5 YEARS AGO (2018)

Long time business owners and community leaders Keith and Carolyn Atkinson will be the Grand Marshals of the July 4 Parade. With the theme of "American Made" the parade will follow the traditional route from the Malad Elementary School, winding down through Malad's business district, past Nell J. Redfield Memorial Hospital and Nursing Home and back to the school, led by the Grand Marshals.

Keith and Carolyn have both lived in Mala almost their entire lives – almost because Carolyn didn't move to Malad until she was three years old!

The Oneida County Farm Bureau has chosen the Ken Ward Family as the Farm Family for 2018.

Kenneth William Ward grew up in the Malad Valley farming with his father, Golden C. Ward. Ken attributes his strength and work ethic to his many hours bucking hay as a youth. Ken went to Utah State University to play basketball and then served a two-year mission in Uruguay and Paraguay. He attended Utah Valley community college. He married Tracy Budge, who's roots are from Malad, but she grew up as a city girl in California. hen Ken's father's health began to fail they decided to move back to Malad and help out with the family farm. Ken bought some land of his own as well as running the land in Daniels. Tracy has loved living in the beautiful Malad Valley and enjoys helping Ken on the farm.

Together they have raised not only cattle, but six sons and one daughter: Brandon, Jedd, Blake, Kenny, Jessica, Trevor and Derek.

The Malad Lions Club celebrated its 95th year on Thursday, June 21, making it the oldest5 continuous Lions Club in Idaho. Malad's charter was given out just six years after the Lions Club International was founded in Illinois.

The Malad Dragons, a 12 and under baseball team, earned the Bannock Baseball League Championship for the second year in a row. This team was able to finish their season undefeated in the league.

The team worked their way through the regular season undefeated. They entered the tournament week as the top seeded team. They faced some tough games, fighting their way past a Fort Hall team to put themselves in the Championship game with a 9 – 4 win. Fort Hall fought their way back to the Championship game to face Malad once again. This Championship game was a battle right to the end. Both teams put a run on the board in each the first four innings. Finally, in the bottom of the fifth after another score by Fort Hall, Malad broke away to take an 8 – 5 lead. They hung on to win 9 – 5.

The team is coached by Todd Hubbard, Darrell Trip and Seth Briggs. The team includes Chase Briggs, Ryan Hubbard, Timmy Jensen, Caleb Mathews, Ben Peterson, Jace Potter, Sawyer Poulsen, Jake Spillett, Braylen Tripp and Matthew Warren.

10 YEARS AGO (2013)

 The Malad Area Chamber of Commerce has named Richard and Helen Ward as Grand Marshals for the Malad July 4 parade. Both are long-time educators and accomplished musicians who have freely shared their talents with the community.

On June 29, the Footsteps for Hope Cancer relay will be held at the Malad High School track. Footsteps for Hope is a local relay, and the proceeds raised will go to the Oneida County Hospital to renovate the chemo treatment room at the hospital. Entertainers will be on hand to perform, including Lalie Howard, Ernie Apodaca and Harry Sherman with his Rough Stock Band.

The Grand Teton Council of the Boy Scouts of America presented their Silver Beaver Awards recently. Among the recipients was Laurie Richins. 

Leading the FFA during he 2013 – 2014 school year will be Samantha Daniels, president; Eric Elaison, vice president; Austin Hubbard, secretary; Colter Sweeten, treasurer; Logan Atkinson, reporter; Oakley Greene, historian and Cheyenne Mattox sentinel.

The 2013 Rodeo Queens were announced recently. BreAnn Weeks was named Senor Queen, Rayleigh Barnes was named Junior Queen and Karessa Love was named Senior first attendant.

15 YEARS AGO (2008)

Oneida County residents were given the opportunity to be up front and personal with Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter and others in the state’s Executive Branch when Malad became a ‘Capital for a Day’ last Wednesday. It was the 16th ‘Capital for a Day’ event this year where the state’s high government officials have visited a municipality to discuss issues pertinent to their area.

Work on the Olive Osmond birthplace restoration project is now underway. The matriarch of the famous Osmond family was born in a small, two-room log house in Samaria in 1925.

