Crop Outlook Improves Across Major Grains This Year
The agriculture department reports wheat production at 1 025 509 000 bushels for this year up from 1 000 000 000 in May. Winter wheat is projected at 774 588 000 bushels while spring wheat is set at 250 921 000. Rye and oats show lower yields than last year, with barley also down from 263 961 000. An estimated 700 000 to 1 500 000 workers travel seasonally between states for farm labor.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Notice to claimants on gravel surfacing contract near U.S. 30
Project Miscellaneous $1381 contract 1170 completed May 22 1946. Any person or company furnishing labor materials or supplies used on the work must file an itemized claim with the Idaho Department of Public Works within 90 days to avoid waiver against the surety T. Matt Hally Commissioner.
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H. A. Gardner
Blackfoot
Idaho
U.S. No. 30
Bannock
Franklin Counties
Department of Public Works
Boise
T. Matt Hally
Commissioner of Public Works
Notice of Share Delinquency Sale at Arimo Idaho
Arimo Irrigation Company, Ltd of Idaho schedules sale of delinquent shares due to March 27 1946 assessments and prior charges. Shares listed include William Holland estate 59 1 and Kathryn F Cox 107 1 with amounts $16.20 each. Sale set for June 19 1946 at 2 PM at Arimo Idaho office to cover delinquent assessments and sale costs. Secretary Royal Cole signs May 20 1946.
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Arimo Irrigation Company, Ltd
Idaho
Esate
William Holland
Kathryn F. Cox
Arimo
Royal Cole
Probate Petitions In Bannock County For Margaret Perkins
In Bannock County Idaho a petition for probate of the Last Will and Testament of Margaret Perkins deceased and for issuance of Letters Testamentary to O R Baum has been filed. The court Sets July 18 1946 at 11 A M in Pocatello Idaho Court House as the hearing time and place for interested persons to appear and contest the petition. Ruth Petersen Clerk of Probate Court. O R Baum petitioner and attorney pro se resides at Pocatello Idaho. From July 11 to 21 inclusive.
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Bannock County
State of
Idaho
Margaret Perkins
O. R. Baum
Pocatello
Ruth Petersen
Registration Blank for Pocatello Girl Scout Day Camp
Registration blank invites parents to sign for daughter participation in the Ross Park camp from June 17 to June 28. It requires name address phone age grade and parent permission noting good physical condition and open enrollment for all girls regardless of Scout membership. Applicants must bring the form on report day.
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Scouts
Altrusa Club Holds June Picnic Meeting and Elections
The Altrusa society held its June picnic at Mrs. Margaret Pomeroy’s home with a business meeting electing Miss Laura Cleaveland as president and officers for the coming year. Delegates reported on the Spokane district conference. new member Dr. Ida Pacina was welcomed. The next meeting is July 10 at Mrs. Ruth Beasley’s home with hosts for the operetta New Moon. Thora and Arletta Larsen announced a Canyon lodge beauty salon opening.
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Altrusa Club
Margaret Pomeroy
Laura Cleaveland
Louise Rice
Cisco Kihara
Grace Bistline
Altrusa International
Spokane
Trilby Anderson
W. H. Witty
Walter Whitmore
Jimmie
Sault Ste. Marie
Michigan
Ida Pacina
Ruth Beasley
Ellen Raether
Nellie Cline Steenson
Grover Family Returns From Three Week Vacation
Visit falls in three weeks in which Mr. Frank Grover and his wife traveled with Mrs. Grover’s relatives across several midwestern cities. They stayed with Harry Grover in Kansas City and with Mrs. Baldwin in St. Joseph while their return trip brought them through Omaha and Denver aboard the Portland Rose. Mr. Grover works as a painter for the Union Pacific railroad.
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Frank Grover
Woolley Apartments
Pocatello
Mr. Grover
Harry Grover
Kansas City
Portland
Grover
Union Pacific Railroad
Woman travels to visit relatives in Washington and Dupont
Mrs Leslie Robinson of Sydney Talley shop left Sunday on the Portland Rose for Billingham Washington to visit her daughter Mrs Pred Elsenha gen and to stop en route to see Mrs Sydney Talley's daughter Mrs Walter Smith at Dupont. She plans to return to Pocatello in about two weeks.
