Bistline Pleads With Council To Save Bus Line
F M Bistline appeared before the Pocatello city council urging cooperation to save the bus system. He noted a steep drop in riders from 3194 on Sept 15, 1948 to 1870 this year and blamed torn up streets for poor service especially on West Pocatello lines. He warned the company may fail in two to three months and cited cross-withdrawn ridership due to the Carson Street Bridge closure.
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F. M. Bistline
Bistline
Pocatello City
Alameda
West Pocatello
Carson Street
FBI reports crime rise in rural areas and cities
The FBI bulletins show crime up 2.7 percent in cities and 7.6 percent in rural areas for January through June 1949 compared with 1948. It notes the majority of arrestees were 21 and younger, with 61 373 under 21 among 400 089 fingerprint records, a 14.2 percent rise.
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Washington
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation On Crime and Law Enforcement
American Describes Torture After 10 Months in Soviet Jail
Pvt. John J. Gicz, 26, Baltimore, recounts beatings and mistreatment while held by Russians in East Berlin for 10 months after entering the Soviet sector by error. He and three British captives describe immersion in cold water, kickings, and harsh rations before escaping to the Western sector.
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Berlin
East Berlin
John J. Gicz
Baltimore
U. S
Sians
Judge halts plans of jobless father in divorce case
In Los Angeles a judge granted a divorce to Mrs. Ernestina Macias after her husband Alejandro Macias an unemployed gardener admitted he wanted more children despite years of hardship. The decision ends their marriage following accusations of cruelty.
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Los Angeles
Ernestina Macias
Alejandro Macias
Machias
Senate group urges Atlantic area police force plan
A bipartisan group of 11 senators proposed earmarking 10 to 25 percent of funds in a foreign arms bill to create an Atlantic area volunteer police force under the North Atlantic defense committee. The measure seeks UN charter revision to back an international police body and uses the Atlantic force as a nucleus for that system.
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Washington
Defense Committee
Ance
U. S
Atlantic
City Delays Election on Slot Issue in Pocatello
Pocatello council again delays a date for a special election on slot machines. The proposed ordinance to outlaw slots was studied by a committee formed by Merrill Gee Ben Peterson and R J Davis. Church groups gathered about 2000 signatures to push for the election initiated last spring. The delay follows discovery that the city lacked an enabling ordinance for such elections.
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Pocatello City Counci
Merrill Gee
Allied Civic Forces
Ben Peterson
R. J. Davis
Pocatello
Steelworkers urge acceptance of peace plan to avert strike
CIO United Steelworkers appealed to 57 steel firms to back the presidential board's recommendations to settle the labor dispute. Philip Murray urged rapid bargaining and a prompt agreement as contract talks resume during an 11 day strike deadline set to expire September 24.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Presidential Board
Steel Industry Board
Murray
Sunday Beer Sales Move Forward in Pocatello
Pocatello city council approved a second reading of an ordinance permitting off premise Sunday beer sales within city limits. Mayor W. W. Halsey proposed a $25 per month expense payment to council members, approved despite objections from Councilman R. J. Davis. The meeting included a letter from the Pocatello Rodeo association seeking lease of 160 acres of the old municipal airport for a rodeo ground as the annual celebration outgrows Bannock county fairgrounds. A resolution complimenting Bill Speir for his yearlong leave of absence as water commissioner was adopted, praising his “splendid work.”
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Pocatello
W. W. Halsey
R. J. Davis
Pocatello Rodeo Association
Bannock County Fairgrounds
Bill Speir
Speir
Truman Wins Fight To Cut U.S. Tariffs
The Senate approved a sixth extension of the trade agreements act, granting President Truman broad tariff-cutting powers. The vote 62 to 19 backed extending the program to June 12, 1951, enabling trade pacts with 10 countries including Denmark and Italy and allowing Western nations to set tariff levels under reciprocal agreements.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
Congress
State Department
U. S
House
Rotary Heads Discuss New Club Plans
The Pocatello Rotary club met at Bannock hotel with President Carroll Petersen presiding. Plans were set for a visit by Rev. E Leslie Rolls district governor on October 6 and for a ladies night dinner on November 3 or 10. The youth committee will study ice skating rinks and coasting hills for children. Attending were Rae Stratford William S Hill Captain Walter E Brown Bryan Blackhurst Bob Gallafent Jack Terrill H D MacCosham Frank Christensen L C Johnson C G Billmeyer Nicholas Ifft Mal T Deaton Grant Stowell Myron Porges.
