Commissioners Proceedings May 1 1939 Montpelier Idaho
Minutes detail budget approvals warrants, tax deeds, and salary items for the county. Actions include notifying beer vendors of licenses, cancelling taxes on deeded real property, paying freight and services, and advancing road and WPA projects with a recess to May 6. Notable names: E D Hymas, J N Transtrum, Heber Price, Asa Athy, Fred Ochsenbein, R H Long, Orlando Kunz, Fred Jensen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
A. E. Thiel
H. C. Nuckols
Fair Grounds
WIPA
Union Pacific R. R. Co
Utah Power & Light Co
Golden ‘Teuscher
R. H. Long
Boyer Addition
Montpelier
Idaho
Fred Ochsenbein
Brennan and Davis
Orlando Kunz Sewnw
City of
Paris
Fred Jensen
Furn. & Fix
James KR. Taylor
Utah Power & Light
Wae
Gray
Ins
B. Solum
Express-Books
Ruby Bolton
Sal
J. N. Transtrum
Wilkes & Anderson
Groc
Ind
Safeway Store
Wixon
Fr. L. Austin
Albert Leeright
Fees J. C
Phyllis H. Wood
International Business Corp. Typewriter
D. C
West-Publishing
Ge—Books
E. J. Baird
Watermaster
iTax County
United State Pencil Co
Paris Post, Pub. & Print
Bornisa Prescott
Donald A. Thornock
Anthon Kunz
Parley Kunz
Walter Buhler
Alvin Kunz
Weber Kunz
Orval Young
Jacob S. Welker
Darwin Jensen
Able Kunz
David J. Kunz
Reed Kunz
O'Wear Kunz
Armaohnson
Haji Peterson
WPA
St Charles
Hubert D. Hymas
TaiMarbor
Gottfried Jaussi
John V. Bunn
Ralph Findlay
Geo. H. Ward
Owen Roberts
John Brewer
Lovell Booth
Stafford Cleveland
Heber Pugmire
Alvin Peterson
Oscar Booth
Seldon Parker
Peter E. Ward
Wm, R. Bee
Labor
Willard Teuscher
Delvin Orr
Guy C. Wooster
Jensen Motor Co
Fuel Co
L. S. Wedel
Agt
Continental of Co
Feonaughty Machinery Co
the Lang
Utah Power and Light Reports 1938 Welfare Efforts
Utah Power and Light Company describes its 1938 public welfare contributions including street beautification, accident prevention, water conservation and rate reductions. The Gadsby report notes a 20 percent drop in kilowatt hour sales and a $445,195 net income decline, offset by cost savings and a larger property retirement reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah Power & Light Company
com_pany
G M. Gadsby
Gadsby
Nighttime risks in highway fatalities rise per Travelers booklet
The Travelers Insurance Company report Lest We Regret notes that in daytime traffic is heavy while most deaths occur at night. From 1930 to 1939, night deaths rose 54.5 percent as daylight fatalities fell 5.4 percent, urging safer driving, stricter laws, and heightened public awareness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travelers Insurance Company
Utilities report shows tax contributions and rate cuts in 1938
The analysis of the 1938 tax account shows total company payments of 2 038 000 across schools county and municipal governments state governments and the national government. It notes tax free municipal plants exist and discusses public ownership and municipal securities. The report highlights 21 rate reductions residential use and cost per day and compares to 1931 figures. It also lists wages fuel purchases supplies and new franchises in several cities and Idaho towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsby
South Ogden
Logan
Garland
St. Anthony
Idaho
Iona
Nobel Prizes and Alfred Nobel’s Inventive Legacy
Nobel prizes honor five fields annually with large cash awards. Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist born 1833 and died 1896, invented dynamite from nitroglycerine and Kieselguhr and used his fortune to fund the prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Nobel
London Answers Magazine
Arawak Indians Lacked Farming Tools in Jamaica
The Arawak, original inhabitants of Jamaica in the British West Indies, had no agricultural implements. They burned dry savannah herbage and used short sticks to stir the soil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
British West Indies
Union Pacific Promotes Western Produce Recipes
Union Pacific's 1939 radio campaign to stimulate use of western food products by western housewives drew an enthusiastic response from homemakers. Officials report more than 100000 requests for recipes aired on Union Pacific's radio program across its western lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Weekly program highlights Union Pacific dining recipes
The program showcases Union Pacific dining car and restaurant chefs preparing over six and a half million meals yearly. Each recipe is tested by Union Pacific research sketches for simplicity, wholesomeness, and appeal before broadcast. The Hollywood produced thumbnail plays air Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 12:00 noon on Station KSL with West grown or processed foods featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beat ‘Railroad
Omaha Research En
Union Pacific
Railroad
Union Pacific Research Skdtchens
Hollywood
KSL
West
Indians and Their Skins In Historic Tanning Practices
The article notes North American Indians preserved skins from about 150 animal species including seal walrus ostrich alligator snake frog and shark in commercial tanning. It mentions bird and rodent skins are typically too small and fragile and cites a morbid history excluding human skin despite ritual evidence. It also recalls Burke’s skin preserved after his 1829 execution in Scotland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Burke
Scotland
The Dingo's Origin Debate in Australia
Fossil dingo bones from Pleistocene deposits fuel a division among scientists. Some argue the dingo is indigenous and possibly older than humans in Australia, while others contend it is related to the Indian pariah dog and Malay breeds and was imported in ancient times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
India
Malay Peninsula
Trace Name to Hindu Sect Thugs Trace Their Names
Investigators seek the origins of a gang linked to the historical Thugs who worshipped Kali and followed a murderous path. The inquiry aims to identify ringleaders and map affiliations within the sect. Authorities emphasize caution as they piece together names and networks.
Estate of John Dougan Hearings on Death Time and Heirs
The petition of Josephine B Dougan asks the court to determine the time of death of John Dougan who died August 14 1935 in Paris Bear Lake County Idaho intestate. It notes a community interest in a $8100 judgment used to buy real estate described in Paris Townsite with appurtenances and states the petitioner survives as the widow. A hearing is set for May 25 1939 in Paris Idaho at 11 am for interested parties to file objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine B. Dougan
John Dougan
Paris
Bearc Lake County
Idaho
Bear Lake County
State of
Don C. Haddock
Chas E Harris
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