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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1948
Page
13
Rep Goff Idaho credits House action extending potato price supports to the 1948 harvest with preventing a December glut. He supported a 60 percent parity level, arguing 90 percent was too high and pushed production to new areas. The amendment aims to aid northern growers and reduce government costs.
The Idaho Utah Societies of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons will hold a two day refresher program at the Bannock Hotel in Pocatello starting Friday. Topics include rheumatic heart disease diabetes peptic ulcer neurological disorders pulmonary tuberculosis and cancer with Dr J A Hoskins and Dr G N Gillum as speakers. Elections and auxiliary meetings are planned Friday.
Farm bureau representatives from 11 western states plan a regional conference in Boise from July 6 to 8. Royce Hansen says speakers include Aller Cline of the American Farm Bureau and George Metzer of the Illinois agriculture association. The program features two days of school on farm bureau fundamentals.
Two 19 year old youths Lowell Fentress and James Morelli were sentenced to 199 years each for the December slaying of John Kuesis. The jury convicted them after a three hour deliberation and could have imposed death. Judge Daniel A Roberts urged prosecutors to pursue two additional murder charges.
A Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Anthony's Church for Frances Greco 48 wife of Charles Greco of 536 North Sixth who died Sunday. The service was led by Rev F L Lobell with honorary pallbearers G R Valentine Sam Virgiliaturo C Duckworth D J Powell Marvin Newboldt Harold Peterson and active pallbearers Tony Valentine G J Scardino Tony Colaianni Marion Ferro Charley Gates Sam Longobardo. Flowers were sent by Mrs Mary Valentine and Frank Honas. Interment followed at Mountainview cemetery under Downard's mortuary direction.
Norris Tennessee TVA landmark town built around a dam sold at public auction to Henry David Epstein, a 27 year old Philadelphia real estate dealer, for 2 107 500 dollars. Epstein said he represented a group of Philadelphia businessmen and assured the 1 250 residents they would not be evicted. Residents had formed a corporation to bid 1 900 000 but were topped.
Austin Esplin 45 died after falling into a hot water and oil sump at the Ogden railroad yards while skimming oil from the water. A Southern Pacific water service worker born in Shelley Idaho, he lived in Ogden twelve years and left a widow two sons two daughters parents and siblings. He was a plumber for the railway and a member of the LDS church.
Idaho Lt Gov D S Whitehead spoke at a Pioneer Day event urging residents to hold fast to heroic virtues such as determination, love of freedom, and devotion to home. He warned of inflation and capitalist excess threatening democracy and called Idaho a sturdy pioneer state and a bulwark against communism.
Three marriage certificates filed list couples: James A. Bowen 25 and Diana Stoddard 19 wed in Pocatello by Rev. Leroy H. Walker on June 12. E. W. Gardner 48 and Edith Nessen 46 wed by Judge Isaac McDougall on June 15 in Pocatello. Elvin Alexander 21 and Lois Humphrey 17 wed by Rev. Albert E. Beasley in Pocatello on June 13.
Seven year old Richard Later son of Mr and Mrs Kay P Later of 112 Ravine Drive Pocatello died in Spokane hospital from a bullet wound to the temple in what sheriffs office calls an accidental shooting. Deputy Hoffard said Richard and his cousin Darrell Sather 13 were sparrow shooting at the Sather farm on Penn Prairie when the accident happened. The Sather boy was hysterical and unable to explain the mishap. The Lators learned of the tragedy by telephone from Spokane at 7 30 Tuesday night and flew to Spokane before 8 30. Richard would have been in the second grade this fall at Jefferson school.
A Yakima County coroner's jury ruled that William Lewis 18 shot and killed Carl Yost 21 in the line of duty after being deputized by White Swan marshal George Bowlin. Yost was killed at White Swan last Friday as he fled while being taken into custody. His two companions are held without charge. Lewis testified he saw a youth with what appeared to be a revolver. H T Armstrong said it was a cap pistol.
The civil aeronautics board approved a $2,300,000 loan to Western Air Lines Inc of Los Angeles by the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
The Laters family hides in grief as their seven month old daughter Bea Kay is cared for at home after a Tuesday accident. In the same two weeks Mrs Later lost her mother Carl J Roehr 48 of 940 Fremont who died in a Pocatello hospital.
Colonel William H. Neblett outlines a seven point plan at the KOA convention calling for immediate defense organization in every community. He advocates a single unified citizen military force with universal training and assignment rotations for local units.
Everett Billings of Springville is among four men missing after a seven man rubber barge struck a rock in swift Green River near Island Park. Survivors say the craft capsized in 10 to 12 foot waves. Erwin Day reached shore, Arnold Kidd drifted mile downriver, Harold Twitchell found safety miles downstream and last saw Billings two miles from the wreck.
Neblett advocates education in electronics physics and chemistry from school through college to create a dispersed, ready military industrial force. He argues dispersion is the defense to atomic and bacteriological threats and supports widespread security education.
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