Aspen hosts 20 day Goethe convocation in mountain town
Colorado Governor Lee Knous opened the Goethe bicentennial festival in Aspen with an audience of about 2000 culture fans. Artists include Erica Moroni violist and Herta Graz with Jerome Hines in a tent amphitheater designed by Eero Saarinen. Albert Schweitzer is billed as a leading Goethe disciple.
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Aspen
Colo
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colorado Rockies
Lee Knous
Colorado
Erica Moroni
Eero Saarinen
Detroit
Roaring Fork River Meadow
Goethe Bicentennial Foundation
Herta Graz
Metropolitan Opera
Jerome Hines
Met
Goethe
Albert Schweitzer
Utah governor and welfare chief reach truce over policy fallout
Utah Governor J Bracken Lee and Dr A C Lambert announce a truce after Lambert resigns as welfare commission chair amid criticism of political interference. Lambert says he will stay on for a while to clear up misunderstandings while Lee hedges on dismissals of juvenile court judges and signals some notices may have been hastily issued.
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Salt Lake City
Guv. J. Bracken Lee
A. C. Lambert
Lambert
Utah State Welfare Commission
Lee
Newport feud over junk pile pits Van Rensselaer against Sullivans
In Newport Rhode Island Atty Faerber says Mrs Van Rensselaer runs junk ads and may be involved in junk sales while she contests a court bid to force Timmy and Julia Sullivan to clear debris in their yards near The Hedges. The matter heads to Superior Court before Judge Mulledy.
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Newport
R. I
J Peyton
van Rensselaer
Timmy
Julia Sullivan
Matthew J. Faerber
Sullivans
Faerber
Avenue Place
Mrs. van Rensselaer
Mrs
Liquor Price Cut Delayed By Utah Officials
Utah officials said there will be no state-initiated drop in liquor prices for weeks after Gov. J Bracken Lee and the state liquor control commission met. Distributors reportedly plan a 20 percent reduction, but officials will wait to see if and how much it affects state revenue.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah State Liquor Control Commission
J. Bracken Lee
Commission
Two Highway Contracts Let In Idaho Awards
The Idaho highway bureau awarded two contracts on Monday. J Arlie Bryant of Lewiston received a $43,300 contract to furnish a crushed gravel surface and stockpile on the north and south highway near Harvard. L T Johnson Construction Co of City Utah was awarded a $112,760 contract for work on the Wayan Junction and Conda Junction road.
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BOISE
Idaho Highway Bureau
J. Arlie Bryant
Lewiston
Harvard
L. T. Johnson Construction Co
City
Utah
Wayan Junction
Conda Junction
British Frigate Alacrity Sent to Shanghai Amid Shanghai Tension
Vice Admiral A C Madden said Alacrity has been sent to Shanghai to guard British shipping from Chinese Nationalist gunboats. The move comes as naval authorities reinforce Far East defenses.
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Hong Kong
Alacrity
Shanghai
A. C. Madden
Far East
Legal Feud Over Sullivan Yard Reaches Three-Year Mark
A long running dispute over the Sullivan yard escalates into a three year feud with no resolution in sight as neighbors await a court decision. The case centers on property boundaries and yard maintenance obligations between nearby residents.
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Len
Sullivan Yard
States Safety Aids Open Three Day Meet
Portland hosts a three day western safety conference with 500 to 750 delegates from 11 western states Alaska Hawaii and British Columbia. Key speakers include Ralph Wright assistant secretary of labor and others like Louis Alber R H Ferguson R T Newbry Robert Evenden Robert Smylie and Dr R E Lapp on topics from accident prevention to atomic warfare and city defense.
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Portland
Ore
Alaska
Hawaii
British Columbia
Ralph Wright
Louis J. Alber
Cleveland, O
R. H. Ferguson
Cleveland
Society of
R. T. Newbry
Oregon
Robert M. Evenden
Oregon State Industrial Accident Commission
Robert A. Smylie
Idaho
R. E. Lapp
Bureau of Naval Research
Lapp
Woman Hurt In Accident Near Coeur d'Alene
Mrs Albert Gibbs 27 of Wenatchee Washington was hospitalized with possible brain concussion after a head on collision four miles north of Coeur d Alene. William Edwin Lee 27 of Coeur d Alene died in the crash. Four others were injured and later released Ayne Lomeland 19 Coeur d Alene Albert Gibbs 36 driver and his sons Allen and Russell were treated.
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Coeur D’alene
Albert Gibbs
Wenatchee
Wash
Lake City Hospital
William Edwin Lee
Lee
Ayne Lomeland
Allen
Russell
Pocatellan Gains Post At VFW Convention
Donald T. Erdman of Coeur D Alene was elected state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the annual convention. J G Willes of Pocatello and Warren A Clifford of Boise were named senior and junior vice commanders while Elmer B Moe of Wallace and Donald T Ingalls of Boise held key posts. Other officers include Henry Suychira Emmet Verne Sallee Nampa and Richard K Looney Boise in senior roles.
