Crossing Signal Demanded After Dayton Road Accident
Sheriff E L Hansen pressed for a railroad crossing signal after a foggy Tuesday morning crash near Dayton. George Karren and Norman Beckstead witnessed no lights as their car struck a freight train, prompting warnings of possible injuries or fatalities until action is taken. The sheriff and driver urged the public utilities commission to intervene and place a signal at the busy crossing.
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Dayton
George Karren
Lewiston
Norman Beckstead
Preston
Karren
Idaho
Public Utilities Commission
Hansen
Mir
Science Editor To Be Speaker Here Friday
A renowned science writer and former editor Dr Gerald Wendt will speak Friday evening on atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. Wendt is noted for his authoritative books and articles and will address the audience at the event, details continued on page 4.
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United States
Gerald Wendt
Science Ilustrated
Two for Induction and Three for Physicals Next Week
Two young men depart Preston next Wednesday for induction into the armed forces while three others will take pre induction physical exams. Inductees include Ivan Barry Thompson of Weston and Orin W Hatch now of Malad. Also notified for Fort Douglas Utah are Sterling L Purser Clayton Wendell W Egbert Preston and Whordon B Peterson for next week’s physicals.
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Preston
Armed Forces
Sam
Ivan Barry Thompson
Weston
Orin W.hatch
Sterling L. Purser
Clayton
Wendell W. Egbert
Whordon B. Peterson
Franklin County Selective Service Board
Fort Douglas
Four H Committee Headed by Gibson in Franklin County
Owen Gibson of Preston was elected to succeed Mrs Dalton Hunt as chairman of the Franklin county 4-H council at a recent meeting of Franklin county 4-H leaders and club presidents. Mrs Douglas Griffeth of Fairview was elected vice president and Mrs Edward Maughan secretary. County 4-H club committee members elected at the meeting include Walter Rindlisbaker of Riverdale Mrs Ada Bailey of Clifton John Gregory of Mapleton Douglas Phillips of Dayton Weldon McGregor of Cleveland and Colleen Alder of Preston.
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Owen -Gibson
Douglas Philips
Dayton
Weldon McGregor
Cleveland
Colleen Alder
Preston
Lynn Longstroth Returns to Auto Shop After Six-Week Vacation
Lynn Longstroth is back at work at his auto repair shop at 8 East First South after a six week vacation in Arizona. He visited Mesa Tucson Phoenix and Nogales New Mexico and says the trip was wonderful.
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Lynn Longstroth
Arizona
East First South
Mr. Longstroth
Mesa
Tucson
Phoenix
Nogales
N. M
Local Photographers Win Merit Awards At Georgia School
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Anderson won certificates of merit from the Winona School of Photography in Atlanta Georgia, a postgraduate program for professional photographers. The two week course covered oil coloring miniatures retouching etching and negative corrections. They toured Carlsbad Caverns and Mardi Gras in New Orleans then attended the Master Photographers and Dealers convention in St Louis where leading manufacturers from the United States Canada and foreign countries were represented.
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Jack Anderson
Atlanta
Winona School of Photography
Post Graduate School of Professional Photographers
United States
Andersons
Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
Mardi Gras
New Orleans
St. Louis
United “States
Canada
Hog Producers Have Good Year in Franklin County
Franklin County Livestock Marketing Association members marketed 4 940 hogs weighing 1 190 150 pounds in 1951 earning 232 920 21. Edgar Petterberg was re elected chairman for 1952 with Orlando Rasmussen B W Winward Jr Garland Kidd and Preston Taylor as directors. County Agent Daniel Roberts continues as secretary and Mrs Gerri Steers as treasurer. Dell W Smith discussed new articles of incorporation, while Herbert Hahn urged state association focus and Wade G Wells outlined consumer demand impacts on hog markets.
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Franklin County Livestock Marketing Association
Franklin County
Edgar Petterberg
Orlando Rasmussen
B W. Winward, Jr
Garland Kidd
Preston Taylor
Daniel Roberts
Gerrie Steers
Dell W. Smith
Preston
Herbert Hahn
Blackfoot
Idaho Swine Producers Association
Wade G. Wells
Boise
Walter Rawlings Sr. Dies in Idaho Falls at 84
Walter Rawlings Sr., 84, longtime Fairview resident, died at his Idaho Falls home after a life spanning England birth to Utah farming. Born May 10, 1867, he emigrated at age two, married Lottie Inglet in 1891, and served as an LDS ward teacher. The family lived in Fairview Tetonia and Hagerman before settling in Idaho Falls.
