The first Andersens of Arbon in their last years, 1956–1964
Pocatello's paper marked the last years of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek: John's golden wedding in 1956, Otto's death in 1960 and Ezra's in 1964.
1960 in the valley.
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Clyde Jenson's Stradivarius in Pocatello, 1960 and 1969
In 1960 Clyde Jenson of Arbon Valley lent a violin called a 1704 Stradivarius to a symphony soloist in Pocatello, and in 1969 he was to play it himself.
Arbon teacher Neil Miller hurt on the Mink Creek road, 1960
On May 23, 1960, Arbon teacher Neil S. Miller, 65, was thrown from his truck on the Mink Creek road, and more than two hours passed before anyone found him.
A skeleton in a Bannock Creek cave and Old Yank the trapper, 1960
In April 1960 men reached a skeleton, two old rifles and a powder horn in a cave in the reservation's Bannock Creek district, and a Pocatello man wondered if they were Old Yank's.
Lloyd Brower's small range war, told to a Senate hearing in 1960
In 1960 Arbon Valley cattleman Lloyd Brower told a Senate subcommittee at Twin Falls how a range quarrel with sheepmen put his cattle on the forest, and protested a 40 percent cut.