5 YEARS AGO (2020)

The Malad Area Chamber of Commerce has named Lynn and Connie Price, longtime residents and business owners, in Malad, as the Grand Marshals of the July 4th parade.

The Prices offered the following statement to The Idaho Enterprise, “We would like to say thanks for giving us the honor of being Grand Marshals of the 2020 Independence Day Parade. Our community is full of so many wonderful people who are always willing to help in any way they can. Thank you for choosing us to represent the community.”

From nomination received by Malad city from organizations and individuals, Tony McClain was chosen as the Malad City Volunteer of the Year for 2020. McClain was recognized for his mentoring of Malad youths. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the normal recognition evening held on July 3 was cancelled. Tony received the award from Mayor Joan Hawkins with his fellow workers at Ireland Bank cheering him on, on Friday, June 26.

With two COVID-19 cases recently identified in Oneida County, that makes deciding how far to open up the city to future events even more difficult. Community leaders do not want to have an event that will further impact the city and county but realize that importance of getting back to a semblance of “normal”.

With that in mind, permission was granted by the Malad City Council to the Malad Area Chamber of Commerce and other groups for a restricted July 4 celebration. Residents are being asked to follow COVID-19 protocols set by the governor, by physical distancing and wearing masks when required. It would also be beneficial to carry a small bottle of hand sanitizer.

10 YEARS AGO (2015)

Edna Palmer has been named by the Malad Area Chamber of Commerce to lead the July 4 parade as the Grand Marshal.

Friday, July 3, is the 70th birthday of the Dude Ranch Café! On July 3, 1945, Lew-is (Shep) and Blanche Shep-herd opened the popular eatery in Malad. On November 24, 1977, it was announced that the other “Shep”, Gary, would be assuming ownership of the business in January of 1978. Happy Birthday To The Dude Ranch!

The Oneida County Farm Bureau has named the Ron and Shirlee Blaisdell family Farm Family of the year.

15 YEARS AGO (2010)

 Organizers of the 6th annual Welsh Festival were pleased with the outcome of the two-day event. Jean Thomas, spokesperson for the Malad Welsh Festival Committee said, “As a committee, we were generally very happy with how the Welsh Festival went. We had about the same number of people as in the past two years – about 1600. Considering the economy, the fact that the attendance is stable, is good”.

The Malad Area Chamber of Commerce has selected Dennis and Brenda Thomas to lead Malad’s 2010 Independence Day parade.

Hilary Stayner is the Cowboy Classic Rodeo Queen for 2010, named last week in the Queen Contest at the Oneida Fair Grounds. First Attendant is Kelsey Bingham and Bailey Bunker also competed.

Making up the Junior Cowboy Classic Rodeo Royalty for 2010 are Jr. Queen Sadie Simpson, and 1st Attendant is Kaclen Hill. Other competitors were Shelby Ward, Naomi Cor-bridge and Malari Bingham.

Timmi Ward, grand-daughter of Albert and Vicki Ekstrom and great-grand-daughter of Lavene John, finished in first place overall in barrel racing at the UHS-RA State Finals, earning a trip to the National High School Finals Rodeo.

20 YEARS AGO (2005)

As the 2005 Oneida County Farm Bureau Woman of the Year, Carol Rindlisbacher will represent Oneida County in District One competition to be held in the spring of 2006. District one includes the counties of Bannock, Oneida, Caribou, Franklin, Bear Lake, Power and Bingham.

The Vard Neal family is the 2005 Oneida County Farm Family. Vard and Ginny Neal and their girls live in western Oneida County on their ranch in Stone. Vard is a full-time rancher and the father of four daughters. “He is so blessed!!!” Ginny jokes.

Angela Dawn Williams, the daughter of Randy and Lois Willie of Malad, has been awarded a Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Idaho College of Law. Angie is married to Austin Williams, also from Malad.

Christopher Jones and Meagan Rose were among those who made the dean’s list for spring semester, January to May 2005, at the University of Idaho in Moscow. Christopher is attending the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Meagen, is attending the College of Engineering.

