Blackfoot Protests Move Of Land Office to Boise
The Blackfoot area reacts to a Bureau of Land Management plan to merge Blackfoot and Coeur d Alene offices into Boise under an executive order effective August 13. Louis Felt and local clerks argue the Blackfoot office remains essential due to rising reclamation land activity and staff shortages, amid new deep well irrigation expanding land use.
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Lac
United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Land Management
Blackfoot
Coeur d’Alene
Boise
Paul A. Shepard
Washington, D. C
Jack Simplot Denies Plans for New Plant Extensions
J R Jack Simplot of Simplot Fertilizer Co denies rumors of constructing another plant in the Pocatello area. A company representative says Simplot is on a routine trip with no immediate expansion plans. Current operations include new electric furnaces for processing phosphate rock with Westvaco and the Pocatello Heights housing project on the east side of Pocatello.
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J. R
Jack” Simpit
Simplot Fertilizer Co
Pocatello
Ott Power
Simplot
Simplot Company
Westvaco
Pocatello Heights
Blackfoot Camera Club Forms Under Youth Program
The unnamed camera club in Blackfoot, supervised by Conrad Bertin, held its first meeting at Bown's Studio with nine members. Jimmy Bowns Jr explained fundamentals of photography and processing. Meetings set for the second and fourth Wednesdays at 7 30 p m.
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Blackfoot
Conrad Bertin
Bown
Jimmy Bowns, Jr
Con Bertin
Time Marches On Belvidere 11 1964
Mrs Frankie Burch filed for divorce after 18 years awaiting her husband, saying she is convinced he will not return. The suit was announced Thursday.
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Belvidere
Frankie Burch
Bronk Named President Of Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, renowned physicist and chairman of the national research council, was named president of Johns Hopkins University. Simplot and plant reps viewed the new housing site for 100 units with refrigerators electric ranges and Bendix laundries. The $850000 project should be done sometime this fall. Simplot departed Boise after a visit to Pocatello Municipal Airport.
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Baltimore
Detlev W. Bronk
The
National Research Council
Friday
Johns Hopkins University
Simplot
Bendix
Boise
Pocatello Municipal
Radio Schedule Snapshot and Manila Prison Case
A detailed listing of KEYY and KEIO radio programs across the day notes blocks like Musical Reveille, News, Weather, and Concerts. The page also reports Japanese Lt. Col. Hideichi Matsuzaki being sentenced to 20 years hard labor for mistreating Allied prisoners in Manila.
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Intermountain
R. Milton Carleton
Bill Harrington
Washington
Alan Lomax
Murray Arnold
Orch
Charles Slocum
Pauline Alpert
Preston Sellers
Carmen Cavallero
Nora Morales
Charlie Spivak
Pocatello
Theatre of the
Isoa
Dick Jurgen
Mutual Reports
KEYY
Manila
Philippines
Hideichi Matsuzaki
Elpidio Quirino
Fort Santiago
Crash Fatal To Tourists Near Boise
An elderly Kansas couple, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Melcum of Garden City, were killed in a head on collision on a curve 12 miles southeast of Boise. Also injured were Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Foster of Carthage, Texas. Mrs. Foster is listed in serious condition with a broken leg and ribs. The Ada county coroner said there would be no inquest. Authorities cited a passing attempt by the Kansas car and possible brake failure as factors.
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Boise
Kansas
Here
C. G. Melcum
Garden City
Kan
C. A. Foster
Carthage
Tex
St. Luke’s Hospital
Ada
Clyde Summers
Paul Poncia
Funeral attendance for A. J. Clemo in Butte
Mr and Mrs Leo Hannifan of 741 North Arthur plan to attend the funeral in Butte for A J Clemo, Hannifan's brother in law, who died of a heart attack Sunday while vacationing in Calgary Canada.
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Leo Hannifan
North Arthur
Butte
Stevenson Seeks Bipartisan Policy Insight in Washington
Coke Stevenson, Democratic Senate hopeful in Texas, traveled to Washington to study the bipartisan foreign policy approach and its implications for his campaign. He met with aides and explored how cross party cooperation shapes national strategy.
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Washington
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Death Takes Mother Of Preston Man
Frances Coe Larson 74 died suddenly at a Preston home of her son Gaylord Larson. Born in Tarkio Missouri in 1874 she lived in Salt Lake City and Provo and Payson during irrigation projects. Survivors include two sons two daughters seven grandchildren and one brother. Funeral arrangements in Salt Lake City.
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Preston
Frances Coe Larson
Salt Lake City
Gaylord Larson
Tarkio
Charles and
Jewell Bennett Coe
Andrew B. Larson
First Church of Christ Scientist
Lynd
Order of Eastern Star
Mildred Barkley
Birmingham
Mich
Howard D. Larson
San Francisco
Calif
Florence Dunn
Ft. Collins
Colo
Fred Coe
Portland
Ore
Webb Mortuary
Evans and Early Mortuary
Californian Ends Blackfoot Visit
Mrs. Park Pierce of Altadena California visited Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Peck in Blackfoot for two weeks and left by Western Air Lines from Pocatello to return home. Mrs. Henry Sarle aided the departure at Pocatello. The visit included a lunch at Ban Flin Flon Manitoba. A uranium discovery was reported Thursday about 80 miles east of this mining town.
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Blackfoot
Park Pierce
Altadena
California
E. T. Peck
Western Air Lines
Pocatello
Henry Sarle
Pierce
Flin Flon
Manitoba
Blackfoot Rotarians Hear Polio Epidemic Talk
Blackfoot Rotary luncheon heard Alan M. Cannon report that no polio epidemics exist in Idaho or Bingham county to date. The meeting highlighted the Bingham county chapter’s prevention work and urged attendance at a Youth Welfare Rally July 28. Special performances by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woodward were praised as new member Orville Estensen joined, with guest J. H. Lobdell from Seattle.
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Alan M. Cannon
Bingham
Ernest Johnson
Mr. Cannon
Bingham County
Ralph Woodward
Lee Perdue
Woodwards
Blackfoot
Orville Estensen
Elmer Taylor
Archie Kennedy
J. H. Lobdell
The
General Casualty Company
Seattle
Washington
Pool Is Closed as Blackfoot Hosts Film Programs
Blackfoot pool drained and closed while awaiting restart. To fill idle hours, the summer recreation program sponsored by the schools shows films in the high school auditorium. Don Bertin, instructor, reports over 100 youths attended yesterday enjoying diverse reels including a Maine fire disaster from 1947 and nature and comedy films.
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Blackfoot
Don Bertin
Maine
Foresty Service
Jay Dee’s
Idaho
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Crisco
North Main
Fireston
Firestone
Glamor Girls
Don Flowers
Dean Bennett
TEXAN
Capitol
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Preston Man
Stewart Barkdull
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