TWO 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
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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
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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
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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
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tip 810 000.000 00
Special
surplus
fiinrn 3 000.000 00
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funds
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Plus) St. 98.1, 331 88
Sttrpl'ii as resnrdB
r-tllonolders t 48 98.1 331 88
Total ..-.$131 870.233.30
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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. Eula Wintermote.
County Extension Agent,
Home Economics.
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