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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1949
Page
1
Buffalo Lodge hosts the annual Bannock Shoshone sun dance as tom-toms beat at sunset and dancers begin a 72 hour rite. Tribes gather from Fort Hall to Fort HaM to observe the ritual of prayer, health, and crops with eagle bone whistles, beadwork, and drum chants.
Washington AP report says top administration and congressional leaders held a second secret three hour meeting to discuss U S relations with Britain and Canada over atomic issues. No conclusions were reached. A future session is planned amid guarded conditions.
F M Swenson will supervise the consumer financing loan department and specialize in residential real estate mortgages at Idaho Bank and Trust company. President H E Hemingway announced the appointment noting the bank will actively finance autos home improvements appliances and other consumer loans. Swenson previously led Allied Building Credits FHA title I and II loans in San Francisco and is a Brigham Young University graduate residing with his family in Pocatello Heights Provo Utah.
A meeting of Pocatello and Idaho Falls building and trades council leaders will seek settlement of disputes over construction jurisdiction in the Arco area. The gathering at the Pocatello Labor Temple ends more than two months of efforts by the Gate City council to resolve the quarrel sparked after Arco was chosen for a federal atomic reactor station.
New York stocks on the Exchange rose to the highest levels in over two months with a sixth gain in seven days and a million shares traded. Hudson Motors declared a 25 cent dividend while Douglas Aircraft and Owens-Illinois Glass posted sharp gains. North Carolina textile industry shows solid recovery as overall prices reach May highs.
A six year old polio patient at St Anthony hospital in Pocatello improves after a serious Monday condition. Idaho reports 90 polio cases this year with five deaths and 42 cases in July. The Red Cross seeks ten nurses for Boise area prevention measures.
Washington reporters say President Truman formed a three member emergency board to avert a threatened railroad strike by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen against the Southern Pacific. The action follows warnings of a Friday walkout and aims to mediate a settlement.
Monte Carlo opens Europe’s first craps tables under newsreel glare with celebrities and American show girls watching. Casino directors, eager for new revenue, bank on the dice games to boost receipts as Americans struggle with roulette and chemin de fer.
Idaho law found Wed nesday to make Pocatello's annexation ordinance recorded when deposited with the recorder. City Attorney Ben Peterson said Power County officials should record Phillips Field and old airport in Power county. County officials warned they will fight the move as Peterson plans a possible writ of mandamus to compel recording.
Col. Robert R. McCormick announced that the Chicago Tribune purchased the Washington Times Herald. He said the current management would continue, but no purchase price was disclosed.
Pocatello's zoning commission recommended reclassifying eight half blocks along the south half of each block between Halliday and Dunn streets from residential to Class B commercial. City council approval is required. The panel also granted hygiene and business permits and denied a trailer court proposal.
Wallace arris was elected president of the Idaho chapter of the National Association of Postmasters, succeeding J. E. Trimmings of Pocatello. Sun Valley was chosen as the site for the 1950 convention.
Senate debate turns humorous as Sen. Glen H. Taylor suggests Britain's former prime minister Winston Churchill "stay home and mind his own business." Sen. Edward J. Thye, presiding officer, prompts the record with "Without objection so ordered." The chamber laughs as Thye looks up surprised.
Mrs Patsy Hunsaker 23 of Dallas Texas died after leaping or falling from the 13th floor of the Chicagoan Hotel following a quarrel with her husband Jack Hunsaker who was arrested in the lobby. The couple were registered there and the body was found in a passageway behind the hotel. He said they quarreled violently and she locked him out of their room.
Qualifying rounds for the City Amateur Golf championship may be played anytime between today and Sunday, said Tournament Chairman Bob Dickman. Entry is $2, entries handled by Pro John Tuttle at the course. Over 100 entries expected with no entry limit. A new perpetual trophy is donated this year by Terrell Shoe Co.
Boise AP report says William Matlock, a First National Bank employee, will be arraigned Friday before U S Commissioner Glenn A Coughlan on an embezzlement charge.
Officials probed the wreckage of a non-scheduled C-46 airliner carrying 32 persons after it crashed into a 12 room apartment building and burned. Six residents and one passenger were killed and five structures were destroyed or damaged while 33 people were injured. Coroner Brill said bodies were so burned it took 12 hours to identify them.
Harry W. Morrison of Boise, president of Morrison-Knudsen Co., will speak at a joint Rotary club and Chamber of Commerce luncheon honoring Morrison-Knudsen Day. He is due at 10 30 a m at Boeing Field in a DC3 with Mrs Morrison and executives from Idaho Power and Idaho Egg Producers Association.
The AFL authorized a 14 million dollar political drive to defeat seven Republican senators and elect AFL supporters in 1950. Taft is labeled the number one target, with Green pledging to defeat Taft and other lawmakers who opposed the Taft Hartley repeal push. The drive seeks at least two dollars from each of the AFL's seven million members.
Wayne Hise 39 shot two bystanders on a Boise highway after tensions with wife Eva Hise. Victims Mrs. Eva Shelley and Donald Street remained critical at St Luke's Hospital while Hise killed himself at the Sade Club after a chase. Police recovered a note about marital strife.
Forest Supervisor L A Dremolski says Sun Oil Co. has an oil lease from the Interior Department and will build a 12 mile road along Bear Creek to Big Elk Mountain in the Caribou National Forest. Drilling could begin within two months after road work, with about 50 000 dollars for the highway and year round operations planned near the 9478 foot peak between Swan Valley and Caribou Basin.
President Juan Jose Arevalo retained power after a bloody 24 hour Army revolt that killed about 300 people and wounded many more. The uprising followed the assassination of Col. Francisco Javier Arana, a leading military figure and possible successor.
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