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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1948
Page
2
Snyder warned of an end of fiscal year deficit as defense and foreign aid rise while a tax cut and higher outlays bite receipts. He cited a prior surplus and urged banks to curb credit growth, noting banks must shoulder more of inflation control. Dodge pledged banker support and continued credit restraint.
The Idaho State Bar adopted a resolution condemning Justice Bert H. Miller for remaining on the bench after filing for the Democratic U S Senate nomination. It urged a legislative change to deem a judge who runs for office as vacating the bench and called for a judicial council and pay raises, while opponents urged hearings and cautioned against censure in absentia.
The flour millers and bakers plan a nationwide campaign to boost bread eating with total spending around 4 million dollars. Millers allocate 2.5 million dollars for nutrition education. The American Bakers Association expects about 1.6 million dollars for its campaign.
Boise reports that McCall’s chance prize games have ceased operations after a supreme court action. Judge Sutton must show cause by July 30 or void the restraining order delaying enforcement. State agents are stationed at McCall as legal battles loom over the Payette lakes resort gambling scene.
Idaho income tax collections for the two years ending June 30 reached 15,102,219 dollars, announced by income tax director P. G. Neill. For the biennium ended June 30, individual taxes were 9,561,922 dollars, fiduciary returns 57,994 dollars, and corporation taxes 4,896,501 dollars with an average 1947 return of 36.99 dollars. Mining led with 668,536 dollars, lumbering 627,901, and retail and wholesale trade 55,545 dollars.
Amateur forecasters gathered on Mount Washington in New Hampshire for a weather prediction contest with a barometer as the prize. A rainstorm forced them indoors while they tried to forecast the conditions atop the mile-high peak.
The Death Valley bridge near Salem Illinois earned a grim tag after a collision on Saturday night killed four Kentuckians and injured two others. Victims were Wilbur Hannapil Sr and Jr Doris Frey and Donald Frey. Jerry Hannapil was seriously hurt while truck driver Roger Sanders received minor cuts.
At the U S 30 and 93 intersection near Twin Falls two drivers, Willie Jane Watkins 17 of Fort Worth Texas and William H Chancey 18 of Copper Hill Tennessee, died. Four other passengers were injured and two men in fair condition at Twin Falls county hospital.
About 40 potato and onion growers attended the Idaho Advertising Commission session in Boise. Milton Eberhard reported on a consumer preference survey of Idaho Russet potatoes, noting housewives prefer medium potatoes and are willing to pay small price premiums for clean, well-formed produce.
A Minneapolis concern declares itself the nation's first electric French fry producer. The claim emphasizes innovation in energy use and new product methods, positioning the company at the forefront of a growing electric food processing trend.
A GOP leader said the 80th Congress may adjourn soon after convening July 26 by order of President Truman. He noted no formal plans, while Senators Barkley and Bridges discussed anti inflation aims, with focus on price controls, welfare, and potential special session actions.
Geography professor C. J. Bollinger of the University of Oklahoma predicts July and August will be the driest months Oklahoma has had in 28 years. He based his forecast on index figures relating planets to the sun.
Policy chief Robert A. Taft of Ohio said little reason for leadership meetings before the opening day and receipt of the president's message. He spoke by telephone Saturday night from his Murray Bay Quebec vacation home and had no comment on the special session, planning only to return by July 26.
Cathay Pacific officials said an all day search failed to find any trace of a Catalina flying boat that crashed in the Pearl Harbor estuary with 26 aboard. Only one believed survivor. A Chinese man in a life jacket found. Four Americans aboard: pilot Dale Cramer of Summerfield Kansas and Mrs. D. D. Nelson with her two children. Nelsons were a missionary family.
Chicago officials announced an opening for a national railroad fair on the lakefront with about 2,000,000 visitors expected. Sponsored by 38 American railroads, the exhibit marks the 100th anniversary of the first Chicago steam locomotive and runs through mid September on a 50 acre site near the 1933 34 World’s Fair grounds.
Lieutenant R. J. Sheehan chief pilot at American Falls Aero Service, Donald Horwood, Lt. Charles W. Bulow, and Lt. Stanley F. Commons of the 15th bomb squadron piloted a twin engine Beechcraft AT 11 on a navigation flight this week. They traveled via Salt Lake City, Wendover, Hamilton Field, Long Beach to Alameda Naval Air Station.
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