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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1949
Page
16
A dense local church directory lists multiple congregations with addresses and weekly schedules. Entries include ministers names such as L Stellar J R Green H Means and Will and Willamson, plus churchs like First Baptist Trinity Episcopal and St Anthonys Catholic, with service times and Sunday school.
Navy divers tried to recover the bodies of two veteran test pilots Albert W. Conover Jr. and Charles E. Brown after their carrier based XAJ exploded Friday during a routine test flight. The aircraft disappeared into the ocean about 4000 feet up, scattering debris over a wide area. Newsmen were forbidden to bring cameras to the secret crash site. Both pilots worked for North American Aviation.
The local state income tax office at 403 North Main Street Pocatello will be closed until February 18 1949. Taxpayers in surrounding communities can meet with D Albert Banks field auditor on scheduled visits to file 1948 returns before the March 15 1949 deadline.
The Eagles announce a building dedication at 8 p.m. on Thursday February 10 with initiation at 9:30 p.m. Mayor George R. Phillips will give an address. Charter members Isaac Troupe August Kettn and W R Blacklock are to be introduced. Lester H. Loble of Helena Mont delivers the principal address.
American Aviation veteran Brown died leaving wife Sylvia and four children. He survived Rogers Conover in Lake Forest Illinois. Brown previously flew for Ryan Aeronautical Glen L Martin and Curtiss Wright and served in RAF and U S Air Force. He tested jet planes for General Motors in Indianapolis before moving to the area.
Idaho employment service reports no rise in labor demand, reflecting continued low temperatures. Construction layoffs spread to long‑time workers while eastern Idaho shows a small uptick in job openings as potato shipping activity slows.
Refugees report Russian soldiers along the Austro Hungarian border run the underground railway into Austria for a price. Russians charge 10,000 forints per person, Hungarian guides 6,000. The Russians are preferred for lower interception risk, as many travelers flee the Communist regime though numbers were not independently confirmed.
Rexburg Idaho Falls and Blackfoot see ongoing weather related disruptions. In Pocatello 175 Westvaco plant construction workers were laid off due to low temperatures but will be called back as soon as weather permits.
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