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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
8
Louis Beck of Salt Lake visits relatives in Paris as Wayne Hymas, Ferrell Poulsen, and others travel between Paris and Logan. A large party marks a 35th wedding anniversary for the Smith/Hoge family while various locals visit relatives, attend temple events, and plan eye examinations in Montpelier and surrounding towns.
The Caribou Bull Club of Soda Springs announces a sale of ten registered Hereford bulls at 2 p m on Saturday October 7 on the city square. Auctioneer Col C D Hyatt will oversee bidding. Bulls average 18 months, were purchased last fall and raised by club members.
Scott LaMar Bolton, 17, son of Leslie Bolton of Paris, enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on September 24 at the Boise Navy Recruiting Station. He was sworn in as an apprentice seaman and will train at the US Naval Training Center, Farragut, Idaho.
A Chinese farmer led 22 Japanese soldiers wandering toward Changsha along a winding route in Hengyang county. He used local knowledge to misdirect them and later Chinese troops captured all 22 as prisoners of war. The account appears in the official Chinese magazine China at War.
Idaho fish and game lists general season openings across counties and preserves. Deer and elk hunts run from late September to December with some areas drawing not required. Bear and mountain season timing outlined along with maps and distribution of permits and hunting aids.
Proclaimed New Deal economists offered wartime tips to conserve resources. They urged removing horseshoes at night to save steel and postponing lambing for orderly marketing, plus converting diesel tractors to coal to save oil.
Della Laker Veda Bunderson and lia Pugmire resume studies at the A C this year. Veda's parents visited on Sunday while lila's parents took her to Logan on Monday. Virla Price and children of Lake Town and Alda Pugmire and children of Kemmere were guests at the parental home the same evening. Mr and Mrs Sidney Pugmire hosted both parties. Theo Daniels and family from Pocatello were Sunday guests of Bos and Mrs H Monson and their three sons Ted Tommy and Terry. James Monson and Nellie Jensen visited last week, with Nellie remaining a few days. Nancy Alfred suffers a bruise from a porch fall Saturday.
Kingsford Heights, Indiana, a 755 acre government acquisition once planned as a thriving wartime city with 2974 wartime houses, 18 miles of streets and 72 miles of sidewalks, stores, a school, water works, sewage, and emergency services, stands as a $13 million ghost town after the Army shelled a loading plant and the Defense Housing Coordinator halted the project. Only 324 families relocated, and the city was put on liquidation.
Fort Douglas Utah warns Western state residents to mail Christmas packages to overseas relatives between now and October 15. Packages must not exceed 36 inches in length and girth nor weigh more than 5 pounds. Christmas cards may be mailed anytime if sealed.
A train carrying prisoners of various nationalities being shipped to Germany was slowed by a Belgian underground aligned engineer. Packing enclosures with prison laborers in tight conditions, the craft failed to complete the journey. after 24 hours the train had moved only 15 miles and Gestapo threats could not compel progress. Ultimately German authorities released all prisoners to avoid further trouble.
Mrs Elmer Smith of Cokeville visited Saturday with her father Arthur Taylor. Mrs Clifford Skinner and children of Dingle spent Wednesday with Wallace Stucks and arrived Friday from San Bruno California to spend furlough with his parents. Mrs Welda Michaelson and son Conrad of St Charles were guests Thursday at the Bloorn home. Mrs H Pearson and son Ray of Montpelier were Sunday visitors at the Bloorn home. Mr and Mrs Arthur Pendrey of Logan were weekend visitors. Their daughter Jane accompanied them and will enter the A C for the fall term. Mrs Gordon Bowen was called to Salt Lake City for a death in the family. Floyd Lewis of the Army Air Corps is spending a furlough with his wife and children. Edwin Shepherd took his mother to Salt Lake City. Mrs Palmer Tueller entertained at a family dinner honoring her brother Raymond Burton who left the next day for induction into the armed forces.
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