Idaho Court Upholds Pocatello Election To Finance Building
The Idaho court upholds Pocatello's plan to fund a new county hospital building. A Monday rollout signals the community chest drive, with J C Penney employees among the first to donate, aligning with the slogan A day's pay the Red Feather way. Volunteers are assigned to district blocks across North Arthur to East Center streets, including North Main and South Main areas.
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IDAHO
Pocatello
Pocatello Community Chest
J. C. Penney Company
Community Chest
North Arthur Avenue
Bob Spaulding
Ed Cunningham
R. E.severn
Tom Evans
West
Main Street
W. H. Watts
Jim Bagwell
Russell Humphries
Art Young
Francis M. Goldsberry
Les Giauque
Kenneth Maynard
Zeke Hubbard
South Main Street
Howard Bernhagen
Wayne Tucker
Lew Harrison
Jack Holt
Sam Otto
Dave Rowe
Jack Henderson
Don Bistline
Helen Brown
Roland Smith
Jack Halliwell Jr
Harold Brown
Vivian Matson
James Fissel
Pete Peterson
Judd Fewens
South
Slight Drop In Department Store Sales Nationwide
A Federal Reserve report shows a 3 percent September sales slump nationwide with Ogden leading a 24 percent drop from September 1947. Salt Lake City shows an increase while southern Idaho mostly reports declines of 3 to 5 percent. Utah and southern Idaho as a region hover about one percent above 1947 yearly averages.
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Federal Reserve Bank
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Idaho
Utah
Police Seek Four School Escapees
Police in southwestern Idaho hunt four boys who escaped last night from the St. Anthony Industrial school. They are also sought in connection with an automobile theft in Idaho Falls. Two of the boys are from the Boise area, guiding the search to that region.
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Boise
Idaho
St. Anthony Industrial School
Idaho Falls
Hunting Trip Halted By Two Car Crash
A hunting trip was postponed after a two car head on collision near Bancroft injuring five of six people. Ed Brennan and K E Crandall were hospitalized with others including Harry Wiker L McComas Iris Newhart. State patrolman Al Nogo investigated the crash.
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Bancroft
Ed C. Brennan
South Arthur Ave
K. E. Crandall
North Fifteenth Ave
Soda Springs Hospital
Harry Wiker
North Hayes Ave
W. L. McComas
North Tenth Ave
Iris Newhart
al Nogo
Crandall
Brennan
Pocatello
Ranstom
Wiker
Montpelier
Cavalcade of Mirth and Music Delights Pocatello crowd
The first annual Cavalcade of Mirth and Music drew full houses Friday and Saturday at the Pocatello high school auditorium. Lions club sponsored shows featured Chuck Collins and Marvell Mills with Ran chero Ralph Garrett, Paul Straut, Ross Waters, and Allison Tall on a $3000 Hammond organ, praised by audiences for color and talent.
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Pocatello High School
Lions Club
Pocatello
Chuck” Collins
Comedienne
Collins
Ralph Garrett
Miss Mills
Paul Straut
Ross Waters
Allison Tall
Gifts Show Chest Drive Making Good for Pocatello
C Ed Flandro reports the Pocatello community chest drive has raised 17297 dollars from 348 donors in advance gifts. He expects 524 more contributions and notes last year’s total was 18747. A meeting at YMCA headquarters will tally final gifts with co chairmen Stan Day and Harold Ory.
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Pocatello
C. Ed Flandro
Flandro
community @ chest
YMCA
Drive
Stan Day
Harold Ory
Pilots Still aloft as fuel supply fails in crash
A jeep loaded with gasoline overturned during a refueling attempt at Ryan field in Hemet California. En durance pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, near the 100 hour mark of a six week flight, had only five hours of fuel left after the accident. They planned another refueling at Ontario California later Saturday before resuming flight.
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Hemet
Calif
Bill Barris
Dick Riedel
Ryan Field
Ontario
Kiddies Parade Opens Pocatello Community Chest Drive
Downtown shoppers enjoyed a festive Kiddies Parade that kicked off the 1949 community chest drive. About 1000 children and many decorated floats led by King and Queen Jingle Dorothy Hanaki and Fred W. Spong, with YMCA and Scout groups among participants, toured the business district and ended near the high school. Prizes from Fargo's and local merchants went to top floats from each agency.
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King and Queen
Dorothy Hanaki
Fred. W. Spong
Community Chest
YMCA
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Travelers’ Aid
Boy Scout
Nash
Garfield and Clark
Arthur Avenue
Fargo’s
Reliance Oil Company
Terrell's Shoe
Flying Farmers Elect Grandview Director
Emery McCarty of Idaho Falls was elected president of the Idaho Flying Farmers at their second annual convention at Zimmerly air transport station. He succeeded Wayne Harper of Emmett. Seventy five attendees included Ernest Gaffney of Flummer and A B Eckersell of Rigby as officers. New directors named were John Cobb Grandview Les Downing and George Crea Grangeville.
