Simplot Purchases Kalunite Plant at Salt Lake City
The War Assets Administration sold the surplus Kalunite plant in Salt Lake City to J. R. Simplot of Pocatello for 752000. Simplot plans to use the site for a fertilizer operation, with 10 percent cash due within ten days and another 10 percent at closing, plus a 15 year mortgage at four percent. The sale awaits Justice Department approval.
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Washington
War Assets Administration
Salt Lake City
J. R. Simplot
Pocatello
Sen. Thomas
Utah
Simplot
American Potash Co
New York
Columbia Metals Co
Seattle
Justice Department
War Assets
Truman Signs Bill for 914 Million Aid Package
President Truman signed a 914 million dollar appropriation bill delivering 522 million in emergency aid for France Italy and Austria plus 18 million for China relief. The measure funds government relief for occupied areas reclamation projects Navajo and Hopi welfare and other items including a Senate salary grant to heirs and congressional travel expenses.
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Washington
Truman
France
Italy
Austria
Congress
China
Theodore G. Bilbo
D.-Miss
House Menio
Ross Comments On Republican Anti-Inflation Bill Action
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross notes the Republican backed measure may be signed or vetoed, indicating a final decision on the bill is pending regardless of administration stance. The remark centers on legislative fate and executive review.
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Charles G. Ross
Fort Hall mines to expand in Pocatello area operations
Powers reports Fort Hall holdings produced about 600000 tons in 18 months and projects combined rock output from Pocatello and Utah plants at about 250000 tons annually. An additional 200000 tons remain to be mined and shipped raw to Japan under a government contract. Shipments to Japan expected to finish by early 1949. The Utah plant purchase is noted.
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O. A. Powers
Pocatello Generalion
Fort Hall
Pocatello
Fort Hall Holdings
Powers
Utah
Japan
Santa Goes To Prison Christmas Dinner At Idaho Penitentiary
In Boise 325 inmates will receive a turkey dinner and gifts from the Salvation Army. A skit directed by R. P. Schofield is being staged by the prisoners as Gov. C. A. Robins and Capt. Glenn Howell viewed a preview. Each inmate gets nuts and candy. apple pie completes the meal.
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Boise
Santa Claus
Idaho State Penitentiary
Salvation Army
R. P. Schofield
C. A. Robins
Glenn Howell
L. E. Clapp
Army Bans Nude-Show Films in Munich Clubs
The U S Army has banned films showing nude dancers staged privately for six months in officers and enlisted men's clubs in the Munich area, according to Stars and Stripes.
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Munich
Germany
U. S. Army
Stars and Stripes
Choice Steers Reach $40 At Chicago and Omaha Markets
Chicago paid $40 a hundredweight for 20 head of choice to prime 1,220 pound fed steers, the first all time high. The prior record was $39. In Omaha, a $40 high was hit for 19 angus steers averaging about 1,310 pounds, marketed by the Galbraith brothers of Beemer Nebraska.
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Chicago
Omaha
Galbraith Brothers
1Beemer
Neb
Pocatello Plays Major Role In Phosphate Development
Washington reports vast western phosphate reserves spurring fertilizer industry growth slowly. Government officials cite growing western demand and existing fertilizer mixing hubs in the south and west, with Hart noting westward processing expansion into Minnesota and Iowa. Anaconda Copper Mining is highlighted as a leading superphosphate producer in Montana.
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Pocatello
Washington Service
Pocatello Tribune
Washington (Ap
W. T. Hart
Commerce Department
Minnesota
Sin
Iowa
Tolaha
Anaconda
Mont
Idaho
Hart
School Group Considering Two New Jobs
County Superintendent G. Scott Lowe reported two new positions may be filled before the county schools open. An elementary supervisor and a transportation and safety leader are under consideration, with duties including teacher training, audio visual aids, bus safety, and driver instruction. Names not disclosed. Positions funded by a 5 mill levy approved by the legislature.
