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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1949
Page
3
Pocatello's industrial housing group was lauded yesterday for its program to erect 75 additional houses in the Westello area amid a $94,000,000 boom on the TVA job.
New Johnsonville Tennessee, a near ghost town, will host TVA’s 54 million dollar steam plant project. About 500 workers start, rising to 2000 peak, with 100 workers per shift after completion. FHA official notes mortgage guarantees aid construction financing, not direct loans.
Dr. Carl W. McIntosh, president of Idaho State College, spoke at Montpelier Rotary Club during Ladies Night. He also spoke at a Twin Falls family conference on formal education and has May commencements at Mackay, Meridian, Caldwell, and Blackfoot high schools with May 13 and May 20 dates.
The repeal committee chaired by R. L. Dixon reports 1500 signatures on the slot machine ballot petition in Pocatello Idaho. Signatures will be re checked next Wednesday and Thursday. If valid the April 26 ballot will ask voters if the current ordinance licensing slot machines should be repealed and if a ban on coin operated devices should be adopted.
Mrs. Winnie Fred Butt files a $737 lawsuit against a Toronto brewery claiming glass fragments in a beer bottle last September left her unable to work and with weak legs.
Passengers on Danish airlines received chewing gum labeled to prevent ear pressure during takeoff and landing. A passenger asked a stewardess for help removing the gum from the ear, but the response was that it does not help.
The new Shaw Auto Parts Department will operate at 146 N Second under Mel Williams. It will retain all former employees and continues to run the used parts division. Williams has 20 years with Shaw and recently served as store manager.
W Blakemore of Pocatello general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers predicts a general vote soon among B of LE and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen on consolidating the unions. He says no action without member referendum and notes pro and con elements in both groups.
Postmaster Jack Trimming reports the transfer of commercial airline operations from the municipal airport to Phillips field is expected within the next fortnight. Officials say the changeover could begin by mid April, after assessing the routes between the Pocatello post office and both airfields. Distances show 3.1 miles between fields, 6.1 miles from the post office to the municipal field, and 9.2 miles to Phillips field.
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