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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1948
Page
4
The article urges Idaho residents to stay engaged after elections, noting national events affect the West. It highlights platforms, promises from Idaho candidates, and the chance to act if the chosen officials fail, underscoring American democracy’s right to change rulers.
In Helena, Montana, workers digging a new elevator shaft at the Placer Hotel struck gold valued at about 16 million dollars in Last Chance Gulch during the 19th century. Hotel officials chose to pour concrete instead, arguing the gold’s value lies in the ground while the project proceeds and guests profit from higher hotel rates.
A looming transition between Nov 3 and Jan 20 heightens uncertainty as Truman faces possible defeat. Tensions rise between the White House and top foreign policy officials over Israel borders and Moscow talks. Rumors swirl about resignations and possible replacement by John Foster Dulles to bridge policy gaps.
Marquis Childs reports on questions whether Dulles would accept a role and Dewey staying aloof during the transition. Forrestal urged to remain months to ensure continuity while new brains prepare rearmament and budgets.
A reader thanks Mrs. H Marley for safety ideas and argues for stricter Idaho driver testing and better street markings. The column notes high accident areas, especially at Halliday Fourth, and supports a traffic light at that intersection. Foreign cars and the Death Curve near Yellowstone Highway are cited as danger factors.
Parents face duty toward children with mental disability and must accept IQ limits. The article explains IQ as mental age divided by chronological age times 100 and notes testing value while warning against overreliance. It categorizes levels from idiot to imbecile to less severely retarded and the need for appropriate schooling or institutional care.
A lively column imagines historic figures in an all-woman football lineup and tracks the life of Genevieve Paddleford Teal, a socialite du jour who rose from Kansas City birth to St. Paul gossip, Chicago theater, and a troubled marriage arc ending with an expensive funeral in New York.
The piece traces Genevieve Paddleford in a spree of fake marriages and swindles from Texas oil schemes to Europe Asia and America. She marries wealthy men and drains funds, with an undertaker exposing her, ending in a 1936 arrest in Walla Walla and a long prison sentence. The narrator humorously riffs about the exploits, naming Eleanor Holm Cleopatra Peggy Joyce and other figures as rivals or teammates in a mock sports dialogue.
Editor notes a luncheon at the MacArthurs’ Tokyo home with General Douglas MacArthur and wife. The writer recounts briefing by Henry, mutual admiration, anecdotes of Manila and Bataan, and impressions of the General’s youthfulness, charm, and humor as Japanese servants in kimonos serve.
A column accuses Fort Hall Indians in Bannock County Idaho of being paid to vote in past elections. It suggests an opposition bid to break a party monopoly and warns readers to prevent repeat vote buying while denouncing corruption.
A collage of abrasive observations inked by figures like James Kemper and Harry Ferguson critiques labor, meat industry accidents, belief and doubt, and government farm price support. The remarks touch on production, consumer risk, and policy during economic strain.
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