Wind Storm Knocks Out Power and Phone Service in Bonner County
High winds and lightning disrupted electrical and telephone lines in Bonner County on Monday. Pacific Power and Light reported outages in Sandpoint Priest River and along Fish Hatchery Road with a 15 minute Priest River blackout. About 35 Sandpoint homes lost power for three hours due to a fallen tree. Northern Lights Inc noted outages from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Damage was not widespread. General Telephone reported about 12 hours of service loss to nine Sandpoint homes and Edgemere area residence outages overnight. No fires were reported.
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Bonner County
Priest River
Pacific Power and Light Co
Sandpoint
Fish Hatchery Rd
P.p.&l
Northern Lights Inc
General Telephone Co
Edgemere
Fourth and
Larch
South Huron
South Euclid
Americans Launch Pioneering Space Rendezvous With Russia
Three U S astronauts Brig Gen Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Donald Slayton blasted from Cape Canaveral to chase two Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov in a two day catchup flight aiming for history first meeting in space between men from two nations Leonov reported Soyuz 19 functioning perfectly as it circled the globe 2200 miles from Florida launch site
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AL Rossiter JR
UPI
Thomas Stafford
Vance Brand
Donald ‘Deke” Slayton
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Alexei Leonov
Valeri N. Kubasov
Man Arrested In Coin Theft In Clark Fork Area
Bonner County deputies arrested Nevada J. Williams of Clark Fork yesterday in a burglary tied to the theft of more than 200 dollars in coins and bills from a home on Upper Pack River last Thursday night. All but 50 dollars of rare coins were recovered from a trailer owned by Dorothy Hammett on Upper Pack River Road, Sheriff Robert Wilcox said. Northern Idaho: Partly cloudy with a chance of scattered showers Wednesday.
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Bonner County
Nevada J. Williams
Clark Fork
Upper Pack River
Williams
Dorothy Hammett
Upper Pack River Road
Robert Wilcox
Sandpoint police officers to take polygraphs in Brown death case
Police Chief Dick Abbott announced three officers, Paul Siem Bill Selby and Sgt Guy Gardner, will undergo polygraph tests this week in connection with the Gerald R Brown death near Sandpoint on June 17 The inquest labeled police actions deplorable and prompted a joint Idaho law enforcement inquiry led by Abbott and Sheriff Robert Wilcox The investigation follows years of tense testimony and a report by Idaho LE investigator Jack Boothe due to be reviewed by the city council and Deputy Prosecutor Gary Finney.
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Sandpoint
Dick Abbott
Poplar
Montana
Idaho Department of Law Enforcement
Abbott
Robert Wilcox
Gerald R. Brown
Here
Paul Siem
Brown
Siem
Jack Boothe
Department of Law Enforcement
Gary Finney
Wilcox
Bill Selby
Guy Gardner
Firemen Seek Writ Over City Contract Standoff
Sandpoint firemen plan to take the City to court after the City Council refused last night to sign a contract with Local 2319 of the International Association of Firefighters. The union cites Idaho law and says a writ of mandate will be sought if the contract is not signed.
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Sandpoint
International Association of Firefighters
Darius Williams
Jim Hunt
Williams
Bart Brown
Dept of Employment
Boise
Sandpoint Council weighs museum plan for fairgrounds site
The Sandpoint city council approved a Bonner County Historical Society museum at the old fairgrounds but balked at a multi-building complex for a Legion of Fine Arts presence. Budget estimates run 75 000 to 80 000 dollars with donated labor likely offsetting costs. The panel debated one vs three buildings and future park use as residents urged cautious, community broad input.
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Bonner County
Historical Society
Moon
Legion of Fine Arts
Museum
Legion
The
Ray M. Davis
Council
Ed Eitzman
Gether
Ozzie Vallieres
Vallieres
Bud
Benoit
First Parking Fee Profit Reported by Sandpoint City
Sandpoint City Council discussed parking fee profits for the first half of 1975 totaling 7,102.58 dollars, compared with 5,223.79 dollars for the same period last year. Costs to collect were about 6,000 dollars, yielding a profit near 1,100 dollars. Fine revenue for improper parking rose to 427.00 dollars from 138.00 dollars a year earlier.
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Sandpoint
Bud Benoit
Finance Committee
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Florida Spaceport
America
Idaho
Council Nods Museum
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