Women’s Clubhouse Drive Sparks Pocatello Effort
State Senator Nellie Cline Steenson urges Pocatello to follow Blackfoot and build a downtown women’s clubhouse. groups totaling about 35 clubs plan joint fundraising, with luncheons, a Style Show August 19-20, and Beta Sigma Phi and Alpha Pi Omega contributions aimed at purchasing a site and creating a civic center for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
Pocatello Women’s Club
Beta Sigma Phi
Alpha Pi Omega Sorority
Sagebrush Sermonette on Idaho Mining and Patience
A reflective piece on Idaho's Snake River mining history contrasts gold rush folly with lasting wealth from farming. It traces mining booms to ghost towns and Chinese labor, then highlights canals, irrigation, and resilient farms that yield potatoes, beans, fruit, grain, and dairy. The text champions patience, temperance, constancy, and self control as the path to enduring abundance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Valley of the Snake
Italian President Einaudi Faces Plush White House Burden
The piece notes President Einaudi of Italy enjoys a $321,000 annual income a mansion and a 10 000 acre hunting preserve while the U S president earns 75 000 plus a 25 000 travel allowance and use of a 150 year old White House Yet maintaining a 1000 room cottage and safaris for family misadventures would eat into the Italian leaders sizable fortune
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Einaudi
Italy
United
Voice Of The People Letters From Pocatello Readers
Reader Adah Sorensen urges Idaho beautification, legalized gambling and liquor by the drink, and stricter age proof for night clubs to boost tourism and fund new civic projects. A second writer criticizes host town hostility to visitors, citing Alabama travelers mistreated at a bus stop and warns of dwindling tourism if manners do not improve.
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Sam
Idaho
Pocatello
Adah Sorensen
Fremont
Alabama
Rise of Charley Skouras to a Movie Empire
The piece recounts Greek immigrant Charley Skouras rising from a 50 cent a day job to head a global theater chain. It notes his role in the youth month stamp dedication with President and his brothers Spyros and George shaping major studio and theater operations across the United States. It highlights the family’s early St Louis nickelodeon gamble and subsequent expansion to hundreds of theaters via National Theatres and Fox West Coast networks.
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Washington
Charley Skouras
United States
America
New York
Skouras
St. Louis
Spyros
George
Skouras Brothers
Nickelodeon
Missouri
Warner Brothers
20Th Century-Fox
Charley
National Theatres
Fox West Coast Theatres
Friendship Train publicity clash at Lor Angeles meeting
Drew Pearson managers were urged to publicize the Friendship Train alongside Forever Amber. Skouras asked if the train or the film should take priority, declaring Forever Amber could come later and emphasizing youth month efforts starting in September led by theater owners. Skouras extols youth achievements, urges incentives for city kids, and cites delinquency as mainly caused by parents and communities.
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Skouras
Los Angeles
Committee For
Theatre Owners of America
Snorkel Revolution in Submarine Warfare Change
The article explains anti submarine warfare in two wars, noting subs could not move fast underwater and had to surface to recharge batteries. It describes convoy protection, surface gun power, and air reconnaissance enabling Allied victory once U boats were outgunned. It then highlights the snorkel as a major revolutionary development allowing underwater travel with air intake tubes.
Submarine Evolution and Future Warfare Preview
Robert Ruark discusses submarine advances including submerged runs on diesel, battery recharge, and snorkel heads. He notes German and Russian hydrogen peroxide propulsion ideas and predicts new submarine design and anti submarine warfare will dominate naval research. The next submarine war will be intense and challenging.
McLemore Hits India NEW
In a vivid travelogue from New Delhi India McLemore recounts arriving at the Imperial Hotel and facing a startling welcome by Sikhs guarding luggage and performing hotel duties in traditional attire. Early morning noise punctuates an experience of cultural contrasts and vivid local scenes.
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New
Delhi
India
Jean
Imperial Hotel
Sahib
Tea and Bearers at the Indian Frontier
Henry McLemore describes life with tepid routines of tea and loyal bearers outside every bedroom. A saluting staff in tan uniforms, turbaned underlings, and a habit of waking for Chota Hazri haunt his days. Bob Trumbull from the New York Times notes similar tea compulsions. The account promises a later look at a trial afternoon.
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Eer Harri
Bob Trumbull
The
New York Times
Tyhee youths allege police brutality in Pocatello case
Two Tyhee youths recount a late night traffic stop near KSEI on the Yellowstone highway. They accuse Lt. J M Bedingfield of striking John Whitaker with a blackjack and claim the incident warrants a full investigation by state police leadership.
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Pocatello
Sam
Ksei
Yellowstone
John Whitaker
John
Judge Hyde
Justice of the Peace
J. M. Bedingfield
Glen Briscoe
Tyhee
Jay Briscoe
Bannock
Briscoe
Li Bedingfield
POST
Lt. Bedingfield
Common
Cost of living and foreign policy debated in quotes
A compilation of varied quotes outlines priorities from housing and price reduction to ending segregation and world government. Charles Tobey, Truman, Hutchins, Kardelj, and Philip Murray weigh in on domestic costs and international alignments amid wartime tensions and political reform.
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Russia
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Yugoslavia
Sovit Union
Edward J. Kardelj
Congress
Philip Murray
CIO
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Pocat
North Main Street
Post Publishing
A.C. VW
Nellie Cline Steenson
Bannock County
Club Women of
Blackfoot
Y.W.C.A
Steenson
Whitman
the Pocatello Woman’s Club
Leroy H. Walker
Snake River
Voice of the People
Dear Adah
Theatrical Review
Drew Pearson
Robert Ruark
McLemore
Henry McLemore
BY Sam Hanson
Charles Tobey
New Hampshire
Truman
Wallace
B. Russell
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