LeRoy Lindley's strip crops on an Arbon Valley slope, 1948–1950
In 1948 Power County farmers formed a soil conservation district with LeRoy Lindley of Arbon on its board, and in 1950 he began laying his own hillside wheat farm out in strips.
1950 in the valley.
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Three Pocatello fliers killed near Rattlesnake Creek, 1950
On a rainy night in November 1950 a light plane from Pocatello crashed near Rattlesnake Creek in upper Arbon Valley, killing a flight instructor and two students.
The Arbon Valley reunions in Pocatello, 1948–1950
Starting in 1948, present and former Arbon Valley residents met each winter in Pocatello for a dinner, a program and a dance; the hard winter of 1949 put one off until March.