Miss Idaho contestant Rama Drury arrives for Boise pageant
Franklin County's Rama Drury arrived in Boise Tuesday to participate in the Miss Idaho pageant. Pageant directors Allen and Mary Barrows plan two different shows Friday and Saturday with contestants from local contests. Judges include two women and two educators.
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Franklin County
Rama Drury
Boise
Allen
Mary Barrows
Little Theater Fame
Berrows
Lady Lions
Owyhee Hotel
Art Miller
Barrows
Press
Lions Club
Sligh ‘School
Lions
Soil Conservation Society of America Idaho Chapter Forms
Soil conservationists meet in Aberdeen for the first Idaho chapter gathering since its formation last summer. J. G. Kennard attended the conference at the plant materials center with about 80 members including professionals farmers and seed dealers.
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Soil “Conservationists
Aberdeen
Soil Conservation Society of America
Idaho
J. G. Kennard
Jocil
Plant:materials Center
Softball League One Shows Strong Start This Season
Recreation supervisor Glen Oliver reports a vibrant start to Softball League One with eight teams including RPM Franklin National Guard Edwards Floral Downey and A & I Furniture. Through June 15 Dell's Conoco leads with Edwards Floral Downey U I National Guard close behind. Week of June 25 schedule features Edwards Floral vs U I at Preston Downey vs National Guard and Dell's Conoco vs Franklin with games at 7 45 p m 9 15 p m and 8 p m respectively.
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Glen ‘Oliverson
RPM
Franklin
National Guard
Edwards
Floral
Dell’s Conoco
Downey
Rec
Dell’s
Conoco
Edwards Floral
Downey Essecccseeremens
Preston
Roaming Around Town and Local Merchants Spotlight
A local Citizen ad week features four to five merchants promoting United States Steel gifts with the Shine Shower the Bride theme. The column recalls a visiting fisherman and scattered village anecdotes about birthdays bills and friendly jabs among town residents and publishers.
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U. S. Steel Co
Rulon Dunn
Cleo Swenson
Bill’ McCune
Jim Cornwell
the Eagle
Murray
Utah
Jim
Colummn
Colorado
Murray Eagle
Keith Christensen
Idaho Pioneer Day in Franklin Canceled by Rain
Saturday events for the Idaho Pioneer day celebration in Franklin were canceled due to rain. Gov. Robert E. Smylie flew in from Boise to speak but returned after the cancellation was announced. He urged planning a statewide Idaho centennial observance in 1980 and noted Franklin’s historic firsts and the governor’s travel across Idaho counties.
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Franklin
Robert E. Smylie
Boise
H. ‘J. Swinney
State - Historical Society
Chet Moulton
Idaho
Pioneer Village
Smylie
Boise Basin
Orofino Creek
Clearwater Valley
Thomas Lowe
Desmet
Cataldo
Grimes and
Crofince
Créek
Republic
Franklin County
Smyille
Byron ‘Deffenbech
Preston Business
Mabel L Atkinson Wins Poetry Prizes
Mabel L Atkinson of Dayton wins multiple poetry awards in national and international contests. Her Mormon poem Miracle of the Gulls, a three sonnet sequence, takes first in the Norfolk Poetry Society Virginia contest, earning a $50 prize and publication rights. She also places third in Youth Hands With Youth in the International Peace Poem contest and wins in Midwest Chaparral poet competitions with a roll call poem and an honorable mention in the state division.
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Mabel Law’ Atkinson
Dayton
Norfolk
Poetry Society’ of Virginia
Minneapolis
Minn
U.S.A
Midwest
Breeding Association Opens New 180000 Headquarters
The Cache Valley Breeders Association schedules an open house at its new $180,000 headquarters north of Logan on Highway 91 from June 27 to 30. The official opening is set for Thursday, June 27, with visiting hours 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The public is invited to tour the new offices laboratories peas stalls and other facilities.
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Cache Valley Breeders Assn
Logan
Publc
June rainfall totals rise with added precipitation
Weather observer C. M. Crabtree reports 1.33 more inches added to the year’s total in the first 17 days of June. May precipitation reached 3.92 inches, a May record since 1925, bringing the year to 14.94 inches and June total to 15.27 inches by the 17th with scattered daily amounts across June.
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C. M. Crabtree
U.S. Weather Bureau
Peterson Tractor Service reshuffles personnel in Preston area
The Preston firm announces recent personnel changes including Wally Read transfer to Bancroft to manage the Peterson Tractor Service operation there. Gerald Bair is promoted to sales manager in Preston. Tom Rowley is added as a salesman with prior experience in Roosevelt Utah and Treasureton. The moves involve local staff and families.
