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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1949
Page
4
Official notice announces Gate City's new swimming pool opening to serve children and adults. The facility offers recreation and an educational angle with City recreation department swimming and lifesaving courses to teach youngsters water safety and self protection.
Sen Glen Taylor of Idaho asks Gov C A Robins to call a special session to restore an old age assistance appropriation cut. The dispatch notes the governor may hesitate, but urges action to prevent suffering of recipients and to fix budgeting gaps and emergency funds.
In Washington unions compare votes against rent control and against recommittal of the Wood bill, noting 61 Republicans and 52 Democrats opposed rent control, and 146 Republicans and 71 Democrats opposed recommittal. They will watch future votes to build a 1952 campaign list. Curtis Calder may delay Army Secretary consideration for six months due to obligations at Electric Bond and Share. Top Farm Bureau officials back Brannan plan but oppose subsidies while supporting a $90 million school lunch program funded by Treasury direct appropriation. Poage calls the lunch plan a sugar coated subsidy and says farmers accept it as it avoids harming free enterprise.
A compact clue list presents horizontal and vertical word hints including signs, abbreviations, and common crossword prompts. Entries reference zodiac, nautical terms, prefixes, suffixes, and short answers like American canal and a few charted descriptors.
Robert Ruark lauds Ohio State University graduation for 1500 veterans under the GI bill. He highlights hardships endured by student veterans and their wives, noting stipends of 90 then 120 dollars, cramped living conditions, and the personal costs of wartime education. He predicts some graduates may reach high office, but none will decorate relief rolls.
The article discusses how costly delicacies should be eaten in small portions. It warns against overindulgence and outlines practical steps such as removing obstructions and signaling that only enough will be served. It stresses restraint to ensure others may partake.
Chiang Kai-Shek with retirement from leadership urges private citizens to uphold responsibility as danger looms and the nation stands at the brink of disaster. He stresses continued civic duty despite stepping down as president.
Washington notes recount how the Marshall plan began as a coincidence sparked by Senator Bilbo’s illness and a request from President Truman to Acheson to miss a Mississippi speech. After cabinet reviews and a push from Vandenberg, a committee led by an elder statesman formed to push European aid, shaping policy amid Bevin and Bevin tensions.
A humorous, rambling piece lampoons the burden of starch in shirts and pins used by shirt makers. The author rails at a mischievous tireless foe, imagined as a Satanic clerk cruelly embedding pins in new collars while invoking Mrs. Roosevelt and the UN. He recalls travels, cites Funk and Wagnalls on starch, and ends with a quirky definition.
Pocatello residents plan a business trip to New York to view the garment market and buy fashions for local women. The column also notes a missing Pocatello Tribune issue from April 9, 1948, a church incident with a drunken patron, and a Halliwell park promotional night by Marvein Milkes drawing near 100000 in box office goals.
A humorous collage notes Mae West gifts a birthday necktie with fig leaf imagery and Mae West quips. Groucho Marx jokes about women and tennis referees. Earl’s Girls Margie Winters seeks acting fame while Fred Allen shifts to TV and Cavalcade of America. Dewey’s campaign gains cautious momentum as Cabinet jokes surface. Georgie Solitaire observes nationwide activity in Tyler Hill Pennsylvania.
Howard Hughes considers a new title for Bergman Rossellini’s Italian film After the Storm with Stromboli. The piece notes Arty yet promising rushes and mentions pop culture fringe like square dancing fading in Hollywood. It also highlights comments on Jane Wyman in Stage Fright and other light celebrity quips and plans.
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