I Could Have Escaped Anytime Prisoner Tells Of Mental Hospital
Eugene Hedlund a 35 year old prisoner awaiting sentencing on rape kidnapping charges told a Sandpoint Idaho paper that he could have escaped from the Idaho State Hospital South at Blackfoot where he had been held for evaluation. He criticized the facility noting lax security and unqualified staff and described how he escaped through a window after detecting weak stopping bolts. He said some attendants are patients and that medical care was insufficient while he remained in custody at Bonner County jail.
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Sandpoint
Idaho State Hospital South
Blackfoot
Eugene R. Hed=lund
State Mental Hospital
Bonner
Hedlund
Philipino
Blackfoot Hospital
River Man
Philipine
Bonner County
Weather Outlook for Sandpoint Fair to Partly Cloudy
Sandpoint forecast calls for fair today with partial clouds. Rain chance near zero today and tonight, rising to about ten percent Friday. Highs around 95 today, near 90 tomorrow, lows near 55 tonight.
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Sandpoint
Hope Driver Cited After Morning Accident in Hope Idaho
Earl A. Henderson received minor injuries and was cited for inattentive driving after a one vehicle crash on SH 200 near the Litehouse Restaurant. Deputy Bill Dorn reported Henderson’s eastbound vehicle slid, rolled, and ended up on its top. the car was totaled.
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Hope
Idahoman
Earl A. Henderson
Bill Dorn
SH 200
Henderson
East Hope
Dorn
Wallace School District Adopts Dress Code
Wallace Consolidated School District trustees approved a new student handbook outlining a dress code of appropriate safe clean neat and decent. The policy allows the principal to suspend a student who refuses to correct appearance after being directed, with further referral to the superintendent and school board.
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Wallace
UPS
Wallace Consolidated
Trapper Creek Fire Burns 3 1/2 Acres in Kaniksu Range
At noon a 3 1/2 acre blaze raged at the head of Rapid Lightning Creek with winds up to 10 mph forecast. The fire named Trapper Creek Fire is now being fought by district crews as an Inter-Regional Hotshot crew heads from Coeur d Alene to assist Kaniksu National Forest officials.
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Rapid Lightning Creek
Munson Named To Task Force On Certificate of Need
A statewide task force of about 40 people including Dr. J. P. Munson of Sandpoint was selected to study certificate of need legislation. The goal is to determine support for controls on building new health facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes and to assign review to a state agency. The Governor's Advisory Council endorses such legislation to curb facility overbuilding and avoid duplicate costly equipment driving up patient costs.
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J. P. Munson
Sandpoint
Alvin Joslyn
Glenns Ferry
Governor’s Advisory Council On
Joslyn
Chamber Nominates Eight For September Election
The Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce names eight officer candidates including Nordeen Fournier Brockway Judd Erickson Ayers Anderson Longbottom. Four will win three year terms by written ballot in September with ballots mailed ten days before the Sept. 28 meeting.
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Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce
Wm. Nordeen
Bill Fournier
Jim Brockway
Jim Judd
Steve Erickson
Bud Ayers
Dick Anderson
Ben Longbottom
Chamber
Myers Leaves Deputy Role for Education Career
Marine Deputy Jerry Myers of the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office resigns due to rising duties in School District 82. He will leave August 16 citing potential conflicts with his new educator responsibilities and thanks Sheriff Bob Wilcox for support while praising Myers’ thoroughness and service.
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Bonner County
Jerry Myers
Myers
Bob Wilcox
Wilcox
Nixon Orders No Busing Policy Clarified
President Nixon urged federal officials to use busing for school integration only as a last resort or risk losing their jobs. White House spokesman Ziegler said busing should not be the primary element in desegregation and that noncompliant officials may lose assignments in the government.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Taskforce to address rising costs and care quality in Boise
Trained medical personnel will be urged to curb costs and improve care quality as a new taskforce plans its first meeting on August 18 in Boise. The session will be open to the public.
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Boise
Sagle Man Accused Of Embezzlement
A Sagle man, 34, executor of the estate of former Sandpoint resident Muriel I Talbot, was arrested on a $10,000 bail after a warrant charging embezzlement of $32,741.95 from the Talbot estate. Attorneys Glenn Bandelin and Steve Bistline were ordered to show cause why they were not in contempt of a prior guardianship and estate order.
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Sandpoint City
Bonner County
George Alfred Antonson
Sandpoint
Muriel I. Talbot
Glenn Bandelin
Steve Bistline
Watt E. Prather
Coeur da’ Alene
Talbot
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Munson
Pete Thompson
Thompson
Cecil Andrus
Bill Nordeen
Corps of Army Engineers
Ted Farmin
Idaho
Dick Whittaker
Sagle
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