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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1949
Page
7
Mayor George R. Phillips proclaims Jan 14 to Jan 21 1949 as Jaycee Week in Pocatello to honor Junior Chamber of Commerce service and to recognize the group by presenting the Distinguished Service Award to an outstanding local young man.
Salt Lake City reports Senate Bill No 37 would shift burden of proof to car owners for over time parking tickets. The measure would allow blood analysis to determine drunken driving intoxication at 0.15 percent and make it a misdemeanor to fix a traffic ticket.
Salt Lake City report quotes Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias warning that bacteriological weapons have eclipsed the atomic bomb as the world’s most feared threat. He cites rapid advances since World War II and urges America to avoid appeasement of Russia and opposition to Chiang Kai-shek.
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser accused the Federal Reserve Board of sabotaging the presidential program for prosperity and urged relaxation of consumer credit controls. As Kaiser Frazer Corp cuts auto production, he asked President Truman and Congress to prevent a low economic mood and hinted at naming an outspoken board member who favors a depressed economy.
Former Democratic Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico was nominated by President Truman to be United States district judge for New Mexico. Hatch will fill the seat of Judge Colin Neblett who retired last year. Hatch did not seek reelection and his surrender of the senate seat followed Clinton P. Anderson’s victory.
Checks totaling $200,000 will be mailed this month to Idaho farmers who grew sugar beets in 1948 for the Utah Idaho Sugar company. Douglas E. Scalley vice president and general manager said the payment rate is $1 per ton. An initial company payment of $1 742 000 at $8 75 per ton and $512 000 at $2 57 per ton are already being paid. After current payments, Idaho growers will have received more than $2 million for last year's beets.
Five Navy men were killed when a twin engined naval airplane crashed after takeoff from Weir Cook airport in Indianapolis. State police and deputies reported burning wreckage seen by another plane as there were no witnesses to the crash.
Hollywood social spotlight shifts to Atwater Kent a retired radio maker who has earned fame as a party host He is confined to his Bel Air mansion by doctor orders due to ill health after an October illness and a recent birthday milestone marks 75 years.
The Blackfoot Current Event club met Monday at the club house around a glowing fire to hear Mrs. Helen Payne from Ogden and Victor O. Goodwin from Idaho Falls discuss natural resources conservation. A film study followed and a conservation poster contest for Blackfoot High School was announced with a March 1 deadline.
A time bomb in a briefcase exploded in downtown Cairo outside the court of appeals, killing two people and wounding 22 as police thwarted a larger blast. The attacker, identified as a youth named Annas, claimed Muslim Brotherhood ties and admitted involvement in the assassination of Prime Minister Nokrashy Pasha.
Lorton C. Walden, superintendent of Worcester insurance fire patrol, says TV donations for patrol headquarters distracts workers. He admits he opposes progress while noting men are too busy watching the show to do their jobs.
Government seizes all transport in Nanking for wholesale evacuation. Shells fall on Peiping for first time and Tientsin’s fate questioned. Officials say transport will move government personnel archives equipment and materials starting this weekend.
A St Paul hotel promotes a new service allowing guests to choose between sleeping under an electric blanket or a stack of standard blankets. The option highlights personalized comfort as part of the guest experience.
Gate City community chest committees for 1949 were named at a meeting this week. The budget committee is led by Stan Day and includes Harold Ory E Norman Vaughn Mrs. John Brennan and William C Parker. Executive committee includes C Ed Flandro Harold Ory Stan Day and Jack Terrell. Nominating committee is Ralph Comstock Jr Ivan Rowland and William C Parker. Jack Terrell and Mrs Fletcher are publicity chairmen. Chairman Flandro said campaign dates will be announced later and all agency budgets due by July 31.
Electra Texas police report a 15 year old boy who confessed to four burglaries in under three weeks. He said he saw $200 in a filling station but took only $14 because he was afraid to steal more.
Fire Chief Fred Vogt investigated ruins of two buildings destroyed Monday and Tuesday in Blackfoot to locate the blaze origin. Indications point to a cook stove in the back of St Bernard's Hall on the Boyle building second floor where a Knights of Columbus card party was to be held. Fire spread via cross walls and joists into the Penney building. both structures shared a wall. The town’s No 1 fire truck retired after 31 years, while the newer 10-year-old truck operated throughout.
James M. Carr Boise manager of the veterans administration hospital received the special Breast Order of Yun Hui with ribbon from Chung-Cheng the president of the Chinese republic for meritorious services to the Chinese army during World War II. The award was signed by Chiang Kai Shek and Carr had served as a lieutenant colonel in liaison with the Chinese army from 1943 to 1945. He trained Chinese general and staff officers at the Chinese command and general staff school and Kunming. Carr became manager of the Boise VA hospital in 1946. Nebraska birth rate declines in 1948 halves for the first half year.
Walter Brown 73 a Minidoka project early settler died Wednesday at Magic Valley invalid home born Bloomington Indiana lived Colorado before moving to Idaho came to Minidoka in 1904 filed on homestead farm now owned by Joe Schodde at Emerson lived northwest of Paul 35 years survived by nephew Norman Van de Venter and niece Mrs Tom Bell funeral 2 p.m. Saturday Paul LDS church officiating burial Paul cemetery Goodman mortuary Rupert
Earl Peterson, a 49 year old journeyman lineman with Utah Power and Light Co in Preston, was badly burned Thursday morning after contacting a 6600 volt power line.
Two Ohio Bus Line Co buses collided two miles south of Hamilton killing a boy and injuring seventeen others. Three year old Sandy Jackson died of a skull fracture at Mercy hospital. The leading bus stopped to discharge a passenger and was struck from behind, telescoping the vehicles carrying thirty five passengers homeward.
Idaho State College library receives Readings in the Clinical Method in Psychology edited by Robert I. Watson. Watson led ISC psychology from 1938 to 1941 and is now on the faculty of the Washington University medical school.
Kiwanis leaders led by W H Welton outline 1949 goals to strengthen home church and school, promote youth guidance and leadership, civic duties, and oppose Communism. Milton Zener and Eldon Johns myer spoke at Bannock hotel meeting reviewing district conference in Salt Lake City. Past president Roche cited 15 million copies of It’s Fun to Live in America distributed last year with a goal of 2 million monthly in 1949.
A two horse Thracian bronze chariot was found by a plow near Provdiv. The site yields a complete chariot with intact horse skeletons and warrior weapons.
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