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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1948
Page
3
Readers can build a suspended under the bed storage chest 30 inches wide 42 inches long or longer to store bed linen clothing and many other items. The chest rolls easily under beds on wheels is dustproof and ideal as a wedding gift pattern No 37 from East Bird Pattern Company Pleasantville NY 25 cents.
Instructions to seal a 16 by 6 by 3 foot concrete stock tank after freezing damage. Cut the crack deeper and wider, clean edges, soak, then pack with Portland cement and sharp sand mix. Keep patch damp for several days to cure and reach full density.
Bitter fights mark the new congressional session as President Truman lobbies for an anti inflation program while Republicans vow obstruction. Agriculture sets 1949 wheat goals amid a bumper crop and soil conservation push, and the Atomic Energy Commission details Sandstone tests at Eniwetok with broader science uses.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes the CPI reached an all time high on June 15 with retail food prices at record levels. The index stood at 171.7 percent of the 1935-39 average, up 9.3 percent from a year earlier and well above prewar levels. Wholesale prices also hit a peak, signaling further rises to come as price controls end.
Americans seek economic security for themselves and families as the Research Council for Economic Security estimates 15 billion dollars will be spent in 1948 on plans covering death, old age, accident, sickness, disability, unemployment and related risks. Northeastern, midwestern, and Pacific coast states lead in total payments and per capita coverage.
Gen Omar Bradley orders removal of petty annoyances as the first peacetime draft unfolds. Recruits receive a five dollar advance, orient with chaplains, and are greeted by select officers at eight major training centers including Fort Knox Camp Breckenridge Fort Riley Camp Chaffee Camp Pickett Fort Ord Fort Jackson Fort Dix. The eight week course is condensed to eight weeks with overseas duty likely for about half the draftees in Korea Japan Germany Alaska and other zones.
Washington report highlights how private and small woodlots, averaging 60 to 70 acres, form most U S timber. Government and industry train youth through forestry camps in Florida Alabama Arkansas Georgia Louisiana North Carolina and Virginia to grow trees as a profitable cash crop and secure future timber supplies.
Germany remains a flashpoint in the Berlin standoff as four-power diplomacy resumes to ease tensions. U S and Britain sustain the airlift to feed the city, delivering thousands of tons daily to break the Soviet blockade amid currency turmoil and clashes in the Russian sector. Louise Schroeder defies Moscow by resisting orders to dismiss the anti Communist deputy police chief.
In Annapolis a plebe at the U S naval academy, 18, took his oath amid ceremony. John Paul Jones of Piqua Ohio, not a descendant of the famed namesake, entered the Navy milestone. In Fort Wayne a sewer trench collapse left Joseph Neal buried 20 minutes, rescued with only his nose exposed until responders freed him. In Sallisaw Oklahoma E W Floyd, 40, brother of Pretty Boy Floyd, won a sharp sheriff race. In Charlestown Eben Trussell returned home to find a bull calf damage his windshield then a vet and mechanic repaired both car and bull.
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