Japanese Girl To Visit Area
A Japanese girl will visit the area as part of a cultural exchange program, meeting local residents and schools. Michael D. Kunz, the incumbent, commented on community ties and potential future events.
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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1972
Page
6
A Japanese girl will visit the area as part of a cultural exchange program, meeting local residents and schools. Michael D. Kunz, the incumbent, commented on community ties and potential future events.
County clerk with a BS in business admin served two years in the Army as an administrative specialist and now prepares for CPA. Foreign exchange student Motoyama from Japan will visit homes of local families for several weeks along with two other girls and one adult. Local residents hosted fishing trips, gatherings, and 4-H activities with several families noted. Randy Lowe underwent skin grafting after a motorcycle accident and is recuperating at home. Various visits, picnics, campouts, and sacrament meetings are recorded, including outings to Jackson Hole and Yellowstone, a Blazer camp, and a few attendees at a funeral in Salt Lake City.
The 1919 Preston year marked WWI’s end and large soldiers’ homecoming celebrations. Readers urged book donations for wounded soldiers in hospitals. The Palace Meat Market sold to Clayton Grocery Company with beef front quarters at 14 cents a pound. A 1919 letter warned about girls’ safety after dark. Subscription to the Franklin County Citizen cost 150 dollars with Idaho Farmer. Coal prices rose to 6-7 dollars a ton amid wartime inflation and high lending rates. Preston faced a water shortage. a bond funded a dam project in Glendale, and irrigated land advertised at 50 dollars per acre while water rights reached 75 dollars. In June 1920 the Oneida Stake division formed the Franklin Stake. Local family news covered trips, reunions, and gatherings among the Winward and related families.
In a Clifton sacrament meeting on Sunday evening six Fuller children spoke, McKay North Ogden Gayland Rexbury Heber Salt Lake City Neil Blanding Ut Kendall Logan and Steven Clifton with Steven heading to the Argentine mission. Their mother Mrs LaMont Bair of Richmond accompanied a song performance. Nearby visits include Ada Bailey Mrs Steven Bailey and daughter of Layton and many relatives visiting Peters, Povey, Martin and McGrath families for graduations and weekends.
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