Truman Special Train Schedule Issued for Idaho Visit
President Harry S. Truman and family along with a 30 member official party ride the Truman Special. The schedule places a 7:45 a.m. stop at Pocatello, a half hour in town, then on to Sun Valley for a day. The line includes 58 media personnel and travels via Craters of the Moon and Blackfoot with stops at Idaho Falls and Lima.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry S. Truman
Margaret
Pocatello
Union Pacific
Truman
Margaret Truman
Kearney
Neb
Sun Valley
Craters of the Moon
Blackfoot
Idaho Falls
Butte
Lima
Mont
Dillon
Police Check On Vandalism In Pocatello Neighborhood
Police report this week of vandalism in Pocatello including 30 square feet of fencing torn from the Webber residence at 712 North Eleventh Avenue and four clotheslines cut at 532 North Tenth Avenue. Juveniles suspected. additional damaged glass and a BB gun window break noted near 400 block North Fifth Avenue and 405 South Hayes Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello
Webber
North
Eleventh Ave
A. W. Fricke
Tenth Ave
Block N
Fifth Ave
Nephi Watson
South Hayes Ave
New County Agent Takes Post In Bannock County
Albert Mylrose replaces Drue W. Dunn as county agent. He arrives June 1 after inspection travel and notes Bannock County differs from his prior Kootenai post. His wife and eight year old son Charles accompany him as he learns the job.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Mylrose
Drue W. Dunn
Moscow
Mylroie
University of Wyoming
Evanston
Wyoming
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Bannock County
Kootenai County
Charles
Three Citizens Granted Papers in Local Naturalization
Three persons received United States citizenship papers Wednesday in the court of Isaac McDougall fifth district judge. Annunciata Bernadette Menard of Pocatello Bortolo Pozza of Lava Hot Springs and Jane Tassi True of Pocatello were processed. Officer Herbert K Boss of the immigration and naturalization service in Walla Walla WA presided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Isaac McDougall
Fifth District
Annunciata Bernadette Menard
Pocatello
Bortolo Pozza
Lava’ Hot Springs
Jane Tassi True
Herbert K. Boss
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Walla Walla
Wash
Pocatellans among BYU degree recipients in 636 grads
Provo Utah seven students from Pocatello and vicinity were among 636 graduates at Brigham Young University commencement. Degrees span Arts and Sciences Education and Fine Arts with listed majors and minors for recipients including Theodore T McKnelly Dean Elmo Call Shirley Nilsson Bodell Smith Mary Edna Lund Vernal D Wardle and others from Aberdeen and Pocatello.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Provo
Utah
Pocatello and
Brigham Young University
College of Arts and Sciences
Mildred LaVerne Clinger
Aberdeen
Theodore T. McKnelly
Pocatello
Dean Elmo Call
Shirley Nilsson
College of Education
Bodell Smith
College of Fine Arts
Mary Edna Lund
Vernal D. Wardle
Grman
Boy Denies Second Death
Roy Adams a 14 year old confessed sex slayer denied drowning another boy three years earlier. He told investigators Wallace Leyse aged 6 drowned in Lake Michigan at Keewanee Wisconsin in June 1945, claiming the boy fell off a breakwater while playing. Authorities noted Leyse parents suspect possible push into the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Roy Adams
Adams
Wallace Leyse
Lake Michigan
Kewaunee
Wis
Wallace
Two Men to Attend Tri-State Session at Old Faithful
J. L. Craig secretary of the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce and W. W. Shields manager of Hotel Bannock will attend a Tri-State Association meeting Saturday at Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park. The association includes Idaho Wyoming and Montana and aims to assist park concessionaries, Craig said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L
Ledge) Craig
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
W. W. Shields
Boise
Peo
R. E. Manning
E.E. Moberly
Donald Kissane
C. G. Billmeyer
Moberly
H. A. Maguire
Agnes Askloff
Manning
L. R. Brown
Alpha
Alpha Phi Omega
Bannock Hotel
G L Layng Passes Here
George Lenard Layng aged 51 of 553 North Arthur Ave Pocatello died at noon from a heart attack. Born August 31 1896 in Montpelier he moved to Pocatello in 1909 and worked in Idaho Power Co store department the last decade. Survived by mother Mary K Layng brother Eugene B Layng sisters N V Edginton E L Beals Eleanor Layng. He was a member of St Josephs Catholic church and BPOE 674.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lenard Layng
North Arthur Ave
Pocatello
Mr. Layng
Montpelier
Peter J
Mary Kelly Layng
Idaho Power Co
Mary K. Layng
Eugene B. Layng
Salt Lake City
N. V. Edginton
Los Angeles
Calif
E. L. Beals
Tuckahoe
New York
Eleanor Layng
San Francisco
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
BPOE
County Gets Big Sum Under Idaho's Age Plan
Bannock county reports 392 aged residents received 17 644 in state old age aid in April. Canyon county leads with 1 043 residents getting 43 020. Total for three counties 498 recipients 22 096 an average 44 a person. Program also funds medical eye care foster licensing and aid to dependent children with confidential handling. Pocatello Public Assistance council members named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bannock County
E. A. Haggerty
Canyon County
Haggerty
Idaho
Canyon
Pocatello Council of Public Assistance
Harold Hinckley
W. H. “Pete” Jensen
Robert Purrington
Alfred C. Cordon
Joseph Primbs
Boise Junior College
Melvin Dunn
Pocatello
Amos E. Neuhart
Department of Public Safety
Tar
Pennsylvania
Colege
Conductor Otis Neal Retires After 42 Years in Rail Service
Otis E. Neal retires from the railroad after 42 years, planning to move to Tacoma Washington to devote time to fishing. He spent 35 years 8 months on the Butte run in Pocatello and recalls 1913 railroad conditions with wooden passenger cars. Neal began as a yard switchman with the Central line of Georgia and rose to conductor in 1914. He notes no major rail accidents in his career. The Neals have three children Otis in Bremerton Ig Davison in Renton and Mrs H B Smith in Pocatello.
