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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1949
Page
1
The Commons backed Labour on pound devaluation and social policy 342 to 5 amid electioneering talk. Churchill failed in a no confidence bid 350 to 212, while Conservatives and Liberals abstained. Debate framed as a prelude to possible autumn elections.
The UAW moves to press Chrysler after a Ford contract gives about 115,000 Ford workers a $100 monthly pension starting at 65 or 68. The deal, reached after 35 hours of talks, sets Ford pension costs at $20 million and ties benefits to Social Security, with retirement at 68 mandatory. Henry Ford II calls the settlement good for both company and workers.
In Snowshoe Mountains Pennsylvania a convoy of 14 non union coal trucks faced gunfire from a mountain slope. Six trucks were stuck and one disabled while six state troopers reported all drivers uninjured. North and West coal producers threatened to quit talks with the United Mine Workers as southern operators expressed cautious optimism after a meeting with UMW officials.
Joseph L. Wirthlin, first counselor in the LDS presiding bishopric, urged a survey to measure how much obscene crime and sex literature reaches homes. He spoke to 1,300 mothers at Temple Square as Mormon conference opened, criticizing a Southern Utah church for an all-city event that ended in a drinking party and warning against sexual conduct in public spaces.
The advance gift drive for the March of Dimes begins in Pocatello with George Phillips appointed as county chairman. He will attend the Northwestern regional convention in Billings, Montana, on October 17 and 18 and expresses optimism about the drive’s success.
Cornelius La Roy, a 39 year old Lansing machinist, scattered more than $13 000 in $100 bills to taxi drivers and waitresses in Washington and nearby states. Police halted the spree and began a collection drive after he was ordered to a mental hospital to learn what spurred the act. He claimed to want to help the poor and said Capetown, South Africa, was his birth place. His brother said he had been ill and urged to see a psychiatrist.
The Pocatello Post will suspend publication today and merge with the Tribune-Journal Company to form The Idaho State Journal. The Journal will deliver to all Post and Tribune subscribers starting Sunday, Oct. 2, consolidating circulation lists and using Post features for 7,500 readers.
Guests enjoyed a informal party with Coke bottle candles and artistic decorations. Frank Grover won a prize for the best hard luck story while door prizes were awarded and plans for a rummage sale at the Oasis corner were announced.
Major Amos Hoople forecasts upsets including Stanford over Michigan and Washington State over Southern California. He lists scores for 24 games with Penn State at Army 7 and Ohio State 20 over Purdue 7 as part of a broader grid of results and adjustments.
Iva Toguri d Áquino, 33, found guilty by a six man six woman federal jury of one count of betraying the United States by broadcasting propaganda on Radio Tokyo. Judge Roche set sentencing for October 6 with a minimum five year term and fine of 10000, though death penalty was not pursued.
Mrs Billie Cox told police her billfold was stolen in Birmingham Alabama. She reported the loss after the incident at a local location.
The American Meat Institute reported a four percent weekly drop in retail meat prices, with all meats about nine percent lower than the same week last year. Across cuts, round steak and whole ham fell eight percent, pork burger six percent, and lamb chops five percent, per Chicago retailer reports.
Mrs Dorothy Blankenship of 276 Portneuf Park was injured with fractured ribs when the sheriff’s car carrying Deputy N S Fordyce and en route to Evanston Wyoming to fetch her 15 year old daughter was hit by S A Bishop of Route 1 South at Wellerville before 7 am Thursday. The vehicle was returning to Idaho with the juvenile daughter reported to have left Idaho with Irvin Vincent who is held by Evanston police on contributing to the delinquency charge.
Marion Stein, Austrian refugee born above a Vienna tobacco shop, wed Earl of Harewood 11th in line to the throne in a grand St Marks church ceremony. The crowd overwhelmed by the union of a commoner with royalty saw King George, Queen Elizabeth, and crowds along the streets cheering. the couple departed for a Paris honeymoon after a 600-guest reception at St James Palace.
United Steelworkers reached a standalone agreement with Portsmouth Steel Co as Big Steel readied a strike at Friday midnight. Portsmouth employs 4,000 and accepts a company financed insurance and pension plan but may extend benefits to others if a better deal is reached with U S Steel and peers. Half a million workers could walk out at closure, with more joining as contracts end. Pickets were already marching at Crucible Steel in Midland Pennsylvania.
Moscow issues note to Yugoslav ambassador via deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko announcing Russia withdraws from the 1945 treaty of friendship and mutual assistance with Yugoslavia. Move marks a major Cold War rupture between Tito’s government and the Kremlin.
A Boston Post photographer was killed and at least two others hurt when a mortar exploded during a mock invasion at Carson Beach staged by Marines. The deceased was Morris Feinberg, a World War I veteran, struck in the head by debris. Navy public relations officer Ensign William Langone of Boston was among the injured.
Seven year old Jack Leon Burns of Apt 5E Pocatello Heights was cut above the right eye and bruised a right ankle when his bicycle collided with a car at S 10th Ave and Lewis St shortly before noon Thursday. The boy rode east on Lewis St while Lloyd Scott of 393 Randolph St drove the auto north on S 10th Ave. Scott was cited for driving without an operator's license.
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