All-School Music Pageant Delights Capacity Po Catelo Crowd
A capacity crowd of Po catello school students attended the all school pageant Your Land and My Land at the high school auditorium directed by Rampton Barlow and staff. The program features nine acts from local schools with student performances in pantomime music and dance and proceeds fund music equipment for the schools.
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Polo School
Land
Rampton Barlow
Madeline Thompson
Kathryn Reed
Virginia Les
Don Almond
Dorothy Booth
Elenora Woodland
Miss Liberty
Pocatello
Tyhee
Claude Wilcox
Bonita Ogusthrope
Ella Becker
Caroll Harrison
Blance Magelby
Whittier
W. R. Stolworthy
Beverly McCarthy
Jefferson
Fred Pauley
Kate, Morris
Lincoln
Stanley , Wilson
Gertrude Richmond
Bonneville
Lewis Dunn
Flora Byrd
Encirclement Feared as Chinese Forces Face Red Drive
Canton reports ex ece on the Canton Hankow grid disrupted traffic and cut escape routes for Pai Chung-hsi’s army. Chiang Kai-shek urged resistance to the communists who seek world domination, while Red forces push toward Hankow and Changsha with guerrilla aid.
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Bhanghai
Canton-Hankow
Cenchina
Hankow
Pai Chung-Hsi
Canton
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Pai
Yangtze River
Canton Dispatch
Chuanhsien
Changsha
Ser- Oktene Memes Cumrets Angels
Victorius
Kremlin
Quiet Malad Election Returns Incumbents Re-elected
Malad municipal election Tuesday saw a quiet vote with 151 ballots cast. Only one ticket ran. mayor Ed G Wil, councilman Griff Davis, clerk Thomas Griffin, and treasurer H Ward were reelected amid scattered write ins for mayor and clerk.
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Malad
Ed. G. Wil
D. LeRoy Thomas Griff Davis
Womas
H. Ward
Merchants League to Meet for May Day Plans
The Merchants Bureau of the Whitman vil will discuss a store hour survey results Railroaders Day on May 20 and a report from a meeting between the bureau’s executive board and the Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee.
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ISC
Merchants Bureau
Whitman
Bureau
C of C Agricultural Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Slot gadget labeled illegal gambling device in Idaho
Boise Idaho Attorney General Robert E Smylie ruled a new device combining a slot machine with a roulette wheel illegal. The gadget paid coins based on roulette spin results after three bars on the slot triggered a spin. Swanstrom urged suppression while Smylie said it does not fit coin operated amusement device definitions and cannot be licensed or taxed as a gambling device.
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Boise
Robert E. Smylie
Adams County
Carl H. Swanstrom
Council
Swanstrom
Smylie
Idaho
Pocatellans Go On Tour Across the South
Mr and Mrs C Bosquet and daughter Jo of Sunset Courts plan an auto trip to Edgewater Park Mississippi for the American Motor Hotel association convention where Bosquet serves as first vice president. They will then go to Houston to attend the United Motor Courts meeting with several days in New Orleans. They expect to return to Idaho May 24 25 for Shoreline Lodge Payette sessions of the Idaho Motor Hotels association convention.
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Bosquet
Sunset Courts
Edgewater Park
Miss
Gulf of Mexico
American Motor- Hotel Association
Houston
Tex
United Motor Courts
Pocatellans
New Orleans
Idaho
Shoreline Lodge
Payette
Idaho Motor Hotels Association
Damage Suit Against Union Pacific Heard in Court
Lloyd Cummings sues Union Pacific alleging permanent injuries after a train collision at a Sugar City switch. Witnesses testify to fainting spells linked to the accident as court officials anticipate a conclusion later today.
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Lloyd Cummings
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Cummings
Sugar City
Trial Postponed In Knife Assault Case
Justice of the peace Charles W. Hyde postponed the trial of Harrison Baker until Saturday because the defendant failed to appear. Baker, an Indian, is charged with assaulting his brother Joe R. Baker with a pocket knife and is temporarily released on $750 bail.
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Justice of the Peace
Charles W. Hyde
Harrison Baker
Baker
Joe R. Baker
Southeast Idaho PTA honors ten towns for high memberships
At the recent PTA convention in Coeur d'Alene Mrs. L L Falter president of the fifth district announced ten Idaho towns earned awards for high membership. Weston Clifton Paris Grace Inkom Firth won gold leaf awards while Preston Central Jefferson and Weston Montpelier Firth earned standard and superior honors respectively.
