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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1939
Page
4
Citizens are invited to submit opinion letters to The Post Letters department with signed contributions. Names may be withheld if requested, but libelous or injurious statements are discouraged to keep discourse fair and constructive.
The Post announces a experiment to discontinue patents content and expand local Bear Lake valley news. Readers are urged to suggest column topics and help shape a more varied paper focused on regional news and advertising potential.
Bear Lake county anticipates a busy year with a new Logan Canyon highway due by early summer expected to draw thousands of tourists toward Yellowstone Park. The valley is poised for growth in resorts, summer homes, and roadside beautification from Laketown to Paris as A G Nord advocates. The lake offers boating fishing and a premier bathing beach while readers nationwide remain Bible buyers.
The piece notes readers over 50 prefer the newspaper twice as much as those 30 to 50 and six times those under 30, suggesting younger audiences find it less interesting. It adds a Federal Council of Churches report that church membership in 1987 rose twice as fast as population, seen as heartening in a religious community.
The Idaho Pioneer lauds Nick Ifft as a sharp figure in state affairs and hails Governor candidates Vic Peterson and Mace Greenfield as capable. The writer praises Boise hospitality and notes a general belief in high standards for liquor regulation and governance in Idaho.
The essay argues that both dictatorship and communism threaten democracy and individual liberty. It portrays American voters as rejecting foreign totalitarian theories, noting their failure to solve domestic problems and their attack on private enterprise, budgeting, and self-government. It emphasizes constitutional safeguards and the primacy of government by the people.
A man returns home after a night out and injures his hip while stumbling on the steps. He treats cuts with adhesive tape in the bathroom and hides the events as he joins his breakfast. His wife accuses him of drunkenness, he denies it, and she points to tape on the bathroom mirror.
The House approved a large fiscal year 1940 appropriation topping two billion dollars for executive and independent bureaus. GOP attempts to削 cut TVA Gilbertsville dam funds faced opposition. Civil Aeronautics Authority gains a 21.2 million line item. The WPA and social security measures draw focus as administration seeks emergency funds and relief reform proposals surface with Woodrum’s bill. Western reclamation meetings discuss securing western project funding amid eastern opposition. The National Zoo marks 48 years as Willam H. Blackburn presides over 3 000 animals.
February 7 house discussion on TVA appropriation reveals tax plan moves to tax 1,200,000 federal employees and extend to 2,600,000 state and local workers. Dirksen notes land purchases by TVA and fertilizer interests, highlighting phosphate resources in Idaho and government land acquisitions.
Idaho House Judiciary Committee proposes concurrent resolutions to appoint three members from each chamber to investigate Attorney General J W Taylor and George Wedgewood over notes and mortgages used to secure endowment fund loans. Delinquent mortgages and related conditions would be examined.
Idaho House proposals seek a new Idaho Advertising Commission to handle duties from the fruit and vegetable advertising commission. Bills impose a one cent per hundredweight tax on potatoes onions and prunes with funds for advertising. Separate funds would collect taxes on primes and on potatoes and onions.
Officers of the Young Democratic clubs of Idaho met in Boise and announced a state convention set for September 2 3 and 4. Rep Allen Newman Nez Perce state chairman said strenuous organization plans will be carried on in every county beginning immediately and we plan to take part in the next primary.
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