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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
1
Approximately fifty tons of scrap metals were collected across Bear Lake county communities on Junk Rally Day last Friday. Fielding High and Emerson Grade schools led efforts with house-to-house canvassing, truck volunteers, and WPA support as part of a national campaign continuing for an indeterminate period.
St Charles Trail Builders led a group to Paris on Tuesday September 29 to tour the State Buildings and courthouse. Dan C Rich directed the Trail of Spirituality and Sam Tunks led the Trail of Knowledge with teachers and guests guiding Boy Scout groups including Oral Arnell Ted Daniels Jimmy Cleveland and others. Trekker Group members Jack Alland Leo Negus Waugh Pugmire and Blazer Group chief LaMar Windley plus aides Lynne Booth Vernon Peterson Dennis Wilkes participated. The group thanked Paris Iola Bunderson Vivian Allred and Violet Pugmire for transportation.
Marriage notices list Ed Quarles Ropelato and Ida Cecilia Borino of Kemmerer Wyoming as married September 24 by Morgan J Rich. Harold M Brower of Freedom and Roberta Hale of Afton Wyoming were wed by Morgan J Rich. Darwin Peterson of Grover and Verna Harrison of Osborne Wyoming also linked by September 24 ceremony officiated by Morgan J.
Edna Crowther Ririe a Fielding Academy alumna in Paris will perform as featured songstress on radio station KSL Salt Lake City next Sunday evening Oct 4 from 1030 to 11 p m Local readers will recall her as a talented soloist and a familiar voice in the region.
Two brush fires spread Tuesday afternoon in Lanark Liberty and Sharon communities. The Lanark Liberty fire was halted with minimal pasture damage after Fielding High School boys assisted. The Sharon area blaze damaged fen rows and pasture, controlled by local residents with aid from Montpelier and Paris.
The Lemhi county agent office is discontinued until the war ends following Boyd Baxter's resignation to enter military service. Baxter, who joined Lemhi county from Bear Lake in March 1941, helped form the first Lemhi county lamb pools during the past year.
Tire sellers must file September 20 inventory reports of all serviceable tires and tubes by October 15 to comply with revised tire rationing rules. The quarterly inventory covers new and used tires, tubes, retreads, and re caps held for sale. Filing is emphasized as essential to identify those in the tire selling business eligible for additional stocks if available.
Word from here confirms Keith Stucki son of Mr and Mrs Wm B Stucki and member of the Armed Forces stationed at Long Island New York has been advanced in rank from Private to Corporal.
Field Brothers of Montpelier receive two tires for a garbage truck while A M Thompson of Georgetown gets one tire for a farm produce truck. Eldred Bacon and Bert Orr in Georgetown and Ovid are listed for farm produce or farm labor hauls. Various local firms and residents including Stock Chevrolet Co Montpelier and Mosiah Booth receive retreads or tubes for service vehicles and farm use. The record names many individuals and towns including Montpelier Georgetown Ovid Geneva Bloomington and Bloomington with multiple tire retread and tube allocations for farms mills and mail transport.
Fielding High football team set to meet Soda Springs on the local gridiron Friday afternoon. Fielding recently defeated Grace 20 to 13 on Grace’s field, aiming to continue the winning momentum at home.
Migratory workers including farm laborers will receive supplementary gas rations under future national rationing plans. Leslie A Miller WPB regional chief announced that farm and war construction workers will be treated as essential in the war effort and allowed mobility as needed for their tasks.
Mr and Mrs LeRoy Loveland of Fish Haven pleaded guilty before Justice V Smith Hoge in Paris on a Sunday morning to a charge of illegal take of game birds. They paid a 360 fine and 6 dollars in costs and a removed shotgun was confiscated by Conservation Officer Pete Horning and sent to Boise.
About fifty boys enrolled in Vocational Agriculture at Fielding High met in the Ag room to organize the Future Farmers. President Glen Olsen presided as Supt W B Price Forester Jay B Hann and Phillip Hulme spoke. A musical number by Bruce Wilhelmsen and Jean Shepherd followed. Officers named include Glen Olsen president Lowell Nielson vice president Charles Hulme secretary Wayne Johnson treasurer Cyril Prescott reporter Kay Olsen farm watchdog and advisor Mr Richards.
