Idaho Jobs Decline Due to Students and Buyer Market
Idaho employment service reports a June 11 job openings drop of 266 as summer student influx and a returning buyers market reduce demand. Nationwide price adjustments show layoffs in mining and cheaper lumber, with agricultural labor remaining strong but cherry pickers scarce due to lower wages. The Arco atomic plant has no current or projected openings, and housing shortages loom for new arrivals. Local offices will notify when openings appear. seekers are advised to stay away for now.
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Idaho
Idaho Employment Service
Canyon County
Arco
Idaho Falls
State Crops Make Gains
Idaho crops advanced during the week ending June 11 with good harvest starts for hay cherries green peas and lettuce. Soil moisture was generally adequate except in some southwest dry land areas while fall grains improved and early planted fields headed. Early potatoes began setting in the southeast as planting of the later crop neared completion. The outlook called for a fair week with above normal temperatures, low humidity and high fire hazard.
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Boise
Idaho
Former ISC Students Honored in Minneapolis Nursing School
Two Pocatello residents and former Idaho State college students, Miss Joan Pilchard and Miss Betty June Olsen, were graduated with honors at the Kahler School of Nursing in Minneapolis. Pilchard tied for first alternate for a $500 scholarship. Olsen ranked fourth in a class of 62. Both had been in ISC pre-nursing. Farm real estate values in early 1949 dipped for the first time in a decade.
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Pocatello
Idaho State College
Kahler School of Nursing
Minneapolis
Joan Pilchard
Mabel Pilchard
N. Garfield
Betty June Olsen
D. M. Olsen
Pilchard
Miss Olsen
Miss Pilchard
ISC
Hawaii Feeds Hold Amid 45 Day Dock Strike
Hawaii remains fed as a 45 day dock strike disrupts shipping. Navy shipments supply flour shortening salt and food medical items while emergency mainland cargoes arrive. Governor Stainback and ILWU leaders discuss a settlement. no agreement reached. Milk canned goods and chlorine for Hilo water are sought amid scarce potatoes onions and rice. Butter is only imported, beer brands fade, two Honolulu breweries operate with limited ingredients. Hawaii Visitors Bureau notes continued tourism capacity.
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NAVY
Hawaii
Oakland
Calif
Naval Supply Depot Warehouse
Honolulu
U. S. Navy
International Longshoremen Workers’ Union
Istrike
Ingram Stainback
ILWU
George Hillenbrand
Harry Malcolm
Hilo
Pacific Coast
Mark Egan
Hawaii Visitors’ Bureau
Bankers of State Elect New Idaho Association Leader
McCall resident Harry Eaton, vice president of the Twin Falls Bank and Trust Co., was chosen president of the Idaho Bankers Association at the convention's closing session. Eaton succeeds W. E. Irvin of Idaho First National Bank, Boise. Elected officers include J. J. Compton Idaho Falls as vice president F. W. Albert Cottonwood as treasurer and Walter Guthrie Boise as secretary.
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McCall
Harry Eaton
Twin Fall Bank ,and Trust Co
Idah Bankers Association
Mail Clerks Parley Set in Idaho Parish Hall
District meeting of the Idaho Federation of Postal Clerks AFL will be held at Parish hall 335 W Landerst at 8 p m Tuesday Invitations extended to about 75 southeastern Idaho postal workers for acquainting and to discuss national postal legislation C M Christensen of Portland national vice president is to speak The meeting will consider a bill granting new postal veterans salary credit for military service for all veterans who joined since the war or within three years after enactment
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Idaho Federation of Postal Clerks
AFL
Parish Hall
W. Landerst
P. A.brynildsen
Idaho
C. M. Christensen
Portland
Ore
Brynildsen
Widow Seeks Administration of Stoddard Estate
Mrs Myr tle H Stoddard of 240 N Hayes Ave files in probate court for letters of administration for the estate of her husband Charles Witt Stoddard who died intestate. The estate is valued around 40500 with four Pocatello townsite lots 17 to 20 in block 504 valued at 38000. Judge Willard Lund set a 10 am June 30 hearing on the petition.
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Myrtle H. Stoddard
N. Hayes Avenue
Charles Witt Stoddard
Stoddard
Pocatello
Willard Lund
Mother Seeks Custody to Keep Boy from Marfa Jail
Los Angeles report says Mrs. Martha McFall petitions to grant full custody of nine year old Richard Morrow to keep him from spending summers with Sheriff Ottis W. Morrow in the Marfa Texas jail. The custody battle follows a divorce order placing the boy with the father during summer months. The mother cites the boy's fear of the jail as the reason for the change.
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Los Angeles
Marfa
Tex
Richard Morrow
Ottis W. Morrow
Martha McFall
Body found near highway in Montana identified as man from Arizona
A body with two gunshot wounds to the head, tentatively identified as Reuben L. Tomman, 50, missing from Stafford, Arizona, was found in tall weeds along Highway 60 two miles south of Billings. The discovery was reported late yesterday.
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Billings
Mont
Reuben L. Tomman
Stafford, Ariz
Highway 60
Here
Rain Forecast for Drought Areas in Northeast States
The weather bureau forecast rain for drought-stricken northeastern states today with potential relief for crops damaged by an unusually long dry spell. Officials said the system could extend from the Atlantic coast northward and southward to Kentucky and Tennessee, with Maryland and Delaware in a critical condition.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Kentucky
Tennessees
Maryland
Delaware
Legion Post No 4 Sets 8 PM Special Meeting Tonight
American Legion Post No 4 in Pocatello will hold a special meeting tonight at 8 o clock in the Memorial building. Adjutant Joe Barnett says entertainment and refreshments will be provided after the business session. The event covers wide areas from the Great Lakes to the Pacific.
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Pocatello Post No. 4
American Legion
Memorial Building
Joe Barnett
Great Lakes
Ing
Floor Collapses In New York Building Hurt Eight Workers
Eight workmen were injured when a fifth floor collapsed in a Madison Avenue building under construction for the Parke Bennett galleries near Central Park. Six were taken to City Hospital Welfare Island, two treated on site. Police accounted for all workers as debris closed nearby streets. The City Investing Co. built the structure. cause undetermined.
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New York
Central Park
Parke-Bennett Art Galleries
City Hospital
Welfare Island
Madison Avenue
76Th
771
City Investing Co
Censtral Park
Population in Poca tellso rises after tourist influx
A spot check at 8 p.m. shows Poca tello population up about one percent as over 400 tourists pause en route to vacation land for sleep. Visitors bureau notes few lodging help requests, men travelers mainly head north toward Yellowstone Park.
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Pocatello
Visitors Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Yellowstone Park
No Swimming Signs Spur Girl Sues Motorist
A brief news item reports a girl suing a motorist after a mishap involving a vehicle and a child, highlighting the risk of missteps and the caution urged by public signs.
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