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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1972
Page
7
Georgina Culver, 49, hiked from a snowbound Tehachapi trailer after her husband Stanley died from heart and lung illness as their oxygen ran out. She endured four days on foot through deep drifts, seeking help, then reached a German restaurant and called deputies who retrieved the body.
Diplomatic sources say the Soviet Union is secretly constructing a dedicated air base near the Aswan Dam in Egypt, to be completed by mid 1972. The facility would host MIG jets for Soviet use only, not missiles, amid fears of Israeli attack and potential Nile flooding if the dam is damaged.
About 2,000 Midland residents were evacuated after a truck driver dumped 4,000 gallons of gasoline into the city sewer system. Fire crews flushed the fuel, 11 fires were reported, and a three square mile area was evacuated with no injuries reported.
Rapid winter storm closures hit Idaho, shutting State Highway 68 through southcentral Idaho and U S 91 Monida Pass in eastern Idaho. Blowing and drifting conditions produced icy sections on U S 95 and other routes with chains advised on several stretches. Road crews report Lookout Pass and several mountain corridors snowbound or impassable, with warnings for travelers across the central and eastern regions.
Spokane reports 34.2 inches of snow in December far above the normal 15 inches. The winter season totals 41.2 inches with broad melt in many areas. Snow depths reach 29 inches at Mullan Idaho 20 at Omak 11 at Sandpoint Idaho and 10 at Colville and Wenatchee.
The U S Postal Service announced it will sell a 160 page booklet titled Your Federal Income Tax at 75 cents per copy. It will be available soon at 15 000 Postal Service offices and was compiled by the Internal Revenue Service.
Margaret Truman Daniel and her two younger sons flew to New York City after a week with her parents former President Harry S Truman and Mrs Truman. Clifton Daniel and the couple's two older sons departed Friday. The family toured the Truman Library during the stay.
In Quito Channel 8 faced closure and its news director was jailed after airing a December 28 false news item that claimed elections in June were suspended and President Velasco Ibarra would stay in power two more years. Channel 8 admitted the joke four minutes later but Channel 6 relayed it as fact, prompting government alarm.
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