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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1949
Page
4
The Pocatello tribune publishes daily and Sunday in Idaho with editors G Nicholas Ifft and M P Goodfellow. It lists Associated Press use rights and Washington Bureau contact, plus subscription rates for Idaho and elsewhere in the United States.
This paper will publish all lawful notices or orders weekly in Thursdays edition per Idaho law Section 58-107 LC.A. 1932 as amended by Chapter 154 1933 Session Laws. The quote about treating strangers appears from Exodus 22 21 about not oppressing visitors.
Two weeks into the Paris meeting of the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers yields little progress. The Soviet Union demands $10 billion in reparations and veto power over Ruhr control, while the Western powers push for a German republic under Bonn and a re-unified Germany. The conference edges toward no agreement as the cold war persists and no peace appears near.
The excerpt notes Helen Reed Moffitt’s poem Cloud Tears about rainy days and sailboats, with a reader’s address at 633 North Grant. It mentions studying Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and recommends Willy Ley’s The Lungfish The Dodo and The Unicorn for entertaining reading, highlighting unicorn fables and translation errors.
The AAUP reports eight colleges are under investigation for dismissing faculty over political beliefs. The piece urges caution in judging professors, noting John E. Rideout’s resignation from UNH to Idaho State College, and calls for giving the benefit of doubt before public condemnation.
In Pocatello July rodeo chatter attention shifts from grooming to a wider worry fueled by world headlines. Snuffy Smith shaved away after a seven day beard stint citing cobwebs, a humorous example of how beard growing now touches social and psychological horizons beyond personal grooming.
The Snake River shaped Minidoka County with irrigation from Minidoka Dam and Lake Walcott. Settled 1884 as a railroad siding, it grew into fertile farming land with crops like sugar beets and alfalfa. Rupert is the county seat and a sugar factory exists at Paul.
The piece notes the world population at 2.32 billion and jokes about growth on a planetary scale. It recalls Henry Morgenthau Jr. dying in 1946 with an estate of 1.5 million dollars and his role in applying New Deal ideas to government finance.
Theo H. Wegener of the Idaho Development Association denounces the Columbia Valley Administration as a radical venture. He cites a Seattle northwest conference statement calling CVA lacking democratic safeguards and warns it could lead to totalitarian control. Separately, Oakley Stone quarry prospects emerge with colored rock praised for workability.
The piece questions a government backed electric brain and its impact on society. It argues mechanizing thought could push civilization toward an age of pre digestion, worries about reduced study of languages and literature, and notes this mirrors concerns about foreign aid and Europe’s reliance on American charity. It cites Bruce Barton on nations biting off more than they can chew.
A sequence of reader letters covers political frustration with government, health reform, and party tactics. Notes express amazement at governance, cold weather talk, misgivings about federally regimentation, bets on a rising FDR, and critique of GOP. The text ends mid sentence with a humorous wedding night remark about Rita.
Readers ask to reveal which of Gerhart Eisler's alleged top level secret moves and the Berlin council appointment were real. The letter references PBI labeling Eisler as No 1 Communist and notes escape from London to Prague before joining a war in the Communist council in Berlin.
Senator Glen H. Taylor warns that England France India and others move to recognize China and establish trade while the United States lags risking a first class depression from lost markets. He urges immediate steps to secure China trade before rivals capture it.
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