Vet Ins Dividend Rush Sparks WW II Vets in Pocatello
Pocatello WW II veterans rushed to file for National Service Life Insurance dividends. About 2,500 applications reached VA and Red Cross offices by 5 p m, with 2,000 blanks issued at main post office and substations. Postmaster John E Trimming noted 2,900 blanks available and warned stamps must be affixed to all forms or they will be returned.
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Pocatello
National Service Life Insurance
Veterans Administration Office
Red Cross
Post Office
John E. Trimming
Bistline's
Alameda
Trimming
Chamber OK On Golf Plan
Chamber of Commerce directors endorsed forming the Poca tello Golf and Country Club during a noon session Monday. J L Craig Jr executive secretary was authorized to assist the project and attend the American Chamber executive session in Seattle October 16 and 17 and the U S Chamber advisory committee meeting in Washington December 5 and 6.
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Chamber of Commerce
Pocatello Golf and Country Club
J. L. Craig Jr
Craig
Mder of Commerce
Seattle
Commercial Organization Department of the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Washington
D. C
Gate City Social Notes and Local Trips
Gate City society items report 13 members at a chapter meeting with invitations sent to all eligibles. BYU summer school returns. families from Forest Grove and Oregon and Washington trips noted. A festival is planned at Ross Park by the LDS stake mutual improvement association. A naval ordnance plant union committee meets at the Whitman hotel this evening.
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Upper Ross Park
Pocatello
LDS Stake Mutual Improvement Association
Naval Ordnance Plant Machinist’s Union
Whitman Hotel
A. P. Flagler
News of Record Marrage Licenses and Local Births
Marriage licenses list Theodore Maheras of Idaho Falls and Barbara Jean Crouch of Pocatello. Birth notices report several newborns at St. Anthony Hospital and local addresses with Aug dates. Justice Court covers Elk possession case against John L. Burnham and a vehicle lights violation against Howard H. Cook. Police Court records multiple guilty pleas for reckless driving and vagrancy, license suspensions, fines, and transfers.
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Theodore Maheras
Idaho Falls
Barbara Jean Crouch
Pocatello
Justice Court
John L. Burnham
Court of Justice of the Peace
Charles W. Hyde
Burnham
Howard H. Cook
Potato Hearings Explore Federal Marketing Order Changes
Testimony in a Department of Agriculture hearing on Idaho and Malheur County potato handling seeks amendments to the federal marketing order. Proposals cover export handling, grading and sizing flexibility, and quality and maturity minimums. Witnesses include industry representatives and regulators from Idaho, Washington, and California.
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House
Idaho
Malheur County
Ore
Potato Marketing Order
Department of Agriculture
John J. Curry
Washington, D. C
John S. Griffin
Los Angeles
Calif
Sherman L. Popst
Dallas
Tex
Fruit
Agriculture Department
Ed F&. Gallahue
Frank Campbell
Rupert
C. R. Holden
Idaho Falls
Warden A. Davis
Parma
R. K. Hart
Pocatello
Hans Jensen
Blackfoot
C. L. Ashley
Ashton
N. E. George
Homedale
Jack Gibbs
Grace
al Clinger
A. G. Stranger
Truman urges non interference in domestic politics abroad
President Truman, returning to Washington after a speech, warns that the United States must not meddle in other nations' home politics while discussing Britain's financial crisis. U.S., Canada, and Britain engage in talks on economic issues and the European recovery program to promote global prosperity.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Britain
Canada
Great Britain
United Kingdom
European Recovery Program
World Bank
International Monetary Fund
GAR Meet Penland Declares No More En Campments
Penland, despite being a teetotaler, enjoyed a spry mood after a nurse spiked his egg nog. He apologized to comrades and said there will be no more encampments as they are getting too old for these trips.
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Penland
Rate Appeal Case Today in Boise
Alfred C. Cordon of the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation will attend a Boise hearing before the Idaho Public Utilities Commission. The protest challenges Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company’s request to raise exchange and toll rates to yield 1,040,000 dollars annually, following prior denied increases and adjustments in 1947 and 1948.
