Housewives Boycott Meat Prices Spur Nationwide Sentiment
Pocatello housewives report only slight meat-buying drop but indicate local willingness to join a boycott as higher prices spark a broader movement. National notes show organized resistance and lower sales in multiple cities with secretaries warning of price rises.
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Pocatello Meat Pac
Gate City
Idcal
Petticoat
Dallas
Texas
Pocatello
Glenn Crouch
South Johnson Ave
C. C. Arnold
North Harrison Ave
E. M. Evje
South Fourth Ave
Evie
Tacoma
Washington
Arthur F. Dennis
National Meat Council
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Charles F. Brannan
Congress
Tex
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Cleveland
Norman Thomas Heads West on Nationwide Campaign Tour
Norman Thomas socialist presidential candidate will depart by air Thursday for Missoula Montana as the first leg of a nationwide two and a half week tour. He will speak in Missouri Friday under AFL CIO and Farmers Union sponsorship and attend an August 8 rally in Ogden Utah before flying to Boise Idaho for the state convention.
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New York
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Missoula
Mont
Missouri
AFL, Cio
Farmer’s Union
Ogden
Utah
Boise
Ida
Weather and crime report headline
The forecast calls for morning shopping. afternoon risk of thunder showers after high noon. Temperatures rise to a high near 85 and drop to 55 at night. A Legion lounge in Twin Falls was robbed. at least 600 dollars stolen from a smashed safe and slot machine on Tuesday morning.
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Legion
Twin Falls
American Legion
House Moves to Scuttle Truman Inflation Plan
The House banking committee rejected most of President Truman's inflation proposals while granting limited credit controls and consumer curbs. A Senate House subcommittee also altered a housing bill to include slum clearance and builder incentives but dropped a key public housing feature. Republicans aim to pass these measures and adjourn by Saturday, while Democrats decry the gag rule.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Truman
Senate House
Congress
Senate Republicans
House
Wright Patman
Tex
Coroner Probing Death of Navajo Indian Leonard Cornfield
The Navajo Indian Leonard Cornfield aged 21 died in a local hospital after a history of arrest at the Union Bus depot. An inquest is set for Friday at 2 p.m. at Hall mortuary with an autopsy planned for Thursday, announced Bannock county coroner Arthur W. Hall.
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Hall
Leonard Cornfield
Arthur W. Hall
Bannock County
Cornfield
Union
Yellowstone Hotel
West Bonneville
Pocatello Faces Bridge Crisis as Timber Spans Tarnish
City leaders report several Portneuf river bridges deteriorating from age and heavy traffic. Material shortages delay permanent rebuilding, leaving ongoing repairs by workers as hallways of temporary fixes through the year.
U S Army Transport Arrives With Jet Fighters at Glasgow
The U S Army transport Barney Kirschbaum docked in Glasgow with 12 F-80 Shooting Star jets and accompanying medical maintenance and service units aboard, signaling a wartime deployment move.
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Glasgow
Scotland
U. S. Army
Barney Kirschbaum
Two Pocatello Boys Hurt In Riverside Drive Crash
At 9 p m on Riverside Drive two Pocatello youths collided head on with a car. Richard Thomas 14 suffered a bad leg fracture and was hospitalized while Robert Pophan escaped with bruises. Stanley Henson driver of the other vehicle aided by Patrolman Jack Bates and witnesses.
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Riverside Drive
Richard Thomas
Milton Thomas
Maplewood Ave
Pocatello
Robert Pophan
D. A. Pophan
Stanley Henson
Ravine Drive
Jack Bates
Henson
Bates
Idaho Labor Rejects 3rd Party Help
The Idaho State Federation of Labor rejects third party support and adopts a legislative program seeking repeal of laws on portal-to-portal pay and secondary boycotts. Elmer McIntire is elected secretary-treasurer, succeeding Leonard Hail, with A W Galipeau named president.
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Boise
Idaho State Federation of Labor
Communist Party
Elmer McIntire
Leonard Hail
Federation
Railroad Brotherhoods
State Police and Highway Department
A. W. Galipeau
Coeur d’Alene
Martha Thomas
Pocatello
McCulloch
Union
C. Carter
Jim Robinson
Idaho Falls
Kirk Walker
Walace
Fred McCabe
Sig Sanding
Twin Falls
Hubert Burns
Lewiston
E. J. Hurrell
Coeur d'Alene
McIntire
Boise Trades and Labor Council
Hall
August
Rosqvist
Kennecott Copper Strike Postponed in Utah Nevada
Salt Lake City report says a company-wide strike against Kennecott Copper Corporation's western properties was postponed for 48 hours. The CIO affiliated union had planned action in Utah New Mexico and Nevada starting Thursday morning without prior notice.