The Oneida Education Association (OEA) took time to honor those who have served the group as Presidents in the past. The theme for the dinner, held earlier this year at Malad Middle School, was “Value the Past – Look to the Future.” Those honored included Wendy Alder, Kris Blaisdell, Nola Thomas Coats, Marva Couch, John Cockett, Marla Dredge, Scott Doying, Kerry Evans, Dotty Evanson, Lee Hess, Marilyn Jones, Marsha Jones, Dan Marteeny, Diane Mikesell, Kent Scott, Lynn Stayner, Sue Skeen, Wendell Smith, Ann Ward, Tracy Ward and Carol Dawn Willie.

The Royalty for the 2008 Oneida County Fair and Rodeo was selected last Thursday during competition at the Oneida County Fair Grounds. In the Senior Division (ages 15-20) the Oneida Cowboy Classic Queen is Katie Davis, 1st attendant is Andrea Daniels and 2nd attendant is Toni Finder. In the Junior Division (ages 10-14) the Queen is Carrie Ann Christiansen, 1st attendant is Meahhan Olsen and 2nd attendant is Taber Paskett. In the Princess Division (ages 9 and under) the Queen is Mesa Paskett.

25 YEARS AGO (1998)

Malad High School has a new principal. Darrel Pantalone will take over as the head of the school officially beginning the first part of August. Pantalone is coming from Idaho City, just north of Boise. He has been working there as Idaho City’s principal.

The sign dedicated to Idaho’s former governor, John V. Evans, will be dedicated July 4th at 11:30 at the corner in front of Evans Co-op.

The Malad Lions installed new officers June 18 at its summer picnic, held at the Malad Stake Park. Over the coming year, Frank Stocks will serve as club president, Ken Moss first vice, Tom Strah second vice, Ken Wharton secretary, Gordon Griffiths treasurer, Tom Koontz tail twister, and Merrill Dorius Lion tamer. Directors will be Vern Bastian, Ed Thorpe, Doug Malone, Rick Griffiths and Tom Parry.

The Malad Bear River HeadStart program held its annual volunteer dinner at the Dude Ranch Cafe. Two awards were presented at the dinner. A plaque was given to Superintendent Lynn Schow for all the help the Oneida County School District gives the HeadStart program. A plaque was also given to Pat Origer. Origer donated his time and backhoe to help get the fibar under the HeadStart playground. 

35 YEARS AGO (1988)

Unseasonably hot temperatures took their toll on I-15 Friday between Malad and Woodruff when a section of the freeway buckled in the heat and another began to show signs of stress. The interstate “blowout” occurred suddenly on southbound I-15 at the Woodruff Overpass bringing traffic to a halt. On the other side, signs that the same thing might happen began to show up at the Two-Mile Overpass about the same time.  In Malad Wednesday afternoon the sidewalk in front of Ed Jones’ Jolly Rancher office on Bannock suddenly rose up about a foot.

Highly loved and respected U.S. history and government teacher, Melvin Joe Davis, has been named this year’s Grand Marshall for the Malad Fourth of July Parade by the Malad Chamber of Commerce. Davis has been a teacher for the past 38 years since graduating from Utah State University, and during those years has endeared himself to hundreds of students.

The Idaho State University School of Vocational-Technical Education dean’s list for spring semester has been announced and Mark Colton and Joseph Dale Jones, both of Malad were listed.

The Malad Chamber of Commerce was presented a check for $4,000 by Joe Campbell, Vice President and Manager of Idaho First National Bank’s Malad Office to be used toward a “Welcome to Malad” sign. 

School officials are seeking vandals following two vandalism sprees at the Malad Elementary School and school busses. When the school custodian arrived on June 23, he was confronted with broken eggs splattered all over walls, ceiling and windows in the front entry and hallway at the school. A pop machine has been pried open, and three buses in the parking lot had also been vandalized. When school employees arrived on June 2, they again found the building had been vandalized. This time black spray paint had been used to write offensive and obscene statements on walls, floors and windows of the main floor and on three buses being worked on in the high school shop. School equipment in the shop was also coated with black paint, as were the instructor’s desk and papers. Mustard, sticky tape and fire extinguisher dust was also used in other rooms of the school. 

45 YEARS AGO (1978)

Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise are members of two Oneida 4-H Horse clubs, the Bronc Busters and the Westhill 4-H Stockmen who participated in the recent district horse judging competition at Blackfoot.  Members included Ann Marie Weeks, Cherie Weeks, Suzi Bush, Shawn Harrison, Scott Jones, Travis Palmer, leader Peggy Smith, Scott Smith, Tracey Davis, Leslie Ann John, Shawn Smith, Wendy John and leader Bernice Weeks.

