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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1949
Page
7
Blackfoot police report a man and a woman checked into a Blackfoot motel Thursday morning and later removed all removable furniture and household items. The manager found the room cleared of items including blankets, sheets, mattress pad, drapes, towels, and a mirror. They registered as Mr and Mrs Mitchell Henry. police warn the name may be fictitious.
Aging Montgomery Ward executive Avery takes control as chairman after mass resignations leave the firm without a president or top officers. Willard Sahloff and other vice presidents quit, Norton left earlier, leaving no replacement for the post. Avery 75, faces reelection in eight days amid a storm.
The civil aeronautics administration released its 1949 air port plan for Idaho, detailing 134 airports to be built or improved over three years at an estimated cost of 8.29 million dollars, with 4.58 million federal funds. It calls for 64 new airports and 70 improvements, including seven seaplane bases, listing projects across towns such as Aberdeen Albion American Falls Arco Ashton Bancroft Island Park Blackfoot Burley Downey Grace Idaho Falls Lava Hot Springs McCammon Mackay Malad Oakley Paris Montpelier Pocatello Preston Rexburg Rigby Roberts Rupert St Anthony Salmon Shelley Soda Springs and seaplane bases at American Falls Fish Haven.
Actress Alice White has divorced freelance writer John Roberts in Hollywood. She testified that he did not come home as expected and could not explain his absences, citing lipstick on his handkerchief from a ten day disappearance.
In Hanoverton Ohio gunmen kidnapped two Weirton officers after robbing a Foltz bank of 5000 dollars and fled across the Ohio River. The officers were found shackled to a cherry tree near a farm by dawn. one suspect Leroy Howell was held by Pennsylvania police. Fugitives, including Clyde Milton Johnson, were sought across five states with noted ties to multiple bank robberies.
Ferdinand Eberstadt of the Hoover Commission repeats charges that the Army padded its budget for the coming year saying figures were inflated and not aligned with the president’s ceiling or strategic plan. He questions the fate of 60 000 tanks from World War II. The panel cites waste and inefficiency while former president Hoover warns of a threat to the economy.
Norman Berg, 31, a U S Soil Conservation Service conservationist and former Marine, was chosen yesterday as president of the Pocatello Junior Chamber of Commerce for 1949 50. He will be joined by William H Hall Neal Moon Howard Higgins Hugh Maguire and Hal Myers as officers with installation June 24 and start July 1. Berg has lived in Pocatello three years, is married and a father of two.
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