Jet Spans Nation Under Four Hours Ogden 1949 WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 An air force jet bomber covered a 2,289 mile course here from Moses Lake air base, Wash., in three hours 46 minutes. This was an average of 614 miles and hour. The six engine, swept wing bomber streaked over Andrews (Md), base at 2 08 p.m. (EST). It took off from Moses Lake at 7 22 a.m. (PST). The bomber first crossed the field at an altitude of 13,000 feet but quickly descended for a landing. No official record was set since the course is not the recognized transcontinental contest route and no official timing by representatives of International Sporting aviation was made. The official course is from the Los Angeles area to the New York area. The record of 4 hours and 13 minutes was set two years ago by a Lockheed F 80 Shooting Star. The army bomber making todays flight is the Boeing B 47 Stratojet. Upon landing, the pilot released a brilliant parachute from the tail as an airbrake. This unusual method of slowing down jet planes for landing was disclosed by the air force only a few days ago. The pilot of the plane was Maj. Russell E. Schleeh and the co pilot was Maj. Joseph W. Howell, both attached to the air materiel command, flight test center at Wright field, Dayton, Ohio. Thursday, February 10 I go to Salt Lake with Myrene and take Major Rich to Dr Palmar and make arrangements for operation catarach on his eye. Roads good, but much snow piled on sides. Two herds of deer by side of road at Uintah Warmer today THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD EXAMINER FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1949 This Is Toughest Winter; Bureau Makes It Official By Robert E. Geiger WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 This has been the toughest winter in history in the blizzard belt. The weather bureau officially has handed January 1949 the title of the worst we ever had. February has a good chance of snatching a title too. The weather experts base their decision on the combination of conditions that test the durance of man and beast cold, snow, wind and visibility. Hundreds of people have been snowbound. Some have died. Some stockmen have lost every animal they owned. Exactly how many cattle and sheep have died wont be known until the snows melt in late spring. Then it will be known whether the losses have been so heavy they will cut meat supplies and bring higher prices. Most experts are guessing right now losses wont be that heavy. January probably will turn out to be the coldest January of all time in at least three states Utah, Idaho and Nevada when all the records are in, weather bureau experts say. The hardest hit states have been Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and parts of Colorado, the weather bureau says. Department of agriculture officials say even heavy losses wont have an immediate effect on the price of meat. These men explain further that around 30,000,000 head of cattle are marketed each year. Most of these come from areas other than the blizzard belt. Nobody expects more than a fraction of the 3,500.000 cattle in the storm area to be killed. And this would be a much smaller fraction of 30,000,000.