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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1958
Page
2
The Paris Post lists weekly publication in Paris Idaho with mail receipt per act of Congress and pricing notes. Publisher Co. O Broxon outlines subscription at 2.00 per year and advertising rates upon request.
The piece critiques the United Nations impotence in enforcing peace amid Middle East turmoil and exposes Nikita Khrushchev as insincere. It cites his Polish embassy speech praising anti colonial revolutions and opposing war, while warning that his rhetoric masks imperial aggression and dark history from Nagy to Mao.
Elfrida von Nordroff claimed a record setting $220000 prize after a 21 week run in the coast to coast TV quiz sweepstakes. Her income tax will reduce the windfall after Form 1040 is filed, leaving a modest remainder.
A Stockton California Record excerpt weighs the fairness of taxing Elfrida van Nardroff’s sudden Jeopardy winnings. It argues for averaging income over a decade to avoid a punitive single-year tax hit and notes lack of political protection for the contestant.
An editorial quotes the New York Herald Tribune and Farm Journal poll showing many farmers want less government aid or none at all. It argues subsidies mostly help large corporate farms while meat production thrives in free markets, preserving farmers independence and economic success.
The Idaho State Board of Health, meeting in Gooding, declared sewage disposal the top health problem and asked the State Department of Health to draft rules. Chair Dr. Paul Ebig urged facilities for proper disposal and a timetable for community compliance. The proposed rules would curb dumping raw sewage into waters and stop sewer wells that threaten underground water supplies.
City meeting in City Hall Paris Idaho with Acting Mayor Budge and councilors present. Topics include street repairs on Fielding High Avenue, cooperative gravel work with the school and church, finance cautions for 1959, potential campus fire track project and dirt dumping under marshal oversight, possible water contract review, building permits, minor penalties, and an appropriation ordinance with bills approved.
Idaho cities including Lewiston, Moscow, Sandpoint, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Payette, Priest River, Cottonwood and Kooskia have approved or planned facilities for sewage disposal. A Boise Beach bond election for 4.35 million dollars on August 26 aims to fund further treatment capacity with state grants available through the Health Department.
Mrs Bob Calder visited relatives in Randolph Tuesday. Pocatello native Mrs. Russell Rich spent a week with family in Logan and nearby towns. Theora Hodges hosted Lizzie Packer, Blanche Johnson, and Louise Covey with other relatives, capturing photos of the Charlotte Hodges home. Mrs. Claudia Pope was found in a coma and rushed to Logan LDS Hospital. condition improved by Sunday. Local visits included the Owen Wahlstroms from Preston and the Gus Richs, plus Montpelier and Paris trips by the Gibbons. Lakota hosted McKay Lovelands and their boat club as they visited Milford Lovelands. Sacrament speakers included McKay Pugmire and William Dinkers of Pocatello. Ray Lutz graduated and was ordained a deacon with Delbert Merritt and Gay Satterthwaite sustained as ward members. Music featured a trio If Christ Should Come Tomorrow and a father–daughter duet My Father. Girl award services and Bloomington ward primary birthday event were noted.
The Taylorsville Utah group hosted Hazel Peterson and the George Parkers during a past week. A birthday service in sacrament meeting Sunday aimed to boost parent teacher cooperation with talks by LaRae Nielson Carma Jensen and Maybell Peterson and songs by children. Stake visitors included Mrs David Orr and Mrs Warren Passey.
Night activity in St Charles featured games led by Margaret Bunderson and a crowd enjoying watermelon. Local residents and visitors from Provo Vancouver Salt Lake Logan Brigham City Ogden and other places joined family gatherings reunions and weekend visits while many families hosted relatives.
Juanita W. Smart, county treasurer, certifies that the report of operations in funds of Bearlake County Idaho is true and correct.
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