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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1948
Page
2
A weekly news analysis notes a U S win in cold war terms while predicting failure of Moscow talks. It highlights President Truman and Congress in a heated budget dispute amid evolving international tensions.
The piece links the Oksana Kosenkina and Mikhail Samarin cases in New York to a shift in Cold War perception. It notes Western optimism, Moscow denials, and stalled East West talks with Berlin siege and a possible spring resumption. It also reports budget debate over a projected deficit and implied surplus after adjustments.
Dr John Milne Murray of Boston University argues war is mass breakdown of relations. A psychiatrist seeks individual causes rather than mass blame and urges applying mass behavior knowledge to abolish war. He notes stress can revert children to archaic behaviors akin to global self destruction. The solution is to help people understand their own actions.
Washington analyst notes grasslands cover over a billion acres and supply about half the livestock feed. The Agriculture Year Book titled Grass argues for permanency in farming, with grassland as the security base and a guide to stable prices, efficient production, and continued food and fiber supply.
A Northwestern National Life study estimates Americans will drink about 7.95 billion gallons of beverages in 1948. Coffee and milk lead with around 8 billion gallons combined, coffee at 55 gallons per person, plus 2.7 billion gallons of beer and 1.7 billion of soft drinks. The total would form a circular lake over a mile across and 20 feet deep, enough to power Niagara Falls for 67 minutes without cream or sugar.
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