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Show Years In Preston Twenty-Tw- o Former Educator Retires The Idaho Falls Post Register Its one of the most imllis associates say he is a portant jobs there is," he told a hard work- The In edukindly man er a storehouse of knowl- cation you inlluence the lives of people. edge. One described him as realSimmons began his educaly ambitious; always at work tional career in 1924 as a by eight each morning and seventh grade teacher at Sonever leaving until after five. da Springs. lie had been The main thing about graduated from Burley high him, said another, is that school is 1922 and from Albion hes always friendly and hap- State Normal School in 1924. In 1925 he continued his py. Nothing seems to get him down. Everybody likes him. schooling at the University of The man is norland Sim- Idaho and was graduated in mons, former Preston school 1927 with a degree in business He received superintendent, and adminis- administration. trative assistant of Idaho his MS degree in Greeley, Falls School District 91. ' Hes Colo., in 1936. Following his formal edugiven a lifetime of dedicated service to education. cation, Simmons taught for ad- eight years at Burley high d The kindly ministrator began his retire- school primarily government July 1, ending an ment, business law, occupaeducational career of some tional guidance and history. In 1935, he went to Preston 40 years. To Simmons, education is and was principal of the high more than an occupation. lie school there for seven years. In 1942, he left education considers it at least comparable to other professions, with and became a field manager a greater influence than most for Amalgamated and Frank-- ... ... CLASS OF 45 'Members of the class of Preston High School held a reunion in Preston recently. Members attending include (sixth row, left to right) Dorrel Larsen, Devon Kofoed, Ben Rawlings, Garth Eames, Richard Packer, tDan Belnap. (Fifth row) David Smith, Lynn Perry, Dell Bosen, Raymond Sptarrow, Reed Hawkes, Carl Johnson, Robert Geddes, Carl Viaterlaus. (Fourth row) 45 of Heber Swains ton, Jack Allred, Russell Olsen, Ross Rasmussen, Thomas Kershaw, Ned Luwayne Barrington, Reece Casperson. (Third row) Russell Rogers, Lee Hansen, Warren Allen, Clair Hansen, Junior Bell, Jack Butterfield, Con Garrett, Kay Dunkley, Jack Swainston. (Second row) Carol Greaves Brown, June Tanner Merrel, Laconna Foster Keller, Colleen Cottle, Wilma Warner John Win-war- d, son, Coila Carver Haltiner, Shirley Palmer Condie, Renee Alder Henrie, Alton Bodily (Front row) Joyce Choules Bowles, Thelma Drury Allred, Colleen Jones Martin, Elnora Fletcher Hansen, Joyce Keller Parkinson, Jacky Steers Lucky, Marian Smith Pond, Jackie Geddes Anderson, Laura Palmer Burgon, and Norma Tasso Rasmussen. Anderson Photo Cor-bridg- e. Pan! Harvey Start By T aking A Bath FINEST WEDDING GIFTS By PAUL IIARVEY For Only $2.0B TmS PLACES TOUR NAME ON A GIFT LIST. Phone 852-680- 4 The upcoming campus ral- lies against pollution make sense, conceivably could avert disaster. But lets not go roaring around in hot rods while the blaming high-power- ment" or ry or some vaguely MERRILL JEWELRY PRESTON, IDAHO Mr. Harvey responsibilit y for pollution. Too DON'T LET HILLS STAND BETWEEN YOU... many Americans are all gung ho against the other guys pollution. And enough such, now knowing what theyre shouting about, can hurt a lot of innocent people. May I introduce a few: Your service station man, with gas, oil and maybe tires for your car, measures his profits in pennies. Last year, panicked by sudden public wrath over pollution, Detroit bigwigs prematurely announced themselves in favor of turbine engines, electric cars, predicted new power sources. Californias Senate September voted to outlaw cars within six years. Nationwide, service station owners and managers trembled; which way should' they jump? But within less than six months, any industry plans for electric or turbine cars and such had been shelved indefinitely. Now all the talk is about lead-fre- e gasoline. The separate pump and tank for leatWfree gasoline means an investment of $5,000 to $10,000 for the average service station man, but he wants to be patriotic, he wants to serve his customers with whatever fuel they require. Now, no sooner does he likely with borrowed money-st- art smashing his driveway concrete and digging a hole for that additional tank than two respected petroleum scientists holler Hold everything! Its correct, they concede, that cars cause 80 percent of our air pollution, but, they say, "switching to lead-fre- e gasoline will eliminate last gas-power- ed only 1 percent of that 80 per- cent! The independent service station man wants to cooperate with the experts in cleaning up our environment, but which experts? He is left to flip a coin over a decision which could bankrupt him. There are parallel experiences in other industries. AND A GOOD HARVEST Food and Drug Administration officials examined and approved the plastic, polyvinyl chloride, for food containers. That industry bought the equipment necessary to Increase production from 55 million units to 4 billion units. Then a New York City official hollers Hold everyHe says that conthing! tainer, when burned, throws off hydrochloric acid! Those industries thus I COMPLETES TRAINING Marine Officer Candidate Byron A. Harris, husband of the former Patricia Plowman Lewiston, completed pretraining upon graduating from summer Platoon Leaders Class at the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Va. He will resume his studies at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, and receive his commission upon graduating. of commission For Your Information sure-foote- ... 