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PTA
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
L. L. Falter
Weston
Clifton
Paris
Grace
Inkom
Firth
Preston
Central and
Jefferson
Weston, Montpelier
Final Results Show City Slates Oppose Slots in Idaho Elections
Idaho voters in four cities rejected slot machines in advisory municipal ballots, with Nampa Caldwell Burley and Shoshone voting against gambling by wide margins. Total disapproving votes reached 262 and several mayors aligned with anti slots platforms won or solidified office. Other cities Collected results included Gooding Payette Weiser Emmett Hailey Mountain Home Kellogg Coeur d Alene with varying leads and unopposed returns.
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United Press
Idaho
Nampa
Caldwell
Burley
Shoshone
Peter E. Johnson
Joe Peters
Wayne Long
Leo J. Mason
Gooding
Harley Crippen
J. Wesley Miller
Glenns Ferry
Clarence Moore
Payette
J. A. McMillan
Archie W. Hodges
Weiser
Active Citizens
Robertson W. Smith
Clark Hamilton
Emmett
D. C. Thurman
Wallace Hart
Hailey
R. R. Horn
Mountain Home
John B. Glasby
Wallace
R. G. Binyon
John Batt
Kellogg
H. C. Seeber
Coeur d’Alene
J. G. Adams
Ditch Tragedy Claims Life Of Weiser Child
Gerald Gregory Averett almost two drowned in a Galloway ditch near Weiser. Sheriff Al Waters said the child was last seen playing in the yard with a dog and a lamb before the dog led responders to the ditch. Firemen recovered the body about noon downstream, with revival efforts unsuccessful.
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Weiser
Gerald Gregory Averett
Galloway Ditch
Bince Averett
Heriff al Waters
Scholarship Award Presentation Set
The Junior Chamber of Commerce will present the annual scholarship award on Saturday. President Harold Read announced last night the award is based on need scholarship and activities. Committee headed by Al Trosper reviews 1949 applicants.
Hay Crop Destroyed in Rupert Fire
A major blaze near Rupert yesterday afternoon destroyed seven season’s hay crop worth 3500 on property of Mrs. Ed LaRue and run by Bill Schenk. Firefighters could not save four stacks about 125 to 140 tons. Frank Jouglard owned the hay. Fire chief Roy Powell said the dry hay fed the flames quickly. A small shed and a deck also burned.
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Rupert
Ed LaRue
Bill Schenk
Frank Jouglard
Roy Powell
Mayor Boyle Wins Blackfoot Election In Atomic Drive
AP reports Mer rill C. Boyle ousts incumbent Mayor Einar Nelson as he ran on Let Blackfoot Grow. Boyle led with 791 votes to 589 amid a campaign centered on atomic development. Al Barrett and Kenneth Taylor win two city council seats, defeating J. H. Clayton and Lawrence Lambert.
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Merrill C. Boyle
Einar Nelson
Boyle
Blackfoot
al Barrett
Kenneth Taylor
J. H. Clayton
Lawrence Lambert
Career Woman Urges Girls to Earn While Free Time
Clara Dudley color scheme consultant visiting Gate City stresses summer work to learn needed schooling. Duke of New York based Alexander Smith Rug Co. rep, Dudley trained at University of California Berkeley, now promoting home furnishings and design consulting with plans to visit Twin Falls and Idaho Falls before returning west.
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Pocatello
Clara Dudley
Gate City
Boise
Dudley
Martin Furniture Co
Alexander Smith Rug Co
New York City
Miss Dudley
University of California At Berkely
California
Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
Mid-West
Salt Lakety
Former Pocatellan Ketchum Mayor Daniels Elected
D. D. Daniels, son of Mrs. Amelia Daniels Thomas, was elected mayor of Ketchum on Tuesday. A former Pocatello man, he left three years ago to found the Sun Bailey Agency, a real estate and insurance firm. He is brother to David D. Daniels, an engineer for the Union Pacific. Daniels attended Pocatello schools and has sisters Mrs. C. O. Thomas and Mrs. K. R. Thomas residing nearby.
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D. D. Daniels
Ketchum
Pocatello
Amelia Daniels Thomas
S. Sixth
Daniels
Sun Bailey Agency
David D. Daniels
Union Pacific Railroad
S Sixth
C. O. Thomas
Tom’s Donut Shop
K. R. Thomas
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Bf C Merchants
Papa No Re
George S. May Company
Area Shares Pta Awards
St. Louis
Humane Society
Ditch
Seattle
Frye
William Halloran
Yesler Way
Mike
Rae le Va Ftels
Adoser Aeco
BY Elaine Seaver
Pocatellan Ketchum
Meer Ee
Continental Distilling Corp
Phila., PA
Piadelp Ror i
Ethene
Westinghouse Gas Ranges
Westinghouse Commander
Westinghouse
T. Leland Newey
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