Rites Saturday For Soldier Blaine P Peterson
Funeral services are set for 2 p m Saturday at the Franklin Stake Tabernacle for Aviation Cadet Blaine P Peterson 27 killed in a Lake Field Arizona airplane crash Bishop Angus Condie will preside and speakers include Phenoi Edgley Dan Taylor and Blanche Hollingsworth Military honors will be given by a Preston American Legion post platoon Interment is in Preston cemetery Cadet Peterson who volunteered in 1941 attended Preston High School class of 1934 and later trained at Keeler and Scott Fields Santa Anna and Ryan Fields He is survived by his mother Mrs Joel Peterson a brother and five sisters Joel Wendover Utah. Florence Wandd Mrs Josie Candile Syble and Raquel Peterson Preston and Fern Peterson Idaho Falls. Letters reveal Milo Jepsen fully recovered from Sicilian front wounds and back on duty guarding German prisoners.
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Franklin Stake Tabernacle
Blaine P. Peterson
Lake Field
Arizona
Angus—‘Condie
Fifth Ward
Phenoi Edgley
Dan
Taylor
Blanche Hollingsworth
Preston Post
The
American Legion
Preston Cemetery
First Ward
Franklin County
Otis
Preston High School
Army Air Corps
Keefler Field
Mississippi
Scott Field
Illinois
Santa Anna Air Base
California
Ryan Field
Hemet
Lancaster
Air Corps
Peterson
Joel Peterson
Wendover
Utabanp
Tpeindél Mra
Wandd
Mortenson
Mré
Josie Candile
Preston Community Church Service Planned for August 24
The Preston Community Church under the Evangelical Lutheran Church schedules its next service for Tuesday August 24 at 7 30 p m in the County Court House basement. A Bible class follows at 8 30 p m or after the service. Rev Paul G Hansen of Ogden oversees the gathering and all faiths are welcome.
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Preston Community Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
County Court House
Paul G. Hansen
Ogden
Beet Outlook Aided By Government Assurance On Sugar Beets
Washington reports sugar producers in opposition to Cuban sugar purchases and beet crop goals received support from a Sugar Section official via Senator Thomas. Officials stressed no war foods designation and that beet planting targets will be set after industry input, with no imposition on next year’s acreage.
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Washington
Sugar Section
Agricultural Department
Senator Thomas
Dutah
Pte
Thomas
Iby
Sorial
Agriculture Department
Wilde Couple Picked Huckleberries In Hills Last Week
Mr and Mrs Dwight Wilde spent several days of last week in the hills gathering huckleberries.
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Mrs. Dwight Wilde
Clark Seeks Oil for Surfacing Mink Creek Road
Clark pushes for oiling the Preston Treasureton road surfacing. He wires the San Francisco WPB office and the Preston Chamber of Commerce with a status update on Application No. 66, noting the project remains under appeal due to deficient description and awaiting action within a week.
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Clark
Mink Creek
Preston- Treasureton Road
San Francisco
D.— Worth
Preston Chamber of Commerce
Murray A. Bookman
WPB
Preston
Treasureton
Boise
Senator Clark Promises Mail Upgrades and Oil Prospects
The article reports Sen. Clark pledging to secure two daily mail runs for Franklin and to advance oil prospects with a phased gravel project. He heard local concerns in Mink Creek and Gem valley, promising active support and urging bids for August 27 to accelerate work before winter.
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Sen. Clark
Mink Creek
Gem Valley
Franklin
Clark
Abe Whitehead
Gravel Road To Treasureton Gravel Road To Treasureton
The state highway department will open bids on August 27 for gravelling 7.985 miles of road between Preston and Treasureton. Franklin county officials and the Preston chamber of commerce pushed the project after the WPB refused oiling materials, with work to begin soon and possible WPB oiling help as a war project.
