Valley's Westside Prepares for Big Fourth Celebration
Ranger Centennial events kick off with a 6am chuckwagon breakfast, parade featuring the Centennial Wagon Train with 60 mounted riders, Fielding High Spartanettes, rodeo at Paris grounds, fireworks and street dance. Friday includes a horse show and races as former Bear Lake Valley residents return for the pioneer arrival celebration.
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Paris
Preston
Fielding High School Spartanettes
Paris Grounds
Bear Lake Valley
Fireworks banned on Intermountain National Forests
A special order prohibits fireworks on all Intermountain Region National Forests starting July 1 at 12 01 am. Regional forester Floyd Iverson and district ranger Vaughn Tippetts cite rising fire danger and the Fourth of July season. Violation is a misdemeanor, with penalties, as officials urge extreme caution amid rainy weather and abundant cheat grass.
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Intermountain
Floyd Iverson
Vaughn Tippetts
Rangers Complete Chuckwagon No 2 for Travel Use
Bear Lake Rangers built Chuckwagon No 2 an eight by ten foot four wheeled trailer house in three weeks. It serves as dining car on mountain trips and for the annual chuckwagon breakfast. Murals on the wagon sides designed by Mrs Le Roy Hymas with oil lettering by Miss Cheryl Crawford.
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Bear Lake Rangers
le Roy Hymas
Cheryl Crawford
Baby of Bennetts Dies Two Days After Birth
Word arrived from Paris of the birth and death of a baby daughter to Mr and Mrs Lynn Bennett of Preston. The infant lived only two days after birth. Graveside services were conducted Saturday in Preston. Mr Bennett is the music teacher at Fielding High School and is spending the summer in Preston.
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Bennetts
Preston
Paris
Lynn Bennett
Bennett
Fielding High School
Former Pegram Resident George Aland Dies in Pocatello
Funeral services held in Pocatello for George Clarence Aland 73 a Bloomington native and long time Pegram area rancher who died last week Burial in Pocatello Cemetery He is survived by Harriet his widow two daughters a son two sisters and several relatives from Bloomington Montpelier Idaho Falls and Thayne Wyoming
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Pocatello
George Clarence Aland
Bloomington
Pegram
Mr. Aland
James O
Sarah Holmes Aland
Harriett Aland
Ernest Payne
Milford Murphy
Thayne
Wyoming
Cyril Jacobson
Roy Jacobson
Ruth Aland
Montpelier
Weldon Dunn
Berdeen Black
Harold Moss
Nowman Cook
Idaho Falls
Earl Mapes
Rueben Teuscher
Garden Wilks
Team of Horses Die After Eating Poisoned Grain
A pair of valuable horses belonging to W. K. Matthews of Liberty died after consuming poisoned grain left in a wagon bed. About a quart and a half of grain had been used for squirrels earlier and the team died within minutes to 45 minutes. The horses were to be used in the Centennial wagon train and were valued at about $500.
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W. K. Matthews
Liberty Area
Matthews
Paris First and Second Mutuals Attend Diamond Creek Camp
Girls from Paris First and Second ward Mutuals attended a three day summer camp at Diamond Creek. They traveled by charter bus and learned first aid knot tying navigation sun and stars and camping safety. Chaperones were Dixie Arnell and Josephine Orr.
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Paris
Engagement announcement for Sandra Reghear and Rayo Passey
Mr Ralph and Mrs Reghear announce the engagement of their daughter Sandra Kay Reghear to Rayo Passey son of Mr and Mrs McKay Passey of Liberty No wedding date has been set Both graduates of Fielding High School Miss Reghear attends a business college in Salt Lake City and Mr Passey serves in the Armed Forces stationed at Fort Still Oklahoma
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Ralph-Reghear
Sandra Kay
Rayo Passey
McKay Passey
Liberty
Fielding High School
Miss Reghear
Salt Lake City
Mr. Passey
Armed Forces
Fort Sit
Okla
Stake Opens Information Booth at Paris Tabernacle
B L Stake installs new information booth in front of Bear Lake Stake tabernacle in Paris this week to guide visitors this summer and provide details on the building and its pipe organ. O H Grimmett supervised booth construction and relay guides will keep at least one attendant on duty daily during the season.
