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Total of Air Force, Navy Planes Less Than at Start of Korea War By CHARLES CORODRY I united Press Aviation Writer Washington (UP) The total number of U. S. Air Force and Navy aircraft of all types is less today than it was two years ago when the Korean war broke out and mobilization began. The mid-1950 figure of 31,200 planes was diminished by sev eral hundred. On the credit side, there has been an increase in the proportion of modern planes to the total. The over-all Russian figure is about 40,000 with a vastly higher ratio of combat to non-combat types, as indicated by Congressional testimony. Combat Planes Fewer Trustworthy figures on the status of American air power, which has been made an election ?!3y Sweepstakes Winners In 40 bigWestern Fairs all used C and H Cam Sugar Mm? vH j They COUNT ON CANE! How pbouf you? For sheer enjoyment of a truly fine ice cream, serve Arden "Flavor-Fresh". Its smooth texture and rich delicious flavor present a new taste thrill ... a treat to those who know and appre ciate the best ice creams. Serve it often . . . it's the perfect dessert for every occasion. At Arden Dealersevcry where. year issue, disclose that there are fewer than 6,000 combat planes in organized air force and Navy units. There were 5,800 two years ago. About 14 per cent now are committeed to the Korean war. The rest are deployed against all other contingencies. Russia has 19.000 combat planes in organized units whose identity and location are known to American intelligence. These do not include planes in reserve and in satellite air forces. The Red Air Force in the Korean war, for example, appears to have more jet fighters than the total in the U. S. Navy and may approach the number in the U. S. Air Force. Quality Improved It is estimated that U. S. mili tary plane production since the Korean war started totals 9,000 to 9,500 in all categories com bat, transport, trainer, liaison, etc. Thus there has been a sub stantial improvement in quality of American air power during the two years as older planes have been replaced. But production has not kept pace with losses due to combat, accidents, and obsolescense, and shipments of planes (more than 2,100) by both the Air Force and Navy to other countries under the military aid program. Air Force Grows President Truman, answering Sen. Robert A. Taft and other critics, asserted in his Spring field, Mo., speech on June 7 that the Air Force now has 15,000 air planes "in active use." He com pared that figure with "less than 0,000" two years ago and said the Air Force has grown from 48 to 91 wings. The expansion was brought about not alone from new pro duction but also by federalizing Air National Guard wings and withdrawing planes from storage until the bottom of the barrel was visible. The Air Force had 8,200 planes of all types in stor age in June, 1950. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, acting Chief of Staff, recently told the Senate p. A i there now are "virtually no re serves. Taft has said, and the Air Force has not disputed, that there are 6,000 planes in combat units However, no more than 30 to 35 per cent of these arc modern in the sense that they were built after World War II. Navy, Marines Overlooked In comparing these 6.000 planes with Russia's "20.000 Taft seemed to overlook the Navy and Marine combat strength which would add 2,500 to 2,700 planes to the total. The Navy, too, has drawn heavily on its storage planes in the past two years, reducing the number from 4,800 to a pres ent 1.450. In this way and from new production, the Navy and Marines have increased their ac tive aircraft strength from 4, 300 two years ago to 6,500 now. In addition there are now 2,- 000 planes in Navy reserve units 3,350 in suport planes in "pool, pipeline and overhaul," and 350 miscellaneous types. The total Navy inventory now is 13,700, a reduction of 600 planes in the past two years. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS Positions of home manage ment supervisor at $3410 a year, and farm management super visor at $3410 to $4205 a year are open for appointment by ex aminations, Federal Civil Serv ice announced today. Applica tion forms and further informa tion may be obtained from the secretary of the Board of the U. S. civil service examiners, at any first-or-second class post office, or from the director of the Eleventh U. S. Civil Service Region, 302 Federal Office Building, Seattle 4, Washington. A Nichols' Worth of Comment On BY HARMAN United Pren Washington (U.R) Those political conventions in Chicago next month will be hot affairs, but the air cooling folks figure they have the situa tion licked. Never be fore has a na tional political conve ntlon been air-cooled. And air c o n d i t ioning Harmon Nichols people admit it's pretty hard to calculate the amount of steam coming oui of 12,000 persons. But one outfit, the Carrier Corporation, has made a stab at it. The Carrier experts, who pro vided the cooling system at the Internati onal Amphitheatre, Spaur Returns To Forestry Office; Patrol Rates Set Salem (U.R) George Spaur, Oregon state forester, was back at his home here Wednesday and will resume his forestry post next week. He has been on mill tary leave as a colonel command ing the 369th engineer boat and shore regiment, Salem Army re serve group. Spaur attended the State For estry Board meeting Tuesday, at which Gov. Douglas McKay pre sided as chairman. Items on the agenda, however, were listed by Acting State Forester D. L. Phipps. Patrol Rates Set The forestry board set fire patrol rates for all patrol units in Oregon, except Coos county. The rates for the Coos county fire patrol district will be set later after an agreement on rates for grazing and forestry lands has been reached by the owners and the state forestry depart ment. The rates for the total of 1,- 501,867 acres contained in the 15 districts of v.egon are based on 1951 costs applied to the number of acres comprising the district, Phipps said. The rates for fire protection association districts per acre in clude Clackamas-Marion, 10.8 cents; Douglas, 8.5 cents; East ern Lane 14 cents; Western Lane, 10.8: Klamath, 8.6; Linn, 11.5; and Walker range, S.7. The rates established for state units supervised by the forestry department include: Central Ore gon 5.9 cents; Grant Zone 1, 3.1 cents; North-central Oregon, 8.8; Northeast Oregon 6.7; Northwert Oregon, 10.3; Polk-Benton, 7.8 and Southwest Oregon 8.1. This and That W. NICHOLS Future WHtn where the meetings will be held, have done some figuring. They estimate that the body heat let off by the 12,000 per sons per session would be enough to cook more than 15,000 hot dogs an hour. That would be more than enough hot dogs to make it once around. The human hotplates, it is estimated, also each hour can produce enough heat to sizzle more than 16,000 16-0 u nee steaks. The engineers have rigged up machines to control humidity as well as cooling comfort. They claim, by the way, that 12,000 people attending each ses sion for a week would evaporate more than 25,000 gallons of pers piration, which is really sweat ing it out. There will be a complete change of air every hour on the hour through the cooling sys tem. That's going to knock re porters away from one of their best cliches the one about the "smoke-filled hall." Air Ducts Huge Some of the ducts carrying air in and out of the place are so large that four sky-high modern basketball players could walk through the things, side by side, without crowding one another or stooping. And how much heat does the human body throw out, anyway? Well, the experts say that each person in the hall will throw off heat at the rate of 550 British thermal units per hour. BTU means the amount of heat re quired to raise the temperature of one pound of water one de gree Fahrenheit. The British thought up the term, and our en gineers use it now, too. For non engineers, the experts put it this way: Equal 530 Pounds of Coal The 600.000.000 BTU's re leased In the big Chicago con vention hall each hour equal some 530 pounds of coal or 46 gallons of oil, or 6,600 cubic feet of natural gas. This is enough heat to steam up a three-bedroom house for 10 days during the worst cold spell of winter. It takes only 350 of these units to cook a pound of hot dogs. So enough heat from the audience in a single hour would be gen-! erated to boil a chain of "dogs" 14 miles long. 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