Head-on in the snow: a Thanksgiving collision near Crystal, 1964
On Thanksgiving Day 1964 an Arbon family's car and a Pocatello family's car met head-on in a snowstorm north of Arbon; eight went to the hospital, and a lawsuit followed.
1964 in the valley.
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Mel Bailey's wheat and the first crop spraying from the air
In 1946 or 1947 Arbon farmer Mel Bailey hired Pocatello pilot Curley Wilson to spray his weedy wheat from the air, the first job of Wilson's crop-spraying business.
Newell Lishman, Arbon's first rural mail carrier, 1891–1964
Newell Lishman homesteaded under Bowen's Peak, carried Arbon's first rural mail route and died in 1964; his obituary says a canyon near Arbon was named Newell Canyon for him.