Three enjoyable evenings of entertainment will be featured this weekend during the Deep Creek Inn Grand Opening, reports new owner, Jim Hill. One of the performers will be Malad native Mark Kent. Among his selections that evening will be his Nashville release, “She Smiled”.

Featured performer in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s production of South Pacific, currently, playing at Jackson Hole, Wyoming is Malad’s talented vocalist, Brad Bowen. The Dontell production players perform nightly, except Sundays at the Playhouse Theatre. 

55 YEARS AGO (1968)

Sheriff Kenneth Wharton reported this week that Ralph Burton has been employed as deputy sheriff to fill the vacancy left when Rick Servoss accepted a position with the Las Vegas city police force.

Newcomer to the staff of the Malad schools next term will be Eugene Colton, a former resident, who will be teaching 7th and 8th grade math and a basic electricity class at Malad High School.

Mark Howard, Malad High graduate who is attending UCLA at Los Angeles, has received an appointment as a reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force and designated as a Distinguished Cadet for ability, initiative and leadership shown during ROTC training, according to Major Sidney A. Sosnow, professor of aerospace studies at UCLA.

Two Malad High students, Lynn Bastian and Maureen Briggs placed in the Idaho High School state rodeo held at Burley during the weekend. Maureen won second place in pole bending and Lynn third in cow cutting. Other members of the Malad High Rodeo Club competing at the State meet were Tim Edwards and Julie Blaisdell.

Miss Janesse Thomas has selected July 5 as a date of her marriage to Dean L. Baker. The ceremony will be performed in the St. John LDS Chapel. Both Janesse and Dean are graduates of Malad High School and attended Utah State University at Logan last year. They plan to resume their studies there. Dean is a member of the ROTC.

Jim Blaisdell, all-around track star of Brigham Young University, was this week named an All-American by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The versatile performer, now ranked sixth in the nation in the long jump, will compete at Los Angeles June 29-30 for a berth on the U.S. Olympic team.

60 YEARS AGO (1963)

Miss Lois Call, “Miss Malad City of 1963”, left Monday to compete in the “Miss Idaho Pageant” being held at Boise this weekend. Joining her later in the week will be her mother Mrs. Bertis Call, Mrs. Tom Laws and Linda Laws, “Miss Malad City of 1964”.

Selected over 16 other contestants, Mrs. Kathleen Steed of Stone was named by judges to reign as queen of the 17th annual Oneida County Rodeo. Gaining equal points from the judges were the two attendants, Miss Kristie Champneys and Miss Gayle Blaisdell. Other contestants were Bernice Briggs, Marsha Alder, Diane Williams, Judy Alder, LaRae Briggs, Marcene Williams, Marilyn Buehler, Suzanne Harrison, Janae Wood, Kay Lewis, Pat Davis all of Malad; Linda Secrist, Sandra Hunsaker and Joan Daniels, Tremonton.

The Malad Second Ward was the setting for a June 8th wedding, which united Cheryl Vanderwood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Vanderwood, in marriage with J. Michael Madson, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Madson.

Alice Neal, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Howard Neal, exchanged nuptial vows, June 7, with Joseph Golden Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Golden C. Ward.

Recent recipient of a B.S. degree in civil engineering at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, was Marvin Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hess.

70 YEARS AGO (1953)

The group from Malad who went to Salt Lake City Wednesday to participate in the dance Friday night, when 7,000 young folks danced as a part of the M.I.A. convention, were Delores Gleed, Emma Jean Smith, Emma Lou Williams, Ruth Williams, Lorana Jones, Edis Williams, Deanna Price, Karen Hartley, Euarda Neal, Arthur D. Williams, Brent Williams, George Williams, Joe Daniels, Lowell Budge, Blair Gleed, David Nielsen, Gordon Fredrickson and Welton Ward.

Miss Malad City of 1953, Alice Harding, left Wednesday morning for Boise where she will compete with eight other candidates for the title of Miss Idaho.

Lloyd Sweeten, who has been in the U.S. military for the past two years, received his release June 11 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas and returned to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sweeten.

