Honors Divided Among Fifth District Music Contestants
Divisions split across class C B and A with multiple schools earning top honors in bands orchestras glee clubs and mixed chorus. Winners include Paris Westside Aberdeen American Falls McCammon in C Firth Shelley Montpelier in B and Pocatello in A for bands. Other A B C winners listed by category.
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Paris
Westside
Aberdeen
American Falls
McCammon
Firth
Shelley
Montpelier
Pocatello
Pocatello’s
Boys’ Glee Club
Aberdeen and
Grace
Preston
Labor Unit Maps Battle Against Taft Hartley Law
Western State Federation of Labor ends its third annual meeting in Boise with a five point program to curb Taft Hartley effects and improve labor conditions. Plan includes sharing unemployment and accident laws, building a repeal political action group, offering college scholarships, supplying labor publications to schools, and holding annual labor institutes. E M Weston reappointed executive secretary. next meet planned for Cheyenne Wyoming in 1949. support for a six hour work day.
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Boise
Ida
Western State Federation of Labor
Exchafifé
E. M. Weston
Seattle
Cheyenne
Wyo
Washington Democrats Pledge 20 Delegation to Truman
Washington Democrats voted to pledge their 20 member delegation to President Truman after a floor clash at the state convention. The King County Seattle faction sought an uninstructed delegation by defeating an official Truman endorsement in the resolutions.
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Spokane
Wash
Washington
Truman
King County
Seattle
Philadelphia
Brooklyn youths confess to gang execution killing
Three teens from the President Gang in Red Hook admitted serving as an execution squad and killing William Gottlieb 18, after a confrontation with rival Tiger gang members. Anthony Lucia 17 fired the fatal shot, with John Murphy 15 and others providing accounts. Detectives rounded up active Presidents after the bar incident and raid sequence.
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NEW York
William Gottlieb
Brooklyn
Murder, Inc
John Murphy
Gottlieb
John
Anthony
Blackie) Lucha
George
Red) Boundy
Thomas
Frenchy) Scardaci
President
Red Hook
Lucia
Tiger
Red’ Hook
Brookn
Thirteen Injured In Blaze At Standard Oil Refinery
A tank exploded at the Standard Oil Co refinery in El Segundo California causing a massive fire that injured thirteen refinery workers. Firefighters from multiple towns battled the blaze for hours as spectators gathered and utilities were disrupted. Damage was estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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EL Segundo
Cal
Standard Oil Co
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
Alf the Idaho Prune and the boarding house legend
Ted Trueblood recalls Alf the Idaho prune told in a Cascade boarding house tale. For years newcomers drooled at the luscious prune while seasoned locals warned they were seeing Alf not eating it. The legend endures as a humorous regional oddity.
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Alf
Idaho Prune
Idaho
Ted Trueblood
Caldwell
Field and Stream Magazine
Trueblood
Cascade
Nine Injured In City Series Of Auto Crashes Across Town
A string of afternoon crashes on city streets and state highways sent six to hospitals and left three with minor injuries. One crash on Fourth and Halliday involved two teens on a motorcycle, another on Eighth and Wyeth by a police car en route to the hospital, and a head on near McCammon. Pattis of Salt Lake City faces drunkenness charges after colliding with the youths’ motorcycle. two other passengers in Pattis’s car received minor injuries. A Rupert couple were hospitalized after a separate two vehicle crash two miles north of McCammon when brakes failed on a car, while another collision north of town involved a state police cruiser and James Rhodes of Seattle. Two hitchhikers escaped serious harm, and damage totaled around $500 on the Chase vehicle and near-demolished the other car.
