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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1948
Page
4
The city celebrates a new municipal swimming pool born from united effort after years of wishful talk and failed start ups. The piece urges continued community collaboration on projects like Halliday street subway and a courthouse to match the pool’s success.
Sagebrush Sermonette by Leroy H. Walker uses a Rotary tale about Kangaroos to warn that delinquency often stems from parental issues not the child alone. He cites a Melbourne Rotary event and a western Oregon church experience to argue that parents and adults may hold the moral hiccups behind youth trouble.
General Omar N Bradley, chief of staff, works on next fiscal year's army budget as inflation multiplies costs. A soldier’s ration rises from 41 cents to 1.06, outer clothing from 84 to 245 dollars, shoes from 3.05 to 5.50, and pants from 3.68 to 9.62. With 10,000 new inductees monthly, costs mount alongside feeding, equipment, and 21 month training. Deadline for figures is Oct 15.
Marquis Childs notes the army faces stiff funding competition with the air force and navy. Bradley sees air power overhyped and emphasizes prior losses in Europe. Estimated 1949 base appropriations loom at 15 billion, with current branch figures showing Army 579000, Navy 474429251, Air Force 4926215296 and projected growth.
Paul Gallico riffs on fishing as a national pastime and the indulgence of tall tales. He notes bait manufacturers sending a wall plaque while humorously lamenting the spread of exaggeration about fish sizes and expedition costs, concluding that most fish stories are fabrications.
Henry Moon, a 45 year old chiropodist from Ithaca, moved to Broadway to act but failed. After a brief, ill fated career and a head injury he became a familiar Times Square figure, a blind beggar singing songs by George M. Cohan, living as a fixture in the theatre district for a decade.
A Broadway beggar Henry Moon, famed as the blind street performer Billy Rose Cohan described, dies of pneumonia in a Ninth Avenue room after years of beguiling theatergoers. Reporters reveal he faked blindness, playing the crowd and critics for a decade as his final performance.
Bangkok writer describes Rajadamnern boxing as brutal with seven bouts ending in knockouts and stretchered fighters. rules allow kicks, elbows, and head strikes while footwork delivers most punishment. many fighters bleed and wear taped footwear. spectators include many women as band music sets a fierce mood.
A local plea describes a frail mother in a one bedroom home with five boys and a dead infant, two hospitalized with meningitis after a swimming accident. With the father absent and funds limited, readers are asked to send donations to Mrs. X of Pocatello, the paper starting the drive with ten dollars.
Edwin P. Jordan M D explains measles as a virus spread by nasal secretions and coughing. He notes 500000 US cases yearly and possible pneumonia complications. Early symptoms mimic a cold with fever before a rash appears, which spreads from the head to the body over 2 3 days and fades soon. He discusses convalescent serum and human immune globulin to prevent disease when given to exposed individuals.
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