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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1949
Page
1
The Post argues the city must keep revenue from slots and suggests the city imitate Idaho by expanding licensing to a municipal monopoly similar to liquor stores. It claims profits far exceed the current 125000 in fees and counters objections about gambling, noting there is no such thing as “just a little bit” pregnant.
A Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committee vote of 33 to 3 backs the $1,314,010,000 aid bill to bolster Western resistance. The panel says Russia now has over 5,000,000 military personnel, while pledging not to match Soviet shipments in kind. The Senate will debate the measure as the House approved a similar bill.
Mary Jane Purdue 21 and Jim my Wilson 22 married at a Brownburg Indiana church after meeting in 1945 at the Rotary Convalescent Home in Indianapolis. She used a wheelchair and he was a bed patient during their polio recovery.
Four youths Anomas K Mourey 17 of Vernal Utah Dale Pickering 17 Payson Utah Levi Tueller 15 Salt Lake City Utah and Bernie Bumbs 17 reformatory employee escaped last week. They stole autos and burglarized stores, fled toward Absarokee Montana, were captured near Big Timber after a burglary, then escaped jail again, and were recaptured by a posse awaiting transfer to Utah.
In Budapest Winston Churchill was named as a top plotter among British Americans and Yugoslavs accused in mass treason and espionage trials. Lazar Brankov, the third defendant, alleged the former British prime minister schemed to seize the Balkans with Yugoslav involvement.
In Oakland California Matthew McGee a 62 year old sheetmetal worker fired a .22 rifle at his foreman Ervin Nelson during a confrontation over an $8.82 three day paycheck. McGee admitted the assault and was charged as police documented the incident. Nelson was hospitalized in critical condition.
Air Force Navy and Coast Guard units combed the Atlantic Saturday for two Italian aviators John Brondello and Camillo Bartoglio after their lone engine plane vanished during a non stop Azores to New York flight.
An 18 year old ISC coed remained in critical condition at Pocatello General after falling from a moving car that dragged 22 feet on E Lovejoy Street. The 1937 sedan carried five students including Nada Bishop of Wendell Gravey Hall. driver Thomas Parisot 19 of 534 No seventh Ave. The door opened during a turn, she slipped out and hit her left shoulder blade and forehead. Parisot stopped the car quickly in second gear. Other riders were Maxine Paris, Lee Zook, and Bob Glenn. Patrolman Joe Trujillo investigated. A separate Alameda crash at Park and Maple left George Weber cited for no license. Elmer Perkins uninjured.
A jury in Columbia, South Carolina found Russell B. Maxey guilty of pistol whipping nurse Ann Pierce and attempting to burglarize her apartment. Maxey, 41, faced up to 40 years. Judge Greneker postponed sentencing pending a defense motion for a new trial.
The University of Idaho football team routed Willamette 79 to 0 in Moscow. John Brogan opened the scoring with a 29 yard TD, and Al Allen Ben Jayne and Larsen each added two scores. Glen Christian sped 67 yards for a touchdown and caught a 32 yard pass for another as Idaho piled on in the final quarter.
Coroner says no inquest will be held into Herbert S. Howell 56 of 733 South Garfield avenue who killed himself Friday after wounding his wife Louise Ricks Howell and daughter Ida Mae Howell 15. Police found him dying after neighbors reported the shooting. Louise and Ida Mae were hospitalized improving. Howell a Utah native and carpenter with ties to Pocatello Sugar City Glenns Ferry and the LDS church left surviving relatives and Downard mortuary will announce funeral details.
E. J. Jack Satterfield has returned to Pocatello after two years as an LDS missionary in Oklahoma Arkansas Missouri and Kansas. He will speak at the LDS Thirteenth Ward sacrament service at 7 p m tonight. Satterfield previously served as secretary treasurer in Independence Missouri headquarters for several months.
MINNEAPOLIS UP reports 21 year old Donald R Petrofska received a divorce after testifying his wife drank and swore, went out with other men and read so many comic books she did not do her housework.
Grid season kicks off as University of Idaho Vandals roll to a 79-0 victory over Willamette in Idaho, while Idaho State falters at 58-13 against Wyoming. California’s UCLA tops Santa Clara 21-7 and Texas blanked Texas Tech 43-0 in strong start to the season.
Britain and France supported the United States move to abandon Chiang Kai-shek's regime in China. After a 90 minute Western foreign ministers meeting, a brief communique said the parties were in accord on Far East policy. Sources say the stance signals no effective anti Communist effort in China for now.
Hassan Abdel Rehim, 41, of Egypt, crossed the English Channel from England to France in 15 hours and 58 minutes, passing CAP GRIS NEZ. The feat was accomplished today under challenging conditions.
The Great Lakes luxury cruiser Noronic burned at her Toronto dock in the early hours. 515 on board with 111 confirmed dead and 105 more listed as dead or missing, raising possible total to at least 216. Survivors and relatives blamed crew and panic over cigarette-induced fire.
Police and state agents hunted a sex maniac who attacked 43 year old Nan Andrews in Belmont twice in three weeks. She lay in critical condition at Community Hospital after the second assault in a ravine near her home. She reportedly identified the same assailant as the August 26 attacker.
Chieftain Ed Brennan, head of Idaho Democrats, expresses concern over party cockiness ahead of the 1950 elections. He plans a series of district meetings after harvest and aims for a statewide gathering, citing lessons from Dewey and the Republicans. Local San Francisco influence may guide Idaho strategy.
Union Pacific conductors and engineers on the Oregon Short Line vote to strike, but postponement of the Oct. 1 departure date followed a joint statement by H. W. Corbett and Wal ter Blakemore. Union officials report progress with E. J. Connors of Portland and plan a Pocatello meeting Oct. 10 to clear about 500 unsettled grievance cases dating back to 1940, with resolution expected within two weeks.
Washington hosts a secret meeting where the 12 Atlantic Pact nations establish a unified defense structure. A 12 nation defense committee drafts plans to defend the North Atlantic area with Louis Johnson to head in year one, and a Washington based military subcommittee of the US Britain and France coordinating strategy.
CIO President Philip Murray accused the steel industry of inconsistency and a double standard between executives and workers. He argued company pensions for officials are accepted, while similar benefits for workers are labeled a loss of freedom, as telegrams questioned the presidential fact finding board’s recommendations and industry opposition.
Scoutmaster Rulon Cherry led Boy Scouts Don Morgan Kay Hill Charles Pizer Blaine Huff and Cub Scout Clyde Petty with committeemen LeRoy Petty and Owen Huff to Oxford Peak near Downey. They started Friday night camping at the base and climbed Saturday morning in sub freezing weather.
The Fourth Estate Press Club met Saturday noon at the Whitman hotel with Wallace Garets presiding. Plans were outlined for future radio presentations of Interviews Behind the News, a weekly KEIO broadcast at 9 30 p m each Tuesday. G Nicholas Iffi Hoyt Palmer Ed Longbrake and Jack Phillips will interview W W Shields on the proposed Pocatello pes and Country Club next Tuesday.
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