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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1954
Page
4
The Preston Citizen lists editors associate editor and mechanical staff. Don E Smith and Douglas Palmer are editors with Leland Chatterton Rex Hampton Dale Waddoups William Coburn among the mechanical team.
The piece cites Clement Atlee and Aneurin Bevan among British leaders honored by the Chinese branch of the red conspiracy while Moscow hosts fellow leftists. It notes a Moscow broadcast portraying the US as starving, and Chou En Lai proposing expanded trade with Britain amid Western unease.
A national study finds 26 hours 10 minutes of 60 hours 10 minutes of weekly TV watched by children deemed objectionable. Only 18.5 hours rated excellent or good, 15.5 hours fair or poor. Westerns criticized as brutal distortions. Also notes debate on costs of maintaining the United Nations and Russia’s growing unpaid bill for 1954.
The article notes Italy Belgium The Netherlands and Luxembourg pressuring for revisions to the European Defense Community treaty risking German second class status or employment loss. It reports US officials debating a long awaited reappraisal and Congress approving 2.7 billion dollars in foreign aid pushing total to over 5.24 billion.
Mink Creek and Preston residents share a week of visits and gatherings. Helen Keller Mitchell and family from Fillmore stopped in Preston to visit relatives including Mrs Adai Keller. Local outings included the American Legion picnic in Downata and a Bear River mutt on Allen Keller visiting from South America.
Insects cause an annual agricultural loss in the United States of at least 3.6 billion dollars, impacting crops and farming. Research teams study pest dynamics and mitigation strategies to protect yields and economic stability nationwide.
A quip filled dialogue features a cautious swain’s daughter who worries suitors. A young doctor confesses a death certificate mistake after misplacing his signature in the space for cause of death. The scene mixes humor with domestic tension.
Parent questions motives of a suitor who asks about marrying his daughter for money. The suitor counters by noting risk of future failure. A visitor questions the price of a public building while a citizen hints at underhand dealings by the contracting gang.
Mrs. Chatterton hosts guests including Mr. Grimm and Annie Mae, the club's household helper, who jokes about taking empty grapefruit hulls home to make her garbage look stylish. The exchange hints at camp memories and playful class humor.
In a small southern town an aged Negro woman radiates happiness among neighbours. A visiting woman asks why she is always cheerful. Auntie replies with a witty line about taking the world as a loose garment and finding joy in everyday life.
An unnamed man returns to his old town after years away and finds the first four people he meets do not recognize him while the next three fail to recall his absence. A scene at the Acropolis in Athens includes an American tourist asking about the four horsemen, adding a humorous note to the visit.
A joke panel recalls middle age as backward sadness and forward misery with a wife asking about fashion and a husband noting the price. The gag hinges on domestic finance and gendered shopping. The exchange typifies humor about aging and budgeting.
A collection of comic vignettes and quips from a Country Guide page. Jokes unfold around a puzzled traveler seeking church directions, a strict warden banning games, a mistaken seed order, a missing midget car, an odd legal complaint about a bathtub, and a grandmother mishandling seven grandchildren with quirky self identifications.
Oxford Russell Keller motored to Po catello on business Tuesday. Mrs Earl Jensen and children visited Tuesday with Mr and Mrs Henry Jensen. Mr and Mrs Thompson Hatch.
Arlene and Steven join Mr and Mrs Orin Hatch and Mrs Annie C Hatch on a Salt Lake City trip Wednesday to attend the reception for Mr and Mrs Norman Olson.
Mr and Mrs Earl Rasmussen and their children of Burley attended Sunday school and visited with friends and relatives in Mink Creek. The Rasmussen family are former Mink Creek residents. Mrs Rasmussen is the former Vauna Crane. Norman Larsen and family visited Beach with Carol Christensen and Floyd Smart family in Grace, Ipsen at Bennington, and Truman Rigby at their new home in Mardboro Bear Lake County.
The author is the Apostle Paul speaking to the Corinthians. The term ambassador means a messenger acting on behalf of a sovereign. The verse is found in 2 Corinthians 5:20 in the New Testament.
A snappy aphorism from Gosport Pensacola Florida notes that taste varies with meat type and person making a playful contrast between buffalo and bison meat.
A neighbor discovers Amanda Joskin fanning her husband who is resting in bed. The caller asks if he is sick and receives the reply that he simply needs exercise.
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