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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1948
Page
1
A new resident praises Pocatello’s friendly people stores and telephone service while noting issues like few buses and growing pains. Readers express support for Sam Hanson’s campaigns for highways rest rooms and insist on fixing a kitchen faucet.
At the county fair grounds the Frontier Rodeo selection named Shirley Whitehead Miss Idaho 1948, LaRae Jacobs Miss Frontier Rodeo and Treva Hiatt Miss Pocatello before 2000 spectators. The event highlighted by Kristine Rae Folsom the Buckaroo baby, drew strong praise from judges Mack Bowler Harry Thurston William Petty W C Specht and Charles Seda.
WINDOW ROCK Arizona Navajo tribal council protests recent relief measures passed by Congress. A spokesman cites the 1937 stock reduction forcing goats to be sold at 50 cents and notes current loan offers to replace animals at 8 to 10 dollars per head.
Idaho preliminary hearings open before U S Commissioner G A Coughlan. Earl Raymond Ross of Parma faces charges under the federal marijuana tax act. Louie Hei Joe of Boise is charged with illegal opium purchase. Police found a large marijuana cache in the arrest.
John W. Condie, longtime Idaho public education leader, will retire as assistant state superintendent in charge of certification after more than 45 years in the Idaho public school system. He turns 70 this September and a banquet in his honor is set for Wednesday night.
Capitol Police Pvt. Fred J. Crenshaw, 66, was shot twice on the Capitol grounds while escorting a suspect to the Senate office building guard room. He was in critical condition at Casualty hospital.
The first issue of Idaho Democrats' official newspaper is set to roll off the presses early in July with Al Weeks of Twin Falls as editor. It will start as a monthly paper and later switch to biweekly publication after the organization is completed.
Joyce Kathleen Brooks now 18 reunites with her birth mother Nellie Brooks Arthur of Lynch, Virginia, after being raised by the Schaffers in New York. Joyce, adopted out and misled about her heritage, learns the truth and travels to Pocatello to meet her mother while facing a bid to legally adopt two Schaffer children.
New officers will be elected at the American Legion Auxiliary meeting in the Memorial Building at 8 p.m. Delegates to the state convention at Couer d’Alene August 16-18 will be chosen. Current officers include Mrs. Hamilton, Black, Bailey, Burton, Wooters, Connors, Shurtleff, and Sahlberg. Mrs. Bangs is state department president and Mrs. Smith is district junior past president.
A Brooklyn booster named Edward Scott tried Sunday to raise Brooklyn’s flag over California’s in the mile long state flag display along Asbury Park boardwalk. He was deterred by officials, declaring Brooklyners are as good as Californians.
J Gordon Willis of Pocatello Post 735 was elected junior vice commander of the Idaho State Department at the VFW annual convention in Lewiston. Other officers named include James S. Keel as department commander and Don Erdman, Richard Mooney, Ray Brooks, Dan Dunnigan, Elmer Moe, Neal Martin. Additional petition signatures needed to place a veterans bonus on the ballot this fall.
The funeral for former mayor Charles A Brown, 75, of 255 North 12th Street, will be held Monday at Central Christian Church with Rev N R Simpson officiating. Rev J Willis Hamblin will offer the prayer. Gate City Commandery No 4 Knights Templar will provide honorary escort. Graveside services at Mount Moriah Cemetery conducted by Keystone Lodge No 8 A F and A M. Downard Mortuary in charge.
Weather forecast for Pocatello and vicinity calls for a Monday high of 75 to 80 degrees with a Monday night low near 50. Sunday is expected to reach 79 with a low of 48 and no precipitation is shown.
In Arco Idaho 99 Pentland a logger from St Mary Benewah County Idaho says his infant son Gary born in St Maries was left at Dr L R Egbert’s in Arco and later reunites with his father He recalls the baby’s mother visited relatives in Idaho Falls and wonders why she claimed the child was born in Dillon Montana
Funeral services set for Private First Class Emanuel Sam Couros 19 son of Mrs Mary Couros Lava Hot Springs killed in action on Saipan Island June 15 1944 body arriving by government hearse from Ogden. Military rites by Lava Hot Springs and Pocatello VFW posts in Mountainview cemetery Downard mortuary arranging. Survivors include three sisters Jennie Augusta Lava Tessie Skleris New York City and Catherine Couros Ogden Utah.
The Elks drill team from Pocatello departs Sunday for the national convention in Philadelphia this week aiming to capture the national title. Team members include H. H. Zimmerli lodge master Jack Henderson Byron Downard A J Schatz Ben Rowland R D Gallafent M A Bullock and Thomas Sahlberg.
The government reduced the national debt by more than 7 billion dollars in the current fiscal year ending June 30. Figures show debt down from about 259 billion last July 1 to 251.712 billion.
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