Price of Pork Up 78 Percent Since OPA Expired
AP reports on the first anniversary of ending federal price controls shows pork prices up 78 percent from two years ago and beef and veal up 62 percent. Across food, clothing, and living costs, prices surged while livestock supplies dipped, with wholesale indices rising to 175.64 from 122.28 a year earlier.
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OPA
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Associated Press
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Minneapolis
China mobilizes forces to wage full-scale civil war
Chiang Kai-shek and Kuomintang leaders agreed on mobilizing manpower and resources to fight the Chinese Communists in the civil war. A closed meeting of the political council and central executive committee approved the action, described as taking off gloves with no holds barred. Large Nationalist reinforcements entered Manchuria amid ongoing fighting.
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Nanking
Chiang Kalk
Kuomiang Party
China
Chiang
Manchuria
Szepingkai
U.S. Returns Mines to Their Owners
The government lowered the American flag over more than 2,500 soft coal mines and restored them to private owners after 13 months of federal operation. The 10 day July 8 strike deadline looms if terms with miners fail, leaving miners idle if no agreement is reached.
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Washington
Injury Fatal To Woman In Plane Accident
Mrs. Ve ley Campbell Hillman, 28, of Brigham Utah, died after being struck by a plane propeller. The incident occurred when she alighted from a small plane piloted by her husband Bob Hillman after a flight from Ogden. Her daughters Janice and Jo Ann were with the family and witnesses said she moved toward the propeller in a frightened moment. She was born in Tenonia Idaho and had lived in Ogden and Brigham. Her mother and 10 siblings survive.
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R. L. Hillman
Frost Nips Crops in Idaho Valley
Farmers report a late June frost hitting the Upper Snake River valley with Russet potatoes and field peas scorched in the New Sweden district. Beans tomatoes and cucumbers also damaged as growers say losses to potatoes and field peas are hard to estimate at this time.
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Idaho Falls
Snake River Valley
New Sweden
Be Bee sentenced to death for Utah murder
Hiram Be Bee known as a centenarian figure was sentenced to death for the murder of Town Marshal Lon T. Larsen in Mt. Pleasant Utah on October 15 1945. The execution date is set for August 11 and he declines to choose a method of execution with firing squad specified by the judge.
Idaho Issues Short-Time Tourist Angling Licenses
Idaho fish and game department advised tourists for the Fourth of July fishing season that only one short time angling license may be bought. The tourist license costs three dollars and is valid for five days. New legislation bans nonresidents from buying more than one license per season. on return trips tourists must obtain season licenses.
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Boise
Idaho
State Fish and Game Department
State Limits Daily Sale of Whiskey in Idaho
Idaho imposes a daily limit on liquor purchases effective tomorrow with residents restricted to one bottle of whiskey per person along with one bottle each of gin brandy wine and other liquor. Retail outlets must obtain a retailers permit to buy two cases of fifths per day from state stores. The policy aims to curb bootlegging as liquor by the drink expands statewide.
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Boise
Harper
Department of Law Enforcement
Airman Criss Returns as Search Runs Four States
Airman Don V Criss arrives in Portland after fleeing homeward from a private plane in trouble. He, C C McLoughlin and Wes Weston had been missing since Thursday after leaving Rock Springs Wyoming. An army air rescue unit from McChord Field had launched a multi state search prior to Criss's return.
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Portland
Don V. Criss
Army
Army Air Rescue Unit
McChord Field
Wash
Criss
Rock Springs
Wyo
Ogden
Utah
C. C. McLoughlin
Statesville
S.C
Wes Weston
Hickory
N. C
Navy
Evanston
Utah Wheatfield
Arimo LDS Ward Plans July Fourth Celebration
The Arimo ward sponsors a July Fourth event starting with a 9 a.m. parade followed by a 10 a.m. patriotic program. Activities include foot racing, horse racing, and a baseball game chaired by Len Brady with Ira Cox as speaker. The day ends with a dance in the new high school gym.
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Arimo Lds Ward
Len Brady
Ira Cox
President Signs Rent Extension
Washington reports a new rent control law extending federal controls in rental housing areas to March 1, 1948. It allows mutual agreed rent increases up to 15 percent for leases through year end 1948, with eviction rules clarified and local boards empowered to remove controls.
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Washington
Hawkes
R-N. J
Birth Control Advocate Urges Ten Year Moratorium
Margaret Sanger Slee, director of the birth control research bureau, urged a ten year moratorium on births in hungry European countries. She argued adults should be moved to where labor is needed and women aided to delay childbearing until food and economic conditions improve. England was included in the moratorium.
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New York
Margaret Sanger Slee
Birth Control Research Bureau
Europe
Oxford
England
Tragic Barbed Wire Accident Near Payette Claims Girl
Four children escape injury when a light truck overturns near Payette three miles northeast of town. Ima Jean Ladra, 12, dies from throat laceration after being thrown against barbed wire fence. Driver Lawrence Ladra, 22, navy service member and brother of the victim, was returning from a fishing trip with the children.
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Payette
Ima Jean Ledra
Lawrence
Here
Ima Jean
Navy
Gifford Shaffer
George Ladra
Geneva
Roger
Gwendolyn Ladra
Bertha Moss
House Backs 20 Percent Pension Hike for Veterans
The House approved a 20 percent increase in pensions for Spanish American War Civil War Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection veterans and their widows and children by a 338 to 0 vote. The Senate has not acted yet. current rates run from $40 to $100 monthly.
