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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1957
Page
2
Ad notes second class mail status at Paris Idaho Post Office under act of 1879. Publisher GEITH F WARENER announces subscription rates at 6 2.00 per year mailed anywhere.
Local education proponents urge a single junior high serving the county at the Paris High School site with Montpelier as the senior unit. The proposal would remodel existing facilities to include shops, cafeteria, music, and expanded classrooms, aiming for about 450 students in a modern district-wide high school system.
Sterling Rich visited Salt Lake on Monday February 11. A Montpelier Stake Genealogical Committee pageant was held in Paris 2nd Ward Monday evening. Numerous local residents attended events including MIA plays, ward parties, and a Valentine program. Visitors from Randolph to Salt Lake area and several families shared news of trips, visits, and birthdays.
Notice is given that at 1100 AM on March 27 1957 in Paris Idaho before Notary public W G Wright proof will be submitted of the application to beneficial use of 2 cubic feet per second of Pine Gap Canyon Sweet Water Creek waters under Permit 22674. The holders are C R Note and LesHe Nate. Use is irrigation. The place is sections 11 12 township 15 south range 45 east. Canal is unnamed small laterals and dikes. Priority date to be established March 19, 1952. Mark R Kulp State Reclamation Engineer.
Ida Passey led the theology lesson and Fagtella Parker gave the teachers message at a Relief Society meeting with 13 attendees. Local families visited relatives, attended dances, birthdays, plus church and school events noted through the week in Lanark.
In Bear Lake County residents discuss school needs urging focus on an elementary school and Vocational Agricultural shop for Montpelier. The writer questions combining this with broader program changes and invites public contributions with signed or anonymous contributions.
Mr and Mrs Lear Jorgensen visited with Goff Stalder and Ivan Jensen in town. Frances Loveland’s family were guests of Earl Loveland. Dean Smith and son Terry planned a doctor visit for his cold. Gale Calder planned weekend plans with his family. Heber Stock ill but improving. Chicken pox affected several children. Ray Stog home hosted Apr Wilkes and family and Heber Stock visitors. Paris funeral drew a large crowd. Laketown residents performed a three act play Aunt Tillie Goes Town. Elders Budge and Wa of Paris visited a Sacrament meeting. Drucilla Wilkes sang a plan solo. Relief Society held a meeting. Cheese usage talk featured by Myrle Smith. Ed Szatt and Tom Smith traveled to Las Vegas for railroad work, with a few days in Logan visiting Dorothy and family. Mrs Myrtle Cottle visiting relations.
Lake City residents attended a Paris pageant and visited relatives in South Eden. Mrs Delma Sorenson hosted a sewing group with Arvilla Peterson Hilda Soren son Mae Sorenson Rita Sorenson Alice Olsen Lucille Jensen Eva Johnson assisting. A Texas investor tried to buy uranium mine stock but the Colorado broker jammed up and claimed arrest for selling to another.
Mr and Mrs Henry Sparks of Paris were guests Sunday of Bishop and Mrs Russell Sorenson. Relief Society met Tuesday with Selma Peterson and Wanda Johnson teaching. Twenty attended with visiting relatives Emma Hymas and Mrs Wesley Jensen. Janet Pet erson baby named Janette born Feb 3 to LoThair Peterson and family. The Sorensons and Nielsen visited Ray Johnston, LeThair Peterson later in Galt.
In a heated exchange the two candidates debated ethics with one asserting there are hundreds of ways to make money but only one honest path. The other pressed for specifics as the argument unfolded.
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