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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
8
The article notes the rapid spread of lie detector devices, with 300 units in use split between police departments and medical institutions. Keeler machine is prominent, as Keeler predicts expansion to all cities over 100,000 and a training school for operators, while 18 men study the field.
The article recounts Keeler and associates using polygraphs to probe honesty in banks stores and other firms. It notes private practice since 1933 after leaving Northwesterm University Crime Detection Lab. Tests gauge pulse respiration and sweat patterns to flag deception. Results show high prior wrongdoing in a retail chain but improvement after further sessions.
The record notes that among Negro women in 1942, 55 died in childbirth per 10 000 live births versus 37 among white women. The disparity highlights racial health inequities in maternal mortality during that year.
In a vivid forecast, industry writer Marc J. Parsons notes television’s postwar boom with receivers mounting toward 500 million dollars in sales and networks expanding coast to coast. By 1948 the field expects 750 thousand to a million sets and 65 million viewers within two years, spurring FCC decisions, affiliate deals, and rising advertising interest across five planned coast to coast networks and hundreds of stations.
Sunshine aids fruit ripening but harms harvested fruit. John Bagby advises shading fruits immediately after harvest and covering loads such as peaches watermelons and tomatoes on route to packing sheds or markets.
UNESCO will survey newsprint availability printing filming broadcasting censorship and other obstacles to free information flow this year. On spot investigators will study technical needs of press radio and films in ECISthicen countries visiting Austria Bulgaria Hungary Italy Romania and more, with regions in Latin America Asia and the Caribbean.
In 1812 a plan for a fifty thousand mile national system of hielwass faced attack as a frivolous expenditure serving only a few wealthy pleasure seekers.
Harbor explains alfalfa requires well drained soils and warns against planting on sandy soils without a subsoil. He notes alfalfa cannot grow on Susquehannah clay and recommends June land preparation, turning stubble after oats, and leaving land rough until rain before disking to control weeds. Early planting aids better stands and fall growth.
In Tallahassee Florida three GI students at the state university built a 11 by 24 foot pool 40 inches deep from an abandoned building foundation three bags of cement and two weeks spare time total cost four dollars and twenty cents Ralph Fielding and Ernest Oaks from Pensacola and Don Milburn of Jacksonville led the project for the pool’s shallow dip and cooling respite.
Fragmentary OCR notes that a portion of wheat exports received about 56 percent of shipments in Recrope, with unclear context and garbled phrasing. The readable elements point to a trade or distribution statistic but lack concrete entities or dates.
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