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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1948
Page
3
Sign and signal guidance from the National Safety Council urges drivers to treat signs like traffic officers. Do not speed at warning diamond or railroad signs. stop at octagonal signs. obey regulatory oblong signs. and heed railroad crossing warnings. Most fatal accidents occur within 25 miles of home.
A local dealer promotes holiday gift cartons containing 20 Camel cigarettes and Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco in festive packaging. The items are described as ideal gifts with easy personal greetings and space for a holiday message.
The Soviet military administration warned that unidentified foreign planes over the Soviet zone would be forced down. Brig. Gen. Gailey warned that any Americans harmed would be held responsible. The move, while seen as a potential flare up, was labeled a tempest in a teapot by analysts.
Rent Director Tighe Woods outlined proposals to extend the rent control law for 12 months beyond March 31 and to close three loopholes. He would restore eviction controls, allow triple damages, and add criminal sanctions to enforce compliance, aiming for passage by the new Democratic Congress.
Lucius Clobb mocks a failed barber poll joke as Mayor Ryerson Bucket shrugs off mockery. The brief exchange reveals clashing views on polling and political tactics in Pawbooley county. Separately, Rep J Parnell Thomas faces charges of conspiring to pad payrolls and divert salaries, with trial expected to begin in January.
The November issue of Business Comment, a Northern Trust bulletin, notes electricity output rose 11 percent in the first nine months of 1948 versus 1947, with 1947 up 15 percent on 1946. The industry serves over 40 million customers, up from 221 million at the end of 193, marking substantial growth and lower unit costs postwar.
Across Nanking Peiping Shanghai and coastal cities panic and riots erupt as foreigners flee China. Nationalist authorities face collapse with Red troops advancing in Manchukuo and Yangtze fears. In U S politics the GOP eyed Harold Stassen to lead reconstruction toward a liberal steering for 1952.
Washington analysis cites Garner and Barkley to explain the vice presidency as a largely ceremonial role with potential for influence. It notes that the office keeps the holder tied to Senate leadership, while presidential politics rely on a trusted cabinet and party support to push policy.
The United Nations released a projected convention to declare dead millions of refugees soldiers and others missing between 1939 and 1945. The measure aims to settle inheritances adoptions and remarriages tied to disappearances during war and persecution.
A pattern book offers a wheelbarrow project for children to assemble with basic tools. It promises constructive hours, improves care in use, and provides step by step directions. Send 25c for Pattern No 36 to East Bird Pattern Company Pleasantville NY.
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