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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1949
Page
20
The White House receives odd gifts for President Truman including a 125 pound watermelon and wax car stoppers. Other items reveal the mix of lavish and humble gifts, from a donated car to a bowling alley, matches labeled swiped from Truman, and handmade patriotic tapestries.
A German V-2 expert, later freed from Soviet service, says Russia is establishing a network of V-2 bases in eastern Germany and across Eastern Europe. He cites five completed single batteries and six three-battery sites, with locations aimed at Sweden, the Rhine region, the Baltic coast, and routes into Austria and Italy, ready for ignition on minutes notice. He notes files detailing strategic plans and commissions already working on preparations.
David T. Johnson filed suit in the fifth district court against Union Pacific alleging negligence caused fires on his property. The fires burned five acres of grass ten acres total and destroyed crops on several dates in 1947 and 1948, including a wagon grain box apple trees and a purebred Hereford milk cow killed on the tracks. Johnson seeks 886.200 dollars plus damages interest and attorney fees after the railroad allegedly refused payment. He is represented by Merrill and Merrill.
H M Bardt of San Francisco, president of the trust division of the American Bankers Association, said the nation has passed a leveling off cycle and business is on the upswing as he prepared to speak at the ABA western regional trust conference in Salt Lake City. He cited consumer demand and large bank deposits as evidence that a downturn is unlikely.
A state fire marshal probed a series of four fires at Ernest Sadden’s farm in Morrison, Illinois, culminating in a $12,000 barn blaze. The sequence began Sunday with closet fires in the tenants’ house, then a Davenport fire, then Tuesday’s barn fire as the cause of suspicions.
Olive Snow a Riverton Utah mother of three in her mid forties with neuritis offers her heart for experimental use to pay medical bills and save the family farm. Her husband a roofer is ill and cannot work while the family runs a small farm southwest of Salt Lake City. She says doctors could use the heart if it advances knowledge and has not approached any hospital yet.
Government health experts report a synthetic cortisone drug has cured arthritic cases and shown promise for rheumatic fever. Production from ox bile is slow and costly, but African plant seeds could yield cheap, unlimited supply. A U.S. expedition seeks seeds in Africa, Malaya, Liberia, and China to grow the plant domestically.
The supreme lodge of the World Loyal Order of the Moose elected its chief officers for the coming year. Willis E. Donley of Menominee Wisconsin was named supreme governor, Oliver S. Twist of Philadelphia became junior supreme governor, James M. Ballard of Seattle was chosen supreme prelate, and Fred W. Zabel of Aurora Illinois was named supreme treasurer.
The Federal Security Agency estimated that American colleges and universities awarded about 430000 degrees in the year ending June 30. Of these, 375000 were first or bachelor’s degrees and 55000 were master’s or doctor’s degrees, up from 319000 the previous year.
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