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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1953
Page
9
The Preston baseball team beat Logan 10 to 2 to climb to fourth place in the Utah Idaho league. Bill Porter pitched well and John Woytka went 2 for 3. Preston heads to Willard on Sunday and hosts Honeyville on August 6.
C S Rippon, engineer in charge of the Alvoca Wyoming power plant project, spent six weeks in the Middle East planning UN irrigation work on the Euphrates in Syria. He led a 10 member team from France Syria and Yugoslavia to assess four sites for large scale storage and irrigation. He described refugee camps with wells only, no sewers, and mud huts or tents under a desert like climate akin to Death Valley. Rippon is Utah born and a US Bureau of Reclamation veteran since 1931.
Boyd Rawlings son of Mr and Mrs Merlin Rawlings route one Preston is serving on Okinawa with the Ryukyus command in the Pacific. He entered the army in March 1953 and is a cook in the 97th anti air craft artillery group. He attended Preston High school. Okinawa lies off China between Formosa and southern Japan and was a major WWII base now a strong U S outpost in the far east.
Pvt John R Greaves of Preston has been assigned to Camp Roberts Calif to start basic infantry training. He is in battery A 440 armored battalion. The post spans more than 270000 acres in the southern Salinas valley near the Pacific and earned a 92.13 percent overall rating in recent inspections for training and support by combat experienced cadres.
A little Indian baby girl about a year old drowned Wednesday afternoon on a west side farm. She slipped from a ditch bank while playing and was not recovered until after the water had claimed her.
Cadet James W. Geddes son of Mr and Mrs Stewart Geddes of Banida and a Brigham Young University student arrived July 19 at George Air Force Base Victorville California for four weeks of orientation and training in air base functions He will fly at least six hours in various aircraft as part of the AFROTC program under Lt Col R A Morehouse 479th Fighter Bomber Wing.
The Northwest Research council of NAM predicts Idaho must build about 16 000 privately owned one family urban homes by 1960 to house a growing population. The NAM study cites 55068 more city dwellers by 1960 and a total Idaho population rise of 128363, urging local planning to avoid federal aid or control.
County commissioners urge the public to seek correct information from county officers when questions arise and to call for proper information. They thank residents for cooperation with county employees, deputies, clerks, and workers to improve service.
The Idaho Congress of Parents and Teachers awarded a scholarship to Mrs. Jessie Kiser of Boise for work with exceptional children. Kiser, a Lincoln school teacher, will study at Arizona Teachers College this summer. Recipients pledge to teach in Idaho two more years and life memberships fund the scholarships.
Chicago report notes 8,600 Americans died as pedestrians in 1952. National Safety Council data show 5,450 urban pedestrian fatalities and 3,150 in rural areas, highlighting cities as the epidemic source.
The 1953 yearbook notes 3,000 pedestrians died with the majority aged 65 or older. Among all pedestrians killed, about one in twelve had a physical defect such as hearing or eyesight impairment or illness.
A new antibiotic used daily by injection saved the lives of cats suffering from tuberculous lesions of the skin and bone, with lasting clinical recoveries reported after treatment.
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