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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1948
Page
4
A historical newspaper line lists publication details for the Pocatello Post. It states the paper is published morning daily and Sunday at 334 North Main Street in Pocatello Idaho with carrier and mail rates of 1.25 per month. It notes second class matter status from December 13, 1947 and references the 1879 act.
The piece compares Tito’s clash with Moscow over Yugoslavia to siblings in a single family, noting Tito’s push to industrialize and communize while seeking Western aid. It cites Raditsa on Tito’s failure to fully communize, and quotes Truman Taft Gromyko Roosevelt on leadership, budget, and peacemaking.
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In Phoenix and Berlin dispatches the piece notes governors of the Salt River Water Users Association acting to sink new wells amid a regional water shortage. It contrasts national perspectives with local concerns and highlights a shift toward conservation and resource development among the Northwest and returning GIs.
Rep. Christian Herter argues U S steel production is not a menace to national security. He urges aiding India to boost its steel capacity to counter Southeast Asia becoming Communist, cites 1947 estimates of Soviet and Western outputs, and calls rapid development essential for democracy against Manchuria and Korea.
Drew Pearson reports GOP leaders aim to pressure Truman with a summer barrage of scandals. They allege White House links to gambling figures, Vaughan connections, and a Bolivar Missouri pamphlet scheme tied to Latin American aid and a Bolivar statue project.
In Budapest three Catholic priests Pal Nemeth Antal Koleso and Ajos Versanyi face trial before a peoples court for agitating against Hungarian democracy. Indicted also were Zdigmond Mihalovic Action Catholica director who fled the country Odon Lenart secretary and Erzsebet Kosdky secretary. Authorities found letters Mihalovic wrote to church and civil leaders abroad criticizing democracy and leaflets printed at Action Catholica offices.
U S Forest Service battled a 100 acre forest fire in Isle Royale National Park. The blaze sparked by lightning spread rapidly over Lake Desar region on Lake Superior's island. Authorities requested 200 volunteers to join the effort as four airplanes aided the firefight. The island had 12 days without rain.
Posey McCory was fined 25 dollars for riding a bicycle while drunk by Judge Tisdale Touart who called it reckless driving. In Oregon, 11 waterfalls lie along 11 miles of the Columbia River highway east of Portland with Multnomah Falls the tallest at 620 feet.
Gallup releases show the public consistently distrusts Congress and sees it as doing a poor job. Despite tax cuts and the Marshall Plan, only about 20 percent approve of Congress, making anti Congress sentiment a key theme for Truman’s re election drive.
San Francisco honored Josefina Guerrero known as Joey a 30 year old Filipino wife and wartime spy as she arrived from a U S army transport to depart for Carville Louisiana for leprosy treatment. The crowd of 400 plus saluted her with flowers gifts and songs while the Philippine and American anthems played. Guerrero who earned the Medal of Freedom with silver palm says she trusts American doctors to treat her disease.
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