Idaho Legislature Hits Explosive GOP Standoff Over Liquor Bill
The Idaho Legislature faces a heated split within the GOP as Senators Brown Wright and Bahr push for liquor legislation to outlaw Locker Clubs. The fight, fueled by House opposition and party factions, slows Senate business while Democrats watch. A separate plan for a four year college at Pocatello advances unanimously and may ease North-South tensions in Idaho politics.
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Senate
Bilboa
Brown
Wright
Bahr
House Appropriations Committee
Tom Smith
Central Committee
McCabe
Southern Branch
Pocatello
Idli
Dobins
Peabody
Congress Debates Tax Cuts in Soundings For Sanborn
Readers are urged to mail Congressman John Sanborn with opinions on the Knutson Bill proposals. Questions ask whether to cut income taxes by 20 percent for those under 302000 and 10 percent for higher incomes, whether cuts should favor small taxpayers, raise exemptions from 500 to 1000, tax government owned businesses, and end the double tax on corporate dividends.
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Knuton Biull
House Will and Means
Knutson
Temple schedules and services in Utah ward cluster March to December 1947
The column lists temple visit dates and ward activities across Fish Haven Garden City Laketown Ovid Paris and nearby zones. It records quorums Elders and Seventy meetings with dates, music, prayers, sacraments and speakers, including Bishop Amos B Robinson and Norman Weston conducting.
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Fish Haven
Quorum
Garden City
Laketown
Lanark and
Sharon
Liberty
Ovid
Paris
St Charles
Amos B. Robinson
Norman Weston
Marjory Robinson
Lola Johnson
George N Weston
Robinson Long
Jesus
Angus Humphery
Dick Lamborn
Cordon
Wayne
McKay Willis
Mark Cheney
Glen Earley
Orval Thomas
Wayne Willis
Sterling Cheney
J Cheney Willis
Trading Stamp Confusion Prompts Idaho House Debate
Idaho House wrangled HB 147 repealing the thirty year old trading stamp law amid confusion and lobbying by New York manufacturers. The bill, viewed as protective for small businesses, stalled in committee with many merchants protesting to senators.
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Idaho
House
Senate
Labor
Lincoln
Industrial Progress
GOP
Garden City Notes Briefs From Local Social Scene
Mr C W Pope is ill with pneumonia at Bear Lake hospital. Royal Pope and son Arden travel to California for Arden to study veterinary science. Mitchell Sims spends Sunday night in Mantua with Archie then goes to Ogden for business. Mr and Mrs T G Hodges visit Mantua to see daughter Mrs Archie Sims and family. Dean Nichols of Ogden visits Cave Calder home. Joe Cook visits Salt Lake City on business. Frank Whittington couple motor to Idaho Falls for weekend. Edith Whittington joins them to Blackfoot to visit George and Mrs Lutz. DeVerl Whittington and son Laural visit Augusta Bunderson in St Charles. Claud Kimball and Norma visit Salt Lake City. David Calder spends Monday in Ogden. Everett Sims drives the school bus in his place.
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Mitchell Sims
Mantua
Archie
Ogden
Frank Whittington
Idaho Falls
Edith Whittington
Blackfoot
George Lutz
Laketown News Highlights Local Visits and Upcoming Weddings
Sunday guest Marjean Prescott visited the Freemans. Mrs. Woffinden returned to Layton for her mother’s illness. Irene Robinson to marry Alma Carl Johnson in Salt Lake Temple February 20. Week of Feb 16 saw many attending a Logan basketball game and a trousseau tea. A Valentine party and community events filled the week with dances, demonstrations, and receptions.
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Ernest Woffinden
LaRae
Layton
Sims
Woffinden
Thomas Simms
U of U
Logan
Parnell Johnson
Stanley Mattson
Stanley Wanstrom
Vara Cheney
Harmon Cheney
Owen Wahlstrom
Gerald Alley
Laketown
Irene Robinson
Alma Carl Johnson
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Temple
Jos C W.robinson
Hebert Robinson
Bro Joseph Robinson
Farm life and labor harmony on Bert Childers’ homestead
The narrator observes that capital and labor can unite as Bert Childers with 320 acres of land, cattle, and two farm hands works alongside Spike and Sandy. They share meals and a friendly beer after hard days, illustrating cooperative rural camaraderie.
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Bert Childers
Bert
Spike
Sandy
World War II veterans gain low premiums as government bears admin costs
National Service Life Insurance offers reduced rates for veterans because the government covers all administration expenses. This policy enables affordable coverage while the insured service member pays only the standard policy premium.
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Reed Wamsley
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Edgar Poulsen
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Laketown News
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Marion Freeman
Paul A. Spence
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Elda Aston
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