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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1959
Page
13
The section lists relatives and guests visiting in Orem and nearby areas. Levi Bodily joined his sister Harriet Hallings and Vernon Cole for Sunday dinner. Lesley Cole hosted weekend visitors including Garnell Sorensen and family, Donad Cole and girls, and Gay Cole of Salt Lake City. Darwin Rawlings hosted Ray Broderick and family for dinner.
Stanley Yankus raises 5,000 chickens near Dowagiac Michigan facing government fines totaling 4500 dollars after refusing the farm subsidy. Officials seized his bank account and assets, leaving him to liquidate holdings and contemplate moving to Australia to escape the pressures of welfare programs.
The letter argues that government subsidy imposes policing power over citizens. It questions land ownership and moral government limits. It cites a farmer denied wheat acreage choices and voting rights in a referendum, warning subsidies erode freedom and values.
Wynne Progress columnist W M Courtney compares the federal budget to 212 trucks carrying five tons each and a billion dollars in cash. He cites Remington on counting money and shows how gigantic the national debt and spending are with playful calculations and warnings.
The piece extols The Inn of the Sixth Happiness as magnificent and uplifting. It lauds Gladys Aylward as a missionary whose life embodies a unique plus of happiness arising from pursuing a divinely designed dream.
The United States Forest Service warns that livestock trespassing on lands within Franklin County Idaho in Caribou National Forest may be impounded after April 15 1959. Owners may recover animals by reimbursing advertising gathering impounding and feeding costs. If not redeemed within five days the animals will be sold at public auction or privately thereafter or condemned and destroyed. Signed Pocatello Idaho February 26 1959 by J W Parker Forest Supervisor Caribou National Forest. Published March 12 1959.
The last pig outbreak of influenza in Idaho was during the Asian influenza epidemic in fall and winter 1957. The Asian flu, caused by a type A influenza virus, proved more serious than the prior type B. Idaho saw nearly 20,000 influenza cases in 1957.
Mrs Bertha Cole hosted the quilting club with Myrna Cole serving lunch to Erma Rawlings Ella Jensen Annie Kemp Alveretta Talbot Vella Rawlings Pearl White head Lula Bodily Ethel Larsen Louie Cole Myrtle Choules Laura Harris Tressa Rawlings Theoda Hyde Mildred Sharp Bernetta Smith. Virgil Johnson and Virgil vounson discussed a recent accident Feb 16. Mr and Mrs Larry Hyer and family visited William Gilbert and Ralph Sunday. A party for Myrtle Galigntly gathered Friday evening with Merlin Rawl and others from Fairview.
Idaho health officials describe an influenza like illness spreading in the eastern part of the state led by Idaho Falls and Pocatello. The illness shows typical flu symptoms with fever up to 103 or 104 and upper respiratory involvement. Absentee rates near 30 percent in Pocatello schools during the first week of March. The disease is generally mild with most patients recovering in a few days. few pneumonia complications noted.
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