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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1948
Page
3
First come, first served will govern the 8 a.m. 18-year-old enlistment at Army recruiting office 400 North Main in Bannock County. Only eight of 279 eligibles will be accepted for one year service with the rest in the 18 to 26 group.
Edith and Otto Stadler and their three children narrowly escaped a blaze that destroyed their 12 by 14 foot temporary home at 405 Taft Ave Alameda. Grandmother Clara Alborn helped rescue the children from the attic as neighbors and organizations provide aid and the family plans a basement home nearby. The Stadlers run independent Sunday schools across several communities and travel up to 400 miles on Sundays, with Mrs Stadler losing a 120 bass accordion in the fire and noting its sentimental value.
Secretary of State J. D. Price a land board member urged Idaho to sell two to four million dollars in bonds to fund a road into the Clearwater forest. He cited 2 to 4 billion board feet of mature timber on 250000 acres of inaccessible state forest land and said the supply should be brought to market.
A seven day old boy born to a polio stricken mother in an emergency isolation ward is healthy and not paralyzed. Mrs Linton C Sineath Jr, 24, gave birth last Monday after admission to a polio hospital in Greensboro North Carolina and the infant remains with her in isolation.
One victim of polio is Ruth Lu eens,0 month old daughter of Mrs. Roy R. Littleford of Route 2 North. Her condition Tuesday was reported good by attendants at St. Anthony hospital, where she has been under care since July 17.
Mrs. C. F. Bosquet of the Sunset Motor Court, chair woman of the southeast Idaho Girl Scout federation, says the camp season ends next week with a few registration openings. She urges immediate contact for those planning attendance and notes that walk in campers without prior registration cannot be assured admission.
C A Tallberg head of ISC guidance unit will address Lions club at Friday noon lunch. He will explain student interest and ability assessments and cites Bannock county schools adding a guidance counsellor as progress. Tallberg, BA in educational psychology, came to ISC in 1947 after VA work.
The government offered the first 10 farm units on the 1 000 000 acre Columbia River Basin project in Washington with World War II veterans given first choice.
Blackfoot officials signed the architects contract for Bingham County Hospital. Architects Frank H Paradise Jr and Ray S Hunter of Pocatello will prepare preliminary plans and surveys as required by state and federal standards. Construction start is delayed until these planning steps meet government requirements and a community scheme is finalized.
Mayor George Phillips urged Pocatellans to join a campaign against ear wigs using DDT. Mrs Ina Revo of Fargo's millinery departs for Los Angeles to select fall hats and visit friends on the coast. ISC teachers Lundberg and Merritt donated 300 pounds of watermelon for a Ross park student faculty feed aiding singing.
The Chicago Defender urges all Negroes to vote for President Truman in November and calls on A. Wallace to withdraw as a third party candidate. The front page editorial titled We March Forward With Truman emphasizes unity and the Negro vote.
Idaho teachers from Pocatello Salmon Inkom Tyhee and McCammon toured Pocatello Municipal Airport. Civil Aeronautics Admin instructor Bancroft and state official Hunt led the visit to inspect facilities and discuss introducing flight and ground school in classrooms. J W Merritt noted an air age exhibit at Idaho State College Education Building.
Mrs. Irving Abbott from Fairbanks Alaska, riding in a car with Alaska plates, visits Preston to stay with her parents. She is en route back to Fairbanks via the New Alcan highway, accompanied by her mother Mrs. L A Neeley. Her husband Irving Abbott works as shop foreman for Bechtel International in Kuwait Persia building a Persian Gulf breakwater.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission deferred immediate freight rate increases on sugar beets molasses call potatoes ores concentrate and pumice stone while allow ing IC C approved increases on other commodities to proceed. Farm Bureau officials estimate savings of about 1.5 million dollars if deferments are adopted.
W H Francis of 330 South Sixth Avenue received a national quality award from the National Association of Life Underwriters. Francis, a leading member of Beneficial Life Insurance's field force, earned the distinction for high service to policy holders shown by life insurance sales in a two year period.
In Redwood City California Mrs Marie Friend 26 gave birth to an eight pound girl with help from a telephone operator miles away and a doctor on the line Early Monday Mrs Friend woke her husband Lowell and said labor had begun Neighbor Mrs Betty Morrison assisted while the anxious father followed remote medical guidance An ambulance arrived after the birth and the daughter was named Susan The father did not note the operator’s name
Ninety percent of Rural Electrification Administration borrowers are rural electric co operatives.
Residents in the 1100 block of South Fifth Avenue in Pocatello armed themselves after a civet cat appeared in a trash alley behind Sid Cook's home. The young animal hid under a nearby house as locals worried about a den of relatives and possible capture by the city poundmaster Ted Talbot who plans no urgent investigation.
Preparations continue for the North Bannock County Fair and Race Meet in Pocatello set for September 10 11 and 12. Jack Oakie will handle announcing duties as officials say. Four western states have entered race horses with Glenn Kunkel directing arrangements. Mrs William Butts runs the women's division while Bob Hillman and Art Mead oversee the racing division.
Approval of four new ISC faculty members is expected by President Carl W. McIntosh at a state board of education meeting in McCall Thursday. The main office vacancy for educational department head, left by Dr. Roger L. Slocum this spring, is to be filled. Dr. McIntosh and Bursar William Bartz depart Wednesday for the meeting and plan to return Monday, July 26. U. S. meat packers forecast nearly 10,000,000,000 frankfurters this year, enough for about 71.43 hot dogs per person nationwide.
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