Crystal homesteaders Jay and Marcena Whiting mark 50 years, 1961
Fifty years after Jay and Marcena Whiting went to homestead at Crystal, their twelve children planned a golden wedding reception in Pocatello for the weekend of the Whiting reunion.
1961 in the valley.
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A pilot killed near Bannock Peak, northwest of Pauline, 1961
In a rainstorm on March 24, 1961, a Utah pilot who had just taken off from Pocatello was killed when his plane came down near Bannock Peak, about five miles northwest of Pauline.
William N. Jones: a Pauline homestead, then the American Falls dam
W. N. Jones came from Dayton, Washington, homesteaded near Pauline, then worked on the American Falls dam and the moving of the town.