Earthquake rattles San Francisco to Sacramento region
A morning quake shaken the San Francisco bay area with two shocks between 4 29 and 4 30 am felt from Santa Clara valley to Sacramento. Minor damage reported in Hollister and Santa Cruz with cracked windows. Telegraph hill rocks fell. alarms rang across South San Francisco and East Bay cities.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Telegraph Hill
Santa Clara Valley
Sacramento
Hollister
San Benito County
Santa Cruz
San Francisco Mission District
Mill Valley
Marin County
Golden Gate
East Bay
Richmond
Berkeley
Oakland
Alameda
Mayor Honored By Public Employees for Retirement Bill Push
Forty five public employees of the Pocatello area presented Mayor George R. Phillips with a signed statement of appreciation for his efforts to passage of the public employees retirement system bill through the Idaho legislature. The bill passed the house but died in the senate. The association, headquartered at 220 East Center, is led by Water Supt. William J. Speir and City Clerk Bert D. Reese.
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Pocatello
Idaho Public Employees Association
George R. Phillips
Public Employees Retirement System
Idaho
House
Senate
Association
East Center
City Water
William J. Speir
Bert D. Reese
Phillips
Geo. R. Phillips
George
Public Employees Retirement System Act
Judges Name Six Finalists for Miss Red Canyon Contest
Six southeastern Idaho beauties were selected to represent Pocatello in the Miss Intermountain Network contest linked to the Red Canyon premiere. finalists include Glenna Collier Ramona Cornwall Bobbie Hodkins Zina Madison Gloria Precrado and Sarice Thompson.
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Southeastern Idaho
Pocatello
Miss Intermountain
Red Canyon
Doris MacBride
KEYY
Glenna Mae Collier
ISC Graveley Hall
Ramona Cornwall
Bobbie Hodkins
Zina Madison
Gloria Precrado
Monroe
Sarice Thompson
Pingree
Intermountain Network
Salt Lake City
Idaho
Pocatello Merchant
Chief Theater
The
Pocatello Tribune
Illness Ties Virginia McAfee Family to Mackay
Five year old Stephen son of Mrs Virginia McAfee living near Mackay is ill in St Anthony hospital with undulant fever. Mrs McAfee is the former Virginia Anderson of Pocatello and sister of Trilby Anderson.
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Stephen
Virginia McAfee
Mackay
St. Anthony Hospital
McAfee
Virginia Anderson
Pocatello
Trilby Anderson
Tornado Hits De Ridder Demolishing Nine Buildings
A tornado struck De Ridder Louisiana shortly before noon demolishing nine buildings and causing wide damage in the east end. Eight homes were destroyed in a mainly Negro section with a wrecked filling station and uprooted trees and blown billboards. No injuries reported.
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DE Ridder
Man Amputates Finger in Private in Whiteville
Oliver D. Clewis, a carpenter, rigged a guillotine shaped device for a public amputation last summer but authorities blocked it. He claims to have completed the act privately recently, displaying a bandaged hand and a finger in alcohol. He says the finger bothered him after an opponent bit it in a fight.
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Whiteville
N. C
Oliver D. Clewis
Clewis
Rail unions and carriers seek final settlement on 40 hour week
The 16 non operating unions and carriers urged a presidential fact finding board to resolve the wage hour dispute. The main issue is the 40 hour work week for the railroad industry with the threat of a strike by one million workers including shopmen clerks and telegraphers. The board previously proposed a 40 hour week and a seven cent hourly wage rise retroactive to October. Both sides still differ over the plan and new talks with the board began as a fresh round of conferences was set.
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Emergency Board
Threeman Emergency Board
From Village Gossip to Classified Ads Now
The narrative traces a transition from a village gathering in a general store to a city’s department store era. Trading and yarns have shifted to the Classified want ads in the daily newspaper, reflecting social and commercial changes.
Naming contest seeks best airport name for Pocatello site
The Tribune invites city readers to submit names for the former Army air base eight miles west of Pocatello. Winners earn up to fifteen dollars with five and one dollar prizes for other top suggestions. The city plans a major airport and may name it or assign judges to decide.
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Tribune
Army
Army Air Base
Pocatello
United States
la Guardia Field
New York
U. S
Weather Outlook for Pocatello and Vicinity Threat
Partly cloudy skies prevail with minor temperature change. Tonight low 30, Thursday high 45, with no significant variation expected.
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Pocatello
Local firm files articles of incorporation in Idaho
Boise reports that Harlan, Inc. of Pocatello filed with the Secretary of State. Incorporators are Maurice Fereday, Horace Fereday, and Harlan Fereday, all of Pocatello. The construction firm is formed for $100,000.
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Boise (P
Secretary of State
Harlan, Inc
Pocatello
Maurice Fereday
Horace Fereday
Harlan Fereday
Midwest Floods Displace Hundreds Across Four States
Floodwaters thronged Nebraska Iowa Montana and Louisiana leaving hundreds homeless as ice jams and rising rivers threatened towns from Miles City to Crete. Beatrice and Seward evacuated families while the Mississippi stayed above flood stage from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Louisiana
Midwest
Missouri River
Ilinois
Big River
Sidney
Mont
Yellowstone River
Tongue River
Miles City
Missouri
Helena
Beatrice
Big Blue River
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Man Kills Daughter in Oklahoma Night Slaying
Melburn Joseph Mott, 33, killed his seven-year-old daughter Mary Francis as she slept in Land Springs Oklahoma. He was captured eight miles west of the town on U S Highway 64 after an overnight search. Mott admitted the crime and said he spared his son Charles after the boy cried for his father. Sheriff Blaine cited family trouble as motive.
