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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1948
Page
2
Berlin reports detail the American colony's calm under crisis as families in Dahlem endure rationing and power cuts. Mrs. Field recalls plane dangers from a Yak fighter while noting the high cost of travel and limited goods.
London dispatch says Christmas carols reveal a world without peace. Cold war tensions grip Germany and Palestine erupts in violence, Indonesia uses force to push an interim regime, China’s civil war nears a settlement, and Latin America faces coups and shaky governments. UN in Paris struggles to curb Far East and Middle East strife.
Hollywood star Montgomery Clift, 21, is named Americas most eligible bachelor by the Barbizon models, edging out Clark Gable and Howard Hughes to 10th place. The list also includes Farley Granger, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmy Stewart, and others. Folsom is ineligible after marriage.
In Conway Pennsylvania a special holiday mail and express train crashed into a derailed freight car in the yards killing engineer P. J. Winegar and seriously injuring fireman W. S. Skultery. Brakeman P. E. Shuler was treated and released. The wreck blocked the number three track as the Pittsburgh to Chicago express was diverted.
Idaho hunters faced below freezing cold as the migratory waterfowl season continues through January 8. Opening day tough duck weather kept many birds hidden as ponds and marshes froze. limits are five ducks per day and two Canada geese per day with possession rules. Canyon county goose hunting is restricted to a one mile strip along the Snake River and Boise River banks. licenses and federal duck stamps are required for those 12 and older.
The Organization of American States calls Costa Rica and Nicaragua to maintain peace and forms a five member military commission to monitor compliance under the Rio defense pact. The pact, active less than a month, pledges collective aid among 21 republics after Costa Rica accused Nicaragua of an invasion.
Tony Latona, a 14 year old shipmate aboard the Danish vessel Grete Maersk, recounts surviving a shark attack after Bent Jeppson was killed. They were in the windward passage between Cuba and Santo Domingo when sharks struck repeatedly as they fought to reach shore. Tony was rescued by Mike Phillips and a Jeep ride home, and is recovering at a U S Navy base hospital in San Francisco with release in about two weeks.
Nine miners killed seven injured and 11 trapped after a blast at a coal mine near Saarlouis Germany rescue efforts halted by fire and gas. Authorities reported the disaster late today attributing the blast to an explosion in the pit.
Arizona hosts hundreds of native cacti species from the size of a button to the 40-foot saguaro. Tiny fibers from ordinary glass can be spun into thread for cloth.
Fortune magazine surveyed top business executives in November. Sixty one percent expect a moderate downturn in 1949, twenty five percent foresee no change, nine percent predict a moderate rise, and four percent forecast a sharp recession. The poll also notes war unlikely next year. Most privately operated planes are single motored.
Anglo American airlift pilots, aided by clear weather, pressed a large aid run into the encircled city of Berlin. Planes delivered food and fuel to brighten Christmas, under the approving eye of vice president-elect Alben W. Barkley, as western airport sectors cleared for a near-record day.
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