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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1973
Page
2
Washington Rep. Steve Symms called for hearings on legislation to end the government postal monopoly. He argued the postal service delivers less for more and urged private enterprise to show what it can do as first class postage was set to rise to 10 cents from eight.
President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev announced agreements at Camp David to exchange nuclear research for peaceful energy use and to set basic principles for future strategic arms talks. The accords, described as the summit's principal result, will be signed in Washington later today.
Fair today with variable cloudiness tonight and Friday. Thunder showers possible Friday as warm conditions continue. Light easterly winds. Rain chances: zero today, 10 percent tonight, 30 percent Friday. Highs near 85, lows around 55.
A speaker argues that while the federal government curbs private price hikes, it contemplates a 25 percent increase in a key communications service, calling the move unconscionable and troubling for the nation.
Bonner County Fairboard votes to drop the $2 per hour use fee for fairground facilities after horse groups call the charge unreasonable. The caretaker will open and close buildings without compensation for time outside duties. The board, in a separate motion, approves non commercial temporary food catering and spectator exhibitor parking separation while studying fence costs and keeping the fee question pending.
Gertrude the traveling chicken visits the Sandpoint Kiwanis Club on the forty fourth leg of a trek from Fairfield California to Montreal for the International Kiwanis Convention. The logbook notes routes through California Oregon Washington and Idaho with antics including a dog encounter and a kidnapping rescue in Newport Washington. The chicken proceeds to Creston B C before Montreal with Sandpoint members.
Ten year old Susan Walkley of Sagle fractured her leg Wednesday after catching her foot in a three by five inch gap on the Sandpoint City Beach swimming dock. She was taken to Bonner General Hospital where her condition is listed as satisfactory.
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