Winds Roar Through Southern California In 85 mph Gales
Severe gales swept southern California causing power line damage, uprooted trees, sandfilled roads, and stranded motorists. Highway 60 and 66 faced closures around Riverside Ontario and Upland while rail lines and farms suffered. Two hundred acres of oats were destroyed and valleys reported drifting sand.
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Los Angeles
California
Riverside
Ontario
Upland
Weather Bureau
Mount Laguna
Ontario City
Niland
Point Conception
Oceanside
San Fernando Valley
Hollywood
Sunset Blvd
Southland
California Highway Patrol
Barlow Announces Run For Pocatello Mayor Seat
Rampton Barlow 39 year old supervisor of music for the Pocatello public schools announced his entrance into the Gate City mayoralty race. He pledges industrial development for Pocatello and broader civic growth including religious cultural and recreational advancement. He outlines plans to survey industries and attract them to locate in Pocatello while improving ISC and city services within budget and law enforcement.
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Pocatello
Rampton Barlow
Gate City
Barlow
Idaho State College
ISC
Anson Call
Brigham City
Utah
Truman Barlow
Chesterfield
Idaho Falls
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Southern Branch
Chicago
Adelaide Anderson School of Music
University of Utah Music
Salt Lake City School
Idaho Farm Bureau leader denounces rail rate hikes
Cyril Lau of Soda Springs criticizes Union Pacific for refusing emergency rate cuts to storm struck stockmen and seeks truck shipments as an alternative. He notes state and interstate rate requests amid a county survey on stock reserves and a Feb. 5 meeting in Pocatello Hotel Bannock.
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Lau
Pocatello
Boise
Senate Appropriations Committee
Union Pacific
Intermountain
Utah
Nevada
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
West
Bureau
John H. Webb
Montana
Bannock
Five Dollar POST Jackpot Won by Robert E Smiley
Winner of this week's five dollar POST jackpot for the best news tip is Robert E Smiley of the Poca tello army air base. You could be next week's winner by top the POST on a news story. Before you start battling that attic fire phone 3530. Those five dollars can help with repairs.
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Robert E. Smiley
Pocatello Army Air Base
Polio Drive Extended in Idaho Through Feb Fifteen
Idaho March of Dimes chair Ken R Bennett of Boise announced the polio fund drive will continue to February 15 due to cold weather slowing returns. He noted about $160,000 raised so far in 1949 and estimated nearly double that will be needed for patient care in 1949 and 1947 convalescents, with costs totaling $61,560 for current cases.
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Boise
IUP
Idaho
Ken R. Bennett
State March of Dimes
National
New York
Bennett
Mindszenty Trial Set for February in Budapest
The trial of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, a Hungarian priest, on treason charges will begin February 3 in Budapest. The People's Court prosecutor announced the date on Saturday.
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Budapest
Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
People’s Court
Defense Unit Ordered To Aid Stricken Area
President Truman mobilized the defense department to relieve winter disaster in the western plains and river valleys. James Forrestal authorized use of military funds for storm relief, with Fleming directing initial aid and more as needed. Nebraska air force and the fifth army moved to supply and clear roads while a brutal cold wave forced temperatures to 25 below zero.
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Truman
Department of Defense
Plains
Indiana
Illinois
Defense
James W. Forrestal
Engineer Corps
Philip Fleming
Congress
White House
Fleming
Nebraska
Air
Fifth Army
Missouri-Mississippi Valley
Kansas
Great Lakes
Air Force
Dworshak to Speak at Utah Lincoln Day Banquet
Henry Dworshak former United States senator from Idaho will be the speaker at the Lincoln day banquet of the Republican club of Utah on February 12 in Salt Lake City.
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Dworshak
Salt Lake City
Henry Dworshak
United States
Idaho
Republican Club of
Utah
Five Dead Ten Missing After Barracks Fire at Yokota
At Yokota Air Force Base near Tokyo a two story barracks fire left five American soldiers dead and 10 to 12 others injured. The 90 occupant building was destroyed. Col Gunn urged immediate reporting for head counts as LtSgt Nilson of Tacoma alerted others after discovering the blaze.
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Tokyo
Yokota Air Force Base
Here
Fifth Station
Baby Is Born Beside Road In Freezing Morning
Milk route driver Ralph Keller found a woman and her companion by the roadside near Gibson on the Catello-Blackfoot run. He rushed them to Blackfoot county hospital, where the mother Mrs Allen Tenema aged 17 gave birth to a seven pound boy within minutes. The mother had started walking from Ft Hall in a 17 below morning temperature.
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Ralph Keller
Jefferson
Gibson
Pocatello
Allen Tenema
Ft. Hall
Judge criticizes defendant’s breach of trust in court
The attorney quotes a statement claiming the case has harmed the bench and bar, while Ridge notes the defendant’s breach of trust after four elections. The remarks imply the court’s penalty should reflect more than the sufferings of the accused.
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Ustin Ruark
Ridge
Break in Idaho Arctic Freeze Brings Warm Ups and Snow
Sudden thaw returns for southern Idaho with Pocatello near zero to 25 above, as Idaho Falls and Dillon see heavier snow. Roads report one lane traffic on Massacre Rocks route with increasing drifts. Preston Bancroft and Soda Springs forecast highway closures. Boise forecasts a week of continued frigid weather with no relief. Burley records 29 degrees below.
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Pocatello
General Area
Idaho
Weather Bureau
Pocatellang
Idaho Falls
Dillon
Massacre Rocks-American Falls
Peneaaghes
Preston
Bancroft
Soda
Springs
United Press
Boise
Burley
Postman Shot Wins Pair of Rabbits in One Shot
An envious witness recounts J. E. Michael a retired mail carrier firing a .20 gauge shotgun to drop two rabbits with a single blast during a hunting trip near Weirton West Virginia.
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Weirton
W. Va
J. E. Michael
Harry Thayer
Michael
Weather by United Press Pocatello Forecast
Occasional light snow and not so cold with high 20 to 25 and low around 5 above. Other notes say high 7 above and low 22 below with trace precipitation. Southeast Idaho fair Sunday with cloudiness and mild cold. western Idaho fair with open Sunday. Utah clear with increasing high clouds and temps from 10 to 25.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Uthwestern Idaho
Utah
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Senate
Labor Group
Man
NLRB
Federal Mediation
Washington
ULP
Senate Labor Committee
Maurice J. Tobin
Elbert D. Thomas
UNIO
Cam Devis
International Typographical Union
AFL
United Mine Workers
National Labor Relations Board
Robert N. Denham
Federal Mediation Service
Labor Department
Denham
Cyrus Ching
Hochschule
Berlin
Ford Music Company
Naval Ordnance Plant
KSEI
Idaho Farm Bureau
Cyril Lau
Soda Springs
James R. Gunn, Jr
Yakota
Douglas MacArthur
Carl R. Nilson
Tacoma
Wash
Truck
Kansas City
Emory E. Smith
Monett, Mo
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