Agnes Burns Hartley's first school, at Crystal
In 1963 a retired Rockland teacher told fellow educators she had begun at Crystal; in 1915, as Agnes Burns, she had taught the tiny school in Crystal's Thacker neighborhood.
1963 in the valley.
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A young visitor killed by a farm wagon in Arbon Valley, 1963
On July 4, 1963, Lynne Wisecarver, 11, of Sacramento, died after she was thrown from a horse-drawn wagon at her grandparents' farm in Arbon Valley.
Jean Daniels Evans and the country store at Pauline, 1963
A Journal writer found Jean Daniels Evans keeping the store at the Pauline crossroads, and her father, T. C. Daniels, recalled the store of the 1930s.
Two charter planes lost: the Aztec on the Hayden ranch, 1963
Two Pocatello charter planes were lost on a stormy night in March 1963; one crashed on the Ben Hayden ranch north of Crystal, killing its pilot and passenger.
Bannock Creek hunters take a mountain lion near Bannock Peak, 1963
In January 1963 Merle Meyers, his sons Jerry and Jay, and Kenneth Pevoe killed a big female mountain lion held to blame for sheep losses near Bannock Peak.