Idaho Roads Worst In West Says Reader
A reader denounces Idaho highways as the worst in the western states. He cites repairs lagging in July and poor planning, warns travelers avoid Idaho routes via Montana and Wyoming, and urges accountability for highway funding and possible mismanagement. He predicts conditions won’t improve this year and calls for public scrutiny.
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State Highway Department
Idaho
Colorado
Northwest
Wyoming
Montana
Nevada
Highway Department
Advertising Racket Warns Preston Merchants
A Preston reader condemns a nationwide newspaper advertising service seller demanding high fees for patented mats. The letter asserts mass production costs are about 2 cents per mat, with protracted travel and art work fees inflating price to around 15000 dollars for 52 mats. The writer questions missing charges and warns Preston businessmen to beware these agents.
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Preston
Buhl
Idaho
Mink Creek Fourth of July Celebration Urged
The Citizen announces Mink Creek ranchers host a free Fourth of July gala with a horse show and amateur rodeo. Readers are urged to attend, greet neighbors, and drive safely with millions traveling nationwide and an estimated 2,000 fatalities on the Fourth.
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Mink Creek
National Safety Council
Banida wedding and local visits noted in week events
A wedding dance for Mr and Mrs Fern Cole was held on Thursday with many gifts. Several residents including Dean Caldwell, Jed Miles and families are visiting relatives in various towns while Scouts took a Cotton Wood trip. A Father’s Day program in Sunday school gave carnations to all fathers. numerous visits to Banida from Salt Lake City, Pocatello, McCammon and Central noted.
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Fern Cole
Dean Caldwell
Dean
Banida
Salt Lake
Boy Scouts
Cotton Wood
Irene Carver
McCammon
Jed Miles
Smithfield
John Christensen
Elsie Christensen
Elaine Georgeson
Wilber Georgeson
Pocatello
Arlene Miles
Jay Foster
Salt Lake City
Carnation
Jeannine Miles
Fred Gregerson
Lois Geddes
Arnold Jorgenson
Jess Hollinger
Stewart Geddes
Chris Greegeson
Chris
Helen Christensen
Central
Lars Gregerson
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Yellowstone
Utah Parks
Barley Loan Program Announced by U S Agriculture
The U S Department of Agriculture announced 1946 barley loan program to aid farmers in storing on farm or in approved warehouses. Loans through the Commodity Credit Corporation use note and mortgage based on grade 0.8 No 1 barley with rates 87 cents to $1 per bushel. Financing runs until December 31 1946 with maturities by April 30 1947 or on demand.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Preposterous Pranks and Quick Punches on State Street
A jumble of quips and jokes flashes from a 1900s street scene. snippets reference luxuries, a hammer mishap, a mayor, barbers, commuting tales, a wife’s talk, and a maid named Mary with a wage deduction threat for late breakfasts.
Woman humor and punctuation in brief anecdotes
A quirky excerpt shows Maisie noting how women react to kissers gossipers and police, then a demagogue speech gets mockery from the gallery. A punctuation joke asks where the comma belongs in the line about a woman and her man.
Parting Shot on neighbors and old Preston street ties
A local column recalls neighborhood closeness and a return to 50 year old Preston streets with references to tie posts and paper tape production. The Citizen advertises paper tape in inch and wider rolls for various uses.
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Bill
Preston
S/Sgt Grant Petersen discharged at Fort Douglas
S/Sgt Grant P Petersen son of Mr and Mrs J Petersen Cornish Utah and husband of Beth Bambrough Preston was discharged today at Fort Douglas Separation Center. He served seven months overseas as a Depot Store keeper with the 25th Infantry Division and is authorized to wear the Asiatic Pacific Theater, Good Conduct, and Japanese Occupation ribbons. Prior to enlistment March 10 1945 he was a locomotive fireman at Ogden Utah.
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Grant P. Petersen
J Petersen Cornish
Utah
Beth Bambrough Preston
Fort Douglas
Petersen
25Th Infantry Division
Ogden
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Cache Valley Clarion
William MacKnight Bedsn Hart
Lei Ud ¢Hatterton Shoesthatterton
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Franklin
Natio
JMEAU
1Daho State Editorial Association
Montpelier
No. 30
Oregon
Washington
Betty Larsen
Carma Larsen
T. J. Wheel
Preston, Idaho
Wayne S. Evans
Preatop, Ida
Ufornia
Istandard
The
Father
Theo Petterberg
Atlantis
Dan Swainston
Dayton
State Street
Mary
Self
Maisie
LU An Hg
Logan, Utah
U. S. Amy
U.S. Army
Gaylord Larson
University of Idaho
B. F. Goodrich
B.F. Goodrich
O. K
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Intermountain
Union Pacific
PTI. Pacific
Union Pacific Ticket Office
Union Patife
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