Gem State Adventist Academy early 1930s were 12 cents an hour for boys and 10 cents an hour for girls. At Gem State, the 1941 and 1942 yearbooks were dedicated to those students and former students who had gone to serve in the war, some of whom had been killed in action. After the war a bakery was built to increase student employment opportunities; it ultimately became the Rhodes Bake-N-Serv Company. In the 1960s, while President John Kennedy was planning to put men on the moon, and Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for civil rights, the Idaho Conference of Seventh-day Adventists were planning
Shelby Gem Factory purchases rough gold castings from out of state, and finishes these at the factory to make settings as needed. The crystals made by the Shelby Gem Factory are used in jewelry and scientific industries worldwide. Unlike naturally-produced stones, these products are free of occlusions and internal and external flaws or inclusions. The Shelby Gem Factory's simulated diamonds are diamond simulants, which are not to be confused with actual lab-grown synthetic diamonds. However, they can be difficult to distinguish from real diamonds. They have a Dcolor rating, the highest rating for diamonds (as determined by the Gemological Institute of America). Although