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Mary Francis
Charles
Mott
Western States Meet On Pacific Northwest Development Plan
Governor C A Robins invites six western governors to a Columbia inter agency meeting in Pocatello on March 24 to coordinate Army engineers and Bureau of Reclamation plans for a broad regional development program. Letters go to Langlie McKay Bonner Pittman Lee Crane. The meeting precedes the Idaho Reclamation association convention.
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Boise
C. A. Robins
Columbia Inter-Agency Committee
Pocatello
Pacific Northwest
Army Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Congress
Robins
Columbia Basin
Inter-Agency Committee
Arthur Langlie
Washington
Douglas McKay
Oregon
John W. Bonner
Montana
Vail Pittman
Nevada
J. Bracken Lee
Utah
A. G. Crane
Wyoming
Idaho Reclamation Association
Bishop Kennedy Launches Four Year Advance for Christ
Bishop Gerald Kennedy of the Portland area led a regional Methodist program launch in Pocatello. More than 100 eastern Idaho Methodist men attended a banquet with Dr. E N Roberts as toastmaster, followed by a general meeting in the church auditorium with over 200 attendees and remarks on The Advancing Church.
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Gerald Kennedy
Portland
Idaho
Pocatello
Ashton
American Falls
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Shelley
Aberdeen
Shawn
F. W. Werts
Twin Falls
E. N. Roberts
Bishop Kennedy
Washington
Oregon
Alaska
Advance For Christ
Don Bates
Don Larson
Jack Henderson
Bannock County War Mothers Leader Recuperating After Operation
Mrs. E. R. Buehler of Tyhee, president of the Bannock county chapter of the Idaho War Mothers, is recovering in the general hospital after an operation.
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E. R. Buehler, Tyhee
Bannock County
The
Idaho War Mothers
General Hospital
ISC Government Institute Opens Thursday Morning Five Mayors on Panel
Registration for the Idaho State College Institute on Government opens Thursday morning with a two day program. The opening session features welcome by Dr. Carl W. McIntosh and panels on city government and law enforcement. southeastern Idaho mayors including Phillips Weiser Fanning Lauterbach and Howard will join the city problems panel.
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Idaho State College Institute On Government
H. P. Sturm
Sturm
Carl W. McIntosh
Frazier Auditorium
Little Theater
W. J. Speir
Idane Public Employee Association
Southeastern Idaho
George Phillips
Pocatello
Robertson W. Smith
Weiser
Ed Fanning
Idaho Falls
H. G. Lauterbach
Twin Falls
Potter P. Howard
Boise
Isaac McDougall
Paul Shine
FBI
Jim Bedingfield
Idano
Business of Education
Emory Owen
State Board of Education
Grant Stowell
Idaho School Trustee's Association
S. R. Bjorkman
State School Administration Association
A. W Morgan
Bluford F. Minor
TSC Education Department
Haight Explains City Manager System at Pocatello Dinner
Haight discusses city manager plan benefits before Presbyterian men at March dinner in Pocatello. He cites removal of elected seven member board chief, trained executives, department consolidation, and a $10 million assessed valuation with a $1.326 million budget. Herman Levinson to speak April 12.
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Pocatello
Lloyd E. Haight
Presbyterian Men's Steak
Haight
Brynildsen
Herman Levinson
Death of John Dils 79 Longtime Idaho Resident
John Dils, 79, of 116 Park Avenue, died Tuesday evening in a local hospital after a lingering illness. Born July 18, 1869 in Ontario, Canada, he moved to Buffalo, New York, then settled in Pocatello in 1915. He served as a Democratic precinct committeeman in Alameda and deputy sheriff of Bannock County, and was a 50 year member of ICOP lodge No. 517. Survived by his widow Emma Floyd Dils, a daughter in Florida, two stepdaughters in California, two granddaughters, and two sisters in Buffalo. Burial arrangements to be announced by Arthur W. Hall mortuary.
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Park Avenue
Ontario
Canada
Adam
Sarah Ann Dils
United States
Buffalo
N. Y
Pocatello
Dils
Icop Lodge
Alameda
Bannock County
Emma Floyd
Millie Eastman Dils
Blackfoot
E. Rhodes
Orlando
Fla
Ardella Grady
Huntinton Park
Calif
Izetta Conyers
Los Angeles
Carrey Culp
Booker
Buffalo, N. Y
Arthur W. Hall Mortuary
Miners Strike Persists After Sitdown at Argyle Coal
In Gallitzin Pennsylvania miners from Argyle Coal ended a sitdown that failed to end the work stoppage. Grievance committeeman Thomas Knee of Local 1056 United Mine Workers said the strike remains and a meeting would determine future plans.
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Gallitsin
Argyle Coal Company
Thomas Knee
United Mine Workers
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