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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1949
Page
4
The Pocatello Post lists address and management details including Darrar i C Giauque as business manager and Ed Flandro as president. Subscription rates are shown for various terms and locations. It notes second class matter status and publication under Idaho law.
The Republican Party searches for unity after the 1948 defeat as pressure mounts to oust national chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. Debate rages over welfare state vs basic principles, with no clear program emerging. Party leaders call for hard soul searching to craft a modern, distinct platform.
University of Chicago chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, in Aspen, argues America wastes leisure from labor-saving advances. He warns atomic energy could either avert war or breed boredom, faults specialists as uneducated despite gains in science. He urges educators to unite fragmented knowledge to restore life’s unity and provide real belonging.
John L. Lewis breaks his no work without contract refrain to negotiate a raise and welfare fund with mine owners aided by George Moses of Frick. Wall Street pressure sinks U S Steel policy while Britain vies for Belgian uranium and peacetime atomic uses. Compton forecasts new missiles and a physicist bottleneck, as Knowland shields Ferguson in Michigan vote fraud talk.
The text praises Mundt and Nixon for proposing a more protective procedure for witnesses in the House Un American Activities Committee while condemning the the committee for harming reputations without responses. It cites Dr Edward A Condon and Laurence Duggan and notes Mundt's tasteless remark about names jumping out of windows.
A narrator drafts a rant against another driver and his family, detailing visceral, biased judgments from a rear neck to children and wife. The monologue traces rising contempt for a stranger on the road and hints at a future confrontation or insult.
A reflective piece on driving reveals a transformed view of fellow road users. The author describes automatic hostility toward drivers and passengers in motorized boxes, noting suspicion, contempt, and fear of harm. He questions whether the strange anger is unique or shared.
A compiled Q and A with facts on daily life habits such as refrigerator openings, watches, Shinto religion, Schubert, the RCMP, Venus life, Navy League, dial telephones, wallpaper origins, Gertrude Ederle, privateers, Indian life expectancy, and the dollar derivation.
Marquis Childs notes cross Atlantic friction from anti American demonstrations and labor party socialism in Britain. He cites communists and isolationists as forces testing the wartime alliance while devaluation and tax cuts threaten production, urging a high level meeting in London or Washington to restore unity.
Robert Ruark laments the modern parlor talk saying it is dead as six adults at a dinner fail to utter anything worth recording. He notes the dog’s bark at a wire recorder and mocks the self centered chatter that dominates social rooms with I me and I again.
Extra materials such as clay tiles bricks and slate clutter a site. While returning them for credit seems logical the cash value may not cover hauling costs. The debris attracts pests and dust and proves hard to remove despite tidy efforts and long persistence.
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