Farmers protest over underpaid agriculture across states
Farmers in Franklin County and 38 states protest low prices and rising costs of production. They cite wheat prices of 2.50 per bushel with production costs near 4.50, rail and export markups, and Brigham Young quotes urging fair wages and profits. They call for equitable pay and debt relief for farmers.
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Franklin County
Japan
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
United States
78 Cent Sale Promised By Preston Chamber Of Commerce
The Preston Area Chamber of Commerce merchants plan a first week in January 78 cent sale with emphasis on items priced at 78 cents. Chamber secretary Doug Webb says more details will be announced later for bargain hunters.
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Merchants Committee
Preston Area
Cretary
Doug Webb
Webb
J C Penney to pay year end bonus to 50 000 plus associates
The J C Penney Co announced directors authorized a special year end payment for more than 50 000 associates across 1 629 stores offices and warehouses in the United States. The note appears in a past page item from December 11 1959.
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J.C. Penny Co
U.S
Preston High
Bear River
Logan
Franklin County
Preston
Truman
Kodak
Quiet Aiter
Johnson Drug
Questions and grievances echo across public policy lines
The letter laments government inaction on public lands rural hospitals farmer equity and oil production. It argues for domestic energy, budget balance, and free enterprise while naming Sen. McClure and Reps. Symms and Hansen as voices of accountability amid broader political sidestepping.
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Sen
James McClure
Steve Symms
George Hansen
CURRENT AND OLD TIME STUFF BY NEWELL HART
An anniversary piece recalling five years of weekly piano performances at a nursing home begun before Christmas 1972. The author shares resident anecdotes and memories of residents such as Mary Bell Dawson Joseph Stone Earl Weaver and others and notes humorous and reflective moments from daily life in the facility.
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Nursing Home
Mary Bell Dawson
Mary
Weston
Pete Mickelson
Mickelson
Joseph
Jode) Stone
Earl Weaver
Cache Valley
Emma McClun
Newell
Carl Brostom
Carl
John
Dave) Moser
Idaho Proposal Seeks Wider BPA Power Access statewide
State official pushes plan to form Idaho Domestic and Rural Power Authority to buy lower cost BPA power and resell through existing utilities. The proposal aims equal access for homes and farms while preserving current BPA allocations to municipal and cooperative utilities and protecting industrial users.
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Idaho
Bonneville Power Administration
Oregon
Washington
Congress
BPA
Idaho Domestic and Rural Power Authority
Farmer concerns on price parity and EPA restraints
Letter writer Floyd Monson of Preston laments economic discrimination against farmers, blaming government regulation by the EPA and Sierra Club, which he says harms prices, fuel, machinery, and inputs. He urges readers to write Senators Church and McClure and to seek White House contact, stressing farmer profit and parity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Environmental Protection Agency
Sierra Club
Conservationists
Leo Andrus
EPA
Bureau of Land Management
Washington, D.C
Frank Church
James A McClure
US Senate
Washington, D C
Cecil Andrus
Dept. of Interior
Jimmy Carter
White House
An Idea Worth Early Retirement Says Chamber Leader
Dr Richard L Lesher president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States endorses early retirement and abolition of mandatory retirement ages noting many prefer leaving work by 65 or sooner as a blessing for the self employed and a trend worth pursuing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard L Lesher
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Social Security taxes as socialism warns Postville editorial
A guest editorial from the National Federation of Independent Business argues that Social Security has shifted from a funded savings plan to a federally financed, tax supported retirement system. The piece warns the new tax rates will be the largest tax increase for many, exceeding income taxes when employer contributions are counted, and laments continual tax and federal spending fixes.
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J. Walter Ross
Wayne D. Bell Publishers
Gary M. Rawlings
The
Citizen Publishing Co., Inc
State St
Franklin
Caribou
Bannock
Cache County
Utah
Rosaline Page
Dayton
Academy
Paddy O'Hara
Thos
Isis Theatre
Thompson
West Side
Willy
Phil Callister
Kenna Woods
Richard Fisher
Joyce Merrill
Dwight Jensen
Vivian Cali
Shirley Taylor
LaVell Galloway
Elaine Fisher
Carol White
DeLamar Palmer
Hart Brothers Music Company
City Recreation Committee
Penneys
U and I
Jack Garrett
William Garrett
Honda
Tokyo
Air Force
United Nations
By Newell Hart
van Ness Hansen
Free Nielsen
Lew
Lonsdale Roe
van Ness
Lewiston
Hansen
G. W. States
Jode Stone
Cherryville
Cub River Canyon
Newel Carter
Jennie Weaver
Carter
Earl
Jennie
Hart
Statehouse
Floyd Monson, Preston
National Federation OF Independent Business
Postville, Iowa
Hansen Glass & Paint 2
Hansen Glass
N. State
Rulon Owen and
Royce Fuhriman
Preston, Idaho
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