Second Annual Franklin County Senior Citizen Art Festival and Talent Show
The event runs Friday and Saturday at the Robinson Building in Preston with exhibits from oil paintings to quilts and woodwork. Doors open 9 a.m. Friday. displays are viewable Friday and Saturday. admission free. The Saturday talent show begins at 1 p.m with certificates and possible regional competition on April 14 at the South Stake Center.
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Franklin County
Robinson
Preston
Lucille Fredrickson
Legion Hall
Robinson Building
South Stake
Fredrickson
Preston Man Arrested During Break-in and School Break-ins
A Preston man was arrested during a break-in at Pop'n Pin Lanes. Rick Lloyd faces first degree burglary and marijuana charges, with bond set at five thousand then reduced to five hundred. Later, Preston High School and Jefferson Middle School reported break-ins with cash and checks stolen and locks damaged. a coin changer was wrecked at the middle school. Investigation continues.
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Preston
Bert Gailey
Franklin County
Rick Lloyd
Lloyd
Sixth District Magistrate Court
Ann Davis
Preston High School
Jefferson Middle School
al Koch
John Palmer
Palmer
City Budget Hearing Set For 6 P.M. At City Hall
Public hearing on Pres ton City's 1.4 million dollar 1977 budget is set for 6 p.m. this evening at City Hall. The mayor and city council will hear written and oral testimony on whether the budget should be adopted, held under state law. The Senior Citizen dinner will be held Saturday at noon in the American Legion Hall.
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Preston City
City Hall
American Legion
Preston Night Rodeo Plans Boost Prize Money and Events
Area Chamber of Commerce chairman Beckstead announces the 42nd Preston Night Rodeo July 28-30 with a $700 higher purse, added team roping, and two top rodeo clowns. Johnny Tatum and another clown join, Jay Harwood resumes as announcer, DA Kerby to produce, corral expansion planned to accommodate more stock, nightly parades and carnival, wild mule scramble, and girls barrel racing on the menu.
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Preston
H” Beckstead
Area Chamber of Commerce Rodeo Committee
Beckstead
Johnny Tatum
Tatum
Jay Harwood
Billings
Swanney) Kerby
Salt Lake City
Kerby
Corral
Everthing
City to protest power rate at Idaho Utilities hearing
Preston to join eastern Idaho cities in drafting protest resolutions for the Idaho Utilities Commission rate hearing in Pocatello. The council agreed to adopt a resolution, submit it via representatives, and supported intervenors Ammon Iona and Shelley. The meeting also reviewed a HUD pre-application for a block grant and heard audit details showing 125 784.98 general fund excess revenue.
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Preston
Idaho
Idaho Utilities Commission
Utah Power and Light Co
Pocatello
Ammon
Iona
Shelley
Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Gary Rawlings
Citizen
Robinson
Jimmie Olson
North Stake
Ross Rasmussen
South Stake
Dennis Winward
M. T Deaton and Company
Certified Public Accountants of Pocatello
Preston- Riverdale Irrigation Co
Clarence Owen
Glendale
Elmer Oliverson
Ditch Company
J D Willams
Owen
Two men arrested in March drug raid on West Fourth South
Scott Bennett 19 of Preston was arrested March 19 for marijuana possession at 272 W 4th So. Ramon Banks 28 of Preston faced delivery charges in the same bust. Bennett was arraigned and bound over. Banks had arraignment, public defender appointed, and bond set at 500 and 5000 respectively. A preliminary hearing will occur within 20 days.
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Scott Bennett
Preston
Ramon Banks
Bennett
Banks
Ann Davis
Preston High Band Lags As Subscription Drive Proceeds
The Preston High School band reports only 6 775 points toward a 90 000 goal in the subscription drive for The Citizen. 58 sellers did not report a sale costing 1 500 points, with April 16 set for the sale end and April 18 departure for Los Angeles. Ken Early leads with 1 450 points, followed by Forrest Fackrell with 1 309, then Becky Taylor.
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Preston High School
Banner Corps
Phi Dels
Los Angeles
Ken Early
Forrest Fackrell
Becky Taylor
Paula Nelson
Tina Womack
Alex Swainston
Forest Fackrell
Laura Nelson
Rexburg Couple Killed In Clifton Air Crash
A Rexburg couple Dean Lester and Sandy Bruegger Lester, both in their 20s, died when their rented Grumman single engine aircraft crashed into Oxford Peak near Clifton around midnight. The wreckage was found after an emergency beacon led sheriff’s deputies to the scene with help from a Mill Air Force Base helicopter.
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Rexburg
Clifton
Merlin
Dean Lester
Sandy Bruegger Lester
Rexbury
Logan
Oxford Peak
Ricks College
Discovery
Sheriff Larsen
Mill Air Force Base
Ogden
Grumman
Oxford Mountain
Weather modification bill collapsed amid legislative stalemate
Rep. Robert Geddes lamented 71 days without action on an emergency weather modification funding bill aimed at aiding agriculture in a low water year. The measure stalled in a 4-4 local government and taxation committee vote and was not advanced before session adjournment. Geddes faulted Democrats and Boise lawmakers, while several senators opposed the plan. Franklin County and other county officials explored court action to reopen budgets for cloud seeding.
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Robert Geddes
Banida
Geddes
Len Cobbs O
Boise
Senate
Dobbs
Klein
Judd
Twilegar
Black
Hartvigsen
Watkins
Bradshaw
Crystal
Cobbs
Franklin
Bear Lake
Caribou
Oneida
Franklin County Commission
Dean Abrams
Traveling band of women target area stores warned
Franklin County Sheriff alerts businesses to a traveling group described as gypsies. The group travels in bands of three or four cars with men driving and uses heavily accented speech to distract clerks while opening safes and stealing cash and items.
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Cording
Franklin County Sheriff's Office
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Leness Keller
Scott Rawlings
Rawlings
Legrand Burton
Arlene Nash
Robert M Roller
Tri-State
Will Oway Mercantile
P.skaggs
Glenn Smedley
Oliverson
Smedley
Roxanne Hansen
James Hart
Brade Hodges
Jeff Hollingsworth
Jeff Hubbard Boyd Jepsen
Laura Johnson
Gerry Keller
Val Arson
Michael LeFevre
Ginger Bright
Terri Croshaw
Suzanne Bowles
Peter Maughan
Karlene Barger
Jeffrey Acock
Mark Hobbs
John Abrams
Todd Jensen
Scott Harless
Paul Warburton
Brad Waterlaus
Suzette Alder
Phillip Barnes
Shirley Beckstead
Mike Bowman
Marilyn Brown
Blair Christensen
Rodney Christensen
John Dahle
Mike Dahle
Jerry Gregory
Extra County
Sherif Arlando Larsen
Oxford
Lester
Evanston, Wyo
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