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t Superforts Becoming Refueling Stations Tuesday. Jun. 27. 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Hill Air Varce Base. Utah (U,R) Skilled technicians at the Air Force's vast Hill base near Ogden are busy currently doing preliminary work to convert B 29's into flying service stations. The first group of four-motored superfortresses to go through the conversion line were taken from storage on the field storage where the planes had gone after finishing over seas tour of duty. The conversion work involves removal of tons of excess mater ial from the giant planes, which ordinarily, when ready for bomb-loading in combat, weigh about 60 tons. The chief of the aircraft re pair section at the big Utah air base, P. M. Buller, and the branch foreman, Clarence Fix, direct the intricate operation. " W want to make them as light as possible," explained Bul ler, a veteran of years in air craft rmair work. Fix, another old timer at the Slayer of Spouse Starts Life Term San Jose, Calf, June 27 (U.R) Thomas P. Talle, pudgy ex-cat' tleman, began serving a life sen tence in San Quentin prison to day for killing his second wife, Marie. Defense attorneys said they olan an immediate appeal. The sentence was handed down by Superior Judge William F. James yesterday. Talle was convicted of first degree murder with life imprisonment recom mended, which made the sen tence mandatory. Talle. heir to a New Mexico cattle fortune, will be eligible for oarole in seven years. Present in the court was Tal le's 13-year-old daughter, Mary Beth. She burst into tears as sentence was pronounced and was comforted by her mother. Mrs. Mary Talle, the defendant's first wife. Wonder Drugs Cut Dreaded Diseases San Francisco. June 27 (U.R) The new "wonder drugs" have reduced deaths from five of the most dreaded diseases to an all time low, it was reported at the American Medical association convention today. Dr. William M. Kirby, Se attle, told the 10,000 delegates that owing to the use of peni cillin, streptomycin and similar drugs, deaths from scarlet fever tuberculosis, syphilis, whooping cough and inflammation of the intestines were at an all-time low last year. Furthermore, he said, deaths from pneumonia were 40 per cent below the average during the years 1938-47. Boy Scout News Pack 27, Rogue River Rogue River Cub scouts, Pack 27, held an outdoor meeting and picnic at the park on Sun day, June 25. A good attend ance, including a number of parents, saw Michael Brace re ceive his bobcat pin. Mr. Har- gett also presented mother pins to Mrs. Edith Benner and Mrs. P. W. Lane. One of the high lights of the meeting was the presentation of a six year serv ice medal to Mrs. Hargett. Vis itors from Crescent City at atended. Friends and scouts alike admired Scoutmaster Buryl Palmer's new uniform complete with accessories. ' La Paz, Bolivia, June 27 U.R) The Bolivian cabinet resigned today, President Mamberto Urri- agolaitia opened consultations to appoint a new government, business of making good air planes better, said that in tak ing out excess gears, the idea was to make it possible for the flying tankers to carry "every cupful" of gas they can. Blister' Removed At Hill Air Force base, armor plate and all guns are taken out and the holes they formerly oc cupied in the B29's patched. Most gun-sighting blisters also are removed. "You'd be surprised at how much wiring needed for com bat operations but not necessary to the tankers we take out, added Fix. An inspection of one of the superforts being converted here found few installations inside the machine that could be rec ognized by a correspondent who flew In similar aircraft in war time. But much of the empty space will be filled before the aerial service stations go into opera tion. The final work is not done by the Air Force itself but at the Boeing aircraft plant In Seat tle. There the actual fuel tanks are added, along with pumps, hoses and the unique vane equipped boom that connects the tanker with the fueling plane. Dual Operation The pre-conversion work be ing done at Hill Base is part of a dual Air Force project. Sim ilar operation are also under way at Tinker Air Force base, Oklahoma City. Col. C. B. Root, maintenance director at Hill Base, is particu larly proud of the work being done by his own men. "The planes we've already sent to Boeing won their complete approval," Root boasted. Buller, who started his career at the Boeing plant before shift ing to the Air Force, admitted that the aerial tankers were a far cry from the "stick and wire jobs" thev flew In 1929. "We thought then that a tri- motored Ford was as big as they'd ever build a plane," he recalled. 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