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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1962
Page
1
Officials announce the official opening of the Preston Golf and Country Club course, postponed from the last Saturday in April due to rain. A day of contests and prizes will kick off with events for longest drive and longest putt, plus a hole in one contest. Several summer activites and exchanges with other courses are planned.
Preston High placed fourth at the district meet with 32 points as Pocatello led with 42. Blackfoot, Malad, and Marsh Valley followed. Regional qualifiers include Dennis Lund, Blair Hawkes, Delbert Rawlings, Steven Westerberg, Bud Cutler, Jimi Robinson, Kent Moser, Jon Jepsen, and others, with Whitehead and others as alternates for the mile and relay events.
Henry Drury, Idaho Falls manager at the Idaho Holstein harvest sale, is elected as Idaho delegate to the Holstein Friesen Association of America annual convention to be held June 5 and 6 in Roanoke Virginia. Wilmer Brown of Ovid is the other Idaho delegate. The sale produced 41 head average $533.32. top animal owned by Utah State University sold for $1,225.
Reading shows a May entry with low temperatures around 29 degrees and highs ranging from 52 to 81 across multiple days. The record notes a shift from cooler early May to warmer mid month with several day pairs of high and low values.
Frayed OCR notes a $1,000 aid payment to three irrigation companies for damages caused by February flooding at Franklin County reservoir repairs. Albert Moser presented the checks to Justice Hedin on Friday for civil defense purposes.
Eastside School District 201 schedules its annual budget hearing for next Monday at 7 30 p m in the high school building. The board approved a 635 808 budget at the April meeting and copies are available in the superintendent's office.
The Eastside School District honored retiring teachers Asael Bell and Susie Buxton at a Monday chicken supper at Preston recreation park. Lincoln Orme oversaw arrangements. tributes followed around a bonfire while new faculty officers were introduced and former officers were thanked.
Ronald Kirkbride, chairman of the district camping and activities committee, announced the Franklin scout district camporee agenda for Friday and Saturday. Parents are invited to attend as scouts check in, set up camps, join games, campfires, and other activities scheduled across the two days beginning Friday afternoon.
Preston High lighted by Bruce Stocks as winning pitcher defeated Marsh Valley 38 to 1 and West Side 10 to 4. Stocks won both games while Stan Buxton took the loss in the West Side tilt as coach Glen Oliverson prepares the Indians for upcoming tournaments at Malad and Preston.
A local Lions club paints the library basement and promotes an Operation Big Sweep broom sale to fund conservation efforts. Republicans rally and a Meet Your Candidates dinner draws a large crowd at the courthouse while a letter-writer praises conservative ideals and cites JEK and Jefferson.
Billy Norton was elected president of the Preston High School student body for 1962 63. Ron Sharp becomes vice president with Nancy Poole as secretary, Hollis Cole as social mate John Larsen chief justice Kathy Herd editor of the school pager Mary Joyce Gamble Blue and White business manager Carolyn Craner assistant editor yearbook La Mont Harris assistant business manager yearbook. Cheerleaders named Margaret Thomas Vicki Johnson Bobby Lewis David Greaves Sharon Dunkley chosen mascot. Winners announced at the Spanish Club election dance.
Joanne Wright and Clinton Bassett led the Best Foot Forward 4 H Health Club winners chosen at Thatcher school achievement day. Norman Smith of Thatcher chaired the group as they completed four years of 4 H health club work studying healthy personality grooming health habits and manners. The winners will attend the 1962 Idaho state 4 H short course June 17 to 23 on Franklin County Fair Board scholarships.
E L Gaymer and Lee Trost announce the annual Operation Big Sweep drive by 33 Lions clubs in southeast Idaho. Members will canvass homes May 15 to 17 evenings from 5 30 to 9 00 wearing caps and aprons to raise funds for sight conservation and community projects. They will offer brooms for 2 and whisk brooms, promote eye examinations and glasses for the needy, and support blind operated stands and school screenings.
Preston patrons will soon dial about 60 million numbers using a new direct distance dialing system announced by Gus Mink, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. manager. Tests last week showed calls to distant cities require area codes and exchange numbers, with automatic routing by machine to connect state, interstate, and out-of-state calls.
Holstein breeders in Franklin County elected Mark Talbot of Fairview as president for 1962 63. Alden Drury Fairview became vice president Daniel Roberts was secretary and Alma Choules Fairview treasurer. Plans for the county fair dairy show August 30 to September 1 included requests for more wash rack facilities. William D. Wright of Franklin retires as president.
Janet Kay Lewis, daughter of Earl N Lewis, accepted a stenographic position at Thiokol Chemical Corp in Tremonton. L R Stevens, vice president at Stevens Henager College Ogden, announced the appointment. Lewis is expected to graduate in June from Stevens Feninger College.
The Department of Agriculture and Rexburg's Rick College have offered scholarships for outstanding young men in welding. This three year effort supports student achievement in welding programs and related trades.
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