Arizona sun., 1948-01-02
PANQRAMA

&SSSsA January
4SSa 15-Ford Motor company
ksoE 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-
toes stored under government price
support plan.
February
4Largest narcotic seizure in nine years
made in New York when federal
agents find $3.50, 900 worth Of heroin
in possession of u. S. seaman re-
turning from France.
7-Coldest 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
ary in U. S. is $37 weekly, and $780,.
600 teachers have left schools since
1910.
March
16-Margaret Truman. the. Presidents 8
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
100000
lTWo die Of s%SIlpox in mn New W YSrk Nsx
Workers to be vaccinated.
15-Reynolds Bombshell, converted
army bomber, sets unofficial around
the world flight record by covering
10000 miles in 78 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 busi-
ness activity.
June
11-New "secret weapon" called as eff.
fective as atom bomb but cheaper to
make. announced by Prof. 7. D. J.
Leech of New Zealand. It reputedly
is some kind of electrical death
ray"
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
s-"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 60 mil
lion. figure set as ideal by Henry
Wallace.
27-GaIlup poll reports 81 per cent of
voters would vote for Truman for
President, 49 per cent for Dewey.
August
19-More than a third (35 per cent? of
veterans who entered college under
G.I. 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
diameter, 156 million miles from sun.
3O-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, thalliun, platinum, lead and
bismuth. Scientists also discover dia-
mondS are radio-SenSitive and make
excellent counters of radio-activity.
18-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 1889.
27-"Radac" (rapid digital automatic
computation) may be basis of de-
fense for rocket weapons, reports
Presidential Scientific Research
board.
October
5-Beulah Overell and George Bud"
Gollum acquitted on charge Of muir.
dering. Beulah's parents in yacht
explosion.
30-Plot to obtain atomic bomb secrets
revealed in senate inquiry INTO Holly
wood communism.
November
3-Dealers blame rumorS OF nylon
stocking shortage on radio commen-
tators and newspaper columnists.
l1-Russia reported to have exploded
atomic bomb in tests; U. S. scient-
lists doubt possibility.
l9-DecommisSioned battleship New
Mexico reaches junkyard in New.
ark, N. j., for scrapping, after week
Of ludicrous battling with fireboats
and Writs.