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Preston Citizen

Location

Preston, Idaho, United States of America

Date

Feb 19, 1948

Page

14

Bench Project Bill Introduced in House By John Sanborn

Congressman John Sanborn introduced H R 5313 to authorize a Preston bench project. The plan funds a 15.6 mile canal a 1280 foot tunnel and related works costing 453 000 to aid 4050 acres of irrigated land along the Preston Riverdale Mink Creek canal system. Water users would repay within 78 years. The project aims to avert financial disaster from landslides threatening the canal and water supply. Salt Lake City visitors Mr and Mrs James Taylor visited their son Calvin before his departure for a north central states mission.

Preston Bench Sanborn Senate Dworshak Preston- Riverdale-Mink Creek Preston-Riverdale Mink Creek Preston Beach James Taylor Salt Lake City Calvin North Central States Lyman Balls Val Southern States Mission O. N. Stuart Richard Marvin Jones Mary J. Jones Darrel Rogers Preston Hospital Cleo Thompson Reed B. Thompson Thompson Reed Western States William Shepherd Clarence Shepherd Logan Elvin Shepherd Phyllis Rasmussen Lynda Ogden Roy Hulse Earl Atkinson Frances le Grande Whipple Sherman McNeil California Spencer Crookston Perry Phillips Parley Swainston Preston

Dayton residents share visits and events in town notes

Dayton residents report visits to Salt Lake City and Logan as families attend funerals and illnesses. Various members travel for church missions and social gatherings with notices of birthdays, dances, and club meetings including a Valentine event and a ward hall banquet.

Mary Pickford Opens Sleep My Love at Grand Theatre

Mary Pickford presents Sleep My Love through Triangle Productions with United Artists release. Charles Buddy Rogers produced with Ralph Cohn. coStars include Claudette Colbert Robert Cummings Don Ameche George Coulouris Rita Johnson Ralph Morgan and Hazel Brooks. Adapted by St Clair McKelway from Geo Rosten serial in Collier's. hypnosis theme features Dr Marcel Frym with director Douglas Sirk. Two years spent on Green Dolphin Street screenplay. notable earthquake sequence shot on a 67 acre location with dramatic fissures and geysers. Maori New Zealand prisoners scene shot near Klamath river in northern California.

Mary Pickford Triangle Productions Grand Theatre United Artists Miss Pickford Charles Buddy Rogers Ralph Cohn Claudette Colbert Robert Cummings Don Ameche George Coulouris Rita Johnson Ralph Morgan Hazel Brooks St. Clair McKelway New Yorker Magazine Geo Rosten Collier’s Marcel Frym Douglas Sirk Green Dolphin Street New Zealand Lana Turner Virgin Wilderness Klamath River California

South of Pago Pago opens at Grand theatre

Edward Small presents South of Pago Pago starring Jon Hall Victor McLaglen Olympe Bradna and Gene Lockhart. The adventure follows seafaring explorers seeking a fabulous pearl bed south of Pago Pago as their ship reaches Manoa.

Jon Hall Victor McLaglen Olympe Bradna Gene Lockhart Edward Small South of Pago Pago Grand Theatre Producers Releasing Corporation Pago Pago Manoa

Fairbanks Duo Star in The Corsican Brothers Film

Douglas Fairbanks Jr co stars in a dual role as the Corsican Brothers in a PCC release slated for February 20 at the Grand theatre. The film echoes Sherwood Forest shoots used in Robin Hood with a 100 acre live oak location near Hollywood.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Doug Jr Producers

Adventure film ends with natives driving off plunderers

The story depicts island natives compelled to dive for pearls by a shipmaster using trinkets liquor and brute force. When the crew employ guns and bombs a thunderous climax unfolds as the natives outwit the plunderers and reclaim their seas.

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