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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1961
Page
1
Tryouts for junior rodeo queen will be held Wednesday August 30 at 6:00 p.m. at the rodeo grounds. Girls up to 15 years old may enter. The Franklin County Fair opens August 31 with exhibits in needlecraft foods flowers and more.
Representatives of the American Cancer Society District 10, including Franklin Caribou and Bear Lake counties, gather at Em Canyon August 17 for a get acquainted and business meeting. Attendees include Harriette Cranney Gordon Bernadine Smith Preston Maxine Lewis Lyda Tharp Ethel Childs Grace Shufeldt Soda Springs Theo Price Hilda Parker Hazel Peterson Grace Wilcox Montpelier Esther Ziegler Mildred Burton Delle Whitehead Dot Sweinson and others. Mrs Lewis is reelected State Director to serve District 10.
Investigating officers reported two vehicle crashes near highway 34 and Weston in Tremonton. In the first collision a passenger car driven by Johnny Bell sideswiped a 1952 truck driven by Orval J. Hyde, both vehicles damaged, Bell cited for failure to use due care. In the second crash a 1956 sedan driven by Gary Leon Godfrey failed to stop at a sign and the other car driven by Mervin Arthur Erickson broadsided. Godfrey cited for failure to drive safely and prudently.
Eastside schools begin the 1961-62 term with faculty meetings on September 5 and classes for grades 1-12 starting September 6. First graders must be six by October 15 and registrations require birth certificates or legal birth date proof plus health exams. High school students must re-register due to staff changes. registration details will appear in the Preston Citizen next week.
Franklin county hosts District I Farm Bureau talent find and talk meet on Thursday evening August 31 at 8 p.m. in Preston High School auditorium. Franklin entries include Ione Beutler, a vocal trio, and a talk meet speaker Glor ia Barrington. County chairmen Mrs Milton Smith and Mrs Von Noyes organize. two entries from Bannock Bear Lake Caribou Oneida and Power counties compete. district winner advances to state finals in November.
A district committee asks citizens to fund schools through taxation to provide instructional supplies, library books, classroom equipment, and renovations. It urges short term upgrades and eventual replacement of aging elementary and high school facilities to improve educational services.
Karl Cutler a longtime Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints leader and former Franklin stake counselor died Monday in Salt Lake City after a fall. He served in many ward and stake positions and held the post of first counselor to Henry Rawlings in 1944. Born April 19 1896 in Glendale Kane County he moved to Preston as a boy and later worked with the Post Office Department in Salt Lake City. He married Sadie Kramer in 1921 and survived by his widow son and daughter four grandchildren and 13 siblings. Visitation Wednesday 7 to 9 pm and Thursday after 11 am at Webb Funeral Home burial in Preston.
Wheat growers are urged to vote on August 24 to determine if marketing quotas will apply to the 1962 wheat crop. The referendum requires at least two thirds of eligible voters to approve quotas. if opposed, price supports may drop to 50 percent parity and allotments stay in effect.
Preston Golf Club announces a 36 hole championship starting Saturday September 9 with 18 holes on either September 9 or 10 and the remaining 18 the following weekend. Four flights will be formed and players declare their flight. Entry is 3 dollars per person with prizes for the top three in each flight.
Douglas Nelson announces Saturday September 2 as Fun Day at Franklin County Fairgrounds. A 10 am softball game opens the events with stake tournament winners meeting. Clifton Oxford girls face Franklin ward girls in a basketball event while food stands offer hamburgers hot dogs and drinks at cost.
The price of a good Venetian gondola is about 1700 dollars. The craft would be thirty six feet long four feet wide and feature brass fittings leather seats carpets a canopy and perhaps a vase for flowers.
Franklin County Fair organizers invite exhibitors to bring their largest vegetables such as beets potatoes squash pumpkin cabbage cucumbers apples and tomatoes to the expanded fairgrounds. Dean Bingham superintendent of crops divisions says the new fair building provides ample display space for all entries.
Four individuals including Mr Hyde win an all expense paid trip to the northwest San Francisco area as a prize for local plant volume sales. Jack Loveless Intermountain Farmers Association sales manager says the group will visit farm supply manufacturers and farm organizations on a combined vacation business trip led by general manager Joe Ke Ferre. The winners include Harold Lewis Provo Gerald Ani Gerson Spanish Fork and Vin Stott Mantle.
In 1851 style, Jay Wilde enters his dairy animals for exhibition at the Franklin County Fair. The 4H dairy club member began five years ago with the Tolson cow. Lorin Bodily chairs the dairy section as heirs of the cow include five heifers born from the cow.
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