Caribou County Sun from Soda Springs, Idaho • Page 1

VOIiTJME TWELVE NUMBER 19 Said an acrobat named Ali Ooop, "I'm constantly telling my troupe Pledge all you can raise For War Bonds, these days, And Hitler -will be In the Soup!" jtliv all communities to southeast ern Idaho Those going from Soda Springs were Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sterrett, Fred Larsen, Mrs. Jessie Anderson, Mr. and Mrs, George Rinenart, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Larsen, Dubois Larsen, and Clyde Anderson. Overseas With Marines William (Billy) Smedley, son of Dr. and Mrs. W.

E. Smedley, is reported to be a bomber radio opera -tor, somewhere overseas with the Marines- and business Soda Springs Sun 1 Attend Golden Wedding In Pocatello Quite a number of Soda Springs tieoole attended the golden "Wed ding of Mr. and Mrs. E. Tarr, held at their home in Pocatello on Saturday, Nov.

28. Mr. and Mrs. Tarr were married in Soda Springs fifty years ago. before her 'marriage Annie Hansen, erew up in Soda 'Spring where her parents were among the earliest pioneers.

Open House was held from 3:00 to 10 -00 P. and during these tanks, guns, aircraft and all rwnlte the difficulties of crop pxo-ducttonVhowever. fanners haw-tataa Plane Search Crews Laud Ranch People Officers Seeking tSa that JEWrJTtS: coronleted share of their time to other activities. of remaining on Ins the next few weeks. mlttees in the rural areas will be Srown into this year-end effort of publicity to the drive Influence to coordinate the activities SKSESKrSpi.

the Parmer's Union, tne motive- Safety Foui Ill-fated Bomber Praise Cooperation t.akky RANCH. Caribou County, The Lakeys live here, and like every other family in this rug r-onntrv where a Fori crashed, they have earned the respect and praise of the army. "Ynu dont realize now line mc around here have been, MacDonald, with Boeing engineering service unit, declared Saturday as he came out of the snow-fUled canyon into which the bomber fell. "The first day people came out t.hP irlorv. The second day they riffht with vou.

Work and get ting cold and letting tneir go because tney re guuu he added. Make Home Headquarters Mr and Mrs. Maylon Lakey nlaved their part in helping, too. Armv air corns officers and men tramped through their home for three days as they practically it over for a temporary neaaquar ters during the search. And everv time a group returned, Mrs.

Lakey had a pot of coffee, ra tioned coffee, boiling. pre pared sandwiches and regular meals. She provided beds for four soldiers. All the while, she operated her home, cared for her older children and the new one-month old infant. Staff Sergeant Rocco F.

snone of the photographic section, Foca tello air base, thought ruefully for a moment as he saw the mess the soldiers and vicilians had created in the Lakey home. We Can't Lose Then Mrs Lakey came through smihnE. and for the 'steenth time swept the -floor, sergeant aiwne erinned "With people like this A 60 year old Grace nmcher came in for his share of praise. His wife is dead, and his only son in the army. But he dropped ms chores, and for two days furnished a sled for rescue crews, who penetrated to the site of the crash from that town.

The folks around here will nev er know how much we have appreciated their efforts. They didn't stop when they got tired or bored. either. And it's been awiui com Sergeant Sitone added. Lake Tribune WPB ASKS FARMERS TO BRING IN SCRAP Nelson Telegram Out Need For Heavy Farm Metal The Nation's! wfll take Dole Doattfcm in the itntcb drive the Med (or heavy yards a ftadt of the Mr.

Roeaowald called to the that, next to In- of beayy sen offnrta to reduction In the face of War Board in farm scrap collection im in MriHwi to ana a Unt aid. and win be called upon to point out that la many eectioae or KTmnitn thie driva will be a race an toe mwr, uu uw ihauld be tot la getting started, tes a handicap. rain and mud. will not stop our men front," trie H. Harks, Chief of the Farm Scrap 8ec-Utm.

