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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1949
Page
1
The Pocatello Transit Co plans to discontinue Sunday and holiday buses drawing editorials from The Post. It argues profits justify suspending service yet asserts a public utility obligation to the community, suggesting the move would set back the city’s growth.
The Army dismissed Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt and reprimanded Maj. Gen. Herman Feldman in a five percenters scandal. Waitt, chief of the Chemical Corps, is retiring with a voluntary separation. Feldman, Army quartermaster general, cited for errors of judgment, had been suspended since July.
Justice Wiley B. Rutledge died at 55 after a heart condition struck during vacation. His death leaves the court without a Catholic member for the first time in over half a century, with Truman expected to appoint a Catholic to fill the vacancy. Front-runners include J. Howard McGrath Joseph C. O Mahoney Brien McMahon and Harold M. Stephens, all Catholics and supporters of civil liberties shaping the liberal bloc once led by Murphy Rutledge Black and Douglas.
In New York a special November senatorial contest pits the Lehman and Dulles candidacies for the unexpired Wagner term. President Truman and Gov. Dewey will clash in the campaign, with Truman agreeing to aid Lehman at spots chosen by the Democratic chairman.
Washington forecast indicates higher beef supplies and significantly lower pork prices through 1949 as pork supply expands. Beef prices are expected to fall only moderately if at all, according to the Agriculture Department.
President Truman asked for an 11 day extension of the steel strike truce after his fact finding board vetoed wage demands. With 1,000,000 steelworkers ready to strike at midnight Wednesday he telegrammed CIO President William Green and steel company heads urging the deadline be moved to September 25. Indications were the union would agree.
County commissioners led by W H Jensen announce Bannock County’s 1949 ad valorem levy will be one mill lower than 1948 except for five mills tied to highway work hospital bonds and interest. The draft includes a county mill and three mills for state highway programs and debt service. Public figures Fred Burton L C Johnson William Beatty Fred Clark contributed to the drafting process.
Arto Plant plans announced for Arco Idaho site to add a government owned concrete batch plant this fall. The plant will be transferred from Hanford Washington under L E Johnston operations office. Local labor will be used where possible to ease Idaho employment concerns. Dismantling work is to begin at Hanford.
Wrecking crews uncovered post 1896 bourbon in the old Fulton Hotel crawl space after a Saturday discovery. Dismantling was halted then resumed later, revealing the concealed cache amid the build site.
A spokesperson named Johnston states that construction at the new site will be completed within three months.
Jacque Mercer Miss Arizona was named Miss America 1949 in Atlantic City. Katherine Wright Miss Mississippi finished second, Judy Germi of Illinois third, Sylvia Canaday Miss Colorado fourth, and Jane Ann Pedersen Miss California fifth.
The Fifth District Idaho Congress of Parents and Teachers held a day long conference at the First Ward LDS church on the theme Better Youth Through Parent Education. Key speakers included Miss Nelle Shagan Mrs Paul Kohout and Mrs Hark Ward with a panel moderated by Mrs C L Bosquet. Founders Day demonstrat ion commemorated the 52nd anniversary of the organization.
A safety education campaign will launch in Pocatello public schools using picture books. Mildred Davis of Photo Graphic Safety Campaigns presented the program, noting Bannock county accidental fatalities 41 in 1948-49 and 19 victims under 21, with 23 residents of Pocatello.
Idaho Senator Glen H. Taylor pressed government officials to ease the impact of Naval Ordnance Plant curtailments in Pocatello. He urged Atomic Energy Commission action and appealed to John Steelman to aid economically distressed areas, noting 500 layoffs would devastate the local economy and suggesting plant conversion for essential government work.
More than 100 doctors from the Intermountain area wrapped up a two day clinical conference at the Bannock hotel on Saturday afternoon. National medical authorities gave talks and panel discussions covered fractures hypertension psychosomatic syndromes parenteral feeding and surgical expectations within joint practice. The Women’s auxiliary program featured horseback riding swimming golf and a picnic lunch at Ross Park.
Chief Federal Mediator Cyrus S. King closed the fourth day of talks on the 133 day Hawaiian dock strike asking both sides to continue negotiations. He said company and union officials remain as far apart as at the start.
Uncle Steve Shepard reads The Pocatello Post Sunday funnies on Station KEIO at 9 this morning. A family friendly radio game invites listeners from six to sixty to join in from 9 to 9 30 each Sunday.
Pocatello police were asked by Power county sheriff Hoehnen to search for Dorothy Bedkey 16 and Bobby Volmer 15 who ran away from American Falls Friday. The pair are believed to have hitched a ride on a melon truck toward Idaho Falls with no further description available.
Richard J. Welch a San Francisco Republican congressman died in Needles California of a heart attack Saturday The news was reported by United Press reporters and notes Welch served in Congress representing California.
Residents will lose Sunday and holiday bus service as Pocatello Transit announces a return to pre war operations. agency notes demand waned with autos and pool closing, but special runs may occur for major holidays. Mayor Halsey says council will study a report and consider a new franchise.
Considerable cloudiness and little temperature change with scattered afternoon showers or thunder. High today 70 to 75 with a low tonight 40 to 45 and highs Monday 65 to 75. Saturday’s high is 74 and low 55.
A demonstration of drying land tillage equipment and a conservation farming field day for farmers in nine Eastern Idaho counties was announced in Pocatello. The event, set for Sept 26 in a Bancroft district farm yet to be chosen, is co sponsored by the Portneuf Soil Conservation District the Soil Conservation Service the Extension Service and area farm machinery dealers. Participants from Bannock Power Caribou Bear Lake Franklin Oneida Butte Custer and Lemhi counties will view sweeps cultiheap moldboard plows discs sub soilers chisels red weeders and grain drills. Location details will follow. The Pocatello Post and the Soil Conservation Service will publish a special edition Sept 25.
Picket lines by Missouri Pacific workers halted joint Cotton Belt operations across Missouri and Illinois. Union spokesman R. E. Davidson called the tie-up a regrettable misunderstanding, saying Cotton Belt trains could pass. Texas and Pacific said it paused six passenger trains over MP tracks to Texarkana, Texas.
Ray Dempsey Gardner, 27, already charged with murder, confessed to the sex slaying of 17 year old Shirley Gretzinger near her Montana home. The Columbus youth with a long criminal record signed the confession after a week of questioning by Weber County Sheriff Mae Wade. Gretzinger’s body was found July 21 in a vacant field. she had been strangled and suffocated with tissue paper.
A two day industrial leaders conference organized by Idaho state and Pocatello city Chambers of Commerce begins Monday at the Bannock hotel. J L Craig Jr announced the program featuring Dr Neil Bowman and Marion J Wise Jr from the National Association of Manufacturers, modeled after last year’s Sun Valley event.
Five year old Janie Franz was returned Saturday after a night with a tourist home kidnapper. Gerald A. Hutt, 35, of Bridgeport Connecticut, pleaded guilty. New Jersey imposes 30 years to life for kidnapping.
Cecil Dodge of the Pocatello Gun Shop reported to police that a 45 cal Smith and Wesson triple locking pistol was stolen from his shop. The gun is a keepsake engraved Captain Montgomery from John Bodel 1915.
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