Pocatello Officials Weigh Salary Cuts Amid County Layoffs
In Bannock county Boise discussions consider trimming commissioners pay from 3000 to 1800 or 3600 rethe exact proposed figure. The layoff of 21 road employees sparks scrutiny as snow blocks roads and surveyor W P Havener works with no assistants.
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Boise
W. P. Havener
Henry C. O'Leary
Bannock County
Bannock
O’leary
O'Leary
Idaho State College
Pocatello
Havenor
Caribou County
Caribou
Grace
Bancroft
Ada
Factories Seen As Possibility In Local Area
Pocatello may become a chemical manufacturing center as three chemical firms explore local deposits. Idaho Power Co. President Roche has discussed needs for large plants. A basic tax plan is urged to attract investment with parity to Montana and Utah, with plants costing eight to ten million dollars.
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Pocatello Post
Idaho
United States
Thomas E. Roche
Idaho Power Co
Westvaco
Montana
Utah
Boise
Vivien Kellems Deducts Tax Payment Over Withholding Fight
Connecticut industrialist Miss Vivien Kellems writes to the U S treasury stating she deducts 1685 dollars from her 1948 tax to offset money she says the government took illegally. She cites an attachment suit over payroll tax withholdings from her workers.
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Saugatuck
Conn
Jurist Leaps To Death In Los Angeles
Superior Judge Dudley Valentine, 60, killed himself Sunday night by jumping from a third floor hospital room window after forcing the screen. His nurse Gré McIntosh said he had been improving and ordered her to dinner before the fall. There was no chance it was an accident, the doctor stated.
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Los Angeles
Dudley
Valentine
Moneen
Gré McIntosh
Nude body of missing Noreen McNichols found near Spanaway Park
The 17 year old beauty student was found Sunday in Spanaway park near Tacoma. She had been missing since November 5. Detectives say she was nude and frozen, with coroner awaiting cause of death. Police had searched the area for weeks after her red purse was found.
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Tacoma
Wash
Noreen ‘McNichols
Spanaway Park
Here
Clarence Otto
Otto
Paul Millinter
Idaho Legislature Poised for Fast Start Amid Slot Machine Debate
Idaho lawmakers push through 79 bills in third week as Gov Robins urges dispatch. A slot machine repealer faces House-Senate review amid split committee and opposition from minority leader Howard Hechtner. Municipal finances and open gambling measures also surface with horse and dog racing bills under consideration.
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Boise
Idaho
C. A. Robins
House
Senate
State Affairs Committee
State Affairs Tee
Repe
Howard Hechtner
Nez Perce
Little Change In Weather Forecast
Today’s forecast calls for generally fair weather with increasing cloudiness tonight. Tuesday brings clouds and light snow flurries. It will not be as cold tonight with highs around 2 to 15 and lows near minus 5 to plus 5. Sunday’s high reached 14 with a low of minus 7 and no precipitation reported.
Yank Troops Begin Winter Maneuvers in Germany
Sixteen thousand United States combat troops staged a winter drill in FRANKFURT to study battlefield winter operations akin to the Bulge. The First Infantry Division known as Big Red advances toward a 1500 square mile zone east of the Rhine with liaison air support planned but no air participation.
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Germany
Frankfurt
United States
Rhine
America
David M. Fowler
U. S. Army
von Rundstedt
Bulgeria
Mannheim
Wiesbaden
Floods Sweep Plains As Ice Jam Floods Missouri River
Flooding along the Missouri river from a massive ice jam drives evacuations in Elliott Iowa and Winthrop Missouri. Up to 25 feet of water deluges riverside towns as crews sandbag in Atchison Kansas and authorities warn of vast livestock and sheep peril across the western plains.
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Missouri
Winthrop
Atchison, Kans
Hugh M. Bryan
Federal Bureau of Land Management
Utah Wool Growers Association
Utah
Sailors Freed After Rape Case Questioning
Two sailors traveling on the West Coast Limited were released after seven hours of questioning by railroad detectives in Los Angeles. A woman passenger accused she was raped as she slept during an evening trip. Names of the sailors were withheld.
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Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
West Coast Limited
Israel and Egypt make progress in armistice talks
United Nations spokesman said Israel and Egypt reached agreement on one of four armistice points in the Palestine talks. The likely point involves the Faluja pocket in southern Palestine where about 2,000 Egyptian troops have been cut off since October. Israel reportedly may allow Egyptian withdrawal from the pocket.
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Rhodes
Israel
Egypt
United Nations
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Idaho Russell Gaining Fame
A Shreveport man named Red Hawkins phoned Idaho Governor C A Robins to praise Idaho potatoes. Hawkins had just eaten two potatoes bathed in butter, noting Idaho’s famed tubers.
