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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1949
Page
2
Edma explains that elders trace the dance to a dream warning of trouble to the tribe. He says the white view misinterprets it as sun worship, asserting it is a standing thirst rite invoking the Great Spirit for the tribe’s health and bountiful crops.
Bannock county trustees plan an 8 p.m. Monday meeting at the courthouse to elect a five member county school district reorganization committee. Expected attendees include Roy Miller Lavern Johnson Dale Strong Floyd Dalton William Petty and Mabel Barron. County Superintendent H L Fawson urged full attendance for the vote.
Alabama Ku Klux Klan president Dr E P Pruitt resigned after visiting William Hugh Morris in jail to demand his resignation. Morris, an incorporator, faced jail for contempt over missing records linked to violence investigations. Pruitt plans to leave town but remain a klansman.
Albert Howson, 52, pleaded guilty to vagrancy and fined 100 dollars after a prior suspended fine. several associates received suspended fines if they left town. Other entries note speeding, stop sign violations, intoxication cases, and not guilty pleas. Births list three boys and two girls born at St. Anthony Hospital on July 20. Marriage licenses issued to Ichamura and Kasai and to Heitz and Williams.
A building permit was issued in Medford for the erection of one half of a house. The remaining half will be built just over the Winchester city line.
Morrison described his nine week world tour with remarks on England’s self sufficiency and decline after empire, France’s farming near Paris, and MK projects in the Middle East funded by US loans. He accused Soviet propaganda in Afghanistan and claimed Brazil’s government is pressured by Communists using MK as a whipping boy and radical press attacks.
Ayrshire cow owners from three Idaho counties met at the R. S. Parrish ranch in Aberdeen to form a southeastern Idaho Ayrshire association. About 60 to 100 breeders attended, indicating a 50 percent membership rise from last year. Parrish was named acting president with a later officer election planned.
Controversy flared anew as Power county returned to Pocatello a disputed ordinance that added two airfields to the city limits. Power county authorities argue the document lacks the recording fee while Pocatello insists the ordinance is recorded, prompting mixed signals and a clerical slip. Mayor Hal sey plans to resend the ordinance with the $7.50 fee after a clerical error omitted the check. County chairman Thornhill says the matter may be settled by forces outside further action.
Deputies were called at about 3 a m Thursday to inspect a car in a canal near Hawthorne and Syphon Road. The vehicle was submerged with only about two inches of roof showing. Lovell Tice, a post employee, discovered the car and reported that everyone appeared to have escaped.
Elders guide three generations of Shoshone in raising the center pole for the Sun Dancers ceremony. Benjamin Kayoni tours camp on horseback calling people to prayer as a cottonwood center pole with leaf bun dle and a buffalo skull is set. Willy Edmo notes fading traditional meaning yet growing Christian influences among youth as twelve poles are used.
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