Nevada livestockmen plead for state aid in rescue effort
Nevada ranchers requested Gov. Vail Pittman declare a state emergency as more than 100000 sheep and 20000 cattle are stranded by heavy snows. Stockmen warn losses could reach millions while crews use 18 hour shifts and planes to reach wildlife. Federal funds sought for emergency feed and equipment. Weather forecasts warn of more snow.
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Nevada
Vail Pittman
United Stockmen’s Association
Utah
Wyoming
Montana
Las Vegas Evening Review- Journal
U. S. Forest Service
State Highway Department
Stockmen’s Association
Pittman
Washington, D. C
Idaho Legislature Advances Wide Range of Bills
Legislature passes and introduces numerous measures including HB 90 guiding stray animal placements, HB 93 deeming insufficient funds checks as prima facie fraud, HB 95 raising property value for taxation, HB 97 permitting appeals from tax decisions, SB 45 margarine tax, and HJR 4 proposing a constitutional convention badge.
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Gardner
Bingham
Counties and Municipalities Committee
Boise City
Brewer
Willes
Schwiebert
Gardner of
Bingham and Murdock
Insurance Committee
Ada
Liquor Smuggling Reported at Utah Prison Farm
Salt Lake City Utah district judge A H Ellett said prisoners described liquor being smuggled into the state prison system. He cited conversations with convicts and a governor urging an investigation into alleged sales of liquor at the farm and main state penitentiary in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Bingham County Bonds Sales Rise in 1948 Report
J C Sandberg reports Bingham County bought 337662.50 in Class G bonds and 48324.00 in F and G bonds totaling 385986.50 for 1948. Harold W Ellsworth notes national sales 16,353,502.72 and 1948 the best year since the war. Ellsworth predicts higher 1949 bond purchases.
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Ellsworth
U. S
Sandberg
U.S
Farmer Merchant Banquet Highlights Farmier-merchant Harmony
Blackfoot Idaho March banquet drew over 250 farmers and business people in Wapello. Speaker B F Minor urged cooperation between farmers and merchants to sustain the community and living standards. PTA leader Claude Johnson and school official C C Evans introduced speakers. Planning committee included Mr and Mrs Walter Bithell.
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B. F. Minor
Blackfoot Chamber of Commerce Farmer-Merchant
Wapello
Warren Holt
al Barrett
Chamber
Claude Johnson
PTA
Bingham County
Johnson
C. C. Evans
Minor
Department of Education
Idaho State College
Hawaii
Alaska
U. S. Office of Education
Wapello Pta
Banqnet
Frank Berlin
Walter Bithell
Grace social notes and local movements
Grace social items report new birth nine pounds for Grace Turner at Preston and visits by local residents to relatives in Utah and Idaho. Charles King, former Grace barber, died in Los Angeles after moving to Georgetown and Montpelier earlier. burial in Los Angeles. Enlistees include Leonard Rasmussen and Gene Caldwell. Doyle Ray, son of Gail and family, recovered from pneumonia. Various visits and dinners noted among Grace residents and friends with scattered travels to Salt Lake City, Rupert, Soda Springs, and Los Angeles.
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Grace
Preston
Gail Turner
Charles King
Los Angeles
Cal
King
Georgetown
Montpelier
Idaho Boy Faces Death Trial
14-year-old Mike Foley of Leland is charged with murder after confessing to shooting his mother Isabella and brother Jack with a .22 rifle. He is jailed without bond and will appear before a justice of the peace in pretrial hearing as sheriff and county prosecutor outline details and the family background.
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Lewiston
Ida
Mike Foley
Leland
Ez Perce
Earle Morgan
Justice of the Peace
W. W. Hays
Foley
Isabella
Jack
Hays
Lloyd Craig
Morgan
Kamiah
Here
Mike
Grace FFA Banquet Honors Fathers at Grace School
The Grace chapter of the Future Farmers of America held its annual banquet at the Grace grade school dining room honoring their fathers. Earnest Skinner and Harris Mickelsen received honorary chapter degrees for outstanding aid to the organization. Orsen Roper served as toastmaster.
