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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1948
Page
5
Idaho plans to expand and improve its 5173 miles of state highways with a total project cost around 171 million dollars funded mainly by gasoline taxes. The article notes a surge in postwar travel, the pay as you go financing, and the need for continued investment to accommodate domestic and visiting motorists.
Readable lines show daily lunch options with soups salads and desserts. Items include minced ham lettuce sandwich tomato soup apple sauce milk beet vegetable soup pineapple fruit salad bread butter jello with whipped cream orange cabbage salad meat rolls and ice cream.
A Sugar Beet Journal report outlines mechanization for beet fields including side delivery hay rakes and weeders. It recommends salt spray with 100 gallons of water and 200 pounds of salt per acre to control smartweed ragweed wild mustard and cough ragweed, with repeated passes every three to four days and coordinated work with the sugar company fieldman.
The Sugar Beet Journal notes frequent spot checks of the stand to ensure beets are sufficiently left. It argues mechanical work should start to eliminate hand labor.
Idaho employment expanded across sectors from 1941 to 1947. Payrolls rose from 85,302 to 203,173,553 dollars with 29.4 percent more employers and 18.5 percent more workers. Food processing led gains with payroll up 218 percent and 83 percent more workers, while trucking and steel also increased. West cites figures from the security agency to illustrate the postwar payroll surge.
Idaho farm income rose 26.3 percent in 1947 versus 23.1 percent for the United States, per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Idaho receipts climbed to 284,719,000 in 1946 and 369,880,000 in 1947. The state moved from 32nd to 30th in farm income among the 48 states, with only four states showing 1947 losses North Carolina Florida Louisiana and Delaware.
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