Officer Honored For Recovering Autos
Cpl. Jim Finch of the Twin Falls area was honored at the State Police District Banquet for recovering the most stolen vehicles in 1974 with 12 recoveries. The Stolen Motor Vehicle Emphasis Program recognized five recoveries as an Ace Award with a Gold Seal and decal for display. The Association of Independent Insurance Agents of Idaho funded a Las Vegas weekend trip for the winner. State Police recovered 178 vehicles that year with 54 offenders prosecuted, totaling $279,315 in recovered value, a 19 percent rise from the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Finch
Twin Falls
State Police District
Idaho
Association of Independent Insurance Agents of Idaho
Lawmakers Tally Corporate Tax Projections For 1975 76
In Boise Idaho the House Revenue and Taxation Committee and the Joint Select Committee on Revenue Projections spent hours evaluating testimony to forecast general fund revenue for fiscal 1975 and 1976. Members rated industries from mining to tourism with pluses and minuses, compared estimates, and weighed inflation costs before averaging the figures into a final projection. It was described by a reporter as a lengthy, uncertain exercise, resembling a rerun of The Price Is Right.
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Richard Charnock Boise
UPI
Tion Committee
General Fund
Joint Select Committee
Bruce Balderston
Blackboards
Balderston
Harold Reid
C Craigmont
North Idaho
Lyle Dobbs
Boise
David Little
Rammett
Ralph Olmstead
R-Twin Falls
Perry Swisher
D-Pocatello
Oberved
Old Fort Hall
Good Building Being Razed In Capitol Mall
In Boise a modern office building at Fifth and State Streets is being demolished to install boilers for a growing Capitol Mall complex. The structure, once leased by Equitable Life Assurance since 1966 for 33500 annually, will yield space for a $4.1 million state office building project as boilers near capacity. Frank Morrison, assistant administrator of public works, notes the building “looks nice” but is only cinder blocks and must go to accommodate heating needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Morrison
Public Works
Five Relief Measures In Boise House Senate Hit Tax Relief
UPI reports Boise lawmakers add five House bills for tax relief both permanent and temporary. Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee backs three measures that could yield a fifteen million dollar tax break. Proposals include removing the sales tax on groceries and boosting grocery credits and income tax credits for 1974.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
UPI
Parks Department
Senate
Eight Hurt As Camper Rolls After I 80 Ice Crash
A Boise family and seven teens were injured when their Volkswagen camper rolled on Interstate 80 near Palisades Junction due to black ice. Driver Carol Greer and several passengers were treated at Holy Rosary Hospital in Ontario and St. Alphonsus in Boise. injuries ranged from skull fractures to a collapsed lung. Church and Holden families are among the affected.
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Fruitland, Idaho
UPI
Boise
Palisades Junction
Idaho
Springfield
Ore
Holy Rosary Hospital
Ontario
Carol Greer
Lisa
Carolyn
Susan Shelton
Becky
Sandville
Dallas Church
Barbara Holden
Sharon Krone
Shelton
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Becky Sandville
Holy Rosary
Ontario Hospital
Miss Church
John Church
Miss Holden
Robert Holden
Pastor Elwood Boyd to serve as assistant chaplain at Walla Walla General Hospital
Pastor Elwood Boyd of the Sandpoint Seventh-day Adventist Church is called to Walla Walla Washington to serve as assistant chaplain at Walla Walla General Hospital. He will leave Sandpoint soon and his successor Pastor Jack Love is expected to arrive March 1. The piece also notes a hardy corn plant adapting from under 10 inches of rainfall in semiarid Soviet fields to 200 inches on India's Ganges Plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwood Boyd
Sandpoint
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Walla Walla, Wash
Chaplin
Walla Walla General Hospital
Boyd
Jack Love
Soviet Union
India
Ganges Plain
$2 Million Suit Filed
Twin Falls man Mark Whitesides and his children sue the State of Idaho Health and Welfare Magic Valley Living Center and others over the stabbing death of Stephanie Whitesides on August 7. Richard Lee Huffman, 23, resident at the center and ward of the welfare department, is charged with the stabbing. The suit claims supervisory failures by the state and the center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin Falls, Idaho
UPI
Twin Falls
Mark Whitesides
State of
Living Center
Department of Health and Welfare
Whitesides
Huffman
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Corporal Jim Finch
North Second Ave
Panida
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