New McCammon Lava Highway Section To Open Mid July
The 7.7 mile McCammon to Lava Hot Springs U S 30 section replaces eight miles of old roadway with 27 fewer curves. The project costs total about 558000 dollars with bridge work by Henry Horn. Construction has run three years and traffic is expected to rise 25 to 50 percent to roughly 900 cars daily.
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Topaz
McCammon and
Lava Hot Springs
Portneuf
Marsh Valley Canal
Union Racifc
C. A. Kelly
Mendy
McCammon
U. S. 30 N
Union Pacific
Portneuf-Marsh Valley
Grant Construction Co
Henry Horn
Caldwell
Kelly
Axe Slayers Luck Earns 30 Day Reprieve
Axe murderer Jake Bird, 47, narrowly avoided execution for the third time in 18 months as the ninth U S Circuit Court of Appeals granted a reprieve and ordered a habeas corpus review. Warden Tom Smith informed Bird in his Washington State penitentiary cell that the delay would last 30 days, while Bird prayed with his spiritual adviser. Bird has confessed to 29 murders, and his escapes have repeatedly delayed his fate since 1948 with previous interventions by Gov Wallgren and Justice Douglas.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Jake Bird
Tom Smith
Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Bird
Tacoma
Washington
Mon C. Wallgren
U. S. Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Tacoma Nolice
Polio Victim Flown to St Luke’s for Emergency Care
Two year old Danny Wynn, first 1949 polio victim in Bannock County, flown from Alameda to Boise for urgent treatment. Accompanied by his mother and a nurse, the child was transported by Herb Marks Jr., Hayfield airport pilot, to St Luke’s Hospital in Boise.
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Danny Wynn
Bannock’ County
Boise
Little Danny
Fred Wynn
Randolph Ve
Alameda
St. Luke’s Hospital
Herb Marks Jr
Hayfield
Ford Plans New Proposal to End Auto Strike
Ford Motor Company completed a new peace plan aimed at ending a three week strike by 62 200 United Auto Workers members. Top Ford officials held policy sessions to finalize the proposal and intended to present it to the UAW before a scheduled negotiating session.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
United Auto
Ford
UAW
Arthur C. Vint
Reds Control World's 4th Largest City
Communist troops completed capture of Shanghai after driving nationalist forces from western suburbs and bridging the Soochow Creek. Sentries posted on bridges as residents, including hundreds of foreigners, were freed from the north bank. Artillery ceased in Woosung area signaling sea evacuation largely finished.
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Shanghat
Soochow Creek
Asia
Soochow
Red Army
Woosung
Whangpoo
Bunche Named Father of the Year for Peace Efforts
The national Father’s Day committee named Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN mediator in Palestine, Father of the Year for his peace role. Also cited as outstanding fathers were Connie Mack Alfred Drake John Garfield Gabriel Heatter and Ed Sullivan. Tex and Jinx McCrary honored as couple of 1949.
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New York
Ralph Bunche
United Nations
Palestine
Holy Land
Connie Mack
Alfred Drake
John Garfield
Gabriel Heatter
Ed Sullivan
Tex
Jinx McCrary
Parking ban proposed on three streets to ease downtown traffic
Mayor W. W. Halsey proposed banning parking on Main and Center streets and on Arthur Avenue as temporary relief for downtown congestion. The plan shifts to one way Lewis and Clark streets between Union Pacific and Arthur, limits Clark and Lewis entrances, and removes traffic lights at key intersections to improve flow. Bus loading shifts off Arthur Center, with further one way schemes tied to the Manson parking project and Highway 30N addition.
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Main
Center Streets
Arthur Avenue
W. W. Halsey
Lewis and Clark
Union Pacific
Arthur Avenues
Halsey
Clark
Lewis
Arthur
Center
Main Street
Harrison
Berlin Rail Blockade Strangles West Berlin Transit
Western trains cancelled as 32 eastbound freight trains remain trapped in the Soviet zone. About 140 people aboard five stalled cars faced dwindling food and water while Soviet crews switched tracks to Potsdam. Berlin relies on airlift for essentials as strike by anti Communist Germans continues.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Helmstedt
West
West coast longshoreman Bridges faces perjury charge in San Francisco
Harry Bridges arrives in San Francisco to face a federal indictment for perjury and conspiracy to defraud the government over alleged Communist Party ties. Co defendants post bail. Bridges expected to surrender. In Idaho, Potatello high school reports 155 drivers trained with 24 hours of actual driving and 6,000 miles logged in a dual-control car in a year.
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Pocatello High School
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
TWA
Honolulu
Bridges
U. S
Francis St. J. Fox
Federal
Richard Gladstein
Gladstein
Communist Party
New York
J. R. Robertson
International Longshorpmen’s._and Warehousemen's Union
Robertson
ILWU
Louis Goodman
John P. Boyd
Justice Department
Pocatello
Woods
Queen Mary Celebrates 82nd Birthday at Buckingham Palace
Queen Mary marked her eighty second birthday with a quiet luncheon at Buckingham Palace. The sprightly and alert monarch attended the event in her honors.
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London
Mary
Bucklingham Palace
Quintuplets to celebrate 15th birthday at home
Dionne quintuplets will turn 15 this Saturday in Callander Ontario. The five sisters will mark the day quietly with family and school friends, each receiving a separate birthday cake for Annette Cecile Emilié Marie and Yvonne.
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Dionne
Callender
Annette
Cecile
Emilié
Marie
Yvonne
Council Considers Irving School as New City Hall Site
Mayor W. W. Bill Halsey and several Pocatello council members tentatively weigh using Irving school auditorium or another school as future council chambers. The current police station chamber is too small, and the police department needs space for a record room and courtroom. Chief A L Oliver says remodeling could split the room, preserving space for police court and training, with records cabinets centralized.
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W. W
Bill” Halsey
Pocatello City
Halsey
No Progress By Big Four In Paris Talks
In Paris the Big Four foreign ministers failed to break a deadlock over Germany. Dean Acheson rejected returning to four power control and Andre Vishinsky attacked the western German government plan. Bevin and Vishinsky traded sharp remarks as the three hour session ended with no progress.
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Paris
Tae
Germany
Dean Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Ernest Bevin
Atom Chief Faces Senate Inquiry Over Lilienthal Row
President Truman defends Lilienthal against Republican critics charging carelessness in the atomic program. Sen McMahon orders a full investigation of the program while Hickenlooper Cain and others press for Lilienthal’s removal. Vandenberg insists civilian control remain. See LILIENTHAL-Page 2.
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Lilienthal
Truman
Brien McMahon
Conn
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Harry P. Cain
Wash
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Hickenlooper
Kenneth, Wherry
Neb
Homer Ferguson
John Bricker
GOP
Phalanx
Pat McCarran
Tom Connally
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Pocatello New Car Dealers
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George Wood
Phyllis Richmond
Shirley Sturman
Queen Mary
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