"and we know it will not itop too trfflT ox lanuuB worteniin this drive for heavy farm Uon of the country indicate that the amount oi iruu tmr ceeds the tonnage so far turned in. face has hardly been scratcnea, ana ft is ror tms rowu are neia out ior A nt caution is Voiced DV the Department of Agriculture to all who participate in this drive, not to over-foolc the fact that usable parts should be removed from old machines and cause farm machinery is now being rationed, and all existing farm machines must be kept in operating nsahle narts: repair every machine that can be used; scrap the rest Already mere wiU prove to be qne-ei the most popular of civilian war efforts. Farmers rwnrds set uo in city drives lor nousenui" do not intend to be beaten py their cltv cousins. They know that more farm scrap is what Uncle Sam wants, and they are going to see that he gets it. A Consolidation of Tne Soda Springs Sun and Otreftain SODA SPRINGS.

IDAHO. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1942 hopesl War Results In Population Shifts, Says Census Bureau Marvkiid were largely in three areas- Baltimore. Hampton Roads and the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia showed the extraordinary increase oi 25 per cent.

Because of Detroit's part in war production materials and products, Michigan looms large to statistics or increas population The census estimates we rrainly on the number oi persons who for sugT. ration books in May 1942. Appointed Engineering Officer On Destroyer Ensign Vernon (Bud) Balls, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Balls, is an Engineering officer on the United States destroyer, Paul jones.

tine last May. He took further training for six weeks at Keyport, Washington, before being assignea to active duty. Spends Furlough Here F. C. John Burchfield has been here this week from Camp Kucker, Alabama, Vsiting his mother, Mrs.

Alice Burcniieia, ana other relatives and friends. Johrf is training in the infantry. He has been -gone almost a year. VISITS BROTHER HEBE Kenneth Field Conlin, who ans. wered the army call from Caribou countv.

visited here on Thanks giving at the home of his brother and slstertn. law, Mr. ana mis. William Conlin. SERVES OVERSEAS Ernest W- Warner, whose name is listed on the Caribou County armed service memorial panel, part Indian.

He has been overseas for quite a while. Starts Training For Navy. Farragut, Idaho, A new Soda Springs volunteer for service in the U. S. Navy has reponen Naval Training Station here.

He Sterling Jay Nielsen, son of Mrs. narrle Nleteen. Soda springs. After several weeks of recruit training, during which time-he will learn the fundamentals of Navy life, he will, be assigned to a Navy service school lor specialized u-ua- tog or sent to the U. fleet lor early-action against our enemies Young Twin Dies Michael Walter Lau, 2V2 month old son of Richard and Nathel Poulson Lau died last Sunday morning.

The denarted one of a pair of twin brothers, the surviving one being MarK rinaiey Lau Brief funeral services were held Monday at 1 o'clock at the home Mr and Mrs cnanes wu. Bishop Balls was in charge a trio consisting of Gayla Gorton. Maxine Murray, and Esteiie Moe sane two numbers; a short taiK was made bv J. lorgesen rsnenintr nraver was offered by Milton Horsley, ana tne i-ius'its araver by Bishop Balls. Donna Mae ThirkUl furnished the piano music and fieber Lau dedicated the grave.

Newspapres Scrap Drive Gets in 5,364,415 Tons Figures released by the Bureau Philadelphia The final tonnage of the Census show that one of the figure to be released by tne strange twists of the war is its ef papers' United bcrap M-etai unvc feet on population shifts. During the two years since the census. New York has lost more than half million, while the neighboring states of Connecticut and New Jer sey together gained more than 150,000. The mountain states, except Nevada and Utah, showed losses. The west north central states had' a decline in civilian population, but the east north central states: showed a slight gain, except wmsin the most rural in tne group.

The plains states- suffered large losses or population, these same states also lost in pop. ulation, but that was occasioned by the drought. Oklahoma snowen On the other hand, tne racmc coast states have shown gains Washington and California, DUt 4 loss Oregon in tne souurem group, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky North Carolina aand West Virginia lost The gams made oy virgins committee was announced recent ly by Chairman Richard W. Slocum of the Philadelphia Bulletin, gen eral manager, showing tht 5,364,415 tons have been reported collected to date to give the nation a per cap ita figure of 81.9 pounds. As not all of the tonnage gener a ted by the newspaper campaigns could possibly have been reported to the committee, Mr.

