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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1950
Page
5
The article emphasizes individual drivers as the main beneficiaries of highway safety. It argues the driver chiefly determines survival chances through prudent behavior and cautious decisions on the road.
A. P. Bunderson, acting Idaho state police commissioner, cites 1949 deaths at 168 with 5,880 injuries and 25,200 property losses. He warns 1950 could surpass prior postwar highs with 197 deaths by Oct 31 and urges enforcement, engineering, and education to curb highway deaths amid holidays.
Local residents spent Thanksgiving in various towns including Logan Pocatello and Ogden visiting relatives and attending dinners and football games. Families such as Kirby Nelson Shumway Condie and Paskins joined kin in Preston Thatcher West Jordan Cove and Salt Lake for meals and celebrations.
Mrs DeRalph Perry and family attended a Thursday afternoon relief society meeting at Mrs Beatrice Paskins home with a gift making session led by Mrs Wanda Hess. Guests included Ruth Perry of Preston and several local families shared refreshments. Others enjoyed weekend visits and Thanksgiving meals across Preston Pocatello Lava Springs and nearby towns with relatives and friends.
Mound Valley residents carried families to gatherings across Ogden Preston PoCatello and Salt Lake City. The group included Mr and Mrs Lorin McGregor and Nancy McGregor with Weldon McGregor Panter and Gregory, and William Williams family, Clark Gray, Carrie Harris Annie Williams Gladys Williams, Dean Panter and others sharing Thanksgiving with relatives and in laws.
Mr and Mrs Dean Panter host messages. Mrs Carrie Harris visits. Mrs Keith Clark expected home after operation at St Anthony hospital Pocatello. Mrs Chase McGregor and Mrs Roma Anderson visit Logan hospital patient Millen Mendenhall. Relief society plans bazaar in Preston. Farewell party for C Bennett headed to service. Several visits and dinners noted among Panter, McGregor, Neeley families. Talent program in Pocatello features Dennis Scofield with singer Don Panter accompaniment.
Oxford Thanksgiving dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Moyes and family included the Olsen families from Weston Ogden and Pocatello. Saturday visitors were Jess Hawks and sons of Rigby. Burnice and Pratt Ward joined their sister’s family, then Frank Coburn hosted relatives including the Coburns and Reed Gylenskog. Sunday dinner guests at Swan Lake came from the Nordick home.
Dixie of Clifton visited with Marion Olson and daughter. Cluff Kendall and daughter spent Thanksgiving in Wyoming with Mrs Claude Thomas who is hospital bound after a coal mine collapse. Ernest Olson family and Eldred Olson hosted. Wesley Olson and family from Salt Lake City stayed with Redingtons. Glendon Jensen family joined Thanksgiving in Rupert. Paul Hatch and Melvin Coburn accepted missionary calls with a farewell Dec 2 at Oxford. Gary Fisher family visited Salt Lake City with Lorin Olson.
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