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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1950
Page
11
Thomas R. Jones, longtime president and director of Weber Bank, retires from Idaho’s oldest state bank. He drew national attention for defiantly keeping the bank open during Roosevelt’s 1933 bank holiday, sitting in the front window with a shotgun.
Visited by many local families including Mr and Mrs Harris Stephen and Naomi Sanders in Ogden. No school last three days due to blocked roads. Leslie Wright of Pocatello and family stayed over weekend with Horace and Russell. Preston couple Joseph Stone visited Ruben Coombs. Local youths attended a Bancroft ball game between Colorado State and Idaho State. Ted Wright of Logan spent weekend in Thatcher.
Total Idaho 1949 crop production fell slightly from the prior three years due to spring frosts and dry summers. Excluding sugar beets, the total crop value was 206,926,000 with field crops at 200,173,000, fruit 3,567,000 and vegetables 3,184,000. Sugar beets add 12,700,000 to 1948 totals. Record wheat and corn silage acreages, plus high yields for sugar beets and grain corn, marked the year.
The report shows a total output of 34,560,000 bushels compared with 45,000,000 in 1948. Sugar beet production reached 1,062,000 tons the smallest since 1945, but average yield rose to 17.7 tons, the highest on record. Drybean output was the second largest ever, while dry pea was the smallest since 1940 except 1948. Overall all crops exceeded 1948.
A University of Idaho extension report by EB F Rinehart notes Idaho lamb pools have fallen to under a third of 1942 levels as eight years ago when 19 county associations marketed lambs and wool. 1949 figures show six pools marketed 5324 lambs and 1046 ewes amid broader shifts in marketing and land use.
Idaho residents would pay about 136 million dollars as Idaho’s share of a 42.4 billion dollar federal budget if approved by Congress. The figure equals 0.32 percent of all federal taxes, about 226 dollars per person or 1,000 dollars per wage earner, per the Idaho State Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Ann Hansen entertained Wednesday evening for her husband’s birthday anniversary. Supper followed at small tables and the group played pinochle. Score honors went to Glenda Sparrow and Mattie Atkinson. Attendants included Mr. and Mrs. Tom Callister and other guests.
A roundup of visits and birthdays centered on Ila Coburn of Jerome with extended kin from Preston Weston Downey and Logan. Relatives including Sparrow Archibald Merrill Coburn Jensen Moser and others gathered for meals and songs as newborn LaVor Jensen welcomed a new brother.
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