The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-01-01

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W reduces prices on pas
senger cars SIS to $50
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.
support plan.
February
+Largest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal
agents find $3.50, 600 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-Surveyi shows average teachers sal.
airy in U. S. is $37 weekly, and $780,.
600 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 40.1 per
100, 900.
12-Two die of smallpox in New York
City. Mayor o'Dwyer asks all New
Workers to be v~accinated.
15-Reyno.ds Bombshell, converted
army bomber. sets unofficial around
the world flight record by covering
$1,000 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 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 eff
fective 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-Wyo.
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 go mil
lion, figure set as ideal by Henry
27-GaIlup poll reports 81 per cent of
voters would vote for Truman for
President, 40 per cent for Dewey.
August
19-More than a third (35 per cent? of
veterans who entered college under
CT. bill of rights have dropped out
Ct school, VA reports.
23-New minor planet discovered by Uni.
yersity of California. 1t is 10 miles in
diameter, 1856 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 fission of tan.
talum, thallium. platinum. lead and
bismuth. 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 or meat now goes to farm.
er, compared with 81 cents in 1889.
27-"Radac" (rapid digital automatic
computation) may be basis of de.
tense for rocket weapons, reports
Presidential Scientific Research
board.
October
5-Beulah overen and George Bud
Gollum acquitted on charge Of MUIR
dering Beulah's parents In yacht
explosion.
3o-Piot 10 obtain atomic bomb secrets
revealed in senate inquiry INTO Holly.
wood communism.
November
3-Dealers blame rurnors Of nylon
stocking shortage on radio commen-
tators and newspaper columnists.
ll-Russia reported to have exploded
atomic bomb in tests; U. S. scient.
lists doubt possibility.
l9-Decommissioned battleship New
Mexico reaches junlsyard in New
ark. n. J., for scrapping. after week
Of ludicrous battling with 6reboats
and writs.