Distressing Spirit Abroad Across Our Town
A critical editorial warns against a national wave of censorship and intolerance. It condemns the Thomas committee’s charges against Dr. Edward A. Condon, a New Jersey school board banning a Latin America textbook, and New York City’s ban on The Nation, arguing such acts undermine free press and open debate.
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Pocatello
Thomas Committee
Edward A. Condon
Congress
Committee
New Jersey
Latin America
Uruguay
New York Board of Superintendents
New York Public Schools
the Nation
Condon
New York
Idaho State College grows athletic program seeks field house
Idaho State College aims to become a leading western athletic school with broader programs. The board supports a field house but legislative funding is needed to proceed. Renovations include stadium lighting planned before the 1949 football season, new dressing rooms, hard surface tennis courts, and stadium improvements.
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John Vesser
Idaho State College
ISC
Board of Regents
Idaho State
Idaho
Carl W. McIntosh
William “Bill” Bartz
John Scoville
Idaho State College Prepares for 1948 Athletic Year
Guest Editorial highlights two new athletic staff members Ed Willett as basketball coach and Italo Babe Caccia as football line coach. Byrne Fernelius and Milt Holt pursue advanced degrees while student leaders Bill Folsom and Professor Sturm push support for athletics and ticket sales. The piece predicts Idaho State College will field its strongest athletic season yet with high morale across football basketball boxing and track.
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Ed Willett
Italo
Babe” Caccia
Idaho State
Byrne Fernelius
University of Indiana
Milt “Dubby” Holt
Columbia University
New York
Bill Folsom
ISC
Sturm
Idaho State College
Bankers and Snyder Weigh Curb on Credit Inflation
Washington notes that Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder has shifted toward supporting congressionally backed limits on free and easy bank credit, a stance echoing Marriner Eccles prior to his demotion. The piece recalls bankers’ past vilification in the 1920s boom and their later recovery of public respect as inflation pressures rise.
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Washington
John W. Snyder
Eccles
Smittansive Board
Snyder
United States
Robert Ruark on home television kits and childhood duty
Robert Ruark lampoons the Transvision do it yourself television sets sold by Transvision Inc. He recalls crystal sets and wonders why a child can assemble the kit while adults face stubborn questions about electronics. Ruark jokes that the burden on grownups is unbearable and imagines striking with a fireax.
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New York
Transvision, Inc
New Rochelle
N. Y
H. D. Suesholtz
Uncle Robert
Barbers and Burdened Wallets Quip About Costs
A trade paper notes barbers average 250 strokes per shave. The piece remarks on self worth and wages, noting one man must lose a $10,000 job to realize worth $5,000. It jokes that new shoes hurt most when bought for the whole family and that beef costs may fall but pork remains an issue.
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Sam
Dewey
Pocatello
Dueling in Rome Figures in American Exile Intrigue
The narrator recounts a Rome duel affair involving an American ex-G, Mr. Livingston Pomeroy, and Marquis Emmanuel de Seta over a nameless lady. The plan to duel with rapiers was abandoned as coverage and opinions spread, with remarks about Italian codes and public reactions from correspondents and authorities.
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Rome
Rapiers
G. I
Livingston Pomeroy
Marquis Emmanuel de Seta
Reynolds Packard
United States
Franco Chimirri
Pomeroy
Packard
Paul Gallico
Chimirri
Gallico
Italy
Pietro Santini
Esquire
Reader’s Digest
Marquis
Barney
Duels and threats cast Italians as restless on honor
Paul Gallico notes Italy’s revived dueling culture with pistols broadswords and rapiers as the rapier’s danger rises. Santini says duels rose after the war with up to one weekly in summer. A Roman Count issues a challenged field of honor using a hand grenade at thirty paces, complicating Gallico’s column.
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Italy
Paolo Caccia Dominioni di Sillavengo
Adriano Torelli
Guiseppe Cigala Fulgosi
Rome
Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing act blocked in rules panel
Speaker Joe Martin stalls the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing act again by ruling a discharge petition must wait as the house recesses. Helen Gahagan Douglas has 163 signatures and seeks 215 to force a floor vote, with Sam Rayburn promised to supply the remaining names.
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Washington
Joe Martin
Senate
House Banking and Currency Committee
Rules Committee
House
Helen Gahagan Douglas
California
Mrs. Douglas
Martin
Joe
Douglas
Sam Rayburn
Sam
Virgil Chapman
Kentucky
Roy H. Hamilton
Berea
United States
Hamilton
Chapman
Navy
Happy” Chandler
Monument fund to honor five American flyers slain in 1946
Arthur Bliss Lane, former ambassador to Yugoslavia, starts a fund to mark the five American flyers shot down by Tito’s Yugoslavs in 1946. Their bodies lie in Arlington National Cemetery under a plain headstone. Lane agrees to act as treasurer at 2442 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington.
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Arthur Bliss Lane
Tito
Arlington National Cemetery
Lane
Yugoslavia
Massachusetts Ave
N. W
Washington
Letters evoke faith in adults amid local sports and era notes
A reader urges accountability for a 1930s Halliwell Park youth baseball school run by Pocatello Cardinals players. The letter-writer praises the thrill yet laments underwhelming turnout and nonuniforms, while contrasting with boys’ expectations and future prospects. Additional exchanges touch on local life, politics, and a move to relocate a reader’s housing to Pocatello.
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Sam
Pocatello Cardinals
Boise
Salt Lake City
Halliwell Park
Pocatello
Bob Corlis
South Main St
Cycle of world prayer invites endless chain of blessings
A letter asks readers to pledge a round‑the‑clock cycle of prayer and to recruit seven friends each to continue the chain. The writer Sonia Abador seeks God to spiritualize the planet and bless all participants with peace, health, abundance, and global fellowship. The editor questions whether it resembles a chain letter.
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Earth
Sonia Abador
12Th St
Los Angeles
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Philadelphia
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Leonard Hall
House Secretaries Association
Thoroughbred Horse Racing Association
U. S. Senate
U. S
Kid
Bob
J. B
Montpelier
Sam Hanson
Cycle of Prayer
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