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Leslie Robinson
Sydney Talley
Portland Rose
Billingham
Washington
Pred Elsenhagen
Walter Smith
Dupont
Pocatello
Moose Heart Chapter Night Observed with Program
Women of the Moose hold their regular meeting Thursday evening at the Moose Hall on North Seventh. Senior Regent Ann Loveland presides with Grace Peterson in charge of the program. Initiation will follow, and refreshments will be served after the meeting.
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Women of the Moose
Moose Hall
North Seventh
Ann Loveland
Moose Heart
Grace Peterson
Weekend trip to Yellowstone cheers class of 46 trio
Robert Kirkendall a 1946 graduate, Robert Briggs and Bud Shattuck from Wisconsin took a station wagon with gas and a plan to Yellowstone. They met many friends and fellow classmates working in the park including Lauray Fereday who is employed at the Thumb gas station.
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Robert Kirkendall
Robert Briggs
Bud Shattuck
Wisconsin
Yellowstone Park
Park
Lauray Fereday
Thumb
Parker Daughter Rae Louise Plans West Yellowstone Vacation
Miss Rae Louise Parker daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Parker of 237 West Buell returned from McMinnville Oregon where she attended Linfield college. She is accompanied by sorority sister Miss Mary Bentley of Portland and they will spend a vacation at West Yellowstone and Yellowstone Park. Parker previously worked in the time keeping bureau for the UPRR.
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Rae Louise Parker
Frank Parker
West Buell
McMinnville
Oregon
Linfield College
Mary Bentley
Portland
Rose Cordon Graduates At George Washington
Miss Rose Cordon of Pocatello Idaho earned a bachelor of arts in English literature at George Washington University May commencement at Constitution Hall. She attended Idaho Southern University in 1943 and acted in the school drama club production of R U R last winter.
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Washington, D. C
Rose Cordon
Pocatello
Idaho
George Washington University
Constitution Hall
Miss Cordon
Margaret Truman
United States
Idaho Southern University
A. C. Cordon
E. Center, Pocatello
Pocatello Girl Earns Zoology Degree at Washington
Lois Foreman of Pocatello Idaho received the bachelor of science degree in zoology from George Washington University at May commencement in Constitution Hall. She is the daughter of Mrs J W Foreman of Pocatello.
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Washington
D. S
Dahl
Lois Foreman
Pocatello
Idaho
George Washington University
Constitution Hall
Miss Foreman
Margaret Truman
United States
J. W. Foreman
Pocatellan Returns From Military School
Larry Wood son of Mr and Mrs L E Wood of 243 South Sixth has returned for the summer from New Mexico Military Institute Roswell New Mexico where he studied as a cadet. He was promoted to corporal before leaving Pocatello and his squad was named best in the school.
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Larry Wood
L. E. Wood
South Sixth
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
New Mexico
Pocatello
Security Tax Rise Proposed by House Committee
The House Ways and Means Committee votes to raise the Social Security tax from 1 to 1.5 percent on both employees and employers, effective January 1, with potential growth to 2.5 percent if Congress does not act. The move follows extensive hearings and a broad restudy of the program amid ongoing Senate debate on OPA extensions. Senator Taft warns against immediate price-control removal, citing risks to production incentives. Democratic Leader Barkley indicates a possible quick Senate vote.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Congress
Taft
Ohio
OPA
Barkley
Officers Refuse to Answer Questions in Prisoner Cruelty Case
Four officers at the U S guard house in Lichfield England face allegations of cruelty to soldier prisoners. Col James A Killian of Highland Park Illinois and Maj Richard E Lobuono of East Pittsburgh Pa. Maj Herbert W Bluhm of Chicago. Lt Leonard W Ennis of unknown affiliation declined to testify, fearing self incrimination.
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Bad Nauheim
Germany
U. S
Lichfield
England
James A Killian
Highland Park
Richard FE. Lobuono
East Pittsburgh
Herbert W. Bluhm
Chicago
Leonard W. Ennis
Ennis Questioned Over Orders At Lichfield Court Martial
In Peekskill New York a former Lich field executive officer faced questions about the source of his orders from Lichfield. The court deemed the inquiry proper and warned of military punishment if he refused to answer, mirroring threats made to 19 enlisted men who also declined to testify.
