Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 32

PAGE 8-SECTION IDAHO STATE JOURNAL POCATELLO, IDAHO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1974 IDAHO From the files of the IDAHO STATE JOURNAL The linemen are busy putting in tne new fire alarm system for the city. The wires are being strung on top of the Telephone company's poles. Seven new boxes will be added and the system will be much more comprehensive and reliable than formerly. Another week will see the system completed. The bids for the construction of Hayes and Franklin's big $50,000 brewery plant were opened on Monday and contractor J.R.

Murray, of this city, being the lowest bidder, will receive the The plans are for the most convenient and modern brewery yet conceived, and the At one o'clock last night Sheriff Cooper was informed by one of his men that a large truck was bound for the city whose contents would no doubt prove of interest to the officers. The sheriff and his force immediately left for the vicinity south of the city and met the truck near Portneuf and after putting the two occupants under arrest, brought it to this city. When the tarpaulin cover was removed from the rear of the car, twenty-five cases of whiskey and nine sacks of beer were uncovered. This is the biggest haul which has ever been made by the county officials Although the drivers of the car said they were bound for Lima, the officers Idaho Falls residents in the city believe the joy juice was an installment for local consumption and great was the weeping and gnashing of teeth of the latter. YEARS AGO always in need of a raking up.

There were four men on the chain gang this morning in charge of Pete Wrenstead. The hobo element is already commencing to clear out. The hobo won't work. machinery and furnishings, which will be the very latest, will cost over $25,000. The city administration is determined that the hobo element must be driven out and a chain gang, the infallible cure for the ailment, has been established.

The drunks and disorderlies have become too numerous of late; and on the other hand the city's streets are Artist at Work Draws Attention NEW YORK-When Cecily Earth Firestein does a rubbing of a New York manhole cover, people gather round, wondering what that nut is up to. "And when you do it in the middle of the street with traffic dodging vou," she said, "they know you've got to be crazy." Once a policeman stopped by to see she was doing anything illegal. Mrs. Firestein charmed him by doing a rubbing of his badge. Getting a print by rubbing anything in low relief is an ancient art and a modern hobby.

Ross Fork--Gathering the children for the Fort Hall school was begun last Saturday and will be vigorously prosecuted until the required number has been secured. All are examined by Agency Physician Bridges here and again when they reach there. By this means the agent hopes to get only those children that are in the best possible physical condition. AFTER THREE YEARS IN EUROPE-Brett Beiker welcomes his cousins, David and Rick Martin, and their parents, Air Force MSgt. Elaine Martin, and his wife, Millie, on their return from a three-year assignment in the Belgium- Luxemborg border area.

They have been visiting in Downey with Sergeant Martin's grandmother, Mrs. Anna Day. A native of Downey and 16-year military man, Martin is a son of Mrs. L.V. (Wanda Day) Pierce, whom the family visited in Pocatello.

The Martins, who were in Alaska before going to Europe, will make their home next in Texas. Martin, who is with the 3760 Instructor Squadron, will instruct in the use of the worldwide military equivalent of telephone direct dialing. YEARS AGO A campaign will soon be launched in this city by the YMCA which has been considerably boosted in all sections of the country and a great amount of interest and enthusiasm is being aroused. The campaign will be known as a saving and thrift campaign and an organization will be formed to educate the people up to the best and most scientific methods of thrift and saving. Prizes for essays on the subject for the best letter to wage- earners and on the question "Why Save Money?" will be The whole the campaign is to take a certain period of time and by as much publicity as possible, keep before the people the importance and benefits to be derived from thrift and saving.

Your home paper is a Community Builder. There is one stronghold in every community that the mail order houses have not been able to reach. This is the home town newspaper. In face of all kinds of bribery, the Home newspaper has stood its ground for 40 years and steadily refused the advertising patronage of the mail order houses. Right now millions are being spent by the "catalog kings" in an attempt to secure as an ally the Home Town Newspaper.

But the country Editor is standing solidly behind his Home us think of this the next time we are tempted to dicker with the enemy of our Home Town. Let us take the stand taken by our newspaper. Let us refuse to be bribed by a seeming bargain. on the paving of the stretch of highway leading into ttje city via Pocatello Avenue and Fifth Avenue will be started in the near future, Mayor C. Ben Ross stated to a Tribune representative this afternoon and said that he would meet with Plez Wilson of the highway department and T.L.

