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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
9
Citizens are urged to lend thirteen billion dollars in the coming weeks, sacrificing personal savings and pay to fund the war effort. The appeal compares domestic hardships to frontline dangers, quoting Secretary Morgenthau and stressing that funds finance ammunition and lives in the fight for freedom.
A wartime plea urges citizens to invest in victory by buying bonds. The message stresses soldiers in the front lines sacrifice and implores immediate action to contribute financially, insisting readers act now and continuously until they feel worthy of the troops.
A city-wide garbage program is needed in Preston to ensure public health. Current voluntary service covers few homes while about 500 to 600 residences must haul waste themselves. a small levy on all property could fund municipal sanitation for all citizens.
Mr and Mrs A D Henderson will move to Mink Creek where construction on the church house proceeds. The Franklin county annual financial report shows total assessed value after equalization at 8902413 with real property 8713478 and personal property 188935. Clara Farnes underwent appendectomy at Budge Memorial hospital. A landslide near Riverdale by Mrs Angelica Packer's home blocks travel. Friends of Dr M O Merrill.
The report notes the individual has recovered from a long illness and has resumed their duties at work. Further details about the period of absence or the job role are not provided in the text.
On April 19 a grand convention of farmers met in Preston forming the Farmers Society of Equity. The county leadership was elected with Wm. Shuldberg as president Alma L. Jensen as vice president J. E. Everton as secretary treasurer and manager and a slate of directors including Sam L. Lee Clifton A. L. Jenson Dayton H. McCulloch Weston Ethel Rawlings Fairview D. G. Eames Preston Wm. Shuldberg Winder L. C. Larsen Glendale Jos. Woolf Riverdale W. W. C. Fields Treasureton T. H. Tanner Ivan Woodward and Franklin J. A. Stone Mapleton.
A Saturday ring match at the Opera House pitted Les lie Davis and Vernon Neeley in a 3 fall handicap contest. Neeley, weighing 157 lbs, defeated Davis at 133 lbs in 35 minutes for the first fall, followed by a 19 minute second fall amid some dissension after the final fall.
Frank Peterson of the First ward is called to serve a mission in Denmark and will depart next month. He serves in the First ward and awaits the assignment details.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from a 20th century page. Jokes reference Sunday school humor, barber shop signs, a sleep trial in a stuffy hotel, a polite proposal scene, and a classroom parsing mishap.
A British aerodrome sentry challenged a figure at the gate. The reply was foe and the guard waved the visitor through, revealing a German intruder's clever hoodwink as the alarm failed to stop him.
A fragmented wartime column references a sailor shot down and bailed out, a sentry's reaction, and a local authority Wayne Evans. It recalls pioneer sod shacks built for early Western life and praises workers with beans and prunes. It ends with town gossip about two men nicknamed bad news and meanest, urging Victory bonds to aid the war effort.
Preston defeated Clifton 14 to 7 to open the annual Spring Baseball Tournament on Wednesday April 14 at Preston. Clifton started strong with six runs first inning, then scored once more in the second while Preston shut them out for the rest. Starting Preston lineup included Packer Keller Johnson Pickett Wiser Weaver Talbot Poole Bodily with substitutions Forsgren Fuji Rawlings Merrill Moser Johnson Howe Nelson.
Curtis Clayton a Seaman 2nd Class has graduated from the navy school at Farragut Idaho and will attend a course in technical electric work at Great Lakes Illinois. The entry group at Farragut was the largest yet with over 95 percent aged 17 to 19 and the oldest at twenty. Tech. Cpl. Ross M. Weaver has enrolled in a special Signal Corps course at Camp Murphy, and Keith Bodily, a gunner's mate 2nd class, visited from Pearl Harbor on a transfer trip to Washington DC. Friends and relatives hosted Bodily at the family home with guests from Bancroft Idaho and Salt Lake City.
Warm weather began to influence Idaho farm work by April 1 as spring unrolled slowly. Prospects looked good in irrigated areas, with grains and truck crops progressing in the southwest. Labor shortages continued, aggravating farmers as multiple tasks waited for the season to advance.
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