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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1948
Page
2
Caldwell firm H J McNeel Inc files suit for 34862.32 damages against Canyon County commissioners over alleged contract breach for the proposed Canyon County jail. McNeel seeks payment for work completed. total project cost about 183000 with 112768.36 contracted last month.
Fawn Annetta Tucker age 32 died March 6 in a Nampa hospital after living in Blackfoot most of life. She was born August 29, 1915 in Blackfoot, daughter of Moroni and Celestia Bills Tucker. Survived by ten siblings across Oregon Utah Idaho. Funeral set Tuesday at Wapello L D S church with Bishop P Newell Rollison. viewing at Sandberg Funeral Home Sunday to service. Burial in Grove City cemetery Blackfoot.
A special Idaho agricultural council session in Twin Falls will discuss strategies to halt farm price declines. Council president Ben Johnson called the meeting after February’s market slump. Attendees include F P Champ John Brackenridge Quince Rice Elwood Williams Ezra T Benson and leaders from Idaho Grange Farm Bureau Dairymen Poultry Potato Growers and other Idaho farming groups.
In Salem Oregon Principal Mathilda Gilles of Richmond School took forty sixth graders to the depot. She bought 40 round trip tickets to Portland and gave the pupils a first hand transportation lesson.
Union negotiators withdrew from a meeting after rejecting the school board’s offer and an $800 annual across-the-board raise. Superintendent Willard E. Goslin said negotiations were suspended but not broken off. The 10 day strike involves 1,100 AFL American Federation of Teachers members backed by the city wide Central Labor Union, affecting about 75,000 students.
Preston Idaho reports Thayne Taylor age 34 died in a hospital from injuries after the truck he rode in overturned near Downey. He suffered a fractured skull. Also hospitalized from the same accident are Ther al Taylor aged 29 and Joseph Hansen, both of Preston.
Gov Robins warned Idaho educators that school reorganization progress may have been too rapid and urged cooperation. He said momentum from change may outpace public understanding and emphasized the need for an educational program to explain objectives and ensure wise, equitable spending while cautions arise over prerogatives and infighting.
Loyd Barrett 15 son of Mr and Mrs Albert Barrett earned the Eagle Scout award after a board of review led by O Elwood Manwaring in Blackfoot. The ceremony and future national court of honor are set for March 19 at Thomas High School gym with a father and son banquet.
Downey 4 H achievement meeting set for next Thursday at 8 p.m. in Downey school follows the regular P T A session. Quentin C. Murdock, county 4 H club agent, advised instructors. Members will receive certificates seals and awards for last year projects. A film of Downey area 4 H work from last summer will be shown.
Idaho baked potatoes will be on the menu at the national meeting of state representatives of the foundation for infantile paralysis in New York City on March 15. Idaho representative L. Dee Belveal was asked to supply 275 Idaho bakers and said he would arrange their delivery.
Navy test pilot Cmdr. W. A. Sherrill piloted a North American FJ-1 from Mills Field to Municipal Airport in Los Angeles in 40 minutes 0 seconds after 2:01.19 p.m. PST, cutting two minutes 33 seconds off the previous jet speed record set by an Army P-80 two years earlier. He reported no tail wind on the flight.
Hearings on forming a soil conservation district for the Blackfoot area in Bingham county are scheduled for March 10 and 11. Meetings, at 8 o'clock, will be led by veterans in on the farm training with hosts Max Young and Ralph Hatch. Attendees include Ira Clark, H L McBirney, and Ray Peterson as noted observers.
A Santa Fe drug store advertised dollar bills for sale at 95 cents each during a two hour period and reported averaging one customer per minute.
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