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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
4
Call for a central Family Welfare agency in Gate City as winter worsens hardship. A POST report highlights lack of transient lodging at a major welfare office, noting only one free meal ticket and jail lodging options. Civic leaders push for a centralized clearinghouse to direct families and transients to aid more efficiently.
The piece argues postwar U.S. aid to Chiang Kai-shek misjudged governance needs and allowed corruption and inflation to weaken Nationalist China. It warns a coalition with Communists could worsen risk to Asia and U.S. security, urging selective aid and reform.
Washington profile of Harry S Truman as he prepares to take the oath, outlining his modest rise from congress to presidency. The piece notes his loyalty, kindness, stubborn persistence, and reforms stance, contrasting critics who call his rise accidental with praise for Truman program aims.
Marquis Childs argues change in democracy cannot be blocked and notes Truman’s evolving leadership. He cites Truman’s modesty and debate over learning at Yale as indicators. Congress may back most of Truman’s agenda within six months, but deflationary risks loom, keeping the president prominent on the world stage.
Robert Ruark recounts Tangier intrigue surrounding the disappearance of Countess Magda of Anduria. The tale follows the Belgians Poncini and a glamorous, suspected criminal matriarch who vanished at sea, prompting sensational journalism and a web of vague dealings in the Moroccan port.
Joans Roberts of High Button Shoes is linked to a story filled with anecdotes about her uncle the Rev Dr Francis M O Reilly of St Ursula Mount Vernon He recalls a maid who claimed to be taught to keep her mouth shut David Sturgis 49 forecast has Truman election and other quips Chuck Barnett vows a wild year with puns on months and a Mardi Gras mint julep tale from a Louisiana plantation visitor A servant warns him a third julep will be the last before breakfast
Washington Merry-Go-Round notes President Truman charts his own course, defying conservative advisers led by John Snyder. He pushes through New Deal measures, while coordinating with Capitol Hill leaders Barkley and Rayburn. Krug contemplates Asia ties as Anderson backs him. Army intelligence woes echo from World War II.
The writer, dwelling amid illness and medicaments, laments Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan still together and critiques press intrusion. He rejects a dictatorial shift to an all powerful authority, praises a people’s army, warns against a man-made satellite, and muses on cosmic balance with cautious skepticism.
Pocatello Postings reports residents’ letters urging fair cab service pricing and urges the council to study comparable cities for equitable terms. It criticizes secret sessions, calls for press access, notes weather delaying army enlistments, and reports mixed outcomes for local recruiting efforts.
A wartime poem laments a military club in Berlin that favors officers over enlisted men. It questions privilege among colonels and praises the valor of doughboys and sergeants, arguing a war effort depends on soldiers who fight and endure, not status.
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