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(Sireaft GDisplay off Russian Aor Power DimdDcaes (US Has SDoppenfl did Supremacy (Editor's Note: The followlnc artJrli hat been passed by Soviet censors.) Br KENNETH BRODNEY Uniied Press Correspondent Moscow U.R) More than 400 planes, including a new jet airliner and new types of jet fighters and long-range bomb ers, flashed over Moscow Sun day in the greatest display of airpower in the history of the Soviet Air Force. The annual air show staged by the Red Air Force indicat ed the Soviet Union may have caught up with and perhaps sur passed the United States in many fields of modern military and civilian aircraft design. Unveiled for the first time was a flashing four-engined jet airliner that placed Russia firm ly in the race for supremacy in civilian jet flight. The Soviet Union's first all jet four-engined transport,, it is expected to be named the Ilyushin-20 after air craft designer Sergei Ilyushin. Other Planes ia Debut Also making their public de but were a turbo-prop intercon tinental bomber, a twin-jet all weather fighter, a supersonic ingle-jet fighter and a troop carrying twin-rotor helicopter. In Washington, Sen. Stuart ymington (O-Mo.), said the dis play indicates that the U. S. has "lost a degree of air suprem acy." Symington, Secretary of i July has more thunderstruck days than all the other 11 months combined, but did . you know that ... The turbulence within the head of a thundercloud is nothing hort at terrifvin. A sailolane pilot stated that his machine was lifted 5,000 feet within two Air during the Truman admin istration, called on the Eisenhow er administration to give the Am erican people "the facts." The show was witnessed by ft 1 A 7-SS minutes and when he took to his parachute, he was hoisted .still higher. Atthat,vhe may have understated the" speed of his ascent. Violent ascending currents in a thundercloud may be again as fast, and then some. If you hanker for a lifetime without the sound of thunder your best bet in America is to spend your summer six months In San Jose, California, and the winter six months in, Port An geles, Washington. . - If the Jovian peels are your dish, you couldn't do better than hustle right down to Tampa, Florida, which averages around 92 thunderstorm days a year. Although lightning flashes vary widely, a cloud emitting a flash every ten seconds probably develops all of 1,000,000 kilo watts. That's almost as much as the generating capacity of all the dams across the Tennessee Valley. Very little wind precedes a thunderstorm. That's because wind stirs up the atmosphere and so discourages local over heating a prime ingredient of thunderstorms. Those stentorian rolls of thun der may be due to several things: ' first, because lightnig follows a zigzag path the sound waves starting out simultane ously have different dastances to travel to reach your ear and do not arrive together. Second, mul tiple discharges in quick suc cession within the same storm cloud may prolong the roll. Third, it may be due to echoes mountains. Jrills, valleys and even clouds may provide sound reflecting surfaces. '. In North America, about 2,000 people are either killed or in jured by lightning each year; about one in 80,000, ' . Most lightning storms accur between 1 and 6 p.m. Lightning helps plants grow. In the course of its quick pas sage, lightning frees nitrogen in the enveloping air, much Subse quently falls to earth with the raindrops making good plant feod. This annual free-will gift amounts to about 100,000,000 tons. FREE: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia - Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the readers who send me the best true-life na ture adventure, or the best na-. ture observation, or the best question en nature and wild-, life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealer ait . binding. Each week, new submis sions will be considered. Sor ry. I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! Medford Mail Tribune, P. O. Box 575, Saus alito. Calif. Hungarian Police Institute Terror To Crush Revolt Vienna, Austria (U.R) Communist Hungarian police were reported today to have instituted a campaign of terror to crush an incipient revolt. Reliable western sources said Red police about two weeks ago opened their campaign with raids, middle-of-the-night arrests, personal and automobile identi fication checks and long inter rogation of suspected, anti-government persons. Premier Andras Hegedus'was reported missing after a disagree ment with Hungarian Commun ist strongman Matyas Rakosi. The Premier took office only last April whn Premier Imre Nagy was outsed in line with the changed policy of the Krem lin. State of Semi-Emergency The independent Vienna news paper Neuer Kurier said reports it had received from the Hun garian capital of Budapest in the past 48 hours indicated a state of semi-emergency existed in Hungary. The newspaper said the police were forced to take strong action because of the growing under current of rebellion. Western sources said they could not con firm the newspaper reports, but that police in the past two weeks have been conducting a terror campaign in which even the Brit ish and American legations were under surveillance. Ilewbry May Hot Return To Ashland Salem : (U.R) Secretary of State Earl T,. Newbry indicated here today he may not return to his Ashland home on completion of his term of office. Newbry, "now serving his sec ond elective term, said he m-ob- ably would continue to live in Salem and' would remain active in Republican political affairs. He has orchard , holdings-, in- the Asniand area. Newbry said he had not decided whether he would enter business in .the Sa lem area. He is a former state senator from Jackson county. His present term expires Jan. 7, 1957. Three Persons Die In California Crash Indio, Calif. (U.R) Three persons were killed, two of them soldiers, and three others were injured Saturday when two cars and a semi-trailer truck collided on .a narrow bridge 