Pocatello Schools Strain Overcrowding on Opening Day
Emergency units were mobilized as 416 students entered classrooms on the first day, up 337 from last year. Seven new classrooms and seven teachers were added to accommodate the surge. Space shortages affect grades one two seven and eight while the state ratio guides teacher load.
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Pocatello Public
George N. Green
Green
State Education Department
Bonneville
Emerson
Whittier
Roosevelt School
Tyhee
Pocatello
Washington School
El Paso Private Admits Slaying Fort Bliss Officer
El Paso, Texas. A private from Fort Bliss admitted he struck Lt. Edward L. Helmstetter to death after a dispute over a woman. He said he did not know the lieutenant was dead until he saw the victim’s picture in a newspaper. Autopsy cited suffocation from a broken jaw and skull injuries.
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EL Paso
Tex
L. Meloche
Fort Bliss
Edward L. Helmstetter
Meloche
Helmstetter
Bevin and Cripps Arrive For World Economic Talks
Foreign Secretary Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in New York for three power talks with Canada and the United States. They said their aim was a permanent solution to world economic ills hindering peace and that they would not accept blame from others. Bevin cited postwar progress including the Brussels Pact the European Economic Community and the Atlantic Pact as key achievements.
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New York
Ernest Bevin
Stafford Cripps
United States
Bevin
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
Council of Europe
Egg Price Probe Set by Senate Agriculture Committee
Chairman Elmer Thomas ordered a probe into reports of manipulation of the government egg price support program. He proposed legislation to empower the agriculture secretary to cut the 1949 egg and Irish potato support levels.
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Washington
Elmer Thomas
Senate Agriculture, Committee
Oklahoma Democrat
Secretary of Agriculture
Thomas
Three Elected To School Board In District No 25
Grant L. Stowell Arthur Scott and Clarence Stephenson were elected to the School District No 25 board in Tuesday's vote reported by district business manager treasurer Vernell C. Hurst. In a 1139 vote tally Stowell led Zone Two with 357 votes while Scott led Zone Three with 248 and Stephenson led Zone Four with 353.
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Grant L. Stowell
Arthur Scott
Clarence Stephenson
Vernell C. Hurst
Stowell
Rhondea U
Jones
Yearsley
Buehler
Johnson
Horrocks
Cleare
Scott
Shields
Billmeyer
Stephenson
Kirchner
Dufford
DeKay
Stoker
Government seeks temporary power injunction over Idaho Power line
Federal Judge Chase A. Clark demanded the government prove irreparable damage from Idaho Power Companys transmission line project across public lands between Boise and American Falls. The hearing addressed the governments request for a temporary injunction pending final ruling.
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Boise
Chase A. Clark
Idaho Power Company
American Falls
U. S
Paul S. Boyd
Peeping Toms At Sugamo Prison Name Unnamed Congressmen
Former guard Martin Pray testified in the treason trial of Iva Toguri D Aquino that five U.S. congressmen visited Sugamo prison in 1945 to view Tokyo Rose while she bathed. He did not identify the lawmakers and was not allowed to testify about the visit.
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San Francisco
Tokyo Rose
Martin Pray
Salinas
Calif
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
Sugmo
Tojo
Tokyo
Rose
Pray
Czechs Charge U.S. Troops Seized Civilians Near Border
Prague reports United States Army troops seized 22 Czech soldiers and a nine year old boy near Nove Donky in Tachov district on August 27. The detainees were questioned for 24 hours before release, according to a foreign ministry note to the U.S. embassy.
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Prague
United States Army
Nove Donky
Tachov
U. S
Germany
Bailey Found Guilty In Sink Theft Case
Philadelphia report says Herbert Lee Bailey was convicted and sentenced to 90 days to a year for stealing a kitchen sink. The case highlights a unusual property crime and court action in the city.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Lee Bailey
Mass killer Howard Unruh shoots 12 dead in Camden burst
In Camden New Jersey on Tuesday Howard Unruh a 27 year old veteran and Bible bearing fanatic opened fire in a business district killing 12 and wounding five in about 20 minutes. He told Camden County Prosecutor E Mitchell Cohen he sought revenge because neighbors had talked about him. Police found rifles shotguns and handguns in his apartment.
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Camden
N. J
Howard Unruh
Unruh
Camden County
Mitchell H. Cohen
Bride-To-Be Changes Mind and Starts 2-State Hunt
Reatha Nixon, 22, of Ogallah Kansas, vanished from a Union Pacific train before a planned Buckner Maryland wedding to Russell Johnson 23. Johnson, a Missouri University student, searched eastern Kansas with railroad officials then reunited with Nixon at the Topeka police station after a 30 hour cross state hunt.