Slocum said, the committee has reached its goal of 6,000,000 tons set at the start of the drive. Leading the nation in per capita pounds collected was Kansas a 156 7 figure. Vermont was second with 155 4 pounds reported; wasn ington third with 141.5 pounds. Mountain States In Bond Buying Bonds or Stamps Reporters for the poll asked .1 representative cross.section of the votmg population this you happen to have bought any war bonds or stamps?" The result was Yes 76 percent No 22 percent Dr George H. Gallup head of the Institute of Public Opinion, said the findings were splendid testimony to the effectiveness of the Treasury Department's War Savmgs Campaign Seeking the answer to the fail ure of one out of every five adult Americans to buy War Bonds Stamps.

Dr. Gallup made a ther study and found that two large segments of the population the lower income group and Titration, Following is for this table comparing' the purchase by the various Income and WelL.to^do have bought 90 percent; have not bought 10 percent. Lower Income group nave oougnt 68 percent; have not oougnt a percent. Farm nave oougnt percent: have not bought 29 percent. Cities.

10.000 or over, bought 81 percent, have 19 percent. A breakdown of tne Dona ana purchases by efceupations reveals that the professional man, the business man, and the white collar workers are well ahead of other occupational groups In their bond and stamp ouying. Here Is the comparison by pations: Professional, have bought, 92 percent, have not "bought, 8 percent. bought oa percent, have not bought, 12 per cent WhitecoUar Workers, nave bought, 88 percent; have boueht. 12 percent.

Skilled and semi sKuiea, nave jught, 78 percent; nave noi bought, 22 percent Unskilled ana service wowis. have bought, 65 percent; have not bought, 35 percent. Furthermore, some secuons ui the country are far better bond and stamp buyers than the others. The East Central section, compris ing Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, ana MSchhran. is highest on the list.

to the relative proportion who have bought bonds or stamps, 81 percen -of the voting adults having bought bonds or stamps in this area. The New England, Middle Atlantic and and West Central areas are next, with 79 percent holding bonds or stamps Next comes the mountain area and the far west, witn io percent The south stands lowest in the sectional groupings. with 66 percent of the votmg population haMng bought bonds and stamps Muirs Plan Move Mr and Mrs. Lee Muir are plan nmg a move to Salt Lake City to the very near future Mr Muir already there, and Is reported 'd bought a home and a business. He is said to have purchased a box and carton manufacturing plant.

Corporal Charles Walker Jr. of Philadelphia, Private First Class Nicholas M. Zompetti of "Madboro, Mass Private Joseph R. Hughes Bransford, Conn. Private Donald W.

Seaney or Wichita, Kan The first to reach the site of the wreck were William S. Gagon of Soda Springs ond forest ranger J. B. Bruce of Montpelier They left the Lakey home Friday morning, after a searching plane had dropped a note late Thursday, from Captain Smith saying a dark object or burned off place had been sighted in Wilson Canyon. The snow, averaging about four feet deep, unusual for this early in the season, was a handicap to searching and rescue operations.

Mr. Gagon and Mr. Bruce usedl shOesT -rflalre-Tne difficult search of the rough ter rain in and after the scene of the crash had been located, Mr. Gagon hurried back to the Lakey ranch with the news, after which army officers and men, headed for the location of the fatal catastrophe-AmonR the first to return to So da Springs after viewing the wreck were Desmond Call, Max weaver, and Leith Somsen. These young Speech Class Does Well In Play A three act farce was presented December 4 by the speech class of Soda Springs High School.

This play was "Goodnagnt jjaaies- story in which two maiden aunts fail to show up to time to be the matrons at a girl's dormitory. This makes it necessary for two college boys to dress up to represent the aunts. It also makes ior lots oi complications. Jack Lallatin and Richard latin did an excellent lob pretend ing to be aunt Barbara and Aunt Flora. Other members of the cast were: DeOhne Davis, Betty Burch field, Dawna Mossman, Bill Wallace, Richard, Burchett," Donna Hines.

Bettv Orburn, Ruth Allenback, Blaine Panting, and Paula Panting. On the production staff were She! don Chatterton prompter; Deon Riggs, stage manager; LeRoy Camp bell, lighting director. The speech class announces that its next production wui oe tne 'Vampire a mystery comeay guaranteed you shiver and laugh. It wUM)e presented on reo. Soldier Here From Florida Earl Horsley spent Monday to Saturday of last week visiting his old home town of Soda Springs When on duty he is now stationed at Camp Murphy.

