Laurel outlook., 1947-12-31
December

.IEMA GAN0RANA
January
w zI&28 l5-Ford Motor company re
exz8x2 duceS prices on paSSen
ger cars SIS to $50 in eff
fort ito halt insane spiral of mounting
costs and rising prices"
23-Potato growers authorized 10 dump q
million bushels of low-grade potatoes
stored under government price-support
plan.
February
4ELargest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal agent:
find $3.50. 900 worth of heroin in posses
sion of U. S. seaman returning from
France.
7-Coldest temperature ever recorded or
North American continent, 81 degrees
below zero. registered at Snag airport
in Canadian Yukon.
l2-Navy d~iscloses new rapid fire cannons
installed on heavy cruiser Newport
News are fully automatic eight-inch
rifles with three times irepower of pre-
vious armament.
16-survey shows average teachers salary
in U. S. is S37 weekly. and $50. 900 teach
ers have left schools since 1910.
March
l6-Margaret Truman, the Presidents
daughter. sings on radio in debut with
Detroit symphony.
April
6-Tuberculosis death rate in u. S. hits
lowest level in history at 40.1 per 100. 900.
l2-Two die of smallpox in New York City.
Mayor O'DWyer asks all New Workers.
to be vaccinated.
l5-Reynolds Bombshen. converted army
bomber. sets unofficial around the
world flight record by covering 10000
miles in 70 hours. SIS minutes.
May
7-Oklahoma State Sen. Thomas Anglin shot
in hip by State Rep. James Scott in
senate chamber. Scott is adjudged in
l7-Stock market prices slump to lowest
point since January. 1915, on reports of
buyer resistance and slowing business
activity.
June
ll-New secret weapon" called as efec.
tive as atom bomb but cheaper to make.
announced by Prof. T. d. J. Leech Of
New Zealand. II reputedly is some kind
of electrical death ray"
24-Freak snOwstorm in Montana Wyoming
border region piles up l5-foot drifts.
Three workmen smothered in snow
buried truck.
2s-General Eisenhower declares u. s.
army is now "a poor second" to Rus
sia's.
July
5%-"Flying discs" reported by airlines crew
over Emmett. Ida. leads TO frenzy of
similar stories Of discs over other states.
ll-Employment in u. s passes go million.
figure set as ideal by Henry Wallace.
27-Gailup poll reports 81 per cent OF voters
would vote for Truman for President.
40 per cent for Dewey.
August
l9-More than a third (35 per cent? Of veter.
ans who entered college under G.I. bill
Of rights have dropped out OF school,
VA reports.
versIty of California. II is 10 miles in
diameter. l56 million miles from sun.
tube almost as small as a grain
of rice" developed.
September
9-Cyclotron at University Of California
produces non-explosive hssion Of tanta-
lum, thallium. platinum. lead and bis
muth. Scientists also discover diamonds
are radio-sensitive and make excellent
counters Of radio activity.
l8-Department of agriculture reports that
20 cents of every consumer dollar spent
on meat now goes to farmer. compared
with 81 cents In 1899.
7-"Radac" (rapid digital automatic COM
putation) may be basis Of defense for
rocket weapons, reports Presidential Sci
entifc Research board.
October
Overell and George Bud" Col.
lum acquitted on charge Of numbering
Beulah's parents in yacht explosion.
0-Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets re-
vealed In senate inquiry into Hollywood
communism.
3-Dealers blame rumors Of nylon stock.
ing shortage on radio commentators
and newspaper columnists.
Russia reported to have exploded atomic
bomb in tests: u. s. scientists doubt
possibility.
9-Decommissioned battleship New Mexico
reaches junkyard in Newark. N. j.. for
scrapping, after week of ludicrous bat
Ting" with 6reboats and writs.