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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1950
Page
1
Local firms unite for a big weekend event in Preston offering deep discounts across the town. The Preston Citizen urges readers to shop Friday and Saturday, make shopping lists, and compare bargains to save money.
Preston officials and business leaders invite all regional residents to attend the turn on ceremony for the new white way. Mayor Exnest Jeberharassalts will switch on the 41 mercury vapor lamps atop 30 foot poles after a brief address. The program includes school bands, a parade, and a Western style street dance along Oneida Street between State and the courthouse, concluding nearly a year of planning.
Glen H Taylor, Democratic candidate for renomination to the U S Senate, will speak in Franklin County next Thursday in Winder at 8 pm. Advance information says entertainment and a free dance are on the program.
Franklin county 4-H members led by Best Owen Gibson depart by bus for the University of Idaho Moscow session June 8 to 13. Mrs Emily Trent of Preston and John Gregory of Mapleton among leaders. committee includes the Franklin county 4-H club.
Douglas Nelson of Mink Creek was chosen national committee man of the Young Republicans by the Idaho Young GOP at the state convention in Boise last weekend. He has long led local youth efforts and now serves as vice president of the Franklin County Young Republicans. Attending with him were Mr and Mrs Leeral Jensen of Mink Creek and State Senator and Mrs Marion Pete Jensen.
Franklin hosts a two day observance starting Wednesday June 15 featuring a baseball game Franklin vs Cornish and a polo exhibition by the Richmond Riders at 4 p.m. followed by a plain quad rifle on horseback at 4:30. Evening wrestling matches headline with noted grapplers including George Strickland Mike Nazirian Milt Owen Sugi Haymakayyt and Swedish athletes from Salt Lake City. Thursday opens with a 9:30 a.m. band concert and patriotic program in the Franklin ward chapel with Dr Merrill D Beal University of Idaho as speaker.
Mink Creek Ranchers organize the annual Fourth of July celebration featuring a local rodeo with stock from area ranchers. A patriotic program parade horse races games and children activities are planned plus a free beef giveaway and an evening dance in the amusement hall.
Miss Hawkes was chosen queen from five contestants in Franklin Idaho during the 1950 celebration. Sheriff Lee Hansen Leir Let Allen and Ted Lewis served as judges. Attendants named include Lu Gondr Kingsford Joyelin Perry Marilyn Lowe Vonda Oliverton. Plans outline a two day event with a parade and a Thursday celebration.
Bruce R McConkie of the first council for seventy and Tr Stayner of the general church welfare committee will be visitors at Oneida stake quarterly conference Saturday and Sunday. Sessions open at 6 pm Saturday evening with a welfare meeting. Welfare films will be shown in the high school auditorium and the public is urged to attend.
Dee Sharp of Fairview was elected president at a Friday night election for officers of the county rural youth organization. D. T. Nash of Linrose was chosen vice president, Bonnie Barrington of Riverdale secretary, and Earl McIntyre was in charge of the election. Miss Albert Paulson of Wiser state president of the Associated.
The Preston Elks lodge announces its annual Flag Day program set for Wednesday June 14 at 7 25 p m in front of the bandstand at city park. Leo Johnson Logan High School history and speech instructor will deliver the principal address with uniformed servicemen presenting historical flags. Committee chairman Robert Fulton along with Joseph Bowcutt Dr S Parker and Victor Bensen organize the event inviting public attendance.
A chaotic fragment reports a postponed baseball game between Preston and Lava Here set for Friday night. It mentions upcoming matches with Lincoln and Richmond and notes Blackfoot as a competitor in mid June with scattered dates and locations.
Brent Nash Best of Linrose won first place in the rural youth speech contest at the county courthouse meet sponsored by the Associated Women of the Franklin Farm Bureau. Earl McIntyre took second with a talk on Agriculture Research. Jadeon Humphries placed third. Nash, 22, from Preston High School, participated in football, track, and wrestling and plans to teach voice after serving in the navy and an LDS mission. He grew up on his father’s 150 acre Limrose farm, learning hard work as the farm produced sugar beets, peas and potatoes.
The council of twelve in the LDS church will hear Harold B. Lee as principal speaker Wednesday. The fragment notes the event but contains garbled text around the speaker and context.
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