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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1955
Page
11
A late model sedan driven by Sammy Kent of Lewiston Utah was demolished Friday about 10 30 p m just north of the Deer Cliff road turnoff. Kent was traveling at about 80 miles per hour. The car skidded 300 feet and rolled several times landing upside down. The driver and five other occupants were uninjured.
Mr and Mrs Ern Britenbeker announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Marlene to Milton Lacey of Nampa. The wedding will take place next Sunday in Boise.
Missing wallet Friday in Preston engraved G. W. George. If found call navy recruiting office Logan collect. Reward offered.
Franklin county has 230 residents receiving old age and survivors insurance totaling 9265 monthly as of December 31. Idaho shows 22850 beneficiaries statewide receiving 1 027 078 monthly. breakdown includes 12649 old age 678180 and 3446 children 161344 among others. Secretary Hobby notes nationwide totals ending 1954 with 7 million beneficiaries and 339 million monthly benefits.
Billy Baird 21 of Mink Creek was jailed again Friday after a second offense for stealing gas. He had been fined last week and released on a machinery theft charge. Sheriff Ray Talbot notes the judge has not yet imposed a sentence. Four juveniles were arrested Monday for taking hub caps and were released to their parents.
More than 300 top high school students from 38 states Hawaii and DC will attend Northwestern University's 26th annual National High School Institute in Evanston Illinois June 26 to July 30. Two local youths David G Hansen and N Roger Hawkes are among the attendees from the technological institute. The five week program offers studies in music speech journalism and technology and leads to scholarship and prize opportunities for top students.
Varon Jensen of Logan Idaho is admitted as a new student at the University of California Davis for the coming fall semester. He will pursue a Doctor of Philosophy in plant physiology in the graduate division after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Utah State Agricultural College. Davis marks its 30th year as UC unit near Sacramento with growth into a major agricultural research center spanning 3,000 acres and about 1,800 students.
Marie Corbridge hosted the Nifty Needles club at her home on Wednesday evening. Eleven members honored Lora Larsen with a pink and blue shower. guests received small table luncheon favors shaped like tiny cradles. Gifts were exchanged along with games and white elephants.
Dr. Royal Garff, professor at the University of Utah and Dale Carnegie instructor, urges townsmen and farmers to join a public speaking and salesmanship course. Mrs. Gilbert notes it offers youth training in speaking and selling and Garff chairs the MIA speech division, a sought after speaker in the Intermountain region.
Summer Band day at 7 p.m. honors Thomas Rallison 17 for being rescued from John’s reservoir last July 21. His younger brother Lynn 13 earned a certificate of merit for swimming out with a pole to pull the floundering swimmer to safety.
A group of farm lads went swimming at a reservoir. The Rallison boy tried to swim across and called for help. Reed Winward an Eagle Scout swam out to rescue him diving about 10 feet to bring him to the surface.
Mr. Keller, a two year Army veteran with 18 months in Korea and a Mink Creek native who served a southern states LDS mission 1949-51, files to operate a service station. He invites the public to opening Saturday with refreshments and prize contests including three grease jobs and three other prizes, totaling nine.
Jay Page Waddoups and Val Smith of Preston were discharged from the air force on May 27 and 28, receiving national defense and good conduct medals along with other honors. An eight-man air force enlistment on May 31 includes Darrel J. Holliday and Dale James Woolf among Preston residents and David Jensen of Weston.
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