Radio quiz winner: Florence Hubbard wins $22,500 prize package
Florence Hubbard a 68 year old department store saleslady in Chicago won a $22,500 prize package for identifying Jack Benny as the walking man on a NBC Truth or Consequences telecast. The Midwest winner receives air travel a car a fur coat a diamond ring furniture and a Palm Springs vacation plus a donation to the American Heart Association.
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Florence Hubbard
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Ralph Edwards
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Palm Springs
Pocatello Woman Dies in California
Funeral services are set for Mrs. N. C. Beckley of 629 South Main after she died of a heart attack Saturday at her son Norman’s home in Los Angeles. Survived by husband N. C. Beckley, son Norman, daughter Mrs. George W. Smith, and two grandchildren. Funeral in Los Angeles Tuesday. she had been visiting since Feb. 15. Mrs Beckley was born in Longmont Colorado and longtime Pocatello resident. member of Royal Neighbors and Ladies Auxiliary of the Order of Railway Conductors.
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South Main
Norman
Los Angeles
Coast City
Beckley
Union Pacific Railroad
Longmont
Colo
James M. Blair
Delta
Pocatello
George W. Smith
Parkway
Royal Neighbors
Ladies Auxiliary of Order of Railway Conductors
Czech Purge Is Completed
Prague reports the Communist party has nearly finished its purge of public life. Army officers are discharged and the governing body of an honorary military association removed as action committees tighten control over national and foreign press. Premier Gottwald aims to secure a broad 208 vote majority in the 300 member assembly when it reconvenes.
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Czechoslovakia
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Communist Action Committees
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Constituent Assembly
Missing boy found at Texas air base in air force enlistment
The mother of 14 year old Tommy Thompson says her son, a Hills Military Academy student, was found at Lackland Field Texas where he has enlisted in the air force after disappearing January 25 while returning from a weekend visit. Her husband and she will consider a waiver if he wants to stay.
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Starting Movie Sun Valley Script Writing Underway
MGM script writers Dorothy Cooper and Jerry Davis arrived at Sun Valley to begin drafting Duchess of Idaho to be filmed starting next September. The project stars Esther Williams and Van Johnson.
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MGM
Dorothy Cooper
Jerry Davis
Resort
Esther Williams
van Johnson
Petroleum industry ranks high in capital investment
The petroleum sector ranks just behind agriculture, railroads, and public utilities in capital investment, highlighting its major role in the economy and funding for infrastructure and development.
Vatican Urges Catholics Vote to Defeat Communism
The Vatican through the sacred congregation under Pope Pius XII calls Italian Catholics to back candidates who defend divine law and church rights in the April 18 parliamentary election. The decree links political action to resisting communism amid regional tensions and the Czechoslovak coup influence.
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Pius XII
Czechoslovakia
Czechs Try To Leave Czechoslovakia
Rude Pravo reports opposition leaders sought escape into American occupied Germany. Bohuslav Deci, a national socialist MP, was arrested at the frontier. Milada Prochazkova and Jimi Wild were detained near the Bavarian border. Adolf Prochazka and Helena Kozeluhova also attempted to cross. Detailed flight news promised for the near future.
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Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Germany
Rude Pravo
Bohuslav Deci
Bohemian Forest
Bavaria
Milada Prochazkova
Adolf Prochazka
Jimi Wild
Prochazka
Helena Kozeluhova
Catholic People’s Party
Rude
Pravo
Fuure
Idaho Falls Man Killed In Garfield Street Crash
Verl Johnson, 37, of Idaho Falls was struck by a vehicle on Garfield Street early Sunday and died. Glen E. Brown found his body shortly before 4 a.m. Police issued a hit and run alert. Everett Stoneberg of New Sweden later admitted being the driver involved in the accident. Johnson’s death is Idaho Falls second traffic fatality of the year.
