Jamboree West Opens With Fireworks at Lake Pend Oreille
About 30 000 Boy Scouts and leaders gathered at Lake Pend Oreille Idaho to open Jamboree West with fireworks and 300 pigeons. Arch Monson Bob Hope and Governor Cecil Andrus attended as two jamborees coexist at Moraine Park and Idaho.
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Farragut State, Park, Idaho
UPI
Lake
Pend Oreille
Idaho
Boy Scouts
Moraine State Park
Penn
Arch Monson
Robert Renneker
National Scout Council
Alden Barber
East Bonner County Free Library District Petition Sought
County residents circulate petitions to form the East Bonner County Free Library District under Sandpoint Public Library governance. Trustees would levy a tax up to two mills, with 0.5 to 2 mills possible, affecting a countywide area excluding Sandpoint city limits.
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East Bonner County
Sandpoint
Priest Lake
Bonner County Hospital
Idaho
Andrus Mobilizes National Guard Against Idaho Fires
National Guardsmen and air tankers fought two range fires in the Ohyhee Desert near Twin Falls Idaho burning grass and sagebrush. The fires One Horse Butte and Clover Flat grew to over 20 000 acres each with 40 000 acres burned in two days as Gov Andrus declared a state of emergency and ordered field kitchens for about 500 firefighters.
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United Press International
Idaho
Ohyhee
Twin Falls
Bureau of Land Management
Cecil D. Andrus
National
BLM
Horse Butte
Clover Flat
Yale
Burley
Boise
Idaho Falls
Priest River landfill site eyed for Bonner County system
Geologist Dr. John Bush says a Priest River site on Department of Public Lands property 1.5 miles south of Oldtown could complete a three point landfill system for Bonner County. Bush favors shallow trenches under 15 feet and notes the need for three observation wells to monitor movement along sand and gravel contacts.
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Priest River
John Bush
Department of Public Lands
Oldtown
Bonner County
Colburn
Athol
Bonner - Kooenai County
Bush
Rattle Creek Fire Near Sandpoint Continues Mop-Up
District Ranger Jerry Stern reports about 123 personnel still at the 640 acre Rattle Creek fire northeast of Sandpoint. Crews are being reduced as conditions allow with only essential forest business. Three Indian crews and two local pickup crews remain, no open burning without a permit, smoking allowed only in cars on roads.
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Rattle Creek
Sandpoint
Jerry Stern
Stern
Battle Creek
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Helicon
Porcupine Creek
Bob Hope
Fairchild Air Force Base Hospital
Spokane
County Library District
ED Finney
Andrus
National Guard
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