Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-01-09
PANORAMA.

HSSSS January
15-Ford Motor company re-
ger cars SIS to $50 in ef.
fort Ito halt insane spiral Of mounting
costs and rising prices"
23-Potato growers authorized to dump 20
million bushels Of low.grade potatoes
stored under government price.support
February
Largest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal agents
find S25O. 900 worth Of heroin in posses.
sion of U. S. seaman returning from
7-Coldest temperature ever recorded on
North American continent. 81 degrees
below zero. registered at snag airport
12-Navy discloses new rapid fire cannons
News are fully automatic eight.inch
rifles rifles with three times firepower of pre-
in T. s i IS ss7 Seekiy and 1s $50 900 teach
ers have left schools since 1s4o
March
daughter. sings on radio in debut with
Detroit symphony.
April
6-Tuberculosis death rate in U. s. hits
l2-Two die of smallpox in New York City.
Mayor oDwyer asks all New Workers.
to be vaccinated.
l5-Reynolds Bombshen. converted army
bomber; sets unofficial around ~ the the
miles In rs hours. IS minutes.
May
7-Oklahoma State Sen. Thomas Anglin shot
In hip by State Rep. James Scott in
senate chamber. Scott is adjudged in.
sane
l7-Stock market prices slump to lowest
point since January, l945 on reports of
buyer resistance and slowing business
activity.
June
1l-New secret weapon" called as effec.
announced by Prof. T. D. J. Leech OF
New Zealand; It reputedly is some kind
Of electrical death ray"
24-Freak snowstorm in Montana Wyoming
border region piles up l5.foot drifts.
buried truck.
28-General Eisenhower declares u. S.
army Is now "a poor second" to Rus.
sia's.
July
5-"Flying discs" reported by airlnes crew
over Emmett. Ida. leads to frenzy Of
similar stories Of DISCS over other e states
figure set as ideal by Henry Wallace.
27-Gallup poll reports 81 per cent of voters
would vote for Truman for President.
40 per cent for Dewey.
august
IGNORE than third (35 per cent? of veter.
ans who entered college under Gil. bill
Of rights have dropped out Of school.
VA reports.
23-New minor planet discovered by Uni.
versity of California. II Is 10 miles in
diameter. 1856 million miles from sun.
30-Radis tube almost as small as grain
Of rice developed.
September
s-Cyclotron at University Of California
produces non-explosve fssion of tanta-
ium thalium. platinum, lead and bis
muth. Scientists also discover diamonds
are radio senSitive and make excellent
counters of radio activity.
Is Department of agriculture reports that
10 cents of every consumer dollar spent
on meat now goes to farmer. compared
with 81 cents In 1889
7-"Radac" rapid dgital automatic com.
pulation) may be basis of defense for
rocket weapons: reports Presidential Sci.
entific Research board
October
S-Beulah overell and George Bud" Col.
lum acquitted on charge Of numbering
Beulahs parents In yacht explosion.
3O-Pot 10 obtain atomic bomb secrets re.
veaied In senate inquiry into Hollywood
communism.
November
3-Deaers blame rumors Of nylon stock.
ing shortage on radio commentators
and newspaper columnists
ll--Russia reported to have exploded atomic
bomb In tests: U S. scientists doubt
possibility
10 .becommIssioned oattleship New Mexico
reaches junkyard In Newark. N j.. for
ftar of l,,,li sh,t