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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
19
Firefighters battled about 250 grass fires in the Chicago area on the first sunny Sunday of April. One man died while fighting a blaze as warm spring weather swept across the region. Separately, researchers trace Rosetta Stone inscriptions linking hieroglyphics to other languages through a multilingual tablet discovery.
London report says Radio Moscow asserts Russians invented the airplane and electric light bulb before Western figures, credits Lomonosov with weight law, contests Fleming on penicillin, and claims Russians discovered wireless, steam engine, Antarctic, and Arctic exploration milestones.
W H Gregory livestock specialist from Alabama Polytechnic Institute calls for a complete DDT spray program on Alabama farms to combat Texas fever ticks. He warns of cattle moving from Florida and urges DDT use to reduce tick infestations and also target mosquitoes and flies.
In St Louis the city police horses retire as the department mechanizes. The Moolah Temple Shrine bought all 13 horses and plans to use them for the shrine mounted patrol, giving the nags a glamorous new life.
Farmers practice sequential row cultivation with a tooth weeder, section harlon, and a rotary hoe four days after planting and repeat at four day intervals. J B Wilson of Alabama Polytechnic Institute says this yields cheap, easy weed and grass control in row crops. In Grand Rapids Michigan Fred A Filkins creates a trout stream through his home recreation room and salarium to satisfy a 20 year goal.
Firefighters set fire to an empty Bridgewater home to clear land for a road cutting through the Rowayne park housing project. The structure stood in the path of the new development and was intentionally burned to speed construction.
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