Queen Contest Sets Sash for Bannock County Fair
The Queen contest at Bannock County Fair Grounds today at 3 p m selects the 1948 Queen of the Pocatello Riding Club with six entrants. The winner will reign at Sept 10 11 12 races. Candidates include Treva Hiatt Ellen Chapman Barbara Merlin Janice Heslin Bobby Hidkins Bell Hawkins. Parade of drill team and trick riding exhibition also planned.
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Bannock County Fair Grounds
Fair Grounds
Pocatello Riding Club
Treva Hiatt
Downey Rancher John Wakley Dead at 66
Downey resident John Willard Wakley died Friday evening at a Pocatello hospital after a brief illness. He was born June 8, 1882 in Downey and spent his life as a rancher and stockman. He and Cora Barnes married in Downey on March 21, 1910. He is survived by nine children and eleven grandchildren, with two sons and two daughters among the survivors. Funeral services will be announced later, and the body was moved to Downey by Benson Mortuary.
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Wakley
Downey
Cora Barnes
Wilford
Howard
Dale Wakley
George Stuart
Thomas Cotton
Malad
Emmett Toponce
Salt Lake City
Arley
Dean
Ben Wakley
Dick Snyder
Pocatello
Ray Faulkner
Benson Mortuary
Memorial swimming pool fund gains donations
Donations to the Memorial swimming pool fund include 60 dollars from the Pocatello Cardinal baseball club and 25 dollars from E. S. Porter, Bohemian Club distributorship manager. Marvin Milkes of the Pocatello Cards turned over the 60 dollars, saying it came from the gate of Tuesday night boxing wrestling show at Halliwill Park.
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Memorial Swimming Pool
Pocatello Cardinal Baseball Club
E. S. Porter
Bohemian Club
Marvin Milkes
Pocatello
Halliwell Park
New Lodge at Yellowstone Opens in West Yellowstone
The Island Park Lodge opens under Pete Piersanti ownership in West Yellowstone 22 miles from the park entrance and 158 miles from Boise. The lodge sits in a vacation paradise offering fishing horseback riding and winter sports nearby. A cloudy morning is no excuse for rising early.
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West Yellowstone
Island Park Lodge
Pete Piersanti
Pocatello
Park
Visitor's Car Burglary Targets Oregon Visitor in Pocatello
A nonresident visitor, W. L. Bevans of Coos Bay Oregon, reported two suitcases stolen from his car at 1231 South Fourth Ave Pocatello after a theft during the night. Bevans was preparing for an early morning departure when the break in occurred.
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Pocatello
W. L. Bevans
Coos Bay
Oregon
Ralph Bair
South Fourth Ave
Bevans
Bannock County Near Top In 1947 Idaho Wheat Output
Bannock county produced 2,932,500 bushels of wheat in 1947, ranking second in Idaho behind Bonneville which harvested 3,402,800 bushels. Other leading counties included Power 2,572,100 Nez Perce 2,450,100 Latah 2,386,300 Idaho 2,156,000 Oneida 1,858,100 Fremont 1,801,000 Lewis 1,798,600 Madison 1,722,800 and Bingham 1,469,200.
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Bannock County
Idaho
Bonneville
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bannock
Bonneville County
Power
Nez Perce
Latah
Oneida
Fremont
Lewis
Madison
Bingham
Lonesome Gal Weds Father of 6 Children
Annetta Newman married widower John Taylor, father of six, in a simple Somerdale roadside tavern ceremony attended by five of the children. The wedding followed a quick courtship sparked by Taylor answering Annetta’s Camden newspaper want ad, with the family eyeing a hopeful new start as a united household.
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Camden
N. J
Annetta Newman
John Taylor
Somerdale
Taylor
Annetta
Irene
Janet
Joan
Larry
Jack
Barbara
Pocatello Navy Man Visits Home
Dean Gates, hospitalman third class, son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Gates of 448 North Sixth, is home on delayed order from Oceanside to Yerba Buena Island. He will board the USS General Butler for Pearl Harbor duty and be assigned to a Pacific fleet submarine destroyer after arrival. he previously served on the USS Tuscan and at the San Diego Naval hospital.
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Dean Gates
Ralph Gates
North Sixth
U. S. Naval Hospital
Oceanside
California
Yerba Buena Island
Gates
General Butler
Pearl Harbor
Tuscan
Naval Hospital
San Diego
Deadlock Pushes Phone Strike Effort with CIO and Unions
Washington awaiting progress as CIO and independent telephone unions unite to press for wage boosts from American Telephone and Telegraph and other Bell System firms. A joint strike committee forms to coordinate negotiations for 423,450 workers amid stalled talks.
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Washington
CIO
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Bell System
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Downey Rancher
John Willard Wakley
Pocatello Hospital
Johann Strauss
Strauss Waltzes
Famous
Strauss Was
Vienna
St. Peters
Boston
Strauss
MUS
Irving School
Dance Review
Maxine Wellard
Orlean Hronek
Wayne Booth
Yellowstone
N. Main
Western Auto Supply Co, A
Bea
Francisco de Goya
Duchess of Alba
Duchess
T. K. Barker
Palo Alto
Insuf
Organ
Idaho Peace
Officers’ Association
Banks
Busi
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
First Security Bank of Idaho
Idaho Bank and Trust Co
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