City offers 99 year lease to Sandpoint seniors on Main Street parcel
The Sandpoint council proposed a 99 year lease at $1 a year for a Main Street land parcel to senior citizens for a new center, with land to revert to the city if the project does not materialize and trees to remain. Council members voiced support while considering neighborhood park needs for the current users and discussed bids for sewer and water projects.
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Sandpoint
Bob Ravedal
Main Street
Les Brown
Edna Spearman
George Harper
Third
Pine Streets
Brown
Common Cause Urges Idaho Candidates to Open Records
Common Cause of Idaho asks congressional candidates to disclose campaign contributions and expenditures to the news media so voters can see who funds campaigns. Organizers cite Ottis Peterson and listed monitors for Idaho districts. Wayne Kidwell criticizes federal encroachment. Hope Kading speaks at Civitan Club in Pocatello.
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Common Cause
United Press International
Idaho
Common Cause of
Ottis Peterson
Peterson
Boise
Bob Brown
Coeur d’Alene
Keith Axline
Idaho Falls
Wayne Kidwell
Lumber Firms Give 3 Percent Pay Increase for Western Workers
About 70 percent of workers in the western lumber industry will receive a 3 percent cost of living rise, averaging 15 cents an hour, retroactive to July 1, in 11 states. The measure, urged by unions, affects roughly 70,000 International Woodworkers of America and Western Council members, with major firms like U.S. Plywood, Willamette, and Georgia-Pacific among those issuing the increases.
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Portland
UPI
International Woodworkers of America
Western Councils
Lumber
James S. Bledsoe
Lpiw Western Council
U.S. Plywood Corp
Willamette Industries
Hines Lumber Co
Boise Cascade Corp
Louisiana Pacific Corp
Georgia Pacific Corp
Roseburg Lumber Co
Timber Operators Council
TOC
Oregon
Washington
California
Alaska
Weyerhaeuser Co
International” Paper Co
Simpson Lumber Co
Itt-Bayonier
Crown Zellerbach Corp
George Casseday
LPIW
Woman Dies After Tree Fell On Raft In Grand Teton Park
Nancy Newhall 66 of Albuquerque died from injuries after a spruce toppled onto a large raft on the Snake River during a Grand Teton Lodge Co. trip inside Grand Teton National Park. Her husband Beaumont survived as did five other passengers with minor injuries. The accident occurred June 28 during high water said a park spokesman.
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Jackson
Wyo
UPI
Albuquerque
N.M
Snake River
Nancy Newhall
Robert England
Rochester
N.Y
City Council to Ban Glass Alcohol Bottles at Beach
Sandpoint officials moved to draft an ordinance banning alcoholic beverages in glass containers at the city beach. City Attorney Lyons said a law could be enforced. some residents and beach supervisor Bob Linsday urged action citing frequent glass injuries. Councilman Ed Eitzman dissented preferring a litter law.
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City Beach
Bob Linsday
Sandpoint
Linsday
Ed Eitzman
Ificilman
Bob Kalb
Hardy Lyons
Lyons
Bud Benoit
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Tim Oyter
Panhandle Rodeo Association
Jerome
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