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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1949
Page
8
Plans are underway for the Pocatello clinical conference to be held September 9 and 10. Preliminary arrangements were made at a meeting of the Pocatello Medical Society general committee led by Dr. O. F. Call. This southeastern Idaho event will feature four prominent medical speakers from teaching centers.
The conference aims to attract about 200 physicians and surgeons from Idaho Wyoming Montana and Utah. Invitations will be mailed to area doctors this summer. Members of the organizing committee include Dr C W Pond E N Roberts W Clothier H C Turner Me M Graves W L Olsen W R Hearne C E Groom and E W Simison of Pocatello F L Harms of Aberdeen and Kenneth A MacInnes of Blackfoot.
Old Man winter struck Blackfoot with high winds and drifting roads. Country roads filled fast causing early school bus pickups. The Sportsmen's annual jamboree at Blackfoot High School was cancelled and will be rescheduled when weather allows.
Harold Read, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, wired a request to reschedule the Civic Drama Guild production of John Loves Mary to its New York office. The play, set for 8 p.m. Friday in ISC's Frazier Hall, was postponed as the cast was snowbound in Jerome on the way to Pocatello.
Obituaries report the death of Weldon H Bowman 11 in Arizona after illness and the funeral arrangements for his family. Also listed are surviving relatives including brothers and parents with services to be announced by Webb funeral home of Preston.
Ellen Y Davis Rider 74, a longtime Idaho Falls church worker and wife of Oscar L Rider, died Thursday afternoon at her daughter Mrs Veil Horrocks home 310 So Fisher Salt Lake City after a three year illness. She was born June 5 1874 in Montpelier Idaho to John and [illegible].
St. Anthony patient Leela Rider formerly Teayeat Davis moved from Idaho to Idaho Falls and Blackfoot. She married Oscar L. Rider in the LDS temple June 5, 1919 and served as Sunday school teacher and relief society worker for 25 years. Survived by husband Oscar, a brother Alma Seen, and several sisters. funeral services planned in Blackfoot with burial in Grove City cemetery.
Private First Class James Burt arrives in Blackfoot with escort S Mike Otte after being killed in action on Luzon January 22, 1945. He was born about 1919 on the Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, son of Jeff Burt and Mrs. Clara Teets. Funeral rites planned at Ross Fork Creek Cemetery with a 2 p.m. procession if weather permits, directed by Peck.
The Blackfoot School of Agriculture for veterans splits instruction between Snake River high school in Moreland and Blackfoot high school. Instructors Grant McBride and Heber Fackrell will run the Snake River sessions, while John Bailey and Ezra Hale stay with Blackfoot classes. An Moreland meeting elected Clifford Merrill president and Wendel Stander vice president, with Tweedy remaining treasurer and Dwight Bingham reporter.
Pocatello's Junior Chamber of Commerce announces a 10 day series for Americanism Week from February 12 to 22. Jaycee President Harold Read describes programs to fight racial prejudice promote freedom and democracy and strengthen the brotherhood of nations. Al Port chairs the Americanism committee.
Fragmentary note suggests the earliest public school in the Colonies was established by Philadelphia with instruction by Enoch Ce, a figure reportedly brought over from England.
The AHYF announces its new News publication issued January 27 edited by Rita Kerikas with articles from Hellenic youth clubs in Salt Lake City Denver Pueblo Price Utah and Pocatello Idaho. Federation aims to unite Hellenic youth and promote democratic ideals with a conference planned in Pocatello in April to finish the constitution and a national convention later this summer with site undecided.
Father and Son banquet scheduled for this evening in Pocatello has been indefinitely postponed. Officials stated a new date will be announced later.
Eight workers at the Gardiner paper mill in Maine found a total of 860 in bills scattered through a bundle collection. The men divided the money equally, sharing the unexpected windfall.
United Press reports stocks and bonds fell in active trading with rail and oil issues leading declines. Grain futures were irregular as cotton and grains moved with general market weakness, while U S government issues showed no trading.
Late improvement in trading on the Chicago Board of Trade followed a session of early selling. Corn soybeans and portions of wheat oats and rye were pressured at the start before trimming losses as prices recovered.
Butter prices show 92 score at 68 and 90 score at 67 with 93 score at 68. Cheese bids quote Grade A loaf 39 to 40 and Grade A ets 38 to 39. GS quotes Grade A 54 to 54.14 and Grade A small 48 to 48.42 with Grade B large 49 to 49.14.
Esther Stalker will not speak on interior decorating at the Farm and Home Institute in Moreland on Monday to Wednesday. Mrs. Isaac McDougall from Idaho State College home economics department will replace her and discuss the same topic.
A new radioactive mineral containing uranium has been found in the Belgian Congo and is named Sengierite. The find highlights ongoing exploration of uranium bearing rocks in central Africa.
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