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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1949
Page
1
Reports from Shanghai indicate growing fighting near Soochow 50 miles west as nationalist forces halt a Communist push toward Hangchow. Soochow evacuated by Nationalist troops while British and Australian nationals prepare to depart by outbound ships amid curfews and gun tests.
The Halsey family in Pocatello, headed by the new mayor, gathers for an American dinner scene. Mrs. Halsey and her two teens Nancy and Bill share hopes of nursing and graduation while enjoying a homey evening of picnics and swimming. Nancy, 19, attends Idaho State College. Bill, 17, aims to graduate with his sister. The mother engages in Eastern Star and Job’s Daughters activities.
Special to the POST Ernest Ebberhard Jr. retained the mayoralty of Preston by a 23 vote margin over W. Paul Merrill. Incumbent city clerk Parley L. Allred defeated C. L. Greaves. Other incumbents, including Mrs. Lillie Benton and Dr. P. S. Call, won re election to their posts. Village board members named at Franklin were Dee Kingsford Robert D. Lowe and Bert Wilkin son. Clifton board picks Howard Henderson and Robert Porter. Fairview elected Frank J. Gilbert and Oliver Choules. Dayton elected Paul R. Merrill and Clarence Nelson Weston Jay D. Chapman and Jeff Griffith.
In American Falls yesterday Dr. N. H. Farrell defeated Arthur Jeres 241 to 190 to win the mayoralty. Rom C. Sparks secured 274 votes for city clerk against Byron S. Crowder's 165. E. St. John ran unopposed for city treasurer.
Charlie Metro's Twin Falls Cowboys handed the Pocatello Cardinals a 13-9 home defeat at Halliwell park in the Pioneer baseball league opener. Attendance reached 4024, a single night record at Gate City park, with Don Michaelson Ted Bell Kent Peterson and Charles Buck pacing Twin Falls as Peterson hit the season's first circuit clout and Bell added a four bagger in the seven run burst.
In Washington the House votes 369 to 6 to take up an administration bill to repeal Taft Hartley and replace it with a Wagner Act style measure. President Truman supports ending the law and faces a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats in a televised fight to the finish with days of debate ahead.
A head on collision on Highway 191 eight miles north of Tybee sent Fred Rich and his son Michael from Idaho Falls and Mabel Nielsen of Pocatello to the hospital. Nielsen turning onto the Tybee sideroad was struck as sun glare blinded Rich. The crash occurred at about 6 30 p m and left the Rich sedan heavily damaged.
Voters in Gate City elected W. W. Halsey engineer mayor for two years by 381 votes over Grant Stowell as 5,053 ballots were cast. Halsey 2,717 to Stowell 2,336. In the council race Ray J. Davis and C. A. Carmack won, with Davis 2,941 and Carmack 2,408, defeating Hinkley and Hawkes.
In a city election exchange, the defeated candidate attributed the loss to supporters' mistakes while the victor Bill Halsey pledged to unite the community and seek broad advice for city governance. Grant Stowell praised the contest and urged citizens to back Halsey.
Washington AP secretary of the navy John L. Sullivan resigns in anger after Defense Secretary Louis Johnson ordered the termination of construction on the 65,000 ton carrier. Sullivan calls Johnson action drastic and arbitrary and warns of tragic consequences. Johnson says Sullivan chose personal grounds and will regret action. The navy had begun work on the $188 million carrier a week earlier.
L. W. Thurston retained Alameda's mayoral post with 489 votes against James Bagwell's 272. Thurston swept Improvement party candidates, with Paul Rowe and E. L. Davidson elected as councilmen while incumbent city clerk Alton Alexander ran unopposed. Rowe 475 Davidson 497 Leslie Dawson 315 Everett Peck 295.
President Truman named William H. Davis as chairman of a new special labor relations panel to prevent strikes in atomic energy operations. The panel will handle only vital disputes and act as a last resort, with two additional members to be named shortly. James C. Stewart was appointed AEC manager for the Schenectady office, effective mid May, succeeding Leonard Johnston who will head a new reactor test station near Arco, Idaho. Stewart is a longtime Oak Ridge engineer from Bisbee Arizona.
Officials of the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union asked the big four meat packers Swift Wilson Armour and Cudahy to reopen wage negotiations on contracts expiring Aug 11. The proposed increase amount was not specified.
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