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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1945
Page
2
The Preston Parent-Teachers Association has started a drive to equip school playgrounds. Members raised over 400 at a recent carnival to fund a larger, better playground for children, with plans to use the money to purchase top recreational equipment for the elementary school and to seek public support for future PTA projects.
Readers denounce wartime curfew as ineffective and harmful to Preston life arguing it drives youth to streets and harms night commerce. They urge fortitude and support Red Cross drives, while critiquing Senate convention votes and CIO influence in state politics.
J Jensen from this city touts the world fair credit for a practical beet topping and digging machine. Preston figures in pickpocket chase and a new plow design by Jorgensen. Clyde Packer wins world basketball tourney game. Burgi returns from funeral in Ogden for Christian Burgi. A baby arrives to Mr and Mrs Greaves. A marriage joins Robert Wells and Miss Maud Carver in Logan. Coyote slain by Mrs. Johnson. Funeral held for Joseph Barnes Sr. Ermine Rex rabbits fetch high prices. Jenkins sells to Japan. Earl McClurg named Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. City planners map park gate at South State.
A collage of light humor and short vignettes includes a chicken atop the Burnham Hotel, quips about peas with honey, a telegraph joke about sending words, and a tale of a cow’s tail as a sign of leftovers. It also recalls a Dayton mayor, a Bridgeport butcher, and sketches of everyday quirks.
County agent Daniel Roberts highlights good pastures on fertile land as a key dairy income source comparable to crops in Idaho. He details early sowing, soil prep, and fertilization, cautions against heavy first-year grazing, and lists recommended mixes like meadow fescue, brome, orchard grass, and Alsike clover for both irrigated and limited water scenarios. Kentucky bluegrass is excluded for poorer yield and palatability.
MGM presents Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo a war romance based on Ted Lawson and Robert Considine with Spencer Tracy Van Johnson Ro bert Walker and Phyllis Baxter. The film follows the Doolittle mission building human drama around the bombing of Tokyo and the personal story of Ted and Ellen Lawson.
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