30 miles northwest of here on U.S. High way 60-70-79. The California - highway? pa trol identifed the dead as Don nie Kato, 22, of ; Bell, Calif., driver of one car, and his two passengers, soldiers . Richard Gail, 22, and Wilson C. Stewart, 22. both of Fort Defiance, Ariz. The CHP said the dead were crushed almost beyond recogni tion In the second car were Nestor E. Anzaldua, 20 Westlaco, Tex,, the driver; Thomas E. Monte mayor, 2$, and his brother Luis L.. Montemayor.22, both of Ed counch, Tex., and Airman Sec ondclass Herb Rodriquez of Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The Montemayor brothers suffered minor injuries. members of the foreign diploma tic corps, their air and military attaches and thousands of Rus sian civilians. The Yugoslav and Indian chiefs of Air Staff at tended as special guests of the government. Photographers Restricted Photographers were permitted only at the civilian part of the demonstration. Foreign Mini stry officials confiscated pictures Douglas Visions U.S. Coexistence Calcutta, India (U.R) United States Supreme Court Justice William Douglas said yesterday the United States is moving to ward a policy of. coexistence. "In view of the rivalry in the world, faced with instruments of mass .destruction like the hydro gen bomb, coexistence is neces sary," Douglas said on his arri val here from Rangoon, Burma. The Supreme Court justice said a definite deadline should be set when Colonialism must end. "Colonialism," he said, "ac counts for many of the present day world troubles." He mentioned in particular French . colonialism in North Africa. " "What, the French are doing in North Africa, the Dutch did in Indonesia," he said. "The French are producing Communism by their rule in Algeria, Morocco and other North African area;. Plan Made To Raise Car From Lake Water Detroit (U.R) A diver, who Sunday located a car which car ried four persons to- their deaths in Detroit lake, was unable to determine whether it contained the bodies of two victims still missing from the crash. The car .was located in 250 feet of water and an attempt will be made to raise it, accord ing to Ray Wallace, father of one of the missing occupants. Following the June 19 mishap, tht bodies of James E. Jennings, 41, and Leo Jennings, 16, were recovered. Still missing are 17-year-old John Wallace and Richard Jen nings, 14. The four were return ing to Detroit from Mill City "when the car smashed a guard rail and plunged into the lake formed by Detroit dam. .. . , Negro families operate one fourth ' of North Carolina's farms. . - iii i 1 w.-&ftL So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnoff tke qrtahst -name vuunfl 0 proof. Made from I00nin neutral spirits. Sec. Pierre Smirnof FU. lnc.Harrfof4.CoM. ,Ataa iss Control for Crabfrass Ikmful 1 fasps Scutl is dry granular - compound easily applied with . Scorn Spreader. Late spring treatments curb activity of ' damaging fungus, destroy iced- ling sprouts of annual weeds . '. and control ugly Crabgrasa, At least four treatments needed. , Urgt Box 2.7J Bag Ui Jumho Bag S935 FREE PARKING! FREE DELIVERY! SPECIALISTS III HOMVf A tS I 3 WEST SIXTH STREET - MEDFORD I snapped of the military planes. Highlights of the show includ ed: A 12-plane formation .of the big intercontinental bombers that startled Western air attaches at the May Day air show last year when one model flew past. Known in the west as the "Bis on" the bombers appear to be in mass production. A formation of seven long- range four-engined turbo-prop bombers, believed capable of re fuelling in flight like the huge bombers of the U. S. Strategic Air Command. It was their first showing. ' First Appearance A flight of 50 new needle nosed twin-jet radar-equipped all weather fighters, apparently in mass production. It was their first public appearance. A flight of ,48 Single-jet fight ers similar to the supersonic U.S. F-100 super Sabre and France's new supre-Mystere, displayed for the first time. Four giant twin-rotor troop carrying helicopters similar to an American helicopter called the "mule." Average Support Price for Wheat Crop Increased Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department today in creased the national average support price for 1955 crop wheat to $2.08, up two cents from the . minimum price an nounced last fall. The rise was forecast in the monthly price report issued last week. The average support price of $2.08 a bushel compares with the support price of $2.24 a bushel for the 1954 crop. The increase in the supports results from a higher June, 1955, wheat parity price than the Au gust, 1954, price used to deter mine the minimum support announced last Sept. 15. At that time, the department said if the wheat parity as of June 1, 1955," was higher than the $2.50 parity price of August, 1954, the 82 per cent of parity minimum sup port would be increased.. The June, 1955, parity price was $2.50, resulting in an in crease of two cents a bushel above the minimum support an nounced last fall. - Tuesday. July 193S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUXX KOT Exact Center of Universe Located ' Columbus, O. (U.R) ; Ohio State University, radio astrono mers say they have located the exact center of our universe, or Milky Way system. The position, ilong sought by optical astronomers, has been hidden by clouds of interstellar dust. Radio waves from the hub around which the sun and bil lions of other stars revolve, how ever, have been recorded by radio telescopes. The position, say the Ohio State astronomers, is a galactic longitude of 327.79 degrees and a latitude of 1.39 degrees, based on an average of observa tions recently made with the tel escope here and one at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washing ton, D. C. 1 The determination, an average of all the individual observations, is estimated to be accurate within 100th of one degree. Earlier esti mates, the astronomers say, were not much closer than the nearest degree. 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