Idaho Labor Chief Credits Union Fight for Right to Work Defeat
Robert Kinghorn told the AFL CIO convention in Boise that fast buck artists from the East triggered the debate on a proposed Idaho right to work bill but the opposition's turnout and key vote by Sen. Vernon Brassey killed it. He added Idaho negotiates with the federal government on a new OSHA consultive inspections program that could bring 90 percent federal funding.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho
Idaho Department of Labor and Industrial Services
Aflcio
Feds
Kinghorn
Nader seeks end to nuclear power plant construction
Ralph Nader urged a ban on new atomic plants with petitions totaling 503388 signatures from all states plus DC and Puerto Rico. He backed a Nuclear Energy Reappraisal Act to halt licensing and fund a five year OTA study of nuclear hazards.
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Edward K. Delong
Washington
UPI
Ralph Nader
Congress
House
Interior and Insular Affairs
Nader
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Congressional Office of Technology
Body of Boise man recovered from Lucky Peak reservoir
The body of Brett Watson, 21, of Boise, was recovered from Lucky Peak reservoir near Boise a week after he drowned while swimming with two friends. Deputy Coroner Mike Johnson said the body surfaced where it initially disappeared and was dragged ashore by a fisherman who used a rope. Watson was swimming off shore when leg cramps struck and he slipped beneath the water.
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Boise
UPI
Brett Watson
Lucky Peak
Watson
Ada County
Mike Johnson
Idaho Raises Unpaid Wages Cap And State Minimum
A new Idaho law raises the unpaid wages cap to 1000 dollars from 450 and sets the state minimum wage at 2.30 per hour starting July 1. Director Robert Kingham of the Idaho Department notes the changes apply to most workers and employers except agricultural labor and domestic service. Federal Fair Labor Standards Act covered employers remain under those rules.
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Boise
UPI
Robert Kingham
Idaho Department of Labor and Industrial Services
Idaho _Legislatiuire
Kinghorn
Three Camp Scott Girls Dead as Scout Camp Closed
In Oklahoma at Camp Scott, Lori Farmer Doris Milner and Michele Guse were found beaten to death near their tents after a Monday night. Authorities report possible sexual molestation and are investigating with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
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George
Boosey
Locust Grove
Okla
Camp Scott
Lori Lee Farmer
Doris Denise Milner
Michele Guse
Weaver
Barbara Day
Oklahoma
State” ‘Bureau
Farmer
Tulsa
OSBN
Scouting ’ ‘Council
Tubsa
Grb
Idaho Power plans study for 500 MW coal plant in southern Idaho
Idaho Power president said the firm will seek PUC permission later this month to file for a 500 megawatt coal plant in southern Idaho. Possible sites include Shoshone American Falls and Bliss in Gooding County with environmental criteria and geology noted as factors. If approved, site studies would take about a year and construction four to five years. In a separate Hailey report a motorcycle crash killed Toby Torres 20 of Bellevue and injured another rider.
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Boise
UPI
Idaho Power Co
Idaho ‘Public Utilities Commission
Idaho
James Bruce
Compa
PUC
Commission
Bruce
Shoshone
American Falls
Bliss
Gooding County
Idaho Power
Orchard
Hailey
Fish Kill Puzzles IFG Biologists
NAMPA Idaho UP I biologists puzzle over fish deaths in Lake Lowell near Nampa. Regional Fisheries Manager Will Reid cannot estimate numbers and discounting spawning as the cause. Dead fish sent to the state's fish pathology lab in Hagerman. tests to take at least a week. Water samples also tested for pesticides or herbicides by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
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Reid
Hagerman
Idaho Department of Health and‘Welfare
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Robert Kinghorn
University of Idaho
High School Communications Institute
David Schoolcraft
Sandpoint
North Carolina
Lewistori
Baltatar
Gracian
Mayes
Pete Weaver
Sid
Wise
Wicitas
Vin
Che Sa
Cecil
IFG
Nampa, Idaho
Will Reid
Bank OF
N.A
First Security Bank of Idaho
N. “al
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Boise, Idaho
State
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