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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1948
Page
2
The Rockland American Legion post builds a new hall funded by donations and labor. Land donated by Robert I. Ewing Sr. for Young Ewing, World War II casualty, supports a 24 by 64 foot structure with full basement. Volunteers Marvin Robinson Bill Havilcak Neil Anderson Farrin Cox supervise work as community funds and Fourth of July gifts bolster the project.
NEW YORK (UP) Burns Mantle, 75, a leading American drama critic and critic emeritus of the New York Daily News, died at his home of cancer after a long illness. A Watertown, New York native, he edited The Best Plays yearbooks since 1928 and was renowned as a gentle, responsible reporter of the theater.
Idaho Department of Agriculture promised tougher enforcement after complaints that buyers pay for produce with bad checks. Warehouse inspector Hwilld Brown said the law requires grain, dry pea and bean, seed, wool or hay buyers to be licensed and post a $2000 surety bond. cash buyers are exempt.
John Page aged 23 of Idaho Falls died from injuries after a car struck a bridge abutment on a highway near Sugar City last Saturday night. He was pronounced dead Monday at a Rexburg hospital. Page was the son of Mr and Mrs Clemance Page.
BOISE AP Barnhart and Wheeler of Pocatello were awarded a $221,154.85 state highway contract for a 220-foot steel bridge and graveling 4.052 miles of the Ashton Tetonia road in Fremont and Teton counties. Bids opened January 30.
Edith Wolff 51 and her sister Elsie 43 led reclusive lives in a junk-filled boarded house in Lynbrook New York for about 10 years after their father died leaving a fortune. Elsie died of heart disease. Edith refused to leave and said their mother told them to stay home.
Manly Ellett, 52, of 835 North Harrison Ave., died Monday afternoon in a local hospital. He was a Union Pacific carman and member of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen and the L D S church. He is survived by his widow, 13 children, a stepson, his mother Hannah Pierce Ellett of Pocatello, and a brother Fawn William Ellett of McCammon. Funeral arrangements by Hall mortuary, pending.
Funeral services are announced for Edward S. Kehoe 27 of route 1 Pasco who died February 5. Burial with American Legion rites. Brother William Kehoe attends from Kellogg Idaho. Also listed are John Herman 74 brick mason, John Edward Corbridge 66, and Monica Torres 49 with service details. Edwin L Johnson 64 Kraft Cheese night watchman dies in hospital.
Eleven Idaho attorneys including the late Justice James F. Ailshie and son Robert Ailshie were honored in memorial services in the Idaho Supreme Court Monday. Attendees from Boise and nearby areas heard Frank E. Meek deliver the eulogy. Also remembered were Thomas D. Jones Bert A. Reed Finis Bentley James J. McFadden Thomas A. Feeney M. Reese Hattabaugh Edward L. Bryan Oscar Johannesen and Frank Griffin.
A. E. Blackburn of Nampa was elected president of the Idaho Prospectors and Developers Association. Other officers include J. M. Lyon of Boise as vice president and J. D. Hobeck of Boise as secretary-treasurer, with a slate of directors from Blackfoot Challis Atlanta Silver City Kellogg Weiser.
Union Pacific announces an Agricultural Improvement Car tour starting February 18 in southern Idaho with a Pocatello stop on March 5. The program, run with the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, will offer four daily sessions on dairying pest control production and marketing to students and the public across a dozen towns.
American Falls high school musicians were awarded band letters by band director Werner E. Erickson. Recipients include Madeline Reed Tommy Davie Eva Bath Dallas Gill Irene Gohl Dean Klempel Marilyn Jacobs and Dick Meadows. Certificates of outstanding achievement went to Ben Barnard Angela Paniogue Lois Miller Ella Rast Rosaline Reitz Vernon Mayer and Fritz Eyman.
Bannock County superintendent Scott D. Lowe explained to Virginia area voters that consolidation of Lava Hot Springs Downey Arimo and McCammon schools into one class A district would trigger a new high school near Arimo. The four districts now spend about 100000 annually. consolidation could save about 25 percent and double curricula. Voters must approve in each district. Inkom Portneuf Pocatello would also consolidate to save about 18000 annually. Eggs of the red salmon may take 270 days to hatch.
Idaho Society of the Sons of the American Revolution schedules its annual gathering in Pocatello February 22. W. P. Havener and Marcus J. Ware lead planning with keynote address by Franklin Riter on subversive activities on the Bill of Rights. Dinner for members and Daughters of the American Revolution follows at the Bannock hotel on Washington's Birthday.
Nick Andros, 60, was found guilty Monday in Pocatello police court of dispensing beer without a license. He was arrested Jan. 2 and charged with selling beer at the OK Lunch, 510 North Main St., without a 1948 retail beer license and pleaded not guilty on Jan. 20.
An aphoristic line states that eighty three percent of a man's knowledge is brought to him through his vision, highlighting the role of sight in learning and understanding.
Lightweight champion Ike Williams defeats Livio Minelli in a unanimous 10 round decision at the arena. It marks Minelli’s first career loss in a bout not for a title, on a Philadelphia card by UP.
Alberto Buck Buchanan aged 45 was found guilty of vagrancy in Pocatello police court and sentenced to 100 dollars and 30 days in jail. No titles of nobility are granted by the government of Canada.
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