Jaycees Sponsor Drive To Reduce Accidents
Gracie Allen promotes a home safety drive in Pocatello as part of the General Safety Campaign led by the Pocatello Junior Chamber of Commerce. The campaign uses Burns and Allen imagery and a safety book to reduce local accidents and injuries.
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Jaycees
Gracie Allen
Burns and Allen
Pocatello
Gracie
George
Tiepoon
Comedienne
W. W. Halsey
Mildred Davis
Printogra Safety Campaign
Kansas
George Burns
Burns
Paul Murphy
Walt Disney Studios of
Hollywood
Telephone Rate Case Comes Up This Week
Boise Idaho The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company faces a rehearing Tuesday before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission on its request for higher rates. The firm says the increase would add about 605000 dollars annually. the original request was filed in May 1948 and the commission denied most of it on March 28, 1949.
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BOISE
Mountain States “Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company
State Public Utilities Commission
PUC
Legion Urges Pacific Pact to Halt Communist Aggression
The American Legion's national executive committee urged the U S to prevent abandoning the Far East to Communists and backed a regional Pacific pact under UN Charter Article 51. President Truman, a Legionnaire, is set to speak at the convention amid a record turnout of delegates alternates and visitors.
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Philadelphia
American Legion
United States
China
Pacific
Asia
Legion
Truman
Missouri
Far East
United Nations
Far-Eastern
Legionnaires
Robeson links Peekskill riot to nationwide campaign of terror
Paul Robeson condemned Sunday's riot that canceled hisPeekskill concert calling it part of a nationwide campaign of terror against progressive forces. He said he would not be loyal to that America but to the majority seeking freedom and justice for Black people. The Peekskill event followed an anti Communist demonstration by 300 to 400 veterans at a picnic ground where about 150 attendees were Black.
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New York
Paul Robeson
Peekskill
America
Robeson
Marijuana Crop Brings Arrests in Nampa
Federal authorities will be called into the investigation after police found a marijuana planted field in Nampa. Ramon Herrera and his wife were jailed for investigation. Three burlap sacks of cut marijuana were confiscated, one from the Herrera residence and two from the field. The narcotics were identified as marijuana at Idaho's chemical laboratory.
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Nampa
J. R. McCarthy
Ramon Herrerra
McCarthy
Herrera
Senf
Ange
Idaho
Chemical Laboratory
Weather brief reports scattered showers and warm Tuesday
Partly cloudy today with a few showers and thunderstorms. Tuesday should be generally fair with isolated mountain thundershowers and warmer conditions. High today near 85 and a low tonight between 50 and 55.
Today D-Day for WWII Vets as GI Insurance Dividends Start
Washington reports the long delayed 2.8 billion dollar GI insurance dividend will begin to reach eligible World War II veterans and dependents next January. Applications open at all post offices regional VA offices and veterans organizations nationwide with blanks available to those in uniform or overseas civilian personnel.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Veterans Organization
Armed Services
Firefighters Hold South Fork blaze in Payette forest
Crews halted spread of the South Fork fire in the Payette National Forest area as Forest Supervisor John Matthews said the blaze showed no gain in the last 24 hours. Wind shifts aided crews by exposing smoldering spots in burned acreage.
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McCall
Payette National Forest
John T. Matthews
South Fork
Matthews
Po catello Golf and Country Club Site Move Stirs Land Sale
W Shields shows 130 acres at the Elkhorn ranch to Jim Franklin as he begins selling club memberships Monday. Post Reporter Jack Phillips notes the land lies east of South Main street extension between the Union Pacific right of way and the irrigation ditch shown.
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W. Shields
Elkhorn Ranch
Pocatello Golf and Country Club
Jim Franklin
Post
Jack Phillips
South Main Street
Union Pacific
Dentist Will Climb To Charley’s Perch To Fix His Tooth
Charley Lupica the polesitting champion endures a toothache as a dentist ascends to his perch in Cleveland to fix the molar. He plans a temporary filling and vows to remain atop the pole until the Indians claim first place or the season ends.
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Charley
Cleveland
Lupica
Cleveland Indians
Tribe
Indians
Nine Polio Victims Enter Elks Home in Boise
Three more child polio victims were flown to Boise for treatment at the Elks State Convalescent Home. The weekend total reached nine victims sent from Idaho Falls and nearby Lewis ton for convalescent care.
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Elks
Boise
Idaho Falls
Elks’ State
Lewiston
New Flying Tractor Looms As Workhorse for Farmers
A proposed single seat air tractor to aid farming operations will be developed by a Texas A A M committee within 10 days after the National Flying Farmers Foundation meeting in Colorado. The craft aims to spray crops seed fields fertilize and feed livestock from the air at low speed with a 1200 to 1500 pound payload and a 40 mile per hour stall. It is expected to cost about 2000 and could become standard equipment on ranches within a year.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Texas A. & A. M. College
National Flying Farmers Foundation
Colorado A & M
E. E. Moore
Roswell
Moore
Last Civil War Veterans Gather For Grand Army Final Encampment
Six surviving Civil War veterans, all over 100, attended the 83rd and last Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Indianapolis. They reflected on battles 85 years past and debated continuing meetings next year, led by James A. Hard, 108, and Charles L. Chappel, 102, who flew in from California and New York respectively.