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Bear Lake Stake Tabernacle
Paris
Tabernacle
Stake
O H. Grimmett
Northwest boat operators cited for safety violations
Coast Guard boarding teams cited one third of boats in Washington Oregon and Idaho during April and May for motorboat regulation violations. Of 2616 boardings 672 lacked proper equipment or displayed numbers inadequately and 531 of 872 total citations were for improper numbers or display methods. Washington led with 1739 boardings and 617 violations followed by Oregon 750 boardings and 215 violations, Idaho 127 boardings and 40 violations.
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Coast Guards
Northwest States
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Coast Guard
George Denney
Motor Vehicle Division
Department of Law Enforcement
Boise
U. S
American Legion Post 84 Hosts Canyon Park Party
American Legion Post No 84 of Paris held its annual canyon party at Paris Canyon Park last Saturday night. A business meeting preceded a chicken supper enjoyed by about 25 members.
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American Legion Post
Paris Canyon Park
American Legion Post No. 84
Paris
Grassman Candidates Tour Bear Lake County Ranches
The Grassman of the Year candidates Gerald Skinner and Sharon Dayton led a 70 attendee tour in Bear Lake County on June 20. Visitors saw Gene Hall’s 800 irrigated acres plus 43,700 pasture acres on Giraffe Creek, Woody Bowman’s 2,200 deeded and 1,320 leased acres, and John Dayton’s 10,000 acre operation with 300 irrigated pasture and 700 irrigated cropland. The group included FFA members from two chapters and was hosted by local agricultural groups.
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Bear Lake County
FFA
Gerald Skinner
Sharon Dayton
Charles Hulme
Gene Hall
Geneva- Raymond
Woody Bowman
Geneva
John Dayton
Raymond
Hall
Giraffe Creek
Wyoming
Farm Bureau
IGA
Bear Lake Dairymen’s Cooperative Association
Cream of Weber
Salt Canyon
Bowman
Potato Packing Plant Planned by Caribou County Growers
Grace area potato producers met to plan a local packing house for Caribou county spuds. They currently ship about 250000 sacks to Blackfoot at 25 cents per bag for transport, and estimate local plant costs at 60000 to 80000 dollars. A Texas broker will meet growers in Grace to provide machinery, with a target start around November 1 for a six month winter payroll.
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Grace
Caribou
Blackfoot
Texas
Dan C Rich Family Party At Paris Canyon Park
A Dan C Rich family gathering occurred at Paris Canyon Park last Sunday evening. Attendees included the Verlynn Parker family of Montpellier Kay Rich family of Portland Marion Pearce of Mesa Gene Burdicks Grant Rich family Lloyd Passey Mrs Beth West Clair Rich and Mr and Mrs Dan Rich. The piece notes the 1963 prize optimist idea about success without effort.
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Dan C. Rich
Paris Canyon Park
Verlynn Parker
Montpellier
Kay Rich
Portland
Ore
Marion Pearce
Mesa, Ariz
Gene Burdicks
Grant Rich
Lloyd Passey
Beth West
Clair Rich
Dan
Centennial Wagon Train Reaches Paris for July 4 Parade
The Centennial Wagon Train sponsored by Bear Lake Stake of the LDS Church arrives in Paris after traveling from Preston. Alfred Keetch is injured when a horse falls in Emigration Canyon and is taken to a Montpelier hospital. The group, with ten wagons and about 60 riders, was welcomed by hundreds as they reenact the pioneers trek to Bear Lake Valley.
