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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1947
Page
3
A short manners guide urges courtesy and common sense for social success. It promotes the booklet No 45 on introductions, dining, table manners, movies and dates, with a 25 cents payment to the Weekly Newspaper Service in New York for the booklet.
A garbled excerpt lists lines about free speech, asking to use a phone, and a student kicked out for cheating. It includes quirky phrases about counting ribs during a hygiene exam and a quip on living cheap as singles.
A brief exchange on a crowded bus ends with playful tension as a man complains his feet are being crushed while a woman retorts with a sly remark about gentlemanly behavior. The scene hints at social flirtation in a public transit setting.
News analyst recounts Washington mood barometers and a Soviet transcript mockup showing a Communist predicting a U S depression mirroring 1929. He notes domestic inflation fears, wage hikes, and policy debates as workers seek gains while planners fear a bust.
UN Security Council rejected an American appeal for an emergency debate on the Balkans crisis amid rising Greek strife. Deputy US delegate Herschel V. Johnson warned the situation may explode any day while Russia and France urged caution and not to act hastily. The US proposed swift discussion and backing for Greek defense including a strong 11 nation border patrol to monitor borders with Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania.
The war ministry said six guerrilla units are massed along Albania and Yugoslavia borders to join an invading 2,000 troops, while government forces repel early advances. Napoleon Zervas reported captured fighters wearing Soviet Red Star insignia. A second invading column was pinched near Ioannina as a battle of annihilation unfolds.
President Truman urges Congress to start a 10 year program costing 250 million dollars to control floods in the Mississippi basin. The plan calls for a coordinated network of storage reservoirs levees flood walls and diversion channels to protect cities towns and farms. It also includes soil conservation measures farther up the tributaries to slow runoff and reduce soil loss.
Dr Allan Bates testified to a House sub committee that universal military training has become a vicious political racket and would be a horrible cancer for the United States He urged replacing it with a powerful strike force a large air force strong reserves and a well organized national guard backed by scientific and industrial research
A Miami area column notes bantam raising as a growing U S hobby and industry. Three new birds Elmer Clementine and Adeline arrive from Iowa, charming the household and highlighting exhibition bred birds. The piece traces bantams from China to European estates and explains their breeding for size and beauty.
Chicago reports sugar industry spokesmen project a record U S beet and cane crop this year surpassing last year by over 450 000 tons and Cuba will harvest a record 6.4 million tons boosting supplies for home use and canning while rationing may not end before October 31.
The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology reports progress in resuming wartime work and advancing non metallic mineral studies. Researchers like Thomson Perry McGlashan Lyden Karlstrom Heinrich and Das pursue talc vermiculite graphite gypsum phosphate cement and pegmatite dikes while mapping Montana’s geology with USGS collaboration. New map drafting aims for completion within a year with district field visits planned.
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