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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
4
Social rounds list Weston and nearby residents visiting and hosting events at homes in Weston including Pearson, Olsen, Checketts, and Maughan families. Also notes births, travels to Malad and Logan, Santa visits, weddings, birthdays, and church or club gatherings across Malad, Preston, Rexburg, Logan, Pocatello, Clarkston, and Salt Lake City.
The U S department of agriculture will use two marketing seasons per year for hog price support as required by the Steagall Amendment and the Stabilization Act of 1942. Prices for pigs marketed October 1 to March 31 base on September 15 parity, and April 1 to September 30 on March 15 parity. The change enables parity updates twice yearly and firm prices at the season start. Current hog prices sit above support levels. no action expected for year ending September 20, 1947.
President Truman lists the farm program as the fifth major policy in his annual State of the Union message. He urges using 1947 and 1948 to stabilize prices and develop markets for greater productive power, arguing laws were meant to ease the war to peace transition.
The University of Idaho forestry program will enroll Henry Charles FitzRoy of Tavistock England after the Board of Regents waived residency rules to admit him. The decision, aimed at international relations, leaves the university with no current English students. Dean Jeffers informed Tavistock of the ruling.
Lynn Rawlings three day old daughter of Darwin and Elsie Sharp Rawlings died at Harris maternity home Sunday evening. Born January she is survived by parents a brother and two sisters Richard K Arvona and Lanae and four grandparents James R Rawlings Ogden Vernon T Sharp Fairview. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Mrs Aner Harris Preston with Bishop Lyman Purser in charge. Burial followed at Preston cemetery. The Citizen reports Carl O Johnson at ten week course at Link instrument trainer school naval training base Corpus Christi Texas.
Lawrence Earl Talbot, 55, died Monday morning at Memorial hospital after an extended illness. He lived in Preston recently with wife Mabel Burnham Talbot and was survived by children Barton, Beatrice, Mary Lynn, and Jeanne, plus a mother, brothers, and grandchildren. Funeral services will be in Preston Third Ward chapel under Bishop Alfred Kern. visitation at Hendricks and Webb mortuary Tuesday evening and Wednesday.
Burial will be in Boise on Thursday after brief graveside services at Morris Hill Cemetery at 1 p.m. on that date.
Invoice.fil files in three sizes are now available at The Citizen. The note announces new document formats and directs readers to access them through the publication.
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