Inspection Day Arrives For Air Corps Recruitment Station
Col. M. McCreary and a Sixth Army group inspected the Pocatello recruiting station with Maj. Eriksen. The station is well over its enlistment quota and has topped the intermountain area for seven months. The Presidio group checked facilities and praised doctor cooperation. Sixty-six Idaho counties feed into the Pocatello site as 800 men a day are expected to pass through after October 21 across eight states.
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Pocatello
Army and Air Forces
Col. M. McCreary
Sixth Army
Sixth
Presidio
San Francisco
McCreary
Erik Eriksen
George Claxton
Intermountain
Claxton
Utah
Montana
Idaho
Arizona
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
California
Twin Falls
Cassia
Oneida
Franklin
Bear Lake
Bannock, Power
Minidoka
Jerome
Gooding
Lincoln
Camas
Blaine
Bingham
Bonneville
Teton
Butte
Jefferson
Madison
Custer
Lemhi
Clark
Fremont
ISC enrollment nears 1500 mark as registration nears close
ISC registration totals almost match last year with about 1448 students signed up and a half day remaining before regular and late charges kick in. Registrar Anna Capellan notes boosters hope to reach 1800, detailing department and class breakdowns across liberal arts, pharmacy, engineering, agriculture, business, and education.
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ISC
Anna B. Capellan
Pharmacy College
Negro Injured in Shovel Attack at Idaho Ranch
Idaho Falls authorities report Edward Miller a 44 year old Black man injured at the E. J. Harder ranch near Shelley Monday. Miller was cut about the head and face with a shovel and his right forearm broken. Bingham County Sheriff Charles Belnap investigates. no details released.
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Idaho Falls
Edward Miller
E. J. Harder
Shelley
Miller
Bingham County
Charles Belnap
NBC executives to attend Sun Valley network convention
At Sun Valley Idaho NBC plans its second annual network convention with top stars and more than 300 executives expected to arrive Wednesday for the gathering.
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Sun Valley
Ida
National Broadcasting Co
U N Opens as Peace Waits in Paris
The United Nations General Assembly opened at Palais de Chaillot with warning that a third world war could destroy global civilization. President Vincent Auriol welcomed delegates and urged progress amid conflict, insecurity, and stubborn opposition.
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Paris
United Nations General Assembly
Palais de Chaillot
Berlin
Vincent Auriol
France
Miracle saves baby after buggy wreck on downtown street
A mother pushing a baby in a carriage narrowly avoids tragedy when a car hits the buggy. The infant is unhurt, though the driver fled before police arrived amid crowd outcry. The driver’s license plate was noted by a bystander.
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East Center Street
Beth Warnick
John Warnick
Campus Drive
Miracle
Baby
County approves hospital bond sale despite opposition
Bannock County re authorized a one million dollar hospital bond issue with bids to be opened at 10 a.m. October 25 in the courthouse. The project site at East Bench was approved two years ago but South County residents oppose the sale and challenge its legality, which has reached the state Supreme Court twice and remains unresolved.
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Bannock County
East Bench
South County
State Supreme Court
Contract Awarded To Swift and Co for Beef Delivery
Boise Idaho dispatch says the state purchasing department awarded a 1285 dollar contract to Swift and Co for 3295 pounds of commercial beef to Idaho State Hospital South Blackfoot.
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Boise
State Purchasing Department
Swift and Co
Idaho State Hospital South
Blackfoot
Youth Tells Tale To Justice In Police Court
Thirteen year old Sam Benson faced Judge R Don Bistline in a Tuesday morning police court arraignment on three charges. He was cited for operating a motor vehicle without registration and without a license and for running a stop sign. The judge reprimanded him and fined 7.50 for the stop sign offense, dismissing the others on condition he not operate any motor vehicle until legally old enough for a license.
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Sam Benson
R. Don Bistline
Young Benson
Judge Bistline
Sam
Bistline
Auto Victim Clara Jaynes Still Unconscious
Clara Jaynes aged 22 remains unconscious in a local hospital after a Sunday auto accident. Attendants report her condition as poor while Eileen Morrison a 19 year old crash survivor in another room is steadily improving and asks questions daily. Morrison will be told of her family deaths when her condition warrants. Her father mother two sisters and fiancé did not survive.
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Clara Jaynes
Eileen Morrison
Miss Morrison
Contributions Roll In For Mrs X Family Aid
Contributions for the family of Mrs X continued to arrive at the POST offices and early last night totaled 97.00. Donors sent letters of sympathy as well as cash and some offered household items including an electric iron and a chest of drawers.
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POST
Cards Take Last of Three in Pioneer Playoffs
Pocatello Cardinals shut out Idaho Falls Russets 3 0 to advance to the semi final playoffs. Ralph Beard pitched four hitter and fanned seven as Ned Sheehan was injured by a fastball in the fourth. Cardinals travel to Twin Falls to face the Cowboys in a best four out of seven series with three games in Twin Falls and the rest in Pocatello.
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Ralph Beard
Pocatello Cardinals
Idaho Falls Russets
Cards
Cardinals
Walt McHugh
Idaho State College
Pocatello
Twin Falls
Cowboys
Gate City
Beard
McHugh
Idaho Falls
Earl Priester
Jim Stanton
Russets
Ernie Schuerman
New Town Gay Born as UP Rail Line Opens near Fort Hall
A new southeast Idaho town named Gay will be dedicated at a ceremony marking the opening of a $1.3 million Union Pacific spur from Simplot phosphate mines to the main line near Fort Hall. Officials from Simplot, Westvaco, and local leaders attend as the line is driven in and the silver spike is presented to celebrate the project.
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Idaho
Union Pacific
Simplot Phosphate
Fort Hall
J. B. Simplot
Simplot Fertilizer Company
Westvaco Chemical Company
Civic Offi
LaSalle Pocatello
G. F. Ashby
Unverspke Nn
Simpot Commissary
Mississippi
Pocatello
Westvaco
New Jersey
Truman assails GOP on Western power funding in Salt Lake City
President Truman denounces Republican leaders for withholding funds on Western reclamation irrigation and public power projects at the Mormon Tabernacle. He challenges Gov. Dewey to a direct clash over Western issues as he campaigns toward San Francisco. The speech lauds Mormon settlers and credits the Roosevelt era with restoring the West's birthright.
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Salt Lake City
Truman
GOP
Mormon Tabernacle
California
San Francisco
Airland
Thomas E. Dewey
West
Cerdan Beats Zale To Claim 160-Pound Crown
Marcel Cerdan of Casablanca defeats Tony Zale in a fourth round knockout per previous rounds. Zale had recovered the title from Rocky Graziano last June in Newark, New Jersey, and previously lost it to Graziano in Chicago in 1947.
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Marcel Cerdan
Tony Zale
Casablanca
Morocco
Zale
Marcel
Europe
Tony
Rocky Graziano
Chicago Stadium
Graziano
Newark
N. J
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Axel
Guipard
Gurustiard Sna
Air Corps
Vany
C. E. Campbell
U.N
Peace Waits
Simplot
Phosphate Fertilizer and Allied Industries
J. Gilbert Miller
C. A. Powe
Staplet
LA Salle Pocatello Tribal Council
J. RK. Simployt Sunplet Fertilizer Head
W. C. Perkins U.P
Republican Party
Wall Street
Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cerdan
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