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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1963
Page
1
A Tribune report notes legality and fairness concerns over a proposed weight class rule affecting wrestling matches between schools. The measure would ban certain weight advantages, potentially impacting smaller and larger districts and prompting commentary from local officials and readers.
A garbled historical notice outlines a change in personnel with Robert Smith named compensation manager. It references prior roles in American Lan ery te and a 1960s date, plus ties to a West Raw and Bidert family, likely within a local business or society context.
Idaho prepares the first of three K O Polio Sundays with 40 public clinics in 16 counties. In Caribou County the Soda Springs Junior High Gym clinic runs 9:00 am to 4:00 pm offering Sabin sugar cube doses for 25 cents, with no one refused due to inability to pay. The event aims for 90 percent participation to curb epidemic polio and educate on Sabin vs Salk vaccines. Special Soda Springs PTA meeting on February 6 addresses education funding needs and legislative outreach.
Three new tax advice booklets use practical everyday language to help tax savers prepare income tax returns. The 1963 Your Federal Income Tax and Tax Guide for Small Business booklets may be obtained from Internal Revenue Offices at government profit cost of 40 cents each. The new Barnets Tax Guide is available free at cost for all county agricultural agents of TRS offices.
Soda Springs Lions Youth League under Glen Irving opens season with six teams. Results include Busco 14 Soda Springs Eleveora 10, Sport Center 10 Farmers Grain 5, Fastman Drug 3, B and K 2. Next games set for Saturday Feb 2 at Junior High School gym with Eastman Drug and Sport Center matchups.
Barbara Kay McLain of North Gem High School Bancroft Idaho is named North Gem Homemaker of Tomorrow in the 1963 Betty Crocker Search. Her win qualifies her for one of 102 scholarships totaling 110000. Her class ranking score led to entry in state wide competition after the December 4 knowledge and attitude test.
Governor Robert E Smylie proclaims February as Heart Month and urges support for the Idaho Heart Fund. He notes heart and blood vessel diseases kill 2764 Idahoans annually, compared with 748 for cancer, and highlights the Idaho Heart Association funding life saving drugs for rheumatic fever affected children.
National Investigations Commission on Aerial Phenom ena seeks observers who saw a meteor fireball on January 22. Report sightings with a diagram to NICAP 5108 South Findlay Street Seattle Washington.
The American Milking Shorthorn Year Book lists Idaho as home to top producers. Lago's Wickelsham Phylis is Junior four-year-old champion in milk and butterfat with 12,0980 pounds milk and 37038 pounds butterfat. Lago's Emblem Pet, owner Melvin T Mickelson Grace, is Senior three-year-old champion in both milk and butterfat with 14.4280 pounds milk and 80899 pounds butterfat.
Brand Inspector for the Idaho Brand Department retires after years of service in Soda Springs. Jack Stoddard of Lava Hot Springs will succeed, making Bancroft his headquarters. he brings cattle experience and brand-reading skill and helped during last fall’s lush season, taking over February 7.
A former Roosey resident died recently in the Soda Springs area. He was a brother of Ira and Taapee Elis of Sea Sprig and had attended school nearby.
Fidon Palmer Pacatello son of Glen and Mrs Palmer of Gratz was elected president at Idaho Falls meeting. June 14-15 set for the Spring Fever Show in Pocatella with a two year old futurity and a $250 added purse. Youth shows planned in Tolalia Falls and Rex burg. Palmer, a Markham Advertising Co. employee in Poratelia, also serves as Bannock Sheriff’s poss. president. He and Beverly Paste of Grace have two boys and two girls.
About 100 cattlemen from Bear Lake Caribou and Franklin counties attended the tri county annual beef production school at Soda Springs. Morning discussions covered the Idaho Performance testing program and its goals to improve quality and production without increasing herd size. A portable livestock scale was showcased with input from county agents and the Idaho Cattlemen’s Association.
An old time basket dance sponsored by Chesterfield Ward is set for Saturday evening at 800 in the Chesterfield recreation hall. Basket lunches will be auctioned off by Jack Hatch of Pocatello to support the new Soda Springs LD 5S building fund. The event features old time music dances and a floor show with a quadrille. Chesterfield orchestra provides music and free punch will be served. Admission is free and all are invited.
Farmers in Caribou County may apply at the ASCS County Office for the Cropland Conversion Program part of the 1962 Food and Agricultural Act. In Idaho the program runs in Bingham Bonneville Caribou and Power counties with signup February 1 to March 22. The effort aims to convert land from raw crops to conservation and income uses such as pasture farms forests water storage wildlife habitat or recreation with 5 or 10 year agreements and support from soil conservation services.
Celia Isabel Byington Hess 65 of Porterville California died Saturday night at home from a heart condition. Born April 21 1897 in Downey Idaho she lived in Soda Springs before moving to California in 1961. Survives include her husband Elwin Lau of Soda Springs two stepdaughters two stepsons three sisters one brother and two grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 2 00 pm at the Soda Springs LDS Chapel with Bishop Halden Gunnell conducting. Friends may call at the Allezal Home prior to services. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.
The First Ward hosts its annual Penny Parade on Vonday Lisphart with ogre holding the event. Volunteers will begin at 4 00 pm to kick off the festivities and celebrate the community.
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