Plan Drafted To Gear Resources For Section
Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson outlined a six to twelve year program to prep the Pacific Northwest for population growth. Key goals include doubling the 3,000,000 kilowatt power pool by 1953, reclaiming 1.9 million acres of cropland by 1954, revegetating 120 million acres of range land, controlled cutting of 80 million acres of timber lands, boosting mineral supplies, protecting fish runs with a $20 million ten year plan, and rehabilitating 30,000 Indians.
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Washington
C. Girard Davidson
Pacific Northwest
Davidson
Congress
Northwest
Pacific Northwest Coordinating Committee
Columbia River Basin
Oregon
Chamber Debates Two Rodeos For Pocatello Season
The Chamber of Commerce weighing whether to back two local rodeos as the VFW proposes an early summer amateur event for ages 14 to 18. Frontier Days drew crowds last year, with talks of renting 1080 seats from a Salt Lake City firm for 700 dollars to ease demand. Blackfoot’s cancellation leaves an opening Gate City show could boost local rodeo status.
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Pocatellans
Chamber of Commerce Retail Bureau
Whitman
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Phoenix
Ariz
VFW
Gordon Willisey Lindley
North Bannock Fair and Rodeo Association
Salt Lake City
Pocatello
West
Lindley
Gate City
Blackfoot Fairgrounds
Ledge Craig
Chamber of Commerce
Jensen parents fined for truancy in Griffith case
Crown Point Indiana reports Mr and Mrs Daniel Jensen of Griffith were found guilty of contributing to the delinquency of their son Albert a fourth grader by keeping him from school for six months fearing possible spanking. A juvenile court jury imposed 250 dollar fines each suspended on condition they return the boy to classes. Probation for a year followed as they withdrew Albert last November after learning Griffith teachers used spanking as discipline.
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Crown Point
Ind
Daniel Jensen
Griffith
Jensens
Albert
Charles Cannon
Burns Kill Utah Woman Burns Kill Utah Woman
A 37 year old St George housewife Mrs Evelyn Lambert Kurt died Tuesday from burns after her robe caught fire while she cooked breakfast in the kitchen. She was Salt Lake City native and LDS member wife of Roy Kurt a bureau of reclamation employee. Her husband rushed to extinguish the flames and drive her to the hospital.
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ST. George
Utah
Evelyn Lambert Kurt
Roy Kurt
Bureau of Reclamation
Salt Lake City
LDS Church
Kurt
Beehive Post 7737 VFW Raided Over Liquor Sales
Utah agents and local officers raided Beehive Post No. 7737 VFW in Bountiful and booked two officers for alleged sale of liquor by the drink. John W. Peterson and Edwin L Free stone charged with maintaining a common nuisance and establishment. Post headquarters padlocked after a liquor inventory.
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Bountiful
Utah
Utah State Liquor Control Commission Enforcement Division
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John W. Peterson
Edwin L Freestone
Justice of the Peace
Wendell Barnes
Kaysville
Salt Lake City
Robert R. Harries
Commission
Glen E. Thompson
Utah Department
VFW
Thompson
Harries
Pocatello High School earns ensemble recording offer
Pocatello High School band earned a recording invitation from the National Music Institute in St Louis after a standout performance at the Twin Falls Idaho festival. Director Ingard Nielson leads the group as they prepare May 14 senior activities and celebrate honors by Diana Schroeder and Jim Kissane who won a Scholastic contest prize.
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Pocatello High School
National Music Institute
St. Louis
Missouri
Twin Falls
Idaho
New World Symphony
Dvorak
Institute
Ingard Nielson
Jim Kissane
Scholastic
United States
Jim
South Sea
G. I
Madeline Thompson
Idaho Vets Use Benefits
Idaho's WWII veteran population is about 48,000 with 59 percent enrolled in GI benefits programs. Of 24,511 trainees, 1,586 completed, 175 finished vocational rehab. By April, 10,729 veterans were in college or on the job training. Discontinued training reached 14,232 since the program began, due to personal reasons, exhaustion of entitlement, completion, or disability-related removal.
