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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1971
Page
1
Pre-registration for first grade students due this fall will be held Friday in Thirkill School rooms 1 and 3. All current first graders will be at home to free teachers for preschool registrations. hours 9 to 11:30. parents urged to bring birth certificates for date verification.
The North Gem School District schedules its annual budget hearing at the high school on May 25 at 9 00 p m Local voters may also attend Bancroft City Hall from 2 00 p m to 8 00 p m to approve a six mill levy and elect trustees for zones 2 4 and 5.
Bear Lake edged Snake River and Marsh Valley for team honors as six meet records were broken and two tied in the District Five A-2 track and field meet at School District 25 track in Pocatello last Thursday. Ken Parks led the Bears to 68 points, with Snake River at 65 and Marsh Valley 59. Soda Springs finished fourth with 41, followed by American Falls and Aberdeen with 16 each and Preston. Bear Lake won six events, Snake River five, Marsh Valley three and Soda Springs two. Kevin Ringel set a new discus meet record at 148 ft 5 in while Soda Springs earned multiple top-five finishes across events. Visiting Florence McEntire and her son Mike arrived in Soda Springs May 11. Mike, a Vietnam veteran and helicopter mechanic, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after a life-threatening incident in Laos. He is slated for duty in Germany after 30-day leave.
Soda Springs High School will graduate 138 seniors this year, the second largest class in school history. Commencement week runs from Baccalaureate Sunday at 1:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium with Dr. Twain C. Tippett as speaker. Commencement is Wednesday, May 26 at 8:00 p.m. at the Idaho Stake Center, with J. R. Simplot delivering the address. Debra Larson and Kenneth Atwood will give student speeches as Salutatorian and Valedictorian. The list of graduates includes Robert Gene Anderson, Kenneth B. Atwood, Fred Barnes, and many others.
North Gem High School will graduate eleven seniors this year. Commencement is Friday May 21 at 8 00 p m. John Pyle Soda Springs Police Department will speak. Co valedictorians Monte Yost and Nancy Mabey will address peers. Diplomas will be given by Alan Smith, school board chair. Class members include Diane Delbridge Joslyn Hogan Gerald Weaver Hulse Patricia Jenkins John Burnel Johnson Christopher James Mabey Nancy Mabey Louis Moore Leon Perkins Jay Simons Monte Yost.
Felton Construction crews have worked three weeks on Soda Springs water system. Due to a lawsuit delaying the contract, city work proceeds ahead of the main pipe line. Planned street work includes First East Main Street fire hydrant change and Hooper Avenue segments May 21 to May 27 with work within city limits for another week to ten days.
Ellis Williams, Superintendent of Schools, reports the local board approved a Primary School for grades one to three at Howard E Thirkill Elementary and an Intermediate School for grades four to six at Hooper Avenue Elementary. Effective August, the plan reduces teacher load from four sections to three in each grade, saving $24,500 by dropping five positions.
Idaho State University School of Vocational-Technical Education will award certificates to 237 students at the May Graduation Ceremony with 42 additional program completers earlier in the year. Merrida Christman and Roxanne Ozburn of Soda Springs are candidates for secretarial occupations.
The Soda Springs summer reading contest starts Friday May 28 and runs to July 2. Participants are divided into three grade groups: 2nd and 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th, and 7th 8th and 9th, with prizes awarded in each group.
Do not live on a mountain top to watch for fire hazards. Stay alert for careless acts that could ignite forest or grass fires and help Idaho stay green through vigilant prevention.
The district cuts teachers to merge first and second grade students into three sections based on perceived abilities. North side students bound for Thirkill School will be bused from Hooper Elementary at a set time, while south side Hooper students will ride from Thirkill School. Additional details will be provided before the August 30 opening.
Soda Springs city council appoints Jim Young as summer recreation director. He teaches at Soda Springs Junior High and starts June 1. An instruction clinic for Peewee, Little League and Pony League players is planned for early June with advance school signups for Little League and Pony League before year end.
Incumbent Charles Langdon Conda and Leith Somsen were unanimously re-elected as Soda Springs School District trustees in Joint School District No. 150. Langdon will serve Zone Four and Somsen Zone Five, both for three-year terms starting June. A total of 99 votes were cast.
Grace Grace High School will hold its commencement Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in the Bannock Stake Tabernacle. A class of 44 seniors receives diplomas with John B. Eliason as speaker, former Grace principal and FBI member. Valedictorian Leslie Lloyd and Salutatorian Debra Stoddard will give student addresses.
The Caribou Field Archers will conduct their annual Range Clean-Up on Sunday May 23 beginning at 7 30 a m A M local volunteers will gather at the range to pick up and tidy shooting facilities and surrounding grounds.
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