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Audrey Fackrell
Preston
Richmond
Utah
Tom Rowley
Peterson
Roosevelt
Utahy
Join .Shumway
Rowley
Franklin “County
Neeleys Host Michael Neeley and Family Visit
Michael Neeley of Ogden spent the past week with his grandparents Mr and Mrs Lowell Neeley and Mrs Pany Errter and three children. Baise spent Friday and Ratiday with the Neeleys.
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Michael
Neeley
Ogden
Lowell Neeley
Pany Errter
Baise
Ratiday
Neeleys
Idaho beet crop to set bumper year amid mechanization gains
Idaho beet farmers expect a record bumper crop this year with acreage rising from 80 054 to 89 367 under the sugar act. Ideal conditions and a 9 000 acre increase could add up to 2 500 000 dollars in cash farm income. Mechanization expands with monogerm seeds and mechanized thinning.
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Idaho
United States
Department of Agriculture Administration
National Sugar, Act
Antique Auto Caravan Set to Parade Into Preston
Horseless Carriage Club of Utah arrives in Preston Saturday with twelve antique cars including a 1904 Reo runabout and a 1930 Cadillac on a 800 mile Idaho tour. Members and wives will tour the city, then drive to Ogden via Logan, with a 10 minute stop for locals to view the autos on State and Oneida streets.
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Carriage Club of
Utah
Preston
Idaho
Ogden
Logan
Ford
Eli Williams
Mr. Williams
Reid Bosworth
DUP Dedication of Monument at Battle Creek
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers plan the Battle Creek monument dedication on Friday at 10 30 a m near Preston highway 91. The event honors the Bear River ferry and bridge built in 1860 with a DUP program and unveiling by Packer descendants.
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Battle Creek
Preston
Highway 91
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Bear River
Franklin County Conevention
Vera
Merrill
Pioneer
Congregation
Alice Merrill
Reva Merrill
Mary Lou” Moser
Rebecca ‘ Choules
Central Company
Elda Carlson
Coy Manning
Josephine _ Crookston
Kate B. Carter
Salt Lake ‘City
DUP
Will
Nathan William’ Packer
Nathan William. Packer
Judy
Mary Ellen ‘Packer
Stanley Packer
Estus Packer
Fourth Celebration Planned in Dayton
Plans for a Dayton Fourth of July celebration include a parade sports for children a junior rodeo and a softball game. A plate dinner will be served in the recreation hall and hot barbecues at the stand. The public is invited.
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Dayton
Odell Hobbs Receives Research Fellowship Renewal
Odell Hobbs at Brigham Young University has been awarded a renewed research fellowship in biochemistry under Dr. Leo P. Vernon. Hobbs, son of Milo P. Hobbs of Preston, earned a BYU BS in 1956 and will receive his MS next June. His work on photosynthesis is considered outstanding and part of it will be published in The Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In August he will attend the International Biological Sciences Association meeting at Stanford University to present a paper on his recent research.
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FE. A. Vigecent
Natureopath
Preston
Sandy
Utah
Taaho
Falls
Buac m
Webb
Colorado
William’ F
Mary “C
Johnson Vincent
Emma Marie
Arthur Vincent
Gary William Vincent
Elmo Vincent
Jack Vincent
Los Angeles
Mary ‘Harrell
Salt Lake City
Harriet Carver
Grace
Odell Hobbs
Brigham Young’ University
Leo P. Vernon
Hobbs
Milo. P. Hobbs
BYU
Vernon
Archives of Biochemistry and
Biophysics
International Biological Sciences ‘Association
Stanford University
Dayton Plans Musical in Logan Ward Recreation Hall
The 19th ward of the LDS Church will present a musical in the Dayton ward recreation hall tomorrow night. All proceeds go to the ward building fund for the new church.
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Logan
19Th
LDS Church
Dayton Ward
Ward P
New
Homebuilder Leaders Host Social Evening at Oneida Stake
Mrs. O D Robinson hosted a Friday gathering at her home for Oneida stake Homebuilder leaders. The event shaped as a shopping spree with games and refreshments following. Eighteen people attended with leaders Ethel Parry Connie Maughan and Mrs Robinson present.
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O. D. Robinson
Oneida
Ethel Parry
Connie Maughan
Robinson
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Drury
Downey and
Maya
Ayea
Wiliey
Robert’ Smylie
Mabel L. Atkinson
Peterson Tractor ~ of, Service
Willis
Tom" Rowley
Gerald
Bair
Leo Bluhm
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