lion. The next 12 months are ex
pected to add 1.500 000 more at
least, to raise the nation’s total to
close to two and a half million.
It’s the same story with stations.
Their number continued to in
crease to start the new year with
around 50. As many more are ex
pected to come on by 1950.
And as this growth continues,
some thought is being given by the
experts to “radio transition day.’’
when television reverses its pres
ent status of subordination to ra
dio.
Nearly every new owner of a
television set quickly turns into
an avid visual fan. 11 is radio lis
tening becomes definitely second
ary.
Various schemes are being tried
to develop combined radio-televi
sion broadcasts through the tele
vising of regular radio shows, in
cluding sports.
EDUCATION:
Looks to Federal Adi
The 31st Congress, educators
predict, will approve federal aid
to education. This probably will
take the form of general aid to
public elementary and seconJ-iry
schools, to capital outlay for
school buildings, and for scholar
ships.
Educators generally agree that
teacher shortages in elementary
schools and colleges will be more
acute in 1949. Supply of secondary
school teachers should be adequate
and some effort will be made to
shift them over to elementary
schools to offset the short supply
there.
College and university enroll
ments will tend to level off at the
present top of 2,410,000. The num
ber of veterans will decrease
sharply and competition for ad
mission of graduate schools will
continue with more applicants
than there are places available.
Sentiment seems to be crystalliz
ing toward a comprehensive plan
for scholarship aid to well-quali
fied, non-veteran students, to be
supported by federal funds.
Interest in adult education will
continue to expand. Community
colleges will be established as cen
ters for adult education. There is
a trend toward more adequate
State aid for general adult educa
tion. Educators also predict larger,
more effective and better planned
rural school systems helping to
increase and equalize educational
opportunities for rural youth .
WOMEN:
"Back to Work" Urge Grows
Hair will be shorter, skirts will
be shorter and women will be bus
ier than ever in 1949.
Many who gave up their jobs
and re urned to their kitchens
when their husbands came home
from war now feel the urge to get
back to work and help supplement
the hard-stretched family income,
regardless of worn arguments of
home vs. career, many women
find a paying job necessary o
keep those home fires burning.
In the fashion field, there will
, be a return to the simple, func
tional clo'hes American women
always have liked best. The brief
era of French exaggeration and
the unlamented new look is past.
The trend is toward wearable,
conservative styles for daytime,
feminine frills for after dark.
Shoes will be higher, stockings
i sheerer, bathing suits barer, play
'clothes more mime*'jus in 1949.
j The ideal silhouette will be slim
' and rounded.
Women in businesses and the
professions will find their places
more assured next year, their
| prestige increased, their compe
' tence amcknowledged.
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India’s “Man of Peace,” assassi
nated.
Feb. 2—House passes GOP tax
reduction bill to cu' individual in
come tax levies 10 to 30 per cent.
Feb. 9—Soviets say U. S., Bri
tain and France made World War
11 possible by financing Hitler’s
war industry.
> >. Lie — Czechoslovakia Reds
seize power; President Benes, “to
avoid chaos,” gives Communist
Premier Gottwald permission to
install a Communist-tvpe govern
ment.
Mar. 6—Six western powers
end London talk^ on Germany;
agree to internationalize Ruhr.
Ma\ 10—Czech Foreign Minis
ter Jan Masaryk “kills self” in
“leap” from window, Communists
say.
Mar. 13—Seven governors of
states in “Solid South” say they
will oppose Truman in November
because of his “anti-states’ rights”
stand on civil liberties.
Mar. 15—Representatives of H>
European nations open talks in
Paris on Marshall Plan aid pro
gram.
Mar. 17—Truman demands uni
versal military training and tem
porary draft to stem threatened
Communist control of all Europe.
Mar. 19—U. S. asks U. N. Se
curity Council to suspend action
on partition of Palestine.
Mar. 20—Western Allies urge
return of Trieste to Italy.
Mar. 25—House passes GOP
$4,800,000,000 tax reduction bill,
sends it to Truman.
Apr. 1—Reds bar U. S. and Bri
tish military trains from Berlin
without “inspection.”
Apr. 2—Congress quickly over
rides Truman’s veto of tax reduc
tion bill.
Apr. 3—Federal injunction or
ders John L. Lewis to instruct his
striking soft coal miners to return
to work.
Apr. 12—Lewis orders miners
back to work.
Apr. 18 — Christian Democrats
defeat Communists in critical Ital
ian election.
, Apr. 21 — Walter P. Reuther,
' president of United Automobile
' Workers union, wounded.
Apr. 30—Arabs and Jews open
large scale "Battle of Jerusalem.”
May 11—Senate and House ap
prove appropraition for 70-group
Air Force.
May 15—British give up Pales
tine mandate: new state of Israel
is born: Arabs invade it from the
j north and the south.
May 31—Flood waters of Colum
bia River sweep through Oregon
and Washington, leave 60,000
homeless, submerge war-built city
of Vanport.
June 3—New 200-inch telescope
dedicated at Palomar Mountain
Observatory.
June 7—Benes resigns as Presi
dent fo Czechoslovakia for ‘health’
reasons.
