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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1949
Page
6
Brownie the shaggy St Bernard fell into a 12 foot hole at a construction site Tuesday. He spent a rainy night in the trench until laborer Bill Straggus ferried him to safety with an iron hook and teamwork.
Two labor experts from Louisiana and Michigan proposed a statutory strike concept where workers continue to work while the company pays inflated wages. A public trust fund would cover the excess and a special labor court would set pay rates and adjust retroactively. The aim is maintain production, pressure the parties, and avoid public harm.
Authorities sought post mortem confirmation of identity for a burned elderly man found wired to a tree in Platte County woods last Monday. Raymond Kennard, about 50 from Quincy, was tentatively identified but officials noted the body appeared to have been tied for longer than a few days. Sheriff described the victim as tortured, and Kennard was linked to a Sunday brawl in Beverly amid a gang dispute. An arrest was reported in connection with a concealed weapon case.
Students of Pocatello Senior High will hold an evening session patterned after United Nations meetings at Lake Success. They will discuss trials of Catholic and Protestant clergymen in Hungary and Bulgaria, and the admission of Franco Spain and Israel to the United Nations. Prof. Clark S. Carlile will assist and moderator the session. The event is free and open to the public. A steel bar twist detector is described as capable of measuring changes as small as one part in 106,000.
Jesse G Stratford 88 yesterday on his birthday at 516 S Arthur recalls change over 41 years in Pocatello. He notes transportation as the most marked shift from narrow gauge rail to UP line, dirt roads to paved streets, and horse drawn wagons stuck in mud to modern transit.
Merrill Lynch Salt Lake City offices announce a four week stocks and bonds school for women only. Walter Roche says the course opens at 7 30 tonight at 143 South Main and will cover investing basics, securities exchanges, and the relationship between public and corporate investments with speakers from industry and business.
Executive board members of the roads and highways committee met yesterday in the Hotel Bannock to study state plans for the proposed routing of Highway 30 N and 91. Chamber Secretary J. L. Craig said the committee would likely be asked to aid the state in obtaining rights of way for the new routings once construction is definitively dated.
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