Idaho Governor cites freight rate hikes harming state economy
Governor C A Robins said freight rate increases after World War II have placed Idaho in a serious economic position. He noted hikes of 50 percent on some products, including Idaho potatoes, threatening markets, government purchases, and future state revenues. He urged possible roundtable talks with railroads and state officials to find alternatives to higher rates.
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Boise
C. A. Robins
Idaho
Wife’s Leap From Car Probed In Idaho Auto Death
AMERICAN FALLS An inquest into the mystery highway death of Mrs. C. H. Norris of Twin Falls was held after noon. She died when she leaped or fell from an auto driven by her husband six miles west of American Falls. The body was struck by a passing car and mutilated. An autopsy by Twin Falls pathologist J. Wilson Creed was presented at the inquest by Power county coroner H. L. Davis. L. B. Brown of American Falls, whose car struck the body, said he did not know his auto went over her. State police noted little fresh blood at the scene and a wine bottle, nearly empty, hidden in sagebrush near the incline where Norris stopped after his wife left the vehicle.
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American Falls
C. H. Norris
Twin Falls
Pocatello
J. Wilson Creed
Power County
H. L. Davis
L. B. Brown
Norris
Hands Off Approach Urged By Idaho GOP
Idaho GOP leader Ezra Hinshaw urged Republicans to stay out of the 1950 Democratic primary amid intra party splits over Sen. Glen H. Tay seeking renomination as a Democrat. He urged no Republican participation to heal Democratic rifts or promote solidarity.
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Boise
Idaho
Ezra Hinshaw
GOP
Hinshaw
Republican State Committee
Glen H. Tay
Taylor
Progressive Party
Stars Plan Auction of Movie Memorabilia in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills hosts a four day auction June 13 to 16 featuring Anne Baxter’s parlor chair Van Johnson’s six hand painted beer mugs and a trigraved silver box once carried by Joan Leslie’s grandmother Loretta Young organized the sale for St Anne's maternity hospital for un married mothers The auctioneer estimates the display could fetch about 50000 in total with items ranging from yams to television sets and costly trinkets
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Anne Baxter
van Johnson
Joan Leslie
Loretta Young
Salt Lake City
St. Anne's Maternity Hospital
Roy J. Goldenberg
Postwar unemployment hits new high in May
The Census Bureau reports unemployment rose 273000 in May to 3,289,000, a postwar peak. The agency notes the gain defies seasonal expectations while total employment also rises from April to May and farming employment climbs 875000 to 58,694,000.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Weather forecast for Pocatello area tonight and tomorrow
Partly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers tonight. Tomorrow mostly partly cloudy and cooler with highs near 45 to 50 degrees.
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Pocatello
Fort Hall Indians accuse Nichols of snub during visit
Indian leaders criticized Indian Commissioner John R. Nichols for refusing to meet their representative Frank Tom-Pee-Saw and for not inspecting housing and destitute living conditions on the Fort Hall reservation. Milton Quinn said Nichols rejected Tom-Pee-Saw and was taken to grazing lands and mines instead of homes.
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Fort Hall
John R. Nichols
Idaho State College
Dr. Nichols
Towle
Tribal Business Council
Frank Tom-Pee- Saw
Parsons
Kans
Legislative Council
The
League of American Indians
Tom-Pee-Saw
Fort Hall Reservation
Milton Quinn
Quinn
Council
Tom Pee-Saw
Bond Named Student Counselor at University of Idaho
Charles H. Bond was named student counselor at the University of Idaho today. He succeeds the late Dr. Allan Lemon and has led the veterans administration guidance center. Bond has served as a teacher principal and director of education in Wendell Bonners Ferry Twin Falls Pocatello and Missoula Montana.
