Youth Selves Mystery Of Old Murder
Houston sea man John Robertson 21 says the Lord led him to return home to confess a 14 month old liquor store murder in which 59 year old W T Hightower was killed. Robertson claims he fired the fatal shot and that he will face punishment or prison, while accomplices aged 17 and 18 are also charged.
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Houston
Tex
John Robertson
Harris
Robertson
A. C. Winborn
San Diego
W. T. Hightower
Randal Duncan
Don Little
Hightower
Home Talent Air Show In Pocatello Saturday
Local talent will perform at 10 45 a m Saturday over station KSEI. Young pianists from the Pocatello music club merit pin will join the Fawson Music Company program to please the ear with home grown efforts and boost student musical inspiration.
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Pocatellans
KSEI
Pocatello Music Club
Fawson Music Company
Marriner Eccles Visiting In Utah
Utah financier and former Federal Reserve chairman Marriner S. Eccles arrived in Salt Lake City from Canada for a short visit. He planned to spend a few days with friends and relatives before returning to Washington.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Marriner S. Eccles
Canada
Eccles
Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
Maine hunters forecast 45000 deer without harming herds
State Game Commissioner George J. Stobie estimates the fall deer harvest in Maine could reach 45 000 without depleting populations, noting especially high numbers in farm areas across the state.
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Augusta
Maine
George J. Stobie
New York Racing and County Fairs Through 19th Century
A compact look at how trotting horse races and county fairs in New York developed together across the 1830s to 1870s, shaping regional events and community life.
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New York
Desperate custody case ends in family tragedy
In Catonsville Maryland Mildred McClellan 43 killed herself and her two children Chip 10 and Mary in a gas asphyxiation linked to a custody dispute with ex husband Dr Philip G McClellan of Hartford Conn A birthday cake remained uncut on the kitchen table a note blamed herself and warned her husband would never get the children Police found the residence with all gas jets open and a deceased cocker spaniel nearby
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Catonsville
Chip
Mildred McClellan
Registration Runs High at Pocatello High School
Freshman registration neared 443 by Friday with 325 of 350 seniors enrolled for fall term. Sophomores total 377 and juniors 340. Principal Rip Gledhill announced new courses for full term students including a seniors only music appreciation class, chorus for underclassmen, a home mechanics course for freshmen, and a seniors only car drivers training course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Gardier
Pocatello Senior High
Rip Gledhill
Pocatello High
Eight injured in intersection crash near Twin Falls
Two in critical condition at Twin Falls county hospital after a Thursday afternoon collision near Twin Falls that heavily damaged two cars. Victims include Lee Gates 39 with a fractured skull and ribs in critical condition, and family members from Gates and Watts households with various fractures and concussions.
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Twin Falls
Lee Gates
Ronnie Gates
Howard Young
Lake Bark
Archie Watts
Loveland
Colo
Gates
Allan Gates
Gerry
Watts
Young
Ocean Searched For Lost Planes
Manila report says all planes of the U S 13th Air Force searched the western Pacific Friday for four missing P-47 fighters from a navigational training flight from Clark Field to Formosa. Maj Herbert Von Tungern said the remaining 12 planes landed in Formosa and two were damaged on landing with no injuries to pilots.
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Manila
U. S
13Th Air Force
Pacific
Clarkfield
Formosa
Herbert von Tungern
Flagpole Sitter Sets New World Mark in Long Beach
Ozie Hamilton Osborne, a disabled tightrope walker, claims a new world flagpole sitting record after 52 days 13 hours 58 minutes atop a 200 foot tower at Virginia Park Long Beach. He laps Shipwreck Kelly's 49 day mark from Atlantic City in the 1930s. Milton Van Neland continues in San Francisco at day 41 of his attempt.
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Long Beach
Cal
Ozie Hamilton Osborne
Virginia Park
Kelly
Atlantic City
San Francisco
Milton van Neland
Parsons hooks three fish on one line in Missouri
Lebanon Missouri reports Raymond Parsons caught three fish on a single hook. He already had two fish on a stringer when a three pound channel cat was snagged. As he landed the big cat, two more fish became tangled on his line, creating a surprising catch.
