Plant Equipment The Key to Postwar Phone Delays in Preston
Local manager Al Richards explains the central office bottleneck due to equipment shortages despite increased call volume. No new switch boards or external distribution gear have arrived since peace, even as daily calls rise from 6,546 in 1943 to 11,366 in 1946. The article notes wartime controls fading, prices steady, and local businessmen pledging cooperation to keep prices and rents stable.
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al Richards
Preston Switch Board
Local plant faces delays in expansion and staffing
Five boards operate with one technician per board at the local plant. Toll and local calls have risen, stressing the system. Highly technical equipment, supplier shortages, and wartime constraints hinder expansion plans, with uncertain installation dates despite a pending program.
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Mountain States Telephone
Time July 13 1932 society notes and local updates
Mrs Earl J McClurg relinquished her chamber of Commerce secretary post to Cyrus Cy Greaves on August 1. Floyd Hansen offers locals aerial rides in his modern plane this weekend. Mrs Lerlene Hatch and her Philadelphia guests stay with Mrs Ester Hatch. Merle Adamson hosts visits from Alton Shrives Dennis Lowe and Golden Atkinson bound for Mantica California to work at a sugar factory. The Jensen family held its fish Haven reunion with Alma L Jensen as chair. Miss Clara Mecham entertains Bonne Ami club. Sarah Goff Ramona Follett win 500 article. Mr and Mrs Homer Johnson greet the birth of a son on July 3. Robert Bowden and Eva Wursten marry and Mr and Mrs Lawrence Farnes announce another marriage.
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Earl J McClurg
Chamber of Commerce
Cyrus ‘“Cy” Greaves
Daughter Lillias to LaVaun Mon son
Lillias Monson daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Monson to wed LaVaun Mon son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Monson in a church ceremony this month.
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Lillias To
LaVaun Monson
Alfred Monson
Farm Bureau members meet at Yellowstone conference
Western regional Farm Bureau delegates gathered at Yellowstone Park for a regional fruit and vegetable conference. They urged action by the AFBF on refrigerator car shortages, farm labor program continuity through June 30, 1947, and USDA funding for potato variety development. They supported curbing nut imports and creating a national potato produc ers council led by Idaho’s Farrell Hansen.
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Farm Bureau
Yellowstone Park
AFBF
AFBE
USDA
United States
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farrell J. Hansen
Idaho Falls
Idaho Farm Bureau
Work Now to Avert Next Winter Food Shortage in Idaho
Emergency call urges veterans and youth of employable age to pack peas at the Franklin cannery in Preston Idaho. United States Employment Service recruiting full and part time workers at 28 West Oneida Street. Immediate sign up requested to prevent food shortages next winter.
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United Employment Service
Franklin Idaho
United States Employment Service
West Oneida Street
Preston, Idaho
Fragmented Local Humorous Snippets From A Page
A jumble of short comic lines and anecdotes covers various figures and scenes including a sergeant fitting a recruit, a missing phone call, and jokes about crime, fashion, and everyday life. The pieces range from dialogues to quick riffs with no single cohesive narrative or clear event.
James Anthony Head Is Returned Here For Burial
Funeral services were conducted today in the Third ward chapel for James Anthony Head 89 longtime Franklin resident and California transplant. The obituary notes his long career as a farmer and stockraiser, marriage to Hannah M Purnell, and ten surviving children including James A Jr Milton Grover Imer Vera West and Kenneth Head plus relatives in Montana and Salinas. He was born October 7 1856 in Santaquin Utah and died July 5 in Oakland California after fifty four years in the county.
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Third Ward
Alfred Kern
James Anthony Head
Franklin
Mr Head
Oakland
California
Santaquin
Utah
Wiliam Henry
Mary McClellan Head
Whitney
Hannah M Purnell
Logan
Mae Head
James A Jr
Milton
Grover
Imer
Vera West
Kenneth Head
Wm D Head
Preston
Tressa Roholt
Browning
Montana
Ida Christensen
Salinas
Coffee salesman chats with sleepy native over cups
A coffee salesman travels through a hot country and chats with a lazy native on a station bench. When asked if he drinks coffee, the man replies he drinks fifty cups a day, and explains it helps him stay awake.
Lincoln’s Parting Shot on War and Time to Laugh
A historic remark attributed to Abraham Lincoln reflects on war as a grave duty yet suggests humor can ease burden. The quote frames humor as a necessary respite even in toil and conflict.
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Lincoln
Burial in Preston Cemetery Directed by Hendricks Mortuary
California reports the burial in Preston cemetery under Hendricks Mortuary direction for an eighteen grandchild and eleven great grandchildren.
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California
Ren
Preston Cemetery
Hendricks Mortuary
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Cache Valley Clarion
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Leland Chatterton
Shirley Chatterton
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Idaho State Editorial Association
Prenton
Idaho
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Franklin County
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Philadelphia
Ester Hatch
Merle Adamson
Alton Shrives
Dennis Lowe
Golden Atkinson
Mantica
Jensen
Fish Haven
Alma L. Jensen
Dayton
Clara Mecham
Bonne Ami Club
Sarah Goff
Ramona Follett
Jasie Peterson
Jean Monroe
Homer Johnson
Robert Bowden
Eva Wursten
Lawrence Farnes
Elks Welcome
Preston Lodge
First Security Bank
Kelbert
Weston J. Smith
Yellowstone
Evan Peterson
Mrs
Twin Falls
Franklin Fannie
Johnny
Arizona
Head
J. N. Larsen
First Security Bank Building
Utah Mortgage Loan
Logan, Utah
Intermountain
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co
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