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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1951
Page
1
Voters in the High School District approved a 30000 bond for agriculture facilities gym extensions and improvements. Contractor O H Ettt bid about the project cost with funds to be provided from the district's general resources. Precinct tallies show broad support with 252 yes 56 no and a two thirds threshold met.
The Women’s Mutual reports list wards earning honor for period Jan 1 to Mar 31, 1951 with totals. Stake secretary notes temple days set for May 20 and June 5 with plans for a light lunch and program in Logan. Activities include music, prayers, sacrament songs, and speakers at Laketown Ward and Oak Creek area units.
A meeting to organize a junior sportsmen club as an auxiliary to Rainbow Rod & Gun Club is set for 8 p.m. Thursday May 3 at the club cabin in Montpeler Canyon. Boys aged 14 to 18 and their fathers are invited. Clyde Schoonover of Pocatello will assist. lunch will follow.
Paul Haddock Asa Madsen and Russell Payne were elected to the Village Board of Trustees in Bloomington in the recent municipal election Tuesday last week. Other ballot candidates included George Ward James Payne and Widtsoe Krogue.
Wholesale beef price ceilings are established by grade and zone with zone 3 covering southern Idaho eastern Oregon and parts of Montana. Prices reference Denver levels plus freight and allowable charges to restaurants defense agencies and wrapping. Retail ceilings depend on store group and zone with three schedules and margins tied to 1950 costs.
The 1951 Paris Chapter Red Cross fund drive closed after raising 563.81 dollars toward a 723 dollar ward quota. Fund chairman Cyril S Budge praised ward chairmen and solicitors for their efforts while noting programs in First Aid Swimming Home Nursing Junior Red Cross and Aid to Servicemen may face cuts.
Local residents and visitors are listed with weekend and weekday visits. The note names Mr and Mrs Clifford Minson. Mr and Mrs Wayne Haddock of Salt Lake City. Dale Richards of Logan. Mr and Mrs Rex Rogers and children of Ogden. Mr and Mrs Keith Chase and family of Bountiful. Mr and Mrs Fred G Klinke and daughter of Twin Falls. Mr and Mrs Woodruff Stucks and Mrs Madge Hoge. Willis Clayton of Pocatello. Mra Emma Clayton. Mr and Mrs Walter Bird. Mr and Mrs M H Collings. Mrs Alfred Rogers and daughter Mary. Fireside group at Bo and Mrs Morris Athay. Doctrine and Covenants Study group at Arlin Pugmire home in St Charles. Claude Wilkes and Rex Wilkes at Emil Grandy home. Mrs Millie Grandy visiting in St Charles with daughter Mrs Margaret Bunderson and family.
Eric William Casperson of Montpelier and Charles Wayne Humpheryn of Dingle depart May 7 for Armed Forces induction in Boise on April 8. Ezra Charles Budge of Paris and Keith L. Kovene of Montpelier leave May 9 for physical examinations.
Six graduates from North Rich High School at Laketown are enrolled at the Utah State Agricultural College. Allan Wahlstrom majors in aeronautics as a first year student. Elmer Wahlstrom is a senior majoring in music. Cardon Willis is a pre medical freshman. John Lane Willis is a freshman majoring in agricultural economics. Thelma Willis is in her first USAC year and undecided on a major. Wayne Willis is a freshman without a declared major. Spring quarter ends June 1 ahead of the 58th commencement on June 4.
Wesley Windley and Stub Cleve of Camp Lift retrieved a weather observation balloon from Bear Lake on Wednesday evening. The instrument box attached to about 75 feet of cord settled to the lake bottom as the balloon deflated. Rex Arnell of St Charles reported seeing the object near Camp Lifton and the Hot Springs. The balloon would have reached about 10 feet in diameter when fully inflated but had deflated to 3 feet.
Mayor Van Ness Wallentine received an official invitation from Paris to attend the 2000th anniversary festivities. The French letter outlined July 6 to 9 as events and offered travel, hotel, chauffeur, and guide arrangements, but the mayor cited obstacles in accepting.
Mrs Dorothy Tueller left Thursday for Bremmerton Washington to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Wallace Stucks and family of Ogden spent the weekend with relatives here. Junior Hoge of Blackfoot spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs J Hoge. Mr and Mrs Bruce Smart of Salt Lake spent the weekend with his mother Mrs Juanita Smart. Rex Haddock of Logan spent the weekend in Paris with D B Haddock. Scott Hoge of Salt Lake spent Sunday with Mrs Madge Hoge and called at the E J Hoge home. Mrs Doris Gambling of Sharon spent Tuesday with her parents Mr and Mrs Jess Scheidegger. Mr and Mrs Wm Stell and son of Shelley spent the weekend at the A W Shepherd home. Mrs Himil Grandy is spending this week in Ogden at the Claude Wilkes home. Ray Nessbit and four children of Salt Lake spent Sunday with his sister Mrs Grant Rich and family. Mr and Mrs James Whinham called Sunday at the Jess Scheidegger. Mr and Mrs Eugene Stucks and family of Blackfoot spent several days the past week with relatives in Paris. Mr and Mrs Carl Finch of Soda Springs called Sunday afternoon at the Owen Shepherd and Russell Athay homes. Mr Kenneth W Matthews spent Sunday evening visiting with Mrs Reed Jensen and Mrs Fenton Allred at the Allred home in Paris.
Garden City Lions Club observed their charter night with a banquet and program in the amusement hall. The hall and tables were decorated in purple and gold. Visitors from Cache county and Bear Lake county attended.
Annie Peterson Robinson 77 died last Thursday in Ucon Idaho from age related causes. Funeral services were held Sunday in Ucon. Born March 27 1874 at Ovid Idaho she was married to Lee Robinson November 11 1892 at Uccan. Surviving are three of five children Oliver L Robinson George W Robinson Ray Robinson all of Ucon a foster daughter Harriet Short Lords 15 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren a sister Mrs Dan
Eleven people in Fish Haven have completed the Red Cross Standard First Aid course and earned certificates. Instructors Carol and Donovan Howell taught the classes at the Highway Emergency First Aid Station. Additional courses are offered in Bloomington St Charles and the Ovid School with plans to teach elsewhere on request.
Deadline approaching for grocery stores restaurants bars and other food establishments to file with the Boise OPS district office. Wholesalers must notify by May 14 using OPS forms 4 and 5, while eateries report cost per dollar of sales on a base period. New openings must file within 10 days.
Paris Chapter of the American Red Cross will sponsor two weeks of swimming classes at Bear Lake Hot Springs in June. Fees require each youngster to pay pool entry and provide their own transport. Instruction by Red Cross instructors is free. ages 8 and up or those who have finished two years of school may attend.
Notes show 4 H Wee Club meeting with Oreta Satterthwaites leadership and egg themed cooking next week muffins planned. Also mentions Edwin Booth and Charlotte Cushman Hall of Fame selections and assorted trivia about raccoon behavior and U S reservoirs rivers governors and Great Lakes depths.
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