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FB Delegates Back RailroadMerger, Defeat Site ChangeVoting delegates at the an* niral Idaho Farm Bureau Convention here gave near unanimous support to a resolution endorsing the proposed merger between the Union Pacific Railroad and the Rock Island as they wound up a four-day convention at the Hotel Bannock late Wednesday afternoon.The convention was scheduled to end shortly after noon. How-ever, when the final s e.s s i o n broke for lunch there were still a dozen or so resolutions confronting the voting delegates.. In the waning hours of the meeting a second attempt to push through a resolution to move the Idaho Farm Bureau headquarters from Pocatello to the Boise area was narrowly defeated, 31 to 26. The motion was also defeated Tuesday 36 to 24.The proposal to move the office also came out of last year’s convention. Some delegates believe it will be proposed next year when the convention shifts location to Moscow Nov. 14 to 17. It will mark the first time the parley has ever been held in the northern end of the state.• An amendment to the organization’s by-laws narrowly passed after considerable discussion. The amendment concerned representation, and passed 38 to 19, with a two-thirds yes vote required. A duly organized county Farm Bureau is entitled to one vote and one alternate when it has a paid up membership of 15 members, and two voting delegates and alternates when its paid up membership with the state group is 50 or more. Two voles per county is the maximum.Opposition to the amendmentarose when some of the delegates said the amendment is contrary to the Farm Bureau stand on apportionment. Originally the amendment proposed two voting delegates per 100 members.The delegation gave .state president Nyal Rydalch authority to act on a proposal to -endorse a “National potato labeling act.” The act has been | pigeon-holed in committee for some time, and it is hoped that rewording the proposal could stimulate legislation by Congress.The delegation went on record opposing the use of tax money to promote federal political pro-Hubby Too Good To Wife; Some Guys Can't WinOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A pampered wife has won a divorce because her husband was too good to her.Leona P. Jeske,;M* of Hayward complained in Alameda County Superior Court that her husband, Carl, 68, would never let her make the breakfast coffee, did all the washing and ironing, wouldn’t let her wash the dishes, jumped up and took things out of the oven when she was baking so she wouldn’t bum herself, and insisted on tucking her in bed each night.The Jeskes had been married fur 18 months. Each had been married before.Mrs. Jeske said she felt she was being “treated like a child” and became nervous and upset. It caused her “grievous mental suffering,” she said.“This is one of the strangest forms of mental cruelty I have ever come across,” commented Judge Lyle E.* Cooke, Some men just can’t win.”(Continued on Page 2, Col. 8)HENRY A. WALLACEKuttniDg Mate with Glen TaylorHenry WallaceDies at 11PANBURY, Conn. (AP)-For-nier Vice President Henry A. Wallace, 77, died today in Danbury Hospital.A hospital spokesman said heInfn tViJ ft tvinwlnn Ua Koi4
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1965
Page 19
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