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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1954
Page
6
A Dayton missionary adopts a Samoan child amid stories of child trading in Samoa. The narrative describes local practices where children are given or exchanged within families, reflecting cultural norms and personal decisions.
Clair Phillips recounts how families in Samoa adopt or trade children to expand their households. He describes a Samoan daughter Patricia Gilpoy Seni, explains Teimi Seni as her stepfather and notes the couple’s integration into the LDS Church. The narrator, a missionary, also reflects on duties to assist villagers as village manager.
In a lengthy letter from Samoa, a missionary elder describes Patricia’s attachment and a potential adoption by the elder’s care while he faces legal questions about bringing her to America. He also details an offer from a Samoan couple to adopt him and requests from American elders for gifts and language tools.
Mink Creek and nearby towns welcomed relatives and friends from Moroni Utah, Thayne Wyoming, Preston Idaho, and Salt Lake City over the weekend. Local residents including the Jensen, Keller, Gunderson, Rigby, and Christensen families hosted extended visits and two military families from Yuma Arizona spent two weeks with relatives in Preston.
The article extols petroleum as a national resource and major industry, noting U.S. dominance since 1859, large drilling activity in 1953, record depths, high proved reserves, and vast refining and distribution capacity. It highlights offshore prospects in the Gulf, massive capital investment, and ongoing research by 15,000+ scientists.
In Fort Worth Texas the whistle of a tea kettle woke the Clifton Terry family as a gas stove ignition melted tubing and sparked a blaze. An automatic burner turned on without explanation caused the fire and left water boiling in the kettle.
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