The wildcat well on the Porter farm at Arbon, 1969
In the summer of 1969 Intermountain Gas Co. had a test well drilled on Donald Porter's farm near Arbon, but it went down 3,677 feet without a show of oil or gas.
1969 in the valley.
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Arbon Valley wins its freeway interchange, 1969
When the state moved a planned freeway interchange away from Bannock Creek in 1969, Arbon Valley ranchers and their neighbors asked for it back, and in September they got it.
Lettie Allard leaves the first grade, 1969
In 1969 a Pocatello paper profiled first-grade teacher Lettie Allard as she prepared to retire, and in one paragraph described her husband, the Arbon homesteader William Allard, then 93.
Lieutenant Reese Andersen of Arbon Valley, killed in Vietnam, 1969
In April 1969 Marine Lt. Reese Andersen of Arimo and Arbon Valley died of an accidental gunshot near Quang Tri; the papers told of his life and his funeral at Arimo.
A string to follow home: the Connellys of Crystal, 1915–1928
In 1969 Charles Connelly, about to turn 89, recalled thirteen years homesteading at Crystal: snow over the cabin, grain sledded to Arimo, and a blizzard that hid the way home.