June 9—Israel and seven Arab
states agree to four-week cease
fire truce. %
June 10 — Experimental Air
Force plane has flown “much
faster than the speed of sound
many times,” says Secretary W.
Stuart Symington.
June 17 — San Diego to New
York airliner crashes near Mt.
Carmel. Pa., kills 43.
June 20—Western Allies intro
duce new German currency to re
place Reichsmark.
June 19—House passes stop-gap
draft bill.
June 20—Congress passes $6,
030,710,228 foreign aid appropri
ation bill.
.June 24—Reds stop all rail traf
fic between western zones and
Berlin, completing their land
blockade.
June 24—Republicans nominate
Thomas E. Dewey for President.
June 26—U. S. mobilizes jir
power throughout Europe to car
ry supplies into land-locked Ber
lin.
June 28 — Communist Informa
tion Bureau denounces Tito for
•‘hateful” and “slanderous” policy
toward USSR.
July 8—War in Palestine re
sumes again; Israel agrees to ex
tend truce but Arabs refuse.
July 9—Eisenhower makes “fi
nal and complete” refusal to ac
cept Democratic Presidential nom
ination.
July 15 — Democrats nominate
Harry S. Truman for President.
July 15—Gen. John J. Pershing
i dies.
I July 15—U. N. Security Council
orders Israel and Arab League
states to stop fighting.
July 16—U.S. Steel grants aver
age 13 cent wage increase to 170,
000 workers.
July 17 — Rebellious Southern
Democrats nominate Gov. J.
Strom Thurmond of South Caro
line for President.
July 26—Truman asks special
session of Congress for action on
i inflation, civil rights, housing.
Aug. 2—Envoys of U. S., Bri
tain, France open series of talks
I on Berlin problem with Stalin in
Kremlin.
Aug. 7—Extra session of Con
gress ends without action on ma
jor Truman recommendations.
Aug. 12—Mrs. Oksana Stepa
nova Kasenkina, Russian school
, teacher, leaps from window of
i Soviet consulate in New York;
1 goes to hospital outside Soviet jur
isdiction.
Aug. 16—Babe Ruth dies after
lingering illness.
Aug. 20—U. S. orders expulsion
of Soviet Consul General for
“abusing his position’ in Kasen
kina case.
Aug. 25 — Moscow announces
closing of consulates in America;
asks U. S. consulates to close in
Russia.
Sept. 2—CIO longshoremen on
West Coast go on strike, tying
up all West Coast shipping.
Sept. 3—Dr. Eduard Benes dies
in Czechoslovakia.
Sept. 9—After Echuman cabinet
falls in third French government
al crisis in three weeks, Henri
Queuille, Radical, agrees to form
new cabinet.
Sept. 17—Hyderabad surrenders
after invasion Sept. 13 by Indian
army.
Sept. 17—Count Folke Berna
dotte, United Nations mediator
lor Palestine, assassinated in Is
raeli-held area of Jerusalem.
Sept. 29 — U. S., Britain and
France urge U. N. Security Coun
cil action on Soviet blockade of
Berlin.
Oct. 8 — Truman revealed to
have withdrawn plans to send
Chief Justice Vinson on “mission
to Moscow.”
Oct. 11—Indians win World Se
ries by beating Boston Braves in
Oth game, 4 to 3.
Oct. 16 — Truman orders na
tion's military reserves immedi
ately brought up to strength.
Oct. 22—Third U. N. cease-fire
order in Palestine war takes ef
fect.
Oct. 25—Russia vetoes compro
mise solution by U. N. Security
Council on Berlin.
Oct. 30 — Chinese Communists
take Mukden to control all Man
churia.
Nov. 2 — Truman upsets fore
casters with election to Presiden
cy over Dewey; House and Senate
go Democratic.
Nov. 7—Charles de Gaulle’s Re
union of French People wins lead
ing position with Advisory Coun
cil of the Republic.
Nov. 8—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas,
chairman of House Committee on
Un-American Activities, indicted
on charges of conspiracy to de
i fraud the government.
Nov. 10—Martial law proclaim
I ed in Nanking and Shanghai as
Communists drive on Suchow.
Nov. 12—Hideki Tojo, wartime
premier of Japan, sentenced to
hang.
Nov. 14 — Princess Elizabeth
gives birth to son in Buckingham
Palace.
Nov. 16—U. N. Security Council
orders Israel and Arab States to
negotiate armistice in Palestine.
Nov. 26 — Truman authorizes
ECA to use full $5,300,000,000 in
twelve months instead of 15 as
authorized by Congress.
Nov. 30—Berlin’s Communists
set up separate “government” of
city, boycotting general elections.
Dec. 2—Suchow falls to Chinese
Communists.
Dec. 3 — West Coast maritime
strike ends with all five striking
unions ratifying contract agree
ments.
Dec. 3—House Committee on
Un-American Activities seizes mi
crofilms of documents removed in
1938 from U. S. State Department
files for transmission to Russian
agents.
Dev. 5—Berlin people defy Sov
iet when 86.4 per cent of eligibles
in western parts vote in election.
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