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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1948
Page
1
A mother faced a Saturday emergency as doctors could not be reached for her seriously ill baby in Idaho. The editorial urges nighttime physician exchanges to ensure access to care and reduce mental anguish for parents when a child is ill and help is hard to find after hours.
Post staff reports that five St Louis Cardinal players well known in Pocatello were killed in a highway crash near St Paul involving a Duluth Northern league bus. Gilbert Trible 19 was noted as a loss that might have changed the Cardinals season with him on the roster. Gerald Peterson a center fielder from Proctor Minnesota was identified tentatively among the dead.
Construction work in Gate City peaks this summer with a worker shortage limited to carpenters. Westvaco Electric Furnace employs about 45 now, rising to 300 at peak. Simplot housing needs carpenters. City projects include a sewage interceptor and paving. Job openings span carpenters to clerks. ESL and migrant workers active. rental housing scarce with rooms up to 30 dollars monthly and rents from 40 to 75 dollars.
Mrs. Stadler and family evacuate as a fire razes their one room house at 405 Taft Ave Alameda. Clara Alborn, Lila Stadler, Paul Stadler and David Stadler 3 nap amid charred remains while Edith Stadler loses an accordion. Grandmother Alborn wakes the family preventing tragedy.
William Dillon of Dillon Auto Repair Shop receives this week’s $5 news tip prize for telling the Post about Theresa Wallach’s whereabouts after noting an English rider’s world tour and a foreign make motorcycle.
The Nampa city council named Police Captain Gordon Jones acting police chief to replace J. R. McCarthy who resigned Wednesday amid political reverses. The council meeting was closed to the press and public.
In Irvingfield last night LDS members heard W H Wardle recounts from the Martin Handcart Company while honoring the 100th anniversary of their Salt Lake City entry. The West Pocatello Stake sponsored the event with Mrs Joe Dunn and others organizing ceremonies and songs.
The Jay-C-Ettes announce an all family outing at Ross Park upper level in Pocatello on Thursday July 30 at 6 p m. The ma ma and kids affair invites attendance and asks callers to dial 1913 R for details.
Kaiser-Frazer sponsor Walter Winchell Sunday broadcasts starting Jan 2 1949. A two year contract was signed by Kaiser-Frazer president Joseph W Frazer and American Broadcasting president Mark Woods. Winchell has long promoted a hand lotion. Fees not officially disclosed. sources estimate about 1.35 million dollars for two years, roughly 1000 per minute on air.
Eleanor Patterson known as Cissy, head of the Washington Times-Herald, died suddenly in her Prince Georges County estate. Officials say she passed in her sleep likely from a heart attack. she had led the family newspaper empire since purchasing and consolidating Hearst papers in 1939.
The Pocatello Cardinals edged the Billings Mustangs 4-3 at Cobb Field after a late rally, moving a half game ahead of the Pioneer League leaders Twin Falls Cowboys. Pitcher Jim Curley allowed five runs in nine innings with seven strikeouts as Big Al Neil homered and doubled. Three Billings pitchers worked to slow the Cards who counted 12 hits. The teams meet again in Billings tonight. box score on page 6.
Trial examiner William E. Spencer of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Boeing Aircraft Co and its president William M Allen violated the Taft Hartley act by prolonging a strike at Seattle plants. The 13 000 member strike by the International Association of Machinists began April 22 and is delaying production of Air Force planes, the nation’s largest ongoing stoppage.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American military governor in Germany, landed at Tempelhof after a Washington to Berlin flight carrying new instructions for countering the Soviet blockade.
President Truman stated the latest secret Pacific A-bomb tests strengthen the U S atomic position in an unstable world. He pledged continued research into atomic energy for peace and defense under strict security measures.
Two Eastern Air Lines pilots Capt. Clarence Chiles and John Whitted reported a wingless flame throwing craft near Montgomery Alabama. They described a four times wider fuselage than a B 29 with two rows of square windows and a rear flame. The Air Force suggested a weather balloon, though observers doubted it.
An American C-47 transporting food to blockaded Berlin crashed near Tem plehof airdrome killing both the pilot and co pilot. Gen. Lucius D. Clay arrived from Washington announcing a top level Berlin conference and possible doubling of airlift flights to supply western Berlin sections.
The Idaho Department of Public Assistance aims for uniform practices across district 4 during a Bannock Hotel meeting led by Wallace Rounsazell. Speakers included Miss Jean Cameron, Mrs. Emily Nichols, and Margaret Crawford covering nutrition for low income families, eye care funding for the blind, and foster home licensing requirements with about 20 licensed homes in Pocatello. The department notes roughly 650 blindness registrations with an estimated 350 unregistered cases, and it spent 440000 in 1947 for aid to Bannock Power and Oneida counties.
Ralph Ungrodt moves to Silverdale Washington this week to manage the Pocatello Pacific Supply Co op warehouse a post he has held since 1945. Davis C Lance of 230 East Cedar Street is promoted to Ungrodt's former position.
The Idaho Fish and Game Department reports 44,000 chinook salmon counted at Bonneville Dam in June, about 4,000 more than the combined April and May. State Fish Culturist James C. Simpson notes the June run is heavier than last year and expects salmon to reach Idaho's Salmon river by late August.
The Duluth Northern League baseball team bus collided head on with a truck one mile north of St Paul. Fire and explosions killed at least six aboard the bus and the truck driver. Names identified include James Grealish Donald Schuckmann George Treadwell Gilbert Trible and others. The wreck occurred while en route from Eau Claire to St Cloud with equipment sprawled along the highway.
L C Giauque, post business manager, said he and Mrs Giauque found a potential linotype operator in Salt Lake City. Name not yet known. A baby boy weighing eight pounds was born late Saturday afternoon to a mother and son both reported doing well. The pronunciation is Juke.
Fifth district judge Isaac McDougall was reported in fine condition by St. Anthony hospital. He will stay a few more days for observation and X rays.
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