Clyde Jenson's "del Gesù" violin and the Utah Symphony, 1955
In November 1955 Clyde Jenson of Arbon Valley lent a violin described as a Guarneri del Gesù to the Utah Symphony's concertmaster for a recital and a Tabernacle concert.
1955 in the valley.
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D. J. Bowen, Arbon's first presiding elder, dies at 93
D. J. Bowen, who came to Arbon Valley in 1892 and led its first congregation, died in Pocatello on September 24, 1955; his obituary looked back over 93 years.
Plane spotters at Arbon: the Ground Observer Corps, 1954–1955
In the mid-1950s Arbon kept a Ground Observer Corps post under Mrs. Lee Newport, and a Pocatello recruiter said half the valley's little community had trained as plane spotters.
Two Arbon Valley youths camp in Garden Creek basin, March 1955
In March 1955 Rodney Smith and Calvin Williams, two young men from Arbon Valley farms, camped six days in the deep snow of Garden Creek basin and came home hopeful about the snowpack.