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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1946
Page
5
Six weeks bedfast Emily Wilhelmsen improves while Roy Wilks recovers from a cut hand and LeRoy returns to work. Children and parents report leg injuries healing slowly, and many residents attend gatherings, weddings, and hospital visits.
A Laketown report notes Stake missionaries Mr and Mrs David Walker and others attending Sunday services. Betty Beck played Meditation on piano. Speakers included David Parker Maria Cole Edwin Shepherd Morgan and Norman Roberts. Various locals listed with visits and travel to Ogden Salt Lake Logan Paris and Pocatello.
Young men planning for a goal can enlist in the Regular Army to access the GI Bill of Rights. After a three year enlistment, you qualify for 48 months of college or trade school tuition and fees up to 500 dollars per year plus living allowance of 65 dollars a month (90 with dependents). Army offers training in 200 trades and access to civilian schooling after service. Enlist by October 5, 1946 for eligibility. See local Recruiting Station.
Enlistment age 18 to 34 with 17 with parental consent. reenlistment allowed after any age for current soldiers. A $50 per year reenlistment bonus if within three months of discharge or last entry. Furlough for reenlistment within 20 days. Mustering-out pay based on service length. Retirement option at half pay after 20 years, rising to quarters pay after 30. Active federal service counts toward retirement. Choice of branch and overseas theater on 3-year terms where available.
The rule states a 20 percent increase for overseas service, a 50 percent increase for members of flying or glider crews, and an additional 5 percent pay increase for each three years of service. These increases may be added to base pay as specified.
Mr and Mrs Calvin Hymas visited Cleveland Idaho and brought fruit home. George Crossley from Smithfield Utah stayed with Albert Miner. Mary Hymas visits Smithfield. Vertene Hansen stayed in Paris. Montpelier’s Joe Gerber hauled grain. Fern Johnson to Logan’s college. Several trips to Logan and Montpelier noted, plus a postnuptial shower for LaRue Irwin.
Garden City notes record weekend visits by Bishop and Mrs Milford Loveland and Mr and Mrs Robert V Calder with Calder brothers Milton Hvard and Clifford from Wyoming. Local residents traveled to Afton and Logan for family and business, with several attending in Star Valley and Salt Lake.
A thin transparent membrane over a snake eye acts as a protective storm window, shielding the eye from scratches and injuries during movement and encounters in its environment.
The practice of suttee where a widow burned on her husband's funeral pyre was abolished by a British act in 1829. It was an Indian custom, limited within certain communities, and marked a turning point in colonial reform of gender practices.
Lumber Supply America allocates half of its yearly lumber to construction while the remaining half is reserved for furniture and other manufactured articles.
A humorous column recounts Willie Wells and Basil Strube debating trout flies rods and methods with playful rivalry about dry flies wet flies Royal Coachman Silver Doctor and bamboo versus steel rods. Both caught similar sizes and agree respect for differing opinions makes life more pleasant.
Mr Cornell Scofield of Salt Lake visits at the Barker home as Ben Bunderson and family of Georgetown spend Sunday here. Leah Kunz and child stay with Ray Pugmire family. Harold Pugmire and wife visit the S S Pugmire home. Mr and Mrs shared marriage vows at the Idaho Falls temple. Mrs Pugmire moved from Tennessee. Laurel Parker of Bloomington and Dennis Scofield visit Louia Pugmire home. Wuthrich and son Richard visit Richard Pugmire home. Billie Wilson of Bear Lake Hot Springs attends Salt Lake schooling. Guests at Al Mecham home include Eugene Clark and wife, Richard Young and wife from Couer d Alene, and Rozell Hale of Blackfoot. This marks a first family reunion since Joseph Clark's father’s death. Clarks and Richard and Vernice Young plan Ashton visit then return to d Alene. Many young people go to Logan to enroll at Utah State Agricultural College. DuAine Garner and child visit from Thursday to Monday. they moved to West Point. Ray and Eldon Pugmire expect California trip home this week. B K Wilson and family leave Bear Lake Hot Springs for University of Utah. Dr and Mrs Wilson remain at the springs into November.
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