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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1945
Page
3
Local families exchange visits across Benson Logan Brigham City and Weston. Sgt Ray Johnson returns from Europe on furlough while Hardy Johnson family updates, scouts join Bridger hike and many kin visit in Weston Utah.
Glendale residents host and visit neighbors across Weston and Preston. Frequent Sunday and Friday gatherings include the Neuen family, Webster family, and several others, with multiple small group visits noted in the community notices.
August heat reduced yields of dry peas in North Idaho, lowering the forecast for production to 1,652,000 bags, 13 percent below earlier estimates and 38 percent under the 1944 crop. The forecast includes 968,000 bags of Alaska and other smooth varieties, 204,000 of First and Best and similar types, and 480,000 of wrinkled varieties for garden seed.
A dairy heifer will be given by the Franklin County chamber and Dairymen associations to the top 4-H Dairy Club member based on a 100 point score. Judges from Sego Milk and Morning Milk, plus fair board and agent, will visit homes to rate project management 30 points, 4-H activity 30 points, records and story 20 points, and fitting showing care at the fair 20 points.
Fort Collins Colorado reports Phillip B. Smith of the Beet Sugar Development Foundation says six months from seed to sack yields pure granulated sugar. He notes 1945 beet sugar about twenty seven million bags of 100 pounds, with August harvest projected at 9.3 million tons, up 5 percent from July and 38 percent from last year, as the industry modernizes under wartime conditions.
Local residents share a week of visits and family occasions. Mrs Erick Morgan and daughter of Ogden visited her parents the Woolfs. Mr Morgan drove up to see his mother Mrs Perry Smit who was operated on Friday. Birthdays, Sacrament meetings, and family gatherings fill the week with updates from Lewiston California Salt Lake City and Preston connections.
The first of the month reading shows farm employment not lower than a year earlier for the first time since February 1944. August 1 totals 10,612,000 with gains in family workers offsetting declines in hired help. The trend may be temporary but war movements suggest a possible halt to the decline soon.
Mr and Mrs Howard Smith and son Clair of Cleveland along with Mr and Mrs Sid Peterson of Brigham City called at Grandma Nelsons Preston home August 24. They visited Mrs Wilford Nelson who is recovering from a recent operation Wanda Nelson nurses her mother in Preston.
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