If you would trade places with Emery O'Dell
A sobering narrative follows Emery O'Dell a Georgia native driven west by infantile paralysis causing lifelong leg weakness. Failing trades and rising costs push him and his heavily pregnant wife with two young children along a perilous route toward Seattle seeking rehabilitation and new work.
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Georgia
O’dells
Emery O’dell
Pocatello
Fifth and Clark Streets
Seattle
O'Dell
Sam Hanson
Car-Scooter Crash Injures 15-Year-Old Boy
Junior Shultz, 15, of 1415 North Buchanan Ave, was seriously injured Sunday evening in a collision at North Main Street and West Sherman Avenue with Edward Steed, 35, of 225 Portneuf Park. Steed was arrested for reckless driving. hospital said injuries were serious but not yet determined.
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Junior Shultz
North Buchanan Ave
North Main St
West Sherman Ave
Edward Steed
Portneuf Park
Steed
General Hospital
Jews Yield To UN Envoy In Palestine Truce Crisis
Jews agreed to a UN demanded checkpoint on the Tel Aviv Jerusalem lifeline and food convoy inspections at Bab El Wad just before the 8 pm deadline to avert a crisis threatening the Palestine truce. The move followed threats to alert Count Bernadotte and set observers at key sites. Jerusalem would receive limited Red Cross supplied aid during the truce.
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Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
United Nations
Bab el Wad
Palestine
Jewish Agency
Palestine Time
Folke Bernadotte
Lake Success
N. Y
Israel
Russia
International Red Cross
Local forecast predicts warm afternoon with possible thundershowers
The U S Weather Bureau predicts a high near 85 and a low around 50 degrees this afternoon. Skies will be partly cloudy with widely scattered thunderstorms in the area.
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U. S
Six Floor Fall Leaves Toddler Unharmed in New York
Two year old Kenneth Liebmann fell six floors from a window in New York Monday. He picked himself up and scampered away as neighbors chased after him. Doctors at Fordham hospital said he was apparently not injured. The child slipped through a sliding window panel while his mother answered the telephone.
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New York
Kenneth Liebman
Fordham Hospital
Kenneth Appar
Kenneth
Jeanette Liebmann
Trainmen and conductors seek 25 percent wage increase
Wage committees of the Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Railway Conductors vote to demand a 25 percent raise from major railroads, with a deadline of August 1. The request, set for official roads on July 1, covers 132 class 1 railroads and follows a prior 15 percent raise last December.
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Chicago
Brotherhoods of Railroad
A. F. Whitney
Trainmen’s Union
Harry W. Fraser
Whitney
Fraser
Brotherhoods of Engineers
Truman Decries Congress For Class Legislation
President Truman denounces Congress as focusing on class legislation and failing to pass his programs. He urges lawmakers to stay in session to adopt federal aid for education, housing, labor statistics funding, price controls, and social security measures, rallying a large Los Angeles crowd.
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Los Angeles
Truman
Congress
Congressional
Labor Department
House
Senate
Polite
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Girls State Delegates Organize Activities In Idaho City
Gravely hall on the Idaho State College campus buzzed with luggage talk and laughter as 129 of 130 Girls State delegates arrived in Gate City. Editors of the upcoming State Newspaper Fem Gem were announced with Claire McQuillan as editor in chief and Nora Faulkner, Edna May McGown, Donna Hogan, and Beatrice Helander in key roles. City names honoring local councilors were chosen, and officers for the five Girls State cities will be elected this afternoon.
