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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1948
Page
3
The Agriculture Department’s monthly crop report predicts the 1948 harvest will be the largest in history. Corn is estimated at 3.528 billion bushels, wheat at 1.285 billion, with feed grains near 134 million tons, signaling higher meat supply and strong grain output for human consumption.
Firth official tester Ruel H. Moss reports that August shows a drop in dairy herd performance and milk products. Only four cows achieved 70 pounds butterfat or more in August vs twelve in July. top producers include a Park Brothers Jersey, Kenneth Merrill Holstein, Alan Cannon Jersey, and Merrill Holstein with butterfat ranging 72.6 to 88 pounds. One grade herd dropped out, leaving 32 herds.
Mrs Parvin Witte an opera and recital specialist will direct the senior and junior Methodist choirs this year said Rev Leroy H Walker She will open rehearsals next Wednesday Sept 15 and bring experience from Nebraska University and Nebraska Wesleyan Mrs Robert Brown directed both choirs last year
Mr. and Mrs. Volney Watts will depart by streamliner Tuesday morning for St. Paul Minnesota. Mrs. Watts will serve as a page for the international Rebekah assembly there September 18. The couple plans two days in Chicago en route.
Fire units gained control after two days of a raging range and timber fire on Bennett mountain northeast slope, 25 miles north of Mountain Home. Fire crews contained the flames with no injuries reported.
News of record lists a birth at St. Anthony's Hospital for Mr. and Mrs. James Collins of 61 Portneuf park, a birth at General Hospital for Mr. and Mrs. Clenden Bybee of 129 Bryant Ave, and a marriage license for Orville Barnes, 21 Caldwell, to Marjorie Luella Johnson, 22.
All senior members of the Civil Air Patrol are asked to meet at the Wilson Flying Service on the Pocatello municipal airport. Capt Don Housley, local squadron commander, announced that Capt Claybaugh, wing liaison officer, will attend the important gathering.
Dwight Steele Despain aged 22 of Lorrell Wyoming and Sylvia Ann Burrell 18 a resident of Pocatello are identified in a local public notice listing.
The schedule lists nightly at the Rialto Theater and drive in screens for a week, with Technicolor features like Song of Scheherazade and Green Grass of Wyoming, serials, and multiple co billed programs including Beyond Bengal and Betrayed. Other theaters show Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan in Kilroy Was Here, staff picks like Intrigue and Rose of Washington Square plus comedy and western pairings.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship will sponsor hobby evenings in a church program written by young Methodists. A new weekly paper for Pocatello is planned, with sessions from 7 to 9 p.m. starting September 14. Activities include junior journalism drawing painting sculpture photo craft metal woodwork and cooking.
Presidential candidate Henry Wallace of the Progressive party will answer public questions in a nationwide radio series. He will appear each Monday on more than 150 NBC stations starting Sept 13, with Idaho broadcasts on KSEI Pocatello KTFI Twin Falls and KIDO Boise at 8 30.
Thousands of Idaho sportsmen, mainly in the Magic valley, sent in mail to the fish and game department for special deer hunts in the Minidoka National forest. A drawing will select 1600 permit winners on Sept. 14 using a mechanical gadget. Applications close Sept. 13 noon, with other deadlines for remaining hunts across Cassia Albion Sublett Black Pine Big Lost Soldier Mountain and Swan Valley Boise elk hunts.
LEWISTON Idaho UP Twelve more beavers were flown into the Idaho primitive area Saturday and parachuted into the Lochsa Selway country the Fish and Game department announced.
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