20-fo- ot e ... I g Hodera Fnm nwo Equipment Co. OMNI gleaner It an trademark AUGUST THURS.. FBI.. SAT. -- - AUGUST 6. 7. 8 INGRID ANTHONY BERGMAN UffiTlF -- PRESTON SSTEEl" immurnn Sttrihg SM&nt . fcPlCP - AUGUST MON. and TUES. .ib 10 and 11 wsm NATHAN ScrMnptay by MARGUERITE Dnctid ROBERTS-Bmm- I by JACK HALEY on th no JSSI TBCHNKXXJORM JR. by CHARLES TORUS BWAMOUNTPCTUnEl Wt MASII" STARTS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 PAINT YOUR WAGON COMING SOON - -- ADMISSION ADULTS $1.M CHILDREN 50c STUDENTS 75c (12 and Under) (With Activity Cards) SHOWS START AT 7:00 and 3:00 p.m. NIGHTLY SKY-V- Drive In U 800 SO. STATE ST., Theatre PRESTON THURS., FRI., SAT. IDAHO WED., TIIURS FRI. IN SEARCH OF THE "CASTAWAYS" Feature Starts 7:10 and 9:05 and MON. ONLY SAT. JOE NAMATH RUNS-DO- taodate froductr RAUL Starring Glen Ford AUGUST 5, 6, 7 WALT DISNEYS CMfcr. GLEN CAMPBELL' KIM DARBY CAROL IYNLEY FAT HIN6LE IK HASTE 15 "S M I T H" GRACE, KATHERINE CRAWFORD """"'EE and Grace Theatre in the Springin nuTZwmm 14 tnmtmukGHUjmAKT-cimimtHPMvcn- FHONE "THE MOLLY McGUIRES" Feature Starts 7:00 and 9:10 Community. Theatre Lewis ten, Utah BOX OFFICE OPENS AT 8:45 P.M. SHOW STARTS AT 9:15 P.M. 852-01- 88 AUG. 5 Thru 8 MON., TUES. AUG. 9, 10, 11 SUN ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST!" Rex 8W, HWrfey Mf In ROBERT REDF-ORKATHARINE ROSS ROBERT BLAKE SUSAN CLARK D We have provided FUNERAL HOME FRI. and SAT. PRESTON are occasionally asked if we welcome families of all religious sects to use our funeral home. The answer is definitely, yes. i WEBB THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES' tmeathe We Sincerely, 91. The retiring administrator recalls his 42 years in education as happy ones. I weathered some storms of consolof idation, reorganization school districts and the dehe pression of the 1930s, said. But along with the problems came high points. High points he recalls were: Fond associations with good people; good students, some who have gone on to become very successful and influential; board members, who for (Continued on Page S) FRI. and SAT. AUGUST 7 and 8 GHAMD Dear friends, our service to members in our community the faiths all various and we have the cooperation of all of our good church leaders in honoring this District School IKEA SHOWS PLAYING THIS WEEK AND NEXT WEEK ABE . . WED of pation, he was elected to the school board and in 1944, resigned from the board to be-- c of o m e superintendent schools at Preston, a job which he held for 15 years. In 1959 Simmons left Preston to come to Idaho Falls and become principal of Central Junior High in Idaho Falls. In 1966, he was hired as administrative assistant of Lets Go To A Movie ... GET THE GLEANER GH "HILLSIDE SPECIAL COMBINE hillside Its called the Model GII Hillside for answer harvesting. HERES the d of a mountain goat. lias the maneuverability and it Special swath through the heaviest grain and deliver The GH will cut up to a threshing, separation and cleaning of a flatland Gleaner the Only the header and the combine. Thats because the GH works hilL of the the foiiow slope heavy-dut- y suspension design gives the GH a low center of gravity for maximum stability True center-linand even with and performance. It permira equalized traction even on sleep slopes famous of flatland and the Gleaner features the All filled. performance tank the grain ability of a crawler tractor. Pretty hard combinacombines . . . plus the tion to beat . . . thats why no one has. Come in and take a look at it. r. white-haire- dis- rupted represent a lot of working peoples jobs and a lot of small investors money; what should their boards of directors direct? The phosphates scare threw the detergent Industry into a panic. Then two respected research chemists offer convincing evidence that its not phosphates which pollute our lakes and rivers; its organic substances causing the alAnd that rhubarb begae. over again. all gins All this says is that government and industry must be diligent but deliberate in this gigantic housecleaning. The rest of us must be persistent, but not overly impatient. And we must not assume that damning industry for inaction excuses what we as individuals do or fail to do. Wasnt it Will Durant who said, Some of those people who proclaim themselves out to clean up the world ought to start by taking a bath? Post-Registe- lin County Sugar Company. While engaged in that occu- "TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE A UNIVERSAL PICTURE C2 WED., THURS., FRI., SAT. AUG. 12 Thru 15 Richard Burton Genevieve Bujoid Hal Wallis PRODUCTION dAxw (vftfteTfiousatjb DayS ItMWRKTKtfSD TECHNICOLOR MM5VISION O.lf W fnm VUUWER MOSyKVEN ARTS |