Ice Covered Streets Trigger Four Pocatello Crashes
Snow and ice blamed for at least four auto accidents in Pocatello Sunday night into Monday. No injuries reported. Incidents involved vehicles at Halliday Main, South Halliday, South Fifth, and other intersections with brakes and visibility cited as factors. Police noted icy streets caused failures to stop and split collisions among city trucks, buses, taxies, and private cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey D. Farmer
Halliday
Main Streets
Clyde J. Davis
Jefferson Ave
Main Street
Farmer
Leo Curzon
East Poplar St
Eva Beth McCarron
South Fifth Ave
Curzon
McCarron
Twelfth Avenue
Clark Street
Pocatello Transit Company
Ray E. Schell
Roosevelt Ave
Everett
Snooks
Lava Hot Springs
Russell L. Jewett
Fremont St
George J. Robinson
Grant Ave
Fifth Avenue
Carter Street
Robinson
East Center Street
Jewett
Ninth Avenue
Center Street
Edmund John David
Los Angeles
Calif
Don C. Sandler
Thirteenth Ave
David
Sandler
Grant H. Stewart
South Fourth Ave
Wyeth Street
Dale M. Strong
Benedict Dies of Heart Attack While Fishing Near American Falls
Ralph R. Benedict, 68, longtime Pocatello resident, died of a heart attack while fishing near American Falls Monday afternoon. A machinist at the Naval Ordnance Plant after World War II, he had lived at the Nadene Hotel and recently left a Pocatello hospital. He is survived by his son Basil D. Benedict of Santa Barbara and his sister Jeanne Sherwood of Normal, Illinois. The body is at Downard funeral home.
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Ralph R. Benedict
Pocatello
American Falls
Mr. Benedict
Nadene Hotel
John Dillon
Benedict
Naval Ordnance Plant
Basil D. Benedict
Santa Barbara
Calif
Jeanne Sherwood
Normal
Illinois
Downard Funeral Home
Tierney and Stevens to star in That Wonderful Earth
Hollywood gossip outlines Gene Tierney joining Mark Stevens in That Wonderful Earth produced by Freddie Kohlmar for 20th Century. Tierney plans a New York stay before filming and notes Linda Darnell replaces her in a Sturges project she rejected.
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Hedda Hopper
Hollywood
Gene Tierney
Mark Stevens
Freddie Kohlmar
20Th
Gene
Rex Harrison
Preston Sturges
Linda Darnell
New York
Robert Nathan
The
Frank Borzage
Jack Smith
Kaye-O
Recluse Dies Rich With Four-State Fortunes
Albert Wareham, who lived in a squalid one room hut with his wife, left a fortune of 8101 000 in cash securities and real estate. He owned property in Walworth Freeport Illinois Florida and Oklahoma. Cash and securities were found in lockers in Freeport and Mrs Wareham is named in the will while still a Lakeland hospital patient.
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Elkhorn
Wis
Albert Wareham
Wareham
Walworth County
Roscoe Luce
Lakeland Hospital
Florida
Walworth
Freeport
Ill
Oklahoma
Sugar Plant Sets New Record at Twin Falls Year
The Amalgamated Sugar company plant at Twin Falls delivered its millionth bag of sugar from the 1947 beet crop. It marks the first time in 30 years the plant has processed that level of production. officials said the bag will be donated to the state deaf and blind school at Gooding.
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Twin Falls
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Gooding
Births and court entries in News of Record
Mr and Mrs Keith Price 752 West Fremont welcome a boy born February 23 at General hospital. Mr and Mrs Delbert Williams Reed apartments welcome a girl born February 22 at St Anthony s hospital. Mr and Mrs Edward Heaney Sterling Idaho welcome a boy born February 22 at St Justice Court Richard Powell pleaded guilty for running a red light with a $3 fine. Richard J Denton pleaded guilty for operating an automobile with expired out of state license plates and was fined $10. Mr and Mrs Arven Gale welcome a boy born February 21 at Blackfoot hospital.
