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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1969
Page
5
Rose Mary Cattrell hoped to fund a car with her uncle’s painting The Temptation of Eve by Hans Baldung. Sotheby’s sold it for $537,000, enough to buy an entire fleet of cars. She and her Edinburgh doctor husband expect to buy a car and perhaps more paintings.
Assembly Leader Jesse Unruh announces his candidacy for governor from his Inglewood home. He targets Gov Ronald Reagan as a puppet of millionaires and criticizes Sacramento power brokers guiding state policy.
Meg Peterson daughter of New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson says she does not see harm in smoking pot and cites friends who use it at a White House narcotics conference. She criticizes school drug lectures as scare tactics and recalls a teacher showing a cigarette alleged to be marijuana. The report also notes Ohio's Indianola Junior High School, established in 1909, as the nation’s first junior high.
Washington Labor Secretary George P. Shultz announced a settlement between the railroads and four shopcraft unions ending a threat of nationwide shutdown. The deal, still needing ratification by union members, followed an all night negotiation with mediators and a White House briefing.
Washington report notes House Ways and Means Committee advances a 15 percent across the board Social Security increase to be paid in April with January–February retroactive supplemental checks. Projections include higher benefits for retirees, disabled, widows, and families, funded by Social Security trust fund surplus.
The Nixon administration seeks to kill an $800 personal exemption boost, arguing it helps households with large mortgages and many children. Senate and House panel battles shape the tax reform bill with Gore pushing for higher exemptions, while Percy opposes. The conference will harmonize the two approaches amid debate over tax credits and small-business aid.
A truck careened out of control on Wednesday hitting a baby carriage with Julie Whymark 2. It smashed into a wall as her mother Mrs Valerie Whymark 22 watched in horror. The girl escaped unharmed while her mother was treated for shock.
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