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Pocatello Rotary Club
Bannock Hotel
Carroll Petersen
Pocatello Club
E. Leslie Rolls
Twin Falls
Idaho-Utah
Rotary
Rae P. Stratford
Williams. Hill
Walter E. Brown
Bryan Blackhurst
Bob Gallafent
Jack Terrill
H. D. Mac Cosham
Frank Christensen
L. C. Johnson
C. G. Billmeyer
Nicholas Ifft
Mal T. Deaton
Grant Stowell
Myron Porges
Fire Sweeps Dam Project Structure at Palisades
Fire gutted a storage building at the Palisades dam project Wednesday night destroying structure and equipment. Olsen Construction officials estimate damage between eight and ten thousand dollars after welding near a bulldozer ignited the blaze.
Labor Unions Protest City Revenue Changes in Pocatello
A committee from 52 local unions urged the Pocatello city council to block new or increased revenue measures. They opposed any city sales tax water rate hikes or garbage collection fee increases and warned against actions that would force revenue-raising steps.
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Pocatello City
Ouyprieven
Morris
Central Labor Council
New Father Gets Break At College
A new father at Idaho State College received priority as dozen students volunteered to allow him to pay his tuition without waiting in line. The registrar Anna Capellen asked the lead students if anyone would give up their place so he could visit his newborn baby.
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Idaho State College
Frazier Hall
Turner Hall
Anna B. Capellen
Miss Capellen
Red Novelist Sees U S As Crab Nation
In Bucharest the Russian publicist Ehrenburg denounces the United States in the Cominform Journal, describing vulgarity and arrogance, chewing gum and sex in cars, a B 36 bomber as a dove of peace and atomic bombs as olive branches, accusing Americans of crushed individuality and hypocrisy.
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Bucharest
Rumania
America
Ya Ehrenbureg
Ehrenburg
United States
Government calls steel firms and CIO union to mediation
Washington reported the government convened steel companies and the CIO Steelworkers union for a mediation meeting on Monday morning to resolve ongoing labor disputes.
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Washington
Steel Companies
CIO Steelworkers Union
Crisis as miners walk out over contract dispute
About 8,000 coal miners in Utah and Wyoming walked out voluntarily as a contract dispute looms. UMW district 22 president said the strike was not union driven and local officials halted some mines. A Utah Coal Operators spokesman noted miners did not work in Utah and Wyoming with unclear reasons. A pension royalty dispute also tensions over 20 cent payments surfaced as John L. Lewis returned to Washington.
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Rock Springs
Utah-Wyoming
United Mine Workers
Houston Martin
Salt Lake City
Utah Coal Operators Association
Utah
Wyoming
United Mine Workers Union
Washington
John L. Lewis
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Sen. Bridges
R.N.H
Lewis
Ezra van Horn
Bridges
Lewis halts Miners Welfare payments amid coal dispute
John L Lewis announces suspension of miners welfare payments effective tomorrow due to fund shortages. The trustees met in urgent session amid a showdown over operators’ failure to fund the welfare plan, which includes $100 monthly pensions for miners aged 60 plus other benefits.
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Washington
John JL Lewis
Lewis
Electric brain machine may cut news printing costs
A new electric brain type setting device uses a photo heart to project words onto film. It reads typed lines with a keyboard and prints with precise margins, producing 12 lines per minute and potentially 20 with faster typing. Leading publishers call it the greatest printing advance in 75 years.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science Reporter
Boston
Tyne
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