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Moscow
Idaho
Charles H. Bond
University of Idaho
Bond
Veterans Administration Guidance Center
University
Allan ©. Lemon
Wendell
Bonners Ferry
Twin Palls
Pocatello
Lat Missoula
Mont
Pocatello recruit dies in Tacoma auto crash
An Associated Press dispatch from Fort Lewis Washington reports the death of Charles B. Alliston 24 who recently joined the U S Army. He died from injuries in an automobile accident east of Tacoma Washington last Sunday Notification of kin pending
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Associated Press
Fort Lewis
Wash
Charles B. Alliston
U.S. Army
Tacoma
Floods Ravage Colorado Prompt Disaster Response
Heavy rains and flash floods across Colorado forced Red Cross to establish disaster headquarters in Fremont county after homes were lost in Portland near Canon City. Water reached five to six feet in remaining houses while deputies guard evacuated areas. Minor rock slides blocked continental highways west of Denver including Berthoud Pass with snow. Traffic between Kansas and Colorado in the Lamar area moved slowly.
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Denver
Red Cross
Fremont County
Colorado
Portland
Canon City
Berthoud Pass
Kansas
Lamar
For Sale Westinghouse Apartment Refrigerator
Vacation time prompts a Tribune Classified Want Ad. Refrigerator sold after three days. Westinghouse apartment air conditioner listed with contact phone numbers for sale results.
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Tribune
Westinghouse
Continued Prosperity Likely Secretary of Treasury Tells Intermountain Bankers
Secretary John W. Snyder told Utah bankers that population growth buying power and production point to continued prosperity. He cited 17 million more people since the war and a 10 percent rise in per person food consumption. He warned of forthcoming industrial revolutions from new techniques and atomic energy and noted gains in purchasing power with a national income around 214 billion dollars.
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Sun Valley
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Utah Bankers Association
Snyder
Taylor Urges Repeal of Draft Act Despite Budget Cuts
Sen. Taylor of Idaho urged repealing the selective service law, citing no current draft and sufficient voluntary personnel. He asked Chairman Tydings to back his bill, noting the agency remains large while the budget for the year was cut to 4.5 million, with operations at a standstill.
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Washington
Selective Service Organization
Sen. Taylor
Idaho
Tydings
Armed Services Committee
Taylor
Armed Services
Selective Service Agency
House
Senate
Four power talks deadlocked over Berlin issue
Paris and the western powers traded verbal blows at the four power foreign ministers meeting and remained deadlocked on the Berlin question. Washington reports cover Senator McClellan proposing up to 3 billion dollars in next year’s spending cuts to balance the budget. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged ratification of the North Atlantic pact to avoid world war three. President Truman signed legislation to store crops, especially grain, for price support loans.
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Paris
Russia
Berlin
Washington
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Truman
Senate committee keeps labor bill for showdown vote
Washington. The Senate Democratic Policy Committee agreed to retain the administration's labor bill in the Senate until a showdown vote. The move signals a firm push to force floor action on the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Democratic Policy Committee
R. R. Worker Suffers Heart Attack at Yard
Joe Shilhorn, a Union Pacific railroad car inspector, was rushed to General hospital shortly after noon today in the McHann Henderson ambulance. He suffered a heart attack while at work in the railroad yards and is under care of Dr. Forrest Howard.
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Joe Shilhorn
Union Pacific Railroad
General Hospital
McHann Henderson
Forrest Howard
Truman Seeks 150 Million for Korea Aid
President Truman asked Congress for 150 million dollars to continue economic aid to the Republic of Korea starting July 1. He said the plan is economically sound and advances peaceful, democratic aims in the Far East, with UN support for Korea's unity and independence against Soviet domination. The funds would go to the Economic Cooperation Administration, which has run relief and recovery in southern Korea since January 1.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Republic of Korea
Far East
Korea
North Korea
United Nations
Economic Cooperation Administration
Boise County Bonds Ruling Limits Commission Powers
The Idaho State Attorney General’s office ruled that county commissioners cannot buy interest bearing bonds with funds not expected to be needed for more than six months. The opinion, sought by Washington County Prosecuting Attorney Frank H. Anderson, states that such money must be deposited in designated depositories.
