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Show : V FORMER BINGHAM COUPLE NOTE 40TH WEDDING DATE Celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary last week were Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Masters. The Secretary of State of Idaho (the only Democrat who won on the state ballot in 1950), met Corrine Harris at a Sunday night road show in a theater at Bingham Canyon. She was teaching music mu-sic here. Her voice was familiar to Salt Lake City where she had been a member of the Fred Graham Gra-ham Quartet, the Methodist church choir and a paid singer for the Cathedral choir. On Friday Fri-day nights she sang at a Jewish Synagogue. After their marriage March 17, 1912, the Masters made their first home in Provo where Masters Mas-ters owned the Provo Herald, a Democratic semi-weekly, and the Press-Bulletin of Bingham Canyon, Can-yon, a weekly. Mrs. Masters was chairman of the Red Cross during dur-ing World War L Masters was elected a delegate to the National Democratic convention in 1916 when Woodrow Wilson was renominated. re-nominated. Later he was elected to the Utah State legislature and championed several measures for newspapermen, farmers and stockgrowers. In 1921 they sold the Herald and moved to Twin Falls where he bought the Daily Times, an afternoon newspaper. He soon turned Twin Falls county Democratic Demo-cratic with the aid of the central committee and gave his paper the legal printing contract. He was elected chairman of the Red Cross and the Boy Scouts of the county while living in Twin Falls. He was nominated for Lieutenant Governor but was defeated. After selling the Times at a handsome profit, he bought the almost bankrupt Idaho State Journal of Pocatello. This newspaper news-paper had the largest circulation in Eastern Idaho and transferred transfer-red to a Democratic publication had a large part in electing C. Ben Ross governor of Idaho. He sold this newspaper at the end of 1932 for more than double what he had paid for it and was a little later appointed register of the U. S. land office in Black-foot. Black-foot. While in this position, he was elected Secretary of State in 1936 with one of the largest majorities given any candidate for that office. |