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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1969
Page
4
Caribou County Homemakers Council meets January 23 at 2 p.m. in the American Legion Room, county courthouse. Mrs. Gladys Williams presents slides on Food for Survival and Best Emergency Shelter in Your Home, plus a movie Double Trouble. Display shows two weeks of emergency foods. council members offer a two weeks menus handout for a family of five.
Home decorating tips urge using contrasting colors to revive drab spaces. A bright chair or pair of chairs in yellow red or blue along with draperies lamps or pictures can refresh a room. Replacing furniture arrangement and adding bold carpeting or a wall contrast often creates a new look. Sanders Furniture & Appliance Stores Soda Springs Bancroft Grace offer ideas.
Bennis Steele and Lowell Johnson wed in a small plane at 500 feet after a chartered flight went off schedule. Strong winds forced the planned 5 000 foot ceremony to be abandoned. The event occurred as the plane approached Soda Springs with the minister and attendants aboard.
Soda Springs school lunch menu lists daily entries for January 16 to 24. Each day features a main dish, sides, fruit or dessert, bread and milk. Items include white beans with ham, hamburgers, pish sticks, Swedish meatballs, weiners, chili, and spaghetti with meatballs with various accompaniments.
A list of patients admitted and still confined at various cities including Hermoine Godfrey Grace Brand Painter Reed and Emma Moore along with walking notes on visiting opportunities for Mary Hansen and Grace family. Fred Yost returns home after months in action from Iceland to England and D-Day through France ending December 6. An ad and notices follow for Winter White Goods Sale at J C Pengey Co and a December refunds offer at Roghaar’s Soda Springs with stockholders meeting set for January 7, 1930 in Soda Springs Court House.
Sixty five years ago a 26 below zero reading sparked disbelief from an editor who claims not to have seen it. The report came from an Oregon Short Line night operator. At the Afton Children’s Masked Ball Lorenzo Ruud won for playing a convict and Muriel Page for a Japanese girl. Pat Malloy’s family reportedly stranded on Carbon Mountain faced six foot snowdrifts as he tried to reach them. The Afton Independent recalls a local egg hoarder letting eggs walk home after a store purchase. In John Fox’s barber shop a man was shaved and left without paying, prompting the barber to quip about pocketbooks and missing change.
A concise remark notes that procrastination is a fault many aim to fix. It highlights the common tendency to delay tasks and the ongoing effort to overcome it. The statement urges timely action and self discipline in daily life.
Mr and Mrs Don Woodyard announce the engagement of their daughter Norma Jean to Derald Twitchell son of Mr and Mrs Virgil Twitchell of Thatcher. Miss Woodyard is a 1968 Soda Springs High School graduate and attends a beauty school in Idaho Falls. Twitchell is a 1968 Grace High School graduate and attends El Camino Junior College in Gardena California. A June wedding is planned.
NABA met at Rhoda Allen’s home last week with Rhoda Allen presiding. New officers installed include Veda Stiles as president, Jennie Harriman as vice president, Olive Kelly as recorder secretary, Lene Horsley as treasurer, and Nelly Lou Poulsen as financier.
December actions by the Idaho Driver Improvement Division reduced driving privileges for 389 people, bringing the annual total to 4,029. Of the 364 suspensions 203 were for DUI, including 43 from out of state, with Idaho residents and out of state drivers affected across 14 states plus Canada. Ada County led with 35 suspensions and two revocations.
Refreshments were served and bridge was played at the club meeting. High honors went to Jackie Poulsen with Zella McClellan close behind. Bingo winner was Marian Horsley. The next meeting will be at the home of Helen Lallatin.
The report lists suspensions with Bannock at 34, Twin Falls 19, Ada 16, Bingham 12 and Nez Perce 23, plus 17 overall suspensions and revocations. It notes Twin Falls leading DWI suspensions and mentions various counties and numbers. A fragment recounts a letter about an order dispute and payment.
Dr R O Young of Pocatel maintains an official daily presence in his office, working consistently until noon each day. The note records his regular hours and locations, highlighting steady office availability for patients and inquiries.
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