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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1949
Page
1
United Mine Workers led a one week walkout halting coal pits across 17 states. Rail workers furloughed as coal production fell and stockpiles near 70 million tons, with potential longer disruption into summer vacation.
A three day traffic study begins in Pocatello led by Seattle traffic engineer A W Arch Bollong. He will assess congestion parking and pedestrian crossings and advise Mayor W W Halsey and the city council on actions. Bollong will also review proposed limits on parking on Main Center and Arthur and the plan to make Main and Harrison one way. Bollong was greeted at Phillips Field by Mayor Halsey and Police Captain Robert M Pugmire.
Police revisited a 1943 murder case and discovered the supposed victim Riley William is alive. The 48 year old metal plant superintendent was shot by a fired worker, with Jack Dan later charged. Detectives learned Riley had been listed as dead but could not explain the discrepancy.
Reporters struggle with a Willard Thorp address titled Iron Curtains delivered Sunday at Amherst College Massachusetts. Thorp offers a math analogy about base ten versus four and twelve showing the department’s penchant for unusual phrasing.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson told Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky that Russia’s demand for an early German peace treaty was propaganda, “all fleas and no dog.” The Big Four ministers met four hours and held a secret session to seek progress on a German settlement amid US Britain and Soviet tensions.
Washington The Agriculture Department reported this year the average American has had less meat to eat than in 1947 as consumer demand fell below pre war levels. The department estimated per capita consumption in the first half of the year will be about one pound lower than a year ago.
CIO President Philip Murray denounced the Bell Telephone monopoly for medieval practices as he criticized contracts from American Telephone and Telegraph Co. He implied opposition to decertification attempts and vowed no concession to AT&T. TWOC delegates adopted a 30 hour week and voted to join with the CWA to unite unions totaling about 300,000 members.
London reports British scientists claim to have built a mechanical brain with memory that may rival human intellect. Led by A M Turing and Prof F C Williams, the device is to be taught chess this week and could one day remember books and solve vast problems without human guidance.
Senate executive expenditures committee will push recommendations to cut federal spending by five to ten percent. Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland reported the plan today.
Thomas S. Mitchell, Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers official, barely escaped a shotgun blast through a window in Marion. He had just undergone an appendectomy and was recovering at Marion City Hospital. Police offered few clues as to the shooter, noting similarities to attacks on the Reuther brothers in Detroit during a two month strike at Ohio Associated Telephone Company.
A Capital Airlines DC-4 with a blown right tire touched down safely at La Guardia Field after takeoff from Pittsburgh. 50 passengers remained calm as Capt. Gerhard Royce announced the fire was blown prior to landing and guided the craft to a slow, controlled touchdown on its remaining wheel.
Washington reports Betty Grable earned 208000 at Twentieth Century Fox in 1947, making her the nation’s highest paid woman for the third year. The treasury list also shows Charles Skouras at 810000 and other top earners across film, industry, and media.
Garden City Idaho becomes an incorporated village and begins official operations after passing organizational and operating ordinances. No slot machine licenses or liquor by the drink taverns yet as state licenses are required. About 16 slot licenses will be issued and 20 applications have been received.
Walter Fisher first vice-president of Lions International visited Pocatello yesterday. The Ontario Canada resident arrived from Salt Lake City at the Greyhound station greeted by Parry Harrison Ralph Garrett Flash Nielsen of the Pocatello Lions club. Nielsen accompanied Fisher for a three day Yellowstone National Park tour after leaving town Sunday evening.
General Douglas MacArthur assails the Soviet note as propaganda and accuses Moscow of inciting violence in Japan. He cites unkept Potsdam commitments and demands the return of over 400,000 Japanese prisoners, calling the Soviet actions unprecedented in modern history.
Mayor W. W. Halsey will deliver the welcoming address at the Thursday morning opening session of the Utah Idaho Hospital convention. The two day meet will be held in the Little Theater at Idaho State college student union building. The conclave will end Friday afternoon.
Three Gate City traffic patrolmen were commissioned as deputy state police officers, giving authority to arrest violators outside city limits. Officers A. J. Rumick C. C. Dawson and H. W. Carlyle joined the state force, expanding arrest reach and reducing escape by crossing the city boundary. Suspected violators outside the city will face justice in a justice of the peace court rather than municipal court.
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