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Show NEWS REVIEW Farm Land Prices Soar; Portal Claims Outlawed Dentists Are in Pain, Ton Pity the poor dentist when he sneaks in behind your teeth with that savage little drill and tries to unseat the top of your skull. Chances are his feet hurt. And his hack aches. And his legs are weary. That, at least, is the contention conten-tion of Northwestern university school of dentistry, which is starting start-ing to teach its student dentists to work sitting down on a specially constructed stool. A standing dentist is of no more advantage to the patient than a sit-tin sit-tin dentist, the school asserts. If dentists can he brought to a sitting position, the university believes, their professional lives will be extended ex-tended by five years. PORTALS CLOSED: ' Bark Claims Denied Almost six billion dollars in back claims for portal-to-portai pay was erased from the books when President Presi-dent Truman put his signature on congressional legislation designed to relieve employers, as well as the government, from such claims now and in the future. Although he opposed the wishes of organized labor and overrode an appeal for a veto by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, the President emphasized that he was certain that it was not the intent of congress to nullify past gains made by labor. Explaining his reasons for signing sign-ing the bill, he said, "Businessmen will be able to plan with assurance for full production and price reductions. reduc-tions. This will be of real value to labor and management in a continued con-tinued high level of employment." At the same time he repeated his plea to business for lower prices and requested congress to take immediate im-mediate steps to increase the statutory statu-tory minimum wage from 40 to at least 65 cents an hour. TOO MUCH SMOKE: Cant See Stars The nation's capital city is getting Just too smoky, dusty and crowded for the U. S. naval observatory, which is getting ready to move to a more sylvan neighborhood. Because big cities radiate heat, which is bad for delicate astronomical astronomi-cal instruments, the new location for the world-famous observatory must be no nearer than 25 miles to any metropolitan area. Officials estimate, that it will take about eight years to find a site, put up the necessary buildings and install equipment. In addition to providing the nation na-tion with the world's most accurate time checks, the observatory warns the radio industry of sun spot activity, activ-ity, puts out almanacs, supplies data on tides, phases of the moon and sunsets and sunrises, and figures fig-ures out calendars. FLU STOPPER: New Mold Tested A possible cure for influenza may j be forthcoming from a newly discovered dis-covered green and black soil mold. I according to an announcement by ' the Society of American Bacteriologists. Bacteriolo-gists. So far, although there are preventive pre-ventive vaccines for flu, no specific cure has been developed. Not yet tested on humans, the mold is said to have shown a curative effect on chicken embryos and mice with influenza. in-fluenza. There is one hitch, however. The mold-bearing earth, according to the two scientists who made the discovery, dis-covery, was one of numerous samples sam-ples which came to them from all over the world. Just where that particular bit of dirt came from they do not know. FARM LAND: Prices Go Up Continuing the steady trend upward up-ward begun early in the war, farm real estate prices are nearing a level lev-el double the average for the 1935-39 1935-39 period, a survey by the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics shows. During the year ending March 1, farm real estate prices rose 12 per cent for the country as a whole. That figure ft compared with a 13 per cent rise for the corresponding period in 1946, 11 per cent in 1945 and 15 per cent in 1944. Fifty-six per cent of the recorded sales in the past year were for all cash, it was revealed in the survey. OUTMODED DEFENSE: Rockets Far Ahead Ever-improving rocket weapons already have rendered obsolete the best anti-aircraft guns of the army ' and navy, Paul W. Martin, an ord-naneo ord-naneo expert, has asserted. The big strides made in develop-mtnt develop-mtnt of rapid-firing automatic, j radar-directed guns have been far ! outstripped by atomic energy and guided missiles, he said. Three important features of a i good defense were cited: A long-range long-range detection system; a defensive rocket to intercept the enemy missile, mis-sile, and destruction of the enemy i missile at a safe distance. i I Record Slaughter A new record for slaughtering of ' cattle and calves was set during j April in all federally - inspected j plants in the country. Hog killings ware lower, however, reports the department of agriculture. Cattle killed reached the all-time high during April of 1,203,137 head, I compared with 714,860 for the same month a year ago. Calves slaughtered slaugh-tered numbered 678,440, compared with 445,049 in April, 1946. Hogs killed dropped from 3,857,-972 3,857,-972 to 3,615,746, and sheep declined from 1,735,882 last April to 1,326.589 this year, lowest since 1939, the department de-partment reports. |