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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1949
Page
1
The House postponed final action on a bill to extend rent controls for 15 months after a close vote. A GOP bid to limit the extension to 90 days failed, while an amendment to ensure landlords receive a fair return was added. apartment hotels would remain under controls after strikes.
Miller Bodell district superintendent of the railway mail service leaves this morning for a Union Pacific mail clerks meeting on the Butte Salt Lake line in Salt Lake City. He says only routine service matters will be discussed.
Senator Glen Taylor’s appeal on a disorderly conduct charge was postponed two weeks at the request of his new attorney Morel Montgomery. Montgomery, retained yesterday, asked to move the trial from March 16 to March 30 to gain more time for preparation. The Idaho citizen was arrested here last May after a dispute with local officers over segregation at a Southern Negro youth congress rally during his Progressive ticket vice presidential bid.
The federal council of churches discussed a proposal for united Protestant and Roman Catholic action against religious persecution across the iron curtain. The plan was referred to the executive committee without recommendation but is widely expected to be approved, signaling a historic cooperative effort. The executive committee, about 250 members, convenes next Tuesday in New York.
Police said a roadblock signal system on the Santa Fe railroad was sabotaged near San Dimas, possibly another robbery attempt. Five signals turned red after an 8 foot wire was placed under rails, delaying an eastbound fruit train and risking the Super Chief. a Santa Fe investigator cites robbery as the motive.
President Truman asked Congress to approve a decade long 90 million program to provide housing and community facilities for Navajo and Hopi Indians. The bill would allow off reservation settlement and 25 year leases of reservation land for tourist facilities and related small businesses.
Eight democracies drafting the North Atlantic security pact announced that they reached final agreement on terms of the historic defense alliance. Officials indicated the pact would be signed in early April likely in Washington and that the terms would be made public next Friday after a state department meeting.
Premier Alcide De Gasperi secured decisive support in two test votes to delay debate as the chamber of deputies backed his push for parliamentary authorization to discuss and sign the Atlantic Pact. Communists warned of strikes if Italy joins pact talks.
A special eight nation communique outlines a peace time defense pact joining the United States with Canada Britain France Belgium Luxembourg Norway and the Netherlands in a common front. Reports say Italy Portugal and Iceland are considering signing. Danish Foreign Minister Rasmussen met with Secretary Acheson and hopes to decide soon. State department sources note minor changes were made and require approval. unlikely further changes will occur.
DETROIT. A lone man held up a Michigan bank branch late yesterday and escaped with about 4000. Police rushed all available units to the northwest Detroit area to trap the bandit.
Assistant regional reclamation director Harold T. Nelson said the Interior Department plan would finance unprofitable yet needed irrigation projects from federal power revenues. He spoke at Idaho State College in Pocatello, noting revenues from lower Columbia hydro plants could support economically feasible projects in southern Idaho.
J L Craig Jr of the Gate City chamber of commerce said the 30th legislature’s repeal of the power tax for industry improves Pocatello’s industrial outlook. He spoke at a noon luncheon of the chamber’s industrial activities committee outlining the repeal’s impact and plans for an area industrial survey. He noted potential use of Union Pacific’s tie plant and the city’s air base for future development.
A 19-year-old man identified as Arthur C. Hester is sought by authorities from El Paso to Los Angeles after being charged with murder in the death of Dean John W. Lord, a Texas Christian University graduate school official. Lord’s body was found near a Burleson retreat cabin. Hester was last seen in El Paso wearing a navy uniform and claimed to be hitchhiking to California.
John L Lewis ordered 375000 eastern coal miners to quit work for two weeks starting Monday in protest of Dr James Boyd head of the U S Bureau of Mines. Western miners were told to stay at work to avoid public hardships while eastern miners mourn the deaths and injuries in 1948 under Boyd.
Boise dispatch reports Dr. Henry B. Robins aged 74 died in Orlando Florida after a long illness. Governor C A Robins was told of the death as he returned Wednesday from a visit with his brother.
Mayoral candidate James H. Bowns and council candidate Jack Rhondeau presented a five point civic improvement platform endorsed by Pocatello labor as their campaign core. The program focuses on full-time city service industrial development moral community standards traffic planning and public health including water sewage disposal and downtown restrooms. A radio address is planned for Friday March 18 at 8 15 p m on Station KSETI with both candidates speaking.
Salt Lake City officials and state aid teams moved to locate and drain underground gasoline pools threatening 32 block downtown. W L Butler named emergency coordinator to oversee seepage tests and neutralization efforts amid signs warning the public to enter buildings at their own risk. Officials cite seepage from storage tanks as the likely cause with fumes combining gasoline natural gas and sewer gas.
Oakland UP reports Dr. Andrew Lawson, 87 year old UC geology professor, welcomed a four day old son and 39 year old wife home from the hospital. He calls it normal and says old men should not be barred from having families.
Gen. Henri Giraud, veteran of two world wars and key ally in North Africa, died at 70 in a Dijon military hospital after cancer and pernicious anemia worsened. He received the Medaille Militaire just before his death, cited 13 times for bravery, and was praised as a magnificent soldier by Gen. Georges Revers.
NEW YORK UP Pretty Judith Coplon pleaded innocent and was released on 20000 bail at her arraignment on espionage charges. Russian engineer Valentin Gubitchev refused an attorney and claimed diplomatic immunity, saying the accusations are a provocation. Judge Rifkind adjourned the case for March 14.
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