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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1949
Page
3
The article notes wheat acreage expanded rapidly over recent years and will likely be cut back more than the national average. State plans involve counties determining each parcel's allotment.
President Truman pressed to push a military unification bill through the House by issuing an executive order aimed at implementing most Senate provisions. House Armed Services Committee backed centralizing buying and spending but delayed other unification features amid internal dissent and accusations over influence by defense interests.
Hawaii lawmakers weigh a bill to seize the territorys docks as the 75 day longshoremen strike cripples the economy. A special session is planned after a legislative committee reviews the plan, with compulsory arbitration as a condition. Union leader Harry Bridges plans to testify in Washington on proposed presidential arbitration.
Rome reports note the pro Communist Il Paese denounces a Vatican excommunication decree as a gesture of hate aimed at intimidating Catholics. Pietro Nenni calls the move political, fearing creation of national Catholic churches. Vatican says diplomatic ties with communist states will continue.
Secretary Brannan announced a 17 percent cut in next year’s wheat acreage, setting a national allotment of 68,900,000 acres to limit surpluses while keeping marketing quotas voluntary. He projected 1.11 billion bushels as the national yield, with penalties for overages under a quota system that requires two thirds farmer approval.
In Lexington Kentucky a federal court jury convicted Edward F Prichard Jr a nationally known Democrat in a Bourbon County vote fraud case. He was sentenced by Judge H Church Ford to two years in federal penitentiary. Funk Jr was acquitted. Prichard and Funk were accused of forging election official signatures on 254 ballots and stuffing them before polls opened on November 2.
Laurette Kilborn 28 a New York model and former wife of financier Serge Rubenstein wed Las Vegas hotelman John Lochhead 38 in a Tuesday eve ceremony at Hotel El Rancho. Witnessed by about 100 friends, the couple will reside in Las Vegas. Kilborn’s divorce proceedings and Rubenstein’s 1947 draft false statements conviction are noted.
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