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Idaho Farm Bureau Federation
Alfred C. Cordon
Pocatello
Boise
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
Farm Bureau
Mountain States Telephone’ and Telegraph Company
PAC
Commission
Malad Set for Idaho Cattlemen Tour Across County
About 300 cattlemen business firm representatives and guests will join a touring caravan starting in Malad next Wednesday at 10 a.m. The convoy visits Holbrook St John Jones Brothers shorthorn herd W C Rees Hereford herd Two Mile Canyon reseeding work with Forest Ranger Ivan Christenson then proceeds to Cache Valley culminating in a dinner and program at St John.
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MALAD
Idaho Cattlemen’s Association
Holbrook
St. John
Jones Brothers
W.C. Rees
Aes
Two Mile Canyon
Ivan Christenson
Cache Valley
Groesbeck Couple Welcome Downey Boy
Mr and Mrs Byron Groesbeck of Logan announce the birth of a son born August 14. Mrs Groesbeck is the former Myrtle Barnes daughter of Mr and Mrs W O Barnes of Downey.
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Downey
Byron Groesbeck
Logan
Groesbeck
Myrtle Barnes
W. O. Barnes
Five-Man Council to Work on Oordnance Plant Layoffs
After a noon directors meeting with Mayor Halsey a five member council will be appointed to find local jobs for ordnance plant workers. Members will come from city administration Idaho State Employment Service building industry ordnance plant employees and representation for UP railroad and the Chamber of Commerce. The aim is to absorb many workers in local industry with possible openings at Pacific Fruit Express and the railroad’s 40 hour week next month.
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Chamber
Halsey
Idaho State Employment Service
Building
Ordnance Plant
UP Railroad
Chamber of Commerce
Pocatello
Pacific Fruit Express
Hearing Date Set Over Habeas Petition in Indecent Exposure Case
District Judge L E Glennon ordered a 2 pm Wednesday hearing on the writ of habeas corpus sought by Robert R Sidebotham 61 Ogden. He was arrested Friday on indecent exposure on a downtown street Aug 15 and held in Bannock county jail in $1000 bail. Sidebotham claims the offense is a misdemeanor punishable by six months or a 300 dollar fine or both and says he is unknown here unable to raise bail and unlawfully deprived of liberty due to that amount.
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L. E. Glennon
Robert R. Sidebotham
Ogden
Sidebotham
Bannock County
Justice of the Peace
Charles W. Hyde
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Chamber OK
National Committee
N. Main
Thomas Radio & Appliances
Westvaco Chemical Division
Rollnick and
Modern Shoe
Howard Higgins
Westvaco
L. L. Lambrou
Rollinick
Gate City
Moi Bannock Hotel
Jay Jensen
Provo
Utah
Mr. Jensen
BYU
Carlile North
Mrs
C. J. North
Forest Grove, Ore
Northwest
James H. Myers
E. Whitman
Oregon
Margaret Pomeroy
Jacqueline Byrd
City
Mr. and
New York City
Ela Mae Kelly
C. A. Kelly
Verda M. Schroeder
Jewel Cook Reay
News OF Record
St. Anthony Hospital
Max Jenks
North
John Chacon
N. First
Rex Clayson
W. Clark
Ralph Bowman
E. Hayden
Hugh Baldwin
Lennox Liggins
E. Fremont
Willi
Howard
White Nicholas
Lillie May Tate
Gerald L. Richmond
Henry Rocco Thomas
Hugh Geherty
Dale Alvord
Potato Men
Legionnaires
Bendix
OMA
Jimmie Rodda
Spencer Ford, Jr
Dee Larsen
Michael Jones
Allen Jones
Mike Bailey
Donnie Baird
Kathy Rodda
Lois Larsen
Ruth Ann Larsen
Rae Deene Will
Harriett Rodda
Ing Grounds
AEC
Mitchell
Radio & Appliance CO
Chrysler
Crysler
America
Bullock Motor CO
S. Arthur Ave
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