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Washington
House
Senate
State Liquor Store Closes July Fourth and Fifth
The state liquor store will close on July 4 and July 5 by the governor's proclamation, affecting sales and hours across outlets. Local customers are advised to plan purchases ahead of the closures.
Mississippi River Crest Sets 103-Year Record
The Mississippi river reached a new 103-year crest as flood warnings say the battle to defend two key levees remains far from over. An earlier tremor briefly raised concerns about breaches, but no levee damage was reported and farm land on the Illinois side remained flood-threatened.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Califor nia Fishermen Rescued After 1000 Mile Ocean Dash
Five sunburned California fishermen, missing since May 19 aboard the 45 foot Thistle from San Pedro, were rescued near Chipperton Island by the tuna clipper Normandie after six weeks at sea. They were taken to San Diego in fair condition. The Thistle wrecked on shore with no injuries among crew.
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San Diego
Calif
California
Pacific
San Pedro
Pin-Point Chipperton Island
Here
Coast Guard
Navy
Utah Cool Wave Dips Below Normal Across State
A cold spell hit Utah with Coalville logging 25 above zero and Wasatch elevations seeing 45 miles east of Salt Lake City. Farmers fear crop damage as Salt Lake City airport dropped to 43. City low reached 52 while yesterday’s high was 71, 14 degrees below normal. The cool front extended over most of the state.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Weather Bureau
Coalville
Wasatch Mountains
City
New Laws Take Effect As Idaho Opens Fiscal Year
Major laws from Idaho's 1947 legislative session become effective at midnight as the state starts a new fiscal year with a record operating budget of 32,514,220. About half of the 276 new laws took effect May 6 or on emergency clauses immediately after signing, with the remainder to operate tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Idaho
29Th
Legisla
Ture
Resignation of Idaho Insurance Director McGonigle
Gov Robins accepts Edward McGonigle resignation as director of insurance effective tomorrow. James Hubbard of Lewiston named commissioner of the new department of insurance. Robins commends McGonigle for intensive work drafting enabling legislation and notes his move to private business.
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Boise
C. A. Robins
Edward B. McGonigle
McMonigle
James Hubbard
Lewiston
Department of Insurance
Robins
MceMonicle
Ncessary
Weather Notes on Temperature and Forecast Variations
The text humorously contrasts weather variability while giving figures: 24 hour high 70 and low 36, mean 53, normal 66. Departure for the month is 64. Yesterday had no precipitation, total 1.70 with normal 1.9. Sun set at 8 13 and rise tomorrow at 54. Forecasts predict fair today tonight and Tuesday with rising temperatures.
State Ready To Start Sale by Drink
At least 231 bartenders will dispense spirits over 104 bars in Idaho tomorrow marking the return of liquor by the drink since 1915. Licenses issued in 125 of 176 cities. Moscow and Twin Falls rejected retail mixed drinks. Most wet counties lie in the north and west.
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Idaho
Moscow
Twin Falls
Cyclist dies in trailer accident near Buhl
Linton Mossley, 24, of Buhl, died at a local hospital from injuries after being crushed beneath a trailer. He rode a motorcycle ahead of a truck driven by A. L. Morris as a house was hauled from Hunt reclamation area toward Buhl. Sheriff says the motorcycle stalled and Mossley was run over during traffic assistance.
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Twin Falls
Linton Mossley
Buhl
Hunt Reclamation
Messley
A. L. Morris
Broda Rayborn
County road repairs underway and bids opened
Crews are working on repairs of oiled roads in the county per county surveyor W. P. Havner. Bids for restoring U S 91 from Fort Hall to Pocatello were opened last Friday by the state director of highways in Boise.
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W. P. Havener
Fort Hall
Pocatello
Boise
Act Permits Rise of 15 Per Cent
President Truman signed a law extending federal rent controls for eight months and allowing landlords to raise rents up to 15 percent for leases through December 1948. He called the bill a lesser evil and warned it would fail to shield tenants from unjustified increases while noting the cost of living remains high.
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Washington (P
Truman
Congress
Plot to topple French Republic Revealed by Minister Depreux
Interior Minister Edouard Depreux announced a wide plot by the Black Maquis to overthrow the republican system and install military dictatorship. Gen. Guillau and Maj. Jean Loustauenau-Lacau were cited among officers and civilians jailed, with four generals reportedly implicated. A former officer linked to Petain was named as the plot's soul, though unnamed by the French press agency.
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Paris
Edouard Depreux
Black Maquis
Depreux
Guillau
Fre
Jean Loustauneau-Lacau
Henri Philippe Petain
Isle D'Yeu
Vichy
Roads to Ask Higher Rates
Railroads plan to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for freight rate increases up to 25 percent in the East and up to 15 percent in the West and South. W H Dana, chairman of the Western Traffic Executives' commission, announced that notices were sent to the National Industrial Traffic League. The carriers say the increases reflect current needs and do not assume future wage or fuel cost hikes.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. H. Dana
Western Traffic Executives’ Commission
Dana
National Industrial Traffic League
New Law Extends Army Enlistment Age and Terms
President Truman signed a bill to extend indefinitely the army voluntary enlistment age to 17 and allow original enlistments for two to six years with re-enlistments up to six years. Non commissioned officers could re enlist for unspecified terms and receive a $50 yearly bonus. The measure aims to boost recruiting and retain experienced personnel.
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Washington
Truman
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