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Twin Falls
Donald T. Erdman
Coeur D’alene
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
J. G. Willes
Pocatello
Warren A. Clifford
Boise
Elmer B. Moe
Wallace
Donald T. Ingalls
Henry Suychira
Emmet
Verne Sallee
Nampa
Richard K. Looney
Stork Visit Hint Amid Powers Baby News
Tyrone Power announced with Linda Christian that they expect an heir in February. The actor and actress shared the plan in a Monday statement confirming their forthcoming child.
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Stork
London
Tyrone Power
Linda Christian
Planes Aid Wheatfield Frost Battle From Idaho Areas
Fairfield report says 22 planes from Blackfoot Gooding Burley Hailey Boise and Nyssa Oregon manned dawn lines from 3 45 to 6 a m to combat crop damage as temperatures fell to 24 29 degrees. Each aircraft covered about 250 acres and total protection fell short of the 40 planes needed. Twin Falls was contacted too late to help and damage estimates remain undetermined but likely extensive.
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Fairfield
Camas County
Wheatfield
Blackfoot
Gooding
Burley
Hailey
Boise
Nyssa
Ore
Cleon Rowe
Richfield
Rowe
Twin Falls
Idaho spring pig crop near record low
Idaho's 1949 spring pig crop totaled 179000 head, five percent below 1948 and only a thousand above the record low since 1930, despite a national 15 percent rise. Sows farrowed numbered 28000, unchanged from 1946, with 6.4 pigs saved per litter versus 6.5 last year.
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Boise
Idaho
U. S. Agriculture Department
Temblors Shake Canary Island Palma Volcano Erupts
Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions rocked Palma in Palma Canary Islands with explosions and ash showers near Paso and Fuen Caliente. Red hot stones destroyed trees as fissures opened and sulphurous fumes rose. Red Cross ambulances and civil guards stood by as villagers feared lava reaching homes. The island’s last major eruption was in 1677.
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Santa Cruz DE Teneriffe
Canary Islands
Palma
Paso
Fuen Caliente
Red Cross
Canaries
Idahoans Named to National Young Republicans Panel
Louise Shadduck secretary to Governor Robins was named a member of the national Young Republican executive committee and co-director of region nine at Salt Lake City. Other Idaho appointments included Carl Burt as western state conference vice chairman and Ozzie Walch as assistant treasurer. A regional conference was planned for Coeur d'Alene in September.
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Boise
Louise Shadduck
C. A. Robins
National
Young Republican Executive Committee
Miss Shadduck
Salt Lake City
Carl Burt
Idaho
GOP
Ozzie Walch
Kellogg
Richard Axtell
Spokane
Wash
Steve Andersen
Salem
Ore
Coeur d’Alene
Utah Publicity Department to Go Dormant After Funding Loss
The Utah department of publicity and industrial development will close Thursday afternoon after eight years of operation. Created in 1941 as part of Governor Maw's reorganization plan, the agency will shut down due to exhausted funds.
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Salt Lake City
Utah Department of Publicity and Industrial Development
Herbert B. Maw
Mountain weather lore promises easy forecasts
Idaho farmers were urged to rely on practical cues from nature rather than superstition. University of Idaho agronomist Karl H. Klages offered tips: fog on mountains suggests clear weather, low clouds warn of rain, a red sunset forecasts fair weather, a morning rainbow hints at showers, an evening rainbow signals distant rain, and many bright stars imply a good day ahead.
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Omist
University of Idaho
College of Agriculture
Bus Mishap Kills Two Near Garland Texas
Two passengers died and four were seriously injured when a Continental Trailways bus hit a bridge railing three miles east of Garland Texas. Norma Floyd 20 Corsicana was found in Rowlett creek en route to East Texas State Teachers College while Billy McHam 12 Cooper was identified killed in the wreck. Severed feet were found near the mangled bus prompting a search for additional bodies.
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Garland
Tex
Continental Trailways
Here
Norma Floyd
Corsicana
Texas
Rowlett Creek
East Texas State Teachers’ College, Commerce
Texarkana
Billy McHam
Cooper
Hersholt Receives Special Academy Award From Brackett
Actor Jean Hersholt retiring head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is honored with a special Academy Award for four years of service. Incoming president Charles Brackett presented the Oscar trophy to the Danish actor.
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Hollywood
Jean Hersholt
The
Acamedy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Charles Brackett
Music money aim cuts down on art for people
Salt Lake City AP reports singer Robert Rounseville will lead tenor at the University of Utah summer festival. He argues the dollar turn on investment drives good music from the public, and that imagination should push available art to people instead of pressuring them into inferior products.
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Salt Lake
Robert Rounseville
T University of Utah
Rounseville
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