Krichele Daniels and Bobbi Lyn Wangsgard were among students named to the spring semester 2005 dean’s list at Boise State University. Krichele, a freshman, received honors in Administrative Office Technology and Bobbi, a junior, received honors in Pre-Nursing.

25 YEARS AGO (2000)

An 80th Birthday open house will be held for Evelyn Cutler Nalder at the Hol-brook City Park on Saturday, July 1, at 3:30 p.m. Every-one is invited to share in this special celebration given by her family.

Three from Malad were recently named to the College of South Idaho dean’s list. Receiving honors are JaRon Crowther, Linda Rice and Austin Tubbs.

A picturesque garden par-ty was the setting for over 80 family members who gathered at the home of Tom and Brenda Thorpe in Brigham City. They gathered to honor their father and grandfather, John Thomas Thorpe, or better known as “Tommy”, in celebration of his 88th birthday.

Selected by the local Farm Bureau organization is Mary Jo Davis as the 2000 Farm Woman of the year and the Everett and Edna King family as the Farm family of the year.

Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise is Medal Winner Thelma Dopp, of Malad. She proudly shows off the Silver Medal she won in the Bowling Tournament at the Special Olympics, held June 8-10 in Pocatello. Thelma has enjoyed bowling in the Special Olympics since 1984 and has 27 medals to show for it. She said, “I had a great lot of fun, and I’m going to do it again next year.”

40 YEARS AGO (1985)

Twenty Oneida athletes, ages 15 through 18, are participating in the Ernest W.  Jones Post American Legion baseball program this year, after the program took a one-year bye.

Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise are members of the Legion B Baseball team sponsored by the Ameri- can Legion Ernest W. Jones Post 65. The team members are Merrill Dorius, Kevin Archibald, Boyd Roberts, Chuck Moon, David Lewis, Brett Daniels, Troy Hub-bard, Eldon Roe, Don Williams, Ed Dorius, coach; Josh Atkinson and Derk Williams (bat boys), Jeff Hess, Monty Henry, Travis Robbins, Justin Moon, Rick Palmer, Todd Nielson and Commander Reed Facer. Missing from the picture is Bracken Budge.

Stephen R. Daniels is included on the Idaho State University College of Busi-ness dean’s list for spring semester. Also, Brian Cowlishaw, an English major at ISU, is one of 30 students having received a vending machine scholarship of $200.

A port of entry is being installed at the junction of Highway 37 and Stone Road near Holbrook and will be ready for use some-time this fall, according to an Idaho State Port of Entry spokesman. It is one of 50 to 60-satellite port of entries, which are being established in pull-off areas statewide throughout Idaho.

50 YEARS AGO (1975)

Most everybody in Oneida County felt the gentle nudge Sunday evening about 9:30. The tremor was rated at 3 on the Ritcher scale, according to Bill Richins of University of Utah’s seismograph department.

 Smokey Bear, living symbol for fire prevention, retired at age 25, after serving since 1950 when he was found as a half-dead cub in a charred tree following a forest fire. He will doze away his remaining days in his native New Mexico at the Ghost Ranch near Santa Fe. Smokey received 140,000 fan letters in 1974. A new Smokey Bear has taken over his duties at the National Zoological Park in Washington, Women of the ward in soft-ball and volleyball, and at the same time, incorporates teaching the principles of the Gospel in her work with them. She formerly taught three-year-olds in Sunday School. Debbie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dee Wakley. She was named Miss Congeniality and was runner-up in the Miss Malad City Pageant and also was Malad’s Dairy Princess. She is planning a September 26th marriage with Rick Van Bebber.

60 YEARS AGO (1965)

Pvt. LaMont Cottom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cottom, Stone, will leave June 20th to serve as an ambulance driver in Viet Nam. LaMont has been stationed at Ford Ord, California where his wife and two sons have been with him.

Mrs. Lenore Daniels Green recently appeared on the dean’s list at Kansas State University for maintaining a perfect 4-point grade average during spring semester.

Miss Christie Champneys, Queen of the 1965 Oneida County Rodeo, will be riding her 6-year-old Quarter Horse, Firebird I, son of Hard Twist, during the 19th annual celebration scheduled at the Oneida Fairgrounds.

