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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1949
Page
7
Next Sunday marks the start of the Junior Chamber of Commerce clean-up drive in Pocatello with Jaycees in dungarees wielding brooms shovels and hoses to clean the Center street subway underpass. City trucks will assist in the effort.
Hal Myers and Dave Hill co chair the Jaycees refuse program with committee members Charles eeen R. G. Wright and Hal ess assisting. The effort assigns teams to collect waste from streets and private yards throughout the week.
Mrs Maude Cosho Houston began serving as president of the Idaho state board of education and of the University of Idaho board of regents. She succeeds F A Owen. John A Remsberg of Rupert was elected vice president and Judge W F McNaughton of Coeur d Alene was named secretary succeeding Remsberg.
John Louis Newland a 35 year old merchant seaman admitted cashing bad checks in California and Idaho after reportedly inheriting 17500 He was arrested in Vancouver Washington and held for extradition to Napa California Police said he passed bogus checks in Emeryville Napa Mountain Home Idaho and Modesto California He is held in Clark County Jail
Betsy Odell, mother of Larry Lee, travels to Wyoming while awaiting California reports on the abandoned baby now in California. Law officials dispute custody and birth documentation as IDs are sent to confirm the child's relationship to Mrs Clark. Relatives plan to return to Idaho or travel to California if Judge Lund permits reunification.
Police said a thief battered and mauled the Danville Curb market safe but gave up without reaching the money inside after realizing the safe was not locked. The suspect’s exhaustion ended the failed theft attempt.
In 1948 Americans consumed an average of more than one egg per day, totaling 388 eggs per person across the year.
In St Louis the bock beer season nears end and brewers like Grie sedieck Bros. urge keeping the tradition. Edward Vogel Jr. explains why bock beer was linked to spring and why some want it year round, citing historical origins and a buck goat anecdote.
Malad held a week of cleanup and paint up activities concluding Friday afternoon led by Ives Jones of the Malad Junior Chamber of Commerce. The Jaycees thanked the volunteer fire department for street cleaning and students aided at the school. A free show at the Star theater followed, with Mayor Ed G Williams praising the committee’s organizing work.
Mason ic circles prepare for an evening program Monday at 8 in the Red Room at the Masonic temple. Rev George S. Sloan of Buffalo Wyoming will speak to Masons and their ladies and Eastern Stars with escorts.
Municipal Judge Goeodore B Knudson upheld the constitutionality of the new federal rent control law ruling it within Congress emergency powers caused by a wartime housing shortage. The decision halted more than 2000 evictions in Minneapolis and could affect thousands more nationwide.
The statement notes that only three Americans who were not presidents appear on U S currency. Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Salmon P Chase are the pictured figures.
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