Promoter Accuses Land Board Over Evel Knievel Jump
Promoter Rick Willard of Thacker and Associates says three Idaho State Land Board members secretly met to decide who would get a permit to use land for the Knievel canyon jump entertainment. The plan aims to draw crowds alongside Evel Knievel’s September 8 jump, with potential action by the attorney general and state officials.
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Margaret Bailey Boise
UPI
Evel Knievel
Snake River Canyon
State Land Board
Rick Willard
Los Angeles
Calif
Thacker and Associates
Boise
Knievel
Willard
The
Land Board
Jim Thacker
State School Endowment Fund
W. Anthony Park
Ford Assumes Presidency Amid Watergate After Nixon Resigns
Gerald R. Ford became president taking the oath from Chief Justice Burger as Richard Nixon flew home to California after resigning. Ford addressed the nation pledging plainspoken leadership and urging unity while noting Nixon's resignation and asking for prayers for the former president and his family.
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Mike Feinsilber
Washington
UPI
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Warren E. Burger
Richard M. Nixon
West
White House
Congress
Nixon
Betty
Henry A. Kissinger
The
United States
Richard Nixon
City Council Meets Monday in Sandpoint
The Sandpoint City Council will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday night in the council chambers at 8 p.m. Items include a proposed city parking lot, awarding a bid for the sewage treatment plant, re bidding for sealing sewer lines, timberland trade, employee insurance program discussion, and monthly committee and city officer reports.
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Sandpoint
Sandpoint Weather Outlook
Variable clouds today and Saturday with a few showers possible. Northeasterly winds to 15 mph. Rain chances 10 percent tonight rising to 30 percent Saturday. Highs around 80 and lows near 50.
Ranger Station Moves to New Federal Building
The Sandpoint Ranger Station will relocate to the first floor of the Sandpoint Federal Building this Saturday with about 30 employees affected. The Forest Service divisions for multiple use planning and engineering will also move in, sharing space with three agricultural offices and a lunch room run by the blind from Boise. An open house will follow after dedication word is received.
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Sandpoint Ranger Station
Sandpoint Federal Building
Helen Melior
Forest Service
Melior
Federal Building
Forest Service Engineering Division
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
The
Soil Conservation Service
Farmers Home Administration
Boise
General Services Administration
Ranger Station
Bonner County
Ford seeks vice president picks amid party rifts
Ford must name a vice president to unite a nation and heal a fractured Republican Party. Nelson Rockefeller Elliott Richardson Melvin Laird top contenders, but conservative senators object to the list of 12 candidates and one woman. Other names include Charles Percy Lowell Weicker John Anderson John Rhodes William Ruckelshaus and Charles Goodell.
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Ford
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Elliot Richardson
Melvin Laird
United Press International
Dors
Rockefeller
GOP
Nixon
Goldwater
Charles Percy
Ilinois
Lowell Weicker
Connecticut
John Anderson
Iinois
John J. Rhodes
Arizona
William Ruckelshaus
Charles, Goodell
Kellogg Lead Testing Survey to Probe Public Health
In Kellogg Idaho the Silver Valley will undergo comprehensive lead testing of people air water and vegetation starting next week. Four teams with physicians from the Communicable Disease Center will collect soil dust vegetation and water samples while children ages 1 to 9 receive blood tests.
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Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Coeur d’Alene
Siver Valley
Idaho State Department of Health and Welfare
Panhandle
Communicable Disease Center
Atlanta
Shoshone
Anabelle Rose
Silver Valley
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Clarence
Barbara Remsen
Barbara
Sandpoint Future Farmers of America Organization
Bee
Evel
City Council
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