Special Session At Utah To Consider Welfare Program
Governor Maw called a March 8 Utah special session to review the welfare program and related matters. He urged action to prevent hunger among the aged and needy, citing a new philosophy after the 1947 session and facing opposition from both parties. State Sen Holbrook and Rep Kerr criticized welfare administration and possible inequities and a hidden deficit.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
Herbert B. Maw
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Ward C. Holbrook
Bountiful
House
Clifton G. M. Kerr
Tremonton
Holbrook
Blackfoot Plans Open Banks As Idaho Rejects Holiday
In Blackfoot, banks and county offices in the courthouse will stay open on Monday February 23 to honor Washingtons birthday while other businesses and the post office close. Gov Robins announced Idaho does not observe the holiday. District No 8 schools will remain in session with possible makeups for autumn harvest days. The Daily Bulletin will not publish.
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Blackfoot
Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Daily Bulletin
Vet Groups Missed in GI Student Aid Plan
Washington based on up to date report the house veterans committee plans legislation to add several thousand student veterans to a new boost in subsistence allowances. Chairman Edith Nourse Rogers notes two groups were inadvertently left out of a measure signed by President Truman. The measure currently provides 2,014,000 full time veteran students with 217 million dollars annually in extra living allowances. Under VA ruling 220,000 farm trainees cannot share in the increase and part time college students drawing allowances on a percentage basis are also excluded. Rogers says it was congress’s intent to include both groups in the higher living allowances with maximum checks of 120 dollars a month. The top previously was
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Washington
House Veterans Committee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Mass
Truman
Veterans Administration
Miss Sadie Wenger Obituary Held at Aberdeen Mennonite Church
Funeral services for Miss Sadie Wenger were conducted Monday at 3 00 p m by Rev H N Harder at the Mennonite church in Aberdeen. She died at American Falls hospital after several weeks illness and had been a long time resident of the community. She is survived by brothers Frank Wenger Ira Wenger both of Aberdeen and Rev Paul Wenger a Mennonite missionary in Korba India.
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Aberdeen
Sadie Wenger
H. N. Harder
Miss Wenger
American Falls Hospital
Frank
Ira Wenger
Paul Wenger
Korba
India
Aberdeen Rotary Hosts Farmer Night Program
Aberdeen Idaho the Rotary Club hosted farmers from the area at its annual Farmer Night Monday. Rotarians each brought a farmer guest and Pete Jensen Bannock County Commissioner spoke on federal lands and taxation in Idaho.
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Aberdeen
Pete Jensen
Bannock
Idaho
Stassen Sees Wallace Victory Hinting at GOP Win
Spokane report says Harold Stassen, touring the West, hailed a Wallace victory in New York City as a bright omen for a national Republican win next November. He urged a progressive humanitarian GOP program and noted possible unsung Washington delegates favoring his cause. He planned a Seattle stop then a four day Oregon tour involving preferential primaries.
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Spokane
Wash
Harold E. Stassen
Wallace
New York City
Stassen
Roosevelt
Truman
Abraham Lincoln
Seattle
Oregon
Taylor Hits Greece Help In Senate Critique
Sen. Glen H. Taylor accuses Truman Greece Turkey aid of wasteful spending. He cites 8600 dollars per guerrilla and calls for ending military aid to reallocate funds to humanitarian goals. He argues a per head stake in capitalism and NAM membership as alternatives.
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Washington
Glen H. Taylor
Ida
Truman
Greece
Turkey
United States
Taylor
Senate
The
N.A.M
Truck Operators Hold Boise Session
Idaho commercial truck operators convene in Boise for the Idaho Motor Transport association annual meeting. The event runs through Saturday with Ray C. Atherton of the American Trucking association as principal speaker and banquet speaker. H. H. Bennion of Idaho Falls will deliver his annual report Saturday.