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G. Scott D. Lowe
County Board of Education
Lowe
City Offices Close at Noon for Christmas Holiday
City offices in the municipal building will close at noon Wednesday for the Christmas holiday and reopen Friday morning. Bert Reese, city clerk, said today.
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Bert Reese
Weather data summary for Idaho and nearby cities
The 24 hour weather shows varying readings with Pocatello at 39 high and 8 low, Idaho Falls at 30, San Francisco 55, Seattle 50, and Salt Lake City 42. Total monthly precipitation 1.11 inches, mean yesterday 22. Forecast for Pocatello: clear to partly cloudy, warmer tonight and Wednesday with lows near 20 and highs around 35. Idaho outlook: south central mix of high clouds. north flurries tonight into Wednesday. no snow in forecast for the region.
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Pocatello
Ilve
Durch S
Idaho Falls
Los Angeles
New York
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Soia
Yellowstone
Idaho
Train Wreck Als 36 nd Harts 60
FRANKFURT Germany Two passenger trains collided near Fahr Irlich in the French zone killing 36 and injuring 60 Germans most en route to Christmas reunions. An engineer ignored a stop signal sparking the disaster. French authorities dispatched rescue workers to aid salvage.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Fahr- Irlich
U.S
Neuwied
Rhine
Koblenz
Remagen
Mainz
Freiburg - Dortmund
Fahr-Irlich
Plane sighted after missing Ellensburg flyer search
AP reports the burned wreckage of a plane identified as Don Powell who vanished Sunday morning on a Wenatchee to Ellensburg flight was spotted by a search plane north of Gingko State Park on the Vantage highway east of Ellensburg. A ground party heads to the scene.
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Ellensburg
Wash
Don Powell
Wenatchee
Gingko State Park
Here
Ohio Congressman seeks Pauley restraint over commodity trading
One Ohio congressman demands Pauley resign his government post over commodity trading. Another urges a thorough investigation into what is described as the biggest advance in the grain market last January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ohio
Edwin W. Pauley
Tense clashes in Palestine as convoy attacked north of Jerusalem
British troops engage Arab assailants after highway attack near Jerusalem while Arab gunfire hits a Jewish funeral procession on the Sacred Mount of the Ascension.
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Jerusalem
Sacred Mount of the Ascension
Records Fall In Handling Of Yale Mail
At Pocatello post office holiday mail volume surges. Parcel post up 40 percent from 1946, 95 400 total items Monday including 73 500 metered mail. Twenty five workers this year vs 18 last year. two extra mail trucks increase fleet to nine. Efforts doubled to deliver Christmas packages on Thursday with some staff working Christmas Day.
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Pocatello
Child Injured Crossing Street After Auto Collision
Seven year old Harriet Hines was struck by a Ford sedan driven by John J. Taylor of Moran Wyoming at 9 05 a m while crossing South Fifth. She was taken by Downard ambulance to St Anthony hospital and treated for bruises and shock with X rays of the right arm.
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Harriet Hines
Moran
Wyo
Theater aids pool fund reaches new milestone
The City of Pocatello receives a $436 contribution toward the swimming pool project from Chief Theater manager Bob Anderson. The funds stem from half the proceeds of college and high school student admission courtesy cards used at the Chief Theater during the season.
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George R. Phillips
Pocatello
Chief
Bob Anderson
Phillips
Anderson
City Issues Building Permits Totals For The Year
The City of Pocatello issued 426 building and remodeling permits valued at 1.521 million dollars. Fire Chief A A Girard announced 530 business permits, 33 buildings, and 9 new dwelling permits totaling 537 thousand dollars.
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Pocatello
A. A. Girard
Fire crews respond twice at Union Pacific yards in Pocatello
The Pocatello fire department was summoned three times in 24 hours to Union Pacific rail yards. At 8:58 Tuesday a transformer short ignited a small fire and was extinguished with foam. At 1:25 PM a back shop blaze was out on arrival. A late night call from North Main and Gould occurred but details are incomplete.
