PostingsChallenges Over Bannock County Circulation Claim
The exchange centers on Today’s claim of the largest paid circulation in Bannock County. The Post questions the assertion versus Tribune figures, noting no current ABC audit backing and urging exact current numbers for credibility.
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Bannock County
POST
Pocatello
Tribune
Trib
Idaho
Ing
the Tribune
Audit Bureau of Circulation
ABC
Readers clash over newspaper circulation in Bannock County
A reader letters exchange questions the credibility of circulation figures for the POST and Tribune. The writer accuses the Tribune of high pressure contests and long-running promotions while asserting the POST leads county circulation with 6178 subscribers, challenging the Tribune to prove TODAY's tally.
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ABC
The
POST
Tribune
Cain Delivers Record Filibuster With Slippers On
Sen. Harry P. Cain, R Wash, stretched a six and three quarter hour speech opposing President Truman's Wallgren nomination for National Security Resources Board chair. He read through 78,300 words and 2,000 letters, paused to wear slippers, and pressed on toward a potential 16 hour record.
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Washington
Harry P. Cain
R. Wash
Senate
Ruman
Mon. Callgren
Ntional Security Resources Board
Post
Cain
Wallgren
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Long
Art Burgess
Idaho reclamation association convention set in Pocatello
The Idaho reclamation association will hold its annual convention in Pocatello on March 24 and 25, announced by secretary William E. Welsh. The event was moved from March 25 and will run alongside Columbia Basin inter-agency committee sessions in Pocatello.
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Idaho Reclamation Association
Pocatello
William E. Welsh
Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee
Rail wage-hour dispute nears settlement with mediators
Negotiators for U S railroads and 16 non operating unions will submit remaining wage hour issues to three mediators for a binding decision. The move centers on a 40 hour week for non operating employees and a proposed seven cent pay increase. Both sides favor higher wages but differ on implementing the 40 hour week and two consecutive days off.
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Chicago
G. E. Leighty
Daniel P. Loomis
Atomic Plant to Spearhead West Coast Reactor Drive
The Atomic Energy Commission plans a new $500 million west coast facility for reactors and engines. It will be a major installation, testing and building reactors elsewhere while developing an onboard engine for naval ships. Site location to be chosen, with Idaho Montana and other western locations under consideration.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Hanford
Wash
Idaho
Montana
Commission
Robert F. Bacher
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Area Scout Meeting Set in Bannock March 19
About 130 Scout leaders from Southern Idaho will gather at Hotel Bannock on March 19 for the annual layman's conference of the Boy Scouts of America hosted by the Ten day council based in Pocatello. Guest speakers include Dr Ray O Wyland and Frank W Braden from the New York national headquarters. Councils represented are Ore Ida Nampa Boise Snake River Twin Falls and Teton Peaks.
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Througout
Idaho
Hotel Bannock
Boy Scouts of America
C. R. Balmforth
Yellowstone Ave
Tenday Council
Pocatello
Tenday
New York
Ray O. Wyland
Division of Relations
BSA
Frank W. Braden
Division of
Balmforth
Nampa
Boise
Snake River
Twin Falls
Teton Peaks
Idaho Falls
Chamber sets drive to fund 1949 budget in Pocatello
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce aims to add about 225 members to raise 7450 dollars via an April membership drive to cover a 1949 budget of 2950 dollars. The board notes the budget is roughly 7000 higher than 1948 and lists major expenses including an economic survey advertising and tourist promotion retail merchants bureau and state and national affairs.
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Pocatello
Chamber of Commerce
J. L. Craig Jr
Craig
C. of C. Board of Directors
State and Rationea
Indian youths in Pocatello study sparks of delinquency
A four hour pow wow with representatives from Pocatello law enforcement and Bannock Shoshone groups discussed curbing reservation delinquents. No broad solution found as McQuade notes, while officials agree to study and address juvenile intoxication and trouble involving Indian girls. Community fault lines blamed by some council members.
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Pocatello
Bannock- Shoshone
Indian Council
Bannock County
Henry McQuade
East Side
Bannock
Alma Marley
R. M. Pugmire
McQuade
Car Prowling Series Noted in Pocatello
Police Inspector R. M. Pugmire released four bulletins noting a surge of car prowls by vagrants and teens in Pocatello. Victims include R. E. Birrell who lost end wrenches, H. R. Curtis who reported a ratchet screwdriver and pliers, and C. D. Watson of Tyhee who said a hydraulic jack and tools were taken from his truck.
