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i ft - i v m :--'-5 VSk BgSffTWi.UT UWt (OBEGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. March t. 1933 GONE FISS'ON The atomic cloud of the third detonation of the 1955 spring series rises 27,000 feet above Yucca Flat and begins to disintegrate. The test was set off on a 300-foot tower in place of the "big" test that has been postponed since Feb. 15. This ; photo was made from ML Charleston, 55 miles away. B52s, Carrying Hydrogen Bombs, To Join Combat Units in Spring Washington (U.R) The B52 Stratofort, built to carry hydro gen weapons at the world's fast est bomber speeds, will start going into combat units in late spring. Air Secretary Harold E. Tal bott disclosed today that first combat models of the giant jet bomber will go to the Strategic Air Command's 93rd Bomb Wing, Castle Air Force Base, Merced, Calif. That wing now Scientists Pushed To New Frontiers In Meiai Research New York (U.R) The prac tical theorists who are working toward space ships, super-super jets and the peaceful potentials of nuclear energy are pushing scientists to new frontiers in met-1 allurgical research to meet the- unprecedented demands of the atomic era. Steelways, official publication of the American Iron and Steel Institute, said that basic new needs have developed in such fields as chemistry, electronics, aviation and atomic energy due to extraordinary conditions of heat and corrosion now being en countered and to the effects of radiation. Meials Investigated - The magazine added thai fa miliar metals are being investi gated from fresh directions, and that scarce metals heretofore used merely as alloying elements in steel now are being probed as base metals themselves. Rare metals are being pried loose from their ores in quantities, and some metals that were mere laboratory curiosities are being considered commercially. Of all the new metals, titan ium has shown the most rapid development, largely due to de mand from the Air Force, the magazine reported. Once plane designers knew there was a metal only a little heavier than aluminum but nearly as strong as steel and highly resistant to corrosion, they wanted plenty of it in a hurry even though it could not compete with stainless steel at high temperatures. Greedy Hafnium Nearly all the production of titanium metal has gone into the making of parts for jet engines and airframes. Zirconium, beryllium and ti tanium are not the only exciting new metals. For example, mo lybdenum, long familiar as an alloying metal for steel, is now the subject of experiments as a base metal, and shows great promise of becoming a real Cin derella of high temperature materials for jet engines. Other alloying elements, such as tungsten and vanadium, also are under study as possible base metals, but results either are inconclusive or hidden behind security regulations. Hafnium is the subject of con siderable interest because of its ability to grab neutrons with greedy abandon. It makes ex cellent control rods for atomic piles, cutting off the chain re action or regulating its intensity. Germanium, metallic silicon, lithium, gallium every known metal and combination of metals, plastics and ceramics are being explored. Metals today are the key to progress in nearly every field of science and engineering. flies 600 mile an hour B47 Stratojets, much smaller and slightly slower than the B52 185-Ton Monster Costing $8,000,000 each, the Stratojet is a 135-ton monster with eight engines mounted in pairs under its thin, swept-back wings. Each engine delivers 10,- 000 pounds of thrust, driving the behemoth through the air like a fighter plane at close to the speed of sound. Sound travels 860 miles an hour at the 10-mile altitude where the B52 will operate on globe-girdling mis sions. Talbott said arrival of the 93rd Wing's first Stratofort "is scheduled in the late spring." Other sources indicated the out fit should have its full comple ment of 30 heavy bombers a few months later. More than 20 have been built at Boeing Airplane Company's Seattle plant and are in various stages of flight tests. Inflight Refueling The Air Force eventually will have a $4,300,000,000 inter-continental jet bombing force com prising 11 wings of B52s with Gilman's Dairy Files For Incorporation Salem U.R) Articles of in corporation were filed here to day for Gilman's Dairy Farm, Inc., of Medford. They were signed by Lester H. Gilman, Leila M. Gilman and Robert D. Dames. The incorporation is the result of a planned expansion and con struction program of the dairy, Gilman said today. Final plans have not been made and con struction date has not been set. high speed jet tankers for in flight refueling. The force will have about 350 Stratoforts and 200 tankers under the present outlook. The all-jet heavy bomber force will supplant the Strategic Air Command's B36 super bomb ers, America's chief means to day of delivering the H-bomb. The B36, powered by six piston engines and four jets, is a longer range plane than the B52 but much slower. Without refueling, the B52 can fly better than 600 miles compared with the B36's 10,000. Portland PTT Worker Wins Service Award Portland A Portland Pacific Telephone employee, Harry E. Fisher, has been named to re ceive the Bell System's national award for public service, the sil ver Vail medal. Fisher, a construction foreman for the telephone company, earned the medal and a $500 award for rescuing a frightened 10-year-old boy stranded, part way up a rocky cliff here. The telephone company also announced that Glenn Fuller, a Baker lineman, has been named to receive a bronze Vail medal and an award of $100. He saved a nine-year-old Baker boy from possible electrocution after the boy had grasped an accidentally charged irrigation pipe. Survivors of workers who died before September 1950 after working on jobs covered by social security for six quar ters years) may now be eligible to receive social secur ity payments. Tokyt Love Causes Quake; o Feels Jolts n- 1 I M A Mnwt. quake shook Tokyo Tuesday! while Pfc. Pat Sheridan was playing the tune "Love Can Cause An Earthquake" over the Armed Forces Radio network. "That Was Love Can Cause An Earthquake," Sheridan an nounced when the song ended. A second quake promptly jolt ed the city. . " Little Folks COATS Nylon or w o o I in beautiful styles, in cluding the popular "Shorty." , All sizes thru P re Teen 14. Just Received BOY'S CAPS & HATS Many, many styles 5169 tA ,1 . 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