Backpackers Take It Slow Huffing in New York Trails
UPI reports hikers in Hastings New York enjoy backpacking as a growing recreation. Dennis Look, a California author with 22 years of wilderness experience, argues backpacking is affordable and inclusive. Look promotes his book Joy of Backpacking for beginners and veterans, noting careful gear choices matter.
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Julianne
Hastings
New York
UPI
United States
Dennis Look
Look
Jalmar Press
Backpacker ethics and gear guide highlights
The author profiles backcountry gear from bags to stoves and boots, urges minimal impact on trails, and lists a winter camping guide plus a Grab Bag packing list. He stresses people should share the wilderness responsibly and keep to designated areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sierra Club
Space Shuttle Planned By NASA Opens Orbit Market
NASA plans to commercialize orbital flights with a reusable space shuttle. Each three-quarters full payload aims to reduce per mission costs from Delta rockets, with price guarantees and a special get away special for small payloads. First contract targets five Intelsat 5 satellites, launch set for November 1980, with five shuttles projected and flights every two weeks by mid-1980s.
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AL Rossiter Jr
UPI
Washington
Federal Space Agency
Space
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John Yardley
NASA
Space Flight
Communications Satellite Enterprises
Yardley
Comsattions’ Satellite Organization
Space Agency
For the Record births and acknowledgments in G Office notes
Listings show birth announcements and congratulatory notices from December entries. Names include Jensen Hilton Bodin Sexton Brown Kelson Benda Gimner Rust Jacobson Chilton Lovell Jennestad and Hays with birth details and grandparents in Sandpoint Spokane Reno Seattle Bonners Ferry and Clark Fork.
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Terry L. Jensen
Sandpoint
Deborah Hilton
Moscow
Arlis Baines
Carole Irwin
Yakima
Washington
Michael Bodin
Sharon Herrin
Ephrata
Robert Sexton
Marlene Covert
Pocatello
Robert W. Brown, Sr
Irene M. Schumacher
Astoria
Oregon
Dennis
Jans Chilton
Sacred Heart Hospital
Spokane
Ed Chilton
Reno
Nevada
Bessie Bruhn
Dean Lovell
Seattle
Ryan Jennestad
Lovell
Ole Jennestad
Harold Hays
Clark Fork
Freedom Decline Worldwide Highlights 1976 Survey
Freedom House's 1976 survey reports a global drop in freedom with only 19.6 percent of people in free nations. Thailand falls from free to not free amid a coup and repression in India intensifies under Indira Gandhi. Portugal improves to free. several countries move downward.
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York
UPD
Thailand
India
Freedom House
Lucian Pye
Pye
Indira Gandhi
Portugal
Argentina
Kuwait
Republic
Paraguay
Uruguay
el Salvador
Bangladesh
Spain
Western
Europe
Carter Plans Slow Move Toward Full Peking Ties
Carter administration aims for full diplomatic relations with Peking within four years while preserving Taiwan and South Korea security. Officials expect a cautious pace, with possible Korea troop and nuclear withdrawal and stalled mutual defense ties as talks proceed amid regional tensions and Japan’s influence. Strong entities include Carter, Vance, Peking, Taiwan, Seoul, Pyongyang, Panmunjom, Japan, KCIA.
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John F. Barton
Washington
UPI
Carter
Peking
Taiwan
South Korea
Cyrus Vance
China
Mao Tsetung
Japan
Washington-Peking
Seoul
Korean Peninsula
Washington- Peking
Korea
Seoul-Pyongyang
U.S
Asia
Europe
Germany
Panmunjom
Liberal Democratic Party
Mao Tse-tung
State Department
USS
Vance
Korean
U S
Congress
KCIA
Senior Center announces dinner reservations and tax help
The Senior Center at 425 Forest invites reservations for a senior meal and notes a January tax help program. Sterling hosts the meal site and an income tax practitioner will be available every Monday from 10:00 to 2:00. Call 263-6850 for reservations.
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Forest
Obituary notices for Ralph M Shear and associates in Sandpoint
Ralph M Shear 79 of Sandpoint died December 28. He lived in the area since birth in Morton Idaho, worked for the Great Northern Railway, and as a bookkeeper in lumber firms including A C White, Harry Brown, and Post Falls Lumber Co. Graveside at Pinecrest Cemetery led by Sandpoint Elks Lodge. Earl Cecil Wood 65 of Sandpoint died December 28. Born November 16 1910 in Alma Kansas he worked in woods in Washington Colorado farmed in Colorado and in Bonner County schools maintenance and bus driving. Married Dorothy M Wilson 1930. Survived by wife and three sons three daughters three brothers and three sisters. Cole Funeral at Moon Chapel with interment Pinecrest Memorial Park. Katherine V Brissette 87 died December 28. Born February 20 1889 in Silver Star Montana she joined St Joseph Church and Ladies of the Moose and Eagles Auxiliary. Survived by daughter Joan Edward Brissette and Betty Moody, siblings and many grandchildren. Rosary Wednesday Moon Chapel and funeral Mass Thursday at St Joseph with Father O Donovan. burial Pinecrest Memorial Park.
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Ralph M Shear
Sandpoint
Morton
Idaho
Great Northern Railway
A.C White Lumber Co
Harry Brown Lumber Co
Post Falls Lumber Co
BPGE
Sandpoint Manor
Joe Shear
George Shear
Othello
Mable Wright
Livermore
Calif
Ralph
First Ave
Essex Cars
Pinecrest Cemetery
Earl Cecil Wood
Alma
Kansas
Dorothy M. Wilson
Delores
Colorado
Washington
Hope-Clark Fork
Bonner County
Methodist
Lewis
Dorothy Wood
Robert A. Woodd
Bonners Ferry
Lester Ray Wood
Post Falls
Delmar Wood
Moscow
Wilberta L. Davis
Sagle
Harry Wood
Apache Junc
Katherine V Brissette
Silver Star
Montana
Louis J Brissette
Lauma
St Joseph
Myrtle Creek
Ore
Betty Moody
Margaret Bemis
Portland
Oregon
Bertha Shovlin
Alameda
Jack Schmidt
Twin Bridges
the Moon Chapel
St Joseph Catholic Church
John O'Donovan
Pinecrest Memorial Park
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Pend Oreille River
Space Shuttle
Lorraine Kelson
Dennis Benda
Robert Gimner
Priest River
Robert Rust
Roy Jacobson
Tyke
Bonner General Hospital
Sterling
N. Boyer
FY North
Couintry
Ralph M. Shear
Tion
Charles Wood
Yellow Jacket
Clyde R Wood
Colorado Springs
Cole
Harold Huff
Pinecresat Memorial Park
Heart Fund
Katherine V
Brissette
Stoddard
Zenith
Dave Simpson
The
Browns
Rose Ward
Eagles
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