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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1948
Page
4
An Alameda style push for courtesy traffic enforcement is urged for Pocatello. The idea calls for courtesy tickets for first offenses, aiming to reduce fines and foster friendliness toward motorists and tourists.
Dr. Dinsmore Alter guides a moon travel imagination at Griffith Observatory while Navy boasts unmanned moon rockets within a year. Experts warn life support, extreme temperatures, and radiation make a one way trip unlikely though future flight progress accelerates with atomic power and faster aircraft.
The piece contrasts a hard line Southern State Rights party nomination event in Houston with an easy civil rights milestone in Mississippi where blacks vote in a primary. It notes Judge J Waites Waring in Charleston enforcing voting rights against white primary restrictions and reflects on peaceful progress amid political agitation.
The Japanese government lowered fresh garden vegetable prices by 25 percent after a black market undersold the official scale. The piece notes American merchants cannot pass on similar savings to customers by economical operation.
Paul Gallico denounces corporate cost cutting that targets low paid clerks and secretaries. He argues that squeezing the middle class harms consumer power and urges firms to find other savings instead of trimming office staff. He cautions against conflating cuts with communism and calls for business to seek alternatives.
A quirky column muses on pairs like opposites as marriage matches, suggests men pursue wealthy wives, and humorously riffs on generosity and travel desires, noting how post hoc judgments mislead and trivial traits spark thought.
President Truman mixes up four Thomases in a humorous mix of senators and representatives. Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Elbert Thomas of Utah are involved, plus J Parnell Thomas of New Jersey and Albert Thomas of Texas. The White House calls back to set the record straight amid a public flap about misattributed actions. A separate Army probe targets Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell for alleged black market activity after his London assignment.
The report covers Brig. Gen. Bissell facing an air force probe into his use of a military plane to smuggle coffee into Germany and secret bank accounts in Rhode Island and Texas. It also notes Attorney General Tom Clark and Housing Expeditor Tighe Woods ordering a broad crackdown on housing frauds against veterans with expanded investigations and a firm pledge to prosecute violators.
A warden wrote asking to reuse my tough guy column in the prison paper read by inmates every two weeks. Eleanor hails the idea as fitting, while prisoners praise a story about Eddie Michaels and Mike Shasta, two cellmates whose bond ends as Eddie faces extradition for killing a police officer.
Eddie and Mike plan to collide with Kansas guards in a failed escape attempt. Eddie dies after the confrontation while Mike is shunned by inmates and later takes his own life at a lonely way-station before reaching his mother in Fresno.
Count Bernadotte calls for Palestine settlement as a blow to Israel independence, reflecting British influence. Emanuel Celler questions progress. Paul Porter doubts bipartisanship on economic issues in Congress. President Truman decries underpayment of teachers and classroom strain from large pupil loads.
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