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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1958
Page
15
A Sunday outing in White's Canyon saw visitors Mr. and Mrs. Orion Olson spending time with local acquaintances during a leisurely day trip.
Patrick Henry commends President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles for taking a strong stance. He argues the world faces danger and Russia fears war, but insists action is needed as Middle East tensions could erupt.
A reader notes Patrick Henry's 1775 address to the Virginia Convention resonates today. The excerpt urges liberty over slavery, faith in Providence, and readiness to act, warning against inaction and urging decisive resistance. The commentator claims Henry would deliver the same message now.
Ben Johnson, president of the Franklin County Wheat Growers Assn and Idaho Wheat Growers Assn director, argues for a new farm program to raise farmer net income to parity with industry and labor. He cites price declines, acreage cuts, and unequal production limits across states, and says Idaho will push legislation for a wheat commission while a delegation from India meets in Pocatello on July 29–30.
The United States sets a 390,000 square mile danger zone in the Pacific northwest of the Marshall Islands for nuclear tests. It marks a vast, uninhabited expanse in the Trust Territory near Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls, with winds guiding fallout away from populated areas. Historical travel notes recall Magellan’s voyage and the sparse early Spanish activity near the Marshalls.
European traders aroused little interest in the land poor atolls while Polynesian islanders fished. Germany claimed the Marshalls in 1886, then Japan took control in World War I and fought Allied forces in World War II. Postwar, the United States governs Micronesia under UN and Congress, with the Trust Territory including the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines. Operation Crossroads began the atomic era in 1946 at Bikini and Eniwetok. Relocation followed, with Bikini and Eniwetok residents moving to Kili and Ujelang and receiving compensation.
Mapleton Maxine Porter returned home from a week visiting Keith Taylor and son Gene in Idaho Falls. Rey Porter and George Rey spent the weekend with his parents George and Mrs. Porter. The notes mention travels to Provo Tremonton Bear Lake and Tremonton and Tremonton visits.
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