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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1975
Page
2
Gov. Cecil D. Andrus released Idaho Tomorrow Program results showing 1,539 adults across the state favor environmental protection in natural resources and new energy sources. 90 percent call clean industry development very important and 66 percent prefer low energy use.
Police refuse food requests from four IRA gunmen trapped with two hostages in a London apartment as part of a no deal policy. A police commander says the only deal is for the gunmen to come out with hands up.
Portland cattle and calves market shows slaughter cows 100 to 200 lower early, few bulls steady, feeder cows in demand. High utility slaughter cows 2300 to 2550, cutter 1600 to 2050, canner 1400 to 1650. Bulls yield high dressing around 31.25 per cwt. Feeder steers 650 to 750 pounds sell around 39.75 to 40.30 per cwt.
Army Major Richard Wall, an 18 year veteran facing involuntary discharge and reduced benefits, wins reversal by Friday. Wall, diagnosed with a kidney ailment possibly cancer, had faced loss of full retirement pay medical coverage and commissary privileges. He traveled to visit relatives when told of immediate discharge hours before his 18th anniversary.
President Ford says the 10 day trip with talks from Mao to Southeast Asia went extremely well. He spoke of a Pacific Doctrine of peace toward all and hostility toward none and hinted at possible Middle East travel next year.
Grace V Brown suffered about 800 dollars in damage when her car hit a tree after a right turn off Popular onto Fourth. Archie Fredstrom backed into Keith J McEwan’s parked car causing roughly 50 dollars of damage at the Safeway lot. A break in at Pend Oreille Cheese Factory damaged a window and alarms at dawn. Claude G. Roberts reported about 200 dollars in tools stolen from his locked vehicle. Bruneel Tire Co. lost 15 to 20 used tires worth around 200 dollars. A 12 year old found a 19 piece Regent Sheffield utensils in a trash can. A deer lay dead on N Third Street and a hunter left it after starting to cut it up. Timothy Tope slid down a hill near Cocolalla and his car endured about 500 dollars in damage. he was uninjured.
Cloudy with light rain today. Mostly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Tuesday. Night and morning fog. Warmer. Variable winds 5 to 15 mph. Precipitation chance 70 percent today, 40 tonight, 30 Tuesday. Highs 40 today, 35 low tonight, 45 Tuesday.
Poland's Communist Party head Edward Gierek told 1,811 delegates at the 7th congress in Warsaw that Poland will expand trade with capitalist nations while maintaining friendly ties with the Soviet Union. He cited dynamism in consumer goods, exports, and scientific cooperation, naming France the United States Austria Belgium Italy Britain and other West European states as partners.
IRS Boise says thousands of Idaho workers may see higher federal withholding in the first six weeks of 1976 due to congressional delays on extending the 1975 Tax Reduction Act. Betty Dresser notes 15 000 Idaho businesses affected and urges taxpayers to lobby Congress to resolve the issue.
U S congressmen and North Vietnamese officials discuss Hanoi’s plan to repatriate the remains of three U S airmen amid hopes for warmer ties The group says the search for other remains will continue while the MIA organization warns against trusting Communist assurances and notes many Americans still unaccounted for.
United Air Lines canceled all flights to and from Spokane as ground service employees continued their nationwide strike. Negotiations on a new wage contract are ongoing after the weekend action grounded about 2,800 United flights across the country.
National Farmers Organization opens preliminary meetings ahead of its annual convention at Municipal Auditorium. Oren Lee Staley says 10 000 delegates expected and calls the event a convention of impact as farmers face future uncertainty and price declines in wheat corn soybeans and other grains linked to federal export interference.
Idaho’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent in November after three straight increases. The Idaho Department of Employment notes the decline from 8.3 percent in October is the largest monthly drop of 1975 but cautions against overreading due to year‑to‑year volatility and early November lumber layoffs affecting seasonal adjustments. Steve Seward calls 7.4 percent a more representative measure of Idaho’s economy than 8.3 percent.
Joan Little, the black woman acquitted of a jailer’s slaying, returns to court seeking to remain free on the charge of breaking and entering and larceny. Her prior conviction was upheld, and she appeals to the state Supreme Court while asking to stay out on $15,000 bail.
Roger Hagadone, 49, once manager of Hawaii radio stations and uncle of Duane Hagadone of Hagadone Newspapers, was found dead in a Honolulu motel. Police treat the case as a possible homicide with head injuries and an inconclusive autopsy.
European NATO members meeting in the Eurogroup agreed to boost their defense arsenal next year with 333 tanks and 1,273 armored vehicles, 156 fighters, 71 helicopters, 172 antiaircraft missiles, and 1,524 antitank rockets. They also plan five new destroyers, four submarines, and 13 speedboats with 14 naval helicopters, plus six destroyers fitted with land-to-air rockets. The group said defense outlays rose by 5.5 billion dollars in 1975 to keep ahead of inflation and are pursuing a two way street to buy more from European industry.
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