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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1971
Page
5
Nazi charges dismissed amid wartime reporting from Saigon and Washington. UPI notes shifts in U.S. Vietnam operations as Abrams meets Bunker and Thieu to assess Laotian incursions. Reports say Sepon and Ranger area actions, B52 bombing, and Chinese road work in Northern Laos influence tensions.
Boise hearing scheduled Thursday on the scenic river bill and proposed eminent domain clause. Environmentalist Tom Davis urged the provision to block dams, saying it must exist and be exercised only after negotiations fail and purchase efforts prove unsuccessful. Gerald Jayne of Idaho Falls was re elected president as the council expanded the board from 17 to 18 with two new directors and four reelected members.
President Nixon urged Congress to approve a 1.9 billion higher education package offering grants, work-study, and subsidized loans for undergraduates from low to middle incomes. The plan includes a privately funded National Student Loan Association guaranteed by the federal government and a national foundation for education with up to 100 million dollars.
DA reports three men Jeryll Best James Dewey March and L Delmer Kirven convicted of rioting for overturning two Lamar school buses carrying black children. An all white jury deliberated over 16 hours. Kirven also convicted of assault on an L E D officer. Best and Kirven acquitted of property destruction. Eight others had pled guilty.
Wilbur A. Hamman a psychiatrist testified that Lt William L Calley Jr told him a company commander ordered him to get rid of a group of captured villagers during the My Lai operation Hamman said Calley described shooting five villagers in five incidents and that Calley was under stress but capable of wanting the people dead without intent to kill He said Calley later spoke of a guard and a radio call to Medina prompting further orders Calley expected to testify next as his own star witness
Two government aircraft hunters died when their light plane crashed into a hillside in Fremont County. Pilot Dean Frew of Pocatello and passenger Kenneth Guy Wilson of Thornon, Idaho, both with the General Services Administration, perished instantly. Their bodies were recovered near Rexburg by a sheriff’s rescue team after a report spotter located the wreckage.
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