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Fourth
Halliday Streets
General Hospital
Kris Pattis
Salt Lake City
Halliday
Eighth
Wyeth
McCammon
Condition “Fair
Fuller
Aldous
Pattis
Gus Spirrokos
South Fourth Avenue
John Adams
Adams
St. Anthony Hospital
Fighth and
Wyeth Street
Robert M. Phelps
James S. Rhodes
Seattle
Rupert
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Vaughn Bair
Vaughn
Neil K. Chase
Pocatello
Gate City
Chase
Chase Auto
William Yeomans
Miles City
Mont
Eugene Prisley
Sun Valley
Earl Cutler
Bannock County
Trial Set For Slayer Godse Next Month in India
In New Delhi secrecy over Mahatma Gandhi's assassination eased as Narayan Vinayak Godse, editor of Poona based Hindu newspaper, was slated for trial for conspiracy and murder next month. Government sources note risk of death penalty if convicted and cite censorship easing after Gandhi's death eleven weeks prior.
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New Delhi
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mahatma
Narayan Vinayak Godse
Godse
Poona
Gandhi
Auto Crash Winner Earns POST News Tip Prize
George Hood of Pocatello won the POST weekly news tip prize of $5 for his report on an auto accident west of American Falls. Hood described finding and aiding victims who waited over two hours for medical help from American Falls.
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POST
George Hood
West Bridger St
Pocatello
Hood
American Falls
Pocatello Postings on Safety Director Visit Sparks Town Roar
The Pocatello area critiques state safety director George E. Vaughn for recent accidents and urges safer driving. A Jaycee cleanup boosts civic pride as unsightly areas improve. A homeowner reports flocks of large birds, later identified as Evening Grosbeaks by local expert James H. Phelps.
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George E. Vaughn
Vaughn
Pocatello and Vicinity
George
Pocatello
Idaho
Count Courthouse
Idaho Democrats Adopt Uninstructed Delegation to Natonal
Idaho Falls idaho convention elected a 24 member uninstructed delegation to the Philadelphia national convention and adopted a resolution endorsing President Truman. The body rejected the third party and its leaders while seating Ada county’s liberal delegation amid disputes.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Cavanagh
Glen H. Taylor
J. L. Seedall
Ada County
Emma Alexander Simons
la Vera Swope
Boise
Albert Graf
Kellogg
F. M. Bistline
Pocatello
Bannock County
Ed Brennan
Bistline
Graf
Brennan
Robert Dow
Priest River
First
R. N. Helder
Coeur d’Alene
A. H. Alford
Lewiston
Charles Gossett
Nampa
William Armstrong
St. Maries
Gracie Prost
Caldwell
Pat
A. W. Brunt
Asael Lyman
Rexburg
Glen Vining
Jerome
A. W. Hall
Winston Jensen
Blackfoot
J. Peter Jensen
Malad
Asher B. Wilson
Twin Falls
H. H. Locke
Joe R. Williams
Dan Cavanagh
George Bennett
Dan Hoopes
Jack Flanagan
Grangeville
Gilbert Larsen
Ramsey Walker
Arnold Williams
St. Anthony
Truman
All-Out Air Force Plan Urged by Johnson in Congress
Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson pressed for a 70-group air force with modern jet and atom age aircraft. He urged Defense Secretary Forrestal to back the plan as Senate hearings on an $822 million bill to expand acquisitions approach. The House already approved the measure 343 to 3.
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Washington
Lyndon D. Johnson
Tex
Johnson
Administration
Defense
James V. Forrestal
Air Force
Forrestal
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Senate Committee
Congress
Army
Navy
Socialite awaits time failed lover is freed
Mrs Frances Pollock a Chicago socialite waits outside Nevada state prison for the release of Walter Witkowski her husband since his bigamy conviction. Witkowski was jailed after marrying Pollock while still married to Elaine Witkowski. Pollock plans to remarry once freed, stating she loves him.
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Carson City
Nevada
Chicago
Frances Taft. Pollock
Social
Walter William Witkowski
Poland
Inyokern
Cal
Witkowski
Albuquerque
N. M
Reno
Elaine
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Shelley High School
Barbara Christensen
Ann Olson
Marilyn Ricks
National Post
Theron
Fourth and
Gordon Fuller
Randolph St
Fair
Ben Aldous
North Thirteenth Ave
Helen Moffit
North Grant Ave
By John Corlett
Homer Ferguson
Senate
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