Long Wait Likely Before Phillips Field Finished
Gate City citizens envision Phillips Field becoming a major West airport but progress hinges on Civil Aeronautics Authority approval and federal funds. City Engineer Wendell Wilson outlines plans for new high‑intensity lights, a redesigned administration building, and a possible new flight control tower. R. M. Carter leads the field project, with master plans awaiting CAA review.
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Gate City
Phillips Field
Army Air Base
Wendell Wilson
Wilson
Army
Civil Aeronautics Authority
CAA
Boise
Okeh
R. M. Carter
Bannock County Engineering Office
Obituary of Joseph D Pratt Aberdeen police officer 65
Joseph Dalley Pratt 65 of Aberdeen died at home from a heart ailment. He served 13 years as night police officer in Aberdeen. Born Salt Lake City, he married Margaret Jones in 1904. Survivors include his widow four sons three daughters two brothers and two sisters and 21 grandchildren. Funeral at Aberdeen LDS church today at 2 p.m. with burial in Aberdeen cemetery.
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Joseph Dalley Pratt Blackfoot
Joseph Dalley Pratt
Aberdeen
Salt Lake City
Lehi
Emma Dalley Pratt
Margaret Jones
Salt Lake Temple
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Kimberly
Idaho
LDS Church
Marriage Licenses and Divorces Noted in Local Record
Two marriages recorded include George M. Ricks of Driggs and Margaret Jean Sherburne of Pocatello aged 31 and 22 respectively. also Maxce C. Chandler 20 Lovell Wyoming and Shirley Monroe 21 of Pocatello. Divorces granted list Grant Brewster of Pocatello and Anthon Hi and firs, Don Windley 1444 S rourib, plus couples Sohn Andrews Inkom Blane, Devon Smith 1338 N Coen, James Bagwell 495 Willard.
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George M. Ricks
Driggs
Margaret Jean Sherburne
Pocatello
Maxce C. Chandler
Lovell
Wyo
Shirley Monroe
Don Windley
S. Rourib
Iecenten
Sohn’ Andrews
Inkom
Blane
Devon Smith
N. Coen
James Bagwell
Willard Daughter
Suzanne Perrin Denies Engagement to F D Roosevelt Jr
New York socialite Suzanne Perrin denied plans to marry Franklin D Roosevelt Jr. She described herself as a neighbor of the new congressman in Woodbury Long Island and said she has discussed his Angus cattle but is not engaged nor planning to be soon.
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New York
Suzanne Perrin
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Woodbury
Long Island
Ishe
Scientist defends gold at Ft Knox weighing methods
Dr Walter H Zinn, head of Argonne National Laboratory, told the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee that if the government weighed its gold at Ft Knox it might show a $20,000,000 shortage due to weighing errors rather than actual loss. He said uranium inventories are hardest to track since gram weight changes with handling and use.
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Washington
Ft. Knox
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Walter H. Zinn
Zinn
Argonne National Atomic Laboratory
Chicago
Five Illinois men drown after motor fails on Kentucky lake
Five Illinois residents on a Kentuck y lake outing drowned when their boat’s outboard motor failed and drifted into a spillway during dam water release. Victims identified as John Lasak and son Dean 17 from West Frankfurt. Fred Rich Miles Baker also of West Frankfurt. J W Morin of Herrin II. Bodies not recovered at news time.
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Paducah
Illinois
Kentucky Lake
Here
McCracken County
John Lasak
Dean
Fred Rich
Miles Baker
West Frankfurt
Ill
J. W. Morin
Herrin
State Denies Chain Gangs in Georgia Cruelty Hearing
New York court hears Georgia officials defend the penal system as five Georgia officials appear to contest the extradition of Clarence Jackson a 35 year old Negro fugitive who claims brutal treatment and chain confinement during his 1948 escape from Ben Hill prison camp Jackson admits 44 crimes and was released from a New York jail last week after a year for larceny before being rearrested on a Georgia fugitive warrant.
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New York
Georgia
Jackson
Ben Hill
Pirates Sign Idaho Star Houston Garman to Contract
In a Texas sized deal the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Houston Garman a left hand pitcher from the College of Idaho on Thursday and sent him to Modesto in the California State League class C for development.
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INKS
Payette
Ida
Houston Garman
Ace Southpaw
College of Idaho
Pittsburgh Pirates
Modesto
Steel Firms Talk Wages In Bethlehem Talks
Bethlehem Steel Company and the United Steel Workers opened wage contract talks affecting 75 000 workers in New York. Officials said demands were not revealed, but would align with parallel USW negotiations with big steel. The Bethlehem talks began under a reopening clause of the current contract expiring April 30, 1950.
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New York
Bethlehem Steel Company
United Steel Workers
CSO
USW
Big*steel
Bethlehem
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Daho Sche
Clara J. Hansen
Minidoka County
Andrew H. Johnson
Blackfoot
Alton B. Jones
Eunice Meppen
Lyla Gillis
Violet Butler
Mendy
News OF Record
Grant Brewster
F D. Roosevelt Jr
Alene Harrison
N. Main
Terry Anderson
North
Craig Hansen
W. Halliday
Dodge
Blair-Fry Motor CO
E. Center
Denier
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