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Bride-To-Be
Topeka
Kan
Reatha Nixon
Russell Johnson
University of Missouri
Kansas City Mo
Union Station
Johnson
Manhattan
Missouri University
Kansas
Union Pacific Railroad
Ogallah, Kan
Buckner
Union Pacific
Pauline Nixon
Miss Nixon
Kansas City
Lawrence
Rail Freight Embargo Set
Missouri Pacific railroad imposed an embargo on freight shipments effective at midnight due to a threatened strike by operating employees set for Friday. Shipments received before midnight would move. none after. An embargo on passenger mail baggage and express service begins at midnight Thursday.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Brotherhoods
Job Council Program Sets Pocatello Employment Plan
Pocatello forms a special council on civilian employment after Naval Ordnance Plant closure. J W B Cox of Idaho State Employment Service says job classifications by skills will be ready soon and all details go through his office. Local employers urged to hire from Cox listings to reuse discharged workers with homes here. Council includes Cox L C Johnson Vern Hershberger Frank Gracey and Mayor W W Halsey.
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Pocatello
Naval Ordnance Plant
City Hall
J. W. B. Cox
Idaho State Employment Service
Cox
L. C. Johnson
Vern Hershberger
Frank Gracey
W. W. Halsey
Demand Air Races Stop After Cleveland Crash
Angry crowds pressure halt to high speed closed course events as Bill Odom dies in a $100,000 speed plane crash into a house. Officials consider moving the National Air Races to Los Angeles, Detroit, or Chicago while Ben Franklin urges patience for sentiment to subside.
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Cleveland
Bill Odom
Odom
Los Angeles
Detroit
Chicago
Ben Franklin
Air Races
Truman Returns to Washington After Grandview Visit
President Truman flew from Grandview Missouri to Washington aboard the Independence returning to the capital after visiting friends and relatives.
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Truman
Washington
Capital
The
Independence
Grandview
Girl 15 Charged In Dad's Hammer Slaying
A 15 year old Idaho girl Charlotte Burns was charged with first degree murder in the hammer killing of her 67 year old father. Prosecutor McFarland said the charge allows she be held during the investigation. Coeur d Alene deputies said she admitted striking him as he slept after he refused to take her places.
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Sandpoint
Idaho
Charlotte Burns
Bonner County
Robert E. McFarland
Coeur d'Alene
Bride Drowned Lashed To Mast In Lake Michigan
The half nude body of Mrs Laurel Neitzel 22 was found lashed to the mast rigging of a disabled 24 foot sail boat on Lake Michigan. Coast Guard vessels searched for her missing husband and two companions who were believed swept overboard and drowned.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Coast Guard
Laurel Neitzel
Tearful Shirley Fails Channel Swim But Seeks Return
Shirley May France, 17, of Somerset Mass, gave a gallant 10 hour 39 minute attempt to swim the English Channel from Cap Gris Nez to Dover. Exhausted and drenched, she was pulled aboard and apologized for letting everyone down. She vowed to try again, trainer Ted Warner saying another go might come later, not this year.
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Dover
England
Shirley
France
English Channel
Somerset, Mass
Cap Gris Nez
Ted Warner
Defense budget under study signals three billion cut
Washington sources say the planned 1951 military budget totals about 13.7 billion dollars, roughly 3.6 billion less than the current level. Navy likely to be hardest hit, with more ships in reserve and fewer officers. Army and Air Force face reductions, and overhead for defense offices may push costs above 200 million.
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Washington
Defense
Truman
Air Force
Congress
Office of Secretary of Defense
National Security Council
National Security Resources Board
Holiday Toll Reaches 513
CHICAGO UP The toll of traffic deaths over the Labor Day weekend was the worst of any holiday in history a United Press survey showed. Traffic mishaps claimed 383 of 513 lives lost in what the National Safety Council said was unquestionably an all time high for any holiday. The overall toll included 57 drownings 22 deaths in air crashes and 5 from miscellaneous causes. Michigan and California led the states with a total of 42 deaths each.
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Chicago
United Press
National Safety Council
Michigan
California
Barkley Dances With Countess On Night Club Evening
Vice President Alben W. Barkley and Mrs. Carleton Hadley dined at a St Louis night club after which newspapermen were asked to leave the room. Barkley requested no interviews or photos and the press left as photographers lingered, drawing attention from the show.
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St, Louis
Alben W. Barkley
Carleton
Hadley
Barkley
Chase Hotel
Waters
Wmen
James Evasi
Harold Koplar
Koplar
Pie
Uni
Acme Pictures
St. Lauis Star Times
Globe-Democrat
Post-Dispatch
Associated Press
Fetus E
Fan A A Peiro
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Moore
Arco Fire Department
Fort. Bliss
Cripps
Bates Congress
Post
Mane
Job Council
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