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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1948
Page
5
Eleanor Roosevelt reflects on Christmas as a time for peace and goodwill amid postwar hardship. She urges spiritual renewal, global empathy, and American leadership to extend happiness and stability worldwide in the new year.
Nashville Michigan residents rally to build a new school athletic field on a 14 acre tract funded by syrup tapped in the city. Volunteers with tractors and bulldozers handle site work despite high construction costs and limited money.
Bridge anecdote from Oxford days, recounting a swanky club game where George, as East, navigates a mixed auction toward a six spade contract. The narrator reviews hypotheticals for small slam chances and details a hand where clever play yields back vacation money.
A reader offers guidance on handling a wife facing divorce urging decisive, calm action. Advice covers avoiding public discussion, seeking legal protection if violence occurs, contesting divorce vigorously, and prioritizing marriage and children over pride or hurt feelings.
Mr and Mrs Vern Murray hosted a house warming west of Rupert with friends dropping in. Prizes went to ladies and men in table games won by Mrs Bert Seedall Mrs J C Merrill John Nisbet and A L May. Honorees received a table lamp as refreshments were shared. The LDS church teens held a Christmas party December 9 at Mrs P M Bassett s home with a gift exchange and yuletide decor.
A Christmas dinner at the Roth Finleys featured a holly wreath and a crowd including the Kysars Easleys and Maughans. The Mt Hope club hosted a holiday dance with old-time music and a gift exchange. Local students home from Moscow University joined friends for Yuletide. The Wendall Hagerman church vacancy was announced with the Easleys to relocate by January 6, 1949. Charles Hartley plans a Christmas visit to Iowa City. LDS members caroled, then danced. The Power Company Ladies held an annual gift exchange with an all-ages Bingo event. LeRoy Lindley returns from Spokane with family visiting relatives. their grandson was cared for by his maternal grandmother.
Washington report states the air force will rely on the reserve officers' training corps as a major source for both regular and reserve flying officers. The plan, announced Saturday, aims to expand officer pipelines through ROTC programs.
Mr and Mrs Reece Tucker, visitors from Brazil, arrived in Pocatello to visit relatives. Tucker, a former Navy aviator, and his bride Marian Fritscher, born in southern Brazil, were married in August in two ceremonies in Rio de Janeiro. The couple plans to stay in the Gate City, while the wedding featured white blossoms, a satin gown, and a double ring ceremony led by Rev Legg.
The Don Bistline home on East Bonneville hosted Christmas Eve open house with hosts Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hardy and Mr. and Mrs. Bistline. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. Jack Mauk, Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Graves, and many Moscow residents. A breakfast gathering the next day involved J. D. Hardy, Art Bistline, and family, followed by a dinner with Ray Bistline as hosts.
Homer H. Martin on a 30 day furlough from Fort Lewis Washington visits his parents Mr and Mrs Paul Martin of 205 Wilson. Kay W Highland a local graduate now in the army at Fort Warren Wyoming visits his mother Mrs Reed Nelson.
In Omaha Nebraska Robert and Iona Peace faced Judge Dennis O'Brien on disturbing the peace charges. Mrs Peace struck Robert with a pipe while he used a knife. Peace was jailed for 10 days and Mrs Peace returned home.
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