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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1949
Page
4
The text lists C. Ed Flandro as president L. C. Giauque as business manager and Frank Grover as editor, outlining key leadership roles at the publication.
A joint effort by the chamber of commerce clean-up committee urges full cooperation from business establishments and residents to keep Pocatello clean. The street department works hard, but littering after meetings harms progress. Use downtown receptacles and ensure merchants’ sweeping needs are met before daily cleanup.
Marquis Childs notes Democrats largely back public ownership of transmission lines linking Bonneville to Hungry Horse despite strong private utility lobbying. The Senate faces a request for 3.57 million dollars to extend lines in the northwest and southwest, with Rep. Mansfield defending the plan and a 146 to 56 vote in favor. Speaker Rayburn supports southwest power administration.
A puzzle style list blends animal words with clues and answers across horizontal and vertical entries. It presents a word maze of terms for animals, metals, Greek and Roman references, and common nouns threaded through numbered positions.
New York columnist Robert Ruark argues for harsher punishment of thrill killers and sex offenders while condemning efforts to excuse criminals' motives. He contrasts a whitemale killer who strikes for money with a child killer who acts from ego, urging life imprisonment for whim killers and immediate action against sex offenders to protect children.
The piece riffs on a boss's return from a long weekend and the mixed report his team would offer. It suggests staff would claim they missed his critical input and clever ideas yet secretly hope his absence did not harm accounts or trigger trouble, while the boss suspects both dependence and relief.
President Truman enjoyed a long birthday celebration at the Larz Anderson mansion with 70 intimate friends. The event featured gifts, a piano duet by Truman and Jose Iturbi, speeches by Sam Rayburn and Tom Clark, and wartime champagne as guests toasted late into the night until 2:05 a.m.
Henry McLemore questions royal outrage at a photo of Princess Margaret Rose in a bathing suit while contrasting photographers’ access to Queen Mary and Mrs. Truman’s swim ban. He muses on fashion changes, seasonal wardrobes, and gendered expectations in a breezy opinion voice.
A collage of campus activity includes ISC cosmetology students visiting the school pharmacy lab to learn creams and cleansers, with instructors Roscoe Kihara Frank guiding the group. State political chatter includes possible runs by Nellie Cline Steenson and ex-governors Williams and Bottolfsen. Blackfoot faces rising unemployment as transient workers flock to the Arco reactor project, prompting planning with Red Cross and a job program.
Harpo Marx will perform at the Palladium in London for an hour and a half without speaking a word. Producer Lester Cowan downplays any dullness, noting Harpo sometimes uses a small pair of scissors to cut a girl's dress, adding a punch of silent stage business.
Hollywood reports Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini held a three way meeting in Sicily with Bergman’s husband Dr. Lindstrom amid divorce rumors. Lindstrom stated no divorce, while Magnani’s jealousy lingers. Bergman and Rossellini then head to Italy to shoot After the Storm retitled Gods Earth.
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