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Idaho
Russell
Boise
Red Hawkins
Gov. C. A. Robins
Shreveport
Hawkins
Idaho Editors Gather for Annual Boise Meeting
Idaho editors will meet in Boise January 21 for the Idaho State Editorial association annual session. The two day program includes committee reports a welcoming address by Mayor Potter P Howard and a roundtable. Directors will be elected and topics include circulation and newspaper grading conducted by Wallace Garets of Idaho State College journalism department.
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Boise
Idaho
Idaho State Editorial Association
Association
Herb Love
Shoshone
Potter P. Howard
Wallace Garets
Idaho State College Journalism Department
Motorist Impaled On Fence In Auto Crash
Clarence J. Schamel, 25, was impaled on an iron fence spike after a crash on the Red Feather Express highway. He remained conscious for an hour as police mechanics cut the pipe with a hacksaw, then was taken to City hospital in critical condition. The iron pipe pierced the hood and left kidney before being removed after doctors arrived.
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ST. Louis
Clarence J. Schamel
Schamel
City Hospital
Red Feather Express
Cars Collide in Icy McCammon Area
A Sunday afternoon crash near McCammon involved vehicles driven by R F Wilson of Idaho Falls and Jewell Larson of Preston. Deputy Sheriff Fordyce and state police Nogo and Roundtree investigated the skid and collision on icy pavement.
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McCammon
R. F. Wilson
Idaho Falls
Jewell Larson
Preston
Fordyce
Nogo and
Roundtree
Chiang Ouster Is Must Says Bloom
Rep Sol Bloom new chairman of the house foreign affairs committee called for Chiang Kai-Shek to resign and for a strong anti commun ist government in China. He argued a coalition would fail and the United States should withhold further aid until a stable regime is formed.
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Washington
Sol Bloom
N. Y
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Chiang
United States
Truman
United Press
Foster Named To Succeed Bishop Reddish
William H. Foster of 944 South Fourth Ave was named Bishop of the Sixth ward to succeed the late Bishop Arnold Reddish of the Latter Day Saints church. Edward Lyman Lovell and J Gordon Jensen were chosen as counselors. Foster, long active in LDS affairs, has lived in Pocatello since 1922 and previously in Rigby. He works in the Union Pacific railroad car department.
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William H. Foster
South Fourth Ave
Sixth Ward
Arnold Reddish
Latter Day Saints Church
Edward Lyman Lovell
J. Gordon Jensen
Pocatello
Bishop Foster
LDS Church
Salt Lake City
Rigby
Union Pacific Railroad
Candy-Dropping Pilot Gail Halvorsen Returns Home
The Berlin candy hero Gail Halvorsen from Garland Utah completes six months of duty shielding the Russian blockade. He drops 250 parachutes on his last mission amid gifts from 4000 Berliners and daily mail from Wiesbaden. He jokes about marriage proposals and a Salt Lake City girlfriend.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Berlin
Air Force
Gail Halvorsen
Garland
Utah
Halvorsen
Wiesbaden Air Base
United States
Salt Lake City
Jews Prepare for Israel’s First Constituent Assembly Election
In Tel Aviv crowds fill halls across the weekend as Israel readies its first constituent assembly election in 2,000 years. About 140,000 Jews and 32,000 Arabs will vote on a party list system, with leaders like David Ben Gurion Moshe Shertok Moshe Dayan and Menahem Begin campaigning in multiple languages.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
David Ben Gurion
Moshe Shertok
Eliezer Kaplan
Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Menahem Beigin
United Workers
Yizhak Sadeh
Palmach
Haganah
Yigal Alon
Israeli Labor Party
Moshe Dayan
Jerusalem
Beigin
United States
Jaffa
Ritzy
Alhambra
Holy Land
Boy Preacher Marjoe Gortner Turns Five Birthday Page
In Long Beach California Marjoe Gortner the youthful preacher told a packed audience he will spend his life preaching. He declared I was born to preach and vowed to continue preaching to children and parents. He nibbled birthday cake shaped like a Bible with cross candles as two year old Vernce led the crowd in Happy Birthday.
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Long Beach
Cal
Marjoe Gortner
Marjoe
Vernce
Printer from Madison wins Stop the Music prize
Marshall Strauss of Madison Wisconsin won 13300 in prizes after correctly identifying the mystery melody as Adam Coming on the ABC radio program Stop the Music in New York.
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New York
Marshall Strauss
Madison, Wis
Adam
Key Leaders Support Arms Pact in Congress
Washington reports that administration allies pledge congressional backing for a seven-nation arms alliance including the United States Canada and five Western European powers. Secretary Lovett briefed Senate leaders and other lawmakers on terms as final draft work continues amid expected Senate debate.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Robert A. Lovett
Lovett
Tom Connally
Tex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
House
Senate
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Clyde Jamison
Red Oak
Nishnabotna
Elliott
Chiang Ouster
Nanking
Foster
Bishop Reddish
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