Site Selection Sparks Atomic Boom in Southern Idaho
Arco and Pocatello celebrate six weeks as contenders for the Atomic Energy Commission reactor site. Officials in Washington tipped the area as a favored location, triggering a rush of influence seekers from Montana and nearby states. The announcement, though premature, foreshadowed a race as Montana bids to upstage Arco and Pocatello in Idaho’s Atomic Capitol era.
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Charting Lost River at Arco reactor site
The first work at the Arco atomic reactor plant site will chart the Big Lost river which runs over lava beds and disappears. Engineers will drill test wells, a project affecting the location of potential building groups, with about 50 drills. No further site work is planned for more than a year.
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Idaho Woman To Instruct Germans
Moscow Idaho UP an Idaho woman is going abroad to train Germans in the science of home economics Miss Florence Schultz county home demonstration agent at Twin Falls granted a four month leave to serve as visiting instructor on the staff of the military government of Germany She will participate in a home economics training project in the Württemberg Baden area
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Truman on Civil Liberties and Freedom for All
President Truman emphasizes the enduring need for a broad civil liberties program to guarantee freedom of opinion expression and conscience for present and future generations, asserting that a free system survives only with these guaranteed rights.
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