Idaho FHWA imposes pollution controls on highway contracts
Federal Highway Administration announces new mandatory pollution controls in all future road contracts. Supervising engineers gain authority to halt work to prevent soil erosion with payment for erosion control. Cap of 750000 square feet exposed at once and slopes must be seeded as excavation advances.
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Idaho Department of Highways
Federal Highway Administration
Federal
F. C. Turner
FHWA
Turner
Bureau of Public “Roads
Chamber reports sharp visitor growth in Sandpoint
Barbara Remmers of the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce announced that last week the chamber office welcomed more than eighty visitors, more than double the number from the same week a year earlier.
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Barbara Remmers
Sandpoint
Weather and Christmas at Flackwell Heath
Fair with high clouds through Wednesday and near 90 degree highs with nights around 60. In England Fred Holstock and regulars at his pub celebrate Christmas Sunday, 174 days early, now a biannual feature to foster brotherly spirit.
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Flackwell Heath
England
Fred Holstock
Holstock
Environmental control work aids federal highway program
Turner states that environmental control efforts in cooperation with national highway departments now represent about 12 to 15 percent of the 5 billion dollar annual Federal-aid highway program.
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Turner
DeWayne Bros Circus to Visit Sandpoint by Jaycees
The DeWayne Bros Circus rolls into Sandpoint on July 24 under Sandpoint Jaycees with two shows at 2 and 8 pm. The tented troupe promises animals, clowns, acrobats, aerialists, dogs, jugglers, and trampoline acts, with tickets from Jaycee members or at Boyer Avenue Fairgrounds.
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DeWayne Bros. Circus
Sandpoint
Sandpoint Jaycees
America
Canada
Jaycees
New Boyer Avenue Fairgrounds
Pickup Plunges 200 Feet Into River Killing Nine Aboard
A pickup truck carrying twelve people plunged 200 feet down a Colorado mountainside into the Crystal River near Schofield Pass. Nine were missing feared dead. remains found in 15 to 18 feet of water as rescue halted at daybreak. Thomas T. Robinson and his two children were found walking nearby and hospitalized.
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Marble
Colo
UPD
Colorado
Crystal River
Colorado State Patrol
Thomas T. Robinson
Crested Butte
Schofield Pass
Robinson
Margie
Beren Robinson
Carbondale
Robinsons
Glenwood Springs
Railroads Hit By New Crisis
Washington UTU strikes three major carriers the Baltimore and Ohio the Southern Pacific and the Louisville and Nashville amid stalled talks over eliminating firemen from diesels. The National Railway Labor Conference asks Nixon to appoint an emergency board to halt the walkout for 60 days as the B and O stops traffic across 13 states. A chain reaction warning cites the Penn Central disaster and possible large economic impact.
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Washington
UPC
United Transportation Union
UTU
National Labor Railway Conference
Baltimore & Ohio
Southen Pacific
Louisville and Nashville
Nixon
Chesapeake and Ohio
John P. Hiltz Jr
National Railway Labor Conference
Penn Central
Congress
Labor Department
Meat Bill Sets New Exemption Passed by House
The House approved a bill to exempt all custom slaughters from federal meat inspection standards. Current law only exempts those who process meat for customers without selling other meat. About 7,000 custom slaughterers would be affected. the measure passed 296 to 2 and was sent to the White House for signature.
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Washington
UPI
House
White House
Senate
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Dick Anderson
Darrell Triber
Billy Gray
Coeur d’Alene
Panhandle
Coeur d'Alene
Bee
Old Time Circus
Pickup
American Legion
Memorial Field
Chuck Pederson
Cal Smith
Spokane
Pederson
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