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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1962
Page
5
Melda Smith and Pamela visited Logan on Saturday with Dora Aitken and Mr and Mrs Alma Hampton and Dorene.
Mr and Mrs E P Talbot hosted a birthday for their father with relatives including Mr and Mrs Joseph Winger Mr and Mrs Charles Nielsen Mrs Anona Baxter Preston and Mr and Mrs Marvin Gregersen Banida. Various visits followed with relatives in Logan American Falls Deweyville Eugene and Hooper as well as friend gatherings and a club event with games and a pot luck lunch.
A collection of social items from Preston and surrounding areas. Various couples and families are listed visiting relatives, attending events, and hosting gatherings. Highlights include wedding party travel to Salt Lake City, sacrament meeting speakers Milo Hobbs and Melvin Harris, organist changes at MIA, a stake drama reception in Dayton, and multiple family visits and showers.
Franklin and Roy hosts welcomed numerous out of town guests including Lor na Wiser with her children David and Jolene from Quincy Washington. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Earl Shumway Mr and Mrs Quentin Shumway and others from Cove Brigham City Tremonton and Salt Lake City with visits to relatives and attendance at a conference in Brigham City.
Mrs. Jean Corbridge and daughter of Downey visited Sadie Nelson. Mrs. Guy Nelson and son Wendell traveled to Weston to see friends. Janet Anderson and Kathleen Abbott visited their parents and the Vereen Bingham family. Mrs. Ethel Bastian surprised by Evan Sullivan of Cedar City. Vinnie Allen returned from Ogden with daughter Margaret Jorgensen and attended a Logan wedding party. Fredricksons drove to Blackfoot to visit grandfather Reuben Simper. Bertha Griffiths returned from Boise visit with Gaylord Erickson family. Lewis Bingham and Laura Buttars joined Logan temple visit then to American Fork and Americ an Fork open house with Caroline Neuenwander. They visited Theron Webster and Varda Merrill, then Stan Newman. Nevenswanders were away four days.
Mrs Peter Ernst hosted friends in Weston on Thursday. Mrs Fern Greene, recently in Preston hospital with throat infection, is improving. Mr and Mrs Richard Owen hosted nine ladies for a quilting at their home with Richard helping frame the quilt and serving a hot dinner. Mrs Robert Anderson of Cornish attended as an out of town guest.
A December 1961 Printers Ink paragraph reflects on Lt Col John H Glenn Jr turning 40, noting age as a perceived barrier to space flight readiness. The remark appears 60 days before Glenn’s orbital mission and discusses industry views on older astronauts.
The article notes President Kennedy will earn 100000 dollars annually, quadrupling George Washington’s pay, and comments on the impact of takehome pay versus the nominal figure.
The remark notes Theodore Roosevelt did not use the personal pronoun I in his inaugural speech while William Henry Harrison spoke 98 445 words, nearly twice as many as any other president, delivered amid snowfall.
Pastor Father Francis DeNardis leads Rosary and Holy Mass on the first four Sundays with a fifth Sunday Rosary. Confession precedes Masses. Inquiry contact Rev Francis DeNardis at Blessed Sacrament Church Box 66 Montpelier or by phone in Montpelier.
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