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
Texas State Highway 354 Texas State Highway 354 State Highway 354 or SH 354 is a state highway in the Texas Panhandle. This route is a replacement of a portion of SH 5, which was cancelled on September 14, 1944 as it was never built. This section was bypassed, and was renumbered to keep state highway status. SH 354 begins at an intersection with US 385 in the town of Channing. The highway is known as 7th Street in Channing and the road extends to the west of the US 385 intersection as FM 767. SH 354 heads to the east from this intersection