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Keith Price
West Fremont
Boy
General_hospital
Delbert Williams
Reed Apartments
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Edward Heaney
Sterling
Idaho
Justice Court
Richard Powell
Richard J. Denton
Arven Gale
Blackfoot Hospital
Stolen Buick? Police Bulletin from Fawson Auto Area
Stolen from a car parked behind Fawson Music Store at 138 North Main Street Sunday night. A brown leather overnight case containing an electric razor and toilet articles was taken. Missing from Pocatello is Claude Cleveland, 15, small for his age with blonde hair, wearing black boots and a black wool railroad cap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Fawson
Fawson Music Store
North Main St
Pocatello
Claude Cleveland
Clay presses four power probe on German demilitarization
General Lucius D. Clay told the four power Allied Control Council that he heard rumors the Soviet zone still hosts war potentials. He challenged Moscow to join a full four power demilitarization investigation as Western powers move to detach the Saar basin from Germany and attach it to France. Sokolovsky again accused the Allies of incomplete demilitarization.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Allied Control Council
Germany
Clay
France
Saar
Moscow
Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Pope Grants Dispensation for Royal Marriage
Pope Pius XII granted a papal dispensation for the betrothal of Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma and former King Michael of Romania. The decision, taken in a private audience with Queen Helen of Romania and Princess Renee, requires any future children to be raised Roman Catholic.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Anne of
Bourbon Parma
Michael
Romania
Helen of
Renee of
Rome
Lausanne
Switzerland
Anne
Ohio boy reports school fire after discovering it
A young student in Ohio spotted a fire at his school and activated the alarm, sparking a swift emergency response. Fire crews arrived promptly, halting the blaze and preventing injuries. The incident raises questions about the student’s safety and future actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Gate City Traffic Lights Get New East Side Control
East side traffic lights in Pocatello were down for about an hour while plant staff switched to a new central control box at the east side fire station. The device offers duplicate circuits to prevent signal interruption during repairs, with west side lights still controlled from a separate west fire station box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Harry Woodworth
Pocatello
Eastern Idaho Recruits To Be Processed Here
The Pocatello army recruiting station will process all enlistees from the eastern Idaho area starting next Monday Col Loyd H Rockwell Fort Douglas commanding officer for the Intermountain recruiting service announced. Enlistees will no longer undergo examinations at Fort Douglas. the Pocatello station will handle those from Pocatello Idaho Falls Blackfoot Rexburg American Falls Preston and Twin Falls areas.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Loyd H. Rockwell
Fort Douglas
Intermountain
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Rexburg
American Falls
Preston
Twin Falls
Wallace Asks Palestine Army
Henry Wallace third party presidential aspirant urged the United Nations to create an army to enforce Palestine partition. He accused the Truman administration of stalling action on the plan ahead of the Security Council meeting and the upcoming elections.
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New York
Henry Wallace
United Nations
Palestine
Truman
Wallace
Security Council
Meyers Seeks Judge Holtzoff Disqualification in Perjury Trial
Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers asks federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff to recuse himself from presiding over Meyers perjury trial. Meyers alleges prejudice due to Holtzoff’s 20 years in the Justice Department before 1945. Meyers faces a $130,000 kickback charge linked to wartime aviation, and alleges Lamarre urged others to lie to investigators. A March 11 trial date remains set for the direct perjury charge, with Lamarre related proceedings due next Tuesday.
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Washington
Bennett
E. Meyers
Bleriot H. Lamarre
Meyer
Lamarre
Highway realignment plan prompts landowners to respond
Property owners along the Yellowstone Highway are being asked if they will sell 12 feet of land for a widened 90 foot route with four driving lanes an 8 foot median and sidewalks. The survey from four Village committee members seeks husband and wife signatures and asks if curb and sidewalk should be installed at up to 40 percent of the cost to landowners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alameda
North Pocatello
Melvin H. Walker
W. M. Atwood
Calvin Hale
W. S. Berger
Crippled Child Fund Drive Opens Next Sunday
The eighth annual crippled children fund drive by the Idaho Society for Crippled Children begins Sunday February 28. President Theo H Wegener says 75 000 Easter Seals letters will be mailed to Idaho residents to raise funds for better care and opportunities. Lavern C Johnson of Pocatello serves as area trustee and will lead the campaign there.
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Idaho Society For Crippled Children
Theo. H. Wegener
Idaho
Wegener
Lavern C. Johnson
Pocatello
Idaho State College Sets Summer Session Dates
Idaho State College will open June 7 with Robert C. Stevenson named director. About 400 students are expected for a six week term from June 7 to July 16 and a nine week term from June 7 to August 7. Both academic and vocational courses run with emphasis on education and pharmacy.
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Idaho State College
Robert C. Stevenson
ISC
Carl W. McIntosh
Stevenson
Idaho Polio Cases Increase
Idaho reports eighteen new poliomyelitis cases since January 1 raising state tally. L Dee Belveal of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis notes New York leads with twenty cases in the same period.
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Boise
Idaho
New York
L. Dee Belveal
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Belveal
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London
Kaye
England
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Philip Mountbatten
Danny
Ireland
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Johnson
Peggy Lee
Ricoros
Manana
Ford Music CO
West Center
News of Record
Pope Okehs
Palestine Army
R. C. Allen
James C. Bangs
N. Main
Crippled Child
Deena
Martin Furniture Co
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