Gate City Youths Enter Chamber Decorating Contest
Pocatello Junior Chamber sponsors home window and school room decorating contests to foster Christmas spirit. entrants aged high school may compete with prizes including theater tickets and a painted horse statue. Entries due by December 16 via city library or JCC box. A radio program December 18 will present awards and feature local choirs.
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Ber
JCC
Pocatello
Leslie Schweibert
Chamber
Mitchell Radio
Henriksen’s
Ford Music Store
Ralph Comstock Jr
Tom Walker
Suspect Surrenders in Chicago Gangland Slayings
James Morelli, 20, named by a witness as a trigger man in a weekend killing spree that left four dead and two wounded, surrendered at police HQ. His attorney Marcus Libonati delivered him for questioning. Morelli claimed only a single accidental shot and said he joined the rampage out of fear of gang leader Thomas Daley.
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Chicago
James
Morelli
Ronald Libonati
Detective
Thomas Daley
Six year old in Denver seeks Christmas blood gifts
Forest Hoff man known as Nubbins, a six year old from Cheyenne Wyoming, battles a deadly kidney ailment and may not live to Christmas. He has had a transfusion and will need more as his doctor treats him at Colorado General Hospital. Donors are asked to give blood to the Belle Bonfils Memorial blood bank for him.
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Nubbins
Chevéririe Wyo
Railroad
Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Bank
Colorado General Hospital
Job recruitment centralizes to Idaho state services in 1948
The Idaho State Employment Service Pocatello office will oversee recruitment and placement for the full Pocatello labor market starting January 1, 1948. W. B. Cox notes the change centralizes job applications in Pocatello benefiting farm and non farm employers, while praising the University of Idaho Extension Service for five years of farm labor recruitment experience. The agency will use extension service county agents and farm labor supervisors to meet 1948 farm production goals.
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Pocatello
Idaho State Employment Service
W. B. Cox
Cox
Congress
University of Idaho Extension Service
Extension Service
Bandit Robs 14 On Intercity Train in Chicago
A young African American bandit boarded New York Central’s Interstate Express at Englewood Saturday night, held up 14 people including three judges, and fled as the train neared LaSalle Street. He looted about $1,500 in cash and jewelry, fired one shot into a wall, and commanded porter H. E. Grice to collect money with a nickel plated revolver. Police, G men, and railroad agents hunted the suspect on Sunday.
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Chicago
New York Central
South Side
Buffalo
Englewood
63Rd,street
Lasalle Street
H. E. Grice
Grice
School Superintendent Resigns After Shoplifting Arrest
W B Smith 56 Wenatchee schools superintendent was charged with petty larceny in Yakima after being arrested for shoplifting three sport shirts from Yakima Hardware. He signed a resignation note at police headquarters and was released on 100 dollar bail after authorities in Wenatchee confirmed the description.
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Yakima
Wash
W. B. Smith
Wenatchee
Harold Robinson
Robinson
Smith
Yakima Avenue
Long Time Union Pacific Man Honored by Old Timers
James I. King of Idaho Falls received a 50 year pin from the Union Pacific Railroad Old Timers at a dinner in the American Legion hall. His wife also received a pin. King began as a yard clerk in 1897, rose to freight agent, and retired December 1. Presence included Ru fus Merrill and Arden Bybee.
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J. J. King
Union Pacific
Pocatello
Timers Club
Union Pacific Railroad
James I. King
Idaho Falls
American Legion Hall
Arden Bybee
Idaho
King
Rufus T. Merrill
Old Timers Club
Thomas J. Yonda
Lavern C. Johnson
Gus Wagner
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Gate City
Kristen
Suzanne Holman
Evelyn Holman
South Second St
Chamber of Commerce
Santa Pocatella
Suzanne
Pocatello. Police Relief Association
Deleta
Johnny Putnam’s
Pacieto Finance
Arthur Ph
Peeve Ves
Brennan & Cahoon
Pole Line Road
Richter
Child
Cristmas
Denver
Forest
Hoffman
Christ
Old Timers Meeting
Santa
Fargo
R Safti
Leones
Henriksens
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