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Verl Johnson
Garfield Street
Glen E. Brown
Johnson
Everett Stoneberg
New Sweden
Idaho
Orem Utah Expands Toward Third Largest City Claim
Orem Utah positions itself as Utah fifth fastest growing city with 1940 census 2913 residents and current estimate over 10000. Geneva steel plant near Orem drives growth with plans for thousands more homes and a potential population 15000 to 45000 in five years.
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Protestants vow fight over public funds for parochial schools
A group of Protestant churchmen say they will fight in Congress and the courts against public funding for parochial schools. The assembled officers of Protestants and other Americans united for separation of church and state accuse the Catholic hierarchy of seeking a church state union at the public treasury. They sent an open letter to the national Catholic welfare conference and dismiss denials as insufficient.
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Congress
United States
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Conference
Catholic Hierarchy
Calendar of Civil and Criminal Cases Before Judge McDougall
District Judge Isaac McDougall will call a mixed civil and criminal calendar at 10 a.m. Monday in Bannock county courthouse. Readiness notices list cases including accounting disputes over Mary Ingersoll and estate matters, a divorce, a foreclosure, and appeals from probate and the board of equalization with trial dates spanning March 16 to April 8.
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Frank H. Paradise Jr
Henry J. Swanson
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Madeline Diaz
J. E. Jensen
Alvin Jensen
Marie Willard
First Security Bank
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Walker
Leonard O. Walker
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Plans shaping up for Payette Apple Blossom festival
Payette plans for the annual Apple Blossom festival with William Schmeizel named general chairman and a date yet to be set. Dwight Spofford couple are writing a pageant titled Wheels of Proeal to be staged at the festival.
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William Schmeizel
Dwight Spofford
UN council orders 10 days of private talks on Palestine
The United Nations Security Council called for ten days of private Big Five talks on the Palestine question but did not immediately endorse partition. Britain announced a boycott except to provide information upon request by the U.S., Soviet Union, France and China. A US-Soviet agreement urged talks to implement the General Assembly partition decision.
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China
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Andrei Gromyko
Warren Austin
Paroled youths from torture case in Ada County
Two 17 year olds, Leroy M. Landers Jr and Don Elders, already convicted of battery in the torture of 14 year old Joseph Cannon at Anderson Ranch Dam, were paroled Saturday by Ada county district Judge C. Winstead. They had faced six months in Elmore county jail for beatings and gasoline burns that occurred over about two weeks starting August 18.
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Leroy M. Landers, Jr
Don Elders
Joseph Cannon
Anderson Ranch
Young writer Capote shuns women as muse for success
Ruth Constan reports from New York that Truman Capote, 23, has published Other Voices Other Rooms and credits his sole focus on writing for his rising fame. He says relationships distract and that women were plentiful yet troublesome while he wrote. Capote cites influences like Proust and Flaubert and dismisses Hemingway as tiresome.
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Truman Capote
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Capote
Fame and Fortune
Proust
Flaubert
Hemingway
Justice Studies Case Persists Over Taft-Hartley Ban
Federal Judge Ben Moore took under advisement a CIO bid to dismiss government charges that President Philip Murray and the CIO violated the Taft Hartley act. He recessed until Monday without indicating when a ruling will come. CIO lawyers call the ban a free speech issue. Justice Department contends any rights violation is technical and not unconstitutional.
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Washington
Ben Moore
CIO
Philip Murray
Justice Department
Moore
Supreme Court
Slayers Are Taken
Slayers are captured after an eight day crime spree that began with a Tennessee jail break. Spence Edwards and his brother Alfred surrender with their wives near Reidsville Georgia, after a gun battle in Swainsboro that killed state investigator Garland Fields.
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Spence
Rutherford County
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Swainsboro
State Bureau of Investigation
Garland Fields
Benes Visited By Reds Leader
Premier Klement Gottwald visited President Eduard Benes at the president's summer estate in Sezimovo Usti. Prague radio said no details were given on the purpose of the talks. It was their first personal contact since Benes swore in Gottwald's government February 27.
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Czechoslovakia
Klement Gottwald
Eduard Benes
Sezimovo Usti
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