The Omaha guide., 1947-12-27

in effort Ito halt insane spiral of
mounting costs and rising prices"
23-Potato growers authorized to dump
20 million bushels of low-grade pota-
toes stored under government price
support plan.
February
made in New York when federal
agents find $3.50, 900 worth of heroin
in possession of U. S. seaman re-
turning from France.
Coolest temperature ever recorded
on North American continent, 81 de-
grees below zero, registered at Snag
airport in Canadian Yukon.
16-Survey shows average teachers SAL
airy In U. S. is $37 weekly, and $780,
900 teachers have left schools since
1910.
March
16-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 4o.1 per
12-Two die of smallpox in New York
City. Mayor O'Dwyer asks all New
Workers to be vaccinated.
15-Reynolds Bombshen, converted
army bomber, sets unofficial around
the world flight record by covering
10000 miles in rs hours. SIS minutes.
May
shot in hip by State Rep. James
Scott in senate chamber. Scott Is
adjudged insane.
17-Stock market prices slump to lowest
point since January, 1945, on reports
of buyer resistance and slowing bust.
ness activity.
June
11-New secret weapon" called as ef.
fective as atom bomb but cheaper to
make, by Prof. T. d. J.
Leech of New Zealand. 1t reputedly
Is some kind Of electrical death
~.
ming border region piles up 15-foot
drifts. Three workmen smothered in
snow-buried truck.
28-General Eisenhower declares u. S.
army is now "a poor second" to
Russia's.
July
5-.Flying discs" reported by airlines
crew over Emmett, Ida., leads to
frenzy Of similar stories of discs
over other states.
Unemployment in U. S. passes so mil.
lion, figure set as ideal by Henry
27-Gallup poll reports 81 per cent of
voters would vote for Truman for
President. 49 per cent for Dewey.
August
IGNORE thar a third (35 per cent? of
veterans who entered college under
CT. bill Of rights have dropped out
of school. VA reports.
23-New minor planet discovered by Uni.
versity of California. It is 10 miles in
3o-Radio tube almost as small as a
grain of rice" developed.
September
9eCyclotron at University Of California
produces n~on-explosive fssion Of tan
talum, thallium. platinum, lead and
olsmuth. Scientists also discover dia-
mondS are radio-SenSitive and make
excellent counters of radio-activity.
l8-Department of agriculture reports
that 20 cents of every consumer dol
lar spent on meat now goes to farm.
er. compared with 81 cents in 1899.
27-"Radac" (rapid digitaI automatic
computation) may be basis of de.
tense for rocket reports
Presidential Scientific Research
DoarQ.
October
5-Beulah Overeu and George ..Rud.,
Gollum acquitted on charge of muir.
dering. Beulah's parents in yacht
explosion.
3OEPlot to obtain atomic bomb secrets
revealed in senate inquiry into Holly
wood communism.
November
31Dealers blame rumors of nyIon
stocking shortage on radio
tators and newspaper columnists.
ll-Russia reported to have exploded
atomic bomb in tests; u. S. scient.
lists doubt possibility.
19-Decommissioned hattleship New
Mexico reaches junkyard in New.
ark. N j., for scrapping, after week
OF ludicrous battling" with freboats
and writs.