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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1949
Page
9
A housewife outlines three simple steps for efficient domestic work. Regular twice yearly room by room checks, avoid duplicating tasks by returning items to their proper places, and completing tasks promptly to prevent compounding difficulties.
Falls City Rotary Club held a guest night featuring an instructional film titled Trigger Happyarry. Dr. N H Farrell presided and urged each member to introduce a guest, with a banquet table decor and numerous members and guests listed including Fritz Eyeman Lynn England Dale Clemens and many others.
Eleanor Roosevelt urges a nation wide campaign to spruce up town approaches and create shared play spaces for children while balancing beautification with access. She notes improving rural and urban areas but warns against over tidy efforts that restrict play, and adds impressions from a Broadway show highlighting social evils and the need for new values.
Charles Weidman and his theater dance company perform Friday at Frazier hall on the ISC campus. Sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association, tickets range from 84 cents to 1.20 dollars with advance sales at local offices and ISC campus shops.
The Rialto showcases a busy weekend with Technicolor titles including Carnival in Costa Rica and A Song is Born. Notables include Dick Haymes Vera Ellen Cesar Romero Celeste Holm and Danny Kaye Virginie Mayo Steve Cochran Esther Dale. Other runs feature Congo Bill Devil on Wheels Big Town Scandals Wy oming Blondie’s Reward Snake Pit and more across Thursday to Sunday with Olympic Games of 1948 and Rose of the Yukon among added serials and gangland thrillers.
A guide on practical manners for daily life. It covers how to show appreciation by reciprocating favors such as paying for rides or returning kindness in kind. It also offers tips for adjusting tone in letters to avoid excessive formality. It notes that old pillow feathers cannot be revived and explains why damaged shafts reduce pillow quality.
The Franklin junior high gym hosted the Y Teen Carnival and dance with a grand march led by Bill Ames as George Washington and Jody Winterbottom as Martha Washington. The event featured a fortune teller fish pond ball throwing and other concessions.
Burley Idaho social page reports Ida Writers League meeting at Mrs Verna Blakeleys with Mary Roberson and Betty Hassell among guests. Cora Brady named publicity director. Evergreen Order of Eastern Star held a covered dish dinner with Carolyn Driskell and Elizabeth Driskell performing violin solos. Members welcomed Roy and Mrs Ehlers by affiliation and observed Washington birthday with talks on Masonry and Washington history. Initiation set for March 2 with patriotic decorations by local hosts.
Mrs. O. R. Warford spoke to the Public Affairs Committee of the YWCA about women’s roles in civil rights public housing and hygiene. She accepted the committee chairmanship and urged active local and national involvement.
Members of the Women's Union Labor League entertained husbands and friends at the Labor temple with a 6:30 pot luck supper and pinochle. The long dinner table was decorated with cherry tree limbs miniatures and George Washington themed candles. Prizes went to Bonnie McCullough door prize, B C Brown high for men, Faun Howard ladies high, Jessie Armstrong ladies low, and L E Nelson men’s low.
Corner of Center and Arthur sale begins at 10 oclock led by Mrs Geo Bronson. Saturday at seven Irving Junior High School eighth grade dance to be held at YWCA club rooms.
Chi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi national sorority met at the home of Mr Fred Dalton Thursday evening. Chapter president Mrs Gwen Bohrer named a nominating committee of three to present a slate for 1949 officers: Mary Ellen Fis Emma Miller and June Carter. Mrs Carl Henson spoke on Friendship.
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