Notice of weekly publication requirement for legal notices
Entered as Second Class Matter December 13, 1947 at Pocatello Post Office Idaho under the Act of March 3 1879 all notices required by law or court order to be published weekly will appear in the Thursday issue of this newspaper pursuant to Section 58 108 A 1932 as amended by Chapter 140 194% Laws of Idaho
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Pocatello
Idaho
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Court of Competent Jurisdiction
High Cost of Matrimony Tale From West Virginia Senator
West Virginia Senator Matthew Neely recalls a tale of J P Morgan offering a weekly five dollar gift to a witty tramp. Morgan later cut the bounty citing a daughter’s upcoming wedding and wedding gifts. The tramp laments the financial change calling it highway robbery and asks Morgan not to marry off any more daughters at his expense.
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Congress
J. P. Morgan
Morgan Banking
Taft labor law debate yields rare laughs in Senate
In a solemn Senate session on the Taft labor law, Vice President Barkley staged a gag over titles I II and IV with an empty vote, declaring a tie and rejection. Laughter followed as the chamber recognized the joke before final Taft-Hartley amendments passed leaving only a few lines of the original act.
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Senate
Barkley
Ohio
Too-Rapid Recovery Shapes Marshall Plan Politics
U S Congress and European leaders confront a faster than expected postwar recovery. Analysts say Europe must dismantle trade barriers reform currencies and cut production costs to compete. Experts urge parallel study of new conditions and policy shaping akin to the Marshall Plan’s birth.
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U. S
Europe
Unified Forces End U S Uniforms And Coffee Gap
Army Navy and Air Force adopt shared undergarments and coffee as reforms follow merger. Navy roasts beans at the Brooklyn plant for all three services, and officers shift to a standard second lieutenant size commission form replacing 45 varied documents.
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Army
Navy
Air Force
Brooklyn
N.Y
Hhese
Armed Service
Budget Bureau Seeks 30 Page Budget Summary Next Year
The Budget Bureau urges a simplified 30 page summary of the 1400 page budget for January to help citizens understand it. Budget Director Frank Pace proposes a major presidential budget address this summer. President Truman traditionally issues an August budget review after Congress finishes appropriations. With a looming 1.8 billion dollar deficit for the year ending June 30, the talk will focus on the shortfall.
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Bureau of the Budget
Frank Pace
Truman
Congress
British monetary maneuvers traced from Bretton Woods to crisis
Drew Pearson lays out chapters on Bretton Woods choices, the 1946 British loan, sterling dollar pool and the Marshall Plan, detailing how Britain and western Europe face a persistent crisis as aid schemes fail to fully restore balance. He argues Western economies overconsume versus production and notes shifts in empire trade.
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Washington
Treasury
John Snyder
Bretton Woods
Lord Beaverbrook
Winston Churchill
Britain
Hitler
Argentina
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
London
Australia
U. S.A
United States
Sir Stafford Cripps
S. A
Cripps
Beaverbrook Churchill
Congress
England
Europe
Asia
North
Africa
Broadway South Pacific Tickets Finally Found
A writer recounts difficulty securing two tickets to the Broadway musical South Pacific. Describing sellouts and ticket hunts involving friends and a brother, the piece ends with the surprising note that tickets came via a steamship agency.
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Trumans
Blair House
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Buckingham
Dick Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein
Errol Flynn
O Gay
Mary Martin
Berle
Ray Bolger
Charley
Lee Cobb
Corrigan
Milton
Ao Pacific
Kansas City sword fund for General Pershing story recounted
Fred Bonfils and Max Levand discuss a 1919 plan at the Kansas City Club to raise funds for a gold and diamond sword for General Pershing. Levand recalls a $15,000 subscription drive by the Kansas City Post to honor Pershing, with a local jeweler cutting costs for a ceremonial gift.
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Fred Bonfils
Kansas City Post
Max Levand
Levand
Kansas City
Denver
Harry Hammen
Nelson
Mr. Bonfils
General Pershing
Home cooked food and a Pershing interview memory
A nostalgic reminiscence contrasts home cooked meals with mishaps from cluttered kitchens and late telephone calls. The piece then recounts a 1910s interview with General Pershing, detailing exclusive coverage, theatre bustle, profits from a road show, and the fate of Pershing's ornate sword now in the Smithsonian.
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Terview
Pershing
Wilson
Joe Tumulty
Joe
Burris Jenkins
Baltimore
Frank Cruickshank
Floto Circus
Tammen
Fitzpatrick
Jenkins
General Pershing
Harry Tammen
Denver
Kansas City
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
West Point
Bonfils
Green rooms and other oddities in theater lore
A Q and A style piece explains why reception rooms in theaters are called green rooms, the president’s civilian status, the Enoch Arden law for absence based divorce, the waltzing mouse breed, the Line of Demarcation by Pope Alexander VI, and Alexander the Great’s favorite horse Bucephalus with the city Bucephala built over its grave.
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Alexander VI
Spain
Portugal
New World
Alexander the Great
Bucephalus
Alexander
Bucephala
Idaho Driver Stalemate Inspires Local Banter
A Pocatello woman reported an automobile mishap involving a California registered car that stopped suddenly to avoid an Idaho vehicle with no driver. She joked about California drivers then Idaho drivers in the Postings column.
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Pocatello
California
Idaho
Lilienthal and the AEC under attack over alleged courier tale
Marquis Childs discusses circulating whispers about the Atomic Energy Commission led by David Lilienthal. He cites Bacher testimony on wartime UK Canada U.S. cooperation and asserts the courier story is eyewash, arguing the alliance already shares essential fissile knowledge and that U S progress remains ahead.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
David Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Britain
Senate House Atomic Committee
AEC
Atomic Workers
United States
Canada
Atomic Energy Project
Robert F. Bacher
Senate House Committee
Hickenlooper
Bacher
California Institute of Technology
Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Laboratory
Henry Jackson
New York
Osae
Wirius
Coca
Beneft
Georgia Etiquette Lessons for Rita Hayworth by Gregory Eristoff
A humorous column mocks an alleged hiring of Gregory Eristoff to teach Rita Hayworth Georgian etiquette. The writer parodies Georgia culture and lists mock dining room rules, wine pairings, and music choices, ending with a quip offering to take the job for popcorn payment.
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Gregory Eristoff
Aly Khan
Rita Hayworth
Georgia
Eristoff
Habersham
Hall
Gregory
Paris
Red Clay
Johnny Jones
Kristoffs
Aly, Khan
Rita
Bobby Jones
Ty Cobb
Jones
Cobb
Aly
Congress Cowers Over War Powers Cut Plan Says McCormack
Rep John W McCormack denounces a proposal granting the President authority to cut appropriations as abdication and legislative cowardice. He cites the cold war turning to a cold peace with the UN secretary general Trygve Lie adding context.
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Congress
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
Trygve Lie
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