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Lewiston
Emery McCarty
Idaho Falls
Idaho Flying Farmers
Zimmerly Air Transport Station
McCarty
Wayne Harper
Emmett
Ernest Gaffney
Flummer
A. B. Eckersell
Rigby
John Cobb
Grandview
Les Downing
George Crea
Grangeville
Atomic City Opens Gates for Public Tour
Oak Ridge Tennessee welcomed visitors for the first time inviting the public to view parts of its atomic energy facility and learn some of its secrets while keeping most operations restricted to staff and researchers.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
Car Thieves Steal 1940 Ford With Sleeping Children
Blackfoot officers reported a car theft late Saturday night after a 1940 Ford two door with license 4B 4512 was taken from in front of the O P Skaggs Safeway. Two babies, unnamed, were inside. parents notified at about 8 30 p m. Police and state officers from multiple towns searched the area but reported negative results before midnight.
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Blackfoot
O. P. Skaggs Safeway
Bingham County
Charles Belnap
Pocatello
Randall Dexter
Idaho Falls
Masons Dedicate New Temple in Boise Area
Over 200 Masons participated in dedicating a new $225,000 Masonic temple at 500 North Arthur Street with 400 Masons and their ladies attending a banquet. Officials from Idaho and visiting Grand Representatives spoke as Governor C. A. Robins delivered the guest address.
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Masonic Temple
Arthur Street
William Wallin
Red Edge
A. Edward Prince
Boise
M. W
Jay A. Redfield
Idaho Falls
R. W
Sumner G. Davis
Jerome
Ray F. Brookhart
Pocatello
Roy N. Gilbert
Nampa
Clyde I. Rush
William D. Farnham
Payette
Noel M. Leavitt
Moscow
Angus Y. Bethune
Kellogg
Larry W. Brainard
Herbert H. Eberle
Suise
George D. Peacock
Charles A. Robins
Carl W. Swager
Rigby
Utah
Oregon
J. P. Halliwell
W. M. Portneuf Lodge
A. F
A. M
C. A. Robins
Nurses Tests Here Monday
Twenty seven Pocatello graduate nurses will be examined Monday for license to practice their profession in this state. Mrs. Estella S. Mulliner occupational license director stated from her Boise headquarters Saturday. Throughout the state seventy nurses will take examinations in this city Boise and Lewiston. In Boise thirty nine will be given examinations. Four will take the final tests in Lewiston.
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Pocatello
Estella S. Mulliner
Boise
Lewiston
Idaho Supreme Court Upheld Bannock Hospital Bond Election
The Idaho Supreme Court in Boise unanimously affirmed the 1,000,000 dollar Bannock county bond election of 1946 to fund a new hospital. Despite the ruling, contestants may seek a rehearing while ongoing lawsuits seek to delay bond sales and challenge zoning compliance as the county prepares to auction the bonds.
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Idaho Supreme Court
Boise
Bannock
High Court
Paul Hyatt
Guy Stevens
B. A. McDevitt
Pocatello
Bancroft
McDevitt
Ralph Harrison
David Revoir
Homer Johnson
Ammon Hatch
Lester Hansen
Board of County Commissioners
Justice Hyatt
Supreme Court
Stevens
Bancroft Area
Clarence Jeffery
Henry McQuade
Bannock Commissioners
Bancroft and Grace
Bannock County
Jeffery
W. H
Pete) Jensen
Bannock Court House
Local Woman Honored At Convention In Minnesota
Mrs J Bryen Blackhurst from Idaho attended the national federation of women's clubs convention in St Paul Minnesota as a page. She joined Mrs Cuba Ann Proctor and Mrs Gilford Mayes from Idaho. Mayes was elected the new fourth vice president. Delegates attended forums on Dewey and Warren and a rally for Gov Dewey. Blackhurst was accompanied by her son Dennis and spent time with relatives in Minnesota and Oregon.
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Pocatello
Blackhurst
Dewey
Warren
Gov
Pocatello Civic Worker
Minnesota
Dennis
Kent Blackhurst
Steven
Eugene
Ore
Machines Hit Yard But Drivers Live
Two local crashes investigated by Pocatello police ended with no injuries. In one incident, Mrs. J O Gardner of Hazelton Idaho collided with a parked car driven by Willard Lundin of Idaho Falls on North Main Street, causing minor damage. In the second crash, James Lowe and Earl McCallum collided, with Parley L Lloyd’s parked car struck. all three vehicles sustained minor damage.
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Pocatello
J. O. Gardner
Hazelton
Idaho
Willard M. Lundin
Idaho Falls
Gardner
North Main Street
Lundin
James Lowe
North Fifth Ave
Earl McCallum
Sunset Courts
Parley L. Lloyd
Central
Lowe
Center Street
McCallum
Lloyd
Idaho Legionnaires Return From Miami Convention
Idaho American Legion delegates to the national convention in Miami last week will return home this weekend, according to the state Legion headquarters. The group served as delegates to the national gathering.
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Boise
Idaho
Miami
State Legion
New Dams Planned on Columbia River in Montana
The Bureau of Reclamation announced a long range plan to develop the Columbia River with 13 new dams and eight new power plants in Montana.
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Columbia
Helena
Columbia River
Montana
Bureau of Reclamation
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Grandview Director
Atomic City
Masons
New Temple
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