Del Mar Williams, recently elected president of the junior class at Brigham Young University, Provo, has announced the appointment of two executive assistants and 25 members of the Junior House of Representatives. Executive assistant will be Terry Cluff of SLC and the assistant in charge of finance will be Louis Dredge of Malad. Working with the president, Louis will be in charge of the $8,000 budget during the coming year. Among the 25 member House of Representatives from Malad are Wally Smith and Joe L. Williams. This body of the house, along with the President’s cabinet, will be in charge of all of the class activities during the year.

 Qualifying at the Idaho High School Rodeo held at American Falls during the weekend, three Malad High Rodeo Club members, Suzanne Harrison, Kent Smith and Christie Champneys, have won spots in the National High School Final Championship Rodeo to be held August 10th at Ogalla-la, Nebraska. All three will be juniors next fall.

70 YEARS AGO (1955)

Under the lend-lease agreement, with the Snake River Mutual Fire Insurance Co., the Oneida county Fire District has obtained a new $13,500 fire truck. Pictured in The Idaho Enterprise with the new 500-gallon pumper with 500-gallon auxiliary tank are members of the fire department. They are chief Derrald Chivers, Henry Bolingbroke, Ren Thomson, Ralph Facer, Frank Thomas, Dave Evans, Loren Peck, Tommy Thorpe and Bill G. Evans.

“When an engaged girl is given a shower, it means an-other guy has gone down the drain.” – George Shearing

Eric Jones left Tuesday for Flat Head Lake, Montana as an Oneida County representative for the Junior Red Cross summer training course. He will return July 10th. Mrs. Ione Jones is president of the local Junior Red Cross.

University of Oregon, Eugene – A total of 250 students were included on the university honor roll for spring term. Of these, 24 made a 4-point average or all A’s. One the honor roll from Malad is Jay Dee Deschamps who made a perfect GPA of 4.00. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Parley Deschamps.

80 YEARS AGO (1945)

The following Oneida county selectees will leave Friday, June 29 for Fort Douglas for induction into the service; Loren D. Richards, Odell Stuart, Gordon Griffiths, and Jean Eldredge Rice. David L. Kent and Vance Vaughan are transfers out of the county who were also included in this call.

15th AAF In Italy – Captain Owen K. Brown of Malad City has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in direct support of combat operations as engineering officer of the famous 97th Bombardment Group the oldest B-17 Flying Fortress group participating in the strategic air war over Germany.

With the 19th Bombardment group, Captain Brown served at Pearl Harbor, Mid-way and the Solomon Islands. He was at Pearl Harbor on December 7th. Upon his re-turn to the United States he volunteered for duty in the European war.

 Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Jensen received word this week from the War Department that their son, Pvt. Leatham Jensen, died July 9, 1942, in the Philippines as a war prisoner of the Japanese. He had been “considered missing in action” since the fall of Corregidor, May 7, 1942. The parents also received a letter this week from General Douglas McArthur as follows:

 “May I offer you my sympathy in the death of your son, Pvt. Leatham Jensen, while a prisoner of war of the enemy.

 “Pvt. Jensen’s last message was written February 14, 1942. At that time he was living in a native hut on Bataan with Emile Hoffman and Ted Cramer, both of American Falls, Idaho. Hoffman died in July 1942, and Kramer “was presumed dead” by the war department in 1944.

 “You may have some consolation in the memory that he along with his comrades-in-arms, who died on Bataan and Corregidor and in prison camps, gave his life for his country. It was largely their magnificent courage and sacrifice, which stopped the enemy in the Philippines and gave us the time to arm ourselves for our return to the Philippines and the final defeat of Japan. Their names shall be enshrined in our country’s glory forever.

  “In your son’s death I have lost a gallant comrade and mourn with you.”

Second Lieutenant Arthur C. Jones, veteran bombardier in a B-24 Liberator crew with the “Bomber Barons”, has recently been presented another Oak Leaf Cluster for his Air medal for meritorious achievement in aerial combat at his Philippines airbase.