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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1947
Page
4
Family and friends gather at the Buttars home for Sonya Buttars first birthday. Numerous visitors from Sacramento Caldwell Logan Preston Pocatello and Salt Lake share meals and attend events including the Carmen opera and Easter program planning. Community members travel for visits, reunions, and educational conventions.
The Elks mark their 79th anniversary by crusading against communism and subversive groups. Grand Exalted Ruler Charles E. Broughton says 900,000 members push a nationwide drive, noting actions like revoking the Ku Klux Klan charter in Wisconsin and Georgia and Hawaii lodge funds supporting anti-subversive efforts. Indiana lawmakers back outlawing hate groups. Honolulu lodge funds and broad civic support bolster the fight. Broughton travels the country warning of danger and urging patriotism.
Oxford Mr and Mrs Ern Savage of Twin Falls spent the weekend with Mrs Savage's parents the Fishers. Lorin Olson is in Salt Lake City on business. PTA met last Thursday at the ward church house with talks by Jack Coburn and readings by Bessie Fisher. Dan Roberts county agent spoke on farming problems and diseases. Beverly Rae Savage born Tuesday at Memorial Hospital in Preston. Families visited, births announced, and locals updating on kin and college news.
About a century ago Pennsylvania moved from farming to minerals as the dominant wealth source. Today minerals provide about 67 percent of the state’s primary wealth according to the record.
Idaho Falls guests included Mr and Mrs Myrl Dahle sister of the host. Mrs Ervin Bergeson and son Travis and granddaughter Dean of Dayton, and Mrs Lee Godfrey spent Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs N S Hansen.
Spare stamp 11 in family ration books will be validated on April 1 1947 for ten pounds of sugar. Frederic A Adams regional sugar executive announced the new stamp covers regular home use and home canning. No special stamps for canning in 1947. Stamp 11 valid through September 30 1947 and another ten pound stamp may be issued July 1 if supplies permit.
Stamp No 53 remains valid for five pounds and will expire on March 31 1947. The notice states the stamp continues to be usable until the specified date.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that primary teeth are whiter than their permanent counterparts, highlighting a distinct difference in coloration between the two sets of teeth.
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