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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1943
Page
4
August activity shows fewer recipients and payments while average grants rise. Old age and dependent children programs declined in numbers, yet some grants increased. State planners outline postwar reclamation and public works to employ veterans, with Governor urging local financing without federal WPA revival.
The article notes WAACs overseas and training efforts and states a WAAC uniform costs about 170 dollars. It promotes War Bonds and payroll savings and cites a U S shipbuilding plan for 4200 merchant vessels in 1943 44 needing about 145000 seamen and 35000 officers.
The article notes 4 H club livestock sales follow meat rationing rules with restrictions on who may obtain custom slaughtered meat, and allows club sales at fairs to fund education. It also covers ammunition price ceilings, poultry price adjustments, leather sole shortages, and 1944 production goals under War Food Administration and WRFA plans. It mentions pressure canner access, maternity funds for servicemen families, and restrictions on school bus use for events.
Lola Smith undergoes tonsillectomy at Bear Lake hospital. Residents travel to Idaho Falls for potato harvest and attend events in Logan Evanston Draper and Salt Lake. Relief Society and MIA meetings held with community program and speakers. Families visit in Laketown Logan Ogden and Rexburg with travels to Montpelier and Basalt.
Montpelier and Ogden residents visited family and attended the General Conference in Salt Lake City. Captain Lynn C Beyeler of the U S Marines in San Diego commands 800 machine gunners at Camp Elliot with a rotating intake of 200 new trainees every two weeks. The Beyeler family links to Fish Haven and Salt Lake areas are noted.
Bear Lake County Idaho will sell at public auction on November 5 1943 at 2 p.m. at the East Side Door of the County Court House in Paris to the highest bidder, parcels acquired by tax deed deemed unnecessary for county use. Purchases under 100 dollars cash. over 100 dollars half cash down and balance within one year with 6 percent interest. Deed transfers full county rights including delinquent taxes. Sale may be withdrawn for redeemed or wrongly advertised lands. Listed parcels include various townsite blocks in Montpelier Paris Bloomington and surrounding areas along with names of last assessed owners such as Morgan J. Rich George D Murphy J William Jensen Alma Finlay Eva S Bagley and others. County reserves right to accept or reject any or all bids.
In Bear Lake County Idaho the Probate Court issues a notice to creditors and all persons with claims against James 8 Poulsen also known as J S Poulsen deceased to present claims with vouchers within six months after first publication to administrator W Smith Hoge at his Paris Idaho office. First published October 7 1943. Last published October 28 1943.
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