE COM PSNY f HARTFORD. In the Slat, of Onnertleut. metis te, ths Insiirnr.es I ommlssioner tit tha stala 01 Orraoa, punuant lo law : INCOME Netprsmlumerecelvert s SS.eSS.OST.SO Tot, I Interest dtvl- flenrls and real estate Infome - 3 .171 1ST 01 Inrnme from other ourtie .lOI.IM Total Inrnme $ AO 3.14.439.34 nismiRSFMENTS Net amount paid for lories 33 S44.S34.M Lo.e Adjustment ei pernei 301501,7, In.lenvrllln expenses 33.04S.133.SS rmlrlen.li, paid to inrkholdere (Ceeh. a? ;'H0. 000.00; stock. . rr 3.300.000-On Pit Mends psld or credited to policy- .hfl'l''e , None All other expenditures I Inrludlna I n v e e t- men expenses IS23,. 077.88) 1.790.43.1 A:t Total dlehureements-S St 397.038.31 AlnilTTEn ASSETS Veins of real e.tste owned (market value , 3.100.000.00 Loins on mnrtRaaes and collateral, elc , Nona Value of nonde owned lamorttiedl 60.381.703.00 sine of stork owned Imarkel value) ... 40.104, 3,! 71 Cv.h in banks and on ."and 11.707.783.03 Piemltims In course of collection written etn. e September 30. 104!) B.175.3S3J1 Intereet and rents dtis end accrued 31Y4B9 03 Oiher assets (net) .. 1.403.338.04 Tole! admitted as- eels .1121 870 313.30 LIABILITIES arp.ri.H8 AND . OTHER Kl'NPR Tot, I unpaid clelme.l 13.313.334.41 EeNmxtrd ne admit men: expense for un paid clatmi 448.000.00 Total unearned premi ums 84 834 737 It All other liabilities.. 8 333.00000 Tots! lleMlliles. aa- cst-'rii"1"1" " M raid" tip 810 000.000 00 Special surplus fiinrn 3 000.000 00 Unsvilmsd funds I stir. Plus) St. 98.1, 331 88 Sttrpl'ii as resnrdB r-tllonolders t 48 98.1 331 88 Total ..-.$131 870.233.30 M'sincss In Oregon .r1R T"r TAR e4 premlume received ..8394 90318 Sr. J0"." i 1,5 JU 33 Plvlden.la raid or credited la policyholders Noaa Tha R. A. Hnlmsa Aienry Sleep! Don't Chum Add 7 J I Try 2 TUMS Befor Rttirinf TV -nu inn nH turn after you go to htd? On you hi a hard lima doing 10 lltpi If your immach 11 churning up 100 much ami. that'i hat' apt to happtn. Try raiing 1 or I 1 umi hf for you go to bta. St9 if ynu don't iletp pctitr, wake up rtrhd. Ktfp Tumi handy to tounitr act acid indigt ition . . . gat . . . heart burn. Minion 01 Amnuni do. Oct roll today. 1 1 ' it - m mm m i r i 1 Tf aeaA Austrian Newsmen To Study Methods Washington. May 29 (U.R) Ten Austrian newspapermen will arrive in the United States Wed nesday for a four-month study of American news techniques. The army said today they will spend 10 days visiting New York, Washington, D. C, and Chicago. Then they will go to the Univer sity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., for a briefing before being as signed to work on selected news papers. The project was developed by the United States education di vision of the allied commission in Austria and the public in formation division of the United States armed forces in Austria, the army said. The two agencies said it is vital for Austria to keep its press in dependent and strong if demo cratic ideals are to prevail in Austria. Although Austrian news papers have clung to practices of 25 years ago, they said, public opinion in Austria is molded through its newspaper to a great er extent than in the United States. The agencies said Austrian newspapermen cling "to tradi tional practices of glorifying politics to the exclusion of treat ment of everyday living." dudes 68 orthographic boners culled from his students' work. The most exotic of the 68, he adds, is "neuclougheous." PERSONALLY, I hold to the theory that a well-educated person will no more misspell words in fairly common usage than a truly tasteful and cul tured person will wear a loud four-in-hand tie with his eve ning starched shirt and tails. But I'm continually amazed at the number of people and the KIND of people who confuse the spelling of princiPLE and princi PAL. I've even cought college presidents mixing them up. Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by County Office 0. S. C. Extension Service Grass Saan Substitute Tor Brush on Ranges Grass may be substituted for brush on the low hill ranges of Jackson county when given fa vorable conditions was the sen timent expressed by stockmen, range authorities and foresters while viewing a few of the ex perimental seeding areas last week. A 12-acre plot on the Foots creek burn area is now covered with waving orchard grass, alta fescue and tall meadow oat grass. Other low growing grasses such as subterranean clover, lo tus, chewings and creeping red fescue blanket the ground sur face. Dale Vincent" and John Day, amateur photographers, were able to get a number of "good shots" that will tell the story far better than words. The high .spot of the six places visited on Monday and Tuesday of last week was the Dog creek seeding, made in the fall of 1948. This seeding was made on federal owned land, following the accidental burn. Grass, to a height of four feet is waving among the black snags of what was previously a brush and tim bered area. Burning of grass and brush is a substitute for "mechanical seed bed preparation on land that cannot be worked success fully otherwise. Low hill range that can be cultivated in prep aration for fall seeding can be worked now, prior to the pro duction of wild native grass seed. This working of the top soil retards native grasses, and if seeded to desirable grasses prior to heavy fall rains, usually gives good results. Teh pounds of seed per acre, of one or two- bladed grasses and at least one legume is desirable. One pound per acre of sub-clover in such a mixture usually gives excellent results. October seeding dates have proven most effective to date. W. B. Tucker, County Extension Agent. May Will Finish Extension Project Meetings This month finishes the exten sion project meetings for 24 or ganized units. Many of the units are planning a picnic in June some to install officers and oth ers just for a family get-together. I would like to extend my thanks to all unit officers, proj ect leaders, committee members and unit members for the work they have done this year. The educational extension program certainly depends on the very fine cooperation of all you mem bers in the units. We could not have such a program if it were not for the fine leadership. On June 1 and 2 the 18th an nual Oregon Home Economics council meeting will be held on the Oregon State college cam pus. Twenty-eight counties. 150 delegates and 28 extension work ers will be present. The Jackson county women attending will be: Mrs. C. C. Hoover. Lone Pine, county chairman; Mrs. Le land Charley. Brownsboro, coun ty treasurer; Mrs. A. T. Lath rop. Central Point: Mrs. Ben Gardner. Reese Creek; Mrs. Fred Svinth, Prospect, and Mrs. John Elson, Oak Grove. The theme of the council will be "The World at Our Thresh old." D. 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