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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1949
Page
3
Mrs Studdard told a Jefferson county grand jury how hooded assailants beat her, her daughter Opal, and two men at her home. She said the attackers lashed the women four times and the men eight times with a belt. The grand jury, hearing 10 more witnesses, expects indictments as investigations span Walker and Jefferson counties.
Residents of Route One South in Pocatello cleaned debris after a cloudburst Sunday. Mrs. Edna Morrison reported damage estimated in the hundreds of dollars. The heavy rain drowned about 20 chickens owned by E. R. Dayley, flooded farm fields, and washed away a heavy metal cattle guard at the city dump entrance.
Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lilienthal testifies before the joint congressional committee at a public hearing, aiming to show progress and counter charges of mismanagement. Dr. Robert F. Bacher, former AEC member and Caltech chair, will note advances in weapons production, reactors, and research.
Chairman Carl Vinson reveals a plan to give the secretary of defense broader authority while ensuring no military dictatorship. The proposal, to be debated today, would replace a top military joint chiefs chair with a civilian deputy secretary and exempt the military from a broad reorganization bill, aiming to curb military consolidation and save over a billion dollars annually. Senate counterpart Millard Tydings aims to send the $302 million pay bill to the floor by July 21.
The Idaho Supreme Court affirmed the forgery conviction of Thomas Dee Baldwin of Lewiston. He signed a 1946 $53 check using the name Tom Jackson to buy a $300 fur coat for his girl. Baldwin was arrested in Walla Walla, waived extradition, and the court rejected his appellate challenges about jury instructions and defense witness subpoenas.
Boise AP reports the Idaho Public Works Department opened bids for two hospital contracts at Gooding. Low bids for stairs and partition work totaled $928.51 by George Reynolds of Boise and $1 465 by Brown and Bryant of Gooding, while bids for floor coverings reached $4,026.75 by Lauren and Burt Inc of Salt Lake City and $? by Thomas.
Washington reports higher support prices for 1949 wheat at all terminal markets by two cents a bushel. No change to the farm level basic price of 1.95. The Agriculture Department also disclosed government holdings, totaling 159 million bushels of last year’s grain crops, with wheat and other grains listed.
Idaho aviation enthusiasts map a six day tour to Calgary and Banff Canada July 14 19 with a rendezvous in Kalispell Montana reservations still open under Director of Aeronautics Chet Moulton The schedule includes a two day Calgary stampede stop two days in Banff with vehicle trips to Lake Louise and a July 19 return via Spokane and Cranbrook back to the United States.
Capt. James D. Hunsaker commanding officer of the Pocatello Army recruiting station will remain in Pocatello. Previous orders directing him to overseas duty have been changed. He returned to the Gate City from San Francisco over the Independence Day weekend and said all enlistment quotas for the local station have been lifted.
Boise, UP. Gov. Robins recalled nearly snagging a foul tip at Griffith Stadium during a Indians Senators game. He stood to catch it with his hands, but the ball hit him and bounced to a nearby youngster who claimed the ball with a handshake remark.
Paul Vernon Nielsen, 13, son of a Los Angeles psychiatrist, told deputies he stabbed Dona Sue Brown, 14, a private school student, because she preferred another boy. Brown remained in serious condition at Cottage Hospital with seven knife wounds.
Dr. Francis S. Chase reports a 10 month study finding 41 percent of elementary and secondary teachers have less than four years of college and 27,000 with no college prep. He notes declining share of income spent on education from 3 percent in 1937-38 to 2.3 percent in 1947-48, with Florida the sole state increasing.
Floyd R. Bud Sharp Jr and William Conway, two former servicemen, say they are making progress locating a sunken sunken Delaware wreck two miles off Bay Head beach in 68 feet of water. They believe about 423000 dollars in gold lies there and spent hours Tuesday relinking buoys and tracing the vessel wreckage.
Boise reports 27 physician-aspirants will take the state medical examination starting next Monday. Mrs. Estella Mulliner, state director of occupational licenses, says the group is smaller than the January three day exams. The board of medical examiners will conduct the tests.
About twenty residents of Southeastern Idaho auditioned at Radio Station KSEI Tuesday for Horace Heidt's talent show. William Belcher, Heidt's representative, said more vocalists and instrumentalists are needed. Local finalists will perform July 16 at the high school auditorium, with a Sunday night broadcast from Pocatello the next evening.
The four deputy military governors from the United States Britain France and Russia plan an immediate Berlin commandant meeting to normalize life in the divided city. Russian zone distributors cut Western Berlin electricity by over half and military police blocked streets to hinder food and supply movement from Soviet zones. The action follows the blockade and remains unexplained by Moscow.
Senate Republicans push new momentum for aid to Chiang Kai Shek after his request to combat Chinese Communists. The State Department refused to commit, while several Democratic congressmen favored no change to the wait and see policy in China.
NAMPA UP Lewis C Thorne sold Gem State Printing Co in Nampa to Robert M Gren Jr of Newark New Jersey and W Vern Harris of Boise. Thorne said the transfer will be effective at a later date Harris was associated with Thorne in the same business during 1939.
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