Idaho Power seeks interim rate hike to catch up losses
Idaho Power President James Bruce says a 20.4 million dollar interim increase is a catch up rate case to recover revenue authors in last year’s order. The plan includes a 1.77 dollar per kilowatt hour energy charge with a 20 percent summer load surcharge and a fixed monthly residential charge. The Public Utilities Commission is expected to rule within two months.
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Becky Fanning Boise
UPI
Idaho Power Co
James Bruce
Public Utilities Commission
Idaho
Bruce
Commission
Robert C
Idaho unemployment rate slips to 6.6 percent in March
Idaho's March unemployment rate falls to 6.6 percent from 6.8 percent in February, a level matching March 1976. Employment climbs about five percent year over year, while the department cites weather and drought as factors slowing a faster recovery and warns that the economy remains burdened by recent disasters.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho Department of Employment
Biggs Escapes Again On Royal Navy Visit
Britain’s Ronald Biggs, the Great Train Robber now in Brazil, reportedly boarded a visiting British warship in Rio de Janeiro and was entertained by sailors before walking off the HMS Danae after 25 minutes. The incident provoked an Admiralty probe and parliamentary questions over military hospitality toward a fugitive, with Biggs still a free man 30 years after the robbery.
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Michael Dennigan
London
UPI
Ronald Biggs
Britain
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Scotland Yard
House of Commons
Biggs
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Man Sentenced for 1960 Crime in Yorktown Heights Case
Richard Delage, 27, was given life in prison for the 1960 shooting death of Carol Segretta, a Troy teacher. Judge John Couzens noted a long violence history dating to 1960 and denied a concurrent sentence with a separate Connecticut murder case. Delage staged the 1969 Weatherly killing and confessed after 1975 arrests.
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Hal Davis
White Plains
N.Y
UPI
Richard Delage
Long Island
Carol Segretta
Westchester County
John Couzens
Delage
Stephen Pittari
Connecticut
Pittari
Thompson, Conn
Mansfield
Conn
Miss Segretta
Paget Weatherly
University of Connecticut
Couzens
Pets Pose Problems in Europe Federation Warns of Rising Dog and Cat Welfare Threats
The World Federation for the Protection of Animals reports increasing numbers of dogs and cats in Britain France West Germany France and the Soviet Union raise welfare concerns. It notes hostility to dogs in England spurred by litter fouling traffic hazards and rabies fears.
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Switzerland
UPI
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France
West Germany
World Federation For the Protection of Animals
Europe
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
England
Austria
Finland
Luxembourg
Scandinavia
Federation
Cne
Water Projects Approved by Carter Administration
The Carter administration backs nine continued water resource projects including the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway and Red River Waterway with others across Alabama Mississippi and Colorado. It also proposes major modifications to Gulf Outlet Mississippi River Louisiana and several basin and central project initiatives while listing eighteen projects for congressional termination ranging from Applegate Lake Oregon to Tallahala Creek Mississippi and Columbia Dam Tennessee.
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Ore
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Cache Basin
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Kan
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LaFarge Lake
Wis
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Okla
S.C
Tallahala Creek
Yatesville
Columbia Dam
Auburn
Calif
Mesa
Narrows
Oake
S.D
Summer drought to worsen Idaho economy warns labor agency
Boise Idaho Labor Department says drought will reduce farm revenue and raise migrant labor housing issues. Cuts in electricity loom for FMC and Monsanto phosphate plants with 100 layoffs already announced. Overall state unemployment could rise as snowpack remains 39 percent of normal and power shortfalls reach about 10 percent.
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Idaho
Idaho Power Electrical System
FMC
Monsanto
Labor Department
Trial Underway On Malpractice In San Francisco
A $1 million malpractice trial began in San Francisco for Dr. John Brown 34 and Andrew James Spence 43 as defendants in a suit by Julie Phillips 36. The plaintiff claims Brown gave malformed breasts and grotesquely disfigured genitalia and operated without proper psychiatric consultation screening or hormone therapy. Trial lawyer Melvin Belli represents the plaintiff.
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San Francisco
UPI
John Brown
Andrew James Spence
Julie Phillips
Charles Beatty
Brown
Melvin Belli
Idaho Prepares Over 200000 Swine Flu Vaccines
Idaho health officials report more than 200000 swine flu vaccine doses on hand in case of an epidemic later this year. Immunization coordinator Robert Medlin notes 185000 Idahoans received shots since the program began October 1. Cost totaled about a quarter million dollars with federal grants covering half and state districts the rest. Vaccinations were free to the public, while syringes and nurses were funded by state money. Until last Friday shots were available at district health departments, now inoculations are limited to physicians.
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E Boise
UPS
Idaho
Robert Medlin
Medlin
Man Identified After Death Found At Rising River Ranch
In Blackfoot Idaho authorities tentatively identified a man found dead April 11 on Rising River Ranch northwest of town. Sheriff Dee Jorgenson said the man believed to be in his 20s is from Mexico with unknown address and not employed by ranch owner Albert Wada. Coroner Homer Evans noted autopsy results may take weeks to determine cause of death. no visible injuries were reported.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
UPI
Hospital South
Harry Honea
Bingham County
Dee Jorgenson
Honea
Rockford
State Hospital South
Albert Wada
Bingham
County
Homer Evans
Poor Prices Foreseen for Idaho Agriculture in 1977
Idaho farmers face irrigation water shortages and predicted low prices for most crops in 1977, with production costs rising. The State Department of Employment notes many commodities are near or below break-even, while the livestock sector may gain as prices are expected to rise through the year. A separate note recalls Michael Sangster’s 1963 tennis serve of 154 mph in Britain.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
State Department of Employment
Department
Michael Sangster
Great Britain
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