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MEDFORP (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
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CLOSEUP LOOK AT RED FIGHTER This photo, pub
lished in the Naval Aviation News Magazine, shows a flight
of Soviet Navy Fresco jet fighters fitted with exterior flush
mounted wing tanks. They are passing over a Russian
Skoryy-class destroyer. The picture, one of several to ap
pear in the magazine, is believed to be one of the first '
closeups of tSe new Russian fighter plane.
Fliers Forced From
Modern Air Age Into
Eskimo's Environment
Kemmerer, Wyo. U.PJ
Kenneth Kiefer .and Delbert L.
Flauty, who in one blinding mo
ment were thrown from the
modern air age into the frozen
environment of the Eskimo,
woke up today after a sound,
warm sleep, ready to return to
Travis Air Force Base in Calif
ornia!)
Keifer, 26, a Ft. Collins, Colo
airman who owns hiff-bwn plane,
and Flauty, his Evansville, Ind.,
service buddy, walked out of a
snowy wJJderness yesterday
after 48 hours of fearful worry
by theirj relatives. They were
a little cold'a little hungry and
a little tired.
En Route To West Coast
Keifer left Rock Springs, Wyo.
Saturday morning with Flauty,
en route to the West Coast in
Keifer's light, two-place Aeron-
ca Chief ater spending Christ
mas in Ft. Collins.
About 30 miles north of Kem
merer they ran into a snow
storm and went down.
Keifer dumped his plane in
a deep snow bank. It tipped
over, but he and Flauty were
not hurt.
"We hiked about three or four
miles in the storm after the
crash," Flauty gaid. "Then the
wind started blowing and we
built an igloo of snow near some
bushes. We stayed there until
4:30 p.m. Saturday when I took
a scouting trip and spotted a de
serted cabin. "Late that evening,
I caught a rabbit and we stewed
it." " , ?
Kiefer said Flauty actually
ran the rabbit down in snow
more than a foot 'deep. But it was
so tough they had to let it sim
mer in the pot two days before
they could eat it. But there was
a small supply of staples in the
cabin, and they didn't go hungry.
Couldn't Attract Pilots
The 44th Air Rescue Squad
ron at Denver kept planes in
the air Sunday and yesterday,
seeking the missing plane. But
the search area lay 10 miles
south of the" cabin, and Kiefer
and Flauty couldn't attract the
attention of airline pilots with
bonfire smoke.
Yesterday morning the ser
vicemen hiked to a ranger sta
tion near Kemmerer. The rang
er took them by horse-drawn
sled to his home to warm up
and eat, and then into town
where they telephoned their families.
Is That So?
Unseasonal as winter weath
er may be, some pretty definite
and astonishing things can be
predicted for January. Do you
know that . . .
If you live in a freezing area
like New York, Boston, Mont
real or -Washington, you can
look for a January thaw siti
unseasonably warm day be
tween January ,19 to 24. The'
chances are better than four to
three.
As for a cold wave, it is quite
likely to occur the following
week. N o
As for this midwinter cold
wave, its length can be pretty
well predicted, too. In Montana
and the Canadian provinces,
look for it to last two weeks; in
the Chicago area, only three or
four days; in the middle Missis
sippi Valley nearer two days and
the farther south you go, the
shorter the cold spell will last
and the chances are that it will
be succeeded by a warm wave
of comparable intensity.
The coldest week of the year
comes to different areas at dif
ferent time, of course. But this,
too, is Stetty definite. And sur
prising. Look for it to visit the Deep
South first. Then, to" catch the
coldest week, you'll have to go
farther north, steadily.
During the first half of Jan
uary, these spots will have their
coldest-week-of-the- year: North-
era Alabama, northern . Missis
sippi, western Oklahoma, south
west Missouri, southern Arkan
sas, northwestern and central
California, southeast Utah, south
ern . Arizona, northeast New
Mexico,
Daring the last half of Jan
uary, the coldest weeks will be
in Maine, Vermont, Massachu
setts, eastern Pennylvania, east
ern New York, North Dakota,
western Nebraska, eastern Kan
sas, northern Minnesota, central
Wisconsin, Iowa, central Illin-
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
ois, upper Michigan, southeast
Idaho, western Montana, north
east Wyoming, southern Califor
nia, Nevada, southeast Colorado.
Rhode Island, parts of New
Jersey and Connecticut will
have3 the coldest week in Feb
ruary. '
To be sure elevation and prox
imity to the sea may create con
siderable local differences.
3 Now this isn't the coldest day
of ' the year, mind you. That
may fall in any part of North
America as early as November
or as late as April, however," in
the majority of states and Can
adian provinces it shows a de
cided tendency to fall sometime
after midwinter, generally early
in February.
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Citizens Can't Decide If
Oiled Streets Desirable
Allegan, Mich. (U.R) Mem
bers of Allegan's City Council
wish residents who live along
Fifth, Wayne and Kalamazoo'
streets would make up thehS
minds.
One week, the council re
ceived a petition asking the city
to put road oil on the dirt streets
"as soon as possible." The coun
cil saw to it that the request was
carried, out promptly.
Then a petition arrived asking
the city "never again to apply oil
to our streets."
"Guess the only solution to
the problem would be to black
top the streets," one council
member said. , -
Michigan claims the first con
crete road, built in 1907.
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