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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1948
Page
2
The Labor Department reports a nine tenths of one percent drop in average wholesale prices last week with sharp declines in farm products and foods. Prices for 900 basic commodities were down two tenths from September and 1.2 percent below Augusts peak, though still about 64 percent higher than a year earlier.
Washington reports Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman received a ticket for standing his car in front of ECA headquarters. A squad car cited the vehicle while his chauffeur waited nearby in a no parking zone from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at 5:30 p.m.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will not be at home in Albany as President Truman visits. He asks state employees to extend a very warm welcome and has requested time off from the civil service commission to hear the president.
In Portland Maine thieves raided the Children's Hospital summer garden just before harvest, taking the grown squash and other harvested fruits from beds tended by children in cots wheelchairs and crutches.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Margaret Swan at the LDS tabernacle with several speakers and musical numbers. Interment followed in Riverton Utah. Nellie Pettigrew of Pocatello will have services at Be Famneral chapel with Mountain View cemetery interment. Edward F. Sims of Rupert, 42, died in Blackfoot after an extended illness. Services set for 2:30 p.m. at Goodman mortuary with burial in Burley Cemetery. Sims born December 8 1905 in Grand Junction Colorado. He leaves a mother and seven sisters and one brother. He lived on the Sims homestead north of town since age one. He was a Methodist.
An 18 year old Kansas City youth becomes heir to his father’s estate after his mother’s death. Heidenreich was killed by his son who claims self defense citing years of abuse. The elder was president of Carrie-Goudie Manufacturing and reputed to have a wartime fortune of $250000.
Cadet Jack R. Wheatley of Pocatello is promoted to corporal in the United States Military Academy cadet brigade. He serves as assistant squad leader in C company, first regiment, and has excelled in military aptitude ratings. Wheatley, son of Michael Wheatley, attended Pocatello High School and Idaho State College before joining West Point in 1946.
The British foreign office said Spain’s socialist Indalecio Prieto and monarchist Jose Maria Gil Robles reached a coalition government in exile excluding communists. The accord was handed to the British embassy in Paris, with terms not disclosed. Both leaders had recently visited London.
The North Central Idaho district of the American Legion opened its convention in Lewiston. Idaho department commander Jack McQuade, an ex-Pocatellan, was set to speak Thursday night. District commander is Mark Watkins of Grangeville, with Elbert Ralls of Lewiston as convention chairman.
A rhymed digest notes storms across the Caribbean and China, a Pocatello jury awarding forty thousand dollars for a boy’s death, wage talks for conductors and trainmen, and Kansas dry-wet politics. It ends with a tease for the next verse roundup.
Athan Coe and Darrell Blair of Lake Charles withdrew a pending suit in East Baton Rouge Parish as it came up for hearing. They asked a judge to bar Secretary Wade O. Martin Jr from listing electors as Democrats unless they backed President Truman and Senator Barkley, but backed off to avoid delaying the November ballot.
Hono lulu's district fire captain Michael Mahner laments not being able to wear a red flannel suit for a tropical parade week. He asks Pan-American Airways to locate and fly a suit by clipper plane. Pan Am searchers fail. LA assistant fire chief Harold Johnson notes red flannels are a thing of the past for 20 years.
The U S Chamber of Commerce reports a very strong immediate outlook with some soft spots. If investment in manufacturing shrinks, funds could shift to housing and services, spurring continued prosperity. housing construction hits records, new industries emerge, and agricultural tech improves.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke in Paris on skirt length calling daytime styles short and evening wear acceptable while deeming length a personal matter. She said delegates feel less urgency in Paris than Lake Success and prefer talking in meetings. She urged accepting the Bernadotte report as a basis for UN discussions as 58 nations meet.
The Monsanto Chemical Company will receive 17,312,000 as the largest single insurance payment in history for losses from the April 16, 1947 Texas City disaster. Negotiations concluded with the Oil Insurance Association of Chicago, a group of leading stock insurers. Monsanto originally claimed 21,542,999.
Col Joseph A. Hill of Portland proposes converting the idle army hospital at Brigham City into a coeducational military academy for medium income families and children from broken homes. He lobbies Governor Maw for endorsement as negotiations with the government continue for purchase.
New York 7 year old Charles Hankinson, first baseman for PS 165's third grade team, predicted the Boston Braves would win four straight games before the World Series and forecast the exact scores for each game, beginning with Boston 1 Cleveland 0.
Rexburg. John L. Clarke president of Ricks College said he has been invited to deliver a paper and join a round table at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. The Denver event runs November 26-27 and Clarke will discuss political science and the community.
John L. Lewis told the United Mine Workers 40th convention he would resist any congressional move to bar collective bargaining on welfare and pension plans. The gathering urged electing Republican Sen. John Cooper of Kentucky and six Democratic Senate candidates, and backed Taft Hartley law opposition in coal states while approving a 1949 wage demand and Feb. 12 holiday in mining in Lewis’s honor. The union funds welfare and retirement at 100 million and 10 million annually, paid by 20 cent per ton operator contributions.
Pvt. George Isabel Jr. of Memphis Tennessee narrowly escaped death after leaping 450 feet during a mass drop at Eglin Proving Ground. His chute opened only 50 feet from ground due to a likely static line failure amid 448 paratroopers in combined armed forces maneuvers.
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