Pidcock of the engineering department of the OSL to clear up matters in connection with the right of way where Pocatello Avenue runs adjacent with railroad property. this connection Mr. Ross stated that Pocatello would be the only city in Idaho to have every entrance into the city paved when the work now contemplated is concluded. will be "Dollar pay" at the Pocatello Bannocks-Salt Lake Bees game at Overland Park, according to officials of the local club who AGO have announced that the admission price of $1 per ticket will be charged in order to raise sufficient funds to help carry the local club through the present The financial campaign to raise- the necessary $1500 started Monday and businessmen are responding in a splendid manner. The Pocatello baseball club is a community asset and it is now up to the entire community to come to the assistance of the club and render the proper aid in this financial crisis.

As a result of an investigation of the attempted jail break at the county jail here Thursday night, made by Sheriff H.W. Henderson, William W--was arrested Friday night at Downey and returned today to this city where he is being held charged with furnishing tools to the inmates which were used in the frustrated attempt. That the saws arrived at the jail in a loaf of bread and glued in the top and bottom of a candy box has been established by the officials and W-- is alleged to have furnished the "loaded" bread. Attending a wedding ceremony at which Mrs. Aimee McPherson officiated formed one of the interesting features of the trip taken by Mr.

and Mrs. William White and daughter, who returned to Pocatello Friday after spending a few weeks in California. White states that Aimee McPherson's activities affect the whole of Los Angeles. Heavy crowds lined downtown streets Monday morning fpr one of the largest Labor Day parades in the city's history. Business firms and Pocatello labor groups were represented in motorized floats and portable displays In charge of the parade program were M.C.

Larson and Robert Larson said the response from labor unions'and Pocatello Business firms had exceeded 'expectations. A tidal wave of school voters swept four of the five members off the Pocatello board of trustees Tuesday and named to their places four brand new civic personalities. On the basis of unofficial the new board mem- YEARS AGO bers are Willis Ward, zone Mrs. Alberta Phillips, zone Jim Leese, zone and Alton Alexander, zone 5. Only surviving member of the old board is Arthur Scott, zone 3.

A record turnout of voters-2774--thronged the polls in one of the hottest school board races Pocatello has ever witnessed. A 12-year-old girl and a 17- year-old mother, both from St. Charles, a tiny community on the western shore of Bear Lake, succumbed Saturday in a Pocatello hospital to polio. Nine new cases of polio were reported from Bear Lake County during the week, the state health department told United Press in Boise. There will be no Idaho State Journal published tomorrow, Labor Day.

Press movers from Los Angeles began Saturday night dismantling the giant rotary press in the basement of the old Journal building to move it into the new Journal plant at South Arthur and West Bonneville It will require a full week to get only a portion of the press operating in the new building. City employes were given a Ilat across-the-board raise of 2 2 per cent by city commissioners Thursday night and a hint of another raise at the first of the year. Commissioners said the raise is necessary to meet the cost of Jiving increase and bring the tity's wage scale up to par with flther cities in the state. The pay hike will mean a monthly raise of about S10 for most city employes, said City Manager William Webb. One Pocatello hospital reports no increase in patient joads since the federal government's Medicare program took effect July 1, but another says the number of patients 65 years older has risen by about 10 per cent.

Many medical officials across the country predicted oldsters would rush to hospitals the day Medicare coverage became available, causing disastrous Overcrowding. The city's professional airport planner, Greg Isbill of Denver; said Wednesday the greatest immediate need of the was hospitalized from an Aug. 21 shooting, another from a slashing Aug. 22, and a third from a slugging last Wednesday night. Pocatello Municipal Airport is for a new terminal.

Isbill says the condition of the city's present terminal is shabby and gives air travellers a poor first impression of the city. The planner said the adequacy of the terminal is one of the factors that attracts airlines to The Federal Aviation Agency tower at the airport is also badly in need of replacement. Isbill says the FAA is interested in building a new control tower at the airport. Pocatello's east side was the scene of another Sunday shooting the past weekend, with a Blackfoot man severely in the hip, stomach and groin. The shooting was the fourth instance in a week of violence causing severe injury on the city's near east side.

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