Ander son family helps Phyllis move into trailer
Mr and Mrs Merlin Anderson spent the weekend at Pacatello helping daughter Phyllis move into a trailer.
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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1973
Page
1
Mr and Mrs Merlin Anderson spent the weekend at Pacatello helping daughter Phyllis move into a trailer.
The fragment lists names including Jim, Vic, Chris Dorothea Exline, and Mrs Sates acting as Secretary pro tem with other offices filled from local members present. The incomplete lines suggest a small local gathering assigning duties among attendees.
Grace High School completes a $2400 scoreboard project at Grace Field. Student Body President Blaine Andreasen attended as funds were raised through a Caribou County Fair television raffle, a dance netting 170, and ongoing student fund drives with game refreshments.
A fragment from a historical page notes an event inviting readers to meet educators. The brief item highlights a gathering where attendees could become acquainted with the teaching staff and their roles.
Caribou County youths amassed 180 exhibits at the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot. They earned 140 blue ribbons, 38 red ribbons and two white ribbons. Notable winners include Steve Duren with first in fitting and showing sheep and open class fat lamb, Susan Varley with top Home Economics Judging score, and Riley Mickelson taking Grand Champion Holstein Dairy Cow. Dan Mickelson won the Open Class dairy premium breeders trophy for Grand Champion Holstein Dairy Bull, with Lawrence Mickelson set to show at the state Holstein event in Puyallup, Washington. The fair season closed strongly for Caribou County.
Dee Johnson begins teaching at Soda Seminary after two years at Ashton and four years at Bonneville Seminary in Idaho Falls. A Cleveland native, he attended Thatcher and Grace schools, Grace High, Ricks College, and BYU where he earned a 1988 B.S. in Sociology and History. He served in the LDS Central States Mission 1961 43 and is married to Christine Robbins with three children.
Grace residents will install three blocks of curb and gutter with the city surveying and backfilling. Two blocks along main from second south to second west and one block near the Jennie Norcutt and Max Fowler homes on first north are included. The owner pays the contractor. where curb crosses streets or alleys the city covers the footing. installations must be surveyed in on grade to fit a storm drainage pattern.
The Soda District shows a slight enrollment increase with first grade counts reported as 73 and 84 students in a partial reading of district records.
The September 15 opening covers sage and sharptailed grouse in parts of Bingham and Bonneville counties and Willow Creek Grays Lake areas with a two day bag limit of two birds. Blue blue blue blue. The forest grouse season runs Sept 15 through Nov 25 with a three bird daily bag and six possession limit. Hungarian and chukar partridges run Sept 15 to Dec 30 with seven per day and 14 in possession after day one. Mourning dove closes Sept 16. Regulations available from vendors or Pocatello office. Mr. and Mrs. Doyal Stiles Conda and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allen Grace visited the Eastern Idaho State Fair in Blackfoot.
A school time traffic safety feature invites children to learn road rules and practice careful behavior near streets. The piece emphasizes cautious walking, alert crossing, and the role of drivers to anticipate young pedestrians.
Readable text notes a Bud Orr Geis Proction and a transfer to Ohio involving Monsanto Industrial Chemicals and a company in Soda Springs. Specific details are fragmentary but indicate corporate movements and regional ties. The item appears as a brief business notice with names and a location.
Mayor Lowe notes mill reductions over the past two years and says Grace experiences steady growth. He cites ad valorem tax as under a quarter of city revenue while population growth boosts highway users funds franchise tax and liquor apportment. He adds water and sewer revenue also rise with growth.
The United States Sheep Experiment Station and Western Sheep Breeding Laboratory with the University of Idaho will hold a breeding sheep sale on Thursday September 20 1973 at the Experiment Station HQ six miles north of Dubois Idaho. About 300 stud and tangorams 500 yearling and mature ewes and 250 ewe lambs of Columbia Targhee Rambouillet plus Finn Sheep crossbreds will be offered at public auction. Sale lists with records will be available after September 1 by contacting the U S Sheep Experiment Station Dubois Idaho. Lunch will be served on the Italian premises.
Brothers visit Mr and Mrs Einar J Nielsen in San Juan Capistrano, Calif, then attend funeral of Mrs Andrew Nielsen in Soda Springs. Oscar Nielsen and son Steve left Boise after visiting Axel Nielsen. A psychiatrist discusses a patient convinced by voodoo and black magic.
Idaho Crop and Livestock Reporting Service notes generally favorable August weather for crop development and harvests. North Idaho spring wheat yields around 49.0 bushels, dryland pasture below average for livestock, and late maturing crops progressed well. Forecasts for September show mixed yields with sugar beets down 17 percent and fall potatoes to be released October 12.
Idaho Parks and Recreation Department released the Idaho Outdoor Recreation Plan 1973. The 20 page guide outlines recreation goals and future action for Idaho projecting needs to 1980. Requests for copies may be sent to the Statehouse Mail Boise or by calling (208) 384-2154.
High School athletic notices list Varsity football at Aberdeen on Sept 14, JV at Malawi on Sept 17, and Freshmen at Bear Lake on Sept 20, all away games.
Sept 14 event with Grace facing North Gem at Bancroft. The card notes a matchup between Grace and North Gem, set at Bancroft with no additional context.
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