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Lebanon
Raymond Parsons
Parsons
Plea For Pictures Of Holiday Parade
Amateur photographers who captured the Labor Day parade may earn money selling prints of parade floats. Union members and officials seek prints featuring the Culinary Workers Central Labor Council and Building Trades Council. For information call Bonnie McCullough or M C Larsen at the Labor temple.
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Culinary Workers
Central Labor Council
Building Trades Council
Bonnie McCullough
M. C.larsen
Labor Temple
Idaho Slaughterhouses Report Higher June Meat Output
Idaho's slaughterhouses produced 9,191,000 pounds of live weight in June, up 13 percent from June 1947. Hogs, sheep and lambs rose. cattle and calves fell slightly. For January–June, total liveweight reached 50,019,000 pounds versus 47,651,000 a year earlier.
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Boise
Idaho
Agriculture Department
Department
Burley Infant Dies In Hospital
Lynn C. Fenstermaker infant son of Mr and Mrs Alvin Fenstermaker Malta died shortly after birth at a Burley hospital. Survived by parents six brothers and sisters and paternal grandmother Mrs Alice Fenstermaker Millard Burley. Funeral Saturday at Payne chapel with Bishop Lawrence Tolman officiating. Burial in Heyburn cemetery.
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Burley
Lynn C. Fenstermaker
Alvin. Fenstermaker
Malta
Burley Hospital
Charles
Leon
Maxine
Alice
Della
Mae Fenstermaker
Fern Winks
Alice Fenstermaker
Millard Burley
Payne Chapel
Lawrence Tolman
Burley Third Ward
LDS Church
Heyburn
Motorist Fined for Harsh Hit on Parking Meter
Virginia Poppleton 26 faced charges after ramming a Main Street parking meter with an L and L delivery truck. She was fined five dollars to cover meter repair costs. The impact partially ripped the unit from its cement base and left it out of service briefly.
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Ledge R. Don Bistline
Virginia Poppleton
L&l
Main Street
Flying StART NY Stars in AFC Rush Debut
Suee Sanders ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns against Brooklyn to defend his AFC rushing and scoring titles. The New York ace added seven completions in 12 attempts for 42 yards as he opened the game strongly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Suee Sanders
Brooklyn
Chance Cyclones Insurance Coverage Trend
Insurance companies offer policies covering cyclone damage as cyclones are chance events. They note that storms do not often strike the same place, influencing underwriting and premiums.
Groves Defends Wartime Uranium Shipments Testimony
Lt Gen Leslie Groves wartime head of the atomic bomb project told a House committee that if any A bomb materials were sent to Russia during the war they were sent without his knowledge. He said no uranium shipments occurred and noted security was not the project’s primary focus while the goal remained ending the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Leslie R. Groves
Atomic Project
Russia
House On Americarp
John McDowell
Groves
Army
Remington-Rand Company
J. Parnell Thomas
N. J
Thomas
Arimo School Enrolls Forty-Nine Scholars Tuesday
Arimo high school bell rang as forty-nine scholars answered the call with more expected to register. Teachers include Perry Gooch Norman Watkins Vern Watkins Max Turner and Miss Hale. Subjects cover English mathematics health physical education geometry shorthand typing science U S history Spanish glee club band geography biology chemistry home economics. Principal Watkins notes seventh and eighth grades have thirty eight students at desks, up from twenty four last year. Other grades enroll about as usual with teachers Watkins Louise Christensen Robbins Lester Downing and Camille Evans.
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ARIMO
Arimo High School
Perry Gooch
Norman Watkins
Vern Watkins
Max Turner
Miss Hale
U. S
Watkins
Louise Christensen
Robbins
Lester Downing
Camille Evans
Jeffrey Becomes Proud Grandfather
Democratic candidate C. M. Jeffery passed out cigars in Banock county to celebrate the birth of his first granddaughter Sandra Lee Reed born at 6 am in Decatur Illinois. Her mother Barbara Reed is the daughter of a Pocatello attorney.
