Highway Cave-in Closes U S Highways 30 90 191
A cave-in from a faulty irrigation culvert opposite Colbeer motor courts near Pocatello closed U S highways 30 90 and 191 yesterday afternoon. A construction truck with 12 tons of gravel passed over the site triggering the collapse. No injuries reported. Traffic rerouted and repairs expected by late Saturday. Mayor W W Halsey supervised the repair effort.
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U.S
Colbeer Motor Courts
Pocatello
J. F. Bedingfield
State Police
Series Final Goes to Billings in 11-9 Win
Billings Mustangs surged to five runs in the first two innings and beat the Pocatello Cardinals 11-9 in Pioneer League action. Jack Skinner opened the ninth with a homer and Frank Means Tom Incavaglia Jack Sirota and Joe Tufteland added key hits as the rally carried Billings to their lone win of the three game set.
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Billings Mustangs
Pocatello Cardinals
Mustangs
Bob Vogel
Pocatello
Broncos
Charley Buck
Vogel
Billings
Buck
Jack Skinner
Frank Means
Tom Incavaglia
Jack Sirota
Joe Tufteland
Calola and Buck Lead Marathon Baseball Box Score
Game box score shows Calola and Buck with multiple hits and RBI. Duretto, Peccia, Skinner, Nenna also contributed. Vogel pitched 12 3 innings for loser. Buck logged 8 1 3 innings for a win. Left-handers Billings and Pocatello fielded defensively as managers recorded errors and double plays.
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Buck
Billings
Pocatello
Calola
Skinner
Czaplewski
Nenna
Duretto
Peccia
Means
Sirota
Rbi
Moore
Siorta
Tufteland
Bean
Czaplewsk
Williams
Vogel
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Er—Tufteland
So— Tufteland
Navy Doctor Assigned to Atomic Labs Move
Lt. E. A. Hathaway, medical officer at the Pocatello naval ordnance plant, leaves tomorrow for Seattle to enter inactive duty then heads to Chicago to work as a physician at Argon national laboratories. The Chicago lab is involved in top secret atomic energy research. Hathaway has served at the local base about a year after earlier duty at Mare Island Vallejo. He has been on active duty since the end of World War II, and his wife and two children have moved to Chicago.
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E. A. Hathaway
Pocatello Naval
Seattle
Hathaway
Chicago
Ill
Argon National Laboratories
Naval Hospital
Mare Island Naval Station
Vallejo
Calif
Lt. Hathaway
Waitkus Suffers Operation Yet Carries Bullet Near Spine
Eddie Waitkus Phillies first baseman underwent two hours of surgery to re inflate a partially collapsed lung after a June 15 shooting. A hospital spokesman said his condition is good and no further surgery is planned. he is expected to stay hospitalized about ten days. The assailant Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 19, was committed to Kankakee state hospital in rapid legal proceedings.
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Chicago
Eddie Waitkus
Philadelphia Phillies
Waitkus
Billings Memorial Hospital
Brunette Ruth Ann Steinhagen
Kankakee State Hospital
135 Lutheran Youths Enroll in Vacation Bible School
Grace Lutheran church reports 135 children enrolled in its daily vacation Bible School during the first week. The program runs 9 to noon for ages 4 to 14, with no registration fee and a daily freewill offering. The school closes Friday July 8 and is led by Rev. R A Koch with a 12 member staff.
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Grace Lutheran Church
R. A. Koch
R. Koch
Jack. Johnson
Edwin Kahm
Francis Davis
C. Myers
Judge Denounces Woman For Betrayal of Country
Judith Coplon, 28, sentenced to 40 months to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to spy for Soviet Russia. She defiantly proclaimed innocence before Judge Albert L. Reeves who likened her case to Benedict Arnold and praised the jury verdict.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
Soviet
Russia
Albert L. Reeves
Miss Coplon
Benedict Arnold
Pocatello Pool Passes Health Board Tests
The new $70,000 municipal pool in Ross Park, Pocatello, meets health department guidelines and is praised by A L Biladeau, Idaho health official. Water is tested twice weekly by city sanitarian R B Tueller, with readings showing safety and an 80 degree temperature.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Health Department
A. L. Biladeau
Boise
Idaho Department of Public Health
Biladeau
Ross Park
Pocatello Tribune
Tueller
City Sanitarian
Pioneer League Scores and Lineups From Idaho Falls and Twin Falls
In a Pioneer League slate, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls posted scores with detailed lineups. Bartholomew, Park, Stumpf, Greco and Tapp appear for Idaho Falls while Eskenberry, Hurley, Webster and Danielson, Larner and Tie siera feature for Twin Falls. Boise and Ogden entries show players Stites, Owen, Valentine, Zelser and McConnell among others.
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Great Falls
Idaho Falls
Bartholomew, Park and Stumpf
Greco and
Tapp
Twin Falls
L. C
Eskenberry
Hurley
Webster and Danielson
Larner
Tiesiera
Boise
Ogden
Stites
Owen
Valentine
Zelser
Guy
McConell
Boise to Get Gas-Oil Pipe Line Service
Salt Lake City based pipeline firm announces bids for a 560 mile oil products line to the Pacific Northwest. The first leg runs 320 miles Salt Lake City to Boise with initial cost over 6 million dollars. Full project cost expected to exceed 12 million, to be operated by Standard Oil of California subsidiary.
