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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1976
Page
6
The piece notes Initiative 318 seeks to raise the age of majority to 18 by June 30 with 118000 signatures. Jay Wagner reports weak youth backing and loose campaign organization. He hints at a Kingdome Wings concert as a signature-gathering chance with an event sold out.
Boise Idaho federal grant of about 1.2 million funding a statewide water pollution study over two and a half years. Dr Lee Stokes announces the plan under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 with Sen John Peavey head of the Policy Advisory Committee. Areas include forest management irrigation return flows erosion control groundwater protection and mining to meet 1983 clean water goals.
Gov. Cecil D. Andrus urged Idaho Potato Commission director Gordon Randall in Washington to block a Western Russet contract that would replace the Idaho Russet with a Western variety on futures trading. He warned of a loss of Idaho's image and price advantages and said he may seek restrictive legislation.
Registered nurses at St Luke's Hospital approved a new contract that includes retroactive pay raises to February 16 and sick leave from the second day of illness. A Sunday strike threat was avoided as 66 of 77 nurses voted in favor.
The Idaho Commission on Women’s Programs launches a sociological and legal study of conditions for women prisoners. A task force on jails will be reactivated with Elna Grahn of Moscow leading and members from Boise Meridian Arco Preston and Craigmont. Prisoners are at Cottonwood and Nevada State prisons. none at Idaho's Boise facility.
Dean Wilson of Spokane, 31, received a 6600 reward for providing information that helped arrest Thomas Mahrt in the abduction and murder of 13 year old Nanette Martin. Mahrt, 28, was sentenced to two life terms after pleading guilty to kidnapping and murdering the newspaper carrier.
A yellow station wagon reported stolen by murderer Gary Russell Anspaugh after he escaped from the state prison was located Sunday evening in the Boise National Forest. Deputy Sheriff Stan Jensen found the vehicle on a side road north of Lowman. Anspaugh and fellow inmate Cecil Flummer escaped May 29 by commandeering an ambulance. Anspaugh had tied up and robbed Jack Eisenberg of two guns and his car.
A nameless infant found in a Pasco garbage can has drawn hundreds of adoption inquiries to Deadlness Hospital in Spokane. The baby, moved after respiratory problems, was in critical condition but improving last week and is now under the ward of Franklin County Superior Court in Pasco.
Kenneth Paul Bohig 31 of Wisdom Montana fell to his death Friday night while mountain climbing on a Salmon River float trip 25 miles east of Riggins Idaho Deputy Sheriff Alan Riggs said the group camped on a Wind River Pack Bridge sandbar and Bohig was last seen at about 9 p.m. before he disappeared and was found the following morning.
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