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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1949
Page
2
ISC expects its new double court to open this week after 18 months of construction. Pres. Carl W. McIntosh notes nets and paint remain as steel fencing and lines were completed. Courts measure 109 by 121 feet with 10 foot fencing and drainage, financed by campus athletic staff.
Michael Lutzker Mel Morgan and Dr Myron Porges named this week to head the United Jewish Appeal campaign in Pocatello May 8 to raise 22 000 for the national drive to aid Jewish refugees in Central Europe or the Balkans. Ernest W Michel regional representative of the Jewish relief association promotes organizing the drive with plans including an Israeli soldier appearance. Michel, a former Dachau Buchenwald Auschwitz prisoner, departs for Helena Mont tonight.
Dr Osbert Wrightman Warm Ingham well known sage delivered remarks at the Pocatello Kiwanis weekly luncheon held Tuesday at the Hotel Ban hock. He stressed humor for ministers and defined equality. Guests and new members were welcomed and plans for the Atlantic City convention were outlined.
Mrs J A Page of 1820 S Fourth has been chosen Bannock county commander of the American Cancer Society for the coming year. Hazel Rorabaugh of Blackfoot announced the appointment. Page will be assisted by George Bronson as service chairman Max Petty treasurer and D W Martin schools chairman Dr E V Simison district medical chairman. The group in Idaho is volunteer driven and promotes cancer research and public education on symptoms and treatments.
Twenty seven Ralston Purina dealers from Idaho Utah Washington and Oregon completed a two day instruction meeting at the Hotel Bannock. Buck Kilgore Purina sales manager said the group is finishing the first three months of an 18 month training period in farm management and animal feeding. Harold Orey and Jack Greenwalt from Pocatello enrolled. H C Pack a local dealer was among 13 who received diplomas for completing the program.
Malad officers of the Malad Third Ward MIA and Relief Society announce a fundraiser at the ward recreation hall with pies cakes quilts and handiwork to support the Malad Third Ward Malad Stake building construction.
Members of six southern Idaho counties will attend a convention at 10 a.m. today in the Rigby national guard armory. J. F. Fredrickson, Idaho Farm Bureau federation president, says participants include Bingham Bonneville Jefferson Madison Fremont and Teton counties.
W. W. Halsey, candidate for mayor, will outline his platform in a KEIO radio broadcast at 7 45 p m Thursday.
San Francisco AP report on Oak Ridge chemist Dr. A Carleton Jealous informing 5000 attendees at the American Chemical Society meeting that removable plastic wallpaper could isolate radioactive contamination. He notes lab units with wipeable coatings and remote controlled repairs aim to reduce hot material leaks and enable rapid replacement of wall coverings.
William Burgess Paul 71 longtime Custer county resident and Clayton Cash Store owner Clayton Idaho died at a local hospital after a month long illness. Born April 14 1878 in Virginia City Nevada he moved to Idaho sixty years ago and worked as freighter mail carrier and shopkeeper. He married Lillian Sullivan Webb on June 28 1905 and was a member of FOE lodge Mackay. Survivors include wife two sons John B Paul and Wilmot Paul daughter Rosemary Hoskins fourteen grandchildren. Funeral plans to be set by Jones Mortuary Salmon.
Hollywood actor Robert Mitchum walked out of jail alone at 8 24 a m after a 50 day sentence for marijuana conviction. He joked that the jail was all right and headed into the morning.
Retailers and members of the Retail Merchant Bureau of the Pocatello Chamber of Commerce will meet Friday at 12 10 p m in the Hotel Whitman to discuss the bureau s 1949 budget Idaho State College Campus Day Railroad Day and Christmas decorations plans Bureau officers will outline details of the forthcoming national chamber business census.
George F. Huffman aged 73 of 728 N. Harrison Avenue died at a local hospital Wednesday after a brief illness. A native of Illinois he had long resided in Pocatello and had no known survivors. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Hall Mortuary.
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