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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1949
Page
1
The 16 year old determined swimmer aims to conquer the English Channel, seeking money for her family and to prove herself. She reports long-distance experience, no cramps, and a second wind after hours in the water, with support from her father and coach Harry Boudakian.
Democratic leaders met with President Truman and said wartime excise taxes on transportation, luxury goods, and many items will not be repealed this session. They agreed Congress will not adjourn until several constructive bills pass, and a Labor Day adjournment is unlikely. A stopgap spending measure through Aug. 15 was sent to Truman as spending bills remain stalled. House Speaker Rayburn offered no firm adjournment timeline.
American Falls officials warn they will pursue court action to block Pocatello’s bid to annex Power county land into Bannock. Mayor Halsey said the Monday meeting with Pocatello leaders and chamber groups produced no concrete steps toward agreement.
A Power county coroner jury found negligence by both drivers in the Wednesday night crash that killed Mrs. Betty Perry of Rockland. Witnesses included Dr. N H Farrell and Rockland officials. Richard May, hospitalized in serious condition, testified he swerved to avoid the collision after seeing the other car’s lights too late.
Mrs. Mary Bowser, 60, of Blackfoot, was injured in an automobile accident near Pingree Monday night. She was taken to St. Anthony's for possible internal injuries.
U S Forest Supervisor L A Dremolski warned woodsmen and campers of high fire danger in valleys near here. He noted extreme dryness and critical humidity readings and urged care with cigarettes and matches in the forests.
Idaho officials led by the Public Utilities Commission and Attorney General filed with the Idaho Supreme Court a petition for an alternative writ of prohibition seeking to show cause why Judge C E Winstead’s April 16 injunction should not be dissolved. The injunction bars the PUC from blocking Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph’s schedule lifting rates to add over 600000 dollars in Idaho revenues and requires a special deposit of extra revenue until the matter is resolved.
Washington report notes former Indiana Governor Ralph F. Gates joining Republicans urging the Republican National Committee to craft a strong fighting platform for the 1950 congressional elections as it meets in Washington to elect a new party chairman.
Coal miner Duane Secrest, 40, died after setting dynamite off in his automobile in Clarksburg West Virginia. Police recovered scattered body parts over a two block area. The incident occurred Monday according to UP reports.
George Moran once known as one of the Two Black Crows died in a charity ward of an Oakland hospital Monday at age 67. A prior illness report had appeared in the Post on Monday.
Iceland deposited its ratification with the State Department becoming the seventh nation to join the North Atlantic Pact. Thor Thors, Icelandic minister, delivered the document Monday afternoon in Washington.
Senate hearing reveals United Mine Workers Welfare Fund trustees Styles Bridges and Ezra Van Horn earn 35000 annually while John L. Lewis takes no pay. Josephine Roche testifies fund paid out 104,880,785 to 393,097 beneficiaries vs 90,891,905 in receipts, funded by a 20 cent per ton coal tax.
Partly cloudy today with scattered showers this evening. Highs near 95 to 100 and a low around 60 to 65. Monday forecasts upper 90s with a 57 degree low and no precipitation expected.
American war planes and troops in Germany may join Western Europe’s permanent defense under the Atlantic Pact. Gen. Bradley Adm. Denfeld and Gen. Vandenberg said German based American forces would be integrated similar to Army and air power, after a briefing at European Command. They planned a Grafenwoehr review of occupation forces’ power.
Major Hill, recovering from injuries, left hospital Monday to ride Niagara River rapids in a steel torpedo from Rainbow Bridge to Queenston. He became the third family member to complete the journey, following his father William Red Hill and brother Red Jr. into the same feat.
Brussels AP sources say Britain aims for one fourth of Belgian Congo uranium ore output to challenge U S monopoly on atomic bomb materials. The Congo mine, supplying about 60 percent of world uranium, shipped exclusively to U S plants since the war. Shipments to the U S are to be sharply curtailed pending a new agreement.
Graders worked Monday tearing up asphalt and smoothing dirt on North 13th Street in front of Thayle Byington's home to prepare for resurfacing. The project, a one man effort, followed a petition by residents filed over a year ago.
Shirley May France, training to swim the English Channel, asks where in Britain she can find a big steak like back home. The remark appears in a brief quote highlighting her dietary wish during training.
In Thaxstead England five brides to be each gained 15 pounds from an 18th century fund for poor girls to marry. The money comes from a longstanding local endowment to aid those lacking cash for marriage.
President Truman announced that Attorney General Tom C. Clark will join the United States Supreme Court and that Senator J Howard McGrath has agreed to succeed Clark in the cabinet. McGrath, also Democratic national chairman, will resign his party post and Senate seat and call a meeting of the DNC to elect a new chairman after Senate action. Senate leaders expect swift confirmations.
At Berkeley a 22 year old coed, Judith Korb Sher, was shot in the head by Iranian student Parviz Dargoush after she decided to leave him and return to her estranged husband, Samuel Alexis Sher. Police say the three had met Sunday to discuss the campus love triangle.
Two masked bandits wearing white Panama hats raided the Centennial branch of the American National Bank in Nashville on Monday and escaped with an estimated 15 000 to 20 000 in cash.
Mrs Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 42, daughter of the late President, won a divorce from John Boettiger, 49, Monday on grounds of wilful desertion in Phoenix Arizona United Press report.
Clark Gasser twenty of 517 South Seventh Blackfoot suffered severe back injuries when a car in which he rode as a passenger crashed into telephone poles north of Blackfoot on highway 81 Monday morning. Driver John Arnold fell asleep at the wheel and escaped injury. Gasser was treated at Blackfoot hospital and later moved to St. Anthony's in Pocatello for further care. Damage to the auto was about 450 dollars.
The War Memorial Opera House trustees voted 6 to 5 to lift the ban on Wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad after trustee Mel Hertz reversed his earlier ban. Hertz cited pressure from local American Legion and VFW leaders and threats of picketing against his employer.
The government said it will absorb a loss of 22 to 34 cents a bushel on wheat and flour sold under the international wheat pact before trading ends tomorrow. The pact requires the United States to sell 168 million bushels annually for four years to a select group of nations at a fixed price.
The Atomic Energy Commission report says the risk of inhaling a radioactive “hot atom” near Arco is vanishingly small with odds about one in four sextillion. The analysis notes Oak Ridge air contains roughly one hot atom per cubic foot, amid reassurance that nuclear waste handling poses no danger.
Former Secretary of State George C. Marshall testified that Congress could have prevented hundreds of thousands of casualties in World War II if it had funded the armed forces in 1939. He warned that delaying the current arms program would cost lives and echoed the plan to defend Western Europe with Atlantic Pact allies. He also supported Acheson’s view that U S aid to Chiang Kai-shek is not feasible now.
John Maragon urged a probe of former Democratic treasurer George Killion and Henry F. Grady ambassador to Greece. He linked their roles to the 1941 Dollar Steamship Lines reorganization in San Francisco and attacked some members of the 1946 Greece mission for disgraceful conduct. Maragon served on the mission.
In Charlotte an elderly society matron, Mrs Essley Anderson aged 68, was shot to death and her Negro butler seriously knifed and beaten. Police searched for a former servant named as chief suspect, an ex convict who had served time for draft evasion.
Berlin based Gen Frank L. Howley, 44, the tough Irish commandant who refused Russian domination, resigns after four years in the occupied city. He plans to return to private life in Philadelphia, where he was an advertising executive before the war, hoping to leave by early September.
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