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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1963
Page
2
The piece argues for postal modernization amid a January 7 1963 rate raise. It compares past mechanization gains in telephony to the Post Office, notes added wage costs and a $603 million revenue target, and urges readers to contact their Congressman to push a modern, efficient postal system.
Snow and travel woes along with visits and gatherings dominate Laketown news. Families such as Cheney, Johnson, and Pugmire travel between Cleanfield Montpelier and Ogden. Activities include NRH basketball results, American Legion meeting, Wool Growers convention, and social visits across Liberty St Charles and Wasatch.
Frozen water lines troubled Garden City and Laketown as residents faced outages. Delmas and Mrs Kearl and Stanley Wahlstrom drove to Logan. Ben Weston enjoys Arizona sunshine awaiting a return home. Cisco fishermen arrive for an anticipated run, but no rain yet. Ross Cheney rushed to hospital at 2 am after a leg injury caused by Norman Weston. condition unknown.
Wayne Wilcox visited his parents in Dingle. A string of visits included Larry Peterson from Logan and several locals at Lindsey, Nowland, Ream, and Bird households. Friday inservice lesson at Eileen Jensen’s drew Fern Lloyd and others. Weekend calls by Arnell, Arnel, and Har rison, plus Sunday school and dinner gatherings highlighted local social activity.
City Council met in Paris Idaho City Hall with Mayor James R Hawkes and six councilmen present. Budget set at 20015 dollars and to be published. They signed a complaint over missing concrete pipe from Paris Canyon and discussed skating recreation and street gravel. Water rights inquiry for Paris Creek authorized. bills approved including lumber, supplies, batteries, gas and equipment.
Sunday gatherings include Mr. and Mrs. Barrett Johnson hosting guests in Georgetown. Clarrence Lindsey's family spoke with son Moore in Maryland by phone. Wayne Humpherys group visited Dave Humpherys, Georgia Sparks moved to Montpelier, and Relief Society lesson led by Bobbie Jane Thurber.
Linda and Joan Hart, students at USU Logan, spent the weekend with their parents the Alfred Harts Verden Thornock and Ben Bateman. Rulon Hansen traveled to Preston for work. Charles Piggott, BYU student in Provo, visited with the Thomas Piggott families. Mrs DeLorn Nelson hosted a quilting bee Monday with attendees including Mrs Pearl Bateman Mrs Bertha Thornock Mrs Lorna Haddock Mrs Maud Bateman and Mrs Cleone.
Numerous visits and gatherings are listed in Ovid and Montpelier including Payne and Vallentine families, Thornocks, Painter, Reese, and Jacobson households. The Primary Preparation meeting at the church house featured Ruth Thornock and Elma Krogue with a Relief Society lesson and twenty women in nursery care.
The Relief Society women of the ward provided a luncheon for Hannah M. Peter and her relatives, offering support and fellowship during a family gathering.
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