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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1949
Page
4
The speech urges honors for Civil War dead and all fallen soldiers. It calls Americans in Pocatello and across the nation to pledge deeper civic work, democracy, liberty, and peace, aiming to lift everyone to dignity and security, with wreaths as symbolic tribute.
Winthrop Brubaker of Chance Vought Aircraft recounts a China India airlift story of a hump pilot who hauled a Himalayan cub bear aboard a C 47. When fighters approached the pilot activated auto pilot and watched the bear occupy the seat through a car window. A fighter closed in to verify the sight as the bear flew the transport. The report led to the pilot being sent home for combat fatigue.
A veteran columnist laments unfulfilled pledges to the war dead while recalling Armistice Days from Anzio to Philadelphia. He cites leaders like Byrnes and Acheson, urges people to uphold peace beyond treaties, and compares peace to a daily commitment rather than a signing ceremony.
A daredevil boaster insists on opening his own egg, but burns fingers, spills yolk, and wastes the meal. He finally questions whether bold risk or simple help from others is wiser. The piece contrasts bravado with practical caution.
In March 1868 Mrs. John A. Logan visited Virginia battlefields and noted Confederate graves adorned with flowers and flags. General Logan, then Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued General Order No 11 designating May 30, 1868 as a day to decorate graves of fallen comrades, a practice the GAR and posts observed by the following year.
Hollywood clamor to be TV capital clashes with New York asserting ownership of television as the medium grows. The piece notes industry players, set designs by Gordon Wiles for Gun Crazy, actor weight loss for The Octopus and Miss Smith, studio chatter about Jim Brown, foundry reuse for a film titled Abandoned, and light gossip about Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt's wedding in Billie Burke's biography.
Earl Wilson covers tidbits from a Cincinnati appearance where Allen joked about a gambling fling at French Lick and a note warned him about the game. Joe E. Lewis quips about drunken candles to Leon Henderson, Winchell praises a new book dedication, and Ken Murray turns down TV pay.
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