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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1957
Page
5
A fragmented wartime dialogue shows a sergeant harshly instructing a rookie to hurry to the mess hall and don the proper uniform. The rookie recalls studio television moments as the sergeant pushes for discipline and efficiency in fatigues and detail.
A bank teller offers a joint account for Mrs Brown and her husband while she prefers a checking account for herself and a deposit account for her husband. A young man says he writes poetry and notes it yields almost all returns. In London a sailor asks for an E string and jokes about telling the blarsted he’s from the blarsted es. A recruit in a bar mentions liking places with sawdust on the floor and is told that’s yesterday’s furniture.
A jumble of clipped dialogue scenes, comic exchanges, and sideways anecdotes unfolds. A psychiatrist interview, social banter about pancakes, and a parade of quirky characters—pharisee notes, a fearful man at machinery counter, a boy walking the block, and a flirtatious maid hiring scene—thread through a series of vignettes with light humor and misread signals.
The Nile sustains Egypt with fertile lands along its banks and dikes. In the 19th and 20th centuries engineers built canals and dams to boost irrigation and flood control. The Aswan High Dam will create a 300 mile lake, irrigate two million more acres, boost output by about one third, raise agricultural income by fifty percent and generate ten billion kilowatts of power annually.
Fragmented notes recount a neighbor conflict sparked by deep footprints in a new concrete sidewalk. A professor preferred private dialogue over confrontation while the father defended his sons, joking of youth and questioning the professor’s views. Additional jumbled clippings include a birthday child’s street remark and a lost black cat notice.
Franklin county reports heavy alfalfa damage from weevil larvae. County agent Daniel Roberts urges evaluation of control, noting treated fields show few weevils. For heavily infested plots, he recommends immediate spraying with four ounces of heptachlor or dieldrin per acre after hay removal.
James Ingebretsen president of Montgomery Ward and Roscoe Pound former Harvard Law School dean joined John Barr chair to demand elimination of organized labor privileges. Barr condemns union shop as undemocratic while Pound warns Wagner Act era tyranny has eroded liberty and property.
Preston FFA members in the central district won first prize in the state noxious weed-control contest. From the district crops winner, 160 Idaho boys competed in a written exam and weed control practices. Coaches William Craner and Lincoln A. Orme supervise training in vocational agriculture.
Connie Jean Affleck and Prof J P Dalby lead a renovation of a musical folk Arama production at USU. The 1956 version is updated with new songs and a modern sound and lighting system. Opening night Monday features sponsorship by the Cache Valley centennial commission and USU with local groups coordinating.
The Army study of 7 000 Korean War prisoners finds 3 000 died from loss of will to survive and 4 000 survived with varying degrees of brain washing. It argues weakness stems from American home school and church failures and urges stronger moral teaching at home and in schools to resist communism. It urges parents teachers and church leaders to uphold American virtues and civic education to prevent further erosion of values.
Specialist Johnson son of Mrs Eldera Johnson, of Preston, Illinois, participates in Operation Big Shot with the 606th antiaircraft artillery battalion at a firing range near Oswego New York. The three week exercise ends July 6 with Johnson assisting in firing 90 millimeter guns and radio controlled target planes. He is a supply specialist assigned to battery TM D at Grand Island New York and enlisted in October 1955. The 21 year old graduate of Coyne Blecher Trade School in Chicago.
Classified notice from the Preston Citizen page advertises buying or selling items. The readable fragment indicates a local classified listing with generic sale prompts and contact cues.
Union Pacific received the National Safety Council’s 1956 class I railroad safety award based on casualty rates. Ned Dearborn noted UP’s 1956 accident rate of 2.68 versus the all class I average of 7.83, with 16 of 34 years in the running. E H Bailey, UP vice president of operations, emphasized keeping injuries to a minimum.
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