(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.
Deed line Sunday Classified It at
noon Saturday: 10 am Monday for
Monday: other day 3:30 orevious day.
SAFE ROBBED
Grants Pass Kelt Chevrolet
of Grants Pass was robbed of
$300 over the holiday week end,
according to Grants Pass police.
The thief entered the building,
loaded a small safe onto a pick
up truck, and proceeded to an
unknown place where he burned
the safe open. The thief , then
dumped, the torch and safe and
returned the pickup to within
four blocks of the garage, police
said. ,
f
YOU HAVE REAL
FREEDOM WHEN
YOU OWN
A HOUSE THAT'S
YOURS AND -
YOURS
I 1 9 -WJfJIM - AT -X. .
ml
aft
ml
mm
VUJ ON NEW
1955 MODIL
AFTIt SMALL DOWN FATMtHT
(Sit ra
Giailf FREEZER-Shelves in tho Door
Conjslsltly FROST-FnEE frca I:? b fcsllci
Brand
NEW
r kT ii "' ' ,,in r" -T j - lr S Lijzi?. '
'iiL-r'-' xwjfpKK' ' ' ' " vyJ A
No messy defrosting to do in the Refrigerator or tht
Freezer! Giant 51 -lb. Freezer, Meat Keeper (R);
Roll-Out Shelves, spacious Shelves-in-Door. Auto
matic Twin Juice Fountain mixes fruit concen
trates with cold water at the touch of a finger.
K"j S5)(m(mi)l
OfJLY b&W
Model DFH106
WITH YOUR OLD REFRIGERATOR
GAY HOLIDAY COLORS, TQO!
AVAILABLE IN SUNSHINE YELLOW
OR CASCADE AQUA
Other Wcstinghousq Models and Sizes
At Big Savings. Get Our Price and
Trade-In Beforo You Buy.
o
(LoinrQuftedl 5
LOW DOWN PAYMENT
you can OB SURB...I? nt
ouse
tingh
EASYTERMS
214 West Main
ELECTRIC COMPANY
UMUY
Phono 2-5211