Pocatello Shows High Buying Income in 1947 Idaho Ranking
Pocatello stood fifth among Idaho cities in effective buying income per family in 1947 per Sales Management 1948 survey. Boise, Lewiston, Moscow, Twin Falls, and Idaho Falls followed with higher per family income figures. Nationally, average individual income rose to 1323 in 1947, up nine percent from 1946, with Nevada leading states at 1842 and Mississippi lowest at 659. Idaho total income rose to 677 million, boosting per capita from 1290 to 1290.
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Idaho
Sales Management
Bannock County
Boise
Lewiston
Moscow
Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
Northwest
Nevada
Mississippi
Bentley ready to reveal Soviet wartime spy ring details
Washington officials say Elizabeth Bentley will describe how a Soviet spy network sought industrial secrets during World War II. Secret sessions have already shown she knows much about espionage in industry as investigators finish remaining mop up hearings. Whittaker Chambers also testified about a prewar underground in Washington with Alger Hiss a leading member. Hiss denies the claim.
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Congressional
Elizabeth T. Bentley
America
Miss Bentley
Moscow
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Alger. Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Chambers
Greeks Claim Full Rout of Guerrillas
Greek army moved north and east from Grammos to rout guerrillas moving toward the Vitsi area in a push against Communist Free Greece. A communique said rebels entered from Albania west of Kastoria. government troops halted their advance and sent them southeast. General Stelios Kitrilakis said guerrilla chieftain Markos Vafiades is whipped and Free Greece is no more. American sources cite about 2000 rebels killed and 1000 captured through Grammos fighting with 5000 to 8000 wounded, many evacuated.
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Athens
Grammos
Vitsi
Traffic light change ends orange phase in signals
Police Judge Don Bistline notes the orange warning light is removed and signals alternate between green and red. He says the change will improve traffic regulation as motorists start moving when green appears and the red light ensures a complete stop, while pedestrians lose extra crossing time.
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Don Bistline
Pocatello to Host Intermountain Babe Ruth Story Premiere
The Intermountain premier of the movie Babe Ruth Story will screen at the Chief theater in Pocatello for four days starting September 1. John Den man, Chief manager, says 27 Fox theater managers and their president Frank H. Ricket son Jr. will arrive the morning of opening to attend the presentation. Attendees will stay at the Bannock hotel.
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Intermountain
John Denman
Fox Theaters
Frank H. Ricketson, Jr
J Denson
Bannock Hotel
Miss Chapman Named Queen Of September Race Meet
Ellen Chapman was chosen queen after beating five contestants in a Bannock county fair grounds rodeo queen contest on Sunday. She will reign over the Pocatello riding club meet September 10 11 and 12. Other winners include Chavenan high scorer in riding events and crafts detailing races and tricks with participants such as Bell Hawkins Bobby Hodkins Jerry Cox and Treva Hiatt. A number of contestants were sidelined by an automobile accident with injuries.
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Bannock County Fairgrounds
Chaman
Pocatello Tribune
Pocatello
Baldy
Bob Hillman
James Scandino
Joyce
Westvaco Leaders View Progress on Local Projects
Westvaco executive vice president M. Y. Seaton and executive assistant W. T. Nichols, both of New York City, visit Gate City to check on the 4 million dollar electric furnace project west of Pocatello slated for completion in summer 1949. They also review a two mile haul track from Simplot mines near Fort Hall to the plant for low grade shale, with Morrison Knudsen directing track work, and meet local Westvaco officials Emmett Spencer Gilbert Miller and Harley Smith.
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M. Y. Seaton
Westvaco
W. T. Nichols
New York City
Gate City
Westvaco Chemical Corporation
Pocatello
Seaton
Nichols
Simplot
Fort Hall
Morrison-Knudsen
New York
Emmett Spencer
Gilbert Miller
Harley Smith
Burns Kill Child in Tent Fire in Stanley Basin
An eight month old child, Judy Solida, died in a Wendell hospital from burns suffered when her parents tent burned in the Stanley basin last Tuesday morning.
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Hazelton
Judy Solida
Wendell Hospital
Stanley Basin
Two Injured in Yellowstone Highway Crash Near Tyhee
Deputy Earl Cutler reported a Sunday morning collision on Yellowstone highway two-fifths of a mile north of Tyhee injuring Ted Le Barron of Iowa with a right shoulder injury and two others. Chee Yabany, 22, of Pocatello, swerved to avoid Knowles’ car and struck the borrow pit, then returned to the highway hitting the Knowles vehicle driven by Jasper Knowles, 60, of Iona, as it traveled south. No charges were filed.
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Iowa
Yellowstone Highway
Tyhee
Earl Cutler
Chee
Yabaney
Pocatello
Jasper C. Knowles
Iona
Borrow Pit
Knowles
Cutler
Lomakin to sail Saturday amid recall dispute
Soviet consul general Lomakin, ordered expelled by the state department for alleged improper conduct in the Oksana Kosenkina case, booked passage on the liner Stockholm to Gothenburg. He was recalled last week. the teacher injured in the consulate incident was improving at Roosevelt hospital. Chepurnykh said he plans to return to Russia but did not disclose departure details.
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Jacob M. Lomakin
State Department
Stockholm
Gothenburg
Sweden
Lomakin
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Roosevelt Hospital
Zot I. Chepurnykh
Russia
Chepurnykh
Diplomats Meet Stalin as World Powers Open Talks
Moscow hosts a three nation meeting with Prime Minister Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotov as U S Britain and France seek diplomacy. Hel ena police report men in a gold mine cavern near Helena. A F84 pilot parachutes into the Atlantic near Quogue and is rescued by a fishing boat.