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C. M. Jeffery
Bannock County
Sandra Lee Reed
Decatur, Ill
M. W
Barbara) Reed
Pocatello
Blackfoot Firm Awarded Contract for Idaho Highway Work
H A Gardner Co of Blackfoot won a 120 442 contract to build roadbed drainage structures and a bituminous surface on 5.2 miles of state highway 22 from Mountain Home to Tollgate. Other bidders were Canyon Construction Caldwell 123196 and Assett Construction Twin Falls 125459. Engineers estimate was 117943.
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BOISE
H. A. Gardner Co
Blackfoot
Friday
Motorists Fined In Police Court
Two minor traffic violations were cited in Friday morning's police court. Fannie R. Palmer, 36, of 256 North Twelfth Ave., was fined five dollars for failure to stop at a stop signal after pleading guilty. Frank H. Grumbein, of 852 North Eighth Ave., faced speeding charges but did not appear, forfeiting a twenty dollar bond.
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Fannie
R. Palmer
North Twelfth Ave
Frank. H. Grumbein
North Eighth Ave
Doctor to observe 22 month old before controversial operation
Dr Karl Meyer medical director at Cook County Hospital said Pamela Lamphere aged 22 months will enter the hospital in a few days for observation prior to a controversial operation to cure a bladder condition. Also a note that many mosquito species feed on plant nectar.
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Chicago
Karl Meyer
Cook County Hospital
Pamela Lamphere
Births at St Anthony’s Hospital Reported
Mr and Mrs Howard Wickhorst Sterling welcome a girl. Mr and Mrs Forrest Williams Rainbow Courts welcome a girl. Mr and Mrs Hal Waldron 408 South Third Ave welcome a boy. Don B Robertson 26 Nampa and Polly Blanche Harris 23 Pocatello. Clyde B Eggleston 21 Pocatello and Pauline Mark 16 Pocatello. Henry Davies 48 Biigham Utah and Pauline A Johnston 34 Brigham City Utah.
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St. Anthony's Hospital
Howard Wickhorst
Sterling
Forrest Williams
Rainbow Courts
Hal Waldron
South Third Ave
Don B. Robertson
Nampa
Polly Blanche Harris
Pocatello
Clyde B. Eggleston
Pauline Mark
Henry Davies
Biigham
Utah
Pauline A. Johnston
Brigham City
Antelope Grazing Pressures Rancher in New Mexico
J. W. Shelley, a city rancher in New Mexico, complains antelope have eaten so much grass on his land that he must rotate grazing areas. The state game department studied the issue after introducing antelope to the region several years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver
City
N. M
J. W. Shelley
Former Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria Dies at 87
Ferdinand I, 87, former Bulgarian czar, died of a heart attack at his Coburg castle in Germany. The Kohary line royal, elected in 1887, abdicated in 1918 in favor of his son Boris and spent later years at Coburg pursuing nature studies. Burial planned near the Bavarian castle early next week.
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Czar
Bulgaria
Frankfurt
Germany
Ferdinando I
Coburg
Dena
Ferdinand
National Assembly
Alexander
Russia
Speed Limit Fine Imposed By Judge
Police judge R. Don Bistline warned motorists that the 25 mile an hour limit on Pole Line road would be strictly enforced and fined Francis W. Fields 21, twenty dollars for speeding. Fields pleaded guilty to speeding up to fifty miles an hour.
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R. Don Bistline
Pole Line
Francis W. Fields
Fields
Hobby Becomes Business In North Woodstock Workshop
Sherwin Kendall turned a cellar hobby into a full wood working factory employing 16 men in North Woodstock New Hampshire. He started by making toys for friends and expanded into an established woodshop with a complete operation.
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North
Woodstock
N. H
Sherwin Kendall
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