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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1959
Page
1
Round About the Town notes visitors and dinners on Christmas day. Families from Liberty Bloomington Paris and Montpelier are listed with those hosting and attending events. Several residents motor to Grace to visit friends while others stay home for holidays.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Rich visited on Christmas day at the home of Mrs Catherine Johnson in Ovid New York.
Christmas day gatherings include Mr and Mrs Walter Bird and Mr George Bird with Mrs Edith Nowland in Dingle. Several families plan trips to Longview Washington to visit relatives while local Sacrament meetings featured speakers Arthur Shirley Don Nye and a vocal solo by Darlene Rich.
Saturday evening guests included Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens of Provo and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rich of St. Charles visiting the Sharp Matthews residence.
Mr and Mrs Lyle Gertsch of Pocatello visited Friday to Sunday while Mr and Mrs Don Nye and family spent early week visiting relatives in Twin Falls. Others include Miss Susan Kay Nelson visiting Sharon Rodney Long home Monday night and Howard Almond and wife from Preston Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Elmo Bunn of Montpelier spent Saturday afternoon visiting the Rex Mattson home. Ralph Rich was a business visitor in Salt Lake City on.
Editor notes Ezra Poulson’s Today and Yesterday column was published twice in the New Year edition. Readers are told the feature resumes in its regular place next week.
Kiplinger projects a 20 percent population rise in the 1960s with birth rates jumping to four to five million annually. The era will see more marriages, larger families, a housing and goods boom, automation rise, and more women in the workforce. The report also notes wage growth and inflation trends as the economy expands. Engagement notice for Leesesine Nye to Ronald Harris accompanies the item.
Bear Lake Valley hosts an Ugly Man contest tied to the March of Dimes drive.Candidates from Montpelier Bear Lake area schools will be introduced at a Montpelier Fielding game halftime. Votes via local canisters rely on dimes, with a dance end of month crowning a trophy winner.
Starting Monday, January 19, the sheriff's office sets driver license hours in Paris and Montpelier. Paris hours: Monday 1 to 5 pm, Tuesday 9 am to 12 pm and 1 to 6 pm, Thursday 9 am to 12 pm and 1 to 5 pm, Friday 9 am to 12 pm, Saturday 9 am to 12 pm. Montpelier hours: Wednesday 1 to 8 pm and Friday 9 am to 12 pm. Bernard Wilkes new Paris deputy will oversee the Paris office. Official notes the schedule aims to aid applicants and may change in emergencies.
The Bear Lake County Farm Bureau reorganized at a January 12 1959 meeting with David G Parker of Lanark as chair and Arlin Pugmire of St Charles and Jesse Orchard of Montpelier as vice chairs. Other board members include Dean Ward Wilmer Brown Eugene Stucki Don Ipson Phil Derricott Floyd Preston Ernest Bischoff. Georgetown local remains unreorganized and no board members are named.
On Sheriff Clifford Skinner’s recommendation Bear Lake county commissioners named Bernard C. Wilkes the Paris insurance man as Paris deputy sheriff. Deputy Wilks will lead the drivers license bureau and handle other duties of the office.
January marks a push for dairymen to record milk production per cow in Idaho as part of a national program. G C Anderson of the University of Idaho extension says accurate records of quantity and butterfat reveal true performance, while subjective opinions mislead.
The Fielding Spartans list home games with dates including January 17 at Montpelier and February dates against American Falls Star Valley Grace Aberdeen. Games start at 6 30 and 8 00 p m with admission 25 and 75 cents. Dion Orr of Boise visited the Jess Scheidegger home and relatives.
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