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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
8
Classified brief notes include a for sale item for the First Ward Meeting House inviting contact with Bishop C M Rich. The rest records local residents traveling, visiting, and appointments across Moscow, Salt Lake, Rock Springs, and Montpelier with multiple names and towns. Dr A L Chilton to visit Montpelier on Sept 26 for eye care.
Mrs Wm Jensen visited with family in Bancroft Blackfoot and Pocatello while Mrs Boyd Kenaston headed home to Twin Falls after visiting her parents in Logan Edith Rich visited her mother in Logan where she serves as librarian in AC Dallas Athay and his mother spent time with relatives in Logan Vernon Rich and family moved from here to Ashton for the winter they will live there while Rich moved earlier this week Mrs O H Grimmett joined her husband in Ashton Paris MIA held an opening social in Ward hall with games dancing and refreshments Mrs L T Buxton works at Lowe Drug Store Clare Smedley resigned to attend BYU in Provo Bremerton visitors Calvert Lewis family visiting Paria doctors Budge and Budge visited with sisters E F Davis and Dan Price Chas Tan family stayed with relatives at Soda Springs I T Buxton business visit to Pocatello Don Tueller and baby visited here and in Montpelier Willard Hansen and daughter went to Ogden with the Tuellers Don and Lyman Sparks Ogden visitors in Paris Joe Kunz Montpelier spent Sunday with Hyrum Poulsen Paralee Kendall visiting her mother Mrs Sam Athay Ezra Gertsch family returned from Moreland and Pocatello Mrs Charles Innes hosted Friday Afternoon Bridge high scorer Mrs C O Moore.
War Relocation Authority and United States Employment Service announce a revised procedure to recruit Japanese evacuees from relocation centers for beet and potato harvests in the intermountain region and plains states. Employers will submit binding offers with duration wages and housing, with transportation provided, to speed up recruitment.
Observers predict revolutionary changes within a year as mobilization tightens wartime controls. Draft prospects extend to 18 and 19 year olds, with married men slated for service, while women and older or unfit workers fill war industry roles and training expands. Inflation controls, rationing plans, and tax shifts loom, with small businesses hit hardest amid uncertain future. Local note mentions residents John Parker, Byron Christensen, and John Ballentyne relocating or visiting.
Evacuees may obtain Copies of a brief statement describing the recruitment procedure and the Offer of Employment form from War Relocation Authority field offices. One office is in the Whitcomb Building and another in the Kittredge Building in Denver Colorado.
A narrator recalls Witt Frost and Will sharing a beer on the back porch as Will notes paying his third income tax installment. The tone highlights wartime patriotism and the pride of contributing to the war effort. The piece also mentions beer taxes yielding over two and a half billion dollars in nine years and notes past leakage to bootleggers.
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