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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1949
Page
4
The Pocatello Tribune lists Nicholas Ifft and M. P. Goodfellow as editors for the daily and Sunday editions published in Pocatello Idaho.
This item lists AP exclusive republication rights and postal designations for Pocatello Idaho. It includes Washington Bureau address, circulation figures and subscription rates for Idaho and nationwide. It ends with a religious verse from Matthew 21:22.
After weeks of maneuvering Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky agrees to speed up East West trade talks in Berlin. A report to the Big Four in Paris is promised tomorrow as Germany's political future remains unsettled. The article stresses economic over political priorities and the need to restore intra European trade to aid postwar recovery.
A Boise Wheat editorial notes Virgil Samms, a Pocatello native, now teaches insurance at Purdue University after serving in World War I and later Idaho's surveyor general post. The piece links his career to Idaho’s wartime and postwar shifts and recalls earlier Idaho towns' boom cycles.
Radarman E T Jackson of Hagerman Idaho visited Canadian ports Quebec and Montreal aboard the destroyer USS Massey during a navy reserve training cruise with USS Saipan and USS Zellars. Mountain States Telephone begins Caldwell exchange construction with $20000 underground work. Blackfoot moves to curb shanty growth with a nine member council led by Mayor Boyle and including chamber and club leaders.
Opinion piece argues Washington sets global trends in politics and fashion while detailing the potato price support program. It notes $250 million cost to maintain artificial prices, losses from burning stock, and small recoups from alcohol sales. Ends urging readers to grow potatoes as a potential livelihood.
Readers debate American aid to Russia and Britain, atomic isotopes sales, and Congressional optics. A student debate prompts praise for youth education and teachers while critiques of unions and political pork barrels appear alongside notes from an unemployed musician.
A Washington report notes Idaho's aged, blind, and needy saw a 10 percent reduction in public assistance. The senator urges Governor Robins to convene a special session to restore funding, arguing the cut harms those with minimal means and that Social Security increases may be needed, with hopes benefits double.
A selection of reader letters criticizes public culture, Berlin debate, and Cold War trust. Contributors discuss Social Security benefits in Idaho, federal matching funds, and the need for state investment. The Taft Hartley repeal fight and a proposed federal aid bill for school construction near federal sites are also debated.
A reader mails a pointed, humorous note to actor Mickey Rooney, joking about his relationship with Dolly Wood and calling him out in a curt, taunting tone. The brief letter suggests light scorn and a personal jab from a reader identified as Jarco Dudd.
A combative reply from Sam I to Mr Beat complains of overwhelming taxes and licenses from federal to local laws. The author cites burdens from multiple authorities and personal finances, then shifts to an anarchic tone about reporters tribal council matters and Perry Swisher.
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