OPA Sets Top on Fruits in Nationwide Price Plan
The Office of Price Administration announces price ceilings for fresh apricots plums sweet cherries and Italian prunes. National averages show retail prices 15 to 35 percent under last year with prunes about 14 cents a pound plums 19 cents and cherries about 40 cents a pound. California Washington and Oregon pay about 36 cents for cherries and 1644 cents for apricots. Pears peaches and 1944 table grapes soon under control. Prices effective June 13 at country shipping points with a return to growers covering cost increases since January 1 1941.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
California
Oregon
OPA
Blackfoot Student Wins ISU Delta Psi Omega Award
Lynn Anderson a Blackfoot pharmacy major at Idaho Southern University earned the annual Delta Psi Omega award for outstanding acting. She played Scrooge in A Christmas Carol Uncle Leonidas in There Snail Be No Night and Frank Lip sigma in My Sister Eileen in recent Delta Psi Omega productions. The award will be presented at commencement on June 19.
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Lynn Anderson
Blackfoot
Idaho Southern
Delta Psi Omega
ISU
Anderson
Scrooge
Uncle Leonidas
Frank Lippencott
My Sister
Eileen
Delta Psi Omega Cast Donates Hut Proceeds
Twenty nine cast members of the Delta Psi Omega production My Sister Eileen and director Dr Vic Mae Powell visited the USO hut and presented Mrs Edna Service with 350 dollars from the show proceeds. They served trains bound servicemen and helped pass out oranges. Mrs Service will use the funds to buy oranges for service members on furlough through Pocatello.
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Delta Psi Omega
My Sister
Eileen
Vic Mae Powell
Edna Service
Central Pacific
Pocatello
Service
Bankers to Meet in Boise Wartime Banking Conference
The Idaho Bankers association will hold a wartime banking conference here June 16 and 17 replacing the association's annual convention.
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Boise
Idaho Bankers Association
Roosevelt Plans To Admit 1000 European War Refugees
President Roosevelt announced that one thousand European war refugees will be brought to the United States and housed in an unused military facility at Fort Ontario near Oswego New York. This figure represents the total number now destined for entry.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Fort Ontario
Oswego
New York
Mr. Roosevelt
Don Bistline Receives Navy Ensign Commission
Don Bistline Jr aged 27 of 944 East Bonneville has earned a naval ensign commission and will report to the University of Arizona for indoctrination school in Tucson. A Boise attorney and son of Judge Ray D. Bistline, he is a 1938 University of Idaho Law School graduate active in Sigma Nu and Phi Alpha Delta. He will leave Friday with his wife and two children for Logan after a four generation sendoff at the family home.
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R. Don Bistline, Jr
East Bonneville
Tucson
Ariz
Naval
University of Arizona
South Tenth
Don Bistline
Mike
John Scott
J. M. Bistline
F. M. Bistline
Beverly
R. B. Bistline
Grace Bistline
Hazel
Rawlin Smith
Paul
Sandra
Dictionary style query on candy term noogat and hoi polloi
The text asks for pronunciation of the candy term noogat and defines the Greek phrase hoi polloi. It notes common American pronunciation as noo get and mentions alternative spellings.
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Memphis
L. Macg
Berkeley
Indianapolis
Pronunciation Q and A in Local Columns
Readers discuss how to pronounce common words and terms. The exchange covers humility and h sound, divan usage, risqué pronunciation, and knix from German roots, with guidance from local contributors and a push for ordering a grammar pamphlet.
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Reess-Kay
Charleston
Atlantic
Gretchen Finletter
Miss Finletter
Colby
Birthday Greetings for Local Residents
Birthday wishes go to Lowell B. Nugent of 1124 East Center, a Safeway clerk. George Lotz of 1205 North Hayes. and Shirley Conger, employed at the Pocatello Army Air Field.
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Lowell B. Nugent
East Center
Safeway Stores
George Lotz
North Hayes
Shirley Conger
Pocatello Army Air Field
New Arrivals and Local Births Reported
A son born to Mr and Mrs William Shultz at St. Anthony hospital on Friday. A daughter born Thursday to Mr and Mrs Burton Clinkscales on route 1. A son born Thursday to Mr and Mrs Joseph Holmes on route 2 north at General hospital. The note also mentions there are at least 13 kinds of maple trees in the United States.
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William Shultz
McKinley Avenue
Burton Clinkscales
Route 1
St. Anthony Hospital
Joseph Holmes
General Hospital
United States
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George Seelos
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Logan
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Idaho
Uschwendiman
Schwendiman
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Ideho
Harvey
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Youngstown
Home
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Keno
Pocatello Drug
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Guaranty
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Idaho Bank & Trust CO
Burley
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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