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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1977
Page
8
A campaign to quit smoking launches January 2 with a 14 day goal to stop smoking. Pledge booths will be at M and J Grocery and pledge cards available at Bonner General Hospital dentists offices beauty shops and doctors offices to raise funds for the American Cancer Society.
William Roy Porter a Sandpoint resident since 1910 died Saturday at Bonner General Hospital aged 71 born May 7 1906 in Little Elk Minnesota moved to Sandpoint as a boy he married Cora Rickman July 5 1950 in Sandpoint she survives him. Porter a skilled craftsman and heavy construction worker served with the Navy Seabees funeral Thursday at 1 p.m. Moon Chapel Elder Jack Love officiating burial Pinecrest Memorial Park survivors include daughter Beatrice Flatau Port Angeles Washington brother Cecil Porter Lewiston sister Olive Spangel Dover two grandchildren two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Bill Fay of the Idaho Republican Central Committee spoke to Bonner County Republicans at Edgewater Restaurant predicting gains after the 1978 elections. He urged recruiting young people, noting widespread anti big government sentiment and inflation concerns driving support for tax cuts and a Republican legislature.
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing in Boise on January 5 at 9:30 a.m. to review intrastate long distance rates under the toll separations plan. General Telephone Co. of the Northwest filed a complaint seeking higher uniform toll rates, while Mountain Bell administers the plan and proposed a 20 percent revenue increase.
Idaho Health and Welfare Department may release up to 13 employees statewide to trim deficits for the current fiscal year. Region IV staff, including Dorothy Tarp and Merrie Jo Pokarney, faced layoff as part of the move while others in the Adult and Child Development Center are affected.
The Office of Senator Frank Church reports Farmers Home Administration approved a $40,000 loan to Bayview Water and Sewer District to finance a new domestic water distribution system. This supplements an earlier $160,000 loan and a $40,000 grant awarded in September.
Local items include church meeting on Dec 27 at the Washington Water Power building with a gift exchange, Dec 29 Bible study at Southside Community Church, and Dec 31 International Christian Fellowship annual meeting at Emmett Marley’s home. Traffic reports cite accidents on US 95 near Westmond involving Carolyn Pope and Barbara Martin, with damages and injuries. Birth announcements list Dusteena Mulligan, Luke Hixson, Holly Campbell, Robert Hustler.
Boise Pocatello Lewiston Soda Springs and the Silver Valley in Shoshone County face growth restrictions after failing to meet clean air standards. The Environmental Division proposed these areas as non attainment zones under federal law, affecting new industrial discharges until pollution reductions occur.
Weather notes report icy spots and fog along U S 5 from New Plymouth to Cound and into Mesa Hill, with fog between Council and New Meadows, plus a broken snowfloor on Grangeville to Lewiston Hill. Icy spots also on Moscow to Sandpoint and S H 55 to Banks and New Meadow, along with snowfloor and cloudy conditions on US 10.
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