Four Malad girls are among the 200 high school students from all parts of Idaho attending the 1953 session of Syringa Girls’ state at Moscow this week. The four are Chloe Ann Price, Karen Hartley, Lorana Jones and Connie Thomas. Girls’ State is sponsored by the national American Legion Auxiliary and is a practical school of citizenship designed to train young citizens in the various forms of city, county and state government.

Lynn M. John, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. John, and Hartley Fredrickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Fredrickson, Malad, have arrived at Castle Air Force Base, Merced, California for a four-week Air Force reserve Officer Training Corps. Summer camp.

75 YEARS AGO (1948)

Miss Jeane Jones, who received her bachelor of science degree from the University of Oregon at Eugene last week, returned home Friday. She was met at Tremonton by her mother Mrs. Mable Jones, her sister, Mrs. Alyce Warner and brother, Tommie Jones.

Charles O. Simpson, who has served as superintendent of the West Side High School for the past three years, has accepted the position of superintendent of the Oneida County School District and will begin his duties July 1.

Jack Clark, 25, and Max Thomas, 23, were killed Friday afternoon when the J-3 Piper Cub, in which they were flying, crashed and burned at the Oneida Fairgrounds.  The plane, piloted by Mr. Clark, struck a power line very close to the ground when in a right turn, went out of control and struck the ground about 100 yards beyond the line. It immediately burst into flames. Family and friends mourned their loss. 

Loren Peck and Melvin Thompson attended the firemen’s fire fighting school conducted at Salt Lake City.

City mail delivery service will go into effect Thursday, July 1, according to an announcement by Henry W. Thomas, postmaster. In connection with the new service the postmaster has asked all Malad City residents on the delivery route to provide mail boxes and numbers on their homes.

Ross Benson, Odell Stuart, William R. Williams, Ralph L. Daniels, Charles J. Kern, Thomas J. Parry and Wendell D. Camp took the civil service examination for mail carriers held at the Malad School Friday. Fay Evans, secretary of the local civil service board, conducted the examination.

85 YEARS AGO (1938)

Work on remodeling the LaGrande Dance Hall, which will cost about $6,500, commenced Monday. The improvements include enlarging the dance floor space to accommodate 175 more couples, installation of a new heating plant and a cooling system, new rest rooms and bandstands and a complete new modern front. The work is being done under the supervision of Evans and Flint.

Ralph V. Daniels passed his solo flight airplane test at Pocatello Wednesday of this week and was issued a pilot certificate entitling him to fly a plane anywhere in the United States. Ralph graduated last week in pharmacy at the U of I Southern branch. He was president of the Idaho Southern University Pharmacy association, a member of the Phi Delta Chi of which he was vice president the first semester, and a pep band member four years. Ralph will assist his father at the R. V. Daniels Drug Store this summer.

Telegrams were received from Washington this week stating that President Roosevelt had approved the WPA project for the improvement of the sidewalks, roads and alleys of Malad Village. The funds allocated by the federal government total $34,104.

Newspapers of Challis, Idaho have been featuring the “movie” recently produced by their local fire department. The story of this movie was written by Milton Deschamps, formerly of Malad who also directed most of the scenes of the picture. Mr. Deschamps is assistant postmaster of Challis and plays an active part in civic affairs. The movie was shown at the Challis Theater and was reported to be a decided success. Mr. Deschamps is the son of Mrs. Hannah Deschamps of Malad.

95 YEARS AGO (1928)

Daniels organized a Mutual Association Sunday evening. Malad Stake furnished a program in honor of the occasion. Newly installed officers of the Mutual are Jake Kern, president; Wilford Parry, first counselor; Rudy Ruegsegger, second counselor; Ariel Stone, secretary; Mrs. Russel Daniels, YLMIA president; Ziney Peterson, first counselor; Mrs. Guy Thomas, second counselor; Ruby Newton, secretary; Mrs. Barbara Dudley, chorister.

The following students from Malad were graduated at Albion Normal School Monday afternoon: Dan Davis, Erma Evans, Maria Evans, Eva Hadfield, Evelyn Jones, Iris Jones, Willie Morse, Beatrice Ward and Mrs. Pearl Williams.

From the Northwest Police Journal: “Malad is the county seat of Oneida County, Idaho and Sheriff Ed Owens makes his headquarters there. Oneida has never felt an urgent need of modern law enforcement machinery. Sheriff Owens is paid $1,200 a year. He is called upon to make about one arrest a month and has no deputies”.