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Boise
Frank H. Anderson
Washington County
J. N. Leggatt
Detroit Kaiser-Prazer cut 5300 jobs after walkout dispute
Kaiser-Prazer Corp sent home 5300 production workers claiming an unauthorized walkout by 200 body department workers over line speed. The 200, aligned with CIO United Auto Workers, charged lines ran too fast. The company denied the charge.
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Detroit
Kaiser-Prazer Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Rear Admiral Good to Visit Pocatello for Safety Award
Rear Admiral H. H. Good, commander of the 13th Naval District Seattle, will visit Pocatello on June 13 to award Capt. W. P. McCarty, local commander of the Naval Ordnance plant, the Secretary of Navy's safety award for 1948. This marks the plant's third consecutive year earning the honor for outstanding industrial safety. The award was announced by Admiral A. G. Noble and noted at the Third Navy Regional Safety Conference in Washington, D. C., on February 8, 1949.
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H. H. Good
13Th Naval District
Secretary of the Navy
Pocatello Naval Ordnance Plant
Indiana
Naval Academy
Seattle
Pocatello
W. P McCarty
Naval Ordnance Plant
Secretary of Navy
Bureau of Ordnance
A G. Noble
McCarty
Navy
Washington, D. C
Naval Ordnance Lant
Suspect Trip In Custody After Fatal Minnesota Shootout
Three gunmen sought in the killing of a Minneapolis suburb officer and the kidnapping of a Mandan officer were shot up in a crash near Washington Kansas. Allen G Hartman 20 and Carl Bistrom 27 were captured after a wreck while a third man identified as Bill J Beatty 21 of Tekamah Nebraska surrendered yesterday. The gang had abducted five others before releasing them.
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Washington, Kas
Minnesota
Here
Bill Smith
Allen G. Hartman
Bistrom
Hartman
Marysville
Kale Thompson
Carl Bistrom
Nebraska
Bill J. Beatty
Tekamah
Nebr
Milk price drop in Idaho Falls homes
Two Idaho Falls dairies cut the home delivery milk price by one cent per quart to 17 cents. No change yet in the retail price of milk sold in stores.
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Idaho Falls
Multiple Aboard in Atlantic and Americas Crashes
News briefs report a crash near Athens killing Maj Gen George Kotsalos and 22 others on a Greek Airlines Dakota. In Brazil a C-47 crash near Cambirelas peak kills 26. A San Juan bound C-46 with 47 aboard goes missing after takeoff with 28 survivors known.
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Athens
Malakasa
George Kotsalos
Kavalla
San Juan
Puerto Rico
United States
Atlantic
U. S. Coast Guard
al Cockrell
Pittsfield
Mass
Judge Finds Chambers Inconsistent With Grand Jury Testimony
In New York the federal judge in the Alger Hiss perjury case ruled Whitaker Chambers inconsistent between grand jury testimony on Oct 14 and 18 and his trial testimony. The judge also allowed Stryker to review grand jury minutes from Dec 6 to 15, while noting substantial consistency with trial testimony in that later period.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Samus H. Kaufman
Hiss
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Chambers
Stryker
Washington
City Officials Consider Second Anti-Slot Petitions
City officials weigh a second batch of petitions opposing slot machines after a near unanimous drive by Mrs. R. W. Day of the state WCTU and local church pastors. The group had earlier presented signed petitions May 16, which council members tabled.
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Pocatellan
General Electric
Schenectady
Earl
Bud) Spencer
Spencer
Howard Spencer
N. Garfield Avenue
Norma Richards
Arthur S. Richards
W. Clark
Susan
Mr. Spencer
Ft. Hall Indians
Nichols
Washington P—Cio
Philip Murray
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Murray
R. R. Worker
Carbon Commission
Good
Trip
Greece
Brazil
Rio.de Janeiro
Brazia
Florianopolis
Air Ministry
Cambirelas Peak
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande Do Sul
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