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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
2
With spring cleaning, county homes will turnover winter clothing and items. Residents are urged to donate usable overalls work shirts shoes children’s clothes and fabric to support the overseas relief drive to aid war stricken Europe where 125 million need clothing.
Franklin county beet producers are cautioned that wartime acreage suspensions will end and government regulation may return beet farming to prewar limitations. The note stresses the need to plan for smaller acreages as postwar quotas rise with recovered markets.
The piece defends wartime price control arguing the OPA tolerates unpopularity to curb inflation. It emphasizes the OPA’s duty to say no to price raises and to resist upward pressures while serving the general good and preventing economic wreckage.
The article urges beet growers to secure acreages as wartime allocations will resume, stressing the beet industry as a stable, lucrative líneas for the valley. It notes government plans to rely on wartime district records to allot crops and wage policy postwar.
On Wednesday evening March 29 at the home of Mr and Mrs F O Hales the MIA Stake Board hosted a successful social honoring President Nellie Johnson Counselor Della Chandwick Secretary Alberta Griffiths Organist Edna Eames and aides Mayme Davis Melissa Smith Olive Weaver and Stella Thomas retiring officers of the ULMIA Stake Board. The issue notes several local life events including births in Clifton, a death of Mrs Fanny Cartwright, a near accident on a Mink Creek road, a mission call for Eva Wanner, a marriage announcement for Thelma HamSen to Henry Clinger, and funeral services for a month old Christensen infant.
A fragment describes American crops from American fields as key to bolstering our overseas stance and resisting underground challenges, implying strategic advantages tied to agricultural productivity.
The note promotes Conservation Practices for farmers with claims that hay production rises by percent ton per acre yielding 1641 pounds of milk enough for eight soldiers for a year. Wheat increases by 512 bushels per acre equal to 341 loaves per soldier per year. Potatoes rise by seventeen sacks per acre providing for seven soldiers for a year.
A collection of humorous anecdotes and quips referencing rationing, politics, religion, and everyday life. It contains satirical lines about oleomargarine, Hitler, clothing, religious notices, a missing pound note, and a merry mix of verbal gags about hosts, undertakers, cannibals, and love, with various punchlines.
Dayton community journal lists visits, birthdays, and travel between Dayton Logan Ogden Hyde Park and surrounding areas. Notable items include a new granddaughter born at Dee hospital, multiple family gatherings, travel to St Charles and Los Angeles, and regional visits by the Eck, Callan, Perkins, Mickelson and other families.
Glendale residents Mr and Mrs Horace Rawlins of Cove Utah and Mr and Mrs Howard Rawlins with Ben Housley of Le wis ton Utah joined the Auger family for dinner Tuesday. Two one act plays directed by the MIA titled Ask Nancy and The All American Boy were staged Thursday evening with listed cast members. Between acts local residents performed songs and readings. Relatives from Laketown Riverdale Preston and Cleveland visited over the weekend and a birthday party honored Enos Hebdon in Preston.
Downey and Gerald Call of Moreland and Elword Monson of Preston called on Letho Auger Wednesday evening. Mrs Joyce Hodges traveled to Ogden last week to meet her husband Pvt Blaine Hodges returning from Camp Roberts California. Mrs Ellen Jensen spent the weekend in Ogden.
For the annual survey of stock and merchandise inquire at Citizen for ready to use inventory pads. Neatly tabulated forms are available, prepared for immediate use.
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