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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1971
Page
2
The Sandpoint Daily Bee page notes weekly legal notices published Tuesdays. Publisher Pend Dreike Printers Inc lists 310 Church Sandpoint Idaho and contact 263-5151. Subscriptions run four dollars twenty cents per quarter or sixteen eighty per year.
Vietnam marks the Lunar New Year Tet signaling the year of the pig. Families stay home to pray to ancestors, first visitors bring luck, and birthdays are not observed. Tet is described as a roving holiday with traditional customs and a lunar calendar adjusted by an extra month every three years.
UPI report notes worry in the Nixon administration over potential Cambodian capital Phnom Penh falling to Communists. State Department officials expect continued support missions, with Laird proposing extensive air power but no American ground troops. Officials fear more pilot captures and a growing war prisoner problem as operations expand.
Brazil's National Indian Foundation reports a red-bearded, light-skinned Assurini group of about 500 men spotted by Indian agents clearing the Trans Amazon Highway. No women observed yet. Elders reportedly trim beards into a pear shape.
Foreign Minister Torsten Nilsson accuses the United States of violating international law in Indochina and cites air war and chemical biological tactics. He vows Sweden will push for new war-law standards at a Geneva Red Cross conference later this year. Observers warn of a harsher U.S. reaction.
A letter notes a Idaho legislative move to re classify the cougar as big game and remove it from predator status while a House bill aims to pass the change. In Sandpoint March of Dimes week features a KSPT Beta Sigma Phi radio auction to aid birth defect research. A Bonner County solid waste disposal issue is also discussed.
A rural Idaho reader describes a growing trash problem in Bonner County. With no local dump and long drives to distant sites, residents resort to burning and improvising dumps, risking pollution and legal trouble. The piece highlights stress on families and the county’s looming waste-management challenge.
Hundreds of birds rescued from the San Francisco Bay oil slick are dying at the San Francisco Zoo. Zoo director Ron Reuther says only 2 to 3 percent of 1,700 birds may survive, with about 900 dead so far and around 100 expected to survive by week’s end, updates after a body count today.
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