A state trooper delivers a baby in the Arbon Valley area, 1978
On July 19, 1978, a mother bound for the hospital could not get there in time, and state trooper Brad Flores delivered her daughter in a station wagon in the Arbon Valley area.
1978 in the valley.
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Branding day on the Sod Williams ranch, 1978
In the spring of 1978 Arbon ranchers moved from ranch to ranch branding close to 1,200 head by rope and hand, and the *Journal* came to photograph the day at Sod Williams's.
The Arbon Valley Road Race, a bicycle race from Pocatello, 1978
On May 28, 1978, senior men in a Pocatello bicycle race rode 60 miles across Crystal Summit to Arbon Valley and home again; a Salt Lake City man won.
Bannock Creek cattlemen in the 1978 forest grazing case
In May 1978 Sherm Swim of Bannock Creek and Melvin Neaman, a Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek, testified on opposite sides of a federal suit over forest grazing.
Wally Hardy killed on the Arbon road, 1978
On Sunday, March 26, 1978, Wally Hardy, 40, of Bannock Creek died when a northbound pickup rolled on Arbon Road about eight miles north of the Arbon store.
Triplets for a young Buist couple, 1977–1978
On December 31, 1977, Arbon school-bus driver Denver Sweeten and his wife Lucinda, of Buist, became parents of triplets; a year later the Journal marked their first birthday.