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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1949
Page
7
A $1500 two year scholarship by the Blanche Thebom Foundation supports aspiring singers aged 20 to 30 who show progress toward a professional music career. Winners pledge to return equivalent funds once earnings exceed 10,000 dollars, expanding future awards. Applications due by Sept. 1 with auditions in November.
Four teenage boys chased and captured by Alameda Chief G W Chatterton on Monday night are charged with malicious destruction of property. They are held in Bannock county jail on 100 bond awaiting preliminary hearing with probate judge Willard Lund. Police say the group also stole a jeep and used it nightly, linking them to similar vandalism in Alameda and Pocatello.
President Truman urged Congress to provide 150 million dollars in economic aid to South Korea over the next year. The plan targets agricultural rehabilitation, raw materials for industry, and raised coal and power output to help Korea become self supporting and halt Communist expansion in Asia.
Mrs Corinne Neal Cook of Mesquite Texas told the national editorial association in Salt Lake City that happiness is rationed worldwide and America has the largest share She and Beatrice Cobb of Morganton North Carolina reported on a 25000 mile world tour noting war induced suffering in England poverty in India and communist influence in Rome and China.
Workers remove a service station and parking lot to build a large landscaped expansion at the corner of North Arthur avenue and West Clark street. The project adds outdoor gym space for softball and other sports and should be completed by fall term.
Pocatello detectives investigate their fifth burglary in a week. A break in at Automotive Wholesaler Inc. on East Center Street yielded a stolen 1940 Chevrolet coupe and damaged entries. A rock was used to gain entry. Police broadcast details and pursue leads.
Philip Morris announced the Horace Heidt radio show will switch from NBC to CBS on September 4. NBC said CBS mystery program Sam Spade will move to NBC next fall and CBS will replace it with Edgar Bergen, formerly on NBC.
Two armed men stole a $19 565 Columbia University payroll from Wells Fargo guards on the steps of University Hall. They threatened guard Charles Reuther, loaded two payroll bags into their car, and vanished two minutes before police arrived. the getaway car was later found abandoned near a subway entrance.
Thirty-five members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post and the Military Order of Cooties enjoyed their first annual picnic at Black Rock on Sunday. Benny Cooper, described as seam squirrel of the Cooties, presided over the event which featured barbecued lamb.
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