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Pocatello
Union Pacific
North Main
Gould
Montana Buries Young Cowhand
Rickey Rutherford aged five, member of the Montana Cowboys Association, was buried in Great Falls after dying from a kidney ailment. The Augusta, Montana boy wore tiny boots, chaps and a wide-brimmed hat as townspeople ensured he had cowboy garb for Christmas.
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Great Falls
Mont
Rickey Rutherford
Montana Cowboys Association
Rickey
Jesus
Roy JL. Rutherford
Augusta
Idahoan among nation’s big traders in government report
Idaho Falls resident A. Andersin appears on the list of big traders with 297000 bushels on Oct 31 1946 and classified as a speculative long. Congressional committees pledge scrutiny for possible leaks of inside government purchasing information amid a 711 trader list release.
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Washington
Idaho
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
A. ©. Andersin
Idaho Falls
House
Rep
Andresen
R.minn
Sen
Knowland
R.-Calif
Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Anderson
Montana Pastor Visits with Family in Local City
Reverend Joseph Barr Gleason and his wife from Glascow Montana visit here with their daughter Mrs. Herbert Glen Voiles and her family. The Gleasons plan to return to Glascow Friday. He formerly led the First Baptist church in Poca tell and was active in the Pocatello Kiwanis club during his residence here.
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Joseph Barr Gleason
Gleason
Glascow
Mont
Herbert Glen Voiles
Voiles
Rev. Gleason
First Baptist Church
Pocatell
Pocatello
Petition to Probate Estate of Anna Nilson Olson
The Bannock County probate court heard a petition to probate letters of administration for the estate of Anna Nilson Olson who wed in Lund on November 19 1947. The petition was filed yesterday by Sylvia Elizabeth Bower daughter of the deceased. Heirs named under the will include two daughters Mrs. Bower and Lillie Olsen Adams both of Lund and a son Henry M Olson of Ogden. The estate is valued at 7752 dollars 62 cents.
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Anna Nilson Olson
Lund
Ued
Bannock County
Solon Pushes Nicaragua Canal Plan Amid Panama Rift
Washington officials discuss US military bases in Panama and a proposed sea level canal across Nicaragua. Senator Knowland backers a new survey for Nicaragua as an alternative to expanding Panama locks while Panama's assembly rejects the US pact to lease and defend canal sites.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Panama
Trueman
United States
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Congress
Nicaragua
Panama Canal
Truman
National Assembly
Phillips Act on Gas Price Sparks City Letter Campaign
Mayor George R. Phillips said he is sending letters to eastern and southern Idaho mayors urging action to reduce gasoline prices. He notes rising pump costs add to wage earners’ burdens in Idaho where prices exceed the national average. Mayors of Idaho Falls Blackfoot Soda Springs American Falls Twin Falls and Boise will receive the notice.
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George R. Phillips
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Soda Spring
American Falls
Twin Falls
Boise
Woman Accuses Man of Hip Carving Kidnapping
In Los Angeles Donald Graeff, 27, was booked on suspicion of kidnapping after a young woman, Helen Miller, 19, said she was confined in a downtown hotel room for a week and had the initials DG cut into her hip. She escaped after finding the door key while Graeff slept.
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Los Angeles
Donald Graeff
Charles King
Helen Miller
Graeff
Water Users Agree in Part To Compromise on Storage
Idaho Falls RP reports a five point agreement on American Falls reservoir storage. Two Jerome representatives from Twin Falls company favored the proposal in principle but asked for more study time. The plan authorizes selling 315 000 acre feet to current lessees and uses the rest for new lands on Richaud flats and Minidoka north side extension with costs offset by net rental credit.
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Idaho Falls
American Falls
Water Company
Charles Westeroth
Pat Perry
Jerome
North Side
Twin Falls Company
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