Burley Rotary Club Hosts Cassia Fair Officials
Burley Rotary Club welcomed Cassia county fair officials and Rotary members at a Tuesday luncheon. Secretary Saul Clark spoke on Cassia fair site advantages, with Roy Ehlers announcing free rides and events for the rodeo schedule. Calf scramble and auto pay horse race were set for Saturday. A picnic for Rotarians and families closes the week at Burley Municipal Park.
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Burley
Cassia County Fair
Burley Rotary Club
Eir
Saul Clark
Wesley Sizemore
Earl Hutchison
Roy Ehlers
George McGonigal
Rotary
Roselle Sohm
Rotary Club
Lex Kanan
Clark
Cassia Fair
Earl Hutchinson
West
Bus Fisher
Standard Oil
Salinas
Calif
Idaho Fire Labor Demand Surges Amid Forest Burns
Idaho's burning forests over the past week spurred labor demand with more than 1500 workers recruited from Southern Idaho Utah and the Pacific coast. ISES reports 773 job listings for the week ending August 20 up 30, with agriculture and retail trade driving gains and 227 job openings total. In Shoshone County a 13 year first major strike erupted as CIO Mines Mill and Smelter Workers and 26 mining firms faced contract talks, placing about 600 Bunker Hill and Sullivan lead smelter workers on picket lines outside Kellogg.
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Idaho
Utah
Pacific Coast
ISES
Shoshone County
CIO International Union of Mines, Mill
Bunker Hill
Sullivan
Kellogg
Alabama Schools Open to Negro Students in 1868
The record notes that no Negro schools operated in Alabama before July 1868 unless recognized by federal military authorities, marking a pivotal shift in access to schooling for Black students during Reconstruction.
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Alabama
Cooling Showers Top Utah Heat Wave Relief
Utah braced for a third day of mountain thundershowers as cooler air cut a seven week heat spell. The Weather Bureau forecast additional mountain rain mostly east of Salt Lake City before nightfall, easing forest fire danger and bringing quarter to half inch totals. Rain fell Tuesday with Hanksville at 0.50, Salt Lake City 0.35, and Ogden 0.24 inches as temperatures ran about ten degrees cooler than a week ago.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pie
Hanksville
Wayne County
Ogden
Braves End Season With 100th Loss In No-Hit Rout
The Leavenworth Braves, at 100 losses, were no-hit and no-hit by Nick Huck of the St. Joseph Cardinals in a 12–0 defeat Tuesday night, setting a club record for losses in a season.
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Leavenworth
Kansa
Leavenworth Braves
Western Baseball Association
Nick Huck
St. Joseph Cardinals
Rockland Schools Set To Open On Sept 6
The Rockland school district board fixed September 6 as opening day for elementary and high schools. Summer repairs are finished with repainted classrooms and roof work complete. Teachers are hired and staff listed, including T H Ball as superintendent and Oren Spillett as principal.
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Rockland
T. H. Ball
Oren Spillett
Wayne Nelson
P. E
Agnes Hartley
Dorothe Nelson
Dean Hanson
Josephine S. Bell
Ruth Allen
Marie Nelson
Nora W. Stearnes
Albion Woman Claimed By Death
Mrs Verria Faye Brewerton 32 of Albion died suddenly at home after a brief illness. Born December 15 1916 she was married June 17 1937 and lived in Acequia before moving to Albion in 1946. Survived by husband two children two brothers and one sister. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. at Albion Masonic hall Bishop Joe Gillett officiating burial in Albion Cemetery directed by Vern McCulloch.
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Hailey
Lyle Jolley
Albion
Zella Hamlin
Albion Masonic Hall
Joe Gillette
Albion Cemetery
Vern McCulloch
Northwest golfers set for Idaho Open at Plantation
Ed Porky Oliver of Seattle and Stan Leonard of Vancouver B C will play in the Idaho Open at the Plantation course in Boise on September 10 and 11. The pair recently surpassed Ben Hogan’s 72 hole world record in competition.
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Boise
Ben Hogan
Plantation Course
Porky) Oliver
Seattle
Stan Leonard
Vancouver
B. C
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D. H. Rose
H. B. Richard
Bill Johnson
Burley Municipal Park
Bruce Johnson
John Brooks
Idaho State Employment Service
Clark ST
Studebaker
Merica
Soudebaker
Bush Motor Company
Pocatello, Idaho
Spillett
Bell
Power County Board of Education
Argyles
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