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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
6
The XS-1 experimental aircraft completed a flight test proving speeds well above Mach 1. The mission marks a milestone for the research program and underscores progress toward advanced agile aircraft capability.
Secretary Symington announced at a news conference that the XS-1 research plane has flown much faster than the speed of sound on multiple occasions. He noted Captain Charles E. Yeager remains the first and only pilot to break the sonic barrier, with the aircraft carried aloft by a B-29 and released at high altitude.
The Air Force announced it will purchase 2,201 new aircraft using $31.345 billion from defense funds to reach a 70-group force. The mix includes 243 bombers with 162 long-range types, 81 jet bombers including 30 Flying Wing variants, plus transport and support planes.
Keith Snider of Hamilton Missouri, 16, won champion, reserve, and first in his carrot at the Midwest Vocational Agriculture Fat Lamb show at the American Royal building. He leads a 80-lamb flock on a 160-acre farm with his father Homer Snider, and his crossbred Hampshire-Southdown lambs are six months old.
Four Westinghouse designed electrified homes on display in Arlford Conn showcase major electrical packages from 950 to 2064 as budget options. Homes feature eight to twenty circuits, integrated lighting, air sterilizers, shoe lights, and advanced kitchen and laundry aids. Prices exclude bulbs radios and portable units.
The 19 year old Anna May Catanese of Jacksonville Fla was found face down in a shallow creek four miles southeast of Norristown. Det chief David Ennis said the skull appeared fractured and suspected murder tied to an auto in the creek area. The girl had been staying with aunt Mrs Lattanze near Bridgeport and was last seen leaving the house night before. The body lay on Warner Lime Co property about 25 yards from the road.
A Norristown laborer spotted a dead girl while standing on a small bridge over a shallow creek. She wore blue dungarees and a cowboy shirt, the same clothing she wore home from Lansdale Tube Company the previous evening.
AP reports that Attorney General Tom Clark granted special authority for Josefina Guerrero, Filipino war heroine, to enter the United States for leprosy treatment. She will be admitted to the Carville leprosarium in Louisiana after being honored for her service to American and Philippine soldiers on Bataan. Cardinal Spellman praised her fortitude amid humanitarian work.
A 16 year old girl, Miss Betty Merriam, was injured when a car sideswiped another vehicle and she fell from a moving car about a mile west of the U S Highways 69 and 60 intersection west of Mission Kansas. She received treatment at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She was a passenger in a Ford coupe driven by
Mrs Sadie Levin of 406 East Seventy Fifth Street reported the loss to police today. During a May 15 operation at St Marys hospital her plate of false teeth, insured and valued at 150 dollars, was taken from a table in her hospital room.
Payne Ratner, former governor, announced he will not seek the Republican nomination for the U S Senate this year. He cited the filing deadline and his law firm commitments as preventing time to decide or arrange alternatives. Andrew Schoeppel remains the sole Republican candidate after Arthur Capper's withdrawal.
Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor urged the United States chief counsel in the war crimes court to convict twenty three I G Farben industrial officials of plotting aggressive war. He said guilt has been proved and the verdict will echo far away. He linked today’s cold war to the need for a law against aggression.
The survey and research committee of the Citizens Regional Planning council postpones its meeting to 3 PM next Thursday due to a calendar conflict. E. B. Black serves as chairman.
Prince Philip marked his twenty seventh birthday while on duty at the Royal Navy Staff College in Greenwich today.
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