Arbon's non-transportation area and the Holbrook bus, 1970
In 1970 Arbon-area residents talked with the Oneida School Board at Malad about changing a system that sent a bus into their area only twelve weeks a year.
1970 in the valley.
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A lost sheepherder walks out of Arbon Valley, 1970
In September 1970 an elderly Fort Hall sheepherder left a broken-down pickup near Bannock Peak and walked out on his own while searchers hunted for him by air, truck and horse.
Arbon, Idaho, writes to Arbon, Switzerland, 1966–1970
Letters from the Swiss town of Arbon led Nelda Williams to write a history of Arbon Valley, which a Swiss newspaper had printed with photographs of her family by November 1969.
Martha Thyberg's washdays and the Arbon cabin her husband built
Nearing 84 in 1970, Martha Thyberg recalled early married washdays by a creek; the old papers add how her husband built their Arbon Valley cabin alone.