Paul Merrill's Navy Front Line Duty in the Pacific
Aviation radioman Paul H. Merrill Jr 2/c served aboard Navy planes as an aerial machine gunner on Mercy missions in the Pacific. Returning to the states for radar training after Pearl Harbor Midway and New Georgia campaigns Merrill helped evacuate wounded Marines and survived two strafing attacks. He enlisted in 1941 and trained in San Diego Hawaii and Memphis.
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Pacific
Paul H. Merrill, Jr
Navy
Memphis
Tennessee
Paul Jr
Hawaiian Islands
San Deigo
California
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Paul
Midway
New Georgia
Merrill
States
Preston
Weston and Vicinity Social News Highlights
Local residents’ visits and travels span Weston to Pocatello Ogden and San Francisco. Families gather for parties and dinners as PFC Thomas Lannan plans overseas deployment. Ward conference and church notices intersperse with upcoming dances and baby blessings.
Ensign Morris Petterborg Heads to San Diego
Ensign Morris Petterborg, of the naval air corps, is en route from Jacksonville to San Diego. His parents Mr and Mrs Emil Petterborg met him at Ogden and they visited relatives in Ogden and Salt Lake City before returning home. A dinner party in his honor was hosted by Mrs Petterborg midweek. He is a Corpus Christi graduate and will visit a brother Everett in Los Angeles before reporting to his new base.
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Thomas Lannan
Marine Corps
San Deigo
California
James J. Lannan
Thomas
Marines
Weston_high school
University of Utah
Weston Ward
Ward
Maurice ‘Tingey
Frank Parker
Karl Cutler
Weldon Nash
Arthur Neuenswapder
Ensign Morris Petterborg
Jacksonville
Florida
Emil Petterborg
Ogden
Saltake City
Peterberg
Ensign Morris
Naval Air Corps
Corpus Christi
Everett
Los Angeles
Pew
State records set for Idaho potato crop despite freeze
A sharp October 31 freeze reduced the Idaho potato crop estimate from 45,355,000 to 43,425,000 bushels as frosts killed vines and delayed harvests. About 7,400,000 bushels remained to be harvested if weather permits, with 36,000,000 bu already pulled pre-freeze.
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Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
South Central District
U. S
U.S
Idaho Creamery Butter Production Drops in September
Idaho butter output in September reached 2,895,000 pounds, down 14 percent from August and 5 percent from September last year, yet 15 percent above the 1933-42 September average. State cheese production totaled 1,430,000 pounds in September, 9 percent below August but 10 percent above September 1942.
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Boise
Idaho
Idaho Crop Report Details October Harvest Impacts
Idaho's early October weather was mild then frosty on the 18th with unsettled conditions. Harvests slowed as potatoes and sugar beets faced delays and frost damage while beets showed heavier yields and hay seed threshing lagged due to wet weather.
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Boise
Twin Falls
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Receipt books offered by the Citizen shop
The Citizen advertises a full range of receipt books in duplicate and triplicate formats. Supplies include all sizes from single sheets to four on a page and all alze types available.
Community Greetings from Mapleton Families
Mapleton report notes Mr. and Mrs. L Richard Jensen and family of Preston visiting Denzil Larsen’s circle last Sunday. Glen Maizey of Richmond and his wife attended Sacrament meeting with praise for Maizey’s recent missionary talk. Other Preston visitors included Chestney Soren and family. Coradean Porter joined the Mary Robinson trousseau tea in Franklin. N G Bastian of Weston and John Webber of Preston spoke at Sacrament meeting. George Porter family visited Eliza Lowe and Joseph Stone of Franklin.
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L. Richard Jensen
Preston
Denzil Larsen
Glen Maizey
Richmond
Maizey
Jean Dursteller
Chestney Sorenson
Coradean Porter
Mary Robinson
Reduction in Sheep and Hogs Across Idaho and Nation
Idaho sheep numbers have fallen by about 30 percent over two years while national sheep reductions near 10 percent. Hog marketings show a marked rise with sows making up about double the usual share in Idaho and up roughly 50 percent nationwide.
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Idaho
Wells buys Percheron stallion from Seattle
J Greene Wells of Preston purchases a rare Percheron stallion from Carnation Farms Seattle as demand grows for heavy horses in war areas. The three year old grey horse traces to Don Degas, a prize sire with extensive progeny, amid rising Percheron prices and French foal rates.
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J. Greene Wells
Seattle
Preston
Algiers
Mr. Wells
E. H. Stuart
Carnation Farms
Washington
Don Degas
Carnot
Canada
Aexico
Ellis McFarland
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Frank Shrives
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Edna Moyes
San Francisco
C. L. Olsen
Edna
Earl Purvis
Earl Olsen
Lavon Williams
Shirley
Winder
Joyce Johnson
Marjean Carter
Alvin Harris
Harold Larson
Gretta Winger
Ernest Fisher
Joseph Taylor
VerNéal and
Zetta
Miss Cleo Talbot
Logan
Carl Bennett
Clyde C
Gus Hedin
Virginia
Albert Sharp
Suzan
William H. Auger
Goldie Talbot
Preson Hospital
National Laundry
Idaho Creamery Butter
Mapleton
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Reynolds
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Reid
Atlantic
Washington, D. C
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