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Pocatello
R. M. Pugmire
R. E. Birrell
North Ninth Ave
H. R. Curtis
East Benton St
C. D. Watson
Tyhee
Plucky Bill Odom Sets Long Distance Light-Plane Record
Lanky pilot Bill Odom landed at Teterboro New Jersey after a 5000 mile nonstop flight from Hawaii to the mainland coast. He used 75 dollars in fuel and said he hopes to fly around the world via the poles in a four engine plane.
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Teterboro
N. J
Bill Odom
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Hickam Field
Hawaii
New Jersey
Odom
Rockies
Chicago
Oakland
Calif
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Evelyn Thompson
Manhasset
N. Y
Miss Thompson
Petition Drive Pushes City Manager Idea In Pocatello
More than 500 petitions circulate in Gate City asking voters to decide if Pocatello should adopt a city manager form of government. Mayor George R. Phillips says petitions, if valid, would trigger a public vote and a possible January 1 1950 effective date for a city manager system.
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Pocatellans
Phillips
Pocatello
Power line contract awarded to Seattle firm
Boise UP reports a contract to build a 65 mile power transmission line for new pumping plants on the Roza division of the Yakima project in eastern Washington was awarded to Donald W. Close Co Seattle. The bid amount is $234 685.
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BOISE
Yakima
Washington
Donald W. Close Co
Seattle
Reclamation Bureau
Alameda Taxi suffers first crash in 1st week of service
Alameda's new taxi firm Alameda Taxi recorded its first accident on Tuesday when 18 year old driver Donald E Blundell fell asleep at the wheel. Police say the taxi hit a parked Mercury on North Main Street. the unclaimed car had rear damage and license 2L 1021. Blundell admitted to sleeping.
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Alameda
Alameda Taxi
Donald E.blundell
Pocatello
Robert Carlyle
1300 Block
North Main St
Highways crack as thaw and freeze hit Lewiston orchards
Emergency repairs underway on hazardous Lewiston highways after a brutal winter. A rapid thaw followed by a sharp freeze caused roads to crack and break up, leaving the avenues almost impassable.
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Lewiston
Lewiston Orchards
Adkins Quits Post As Police Chief
Earl J. Adkins resigned Tuesday as Alameda chief of police to take a short vacation and devote full time to campaigning as Pocatello mayoral candidate. He cited policy disagreements with city officials and chamber of commerce members over enforcement, and named March 15 as his resignation date. John E. Marshall will temporarily fill the vacancy from the water department. Campaigns already split between James Bagwell and Mayor Thurston with a possible third entrant, James Shoppe.
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Earl J. Adkins
Alameda
Pocatello
Adkins
Chamber of Commerce
L. W. Thurston
John E. Marshall
Alameda Water Department
James Bagwell
Thurston
James Shoppe
Bannock Motor Company
Rent Control Life At Stake In Senate Session
Washington reports reveal administration leaders faced a stubborn filibuster as they push rent control measures. Democratic whip Meyers warned filibuster defeat could force shelving the anti fight while Southern Democrats mobilize a talkathon against a joint administration GOP rule tightening plan. Senator Cain also led a nonbinding attack against the nomination of Mon Wallgren to chair the National Security Resources Board.
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Washington
Senate
Francis J. Meyers
Pennsylvania
Marry P. Caines
Mon. C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
2 New States Receive Okeh
Washington The House Public Lands Committee approved bills to make Hawaii and Algeria the nations 49th and 50th states, moving toward statehood for two territories.
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Okeh
Washington
House Public Lands Committee
Hawaii
Algeria
Showers Likely in Pocatello With Cloudy Skies
Forecast calls for a few showers today and Thursday in Pocatello. Expect mostly cloudy days with highs near 40 to 45 degrees and lows around 25 to 30. Yesterday’s high reached 46 and low was 30 with about .01 inches of precipitation.
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Pocatello
New Police Radio Link Established
Montpelier and county police, city workers, and Utah Power and Light crews near completion of a 50-watt radio link linking Montpelier with the state police network. The cooperative system will connect Montpelier to Pocatel lo, Preston, Burley, and Twin Falls as part of a possible statewide network. Funding comes from Montpelier and Paris and Bear Lake county. The station operates on 42,540 megacycles. Lt. J. Bedingfield of Pocatello commended the city for streamlining the force and relocating the station to a central site.
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Montpelier
Utah Power and Light
Pocatello
Preston
Burley
Twin Falls
Paris
Bear Lake
Bedingfield
Railroads Hit Over Rate Hike Threatening Beet Sugar Firms
Amalgamated Sugar Co spokesmen told the Idaho public utilities commission that railroads must drop plans for a four percent interim freight-rate increase within the state. E L Fisher, traffic manager, warned continued rate hikes could price railroads and beet sugar companies out of business.
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BOISE
Amalgamated Sugar Co
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
E. L. Fiseher
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