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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1959
Page
2
The report highlights that Island Park reservoir continues to produce large trout. Hatchery stocking since last fall has increased total weight from 81% to about 95% of the stocked in the waters, with notes on tagging for game management, field dressing, and hunting restrictions near the Atomic Energy Commission reactor testing area.
A reader lauds The Naked Communist by W Cleon Skousen as the most valuable book on communism since Whittaker Chambers Witness. The FBI veteran distills over a century of material into 24 pages on United States exposure to global Marxist strategy and a timetable of conquest.
Idaho Governor urges higher highway safety effort citing 38 million dollar annual accident cost in 1958 and a nine point program. He notes progress since last year, praises police and court reforms, and stresses public responsibility to reduce traffic deaths.
The Allstate safety campaign warns that rear-end crashes cause serious injuries and property damage and that the driver behind is typically deemed at fault in such accidents.
An estimated 93 000 persons were employed on Idaho farms in the week of August 23 29 according to USDA. This compares with 97 000 in July 1959 August 1958 and the five year August average. Family workers totaled 57 000 up 1 000 from July but 2 000 less than August 1958 and the 1954 58 average. Hired workers were 36 000 down 5 000 from July and 2 000 below August 1958 and the five year average. Harvest activity varied by region with prune peach potato grain sweet corn and onions in the southwest and grain potato and sweet corn in south central. Dry bean cutting had started and eastern areas were harvesting grain haying fall planting and preparing for potato harvest.
Advertising from Franklin County business firms sustains this publication. Readers are urged to support the local businesses that make neighborhood news and community activities possible.
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