04 Apr 1949
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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1949
Page
1
At the annual conference in Salt Lake City about 15 000 Latter Day Saints packed the Tabernacle and Assembly Hall to hear leaders including David O McKay warn against enticing evil practices and urge a renewed campaign against sin citing morality standards and youth guidance.
Academy Award winner Olivia de Havilland is seriously ill in Hollywood studio disclosure says doctors strive to save her expected August baby. She has been bedridden for two months and may not recover before the infant's arrival.
In Savannah Georgia Municipal Judge W H Mulling married Kathleen Winsor author of Forever Amber and Arnold Krakower a 33 year old New York lawyer yesterday The judge learned Winsor wrote the novel only on the day of the ceremony Krakower met Winsor last year during a property settlement in her divorce from Artie Shaw This was Krakower's first marriage and Winsor's third
Six candidates responded to civic leaders and gave The Tribune their views on communism. SAM HANSON and RAMPTON BARLOW outlined opposition to the Communist Party and proposed remedies rooted in improving living conditions and upholding Christian ethics to curb communist influence locally.
Pocatello railroad shops received the 1948 Union Pacific safety award at a noon ceremony. It marks the fourth such win in ten years for the city. F B Lewis, UP superintendent, attended to present the award to E L Neeley, superintendent of the Pocatello shops.
A Russian regiment reportedly attacked an Iranian army post in northeastern Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea on March 31 with tanks and armored cars. The clash at K Boulaq lasted into the next day, two Iranians killed and several wounded, with no official confirmation yet and Iran said to have lodged a protest.
Lowe of Paris district governor of the Lions club will make his official visit to the Poca tello club at the meeting Wednesday noon in the Hotel Bannock. Pete Carlson, president, will be in charge.
Voters in Pocatello prepare for tomorrow's primary in a potential city record turnout. Eighteen candidates compete for mayor and two council seats as registration nears completion. If no candidate clears a majority, a runoff on April 26 will pick the two winners.
President Truman Rejects Soviet accusations that the Atlantic pact is aggressive, calling it a shield against aggression. He says the treaty, formed within the United Nations framework, will bind the U S to resist attacks on Western Europe and critiques Russia for blocking a broader international police force.
Lewiston reports Mrs. Isadore Johnson claims the title of nation’s youngest grandmother. Married in 1902 at age 15, she had a stepdaughter who married her husband’s brother. On June 17, 1905, the brother’s son was born at Rathdrum, Idaho, making Johnson 18 when she became a grandmother.
Trans-Jordan has signed an armistice with Israel effectively ending the Palestine war. The one year renewable accord, the third with an Arab state, follows Egypt and Lebanon pacts earlier this year. Talks indicate broader cooperation, with Syria the remaining active combatant.
Word was received that Minnie D. Nelson, formerly Minnie Bain and an Idaho Falls resident with many Pocatello friends, died Sunday in San Diego after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the McHan Funeral Home in Idaho Falls.
Seoul reports Louise Yim Korea's only woman cabinet member was asked to resign after a national inspection board discussed the proposal. Yim serves as minister of commerce and industry and is USC alumna with ties to Korea's UN delegation.
Lopoldo R. Lara aged 26 of 1447 North Third was fined 25 dollars and costs in the court of Justice Charles W. Hyde after arraignment for reckless driving. He was arrested at 11 p m Saturday after losing control on the highway south of Pocatello near the Shamrock club and crashing into a stone house occupied by Henry Palmer on the west side. State Officer Roundtree detained the driver.
A New York mediator said there was some progress toward settling the city taxi strike as 975 cabs operated at dawn amid heavy picketing at 435 garages. Violence arrests rose to 50 as union officials and labor leaders observed the progress update.
The wife of Hollywood actor Dan Dailey halted in Pocatello by private plane from Sun Valley on an Idaho layover en route to Los Angeles. She joined June Lockhart earlier in Sun Valley, won a skiing pin on Mount Baldy, and said Dailey would join her in Los Angeles after his New York work on Chicken Every Sunday.
Sheriff Alma Marley reports from Washington Kansas that Fred Edsel, sought in Pocatello, is jailed there. He allegedly married a Pocatello woman and gave her a $600 diamond ring bought with a worthless check, bought a Kaiser-Frazer car with a bad check, and later traded it for another car with a $500 bad-check involved.
Yugoslav citizens marched through Belgrade in a full dress parade yesterday to declare loyalty to Premier Marshal Tito and reaffirm their allegiance to his leadership amid the ongoing political climate.
Leonard F.E. Johnston named manager of a new reactor testing station near Pocatello. He will also run the Knolls atomic power laboratory in Schenectady until a successor is found. The AEC plans no on site permanent housing, expecting staff to settle in surrounding communities. The agency is negotiating with the Navy over the 173000 acre Arco naval proving grounds.
Hartford special report shows traffic deaths down one per cent to 2200 in 1948 while injuries rose eight per cent. Personal injury totals reached 71,000, an all-time high, with 1947 figures at 1,365,000 per Travelers Insurance release.
A nine year old boy named Bobby Winn, paralyzed since birth, receives swift public help after The Tribune published his story. The National Society for Crippled Children and Adults Inc will cover travel and brace costs for Bobby and his mother to Encino California, with Berry Foundation School offering treatment and part time work for Mrs. Winn to fund care. The Winn family hails the generosity of readers as a hopeful breakthrough after years of hardship.
Prospectors in San Juan county Utah operate 50 claims in the southeast desert aiming to locate uranium ore. The Vanadium Corporation of America builds a pilot mill opposite Hite on the Colorado River to process ore with as little as 0.05 percent uranium. Initial throughput targets 40 tons daily, with expansion to 200 tons if results justify it.
Masked Klansmen seized seven Negroes from Dade County authorities after a raid on a woman's house and flogged them in a wooded area near Chattanooga. William West, a hotel porter, described a red masked leader directing the beating as cross burning occurred nearby.
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