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Salt Lake City
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Western Properties
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
CIO
Kennecott
Utah
New Mexico
Nevada
Hope Reborn For Missing Airliner
Officers aboard the French frigate Leverrier reported two faint radio signals that may come from an Air France flying boat missing since Sunday in the South Atlantic with 52 aboard. The first signal was heard Tuesday night and a very weak second was picked up Wednesday afternoon GMT. A report said operators bracketed the missing plane near the Cape Verdes islands west of Dakar.
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Dakar
French West Africa
Leverrier
Air France
South Atlantic
Cape Verdes Islands
Dakear
Being A Cop Is Tough When It's Your Own Son
Philadelphia police officer Harold Jones faced his hardest case in 20 years as he escorted his 19 year old prisoner to magistrate court. The youth wrecked his grandmother's house after a refused $5 demand, then fled in a car chase during which Jones fired his weapon to stop him. The youth had a Navy bad conduct discharge and 18 months in a reformatory. Jones later watched his son Harold O. Jones sent to the House of Detention for three months.
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Philadelphia
Harold Jones
Jones
Navy
Harold O. Jones
Hope For Use Of New Pool Gets Dimmer
City engineer Les Baliff warned no completion date would be set for Pocatello’s new pool while workers hope to finish in time for a week or two of swimming before summer ends. Mayor George R. Phillips cited weather delays but said materials are on hand and plastering is near.
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Pocatello
Milt Tofanelli
Henry Palmer
Halliday Street
Carson Street
Carson Street Bridge
P. S
Pocatellans
Les Baliff
George R. Phillips
Baliff
Watermelon Causes Wreck When Driver Steadying Slice
A Pocatello man returns home with a watermelon in the rear seat. He reaches back to steady it as it rolls, losing control and crashing. Authorities note the odd incident as a vintage driving tale.
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Pocatello
Idaho Ballot Access Requests Reach Two More
The Idaho secretary of state received two additional requests for information to place candidates on the November 2 general election ballot. One came by telegraph from former Mississippi secretary of state Walker Wood and the other by letter from Lar Daly, chairman of the Christian Action Party of America in Chicago.
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Boise
Secretary of
Idaho
Mississippi
Walker Wood
Lar Daly
Christian Action Party of America
Chicago
Ward Members Rally for Welfare String Beans Drive
Bishop D W Martin of the First Ward LDS West Pocatello Stake reports volunteers have picked 65 cases of string beans toward a 190 case quota. Another Tuesday evening effort at the First Ward church garden in Alameda aims to complete the project with 6 p.m. to dark work sessions open to all volunteers.
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D. W. Martin
LDS West Pocatello Stake
Martin
LDS First Ward
Oak and Jefferson Sts
Alameda
School merger committee to meet on August 10
Scott Lowe county superintendent said a merger advisory committee will meet August 10 to consider uniting Pocatello Inkom and Portneuf school districts. The session is set in Lowe s Bannock county courthouse office.
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Pocatello
Inkom
Portneuf
Scott Lowe
Lowe
Bannock County Courthouse
Retail Trade Drive Starts In Pocatello
The Chamber of Commerce retail committee launched an effort to position Pocatello as a regional retail hub with a noon Whitman hotel luncheon outlining plans. Lead organizer Ellis Donaldson announced Pocatello Silver Dollar Days kickoff August 26 and 27, with monthly events through January to boost local business.
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Pocatello
Chamber of Commerce
Whitman Hotel
Gate City
Ellis Donaldson
J. “Ledge”. Craig
Chamber
Craig
Stan Day
Day
Donaldson
Pocatellans
Top Legion Ball Coming To Pocatello
For the first time since 1934 Pocatello hosts the Idaho State Junior American Legion championship series in Halliwell Park. The Gate City nine meet Lewiston in a best two out of three starting August 11. Coaches Tydeman and Caccia say the unbeaten Gate City squad is ready to battle for the crown.
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Pocatello
American Legion
Gate City Nine
Lewiston
Halliwell Park
Gate City
Legion
Fred Tydeman
Babe” Caccia
Drunks Absent In Court Lineup
Pocatellans appear not to have intoxication cases in police court Wednesday morning. Judge Don Bistline noted the docket had no drunkenness charges for the first time in several months and speculated about reasons.
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Pocatellans
Don Bistline
Idaho State Jobs Showing Decrease
Idaho's state employment service reports a midseason slump in demand for workers across agricultural and nonfarm sectors. By end of last week the ISES listed 1797 jobs, down 264 from July 31, indicating a statewide decline in job listings across most industry groups.
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BOISE
Idaho
ISES
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