Hellenic Youth Federation Opens Two Day Meet Here
The American Hellenic Youth Federation conference arrives in Pocatello with over 500 delegates from six states for a two day session to elect national officers, draw up a constitution, and set a site for a later meeting. Delegates from Utah Colorado Nebraska Wyoming Nevada gather at the Memorial building for registration and a four hour conference followed by a dance and Queen for a day contest. Special church services and a soft ball game are planned if weather permits with Kasai school performances and John Skandros as master of ceremonies.
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American Hellenic Youth Federation
Pocatello
30 Club
Ted Thiros
Thiros
Cris Metos
Salt Lake City
Price
Utah
Denver
Pueblo
Colo
Baird
Neb
Rock Springs
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ely
Nev
Memorial Building
Sam Hanson
Sam Pullos
Metos
Hellenic Hall
AFL Open to Amendments on Labor Bill
The AFL executive council announced willingness to accept four amendments to the Taft Hartley replacement bill. The changes include union financial statements, non communist affidavits by employers and workers, free speech guarantees for employers, and a 30 day strike bound plant provision if national emergency threats arise.
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Cleveland
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
William Green
AFL
Boy’s Play Proves Fatal in Watts Front Yard
In Los Angeles Ernie Gonzales 4 used a .22 rifle during a cops and robbers game and fatally shot his brother Louis 2 in the throat. Their mother Mrs Simon Gonzales lay critically ill at home as neighbors alerted authorities. An ambulance carried mother to a hospital. Louis died at a mortuary.
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Los Angeles
Ernie Gonzales
Louis
Ernie
Watts
Simon Gonzales
Louie
Gate City Proposes 1949 50 Budget for Pocatellans
The city council approved publication of the proposed 1.517 million dollar budget for 1949 50 with a $191 760 95 increase over last year. Public hearings set for June 3 will hear protests while the levy remains at 47 mills. The plan includes a 150 000 contingency fund for slot machine losses and shows mill levy changes across eight departments up, two down, two unchanged.
High Water For Portland Flood Reaches Portland Harbor
The spring flood of the lower Columbia River moved out to sea as the Willamette tributary backed up, forcing clearance of low docks in Portland harbor. Columbia River at Vancouver is expected to fall about half a foot, while feeder streams drop. Only near Trinidad Washington did the river rise, and Portland warehouses cleared freight from lower docks with the river at 21 feet.
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Portland
Ore
Columbia River
Willamette
Portland Harbor
Columbia
Vancouver
Wash
Trinidad
Grand Coulee Dam
City Hosts Junior Patrolmen Parade and Picnic
Pocatello and its Junior Chamber of Commerce will host about 600 junior police from Southeastern Idaho schools. An 11:30 a.m. parade from Memorial hall to Caldwell park leads to an afternoon Ross park picnic, with Memorial hall as backup in rain and a Chief theater movie replacing games. Lunches were donated by Pocatello merchants and the Javess.
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Pocatello
Stranded Grandmother and Boy Receive Kind Aid in Gate City
A four year old named Bobby Wade and his grandmother Mrs. Blossom Wade reached Gate City exhausted after a long journey from Denver. With funds exhausted and bus fare paid by Denver aid, they received meals and transport assistance at the Travelers Aid Society in the Union Pacific depot. Bobby, who longs to be a radio announcer, and his grandmother have faced hardship after the death of Grandfather Wade and family struggles across Texas and Colorado.
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Blossom Wade
Bobby
Pocatello
Travelers Aid
Mendy
Bobby Wade
Gate City
Denver
Vernonia
Ore
Portland
Wade
Texas
Beaumont
Tex
Kansas City
Okinawa
Lynn Harris
Pocatello Post
UAW threatens unfair labor charges against Ford over talks delay
The CIO United Auto Workers warned it will file unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB if Ford refuses to discuss a new contract until the speedup strike ends. UAW Chief Walter Reuther said talks would break off Monday if negotiations have not begun, amid a 15 day walkout by 62,200 Ford workers at two plants. Chief negotiator John Bugas said talks cannot start before June 1, and federal conciliator Arthur Vint urged continued talks beyond Monday.
