The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-01-08
PANORAMA

15-Ford Motor company re.
duces prices on passen-
ger cars SIS to $50 In ef.
fort ito halt insane spiral Of mounting
costs and rising prices,
2S-Potato growers authorized to dump 20
million bushels of low-grade potatoes
stored under government price-support
plan.
February
Largest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal agents
find $250,000 worth Of heroin In posses.
sion OF U. s. seaman returning from
France.
Coolest temperature ever recorded on
North American continent, 81 degrees
below zero, registered at Snag airport
In Canadian Yukon.
12-Navy discloses new rapid fire cannons
installed on heavy cruiser Newport
News are fully automatic eight-inch
rifles with three times frepower of pre-
vious armament.
16-Suryey shows average teachers salary
In U. S. is $37 weekly, and $50. 900 teach
ers 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 40.1 per 100, 900.
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
7-Oklahoma State Sen. Thomas Anglin shot
in hip by State Rep. James Scott in
senate chamber. Scott is adjudged in
sane.
17-Stock market prices slump to lowest
point since January, 1915, on reports of
buyer resistance and slowing business
activity.
June
11-New secret weapon" called as effec.
tive as atom bomb but cheaper to make,
announced by Prof. T. D. j. Leech of
New Zealand. 1t reputedly is some kind
of electrical death ray"
24-Freak snowstorm in Montana Wyoming
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 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.
Unemployment in U. S. passes go million.
figure set as ideal by Henry Wallace
N-Gallup poll reports 81 per cent of voters
would vote for Truman for President.
40 per cent for Dewey.
August
19-More than third (35 per cent? of veter.
ans 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. 1t Is 10 miles in
diameter, 1855 million miles from sun.
30-Radio tube almost as small as a grain
of rice" developed.
September
| 9-Cyclotron at University of California
produces non-explosive ission of tanta
lun, thallium, platinum lead and bis
muth Scientists also discover diamonds
are radio-Sensitive and make excellent
counters of radio-activity.
18-Department of agriculture reports that
| 10 cents of every consumer dollar spent
on meat now goes to farmer. compared
/ with 81 cents in 1889.
| 27-"Radac" (rapid digital automatic com
putation) may be basis of defense for
rocket weapons, reports Presidential Sci
entific Research board.
October
5-Beulah Overell and George Bud" Col
lum acquitted on charge of numbering
| Beulah's parents in yacht explosion.
| S0-Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets re-
vealed Ii senate inquiry into Hollywood
communism.
November
S-Dealers blame rumors of nylon stock
ing shortage on radio commentators
and newspaper cclumnists.
| 11--Russia reported to have exploded atomic
bomb in tests; u. s. scientists doub
possibility.
1g-Decommissioned battleship New Mexico
i reaches junkyard in Newark, NJ j.. fol
scrapping after week of ludicrous "bat