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Centennial
Paris
Emigration Canyon
Alfred Keetch
Keetch
Montpelier
Bear Lake
Church of the Latter-day Saints
Preston
Bear Lake Valley
Mink Creek
Emigration
Canyon
Stake
O. H. Grimmett
Idaho
William K. Matthews
Roy A. Welker
Deseret News
Leonora Stucki
Darlene Rich
Velma Hansen
Ruth Wallen
Dan Rich
Paul Haddock
Charles Hulme
Dean Ward
Hulme Dunford
Stanley Morgan
John Spencer
Ruth Vallentine
Junior Pugmire
Donovan Howell
Audrey Neilson
Glen Michaelson
Evan Palmer
John Hoge
Velma Hamsen
Eugene Stuck
Liberty Ward
Lester Roberts
Ovd Ward
Morris Beck
Glen Ward
Bear Lake Rangers
Eldon Lewis
Bloomington
LaVell Ward
St. Charles
Ward
Friday Peterson
New Orleans Couple Enjoy Bear Lake Valley Scenery
Mr and Mrs. Godfrey Zehner of New Orleans are visiting Bear Lake Valley this week. They are escorted by Mr and Mrs. Standley H Rich of Montpelier and Paris, longtime friends from their 1949 1950 New Orleans mission. The Zehners praise the weather and the Bear Lake scenery.
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Godfrey Zehner
New Orleans
Bear Lake Valley
Standley H Rich
Montpelier
Paris
Zehners
Rich
Zehner
States
Miss Idaho 1963 crowned in Boise pageant
Linda Ann Moulton of Boise won Miss Idaho 1963 and will go to Miss America in Atlantic City. Darlene Gertsch of Pocatello finished as second runner up and performed a dancing ballet The Dying Swan earning standing ovation. Gertsch is from Bear Lake county contestant Diane Scofield of Montpelier also competed.
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Boise
Darlene Gertsch
Pocatello
Bear Lake County
Diane Scofield
Montpelier
Linda Ann Moulton
Idaho
Gem State
Atlantic City
N. J
Gertsch
Ezra Gertsch
Smith Gertsch
Paris
John Parker Family Reunion Held at Liberty Church
The John Parker family reunion met last Saturday June 29 at the Liberty ward chapel. Greetings and visiting filled the morning with a luncheon in room A. Edith P Haddock directed an afternoon program followed by a business meeting. John Parker reported on genealogy and President Jared Parker offered the closing prayer. One hundred forty family members attended.
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John Parker
Liberty Ward Chapel
Edith P. Haddock
Jared Parker
Lions Club installs officers at joint Randolph Paris meeting
The Paris Lions club and Randolph club held a joint meeting at Camp Lift Monday night to install incoming officers John Hoge as president Lyle Taggant as vice president Floyd Lewis as secretary Lewis Munson as lion tamer and E P Cleveland as tall twister A chicken supper followed in the dining hallPrior to the meeting members toured Minnetonka Cave a project sponsored by the Paris club.
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Paris Lions Club
Randolph Club
Camp Lift
John Hoge
Lyle Taggant
Floyd Lewis
Lewis Munson
E P. Cleveland
Minnetonka Cave
Paris Club
Telephones show rise in Paris over Pioneer Day
Idaho's centennial era highlights in state telephone history as W A House notes growth from eight Paris subscribers in 1898 to 418 by 1960 and statewide telephones reaching 179000 with 675405 miles of conductor. Idaho’s exchanges expanded from 1890 to 1907 and beyond.
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Idaho
W A. House
West
Hailey
Ketchum
Boise
Caldwell
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Mountain States Telephone Company
Idaho System
United States
House
Paris
Mr. House
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Westside
Rangers
B.L. Ranger
Evelyn Payne
Queen Susan Kay Nelson
Billie Jean Carney
Paris First & Second Mutuals
Diamond Creek Camp
B. L. Stake
N.W
Paris Post
Grassman
Potato Growers Plan
Caribou County
Queen OF the
Wagon Train
Susan Kay Nelson
Church IN Liberty
Idaho State College
Mary Stocking Barkdull
Lions Club
Randolph
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