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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1962
Page
3
Zeke Grubb's preacher visits the country store and jokes about his annual church report. He boasts 309 committee meetings and 104 sermons while noting a decade of losses from preaching. He ponders charity as poverty rises in his flock and jokes about potential promotion.
A fragmented observation notes robins scan the ground rather than listen for prey. The text mentions their eye use and limited binocular vision, suggesting improved detection when one eye focuses downward.
Idaho congress hopeful Orval Hansen denounces a proposed 70 cent per cwt rate cut for Midwest wheat, arguing it would disadvantage Idaho wheat on the West Coast and in the Pacific markets. He cites Idaho Wheat Commission market effort and 1960 61 export earnings of 436 million dollars to support sustaining Idaho gains.
Republican senatorial hopeful Jack Hawley continues a statewide push to all 44 Idaho counties before the June primary. He rails against dairy price supports and freight-rate changes hurting southern Idaho wheat growers while campaigning in Fairfield, Hailey, and Blackfoot. Hawley also filed nominating petitions and drew a crowd at a Boise bomb shelter rally, calling for a senator to defend Idaho’s interests.
Hawley proclaims the need to fight bureaucratic bunglers immediately, warning that waiting until 1962 will be too late. He stresses urgency and decisive early action to counter governmental inefficiency.
Rep. Orval Hansen, a Republican candidate for Congress, warns that back door spending proposals threaten constitutional government. He says yielding annual appropriations to the executive would enlarge deficits and federal spending, concentrating power in the White House and burdening taxpayers. An unrelated comic line about Old Man Rorabough appears after.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull was chosen as the National Woman Suffrage Association candidate for the presidency. She was a weekly newspaper publisher and described as a “lady broker” in the era.
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