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Mink Creek
State Highway Department
Preston
Treasureton
Minks Creek
Board of Commissioners
Franklin County
Preston Chamber of Commerce
Narrow Escape From Lightning Strikes at Franklin Farm
A Wednesday electrical shower struck near Franklin causing multiple lightning incidents. Donald Hobbs was knocked unconscious for about two hours after being struck while in a grain field, as his son Gerald and Leonard Hobbs’s son Junior aided him. The bolt singed hair, burned several spots, and toppled a team of horses. A doctor treated Hobbs after bystander help and a passing motorist summoned aid. Similar shocks impacted other locals including Conrad Deney and Alva Deney as they tended grain. A farm horse was injured and prior storms had claimed livestock at nearby properties.
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Donald Hobbs
Aj Bolt
Mr. Hobbs
Gerald
Junior Hobbs
Leonard Hobbs
Tnder
Hobbs
Conrad Deney
Ditch
Alva Deney
LeRoy
Franklin
Franklin and Vicinity This Summer. A Horse On the farm—of—Bil
Bill
Howarth Ranch
Preston Rodeo
Grace Man Missing in European Theater War
Grace Idaho resident Second Lt. Elden F. Jinkins is reported missing in action in the European area while Second Lt. Allen W. Knepper of Lewiston is reported missing in action in the North African area including Sicily, the War Department announced.
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Washington
Elden F. Jinkins
Grace
Idaho
Allen W. Knepper
Lewiston
Sicily
War Department
Mrs Emily Foss Visits Relatives in Malad
Mrs Emily Foss visiting from Portland Oregon spent two days last week with her mother Mrs DG Evans and other relatives in Malad.
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Emily Foss
Preston
Portland
Oregon
D. G. Evans
Malad
From Prison Camp Sgt Fuhriman Reported Alive and Well
Sgt Fuhriman's parents in Franklin received first word from him since capture at Bataan last April. The February Red Cross letter states he is interned at Taiwan Formosa and in good health. A war department message allows a family parcel by September 16 weighing no more than 11 pounds.
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Hope
Royce J. ‘Fuhriman
A. E. Fuhriman
Franklin
Bataan
Red Cross
Fuhriman
Five Districts Elect Officials
The annual school election in five county districts will be held on Tuesday September 7 with candidate filing due by August 30 at midnight. Districts include Wayton Weston Clifton Franklin and Preston. Board terms are three years. Preston lists incumbents Antone Jengen and the late Andrew B Nash.
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Wayton
Weston
Clifton
Franklin
Preston
Antone Jengen
Andrew B. Nash
Invasions Mark Sgt Clyde Jensen’s World War II service
Mr and Mrs Albert Jensen of Weston report welcome news from their son Sgt Clyde Jensen who has two invasions behind him. He was among the first to enter Africa and mails word of landing on Sicily on July 10 and that he is still okay. The Jensen family has two other sons in service: Ted Jensen aboard the battleship Wasp now with the fleet at San Francisco and Allen with the coast guard on the Columbia River.
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Albert
T. Jensen
Weston
Clyde Jensen
Sgt. Jensen
Africa
Evi
Sicily
Jeingen
Ted Jensen
Wasp
San Francisco
Allen
Coast Guard
Columbia
Idaho defers nearly ten thousand men from draft age
Idaho's selective service lists 9,809 single men of draft age deferred, with 6,974 for agricultural work. Married farm workers total 12,150 deferments. Overall deferrals across all categories reach 33,099, with numbers spread across communications, construction, business, government, logging, mining, defense, and other sectors.
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Boise
Idaho Selective Service System
Norman B. Adkison
Zaid
Adkison
Mink Creek Youth Enlists In Marines
Zeldon J. Christensen, 17, of Mink Creek, has volunteered for the Marine Corps. He will go to San Diego for schooling and then report to Salt Lake City for orders, leaving at noon Friday.
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Ford Christensen
Mink Creek
Marine Corps
San Digo
California
Zeldon
Salt Lake City
Valuation Gains in Franklin County Real and Personal Property
Franklin County sees a jump in assessed value for 1943 totaling 5,083,784 with gains in real and personal property after County Assessor Fred Hawkes met with the State Tax Commission in Boise. Railroads may increase county valuations by around 100,000, while Utah Power and Light faces a systemwide $27,000,000 depreciation due to a federal ruling. Livestock and improvements drive most gains, with a detailed 1943 versus 1942 breakdown across lands, other property, improvements, cattle, horses, sheep, other livestock, and remaining categories.