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Walter Rawlings
17Th St
Idaho Falls
England
Richard R
Prudence Rawlings, Rawlings
United States
Hyde Park
Lottie Inglet
Fairview
Salt Lake
Tetonia
Hagerman
Oneida Stake Opens Conference Here Saturday
Oneida stake will open its quarterly conference Saturday evening at 5 30 with elders and their wives and adult Aaronic priesthood members. ElRay L. Christiansen will visit as representative of general authorities of the LDS church. A conflict with the Franklin County Fish and Game Assn banquet caused the start to be moved earlier by 30 minutes. General sessions follow Sunday at 10 am and 2 pm with a youth conference Sunday at 8 o clock led by Wilford W. Richards of USAC.
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Oneida Stake
Logan Temple
Quorum of Twelve
Church ‘of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Franklin County Fish and Game Assn
West Side High School
Dayton
Oneida
Wilford W. Richards
LDS Institute
USAC
Alice Davis 83 Dies at Linrose After Illness
Alice Lloyd Davis 83 of Linrose died at home after a two week illness. Born February 19 1869 in Barrow in Furness England she came to the United States at 12 and settled in Oxford. She was an active LDS church worker and wife of John P. Davis who died in 1925. Survived by sons and daughters including Blanche and Louis A Davis in Linrose and daughters Sarah Smith Irene Carter and Beatrice among others.
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Alice Lloyd Davis
Linrose
Barrow-in--Furnace
England
James
Harriet Moore ‘Lloyd
John P. Davis
Weston
Logan
Davis
Oxford
Blanche Davis
Louis A. Davis
Sarah Smith
Ojai
Calif
Irene Carter
Grace
Beatrice
Preston Lions Club Holds Farmers Night at Courthouse
Lions club members and guests met at the courthouse Wednesday for a regular dinner meeting led by the agriculture committee. Dr Dee Broadbent from the USAC experiment station spoke on the businessman farmer relationship. A cornet trio from the west side performed.
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Lions ‘Club
Agriculture Committee
Dee Broadbent
Usac Experiment Station
West Side
Emma B Davis Dies. Franklin County Treasurer
Emma B Davis 71 longtime Franklin County treasurer died Friday from a heart attack. She served since 1917 with a break in Boise, Idaho. Survived by two daughters and a son Hilda Steele American Falls Warda Schmershall Preston. Funeral Monday in Oneida stake house Clifton cemetery. Born October 5 1880 Lewiston Utah to William and Mary Bybee.
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Emma
Bybee Davis
Franklin County
Davis
Oneida Stake House
Clifton Cemetery
Lewiston
William
Mary
Henderson Bybee
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Clifton
Fairview
James W. Davis
Salt Lake Temple
LDS Church
Red Cross
Boise
Idaho
Hilda Steele
Preston
Warda Schmershall
American Falls
Weed Committee Adopts Gooding Plan For Franklin County
Franklin County Farm Bureau weed committee approves a Gooding county style weed control plan. The approach relies on individual landowners, county and merchants selling four pound per gallon 2,4-D at a uniform price with dealer demonstrations planned to encourage farm use. A price-setting committee will fix county and local business packaging costs.
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Franklin County Farm_ Bureau
Magic Valley
Gooding County
Dean Smith
Melroy Larson
L. W. Merrill
Frank Gilbert
Franklin County Farm Bureau
D. Ariel Nash
Franklin County
Daniel Roberts
Farm Bureau Need
McGregor President Elected by Mink Creek Stockmen
C. P. McGregor was elected president of the Mink Creek Stockmen association at its March 21 meeting in Mink Creek. Elected officers include Leeral Jensen as vice president Dwight Wilde as secretary treasurer and Lloyd Christensen and W. E. Crane as directors. The group discussed grazing on the national forest allotment with Orval Winkler and Thomas Levy of Cache National Forest. The association and forest service plan reseeding to protect new grasses by reducing cattle on the allotment with about 250 acres reseeded last fall in the upper Birch area.
