Jockey Dies In Plunge At Granite Lake
Bob Wilcox and a Sheriff’s dive team failed to reach the sunken car at Granite Lake 35 to 40 feet deep in cold water. Dr. E R Hasse of Cheney assisted in seven dives and the sunken car was raised by a wrecker. The victim, jockey and ex racer Joel Dick Dumas, 45, of Spokane, perished when his car plunged off Granite Lake Road into the 75 foot depth. A Las Vegas couple aided 12 hours and supplied coffee and water. Autopsy ordered. body taken to Coeur d Alene.
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Spokane
Joel Dick Dumas
Granite Lake
Dumas
Coeurs d’ Alene
Granite-Kelso Lake
Leonard Willis
Endicott
Bob Wilcox
Wilcox
E.R. Hasse
Cheney
Wash
Mexico
Hasse
Howard Daniels
Daniels
Las Vegas
Nevada
Horn
Myers
Riece
Berry
Bonner County
Barry Nelson
Coeur d’ Alene
J. D.dumas
Bee
Sinclair Named Nat Committeewoman in Idaho
Mrs Orrnette Sinclair 49 of Twin Falls was chosen Idaho GOP National Committeewoman succeeding Gwen Barnett. She defeated Delores Crow 93 to 49 amid a balance of moderate and right wing support in the State Central Republican Committee meeting in Coeur d Alene.
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Coeur D’alene
UPD
Orrnette Sinclair
Twin Falls
Idaho
GOP
Gwen Barnett
Sinclair
Delores Crow
Nampa
State Central Repulican Committee
Republican Party
Crow
Weather Outlook for Sandpoint: Partly Cloudy Through Tuesday
Sandpoint area forecasts partial cloud cover through Tuesday with a 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in nearby mountains. Temperatures will reach around 90 degrees with nights near 50.
Spokane Youth Survives Hydroplane Mishap
Steve Keller a 16 year old Spokane youth escaped a deadly hydroplane crash at Hope Idaho when his life jacket was sliced by a propeller and he was knocked unconscious. A fellow boat rescued him with the aid of Marine Deputy Jerry Myers and he was released from Bonner General Hospital after treatment.
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Spokane
Hope
Idaho
Steve Keller
Ile
Jerry Myers
Bonner General Hospital
Myers
Deputy Swims To Get His Man In Sandpoint
Bonner County Deputy Sheriff swam to arrest James Beyer on a bench warrant for failure to obey a court order. While patrolling Lake Pend Oreille near the Sandpoint River mouth, the deputy tracked Beyer to the Sandpoint City beach, chased him after a dive, and arrested him at his car, then jailed him.
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Margaret Burns
Internal Revenue Service
Sandpoint
James Hunt
Terry Steele
Coeur d’ Alene
IRS
Greene and Hunt
Hunt
Coeur d'Alene
Bonner County
Robert H. Wilcox
Steele
Coeur d’Alene
Wilcox
Magistrate Court
James Beyer
Myers
Lake
Pend Oreille
Sandpoint City
Beyers
Morrison-Knudsen Founder Morrison Dies at 86
Morrison-Knudsen founder Harry W. Morrison died in a Boise hospital at age 86 after illness at Payette Lakes Idaho. Gov. Andrus ordered half mast flags in his honor noting his role as a leading Idaho and world builder. The Boise firm he co founded in 1912 grew into a major dam builder with projects from Hoover to Grand Coulee and wartime installations.
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Boise
Morrison
Andrus
Idaho
Morrison- Knudsen
M. HI. Knudsen
M-K
Hoover Dam
Grand Coulee Dam
St. Lawrence~ Seaway
Kenney
Chicago
Bates and Rogers
Minidoka Dam
A. 5S
Reclamation Service
Knudsen
Three Mile Falls
Oregon
Lenri
Six Companies, Inc
Colorado River
Morrison-Knudsen
U.S
Bonneville
Parker, O’shaugnessy
Grand Coulee
Red Hill
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Midway
Wake Islands
Wake
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