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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1953
Page
12
Carma Povey and Sylvan L Morgan announce their engagement. Carma is a West Side High School senior active in music and drama. Morgan is a Weston High School graduate active in drama and athletics. They have not set a wedding date.
A sequence of Preston area social visits includes Noel Condie and family visiting his mother Caroline Condie, wiener roast and junior rodeo, weekend guests at Sidney Biggs with Lovell Coffin, and Pauline Perks from Wellsville. Other gatherings feature Lt. Col. Bert Nash visiting family after Korea duty, plus multiple travel and houseguest exchanges involving Whitehead, Porter, Sorenson, McEntire, Hansen, Bankson, Allred, Jensen, Bennion, Harris, and Garrett among residents and relatives in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Colorado engagements.
He won a medal among the 15 placers at the national contest. The performer sang Be My Love and A Mormon Boy at the jamboree and Sunday service. Earlier he offered four vocal solos at West Side High School’s baccalaureate at Clifton. He also sang in wards of the Oneida and Franklin Stakes, drawing praise for simple sincerity and soulful delivery.
Larry Benson the 15 year old boy soprano from Whitney drew praise in Dayton for performing sacred solos How Beautiful Upon the Mountain and The Lord Is My Light accompanied by his mother Mrs Orval Benson The youth has sung since early childhood with no formal training and has earned a 17 Farm Bureau talent fund prize and a role with the Utah Opera Company He also won first in a National Boy Scout jamboree talent find earning a pin for his scout uniform dayton coverage notes the audience silence and the boy's clear flute like tone
M I A officers hosted a farewell for Larry Perkins in the ward recreation hall with games and luncheon. He leaves for military induction. Nearby notes report visits, marriages, temple ceremonies, and family travels including Paul Dalley’s Idaho Falls wedding and Georgia training, plus hospital and talent program mentions.
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