Woodtick bite leads to Rocky Mountain spotted fever scare
Seven year old Kelley Mueller of Sandpoint contracted Rocky Mountain spotted fever after a woodtick embedded in her scalp. Doctors in Spokane treated her with antibiotics after a hospital stay, highlighting tick risks in North Idaho and outlining removal methods and warning signs for infection.
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Mike Dalen
chedEY _ Bee
Kelley Mueller
Kelley
Mueller
Spokane
Sacred Heart ‘Hospital
Mirror Lake
Sagle
Idaho
Undeveloped Area Meet Postponed In Montana Planning Unit
Meetings planned for June 22 in Troy and July 23 in Clark Fork about the Bull Lake Napoleon Planning Unit have been postponed indefinitely. The pause aligns with new roadless area policy directions, allowing public involvement later while Forest Service re evaluates roadless lands to speed wilderness decisions. About 60 percent of the unit is roadless, and re evaluation aims to shape land allocations by 1978.
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Troy
Montana
Clark Fork
Bull Lake-Napoleon
Rupert Cutler
Congress
Forest Ser
Vice
National Forest
North To The Arctic Explorer Faces 'Impossible' Odds
Walt Pederson and three companions completed a February-April 1968 polar crossing from Ward Hunt Island to the North Pole area chasing a 813 mile route. They braved 75 below zero, ice ridges, open water crossings, and equipment failures while attaching 500 lb trailers to snowmobiles. After 44 days on ice they reached the pole amid storms and danger, radioed completion to the U S Air Force, and returned with two machines and Pederson 40 pounds lighter.
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Brian Moe Bee
Walt
Pederson
North Pole
North- Pole
Amsoil, Incorporated
Amsoil
Duluth
Minnesota
CBS News
Charles Kuralt
Himsel
Ward Hunt Island
Pole
Arctic Ocean
U.S. Air Force
Peary
Arctic
Timber Sales Announced in Sandpoint District
Jerry Stern district ranger announced two timber sales Easy Money and Fat Chance in Grouse Creek Drainage sold at the Federal Building Sandpoint on June 13 1977. Easy Money for 15 cunits cedar products drew bids rising from 15 to 3341 31 by D B J Wood Fee. Fat Chance for 18 cunits cedar products sold by oral auction to D B J Wood Products after nine bids. other bidders included John Rader Arnold Langhis Scott Sawby and Duncan Hendry.
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Jerry Stern
Sandpoint
Easy Money
Fat Chance
Federal
Grouse Creek
D.B.J. Wood
House bans federal funds for abortions in spending bill
The House voted 201 to 155 to ban federal money for abortions as part of a $61.3 billion Labor Health Education and Welfare funding bill for fiscal 1978. A life of the mother exception was dropped. Rep Henry Hyde pushed an amendment for no funds for abortions and it passed.
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Gene Bernhardt Washington
UPI
House
Departments of Labor and ‘Health
Henry
Hyde
R-Il
Two Drivers Cited After City Intersection Crash
Don Servis and E Randy Neely were cited Thursday after a 3 p.m. crash at West Oden Bay Road and State Highway 200. Neely claimed he did not see Servis signals and broadsided the turning pickup. Damages were estimated at 400 dollars for Servis and 350 dollars for Neely.
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West Oden Bay Road
Don Servis
Clark Fork
Oden Bay Road
E. Randy Neely
Sandpoint
Neely
Servis
Idaho
Red Cross Swim Lessons Signups Open at City Hall
Sign-ups and a one dollar fee are collected upstairs at City Hall for the first of three Red Cross swim lesson sessions. The first session starts June 20 with follow ups on July 11 and 25. A summer gymnastic group registration is also available through the Recreation Department.
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Red Cross
City Hall
Recreation Department
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William Smart
John Dodd
Calvin Coolidge
Roy Moe
Deena
Eric
City Beach
Bee
Steve Fenton
R. Redding Construction Co
Long Bridge
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