[9] In January 1942, Arthur's son John C. Porter and his wife Annette purchased a competing paper called the Rexburg Standard.
[10][11] The Standard had been started as a Republican newspaper by William and Joseph Adams, who later brought James H. Wallis to a leadership role for the paper.
[15] According to the author of the editorial, Rexburg's Prosecuting Attorney set up a committee to review and ban magazines they deemed as having objectionable content.
[16] The Standard Journal's printing equipment was destroyed when a wall of water 6 feet high passed through downtown Rexburg and flooded the building where the paper was published.
[24] The Standard Journal reported that the city of Rexburg's population was set to double on the day of the solar eclipse, due to its central viewing location.