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C. P. McGregor
Mink Creek
Orval Winkler
Thomas Levy
Cache National Forest
Forest Service
MIA Stake Presents M liss at Preston High April 8
Stake MIA will present a play titled M liss Tuesday April 8 in Preston High school auditorium under the direction of Mrs Sabina Nash Linrose drama director for the stake. The cast includes Shirley Moser George Smith Aurel Christensen John Grey Dell Rosen and others with production staff led by Jolene Corbridge ReedSeqnioe bes-assistant manager scene Hurd and costume designer Gwen Gibson.
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Franklin Stake
Mia
M’liss
Preston High School
Sabina Nash
Linrose
The
Stake
Shirley Moser
George Smith
Aurel Christensen
John Grey
Dell Rosen
Yuban Bill
Rodney Gilbert
Lena Moffets
Charlotte Bosworth
Clytie Moffets
Maureen Bosworth
Bess Starlight
W. W. Richards to Speak Sunday at Youth Conference
Wilford W. Richards, president and director of the LDS institute at USAC Logan and former North Central States Mission president, will headline the youth conference presented by the U men and Gleaners during the Oneida stake quarterly conference. The event titled Temple Endowments for the Youth of Zion features music by the Preston High School department and invites Franklin and Oneida stakes youths to attend Sunday at 8 pm in the Oneida stake house.
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Wilford W. Richards
LDS Institute
USAC
Logan
North Central States
U-men
Oneida Stake
Zion
Preston High School
Franklin
Oneida
Franklin County Fish and Game Banquet Set Saturday
Franklin County Fish and Game Association officials announce the annual banquet, dance and carnival at West Side High School Dayton Saturday night. Fish dinner serves 6 to 10 p.m. Membership costs 1.50 per year with public sales at the high school the night of the event. New officers and directors will be elected and winners announced. A free fish dinner for stake members 60 plus is offered Friday noon at Oneida stake house. The oldest man and woman present will win a prize.
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Franklin County Fish and Game Assn
West Side ‘High School
Dayton
Oneida Stake
The
Fish and Game Association
Franklin and Oneida
Oneida Stake House
Central school operetta “Seasons of Happiness” set for Friday
All children of Central school will take part in the operetta Seasons of Happiness Friday at 7:30 in the Preston High School auditorium. The young performers invite the community to attend and cheer their hard work.
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Central School
Preston High School
Joint Study Group of P TA Units Meets Monday
Preston High school and Jefferson P TA held a joint study group meeting Monday in the high school auditorium. Mrs. Lee Bergquist presided and Leora Christensen read the P TA prayer. Lenona Hawkes sang with Carol Goaslind accompanying. Deene Edwards reported on cafeteria canning. Proceeds from Jefferson and Central schools funded cafeteria needs. The high school presented a springboard payment to Supt. W H Simmons. W R Fellows was introduced as next year’s high school president. Clifford Folgren and Bernice Gambles chaired the meeting before Dr. David Cutler spoke.
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Preston High School
Jefferson P-Ta
Lee Bergquist
P-Ta
Leora Christensen
Lenona_ E
Hawkes
Carol Goaslind
Deene Edwards
Jefferson
Central
W. H. Simmons
W. R. Fellows
Clifford Folgren
Bernice Gambles
David Cutler
Indians Lose State Final To Idaho Falls 40 37
Idaho Falls Tigers win the Idaho State class A basketball title 40 to 37 over Preston in a final watched by nearly 6,000 at the Idaho State College gym. Preston leads 9-7 after one quarter and 20-15 at halftime but Idaho Falls takes control in the second, holding the Indians scoreless late as Paul Wilkinson scores to keep them within one before the freeze seals the win.
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Preston Indians
Idaho
Preston
Moscow
Caldwell
Boise
Idaho Falls Tigers
Tigers
Indians
Idaho Falls
Delyle Condie
Ivan Davis
Paul Wilkinson
Larry Crawford
Devers Herzog
Elmo Keller
Evan Sorenson
Kay Warner
Reed Smith
Terry Jamison
Jack Moser
Fred Shaffer
Gordon Neeley
Ian Beckstead
Idaho State College
I. F
Redskins
Preston Agers
Champs
Indiangy
Preston Crew
Sorenson
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Dayton Road
Gibson
Georgia School
Walter Rawlings, Sr
Preston Lions Club
Emma B. Davis
Mrs. Davis
McGregor
Mink Creek Stockmen
Stake Mia
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