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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1971
Page
1
Idaho Fish and Game Department calls public meeting in Soda Springs at 8:00 p.m. Friday August 13 in Caribou County Courthouse to discuss proposed Eastern Idaho Goose Season and regulations. Goose hunters and sportsmen are invited to attend.
Mrs. Pearl Fryar of Caribou Memorial Hospital in Soda Springs receives a letter from the Idaho-Oregon Lions Eye Conservation Foundation praising hospital staff and local volunteers for donating eyes. The report details rapid nationwide coordination, cornea transplant work in Boise Logan Denver Salt Lake, and an urgent Salt Lake City need for Idaho residents.
State and national mining figures join Idaho leaders for the 1971 Idaho Mining Association Convention in Coeur d Alene. Idaho First District Representative James A. McClure and Governor Cecil D. Andrus are scheduled to speak across the three day event, with McClure addressing federal mining legislation trends and Andrus delivering the closing address.
Bob Rigby of Intermountain Gas Company invites Caribou County ladies to a free outdoor barbecue demonstration on August 26 at 10 30 a m at the golf course pavilion. Door prizes will be awarded and recipes for rotisserie foil cooking broiling and shishka bobs provided.
The Idaho Water Resource Board releases a 60 page report prepared with the University of Idaho Department of Agricultural Engineering. It outlines future irrigation water needs for Idaho through base years 1980 2000 2020 and 2070 and presents two methods for estimating consumptive irrigation water requirements.
A 12 year old Grace boy Kevin Mayne drowned Friday while fishing with his siblings along Bear River about four miles west of Grace. He slipped from a rock into about 60 feet of water and the body was recovered by diver Frank Fryar with aid from Sheriff Ralph Marriott. He was born February 22 1959 in Fayetteville North Carolina and attended Grace Elementary School. Survivors include his parents two sisters and two brothers and grandmothers. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Bannock Stoke Center conducted by LDS Church officials.
The Agricultural Report predicts fewer, larger farms with rising productivity and a shift toward sophisticated processing. It notes irrigation may rely on new storage, aquifer management and cross basin diversions. It cautions the plan is not a development blueprint and must fit with fish, wildlife, flood control, municipal, industrial, power, preservation, water quality and recreation needs.
Readied events span August 5 to 7 at Grace with 4H judging, open classes, a Little Buckaroo Contest, livestock shows, ranch rodeo exhibitions, a nightly parade, carnival, and the LCA Rodeo featuring EH CAPA bareback riders and Jake Pope producer. Parade entries invited from Lewis Lamb and Florence Johnson.
Caribou County Extension announces 4 H Foods Projects must be entered at the fair on Wednesday August 4 between 830 and 1000 am. This corrects the time printed in the Fair Premium Book.
Mr and Mrs Fred Caress and Harold Caress of Fontana visited Clyde Caress family in Soda Springs this week. Also joining were Mr and Mrs Ray Caress of Fresno California for the visit.
Caribou County holds its monthly immunization clinic on Thursday August 5 in the Public Health Nurse office at the Courthouse from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Infants may begin vaccines at six weeks. First graders should have up to date shots before school. vaccines include diphtheria tetanus whooping cough smallpox polio measles and rubella.
The Senior Citizens party of Idaho Stake will be held July 31 at Bancroft City Park. All people over 60 who are widows or widowers and all High Priests and their wives are invited. The event begins at 6 p.m. Saturday.
The Hawker Bybee and Nelson families held their annual reunion July 1 at Diamond Creek Campground. About 90 attendees from the area included O. S. Bybee and spouse Andy Bybee Marion Hawker George Hawker Chet Hawker Sandra Delbridge Bill Hawker and daughter Max Green and family Robert Anderson and daughter Leonard Rice and spouses.
Idaho duo Ralph Walquist and Martha grab attention as international dance entertainers. Martha dazzles audiences from Spain to Greece while snakes and Indian dance intrigue crowds at the Grace fair.
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