Florida, 23 miles north of West Palm Beach, a reconnaissance company. He has now been to the army S'x months. Tt will be of interest to some readers to his comman We appreciate our old subscribers; but new ones are always welcome. SERIfo. OFFICIAL PAPER: Army Plane Wreck Found In Wilson Canyon The wreck of the big army bomb er, said to have been a flying tress, was found shortly alter noon i last Friday in Wilson canyon, a fork of Eight Mile, com tog in from the right a little over a mile above the ranch home of Mr.

and Mrs. Maylan Lakey. The giant craft is said to have been completely demolished, as an explosion, and the posslbil ities of any of the ten man crew surviving the catastrophe were very remote Listed as aboard the plane prior to the crash were Second Lieutenant Harold K. Simpson of Fitchburg, Mass. Second Lieutenant Wendell L.

Sims of Pasadena, Cal. I Second Lieutenant Chalmers Q. Wenrich of Harrisburg, Pa. i second Lieutenant Thomas I Wymond of Garden City, Mich. Staff Sergeant John E.

Lazank A recent survey by the Gallup i sky of Cary, 111 ealed thait 78 percent of Sergeant Neal L. sunker oi the Americans have bought War Nebraska City', Neb. sign Balls took four months' are responsible men went in According to Mr Call, and verified by later re ports, the plane seemed to have been blown to-pieces, and scattered over the countryside. All of those nterviewed were reticent when to qu tries were made about the crew memUers who had been aboard the plane, preferring to leave the report on the plane personnel to the discretion of army officials. All reports seemed to Indicate that the plane must have exploded and that it came almost straight down, as only a few trees had been knocked over by the crash.

This theory agrees with the port of Mrs. Orrln Munro, who with her son Harold were out doing chores at their ranch home In the mouth of Eight Wednesday evening. They both heard the roar of the plane, ana saw tne nrigni flash of the seeming explosion, followed by a brilliant glow which gradually died down. The boy dis tinctly heard the crash, according to Mrs- Munro. Many other reports coming from all along Gentile valley and from the vicinity of Soda Springs told of seeing the brilliant light indicating the crash of a plane.

The assistance of the state wey crew was helpful to making a road ot within one-half mile of the wreck. Bulldozers and Cater, plilirs were used for this purpose. These road clearing operations under direction of Earl Chatterton and Bud Rice, and two-men from the Bannock County patrol. Jack Harriman also assisted in road clearing with the county patrol. Army officers associated with the search were Major William D.

Ready, Major schlessmger, Cap tain W. H. B- Thode, Lieutenant Lee, and Staff Sergeant R. Sitone. Among law enforcement officers and civilians taking an pert plane -were Sheriff Charles Mc Cracken of Soda Springs, anenii Alton P.

Bunderson of Bear Lake County. Sheriff Lee Hansen, of Franklin county, Ranger Fred ear gent of the Cache National forest. Ranger J. B. Bruce of the Caribou forest, Conservation officer John Delo, and Wesley Hubbard, Howard ThirkUl," Stewart West, and a number of others whose names were not learned.

Local Basketball Season Begins Dec. 19 The Soda Springs Cardinals swing into full basketball Saturday night, December 19th on their home floor against Montpelier, Wednesday night, December the 16th is the game of the season at Montpelier. The bovs have been practicing stoee the 15th of November. At the beginning a large group turned out and an intramural program was held under the direction oi Coach Bill Durrant. From this in tramural program, the present group of fourteen was selected The returning lejtermen squad include Blaine Deaton, Sheldon Chatterton Russell Lakey, Jack Lallatin, Blaine panting, ana DeWayne Christensetf.

The others who comprise the group are Lyle Hodges, BUI Horsley, Elmer Wilcox, Lallatin, Elden Skinner, Ralph Cross, Verlin Poulson and Dolan Condie. "With the large group of letter men who are back and fair luck. the boys should be able to mam tain the standard which tney established last year', is the opinion of Coach Bill Durant. Four Soda-Ites Attend Moscow School UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, Moscow, Dec Four students from Soda Springs are registered the University of this fall. They follow Claude Hansen, senior to civil eneineertae; Elizabeth Wallace, dmg officer is L.

Beau, former junlor to education: Robert Torgesen, Senior to business and Margaret Peterson, freshman to business. New si SPAPLRr!.