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Gravely
Idaho State College
Idaho
Gate City
Fem Gem
Claire McQuillan
Pocatello
Nora Faulkner
Bancroft
Edna May McGown
Challis
Donna Hogan
Beatrice Helander
Lewiston
Duella Harland
Dorothy Reid
Burley
Julia Howard
Coeur d’Alene
Gloria McClellum
Ketchum
Graveley
Jordan
Ellen Jordan
Boise
Stillington
Nettie Stillinger
Moscow
Foreman
Georgia Foreman
Harlandsville
Naval Ordnance Plant
James Lively
James Welches
Kinsoh Lucas
Roberta Larsen
Driggs
Connie Cameron
St. Anthony
Sheila Gannson
Edna Atchley
Draft Bill Near Passage
Washington sources report the House Rules Committee cleared the 19 through 25 draft bill for floor action on a 6 to 4 vote after GOP leadership pressure. The measure, already approved by the Senate, heads to debate and potential signature as Congress nears adjournment amid anti draft opposition.
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Washington
Republican High Command
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
Congress
Death claims Gertrude Atherton
SAN FRANCISCO UP Gertrude Atherton the dowager duchess of American literature died Monday at Stanford hospital at age 90. Mrs Atherton author of more than sixty novels passed away at 5 15 p m from ailments linked to age. She had been hospitalized nearly a month and until shortly before death she wrote about 1000 words daily, four hours a day, in longhand and retyped each page twice.
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San Francisco
Gertrude Atherton
Quadruplets' Father Balances Farm Life After Daughters' Arrival
Charles Good, newly father of quadruplets born Saturday night, stood on a milk stool at Henfield farm Monday. He visited his four daughters at Bristol Hospital through a nursery window and then returned to milk the herd of Guernsey cattle he manages for his employer.
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Coalpit Heath
England
Charles Good
Henfield Farm
Bristol Hospital
Myers Named to Lead 1948 Democratic Platform Drafting
Senator Francis D Myers of Pennsylvania was appointed to direct the Democratic party platform draft for 1948 in Washington. The assignment marks a key task in shaping the party’s policy outline for the upcoming campaign.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Francis D. Myers
Pennsylvania
Pocatello Postings Shows Jailed Pugilists and Town Oddities
In Pocatello a pair, the Serene and Sun shines, were jailed for street fighting. Sam Hanson of the Post penned a human interest piece about a Georgia family traveling to Seattle. A dog named Spike was injured after a thunderstorm, but his owners learned he will recover. The townsfolk noted flags after sundown, and Bud Purdy topped an aviation breakfast award, while Bob Diers drew praise from a pilots group. A local magistrate jailed a man for six months for misappropriating a clarinet, and the community enjoyed varied music in jails and courts.
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Sam Hanson
POST
Georgia
Seattle
Hope
Bud Purdy
Pocatello
Mackay
Purdy
Bob Diers
Peter Young
Jerry
Spike
Roland Young
North Grant
City approves bridges on Lewis Street and Custer Street
The council authorized a 60 foot steel and concrete bridge on Lewis Street and modernization of a wooden Custer Street crossing. Repairs proceed on the Custer crossing while bids will be sought for the Lewis Street span. The panel also discussed Shoshone Avenue railroad yard disputes and a new ordinance lowering punchboard license fees.
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Portneuf
Lewis Street
Custer St
Custer Street
George R. Phillips
West Pocatello
Shoshone Avenue
L. H. Anderson
Anderson
Gould St
Gate City
Phillips
Lewis
Custer Crossing
Ralph Bair
Custer
Shenehea
F. E. Tydeman
Foreign Aid Bill Advances With Senate Changes
The senate appropriations committee approved a 6.13 billion foreign aid bill aligning with administration and GOP senate leaders, but clashing with House GOP economy priorities. A key provision restores global aid to 12 months, undoing most of the house cut and signaling a conference fight.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Republican Party
Vet Benefit Bills Pass
Monday the House approved three bills to raise veteran benefits and sent them to the Senate. One bill would boost pensions for widows and orphans of veterans who died from service, with an estimated first year cost of about 99 million dollars. A second bill would raise benefits for disabled veterans with 60 percent or more disability from the Spanish American War, World War I and II, with dependents.
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Senate
Veterans Administration
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United Press
Solon
Marine
Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
Kinson Lucas
Myrtle Miller
Girls
Myers
Serene
Sunshine
Rowland Willard
Arthur St
Diers
North Grant Avenue
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