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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1946
Page
6
The report highlights rapid progress including radar guided missiles the Bat for all weather bombing and stratosphere rocket tracking by high frequency radio waves. It notes innovations from color television to microwave relay systems, traveling wave tubes and photochemical data processing, plus underwater sonar sodar and X ray detection developments.
Archaeologists report that eleven square miles near the Viru Valley in northern Peru contain Chan Chan a pre Inca city possibly the largest in the Americas. Fragmentary finds include Meganthropus Gigantopithecus Pithecanthropus and other ancient hominids collected for study. A 4500 foot long 120 foot high wall lies in a mountain ridge in the northeast. In southern Mexico La Venta stone heads are uncovered and Easter Island statues are noted to be under 800 years old. Arrow heads and knives accompany skeletons of giant bison found among the ruins.
The Oct 9 meteor shower followed the Giacobini Zinner comet debris. T Coronae Borealis flared to second magnitude mirroring its 1866 outburst, and Nova Sagittae 1933 revived. Seven star angular diameters were measured from 30 foot diffraction rings as the moon blocked starlight. Radar reflected off the Moon opened interplanetary exploration. Rockets and satellites enabled high altitude cosmic radiation studies and solar spectrum photography from 1500 to 3000 Angstroms. New comets Timmers Padjusakova Rothart Jones and Bester were found, while periodic comets Tempel Brooks Oterma Giacobini Zinner were located. A February sunspot group became the largest on record, spanning about 6 billion square miles.
Seismographs logged 45 strong quakes with notable ocean bottom events near the Aleutians and Dominican coast. Airborne magnetometers mapped oil and mineral deposits. The Magnetic North Pole shifted about 200 miles north in 40 years from Boothia peninsula. A wide canyon along the lower Mississippi was formed by the river recently and later filled with sediment. An ancient drowned archipelago of 160 flat peaks lay between Hawaii and the Marianas. Fossil remains include 100 million year old reptiles and a 30,000 year old marsupial wolf from Colombia. Hurricanes’ vortices may trigger micro seismic waves.
In 1946 civilian control of atomic energy rises as a key milestone while UNESCO forms, BW secrecy persists, and wartime research yields antibiotic and aerospace advances. V-2 photos, jet fighters, nuclear developments, and high altitude flights mark the year with new records and capabilities.
The report details mesotron mass findings, new elements and isotopes like Neptunium 237 and U-233, and the creation of carbon 14 for research. It notes multiple high voltage accelerators, transmutation experiments, and a shift toward civilian control of atomic energy led by Lilienthal. It also recalls the Bikini Atoll tests Test Able and Test Baker, their destructive reach, radioactive fallout, and a radon plume detected in Oklahoma.
An 18 000 tube electro computing machine can add in 1 5000 of a second while a desk sized brain solves linear algebra. Radioactive isotopes emerge filling gaps in the periodic table and safe nerve friendly antibiotics and vaccines progress amid rapid medical trials.
The article reports on the Congress passing the National Mental Health Act recognizing mental health as a government priority. It details treatments like sodium amytal and psychotherapy aiding veterans with aphasia, and various findings from psychology tests and therapies affecting behavior, intelligence, and mental illness outcomes across diverse groups.
The notice summarizes numerous science and technology advances reported by Science Service during 1946. Readers can request detailed item information by mailing two 3-cent stamps per item to Science Service at 1719 N Street NW Washington DC.
The report details wartime biological research yielding vaccines for cattle plague and poultry diseases, new antibiotics, and toxins. It notes botulinum toxin development, plant-killing chemicals, novel insecticides, and unusual transplantation experiments across species. It mentions fungal and viral plant pathogens, mutated DDT variants, and large soilless gardens built for occupation forces in Japan.
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