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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1954
Page
2
Idaho's school transportation system shows progress with stricter driver requirements and health certificates. An estimated 30 students per bus, 1,019 Idaho buses, and 30 thousand five hundred daily riders. past incidents prompted laws, inspections, and reduced insurance costs, though several fatalities occurred in recent decades.
Pfc. Jerald G. Hobbs son of Donald P Hobbs of Franklin serves in Korea with the 24th Infantry division. The unit landed in Korea in 1950 spent 19 months in combat then went to Japan for security duty and returned before the cease fire. Hobbs arrived in the Far East last April after entering the army in November 1953 and is a former employee of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co Boise.
Aluminum foil wrapped around tree bases at a height unreachable by mice protects young trees from girdling. The foil is replaced annually to maintain effectiveness and ensure ongoing protection.
Col Charles H McNutt and his wife Maxine, daughter of Dr and Mrs OM Merrill of Preston, were assigned as supply officer of the Seventh Army in Germany. He previously served as chief of staff of the Sixth Armored Division at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri and graduated from West Point in 1927 and the University of California in 1930.
Idaho farms produced 133 million pounds of milk in August, a record for the month and 5 million pounds above August 1953. Creameries churned 2,870,000 pounds of butter, up from July and 31 percent above last August. American cheese output fell 20 percent from July to August to 1,880,000 pounds, first time this year its August figure trailed 1953. Ice cream output was 280,000 gallons, down 40,000 from July but only 1,000 gallons below August of last year.
A resolute woman, employed as stenographer, book-keeper and receptionist for the Idaho State Department of Public Assistance in Franklin County, also serving Lewiston State Bank in Lewiston, Utah. She pursues ambitious goals to raise her child in the hometown of her late husband Owen W. Hendricks.
Hundreds of Idaho oil workers join Oil Progress week October 10 16 to educate the public about the industry. The program by the oil industry information committee includes luncheons, speeches, movie showings, an Oil Man for a Day project for students, open houses, and station decorations. The feature film The Story of Colonel Drake with Vincent Price will tour Pocatello Idaho Falls Blackfoot and Lewiston and be available afterward for schools clubs and organizations on loan from the Denver district office.
A testimonial will be held in Franklin Sunday evening for Devon Doney son of Mr and Mrs Conrad Doney who leaves for the mission home in Salt Lake City Oct 20 to prepare for a mission to the east central states All friends are invited to attend.
Political advertisement promoting William H. Smith born Banida Idaho and resident of Preston for a Bannock County position. Highlights his background with Gem State Mutual Life Insurance Co and former assistant county attorney, noting years of practice and seeking votes for the November 2 election.
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