Idaho Public Utilities OKs 15 Percent Rate Hike for Railway Express
Idaho Public Utilities Commission approves a 15 percent rate increase for the Railway Express Agency in Idaho, yielding about 18 000 dollars more annual revenue. Proposals in other states cited deficits and prior options, but the commission notes the need for additional intra state revenue while criticizing the carrier’s method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOISE
Idaho
Public Utilities Commission
Railway Express Agency
Commission
Owever
Railway Express
Sway Express Agency
Appliit
California
Skilled Men Have Chances For Area Jobs
The Idaho employment service lists openings for carpenters machinists electricians plumbers teachers stenographers and railroad laborers. Demand grows from peach prune and hops harvests in the south and from construction and logging work before winter. By Sept 4 the service offered 3208 jobs including 259 farm roles with 936 workers in the Idaho Falls Caldwell Emmett Payette Weiser Nampa Boise area seeking pruners peach pickers and hop labor. Urgent needs surfaced in Victor and Ririe for 125 green pea pickers and in Twin Falls for 75 hop-pickers as hop harvest winds down and potato and sugar beet work looms in Burley with 500–750 extra workers projected.
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Idaho
ISES
Employment Service
Caldwell
Emmett
Payette
Weiser
Nampa
Boise
Victor
Ririe
Twin Falls
Burley Ises
Tremor Felt Across Pacific Near Samoa
A strong earthquake rattled the Pacific region south of Samoa and was recorded in Hawaiʻi and on the mainland. The U S Army and naval observatories issued warnings and the first military air warning order traceable to 1907 is noted.
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Onolulu
T. H
Pacific
Samoa
Hawai
Barber’s At Naval Observatory
Army
Unitedes Army
GOP Charges Fear Behind Demos Drive
Albany report says Senator Kerry charged President Truman uses fear tactics in campaign citing left wing rhetoric and rabble rousing. Dewey plans Sept campaign kickoff in Des Moines with a westward tour, stressing midwest and senate contests.
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GOP
Demos
Albany
Truman
Wherry
Dewey
Mid-West
Nebraska
President Truman
Mr. Truman
Omaha
Des Moines
Iowa
Thomas E. Dewey
Pacific Coast
Republican High Command
California
Middle West
Senate
Miss Hush Weds In Hush Wedding
Martha Graham known as Miss Hush in radio contests married Erick Hawkins in Santa Fe New Mexico. Rev Kenneth M Keeler officiated at 12 30 p m with the county clerk’s office opening for the license. Both 46 and 39 and it was their first marriage. Honeymoon plans undisclosed.
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Santa FE
N.M
Martha Graham
Ohio study to guide national book sales patterns
The American Book Publishers Council announced a yearlong study of selling methods and book buying habits in Ohio. The Ohio results, dubbed the ideal American market, will be used to tailor book sales strategies for other states.
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Ohio
New York
American Book Publishers Council
Mitchum Surrenders To Grand Jury Indictment In Dope Case
Hollywood star Robert Mitchum appears before a grand jury on marijuana charges after a week in custody. Judge Thomas Ambrose sets arraignment for September 21. Mitchum signs autographs for cheering bobby-soxers as photographers flash outside the court. His attorney Jerry Giesler calls the crowd’s display a sign of public temperament.
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Hollywood
Robert Mitchum
Mitchum
Thomas Ambrose
Alva Barr
Bob
Barr
Jerry Giesler
America Accepts Bid to Conference on Italy’s Colonies
The United States on Wednesday conditionally accepted a Soviet proposal for an immediate Big Four conference on the disposition of Italy's pre war African colonies. The response was delivered to the Soviet embassy in a cool, unenthusiastic note.
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Washington
United States
Italy
Georgetown Social Notes Highlight Local Travels and Visits
Mrs. Frank Hayes visited Pocatello with her daughter. Several residents traveled to Utah, Boise, Malad, Montpelier, and Soda Springs for family and medical reasons. Local families hosted dinners and welcomed guests including Jim Crane, Glenn Bunting, and Mary Passey, while others reported trips to Rupert, Provo, Huntington Park, and Salt Lake City.
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Georgetown
Frank Hayes
Pocatello
J. J. Nevins
Mrs. Wilford Hayes
Glenn W. Bunting
Central Farmers Fertilizer Company of
Chicago
Frank Dennis
Salt Lake City
Rotary Sees Color Movies At Bannock Luncheon
Rotary members enjoyed color 16 mm films Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies and Trigger-happy Harry about firearms handling, produced through Idaho State College. President Mel Deaton presided and welcomed guests Robert Sheeran Wade Burlingame Russell South Fergus Buggs Jr George Hargraves W C Skinner Ray Stratford and Lowell Stratford.
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Hotel Bannock
Theodore Gathe, Jr
Jasper National Park
Canadian Rockies
Harry
National Rifleman’s Association
Idaho State College
Mel Deaton
Rotary
Robert Sheeran
Walla Walla
Washington
Wade Burlingame
Chicago
Russell South
Malad
Idaho
Fergus Buggs, Jr
Pocatello
George Hargraves
W. C. Skinner
Ray and
Lowell Stratford
Stanford University
Palo Alto
California
Army expands medical corps as 500 doctors to be commissioned
The surgeon general announces a new program to recruit civilian interns into the army medical corps reserve. In 1948 about 500 young doctors will be commissioned and assigned to army hospitals to compete for 260 residencies while retaining civilian residency pay. Dentists may also qualify. Interested physicians should write Personnel officer at Sixth Army Headquarters Presidio San Francisco.
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Army
Army Medical Corps
Sixth Army
Presidio
San Francisco
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Okehs
Gate City
Jerusalem
U.S
Ed Boot
N. Main, Pocatello
C.o.d
N. Main
Kenneth S.kerry
Miss Hush
Joan Hugg
University of Arizona Coed
Bob Mitchum
Bannock Brand
Meats & Meat Products
Meat Products
America
Mrs. Bertell Johnson
Utah
Mrs. Logan Bee
Conda
Mr. Bee
Kenneth Foss
Elmer Wilcox
Mrs
Ada Payne
Sam Bodell
Glenna Smith
Montpelier
Karen Clark
Floyd Clark
Henry Tippets
Dewayne Hayes
Dick Hayes
Lyndal, Utah
Pamela Hayes
Pat Smart
Lavern Busby
Perry
Leon Sorenson
Edith, Goodwin
Soda Springs
Bishop Passey
Mary Pas
R. D. Armstrong
Rupert
W. D. Hunter
Mr. Armstrong
SICE
Albion
G. Flemming
Provo
Don Rex
Mr. Flemming
Jim Crane
Charles Hess
Frank Riley
Huntington Park
Riley
Willard Stoddard
Leon Bee
Lloyd Sleight
Ross and
Ralph Wertschi
Auburn
Wyo
Tomlee Beach
Tomlee
Chrysler Oilite Bearings
Tomlee Belt
Sander
Carpenter
East Center
Stanley
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