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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1948
Page
2
Irene Lamphere and Fred Lamphere face a divorce over Pamela 22 months old born with bladder inverted outside her body. Doctors say surgery offers a 1 in 1000 chance of survival and potential normal life. Judge O Malley hopes a reconciliation to decide the divorce after the child's fate is settled.
Rexburg based Ricks College president John L. Clarke announced six new divisions as part of a plan to expand into a four year college. The divisions include education farm and home science humanities mathematics and natural science religion and social science and business.
A report explains the Queen Mary is built as two ships in one with a six foot gap between the outer and inner hulls. The arrangement provides enhanced strength and watertight integrity for the famed British liner.
In Blackfoot at 2 p m on Saturday a wild badger entered a residential alley. Tom Rowley and Wayne Wilcox led a pursuit that drew about 25 neighbors. The animal hid in a garage corner before being lassoed and finally trapped under a garbage can. The badger was delivered to Taupthaus Park in Idaho Falls for care shortly after 3 p m.
The U S Civil Service commission announced openings for a special agent (tax fraud) and other federal positions including internal revenue agent engineer printer's assistant elevator operator and draftsmen. Salaries start above $2000 with many openings not requiring a written test. Apply through Elmer Comer in the federal building Pocatello or write to the U S civil service examiners at any first or second class post office.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for four year old Dennis Moyes of Payette whose body was found Saturday in an irrigation ditch. Sheriff Ray Stevens said the boy’s body was found about 300 yards from the spot where he is believed to have fallen into a canal and drowned. The boy had been missing since Friday afternoon. Searchers drained the five foot bead canal before locating the body.
Three official inquiries opened into the Reno explosion that levelled half a block downtown killing five and injuring about 180. Investigators probed cause amid reports the blast stemmed from paint stored in a basement rather than dynamite. The inquest into three firemen and two spectators will be held Wednesday as debris clearance continued and hospitals reported improving conditions for the critically injured.
The article notes that Robert Fulton did not create the first steam driven vessel despite several inventors moving boats with steam power earlier. It states Fulton was the first to solve the problem successfully.
Graduating students wrap up the summer program with a Water Carnival at the Blackfoot pool starting at 2 p.m. on August 22. The event features life saving demonstrations, age group races, formation swimming, and class performances.
Discovered 30 years ago the Minnetonka caverns near St. Charles along Bear Lake feature twelve large rooms marked by unusual limestone formations. The Room of the Towers measures 90 by 60 by 60 feet with towering stalactites and stalagmites. WPA started improvements in 1933 and the Forest Service completed them. Admission is free and the cave is car accessible near St. Charles, about 22 miles south of Montpelier.
Wood ducks show many un ducklike habits yet they insist on nests near water. When the young are ready to leave the nest the mother carries them in her beak and drops them into the water.
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