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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
1
The Federal Reserve Board relaxed consumer credit rules to extend the payoff window to 21 months for most items and cut required down payments on hard goods from 20 to 15 percent. Auto buyers still owe a one third down payment. The move follows a December to January drop in installment credit by 145 million and focuses on autos with a small rise in that sector.
Labor will meet at 6 45 p m in the Labor Temple to map voting plans. M C Larsen secretary of the Pocatello Central Labor Union sent invitations to Gate City union AF of L locals railroad craft and operating brotherhoods. Two labor backed candidates James H Bowns and Jack Rhondeau to be presented for mayor and city council respectively.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen plans a 40 hour week at the 48 hour pay level for about 75 000 yard workers nationwide. A notice will be served by March 15 with support from the Order of Railway Conductors. A. F. Whitney leads the effort and three job categories will be affected: engine screen yard conductors brakemen and switch tenders. The unions also seek 15 day paid vacations replacing the current one week.
Idaho Farm Bureau supports H R Bills 1703 and 2023 to repeal the oleomargarine tax while banning yellow coloring in margarine shipped across state lines. John H. Webb of Pocatello said compromise requires preventing butter-like appearance. hearings began Tuesday.
ISC expands its speaker list for the March 10 11 political science institute with Edith Miller Ada County legislator and Rep Miller newly engaged. The legislation panel features Clark S. Carlile H.T. Nelson notes. Governor C. A. Robins opens the event with about 250 attendees expected including legislators professors and officials.
Idaho State College now marks its four year status with two new signs placed on the Fifth Avenue side of campus. President Carl W. McIntosh accepted the signs, funded by S. E. Brady and L. A. Dremolski, forest service superintendent, detailing the school’s history from its 1901 Academy of Idaho origins. Attendees included William Bartz, John Vesser, and Dremolski.
John Katzenberger, 41, of 453 North Fourth Avenue, died Wednesday morning in a local hospital from knife wounds police described as self inflicted. Police had responded Tuesday night to intervene after his wife reported threats, arranging treatment and a sedative before a second call found him fatally injured. The coroner planned a post mortem to determine the exact cause of death.
The Boeing B 50 Lucky Lady II landed at Carswell air force base in Fort Worth after 94 hours nonstop from takeoff, completing the first non stop round the world flight. Captain James Gallagher led 14 crew over about 23 452 miles with air refuelings in the Azores Dhahran Philippines and Hawaii. The mission demonstrated inter continental range and capabilities for strategic bombers.
Red Cross fund drive begins in Bannock County with a 10 am pep rally at the Chief theater led by county chairman A. L. Ebel. John Denman provided the film Letters to Three Wives as captains for door-to-door canvassing are named to raise about 12 500.
About 6500 water users from southern Idaho will gather in Pocatello for the Idaho state reclamation association annual convention to be held March 24 and 25 at the Hotel Bannock. A planning meeting will take place March 5, and a preface inter agency session will discuss Columbia River basin water use with invited governors from five states. Local merchants will display welcoming banners for the visitors.
Blackfoot high school rolled to its first Fifth district Class A triumph by rout of the Montpelier Bears 51 to 14. The Broncos led wire to wire and advance to meet Westside at 7 p.m. Thursday. Montpelier suffers its second loss and is eliminated.
A report on the completed store-hour survey will be presented to the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce Retail Bureau at a Friday night meeting in the Hotel Whitman. A.L. Craig Jr. and the secretary said plans for the annual spring clean-up and the fall fashion show will be discussed.
Emanuel P. Adler, 76, rose from a $1-a-week printer to publisher of the Davenport Daily Times and president of the Lee syndicate of 10 midwestern newspapers, dying Wednesday.
Idaho's 30th legislative session faced clerical bottlenecks in the senate as it raced to adjourn by the statutory deadline. The House was ready to go home, while the Senate prepared for a possible late night session to finish the calendar and key finance bills.
U S Marshal Dave Nichols announced changes to federal court dates. The spring term opening moved from March to the second Monday in May at a federal building. Fall term shifts from October to the second Monday in November by order of U S District Judge Chase Clark of Boise.
The House passed a bill authorizing a next year election to decide annexation of the western Jefferson county area to Clark county. The proposed district lies near Hamer and Terreton in Idaho.
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