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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
7
Farmers in Pocatello and Tyhee sign work sheets at the County Agent A. E. Duke office to document farm descriptions and crop acres for 1935. Meetings run Friday and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm. Dry farmers can shift 7 to 12 percent of acreage and may be paid up to 15 percent.
Edith Irene Daniels aged 18 died in Oakland California on June 6. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 30 p m at Downard chapel with Bishop W E Gee officiating. Interment will follow at St Anthony cemetery under Downard's direction.
Funeral services for Finis Fife Dixon wife of Riley L Dixon were held at 2 pm in the LDS First ward chapel under the Sixth ward bishopric. The service featured choir hymns duets and prayers with speakers from the Portneuf and Pocatello stakes and a burial at Mountainview cemetery.
Local notes record band meeting at the high school tonight at seven, visits from Barney Gillesby and editor Albert Gillesby, and Prof. Paul Guyet planning a San Francisco trip. Townspeople include Sally Lockhart visiting from Los Angeles, Eileen Clark joining La Vogue Beauty Shop, and a series of incidents from weddings to hospital stays and court actions.
Landon pushed for a revised platform with demands on tariff policy social security and federal state fund administration. The subcommittee completed the platform last night and expected to present it to the convention for a vote tonight.
The platform subcommittee kept major planks on sound money and foreign policy while endorsing a London demand for pay as you go social security funding. Senator Borah supported the anti monopoly and states rights themes, but no minority report was issued. William Allen White said he would press the minimum wage amendment in the full committee later today.
Oregon's ten man delegation released by Senator Borah faces decisions after victory for Governor Landon. They are instructed to back William S. Bennett for vice president, with possibilities of unity for Senator Frederick Steiner if his name is placed at the convention.
Philip Nelson of the Borah faction in Wisconsin said delegates would not accept Landon by acclamation. He noted a substantial Borah-pledged majority wants to vote for Idaho senator and demand a roll call despite the delegation's release.
Idaho Power in Pocatello replaced shallow windows with an oxy deep front that is luminous, using glass brick trim and aluminum bands to resemble finished metal. The display features rear lighting, white mica back, linoleum floor, and a terrazz entrance. A neon sign with a Telechron clock and adjustable color projection enhances seasonal decorations.
Louis Alexandra Taschereau, after 35 years as a key figure, resigns as premier of Quebec. Adelard Godbout, his minister of agriculture, succeeds him immediately as premier, signaling a swift leadership transition in the province.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwell Tomlinson of Boston was elected president of the Christian Science mother church succeeding Dr. Frank C. Colby. The announcement came at the annual meeting with about 6,000 scientists in attendance. New branches and university groups totaled 22 and eight, reaching 2,751 branches and 55 college units. Edward L. Ripley was re elected treasurer and Evra W. Palmer clerk.
Health and menu data for the approaching scouting season has been prepared and released by T. M. Woodland camping chairman for the Tenday boy scout council. The mimeographed booklet includes a health examination blank a troop first aid kit list a troop equipment list personal equipment for each scout and a menu.
A food purchasing list and a detail chart for camp duties accompany a catalog of eight days of camp. Among the optional activities named by Mr. Woodland are hiking nature study climbing high mountains campcraft handi craft scout advancement tests reading games and campfire stunts.
Elks Lodge No. 674 in Pocatello conducts annual Flag Day ceremonies at 7 p m at the Memorial building. Dr John R Nichols of Idaho Southern University delivers the main address on Our Flag with Judge H J Swanson arranging the event. The program includes singing readings violin solos and a closing by lodge officers. Julius Jacobsen aged 62 Sugarhouse pharmacist and former drug store owner in Logan and Hyrum died after a long illness leaving a widow six children and a brother in Bancroft Idaho.
Card of thanks expresses appreciation for kindness sympathy and floral offerings received during the illness and death of a wife and mother. Signed by Riley L Dixon Mrs Leona Hawkes Mrs Thelma Cummins Byron F Dixon Kenneth Dixon and other relatives.
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