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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1956
Page
4
Local newspaper notes positions for an editor publisher reporter printer operator and an apprentice compositor and apprentice operator, listing duties in the job segment. The item reflects staffing terms in a historic newsroom setting.
A critic decries the 84th Congress as the most extravagant in history, noting 60 billion in federal spending and pork barreling. He warns that rising private and federal debt, inflation, and pay hikes for labor and big business threaten economic stability, urging taxpayers to demand accountability from reelected Idaho lawmakers.
Cleveland reports a Panter family luncheon and reunion at Maple Grove with multiple Panter and related families. Other items include election judges at the church, a Relief Society meeting, a finished painted quilt, and furlough homecoming for Pvt. Keith Forman. Additional notes cover Logan visits for illness, Gayle Panter birthday, and distant relatives visiting or traveling in the area.
Reports indicate Grace highway work will start soon. Families and friends meet at Thatcher school for an outing and dinner after Sunday school. Grandchildren visit and a shrimp dinner with neighbors. Local visits include Gert Medford Ogden and Lute Hansen Thatcher. A lightning strike damaged a fence plus a church lot before firefighters stopped it.
Franklin Shirley Heaps niece and protégé of Mrs Vella Woodward finished Air Force basic training at Lackland Texas. After two weeks with the Woodwards she traveled to Salt Lake City and then boarded a train to Cheyenne Wyoming for a technical training course.
Mrs Billie Wright and Mr James McBride toured Yellowstone National Park last week. Wesley Petterberg and Idaho Falls guests stayed with Horace Haworth family. Jean Leone Lowe and David Belnap with Marilyn visited Santa Ana relatives. Marjorie Christensen hosted a club gathering with lunch and cards. Horace Hawkes group traveled to Salt Lake City on business. Jerry Hawkes welcomed their first child a boy born Thursday. Sophia Day visited Ruby Hampton in Cove.
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