[meteorite-list] NPA 02-21-1948 Furnus County Meteorite, Political Comments

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Daily Independent
City: Murphysboro, Illinois
Date: Friday, February 21, 1948
Page: "SECTION ONE - PAGE TWO"

     Senator Alexander Wiley, Rep., Wis., feels that right now is the time 
to prepare to legislate by television in event some jet-propelled 
contraption comes hot-rodding through the heavens and lays a few atomic 
bombs on this fair land, beginning with the Capital.  He points out that our 
lawmakers under such an attack would be scattered to safely shelters far 
apart.  Hence government as usual by television.  Far fetched, you say?  
Maybe, is the answer from the military and the scientists.  anyway, a 
congressman in New York State could simply press a button and see a 
congressman in Missouri making an appeal for a few more billions for the 
heathen Chinese.
     Lending substance to what Sen. Wiley, says, however, is the frantic 
state of mind in which Kansans were left when a meteor, so it is theorized, 
exploded about 30 miles above the earth and smashed windows all over the 
state and in Oklahoma.  A few more shocks like that and bomb-proof cellars 
would be all to go.

(end)

This article refers to the Furnus County. Nebraska meteorite.  Which is 
usually referred to as the Norton County, Kansas meteorite.  (Yet, the one 
ton piece and the next two largest pieces...fell in Furnus County, 
Nebraska.)

Political comments referring to recent meteoric events are somewhat rare the 
later one gets in time.  Early American newspaper history shows a more 
apparent opinionated connection in the two.


Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
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