Passenger Train Collides With Freight Near Newport
Burlington Northern's westbound Empire Builder struck a freight train on a siding near Newport Washington injuring about 45 people. The streamliner carrying 211 passengers and 12 crew was moving 35 mph and braked when the siding switch was thrown. None of the engines or coaches overturned but three passenger cars derailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington Northern
Empire Builder
Newport
Washington
Newport Community Hospital
Spokane
J. G. Heimsjo
Chicago
Seattle
Heimsje
A. O. Lehde
Increasing clouds with showers chance through today
The forecast calls for rising high cloudiness today becoming mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with a 10 percent shower chance today 30 percent tonight and 50 percent Tuesday. Highs near 75 today and 70 Tuesday with lows around 55 tonight.
Cave In Injures Kootenai Man
Jim Meneely a 31 year old Ar row Tie Company employee was trapped in a seven foot deep roadside pit when road crust collapsed. His friend Ronnie Kohal rescued him and he was taken to Bonner County General Hospital in satisfactory condition.
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Kootenai
Jim Meneely
Meneely
Arrow Tie Company
Ronnie Kohal
Kohal
Bonner County General Hospital
New Magistrates Appointed in Idaho First District
District Judge James G. Towles announced the First Judicial District appointed five new magistrates for Idaho's northern counties. Sam M. Irvine Ralph J. Mills Lennis McLeod Craig Kosonen Margaret Burns and Virginia Balser take effect January 11 1971 with training in Boise later this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Towles
Wallace
Magistrates Commission of the
First Judicial District
Idaho
Sam M. Irvine
Benewah
Margaret N. Burns
Bonner County
Ralph J. Mills
Boundary County
Craig C. Kosonen
Lennis M. McLeod
Virginia R. Balser
Kootenai County
W. Joseph Irvine
Shoshone
Lennis McLeod
Mar
Garet N. Burns
Kellogg
Boise
Car Struck By Freight At Cocolalla Crossing
C L Cato of Granite was hurt when a Burlington Northern train struck his car near the Lake Cocolalla crossing south of Valley Vista farm at about 3 p m Sunday. He and his wife suffered minor injuries, and Cato said he did not hear warning signals and did not see the train until it was upon them.
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C. L. Cato
Cady & Pier
Burlington Northern
Burlington-Northern
Granite
Lake Cocolalla
Valley Vista Farm
Cato
Lake Pend Oreille Waterways Group considers docks and buoys
The Lake Pend Oreille Waterways Committee met Friday to discuss building new docking facilities at several Lake Pend Oreille sites and placing buoys for water safety. They approved repairs at the East Beach ramp with an estimated $140 cost and planned long range Sand Point Basin development.
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Lake Pend Oreille
Howard McKay
Waterways Committee
Sandpoint Basin
Ther
Waterways
Sandpoint
Garfield Bay
Ted Farmin
Clark Fork
North Shore
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Vist
Pate
Remsburg
Justice of the Peace
Towles
Magistrates Commission
Howard Jenkins
Eastport
Harold Anselmo
Priest River
Don Adams
Coeur d’ Alene
Gordon Leuty
DeSmet
Vince Alexander
Mullan
Floyd Gray
Watt E. Prather
Dar Cogswell
Supreme Court
Cocolalla
Waterways Group
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