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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1948
Page
4
Governor Robins ends his political career after a convention remark about returning to the shadowy St. Jo. Analysis notes cynicism toward public office, corruption fears, and a call for cleaner government as confidence erodes with each election year.
Franklin county with 10 229 residents paid 341 25 per person for federal government in 1946 while 325 85 per person for food according to Associated Taxpayers of Idaho. The bulletin notes national spending reached 44 931 603 477 for government and 42 905 000 000 for personal consumption.
Conservation officers arrested 32 people in January, seven more than a year earlier, with fines from 15 to 150 dollars and an average of 25 dollars. Six arrests were in Bonneville county and a distribution across Canyon Jefferson Shoshone Twin Falls and Washington counties.
The piece notes a hiding place used by highwaymen and road agents who robbed travelers on lonely roads. It cites the 1930 census showing Clark County Idaho with a population of 1,122 or fewer than one person per square mile.
The Christmas seal drive led by Mrs. Abner Larson posted the highest county sales in years, totaling 668.25 dollars, with 27 districts participating. Half the funds stay local for school immunization and TB testing costs, while the rest support state and national programs.
The Preston Junior High boys, including seventh and eighth graders, faced Downey Mink Creek Wellsville Dayton and Dayton in several games this season. Captains Lary Crawford Ronald Kirk Bright Lynn Geddes Elmo Keller Paul Wilkinson led the first team. Off the court the Barlow family flew to Mesa and Los Angeles visiting sisters. Pinehall elected Grant Radford as freshman class representative.
Will spends extra hours in his cornfield and comes home tired for a temperate beer and early bed to be ready for the next day's work.
A Idaho fish and game department report shows 1947 resident licenses totalled 170000, up by about 6000 from 1946. Non-resident licenses declined, with 1947 five day angling licenses at 25300 and season licenses at 7800, while foreign visitors included one from Norway.
Fairview resident Fairview Stanley Szymanski left Tuesday for his Minnesota home after months visiting his brother and family Thad Szymanski. Primary officers held a teacher training meeting at Mrs Lydia Cottle's home. Arwen Larsen Vella Rawling and Louie Cole spent the weekend in Salt Lake. Harriet Hall and Lou Bodily attended a quilting at Mrs Melvin Smith's home.
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