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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1971
Page
2
A reader blasts a local paper for religious intolerance and criticizes a prior editorial on church groups. The letter also complains about dust and litter at Pine Street and Memorial Baseball Parks and calls for better park maintenance and police protection allocations.
Sandpoint Distributing Company announced a new Sandpoint Recycling Center at Railway Avenue open Tuesdays and Fridays 1 to 5 pm. The center recycles Heidelberg and Black Label bottles and cans at one cent per bottle and 25 cents per case, with Carling Brewing also introducing all aluminum cans nationwide.
Forest Service reports a rising pace of fires in the 16 northern region forests from eastern Washington to western North and South Dakota. A total of 20 fires were reported as of today, compared with 569 fires and 552 acres burned by this time last year, including 116 man caused blazes.
Mary E Whitmore 87 born March 25 1884 in Dewitt Nebraska dies age 87. Funeral Saturday July 24 at 11 from Moon Chapel Reverend James Doak officiates with burial at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Survivors include Ralph B Whitmore husband son Hugh and four daughters plus 14 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Memorials to United Methodist Church Sandpoint.
Donald Michael Haevers will have a Rosary Friday July 23 at 7 30 p m in Moon Chapel with Mass Saturday July 24 at St Joseph s Church. Interment follows at Pinecrest Memorial Park. Born February 22 1952 in Gettysburg Pennsylvania he moved to Hope at age four and was a former Boy Scout now attended Linn Benton Junior College. He belonged to the Search and Rescue Team in Salem Oregon. Survivors include his parents two sisters and a brother plus maternal grandparents in Pennsylvania and Washington state.
Idaho health officials dispute a claim of rising infant mortality tied to radiation. Statistics show rates fell from 17.7 per thousand in 1968 to 15.9 in 1970, with radiation levels in the state largely undetectable except after Nevada underground tests. The Atomic Energy Commission deemed Idaho’s radioactive material controls adequate to protect health and safety.
In a letter from a reader near Cocolalla the writer details a long struggle to source water from a spring on his hillside property. Despite digging, cementing, and improvising, the cisterns stay low while seepage persists and maintenance frays nerves. He muses about a trout pond and frog-raising sideline as possible ventures.
The Dangle Lounge, once hosting nude go go dancing and losing its license, regains liquor rights as owner Al Reichenberger plans a health food restaurant and discotheque. He says he is turning over a new leaf and is over 30, ending the prior adult-era branding.
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