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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1950
Page
3
Idaho 4-H clubs report record 1028 individual clubs in 41 counties with 4500 projects. Members canned 19 000 quarts of food and froze 7 800 quarts, while preserving 7100 pounds. Girls and assisting boys produced 10 600 garments as part of a brisk 1958 enrollment led by Dan Warren.
The passage notes fatigue as a danger and that farmers ignore potential accidents assuming they happen to others. It mentions buy and sell through The Citizen want ads as a local classifieds channel. The tone reflects caution and community emphasis on safety.
Nearly 200 youths organized vegetable gardens and produced 46 acres of crops for home and market. Over 1,000 boys and 300 girls raised dairy cattle and beef cattle, with 200 raising sheep and 425 swine. Sixteen members worked with horses and mules, a bee project existed, and girls studied cooking while each student averaged about 12 meals weekly.
John W. Smith of the Idaho Fish and Game Department reports a record mink take in the 1949 season. Trappers harvested 5318 mink at an average $17 per pelt, totaling over $90,000, more than doubling the previous year’s figure. Factors include alternating seasons, pelt tagging, and a favorable fall. Over five years Idaho trappers have sold about $170,000 in mink pelts.
The Holstein herd at the University of Idaho farm earned its eleventh Progressive Breeders' Registry certificate. It is the second U.S. herd to reach this level and the only Idaho herd with more than three certificates, with the award representing the breed association's top honor.
D Le Fourt state university dairy manager noted the Holstein-Friesian Association of America awarded the university herd on the basis of production by 21 cows. The Moscow herd averaged 517.4 pounds per cow for the year, over 123 pounds above the 394 pounds required for registry. The herd supports teaching and experimentation in dairy courses and breeding programs.
Idaho motorists paid 6,557,164 in federal automotive excise taxes during 1949, announced R G Cole of the Idaho State Automobile Association. He urged repeal, arguing the taxes fall hardest on low income earners and drive up costs of maintaining older cars. He noted nationwide 1.285 billion was collected in 1949, with higher rates since the war.
The Idaho State Automobile Association, an AAA affiliate, has sent a resolution to Idaho's congressional delegation in Washington urging passage of House Bill 4489 to repeal federal automobile excise taxes. The measure targets money taken from low income earners under $5,000 yearly.
L M Williams of the University of Idaho extension service was chosen as the 1950 chairman of the Idaho safety council farm safety committee at a Boise meeting of the Idaho chapter of the national safety council on January 16 and 17. He succeeds J W Barber of Moscow as board member while Maynard Coe of Chicago stressed the need for careful farm practices due to independent work and lack of engineering or organization.
Edward Arnold and Edward G Robinson headline the KPST program Friday at 7 45 PM. The Living describes the seven warning signs of cancer, highlighting early and curable stages.
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