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Boise
Idaho
Idaho Motor Transport Association
Ray C. Atherton
Washington
American Trucking Association
H. Bennion
Idaho Falls
Crash Injuries Take Utaha's Life
James H. Love a 48 year old Davis County employee from East Kaysville died in Ogden after injuries from a Feb 7 crash when a Union Pacific mail train struck his truck snowplow. Engineers said crossing signals worked at the time but Love ignored them. He never regained consciousness.
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Ogden
James H. Love
Davis County
East Kaysville
Love
Union Pacific Mail
Retirement Approvals For 12 Teachers In Idaho Board Action
BOISE UP The state teacher retirement board approved retirement for 12 teachers and death benefits for two applicants. The board also authorized a $150000 investment into retirement funds, bringing total investments to $1100000.
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Boise
Utah Power and Light declares quarterly dividend
SALT LAKE CITY UP Directors of the Utah Power and Light Company declared a quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share on common stock. It totals $414,834 and will be paid April 1 to stockholders of record March 5. The dividend goes to about 11,000 shareholders, 60 percent of whom live in Utah Idaho Wyoming and Colorado.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Power and Light Company
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
Population surge in US as nations growth climbs post 1870
The population of the United States more than tripled between 1870 and 1930, reflecting dramatic demographic change driven by migration, higher birth rates, and expanding settlement. This period saw rapid urbanization and regional shifts as communities grew around industry and opportunity.
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United States
Range Land Act Held Up
BOISE UP Action on a Caribou county request to sell nearly 12 000 acres of high elevation range land near the Blackfoot reservoir for farming has been indefinitely postponed by the state land board. The board will defer action for years to see if land at 6000 feet can yield grain under normal prices and weather. The request was led by Milton Horsley and Diggs Lewis of Soda Springs. Last June the board halted high elevation land sales until crop viability is proven.
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BOISE
Caribou County
Blackfoot Reservoir
State Land Board
Milton Horsley
Diggs Lewis
Soda Spring
Land Board
Vision of Men Hangs in Balance in Burley
In Burley Idaho eight year old Roy Lee Grindrod is credited with saving three men injured in a well explosion by driving them to medical care. Doctors report two men are recovering vision though still blurred, while Louis Grindrod, 37, the father of Roy Lee, remains severely injured with eye and facial bandages and uncertain sight restoration.
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Burley
Ida
Roy Lee Grindrod
Margaret O’brien
General Hospital
Roy Lee
Louis Grindrod
Student Fencer Hurt at PennsylvanIa Campus
A 19yearold University of Pennsylvania student, Henry R. Koenig, was treated at University Hospital after a steel foil pierced his neck during a fencing bout in the university palestra. The foil’s point entered the left neck, pierced through, and extended six inches beyond the right side, narrowly missing the spinal cord. Koenig remained conscious and stood, as his opponent signaled for help.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
University Hospital
Henry R. Koenig
Palestra
Koenig
Boise Man Heads Group at Idaho Electrical Contractors Meeting
Boise February 18 The Idaho Electrical Contractors Association closed its first annual meeting by re electing officers and naming an eight man board of directors W A Hopper of Boise was re elected president Carl Baldridge Boise secretary T L Masingell Payette treasurer E W Hall Pocatello named vice president Directors: L W Billing American Falls Glen Herdt Rexburg A C Victor Jerome Don Smock Twin Falls R A Shumate Nampa H F Koch Boise C H Furman Coeur D Alene John Nannenga Lewiston
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Boise
Idaho Electrical Contractors’ Association
W. A. Hopper
Carl Baldridge
T. L. Masingell
Payette
E. W. Hall
Pocatello
L. W. Billing
American Falls
Glen Herdti
Rexburg
Farmer Meeting Slated at Tyhee
Members of the Idaho Falls Potato Growers association research and service department will meet Bannock county farmers at 8 p m Thursday in the Tyhee school house. Slides and a discussion on insect disease control will be on the program and Farrell Hansen of Idaho Falls will discuss organizing a unit at Tyhee under the Farm Bureau auspices.
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Research and Service Department
Idaho Falls
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Fargo - Wilson - Wells
DuPont
Rajah Shantungs
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