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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1948
Page
1
The editor pondered which groundhog image to publish to herald spring while forecasting sunlit skies. He considered two pictures and consulted the weatherman, who predicted occasional snow Monday with decreasing clouds.
The weatherman predicts snow for Monday and a sharp cold snap. Highs range from 25 to 30 with subzero lows possible, then Tuesday's high around 15 to 20 above zero. Sunday’s warm spell was brief with a 46 high and 19 low.
Eight year old Steven Frazier guided brothers Michael four and Connie three to safety as an oil stove explosion sparked a house fire seven miles up Mink Creek south of Pocatello. The father reentered smoke to pull Michael to safety but the blaze destroyed the four room frame home with $5,000 loss. The family planned to stay with brother Gerald after the incident.
The national cold eased but fuel shortages remained a crisis across many cities. Subzero readings moderated in the east while a weak cold front drifted south. New York area faced fresh snow and single digit lows elsewhere. Economic disruption grew as oil and gas shortages left over 300,000 industrial workers idle and small midwest plants ordered closed due to energy constraints.
Dorothy Maxwell, 17, admitted kidnapping six month old Leon Gordon Anders from a San Diego dancehall area. She said a boyfriend helped, convinced the infant was hers, and kept him in her room before neighbors alerted authorities. The baby, unharmed, was returned to his parents. Maxwell agreed to be returned to San Diego with the child.
The mutilated body of 42 year old Mildred Rafuse Clifford was found in snow in the driveway at her Walpole home. Bloodstains and a torn stocking trail from a nearby area suggest a struggle, with signs she had been beaten and stripped to underwear and ski pants.
Harry Ferguson, Inc. and Ford Motor Co. are amid a $251 billion patent dispute. Ferguson announces a new 72 acre plant on Detroit's west side named Ferguson Park with contracts signed and $10 million reserved for a multi building layout to house modern equipment. The plant aims to regain a U S base in the tractor market.
San Francisco cable cars may resume service after a Sunday strike that halted operations. AFL Carmen union leaders and a special AFL committee plan to meet today to decide on accepting terms offered, with about 75,000 riders expected for the morning service.
The House is set to vote on a $6.5 billion income tax cut aimed at all taxpayers as Democrats threaten to block it. Harold Knutson leads the proposal offering $100 personal exemptions and 10 to 30 percent tax reductions plus community property income splitting. Democratic attempts seek to rewrite, keep the split, but drop rate cuts for a $200 exemption rise and an excess profits tax on wealthy corporations.
The Rock Island Railroad streamliner collides with a freight train near the Iowa City depot injuring at least 20 and killing conductor Clif ford E. Hull of Silvis Illinois who was in the caboose. Five freight cars derail and two passenger cars derail with no serious injuries reported among passengers.
An editorial warns that Pocatello faces crowded hospitals and scarce beds as the city grows. It urges residents to donate to the St. Anthony Hospital Fund via the Pocatello Post box or the hospital office to alleviate urgent capacity shortages.
Wallace urged Truman and other candidates to pledge repudiation of any support for un American groups. At a 2,000-strong Wallace rally in Columbus he said he would accept American communists if they support his program, arguing no evidence justifies claims they seek to overthrow the government.
Mayor Hugh J. Ryan of Bradford pro claimed a 48 hour state of emergency amid critically low natural gas supplies.
Secretary of State George C. Marshall will present Congress with a new foreign aid bill covering China, Greece, and occupied areas. The package would raise the next year relief and reconstruction costs to about 8 billion dollars, provoking GOP criticism of rapid abroad spending. Senator Taft predicts GOP push for export ceilings on steel and oil. Senator Ball also backs a revisionist Marshall plan, though prospects are slim.
State police aided by a state road commission crew pulled Trooper Robert L. Bonar and Radio Operator Glen Powell from 4000 feet of snow on Bickner's Knob near Elkins West Virginia. Powell was carried out suffering exposure after the four mile ascent took five hours.
Michigan Consolidated Gas announces all deliveries to Detroit industrial customers will stop until further notice. The firm cites severe cold and a critical gas shortage, delaying resumed service to 40 large users planned for Tuesday. Over 200,000 workers have been laid off since last Wednesday, with costs to wages and lost production exceeding 30 million dollars. Henry Fink, the company president, says promised emergency supplies from Illinois and other sources were not received.
Hospital attendants report a remarkable improvement in Princess Barbara Troubetzkoy 35 an heiress in Berne Switzerland. The condition is now described as better and no longer in danger though details remain limited.
Police logged three knife centered incidents in Pocatello Sunday. A man and his wife jailed for disturbing the peace after a domestic knife altercation. the husband posted bond and left, wife remained jailed. A Dearborn hotel tiff caused a man minor arm wounds and a head injury from a bottle. others present faced no charges. A third incident on North Main Street involved an unidentified man stabbed on the leg with a hunting knife.
Idaho is bypassed in federal funds for research into marketing and processing domestic wools. Idaho Farm Bureau legal adviser Alfred C. Gordon says Wyoming, Colorado, and Texas receive allocations under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946, with $12,500 allotted to those states. He notes $9,000,000 was provided in the 1948 agricultural appropriation for the act.
New Delhi reports secret service evidence of a nationwide conspiracy by Hindi extremists to assassinate Prime Minister Nehru and other Congress leaders including Gandhi. Police say the Gandhi killing was the first move in a plan to liquidate opponents of Hindu rule as riots flare in Bombay and other cities. Deshpande, Gadse and other suspects linked to the All India Hindu Mahasabha and Rashtriya Sewak Sangh are among those detained or questioned.
Three ice fishermen were evacuated from a floe in Lake Erie near Buffalo early Sunday in what authorities called possibly the first after dark helicopter rescue. Rescued were William Stevenson Jr. 21 Miles Reynolds 35 and George Kellner Jr. 39 all residents of suburban Angola. None suffered ill effects.
George R. Woolley of Aberdeen was named president of the new American Falls stake at a Sunday organizational conference in the Aberdeen ward chapel attended by about 500. Apostle Henry D. Moyle spoke on the reorganization and growth of the church with leaders from Pocatello and Blackfoot present. The stake includes American Falls, Rockland, Aberdeen, Springfield and Sterling with ward and high council officers named, while vacancies remain for auxiliary positions to be filled later.
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