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Indianapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
United States
James A. Hard
Rochester
Hard
Charles L. Chappel
Burbank
Calif
Police Hunt Money Ring
Scotland Yard reports a massive international counterfeit network flooding New York and South America with fake dollars. The bills are said to be printed on wartime plates once ordered by Adolf Hitler to fund overseas sabotage efforts, with alleged members including global criminals and former Mayfair socialites now in the south of France.
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London
New York
South America
Adolf
Police close Gary Beach as crowd protests racial discrimination
About 100 police with riot guns sealed a Gary Indiana public beach on Sunday to prevent a planned demonstration of about 50 people protesting alleged racial discrimination. No injuries reported and the crowd dispersed peacefully.
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Gary
Ind
All Derrill Jones Loses Her Front Teeth
In Los Angeles 6 year old Derrill Jones misplaced her two front teeth after removing them to chew gum. The teeth are artificial with a gold bar, valued at 350 dollars, and missing from her mouth.
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Los Angeles
Derrill Jones
Cominform Accusations Grow Over Tito Assassination Plot
Belgrade reports a Cominform meeting in Sofia and Russian troop moves near Yugoslavia as Hector McNeil denounces the campaign against Tito as vicious. The People claims a $1,000,000 bounty on Tito, while Scrutator warns of possible attacks from exile forces or Russia herself.
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Communist Bureau of Information
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Sofia
Bulgaria
Hector McNeil
London
Greenock
Scotland
McNeil
Balkans
London Sunday
Cominform
Marshall Tito
Londdon
Dying Hurricane Moves Toward Northeast Coast
A dying hurricane lashed Charleston with 60 mph winds and moved north after killing four in Florida and causing 60 million dollars in damage. Warnings extended from Savannah to the Delaware breakwater as the storm brought heavy rain, high tides, and squalls through the Carolinas and toward the Mid-Atlantic coast.
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Charleston
S. C
Navy Yard
Florida
Seaboard States
Hickory
N. C
Savannah
Delaware
Chesapeake Bay
Weather Bureau
North Carolina
Americans to evacuate Bolivian tin region amid revolt
American technicians and families will be evacuated by air from the Catavi area as miners there reportedly rebel and threaten to attack the local garrison led by Col. A. Ramallo. Bolivian air force planes bombarded Cochabamba as authorities seek to quell the revolt spreading from southern provinces.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Patino ‘Mines
Catavi
Ramallo
Cochabama
Tce
Ministry of ‘Defense
GOP Hopes Rise for 1950 Senate House Wins
Republicans forecast a 1950 congressional victory as a popular revolt against Truman’s costly program. Senate leader Wherry called it a multi billion dollar giveaway while Gabrielson dubbed it Mr. Truman's socialistic policies. Rankin attacked civil rights moves as communistic and challenged a Southern debate with the President.
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Washington
GOP
Truman
Senate
Kenneth S. Wherry
Guy G. Gabrielson
Republican Nationalirt
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Rankin
Legislator Opposes Run-Off Primary Push in Idaho
State Rep. Erwin Schwiebert joins fellow Idaho Republicans Herman Welker and Henry Dworshak in opposing a run-off primary law aimed at blocking Glenn Taylor’s 1950 renomination bid. He supports a permanent run-off option with safeguards and notes 38 states already use closed primaries to curb cross-party manipulation.
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Glenn Taylor
Caldwell
Erwin Schwiebert
Canyon
Idaho
Sen
Herman P. Welker
Payette
U.S
Henry Dworshak
U. S
Glen H. Taylor
Schwiebert
Mundt Attacks Perjury-Proof Patter in Influence Inquiry
Sen Karl Mundt accused James V Hunt of deliber mony linking the self styled management counselor withWashington influence industry. Sen Margaret Chase Smith urged the inquiry continue regardless of Maj Gen Harry Vaughan's explanations for favors that let the alleged influence salesman collect large fees.
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Washington
Karl E. Mundt
S. D
James V. Hunt
Mundt
Margaret Chase Smith
Harry Hi Vaughan
MacArthur Marks Fourth Anniversary in Tokyo
Tokyo observes the fourth anniversary of General Douglas MacArthur's arrival in Japan. Since August 30, 1945 he landed at Atsugi airfield and moved to Yokohama to establish headquarters at the Hotel New Grand, with no plans to leave soon.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Atsugi
Yokohama
New Grand
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Russia
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