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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
3
Advertisement highlights Pattern 898 offering 22 embroidery motifs for household linens. Describes transfer charts photos and concise directions to simplify needlework. Includes address for ordering and showcases decorative schemes for downstairs and upstairs linens.
The article explains a superstition that electrical storms boost soil fertility, noting that lightning can burn debris to ashes enriching ground. It also cites a chemical reaction producing nitric acid from oxygen and nitrogen, carried to earth by precipitation, effectively a natural fertilizer.
U S authorities report extension of European aid through fifteen more months while the government launches a new bond sale drive. Analysts note policy continuity as President Truman signs the measure amid postwar economic efforts.
The men who dug for Kathy Fiscus are being remembered nationwide as more than 2200 letters flood the Kathy Fiscus rescue fund. Mayor Bell of San Marino notes early envelopes show 1020 dollars, averaging 5.10 per donation, with gifts from 10 cents to 50 dollars, aiming at over 11000 dollars for the workers who labored 52 hours to reach the 92 foot well shaft.
President Truman signs a bill providing 5.58 billion dollars for the European recovery program over 15 months with one billion available immediately. He distributes pens to witnesses and keeps one for Senator Arthur Vandenberg. The piece notes UN debates over Mindszenty trials and the limits of UN influence, contrasting with past League of Nations impotence.
President Truman launched the Opportunity Bond Drive aiming to sell one billion forty million dollars in U.S. savings bonds. He framed security as a shared goal for all Americans and praised 3 million volunteers with 250000 newsboys to reach 12 million homes. Officials worry about employment and cash impacting the goal.
The Research Council for Economic Security estimates 3.75 billion dollars by 1955 to fund old age and survivors insurance for covered workers, rising to about 13 billion by 2000 at peak. The report discusses extending coverage to all labor, presenting pros and cons for farm and household workers.
The Social Security chart shows current law assuming ten years of coverage and compares it with proposed provisions where monthly benefits would not depend on length of covered employment. Prepared by the Research Council for Economic Security, the chart contrasts present benefit scales with those in the administration program.
Administration farm experts push for direct subsidies to pork and milk farmers to curb expected surpluses in the next two months. Brannan has discussed the proposal with President Truman as current law waits for January 1, 1950.
Brannan reports a favorable reaction to a farm program with price support cash adjustments. Blood test research from University of Chicago promises a simple cancer screening, while Grantland Rice notes spring optimism as multipleNL teams vie for the pennant with analysts predicting varied outcomes for Dodgers, Braves, Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs, Phillies, and Reds.
The National Safety Council reports 92 cities over 10 000 population had zero traffic deaths in 1948. Medford Massachusetts with 67 477 residents was the largest city to record no traffic deaths last year.
Senator Fear of Delaware tells a senate committee the nation still faces harsh housing conditions in rural areas. He warns rural needs have been neglected in discussions of the multi billion dollar housing bill now pending in Congress.
Nature lovers in New Zealand celebrate a rare male kiwi chick at Hawke's Bay game farm. The chick expands the sole known family of this nocturnal flightless bird thought extinct until recent years. The chick hatched after 81 days in the egg.
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