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France
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Helena
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Here
New York
Quogue
N. Y
Coast Guard
Weather outlook for Pocatello region shifts to showers
Sunday mean temperature around 12 with normal 67. Sunset at 7 20 and sunrise at 6 45. Forecast for Pocatello and vicinity calls for mostly clear tonight turning partly cloudy Tuesday with possible light showers or thunderstorms in the afternoon. Low tonight 50 to 55. Highs 70 to 75. Southeast Idaho remains mostly clear and partly cloudy with lows 45 and highs 70 to 80.
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Vicwity
Idaho
Auto Accident In Caribou County Injures Five
Mrs. Janice Heslin 25 of West Pocatello is semi conscious in Caribou County Hospital after the car she drove overturned near Soda Springs. Five aboard, including Lt. Harold White and Mrs. Heslin’s sister Barbara Merlin, were treated for bruises and shock. her two year old son escaped injury.
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West Pocatello
Caribou County
Soda Springs
Heslin
John Michael
Harold White
Naval Ordnance Plant
R. L. Knowlden
Barbara Merlin
Pocatellans
Gate City
Montpelier
Merlin
Blaze Threatens Cameron Ranch
A grass and sagebrush fire near Inkom threatened the Glen Cameron ranch one mile west of town shortly before 10 am Monday. Neighbors helped fight the blaze as winds shifted, and the sheriff reported the wind change saved the farm buildings.
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Glen Cameron Ranch
Inkom
Alma Marley
Deep Creek Irrigation Co approves Henderson site reservoir plan
The board led by George Tovey and others announces a share vote of 2369 to 394 in favor of investigating financing a 5700 acre foot earth-fill reservoir on Deep creek near Malad. The project costs about 268000 dollars and would quadruple the Deep creek water supply.
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Deep Creek Irrigation Co
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Morgan W Tovey
Ed Pingel
Thomas Chivers
Khalil Nansen
Henderson Site
Deep Creek
Malad
Negro burglar arraigned after July radio hall break in
James Douglas Bolton a 41 year old colored man asked for an attorney when arraigned before District Judge Isaac McDougall. Bolton is charged with first degree burglary for entering the Radio Pool hall at 301 N Third during morning hours of July 20. He was wounded twice by bullets from Officer Jack J Bates after he refused to halt.
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Isaac McDougall
Bolton
Jack J. Bates
Young Man Sells Books Door to Door in Pocatello
Unnamed youth poses as part of a newspaper survey in Pocatello door to door and pressures residents to buy an encyclopedia set. The chamber of commerce says no approval exists and police were alerted on Sunday.
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Pocatello
Chamber of Commerce
Nine to one chance for life in rare surgery case
Chicago reports six medical experts found Pamela Frances Lamphere, a 22 month old with bladder outside her body, has a nine to one chance to survive corrective surgery. Judge Walter R. O Malley ordered the procedure within two months as parents clash in a divorce suit over the operation.
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Chicago
Pamela Frances Lamphere
Walter R. O'Malley
O'Malley
Fred Lamphere
Irene
Lamphere
British Free Russian Police Chief Seized in Berlin
Berlin reports say Russians released three U S military government officials seized in blockaded Berlin while Britain freed Franz Erdmann head of the eastern Berlin police criminal division who was arrested at a boxing match. Erdmann faces abduction and presumptive authority charges. Russian patrols crossed into the American sector and a German photographer was detained as 10th seizure since Thursday. The Americans freed include Thomas P Headen deputy head of the Information Services division in Berlin Lt Sherman Turner and Roland Myers. Observers say raids aim to seize deserters and profits from confiscations, amid debate over Berlin control patterns.
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Rug Sime
Berlin
Thomas P. Headen
Potsdamer Platz
Sherman Turner
Council Bluffs
Roland Myers
Brooklyn
Mestrichstadt
Frankfurt
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Myers
Germany
Filipino Monterey officers seek Pocatello help in Salinas killings
Monterey County officers in California call on Pocatello police to aid in locating Augustin Kawaling Lavinia, 43, a Filipino man accused of killing five countrymen during a gambling game near Salinas on August 6. Lavinia reportedly fled by train to San Francisco the day of the shootings.
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California
Pocatello
Augustin Kawaling Lavinia
Salinas
Lavinia
Monterey
San Francisco
Grace Black and White Fair crowns champions at two day livestock show
Gem Valley Ninth annual Black and White fair closed after a two day exhibi tion. Grand champion eddie horse and horse pulling contest capped the event. Winners in saddle classes went to Don Clegg George Hogan and Nadine Smith. Shirley Palmer won the light team pulling prize while Johnny Lucher’s 2280 pound team pulled 550 pounds over their weight. Local officials praised growth and non secession sentiment as Grace residents heard county leaders praise the fair.
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Don Clegg
George Hogan
Nadine Smith
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Franklin County
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Pocatello
Grace
Osborne
Caribou County
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Harris Mickelson
Lago
Marvin Prescott
Max Rigby
S. Gibbs
Everett Smith
Loven Hogan
Ernest Seamona
Albert Mylrose
Quentin Murdock
S. B. Brady
W. H. Jensen
Ray Oliver
Marley
R. L. Craig
Fargo Wells
Nicholas Sifter
Harry Isley
Clegg Raymond of
McCammon
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