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GRACE
Future Farmers of America
Earnest Skinner
Harris Mickelsen
Orsen Roper
Miller Named To Head Flying Unit In Boise
Rep W J Miller Boundary was named president of the flying legislators club now at 52 members. Other officers are Sen E J Spelberg Butte as vice president and Rep Edwin A Snow Council as secretary treasurer. The group will fly to Sun Valley Sunday and be greeted at Hailey airport before dining atop Mount Baldy.
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Boise
W. J. Miller
Boundary
Flying Legislators Club
E. J. Spelberg
Butte
Edwin A. Snow
Council
Flying Legislators
Sun Valley
Hailey
Mount Baldy
First Transcontinental Telegraph Line Linked Washington in 1864
The opening of the first transcontinental telegraph connected Washington Territory to the eastern states in 1864, marking a milestone in U.S. communications. The line enabled rapid official and commercial messaging across the continent.
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Washington Territory
Rupert Youth Wins Silver Award In Dairy Judging
Rupert high school senior Glen Van Every received a silver award for individual second division at the national dairy judging convention in Waterloo Iowa in November. He helped Idaho’s state judging team, with two Nampa boys, to a bronze award in third division while advisor Thomas Maberly notes rankings span four divisions.
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Rupert
Glen van Every
Burt van Every
Waterloo
Iowa
Every
Nampa
Idaho
Thomas Maberly
Kirk Rush
Utah Senators Plan All Day Tour To Cool Off
Utah senators pursue liquor control debate with an all day inspection tour of state institutions in Ogden. Sen Ray Lund accuses Gov Lee administration remarks of a vicious attack while Elggren defends his statements on local enforcement and liquor by the drink. A constitutional reapportionment bill and 13 other measures are introduced along with a housing bill and redevelopment authorities. The house approves a memorial urging relief for livestock stranded in heavy snows.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Ogden
Ray P. Lund
Manti
Lorenzo E. Elggren
J. Bracken Lee
Senate
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen to Initiate Tuesday
Announcement of a Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine Men initiation and smoke at the WOW hall Tuesday at 7. A large attendance is requested.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
WOW Hall
Benny Goodman Leaves Bandstand Ill At Inaugural Ball
Benny Goodman, famed bandleader, fell ill with a bronchial ailment and had to quit the bandstand during the inaugural ball. He was treated by aides and remained under observation after the episode.
Reds Named As World Peace Foes in Occupation Zones
Reports say communists and a Nazi-like spy system run in the Soviet zone with German anti communists resisting. Arrests in Saxony rise as non communists flee. Western allies ban Russian licensed papers. Russians ban allied papers. Mail rules loosen. investments in western Germany possible. Ebert seeks warehouse space to supply Berlin. Feeding issues persist in the Soviet sector.
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Munist Lea
Saxony
Rlin
Glenn W. Campbell
Military Security Board
Western Allies
Berlin
Frankfurt
Norman H. Collinson
Germany
ADN
Friedrich Ebert
Ebert
Trucker Injured In Utah Train Collision
A Salt Lake City truck driver Ward Cushing aged 39 was seriously injured when his vehicle collided with a Union Pacific freight train at a grade crossing near Jericho Utah. Weather ice and poor visibility were blamed for the accident. Cushing was taken to Payson Hospital.
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Payson
Utah
Salt Lake City
Ward Cushing
Union Pacific
Jericho
Cushing
Payson Hospital
Death rate in Britain hits record low in 1948
The registrar general reports 1948 as the year with the lowest death rate ever and a population rise of about 3.5 million. Stillbirths and infant deaths under one year were the lowest on record, marking a significant public health milestone.
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London
Registrar Generals Office
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