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Peekskill
N. Y
Lichfield
Ennis
ISU Summer Assembly Opens With Music Department Program
The opening assembly for ISU's summer session featured music department faculty led by Prof. R. F. Goranson. He served as master of ceremonies and performed pieces including Little David Play on Your Harp and Pinin for Dat Freedom Day, with Mrs. Berryman at the piano and the Gibsons Walters joining in Passacaglia and Bourree from Suite Antique. An organ solo Preludio from Sonata in C Minor by Guilmant closed the program.
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ISU
Music Department
R. F. Goranson
Goranson
Little David
Berryman
Chopin
Lecuona
Gibson Walters
Halversen
Bourree
Hadley
Preludio
Sonata In C Minor
Guilmant
Tresper Enrolls in Medical School
Lt. Col. Alfred B. Tresper left Sunday for Salt Lake City to enroll in the University of Utah medical school. A five year army veteran he served two and a half years with the headquarters island command in the Pacific. He wears four ribbons and a victory medal. Mrs. Tresper will remain in Pocatello until their Salt Lake City home is ready.
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Alfred B. Tresper
Salt Lake City
University of Utah
Tresper
Army
Headquarters Island Command
Pacific Area
Trosper
Group Prods Solons With Turtles over Draft Extension
Members of the house military committee received a quirky prompt as a Milwaukee group named Bring My Daddy Back Club sent a box of live turtles and baby bootees to urge swifter draft-extension legislation. An assistant kept one turtle, while 25 others were left for the panel to decide their fate.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
Milwaukee
Pocatello Girls Win Honor Citations at University of Idaho
The 1946 graduating class at the University of Idaho includes 29 students awarded honor citations for scholarship at the 51st commencement in Moscow. Ten earned high honors, with names spanning Coeur d Alene Lewiston Twin Falls Spokane Moscow and Pocatello, among others, recognizing outstanding academic achievement.
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Moscow
University of Idaho
Dorothy Anne Hauge McDonald
Coeur d'Alene
Betty June Echternach
Lewiston
Karma Mae Smith
Twin Falls
Mary Patricia Sylvester
Spokane
Wash
Clara Beth Young
Ada Mae Rich
Blackfoot
Elaine Anderson
Preston
Evelyn Deering
Opportunity
Dorothy Juanita Doumecq
Craigmont
Jane Everts
Gooding
David Charles Carlson
Marilyn Ruth Lester
Butte
Mont
Robert Erich Asmussen
Wendell
Jean Armour
Ruth Tracie Geddes Presnell
Winchester
Gerald Herman Eide
Velma Maurine Wilkerson
Cambridge
Joan Benoit
Arline Antoinette Durkoop
Minnie Florence Donahey Powers
Pocatello
Eloise la Velle Deobald
Kendrick
Harry Frank Magnuson
Wallace
Hand grenades in warfare first used in 15th century
Historical note states hand grenades appeared in warfare during the 15th century marking the early use of explosive devices in combat.
Tonnage Increases on Columbia River Traffic
Army engineers report barge traffic on the Columbia river through Bonneville locks rose in May with 68,459 short tons inland and 59,665 short tons at Portland exports. Upstream movement was mainly gasoline and oil while downstream carried 3,138 tons of wheat and 3,190000 board feet of logs.
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Portland
Columbia River
Bonneville Locks
Portland Harbor
Farm Accident Fatal Near Idaho Falls
Rigby farmer Edgar Lee died in Idaho Falls hospital from injuries at his Rigby area farm. A hay rake shaft splinter pierced his body as he tried to stop a runaway horse Tuesday morning.
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Idaho Falls
Edgar Lee
Haylift Ends in Panic as Animal Bolts
A hay rake tethered to a wagon caused a panic when the animal bolted breaking the shaft and sending the unit into motion. No injuries reported.
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Legal
Pocatello Drug
Ross Park
Pop Weeeee
Altrusa
Thora
Arletta Larsen
Canyon Lodge
Arletta
Vanity Beauty Shoppe
Yellowstone
West Yellowstone
George Washington
Pocatellan
Miliary School
Rema
Arsenal
Ane
Elks Temple
Lloyd Haight
U of I
Ford Drug CO
Orenge Kitt
Fargo- Wilson- Wells
Dupler
Fine Fur Services
Hollanderizing
A. Hollander and Son
America
Hollander
Aity
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