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Boise
Salt Lake City
Pacific Northwest
Salt Lake Pipeline Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Standard
Salt Lake
Gas Truck Explodes Injuring Eight at Hawkins Plant
A 4,000 gallon bottled gas truck exploded at a Hawkins natural gasoline plant injuring eight people, four seriously. The blast shook nearby buildings two and a half miles away as emergency crews responded. In other notes, the CIO UAW rejected Ford’s wage freeze proposal, and Berlin’s rail movement resumed slowly after a six week shutdown tied to a strike and locomotive shortages.
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Hawkins
Texas
Detroit
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Ford
Ken Bannon
Berlin
Jury Probes Klan Violence in Alabama Invasion and Floggings
A county grand jury in Birmingham opens an inquiry into Klan related violence. Investigators report a Lineville meeting disrupted by hooded robed assailants. Witnesses describe beatings of Steve Marshler and two Clay county men, with more than 50 subpoenas issued.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Lineville
Clay County
W. J. Kitchen
Ed Pepper
Steve Marshler
John Henry McCullers
Young Buney
Strike Threat Looms Over Reno Fourth of July Weekend
Thousands of visitors to Reno during the holiday could face hunger and thirst if the AFL bartenders and culinary workers strike cafe and bar staff. A citizens emergency committee urged residents to help in food service roles amid a wave of rodeo tourism and legalized gambling in the city.
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Reno
Nev
Bartenders and Culinary Workers’ Union
AFL
Citizens’ Emergency Committee
Francis Smith
Smith
UP Switches From Oil to Coal For Freight Operations
Union Pacific will switch from oil burning coal locomotives to coal burners in freight operations Saturday night. President A. F. E. Stoddard said the oil burning locomotives were used to conserve coal during a possible shortage.
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Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad
Pres. A. FE
Stoddard
Czech Reds Try to Seize Church Festival Amid Tense Week
Diplomatic sources report clashes in Slovakia with communist police casualties and injuries. The government presses a secular campaign to control Catholic pilgrimages for the Cyril and Methodius and St. Prokop holidays, plus a Huss commemoration moved to create a compact weekend for the people’s democracy.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Cyril and Methodius
Greece
St. Prokop
Sazava
Bohemia
John Huss
Miners to Get Aid in New Mexico Shutdowns
A Silver City CIO local committee says 1000 unemployed miners may gain unemployment benefits via a special legislative session urged by Governor Mabry. About 450 were laid off when U S Smelting Refining and Mining Co closed Bayard operations last Friday.
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Silver City
Thomas J. Mabry
New Mexico
Clinton Jencks
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
CIO
Santa Fe
U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Co
Bayard
Mole Hill to be renamed Mountain West Virginia
Mole Hill in West Virginia will officially become Mountain at ceremonies with Guy, Okey Patteson, and Senator Kilgore. The village population is listed at 93, and the change signals a new name for the small town.
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Mole Hill
W. Va
Guy
Okey Patteson
Senator Kilgore
WvVa
Mountain
West Virginia
Deficit Ends Fiscal Year With Record Spending
The Treasury reports a 1949 deficit of 1.44 million dollars as outlays hit 40.057 billion with foreign aid costs included. Taxes and slower activity reduced revenues, prompting expectations of a 1950 shortfall between 3 and 5 billion dollars. President Truman reviewed the outlook with aides, urging leaner fund requests. Fiscal 1949 was the first deficit in three years after a record 1948 surplus.
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Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
D-Va
Inclu
Byrd
Snyder
Stenger May Go To Bees In Trade Talk
Boise Pilots owner Hadyn Walker confirms a possible trade offer to send Bill Stenger to the Salt Lake City Bees for shortstop Gene Machado. Walker has not decided and will discuss with Stenger after he returns. Salt Lake’s Ed Mulligan would not confirm.
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Boise
Hadyn Walker
Boise Pilots
Salt Lake City Bees
Pilot
Bill Stenger
Walker
Bee
Ed Mulligan
Salt Lake
Gene Machado
Stenger
Mulligan
Pilots
Deseret News
Salt Lake City
Pioneer League
Pocatello
Four Local War Dead Returned from European Cemeteries
Four Pocatello service members killed in World War II are being brought home aboard the Carroll Victory. Pvt Ralph L Iverson Pfc Chris J Johnson Second Lt Clyde L Rytting and Pvt Water J Thomas are en route under next of kin request. Iverson served 1942 to 1944 in Belgium Johnson died in France June 14 1944 after three major battles Rytting wounded in Germany died March 3 1945 in France Thomas listed as son of Roscoe H Thomas P O Box 936.
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Pocatello
Ralph L. Iverson
Howard W. Iverson
Chris J. Johnson
Joseph L. Johnson
Portneuf Park
Clyde L. Rytting
Delma L. Rytting
Idaho Falls
Water J. Thomas
Roscoe H. Thomas
P. O. Box
Pfc. Johnson
France
Bancroft
Bancroft High School
Rytting
Germany
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