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Idaho
John Gray
Pocatello VA
Gray
Size of Hyenas Defies Mammalian Norms
The hyena stands out as the only flesh eating mammal where the female is larger than the male, a notable reversal in sexual size dimorphism.
Demands for Working Rule Changes Drive Rail Strike Crisis
Washington reports indicate labor unions seek changes in 25 of 44 working rules as part of the railroad seizure dispute. Proposals include time and a half for Sunday and holiday work, night pay, pay for delays, and extra pay for engineers on large engines and longer trains, among others.
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Washington
Radio Station Owner Sues Over Broadcast Rights to Murder Verdict
Earle C. Anthony of KFI sues Superior Judge Kenneth E. Morrison and Voice of the Empire, alleging denial of equal broadcasting rights to the murder verdict read in court. The suit claims deputies seized equipment and a janitor ordered the mic removed during the verdict. Beulah Overell and George Gollum faced a 19 week trial for yacht murder. verdict acquitted.
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Los Angeles
Earle C. Anthony
KFI
Eugene Overton
Anthony
Kenneth E. Morrison
Santa Ana
KVOE
Hollywood
KMPC
Morrison
Agent Dunn to Leave for Altus Oklahoma Post
Drue W. Dunn, recently resigned Bannock county extension agent, will depart next Saturday with his family for Altus Oklahoma to supervise the Altus Lugert irrigation project. He plans to inspect irrigation works in Arizona New Mexico and Texas and expects to be away for several years.
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Drue W. Dunn
Bannock
Altus
Oklahoma
Altus- Lugert
Dunn
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Dunns
Actress Evelyn Bertucci Stabs Self Over Traffic Ticket
Hollywood actress Evelyn Bertucci also known as Evelyn Smith attempted suicide to avoid a traffic ticket after allegedly running a red light. She produced a 7 inch knife and stabbed her hip during the confrontation with motorcycle officer F R Couch who then cited her. She was treated at Hollywood Receiving Hospital and released to go home.
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Hollywood
Evelyn Bertucci
F. R. Couch
Couch
Berturrici
Evelyn Smith
Hollywood Receiving Hospital
Garment Of Missing Idaho Woman Is Found
A tattered coat identified as worn by Mrs. Guy Kinyon was found two miles downstream from the Bliss bridge on the Snake River. The coat was found by Walter Reese and Don Reese as part of a search for Castleford reportedly missing after leaping into the river. Officers confirmed the coat belonged to Mrs. Kinyon based on a Twin Falls dry cleaning mark. The car of Mrs. Kinyon was located near the Bliss bridge last Thursday.
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Bliss
Guy Kinyon
Castleford
Bliss Bridge
Kinyon
Twin Falls
Mark
Sus
Coatibenciti
Walter Reese
Don Reese
Snake River
Ten year old gives birth in Punta Arenas Chile
Ultimas Noticias reported a ten year old girl in Punta Arenas gave birth to a healthy boy after arriving at a clinic in distress. The unnamed mother and infant were reported to be doing well, echoing Lima's Lina Medina case from Peru.
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Santiago, Chili
Ultimas Noticias
Punta Arenas
Lina Medina
Lima
Peru
New Three Dollar Bill Proposed to Honor Roosevelt
A resolution in Congress proposes a special three dollar bill featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt on one side and the Roosevelt Memorial Library at Hyde Park New York on the other. Rep Arthur G Klein says the small denomination would reach millions and give special significance. The idea reportedly came from Abe Sanders of the Bureau of Engraving. The article notes the term cattle once meant wealth.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Arthur G. Klein
N. Y
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt Memorial
Hyde Park
Klein
Abe Sanders
Federal Bureau of Engraving
Little David Walker Skips Indiana Court Appearance
Indian apolis Indiana up a 13 year old evangelist known as Little David Walker skipped a juvenile court appearance to continue touring Canada he claims to preach to a 10 to 15 person revival group and guardianship for the boy is under review while the hearing is postponed to allow his appearance officials consider next steps for the case
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Indianapolis
Ind
Little David” Walker
God In Heaven
Louis Rosenberg
David
Canada
James Dawson
Jack Walker
Chicago
Dawson
Hinds
Rosenberg
Raymond Hoestra
Little David
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