Following the resignation of J War ren Sirrine the Republican party announces Clarence Lindsay of Dingle as their candidate for County Commissioner in the forthcoming November election. Democratic candidate is J A Berrey.
San V. Tunks said the Bureau of Civil Aeronautics informed the county that drainage work at the airport site will begin this fall, with actual construction starting soon. Runway construction is expected to start early next spring.
Cecil Shirley, of Fish Haven origin and son of Henry and Mrs Shirley, is reported dead in Australia on Sept 22 1942 while serving as a quartermaster and airplane mechanic in foreign service. He enlisted Nov 1940, lived in Evanston Wyoming, survived by parents a brother Evan and sisters Norma and Dalice, with grandparents in Fish Haven and Garden City Utah. Community extends sympathy.
Boise Idaho Sept 26 Three hundred thirty six men from Idaho have enlisted in the United States Navy so far in September The Navy Recruiting Service praises the patriotism prompting enlistment and notes Idaho must fill 523 quota for September Main Recruiting station and Civilian Navy Recruiting Committee led by Governor Chase A Clark urge young men to enlist now to gain Navy training and serve the country.
W P Rogers announces a 25 dollar Defense Fund will go to the grower sending the biggest regular looking Idaho potato this season. Idaho Advertising Commission backs the prize. contest closes November 10 for weigh in and judging. Send entries to Sun Valley News Bureau Idaho.
The Federal Security Agency and the War Manpower Commission announce a nationwide High School Victory Corps plan. Every high school will establish a corps with voluntary enrollment. National leadership will be Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, famed World War II flying ace.
War guidance notes frozen green tea stocks for government purchase while black tea remains restricted. Model airplane materials like balsa wood become scarce, and standsit seats threaten fashion on transit. War Ration Book No 2 is due before Christmas with strict possession rules outlined by the OPA.
Henry B Owen, state director of the Office of Price Administration, issues guidance on gasoline rationing. Do not store fuel. no official weekly purchase limit yet. cards issued at rationing boards with notices on where to apply. Out of state cars may buy fuel to return home. extra fuel may be available for certain businesses.
William Lauritzen spent Saturday on the Antelope hunt near Pocatello. He said it wasn’t any trick at all to get your animal and returned home the same evening with a nice yearling buck.
At a Bear Lake County USDA War Board meeting G E Hulme was named chairman of the Farm Machinery Rationing Committee with Tim Matthews and Landon Pugmire as regular members and Lyman Hymas and G M Smith as first and second alternates respectively.
Sam V. Tunks report for the local Selective Service Board states the board has been called upon to furnish 32 men for the October 20 call. The notice underscores manpower needs and the government's draft requirements for that period.
The OPA set October new automobile rationing quotas for Idaho 177 with 27 reserve, Colorado 372 with 56 reserve, Montana 182 with 27 reserve, New Mexico 116 with 17 reserve, Utah 289 with 43 reserve, and Wyoming 104 with 16 reserve.
A survey of 1000 service personnel across 48 states by the Depart ment Store Economist lists top gifts. Waterproof watches cigarettes pen and pencil sets leather wallets framed photographs pocket Bibles shirts socks sunglasses portable phonographs warm slippers pipes books flash lights and more, with overseas parcels limited to six pounds in shoe box size and mailed for October Christmas delivery.
The West coast war industries face worker shortages impacting production. Orders for thousands of workers have been cleared to Employment Service offices nationwide, yet demand grows. Pocatello runs short courses in machine shop, electricity, radio and welding under Roy Christensen with trainees quickly placed in war industry jobs. Any person over eighteen not in an essential industry or with a 1A or 1B draft class may enroll, including night classes for those needing full-time work. Applicants should contact the U S Employment Office in Pocatello for details and class assignments.
October tire quotas show reductions from the prior month. Passenger car tires list new tires 2 retreads 8 tubes 6, while trucks get new tires 7 retreads 9 new tubes 8. An entry notes new adult bicycles and new passenger cars with limited quantities.
Rocky Mountain newspapers join national salvage drive begun Sept 28 through Oct 17. WPB will award honorary plaques to top per capita states and counties. 100 pounds per capita earns a salvage victory pennant. Juniors join Oct 5 for two weeks of house to house junk hunt.
Miss Afton Hoge of Salt Lake City attended LDS Business College with her parents Mr and Mrs George Hoge over the weekend. She was recently elected president of the Idaho Club at the college.
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