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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1976
Page
4
The Preston area is urged to shift focus from entertainment to community service as Bicentennial activities grow. Seventy percent of clubs could join 20 or 30 groups in independent projects to beautify and improve the area with 101 possible undertakings.
Idaho House resolution HJM-12 calls for re enactment of the federal revenue sharing program without delay. The piece argues for halting revenue sharing to save local taxpayers money and avoid federal influence, noting budgets rely on anticipated allocations and urging an end to the program.
Letter writers condemn Governor Cecil Andrus for using state funds to produce 13 000 Christmas cards costing about 2500 dollars and for writing off the expense while recommending 500 dollars less for the Relic Hall Museum in Franklin. The reader argues the cost wastes taxpayer money during a belt tightening era.
From Out Of The Past reports twenty seven Preston youths will depart next Wednesday morning for pre induction physical examinations at Fort Douglas Utah before entering the armed services. Dayton Garth and Dale signed for a series of boxing bouts in California beginning February 7 featuring Joe Louis. Franklin County expects good fishing and hunting in 1951 after restocking about 300000 fish and pheasants by the local Fish and Game Association.
Attendance at the Franklin stake quarterly conference sessions Sunday reached an all time high as throngs filled the tabernacle to hear messages from church and stake leaders. The article also notes the 1946 county budget set at 238902.84 and local community updates including Preston High sports results and taxi rates.
Snow blocked the head of the canyon leaves 12 15 feet of drift. Carter brothers stranded indoors for some time. locals plan snowshoe trek to rescue them. Mapleton hosts a dance with musicians snowed in so a mouth harp supplied music. In wrestling George Nelson defeats Gus Papas in a fast match as Cyclone Workman secures the win with a head chancery and arm hold.
Benjamin Rush was a leading Philadelphia physician who cared for the poor during yellow fever outbreaks and authored early American works in chemistry and mental health. He advised on public health measures, opposed slavery and vice, helped inspire Paine's Common Sense, married in 1776, signed the Declaration as a Congress delegate, and served as surgeon general in the Middle Department. He later started the first free medical clinic and was appointed Treasurer of the U. S. Mint by John Adams, dying in 1813 at age 67.
A reminiscence on the South-Eastern Advocate launched December 3, 1913, its out-of-town printing via the Tri-Weekly Journal in Logan, and editors like A D Erickson, John N McClurg, and Tom Carter. It notes rivalries with Roe era papers, 1914 local happenings, and a wartime gap around 1917, with brief glimpses of daily life and the town's busy streets.
Editor letters urge lifting Preston curfew for youths and describe loneliness of inmate Anthony Szewcik seeking correspondence from Lucasville Ohio. The prison inmate asks readers to write to him at P O Box 787 Lucasville 45648.
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