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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1949
Page
11
An old notice appears to state minimum advertisement requirements and a phone reference. Details are fragmented with unreadable segments. The readable parts suggest an advertising deadline or pricing note amid partial figures.
In Goshen New York a dispute over local TV reception pitted fans against a radio ham. The village board debated labeling a broadcaster a public nuisance after 14 residents complained that his program was cutting into theirs. The village attorney opposed simply filing the protest.
A period ad promotes Valentine gifts from Fargo's and Montgomery Ward for her and him. Items include a hand decorated china base lamp with shade, sheer nylons, Haeger pottery, a spring tie, and a decorative book heart chocolate heart. Woolworths cards promise a heart felt verse and free name engraving. Prices range from 1.00 to 14.95 with several sale items downstairs at Fargo's and Montgomery Ward.
Philadelphia faces a potential transit shutdown at midnight as the CIO Transport Workers union rejects a three cent pay offer and demands 20 cents. With 11,000 workers ordered to leave at 12:01 a.m. and a snowstorm looming, officials prepare emergency measures to avoid traffic chaos, and leaders ask President Truman and Governor Duff to intervene.
The New England region saw no snow for sixteen months from November 1862 to February 1864, according to an old diary owned by Mrs. George H. Walker, noted in Fryeburg Maine.
British Communists are said to be going underground to better counter anti Communist campaigns. The party aims to preserve members by discreet contact with leadership while outwardly resigning from posts. Trade union areas expect masked non Communist replacements to infiltrate and stand for union posts.
London reports Britain reserves the right to investigate any act related to the Mindszenty trial that could breach Hungary’s peace treaty. Alexander Helm delivered the note to Hungary's foreign office via Ernest Bevin who rebuked Hungarian policy and reminded of a prior protest over a British observer.
Scientist Roger W Babson chose a 200 acre New Boston farm for a gravity research lab and to study how gravity affects judgment. He bought buildings, kept the land as grass and stored farm equipment for possible emergency use, aiming to locate near Manchester New Hampshire within 60 miles of Boston.
A detailed schedule lists KEIO 1450 KC and KPST 1340 KC presents a day of shows including Swingtime with Malone and Drake, Kay Kyser College Sabre, The Lone Ranger, Gillette Fights, News and Music blocks, and varying time slots for morning through evening programs across multiple stations with program titles and hosts.
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