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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1949
Page
1
Three meetings are planned today among teachers principals and superintendents of Independent School District No 1 to prepare for the opening of school next Tuesday. The 10 a m session with George N Green at the high school, 11 a m with school principals, 12 noon PTA lunch, and 2 p m with department heads.
A three or four year old wandered East Side streets and was brought to Pocatello police. After being secured in the record room the child cried loudly until a soda quieted him. He was later placed in a patrol car and taken to St. Anthony’s Hospital until his parents could claim him.
KEYY launches Books and You a Saturday morning program at 11 30 featuring Eli Oboler Idaho State College librarian. The show will highlight upcoming fall book releases and offer quick author sketches to help listeners judge what the new volumes may contain.
Sanitary Inspector S. D. Clinton urged all food handlers barbers and beauty operators to renew health cards during September. Cards will be valid from issuance until a six month period expires. Foods handlers include workers in taverns restaurants bars groceries and meat markets.
The hospital bond committee reports it has the required signatures though some may not be valid and seeks 500 more by Wednesday. Petitions will be circulated and available at J. C. Penney Fargo-Wilson-Wells Montgomery Ward and The People's Store for signatures.
Muriel Lester of London will address Sunday services at 11 a.m. at the First Methodist church, announced by Rev. Leroy H. Walker. Lester co founded Kingsley Hall in London and recently returned to the United States after a coast to coast tour visiting Germany India New Zealand and Australia.
Governor C A Robins announced Idaho will not loosen liquor or gambling law enforcement during Labor Day weekend. He told Law Enforcement Commissioner R C Lewis that circulating rumors of relaxed enforcement are false and must stop.
William E. McKenney, America's card authority, will author a 12 part series on Canasta for NEA Service and The Pocatello Post starting next Monday. The game is a wilder version of rummy and family friendly.
A compilation of quirky brief items from Atlanta and other locales. Willie Garrison, 7, suffers another mule bite after posing for a photo. Giovanni Banfi, 19, dies climbing in the Alps and later asks for a service. Percy Coplon, five feet tall, begins a 100 day fast atop a tower to shed pounds. Red Wing workers decline a wage raise to curb taxes. Wesley Fahnstrom, 50, recovers from a triple leg fracture after roller skating.
Reporters rushed to the home of 72 year old W. G. Westren after news he won 22500 dollars in the New South Wales government lottery. His daughter said he died of a heart attack last night, mourning for the prize he never collected.
The Retail Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will enter a special float in the Labor Day parade here. Plans were set at a Friday noon meeting at the Whitman hotel for a Fall Opening at 7 p.m. next Friday with special store windows and a Fashion and Talent Show at the high school auditorium at 8 15 p.m. The Welcome Bengals event is scheduled for Sept 17 and ISC term begins Sept 19 at Idaho State College in Pocatello. Stores will close 2 p.m. Sept 17 to maximize attendance at the ISC Wyoming football game.
Percy Walters suffered injuries after a motorcycle collision near Bargain Barn market. Walters was thrown from his bike and treated at General Hospital for observation. Alice Skinner of 33714 N Seventh Ave Alameda drove the other vehicle with an expired license. Walters reportedly rode without a license or tag.
Boise Idaho Labor Day weekend message warns motorists about deadly driving habits. It lists five risky acts to avoid including speeding drunk driving reckless behavior and driving with faulty equipment to prevent crashes and injuries.
The State Department accused Soviet Russia of breaking agreed principles in Austrian peace talks carried out with the Big Four deputies in London. It said stalemates centered on economic advantages to Austria at others expense, with Moscow delaying a new conference in New York and seeking to keep war booty and oil concessions. It noted concessions only shifted against Yugoslavia.
The Rev. Leonard Feeney at St. Benedict Center Cambridge leads about 65 students and 10 faculty in arguing salvation outside the Catholic Church. He travels to Rome to plead with Pope Pius XII after being stripped of priestly powers and censured by the Holy Office while six engaged couples faced interdicts and all classes continued.
Oscar B. Sigman and his son Sterling, both contract well drillers from American Falls, narrowly escaped electrocution while blasting rock on the Lee Richardson farm nine miles south of town. Sterling connected dynamite leads to a truck battery to detonate the charge, sending current through the truck and a high voltage line. The blast knocked them unconscious and Richardson rushed to summon authorities at the nearby poultry farm.
The Labor Department reports a decline in initial and continued unemployment claims last week as plants reopen. State data show 809,500 workers exhausted benefits in the first half of the year, while total insured jobseekers fell to 2,138,700 amid new wage-credit eligibility and ongoing benefit expirations.
Dr. Aaron J. Smith of Greensboro leads five Americans to Dogu Bayazit after a futile climb on Mt. Ararat. He hopes for another ascent within two to three weeks before winter snows cover routes, citing belief in scientific data and a 1883 Turkish expedition witness.
Henry DeGiorgio, Portneuf Park housing authority manager, told to contact the Public Housing Administration Seattle office about building a 900 foot fence along the Portneuf river after residents requested protection for about 850 children. The push follows the Aug 26 drowning death of 3-year-old Larry Floyd Lattimer.
An Air Force C-47 transport with seven crewmen aboard crashed into Cook Inlet near Anchorage on Friday and all onboard are reported dead. The wreckage was identified by a seaplane pilot after a C-82 Troop Carrier radar relayed the sighting near Fire Island. The aircraft belonged to the Alaska air depot at Elmendorf Field.
Two new typhoons posed fresh dangers to the Okinawa Iwo Jima region and to Japan as flood threats eased after a major recent typhoon. U S warnings warned installations on Okinawa and Iwo Jima of storms with winds 70 to 85 mph. Recon planes located typhoon Lise 600 miles southeast of Okinawa moving northwest at 12 mph with 85 mph winds and intensifying.
In Washington a Navy court convicted Patrick James Ryan, 23, of Huntingdon Pa, of jumping ship in the Mediterranean. He claimed shanghaied into the French Foreign Legion. Verdict details and whether desertion or absence without leave will be reviewed by Potomac Naval Command.
Justice Wiley Rutledge slipped into a coma and was reported in very grave condition after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at York Hospital where he was being treated for a cardiac condition. The injury prompted concern from officials and the public as details emerged Friday night.
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