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Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Ford
John
Bugas
Arthur C. Vint
National Labor Relations Board
Idaho State College approves gymnasium plans contract
The Idaho State Board of Examiners approved a contract between Idaho State College and Paradise and Hunter architects of Pocatello to prepare plans and specifications for a new college gymnasium.
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BOISE
State Board of Examiners
Idaho State College
Paradise and
Hunter, Architects
Potatello
Passenger Train Car Is Dumped Near Emory Utah
The last car of the Union Pacific Los Angeles limited derailed in Echo canyon near Emory Utah yesterday afternoon, killing Mrs George Jensen 61 of Minneapolis and injuring six others. The train continued after a two hour delay to Ogden with injuries to several passengers including Mr Jensen who sustained a broken leg.
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Union Pacific
Emory
Utah
Echo Canyon
Los Angeles
George Jensen
24Th Ave
Minneapolis
Hawthorne
Cal
J. G. Williams
Jensen
Dee Memorial Hospital
Ogden
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Coalville Hospital
W. K. McCawley
4Th Ave
Sioux City
C. Osborne
Elizabeth Martin
Doty Court
Englewood
Don Bossingham
Crenshaw Blvd
Limited
Summit County
U. P
Marine Jet Flier Killed at Chesapeake Bay Crash
Marine Capt. Alvin J. Jensen 28 was killed when his navy jet crashed into Chesapeake Bay during an air demonstration at Patuxent Maryland. Spectators watched as his wife Louise, invited to the show, witnessed the fatal plunge. Jensen was a Miami native who enlisted in May 1940.
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Patuxent, Md
Alvin J. Jensen
Navy
Chesapeake Bay
Louise
Jensen
Miami
Fla
Marine Corps
Truman Starts Coulee Generator Signal From White House
President Truman pressed a gold key at the White House to start the 10th main generator at Grand Coulee dam signaling commercial service. He said the extra power would aid Northwest industry and agriculture and urged Congress to approve a Columbia Valley Administration plan.
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Washington
Truman
Grand Coulee Dam
Great
Northwest
White House
Columbia Valley Administration
Settlement Reached In Six-Day Meat Cutter Strike
Meat cutters and six Pocatello store owners announced a settlement ending a six day strike. Key terms include 7 pm closing with broad store participation, Sunday and holiday closure of meat departments, and a wage scale of 70 dollars weekly for journeymen plus 75 for head cutters. A 1244 cent premium applies after 6 pm. The pact lasts despite city ordinance changes and includes the withdrawal of NLRB and Taft-Hartley charges and the injunction request against picketing.
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Pocatello
W. W. Halsey
NLRB
Berlin rail strike shuts all trains in western sector
Fifteen thousand railroad workers in western Berlin walk off at midnight amid clashes as strikebreakers and police clash. Electricity cuts halt services at Grunewald yards while Lehrter and Schoenberg stations see confrontations and radio cables are cut. Soviet direction and Standby U.S. forces loom as disruptions spread citywide.
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Berlin
Germany
Grunewald
Frank L. Howley
U. S
West End
Lehrter Bahnhof
West Berlin
Schoenberg
Rias Radio
Yukon Settlements Facing Inundation
Two Yukon river settlements were said by the 10th air force to be in immediate danger of inundation as the ice-choked river rose ten feet in three hours at Beaver, 110 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Yukon River
10Th Air Force
Beaver
Here
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Coeur d’ Alene
Hellenic Youth Federation
Simday
Kasai Dancing School
John Skandros
Pocatellans
Post
ISC Architect
Opehed
Canyon
United Press
Bank Nock
Jesus Rojas
Pedro Rodrigues
L. W. Nye
Yukon
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