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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
5
Mrs Agnes Toomer visits Montpelier with family and attends the county fair. Local residents attend a Paris conference. John Toomer and gon Junior visit from Cokeville. Lena Parker recovers from a horse injury and is active again. Other locals host visitors and report threshing and hay work.
Earth and rock slides closed mountain roads across intermountain states during the second and third August weekends. State police and highway crews aided stranded motorists as steam shovels cleared mud and debris. Heavy rains, including an inch above average in Boise, left many highways flooded and marooned about 200 motorists for hours.
Local notes indicate Reed Kunz has been confined to bed for a week due to tonsil trouble. The report lists numerous visitors and relatives from Salt Lake City Ogden Denver and Los Angeles dropping by the Kunz and Schmid households in Bern and nearby towns during the period.
Festooned with visits and travel, the column lists numerous St Charles residents visiting relatives in Liberty and Bear Lake, while others relocate for work or teaching assignments. Weddings, hospital stays, and teaching posts across Idaho Utah and Wyoming are noted along with travel to Provo Logan and Salt Lake City.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Haddock of California returned home after visiting daughter Mrs Byran Haddock and family. A Bloomington gathering at the lake featured a campfire supper and greetings from Ray and Grove Haddock. Mrs Venna Nelson spent a week at home after Utah sojourn. Mrs Josephine Rasmussen marked her 80th birthday with family and friends. Thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren attended a lunch for 38. Local pupils and clubs shared events, including Golden Clean er float at Bear Lake County Fair and a Bloomington Gleaner girls float. A get together of old classmates at Thelma Bateman’s home featured games and singing. Approximately one hundred attended a Stake Choir event in Dallas.
Farm Security homemakers in Bear Lake county find canning tomatoes worthwhile this year. Mrs Salser urges preservation to aid defense needs and diversify diets. Ripening tomatoes can be saved if frost threatens, and green-picked fruit can ripen after picking.
Idaho Selective Service Director Brig Gen M G McConnell urges all registrants to carry their registration certificates at all times and display on request. He stresses personal responsibility to keep boards informed of address or status changes and to answer calls for physicals or induction.
Arthur Strickland crew member recalls a Nazi U-boat attack on the Narissa. Twenty survivors in lifeboats and eighty-four in the water were saved by an American bomber crew signal beacon and a British destroyer. The bomber crew sighted a light and relayed their position. the destroyer rescued all aboard. Strickland credits unknown Allied air and sea crews with their survival.
Bear Lake county FSA home supervisor notes farm women are increasing home canning and storage to meet demand under the food preservation program. They are urged to use existing equipment efficiently, consider joint use, and have pressure cookers tested to improve defense item supplies.
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