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Tacoma
Wash
Otis E. Neal
East Halliday St
Pocatello
Butte Run
Neal
Central Line
Georgia
Union Pacific
Laramie
Evanston
Wyoming
Neals
Otis
Bremerton
Ig? Davison
Renton
H. B. Smith
Rural Electrification Administration Delivers Power in North Dakota
The Rural Electrification Administration distributed more than 21.167 million kilowatt hours to North Dakota consumers in fiscal year 1946, up from 2.693 million in fiscal 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Electrification Administration
North Dakota
Housing Meet Set to Launch 400-Unit Project in Pocatello
Pocatello housing group plans an organizational meeting early next week to start a 400 unit project. About 47 thousand of 50 thousand dollars pledged remains, with full funding expected soon. The lands committee will review sites chaired by W. C. Carnes and others, while W T Lockwood discusses federal aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocatello Industrial Housing Committee
H. P. Markham
Bannock
Markham
W. T. Lockwood
Boise
Idaho
FHA
Lockwood
Pocatello
W. C. Carnes
Frank T. Briggs
R. D. Gallafent
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
L. L
Ledge) Craig
Graduation notices and community notices from Pocatello
Local graduation attendees include Bodell Smith of Brigham Young University and plans to join a Provo high school faculty. Delegates head to soroptimist and business women's conferences in Toronto, Sun Valley, and Boise. Also reports on local officials, vacations, hospital stays, and a new Western Airlines stewardess look with summer uniforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Smith
Bodell Smith
Brigham Young University
Miss Smith
Dixon High School
Provo
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Sun Valley
Bertha Frank
Lucile Bailey
Sarah Seavers
Florence Durant
Dulcie Wennegren
Bertha Atkin
Eleanor Clark
Jennie Lee Zirbel
Anna B. Cappelan
Pocatello Club
Dorothy Manning
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Pocatellans
Builders Supply
Monroe
G. L. Layng
Seidelhuber
Zandel Radio & Appliance
Monroe Avenue
Alameda
U.S. Pat
Hagrerty
Power
Oneida
Gate City
Mrs
Milford Merrill
East
Mrs. Merrill
A. C
al) Cordon
California
Twyla Stone
Bannock County Clerks Office
W. R. Hearne
Mary Renberg
Bannock County Agricultural Extension Office
The
Soroptimist Club
Toronto
Fern Smuin
Ethel Garrett
Lucille Harrison
Ann Bistline
Eveline Hickley
Ruby West
Grace
Merrill C. Evans
Portland
Oregon
Robert Devaney
Sarah Devaney
Bannock County Clerk’s Office
Bannock County Board of Commissioners
Ogden
E. W. Gasser
Margie Cutler
Earl FE. Cutler
St. Anthony Mercy Hospital
Wilbert Tademy
W. D. Tademy
East Hayden
H. L. Austin
South Twelfth
Harold Driver
Neil Jordan
Idaho Society of Certified Public Accountants
Charles Young
American Falls
Margaret Peterson
Marjorie Ruth Moon
Pocatello High School
Pacific University
Univers of Washington
Seattle
Miss Moon
C. B. Moon
Bob Getty
North Hayes Ave
Laura Durman
Women’s Golf Association
USO
North First Ave
Bee Ford
R. E. Watson
Big Springs
Lambert Molinelli
Leon
Robert
West Pocatello
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Memorial Hall
Lewiston
Western Air Lines
Charles Fisher
Andes
Lou
Brennan & Cahoon
Pole Line Road
Rocket Bicycles
Wi Flyer
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