Preston Council Adopts Budget and Doubles Utility Rates
The Preston City Council approved a 1,276,358 dollar budget in a special meeting and voted 3-1 to more than double utility rates to cover a last year deficit of 19,966.32 dollars. Att Gen Castleton urged budget transparency and outlined two options: cut the budget or raise rates. The plan raises water to 16 dollars and enhances other rates, with a 17 dollar rate proposed and a May 1 revenue impact. Public hearing set for March 18 at 5 p.m. on the 1976 budget.
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Preston
Lowell Castleton
Castleton
Lyle Shipley
Legrand Burton
Mike Lower
Burton
Oliverson
Leness Keller
Wayne Bell
Gowatouth
Theron Rawlings
Lindhardt International Inc
Preston Lions
Sun Valley
Widespread Flu Strains Franklin County Schools
Flu illness reduced attendance across Franklin County with peak absences around Feb 18. Oakwood Elementary saw 16 percent absent from 785 students, Preston High about 15 percent, Jefferson Middle 60 of 420, and West Side 12.1 percent. Health officials call it a widespread outbreak, urging staying home and noting flu shots have helped some. Hospital occupancy remained 60-70 percent with many admissions for pneumonia.
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Franklin County
Health Department
Oakwood
Wayne Brown
AL Koch
Preston High School
John Palmer
The
Jefferson Middle School
Palmer
Brown
Eastside
West Side
Allen
Shirley Larsen
Ron French
Immunization Clinic Set for Franklin County on March 18
The Immunization Clinic in Preston at the Health Department on the courthouse second floor runs from 8 30 to 10 am. Open to children and adults with no charge and vaccines including DPT polio MMR and DTaP boosters. The MMR vaccine is available elsewhere. Infants may begin at two months. Clinics occur on the third Thursday monthly with Dr. Rodney B Grover coordinating. For questions call 852 0478.
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Franklin County
Health Department
Preston
Southeastern District Health Department
Rodney B. Grover
Lindhardt Brothers Buy Palmer Implement Firm
The Lindhardts purchase Palmer Implement Co effective March 1 and will continue service with International, Eversman and Calkins. Robert Lindhardt becomes manager owner alongside brothers Ross and Sherman after fifteen years with Palmer.
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Lindhardts
Palmer Implement Company
Robert Lindhardt
Palmer Implement
Ross
Sherman
Leo Palmer
International, Eversman and
Calkins
Lindhardt
Charm School Registration Set by Preston Lions Club
Registration for the annual Charm School to be held March 20 at the Oakwood School library is open for girls and women aged 14 to 94. Instructor Rhonda Hammond Terry, a former Franklin County Queen and Miss Idaho, will teach poise wardrobe and makeup. pre-registration costs $3 at Blacks in Preston.
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Preston Lion’s Club
Galsoung
Rhonda Hammond Terry
Eleanor Lewis
Terry
Franklin County
Idaho
USA
Oakwood School
Preston
Twin Lakes Canal Co Board weighs closing waterway
The Twin Lakes Canal Co Board of Directors met with Franklin County Commissioners to consider closing the waterway after 40 years of public use. They cited legal risk and maintenance costs, proposing to divert water and fence the lake, with support and opposition from local officials and lawyers.
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Twin Lakes
Twin Lakes Canal Co Board of
Jack Moser
Dennis Ralphs
Gordon Gailey
Franklin County Commissioners
Franklin County Court House
County Tax Exemptions Deadline Set by Monday
Franklin County assessor Marion Bennett said Monday is the final day for tax exemptions. Applications for elderly 65 and over retired widows veterans and blind must be received by then to qualify for the year. He noted the deadline moved up from June due to recent legislation.
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Franklin County
Marion Bennett
Bennett
Ile
Liberty Amendment Author To Speak In Preston
Willis E. Stone author of Where the Money Went and founder of the Liberty Amendment Committee of the U S will speak in Preston high school auditorium at 8 pm on March 23 as part of a five stop Idaho swing. He is a civic leader and advocate of H J Res 23 now before Congress with seven states approval. his papers are archived at the University of Oregon.
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Sherman
Sky View High School
Smithfield
Ross
Banida Farmer
Lindhardt
Palmer
Winder
Eastside
Pauline
Preston
Preston High School
Japan
BYU
Willis E. Stone
Liberty Amendment Committee
U.S
Stone
Freemen Institute
Idaho
Highland High School
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Burley
Boise
Bus Driver Skirts Collision On US Highway 91
East side School District bus driver Allen W Lyon on Star Route Preston swerved the 1974 GMC bus carrying students toward a basketball tournament to avoid a headon with an oncoming vehicle on US Highway 91 near Bear River hill last Friday at 657 p.m. No injuries reported as the other vehicle veered away.
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Bear
River Hill
Allen W Lyon
Star Route
Preston
GMC
Pocatello
March 16 Democratic Caucus planned for District 32
A Democratic caucus to pick district delegates to the state convention is scheduled for Tuesday March 16 at 8 pm at the Caribou County Court House in Soda Springs. Delegates chosen will elect national convention delegates via legislative district caucuses. Alfred O Jensen chairs the Ovid caucus. A separate incident notes a 1973 Buick LeSabre driven by Sandra Bruegger, 18, Logan, registered to Melvin Lester, Evanston, collided with a bus but caused no injuries. damage totaled about 700 dollars to the bus and the car.
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Caribou County Court House
Soda Springs
Gates
Alfred O. Jensen
Ovid
Sandra Bruegger
Logan
Melvin Lamar Lester
Evanston
Wyo
Lyon
Miss Bruegger
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Arlene Nash
Elmer Oliverson
Harris Allen
Larsen
Rhonda Terry
Twin Valve
J. D. Williams
Bannock County
Canal Company
Theo Schwaneveldt
Schwaneveldt
Utah
Abrams
Woodrow Porter
Commission
V-1 Oil Co
Williams
Miss Nelson
ARC
Alcoholics Rehabitation Center
Darrell Hudson
ARSI
Alcoholic Foundation of South Idaho
CETA
Tion
Congress
Wyoming
Nevada
Library of the University of Oregon
Headon
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