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Pranklin
Fred Hawkes
State Tag Commission
Boisé
Union Pacific
Utah Power & Light
Dworshak to Address Preston Rotary Wednesday
Preston Rotary committee plans a dinner meeting with Congressman Henry Dworshak as guest speaker. As a former district governor, his talk on wartime affairs may include an open forum for questions. A joint function with the Lion Club is possible but not confirmed.
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Preston Rotary Club
Henry Dworshak
Dworshak
The
Lion Club of
Preston
Rotary
Beé Man Speaks
Dewey Olsen
Harold Christensen
Allen«Cutler
Rotary International
Chamber Helps Rent Homes for New Community Residents
The Chamber of Commerce plans to list homes and furnished rooms at its office to aid new teachers and others seeking housing. It will also help landlords find tenants for vacant properties. Those with homes or apartments to rent are asked to call or write the Chamber to list them.
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Chamber of Commerce
Senator Clark Visits Preston to Review Mail Service Needs
Senator D. Worth Clark toured Preston on Saturday to meet Democratic workers and discuss improving mail deliveries to Franklin. He met local officials, attended a noon dinner, and pledged to press WPB officials in San Francisco for oil to aid the project this year. Director William Peterson headlines the beet growers program Friday August 20 at the high school stadium with talks on by products of sugar beets.
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D. Worth Clark
Preston
Franklin
William Palmer
Ed Bryan
U. S
Arshall
Boise
Mink
Frank Shrives
Weldon Nash
Preston Chamber
County
Clark
Mink Creek
WPB
San Francisco
William Peterson
USAC
Logan
Utah
Peterson
Beet Growers, Association
Franklin County Sugar Company
Stadium
Irvin Larsen
H.R. Bingham
Quince Rice
George Crockett
Arthur Moser
Fifty Men in Draft From Franklin County
About fifty men will be called in the August and September draft quotas. Roughly half of them traveled to Pocatello on Thursday for the regular army physical examinations. The August selectees will be announced this week after the Pocatello exams are completed.
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Franklin ‘County
Pocatello
Funeral Services For Mrs Lundquist
Funeral services were held at the Weston ward chapel for Antone tta Christina Lundquist 64 wife of John P Lundquist of Preston who died at home August 11. Speakers included Henry Simpson Charles Mickelson and Thomas Preston with choir songs and solos. The grave at Weston cemetery was dedicated by Bishop Ezra Corbridge of Preston Sixth ward.
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William Shumway
Rhea Woods
Wesley _ Mitton
Father
Arthur Neuenswander
Weston Cemetery
Ezra Corbridge
Preston Sixth Ward
Brough Child To Be Buried At Preston
The one and a half year old Madeline Brough daughter of Mr and Mrs Marshall Brough of Los Angeles will be brought to Preston for burial after dying of a lingering illness. Mrs Brough was formerly Miss Atahina Peterson, a daughter of Baltzer Peterson.
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Marshall Brough
Los’ “Angeles
Madeline
Preston
Preston Man Fined 99 After Fracas With Police
Roscoe Spackman of Preston was fined 99.00 by Justice of the Peace Boy Greaves after pleading guilty to resisting an officer. Night Officer Bill Head sustained shoulder injuries in the pool hall incident as Spackman defied arrest and assaulted the officer. Walton aided in taking him to the county jail. Chief Frank Merrill criticized bystander inaction during the disturbance.
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Roscoe Spackman
Preston
Main
Justice of the Peace
Greaves
Spackman
Bill Head
Haquer
Officer Head
Head
Walton
Preston City
Frank Merrill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Blaine Peterson
Milo Jepsen
Sicilian
Community Church
Dept. of Agriculture
D. Worth Clrak
U.S.S
M. C
Joe Wood
State Public Works
Bottolfsen
Atrack Franklin
Sgt. Fuhrimian
Marines
Chamber
Senator Clark
eMink Creek
Lundquist
Brough
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