Merchants Sponsor Free Movie Drawings in Preston
Preston merchants plan a free cinema event at noon with a drawing for 33 prizes. The Grand Theater will host the free show and tickets are available at 11 local stores including American Food Store Chadwicks Johnson Drug Ken's Electric and Furniture King's Variety Mile's AG Super Market Penneys Western Auto Stores.
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Preston
Chadwicks Johnson Drug
Ken’s Electric and Furniture
King’s Variety
Mile’s AG Super Market
Penneys Ceestan
Citizensie Gas Vary
Western Auto Stores
Cash Premiums and Prizes Added To Franklin County Fair
Franklin County Fair awards some $4 000 in premiums to exhibitors across dairy and beef cattle swine sheep poultry and rabbits plus junior fat stock horse 4 H FFA and home arts divisions. Special prizes funded by local businesses include Holstein heifer progress awards clipping prizes shoeing contests and riding tack awards with honors for first year members and outstanding 4 H projects.
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Franklin County
Preston
Pet Milk Co
American Breeders Service
Cache Valley Breeding Association
Cache Valley Dairy Association
Johnson Drug Store
Mountain States Implement Co
Daniel Roberts
Bafta Bogan
Franklin County Wool Growers
W. R. Oliverson
Beneficial Life Insurance Co
4 Horse Club
Idaho Cattlemen's Association
Cattlemen’s Association
Palmer Implement Co
Owen Casperson Automotive
Preston Implement Co
Merrill Jewelry Co
Idaho State Wheat Growers
Franklin County Fair Board
Idaho State Wheat Growers, Association
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Premium Lists Mailed For Franklin County Fair
Premium lists mailed to Franklin County households detail the 1963 Territorial Centennial Fair events for the week of August 26 to August 31. The booklet outlines the program, activities, exhibits, and schedules supporting exhibitors and attendees.
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Franklin County
First Graders Must Register At Central School
The first graders entering Central School must register on August 27 from 9 a.m. to noon. Wayne Brown the principal says students need proof of birth and a physical examination certificate. A student must be six before October 15 to be eligible for first grade.
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Central School
Wayne Brown
Brown
School Board approves registration fees and cuts bus routes
The board votes to charge high school students about 27 dollars in registration fees while eliminating all grade school fees. A plan to stop door to door bus pickups sets terminals along routes, requiring students to get to the terminals. The district may drop wrestling and baseball, with a mathematics teacher to assist football.
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Ivan Davis
Drvid Cutler
Talent Show Sets Countywide Farm Bureau Event
The Farm Bureau Talent Fund will host a county talent show Friday in the Third Ward chapel at p.m. Participants span age groups from 6 to 30 with prizes based on entertainment value, accomplishment, poise, and presentation. A Talk Meet on Farmers prompts asks Who Shall Speak For Farmers with a five minute limit. A district meet in Malad on August 21 follows, with no eliminations this year and all entrants eligible across communities.
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Farm Bureau Talent Fund
Third Ward
van Noggs County Women’s
Malad
Library Story Hour at Preston Carnegie Library
The Children’s Story Hour at Preston Carnegie Library will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday. The program is sponsored by the Art Love club with Mrs. Reed Hawkes as the storyteller.
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Preston
Carnegie “ Library
Art
Love Club
Reed Hawkes
Teller
Banida Vote To Decide Banida School Closure
Voters in Banida attend ward August 20 from 7 30 p m to 8 p m at Banida school to decide if the district should close the school for the coming year. Officials say closing will not save the district 5000 and state aid complicates the cost. An observer estimates possible savings around 1000 annually but exact state funds are unclear.
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Banida
Sea
Fourth Concert Here Youthful Blind Artist Due In
A 16-year-old former Cache Valley resident, blind since four months old, will give a piano organ concert in Preston Friday at 8 p.m. Sponsored by the Preston Second Ward Elders quorum, it marks the fourth Preston concert. Born in Franklin on December 18, 1947, he lost both eyes to a corneal growth and later cancer. He began playing simple tunes at two and a half, performing in two-part harmony with his mother helping.
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Cache Valley
Preston
Eldera OD
Poin
Franklin
Itts
Nauvoo
San Diego
Break‑in at Biggs Gun Shop prompts rifle theft
Police Chief Pete Ward reports a Monday morning break in at Biggs Gun Shop. A Remington automatic rifle was stolen after the front window was broken, and a beer bottle lay near the door. Several rifles remained on the floor, along with a half full beer bottle.
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Biggs Gun
Pete Ward
Pate
Lonnie L. Sharp Navy Seabee member served in Vietnam
Lonnie L. Sharp, a construction mechanic third class in the Navy from Preston, served with two Seabee Technical Assistance Teams during a seven month assignment in the Republic of Vietnam.
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Lonnie L. Sharp
Navy
Preston
Rebar
Heuneme
Cal
Republic of Vietnam
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