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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1976
Page
3
Senator Frank Church builds momentum ahead of an official declaration. He qualified for federal matching funds, raising over $400 000 in two months from more than 20 states with donor limits. Backing and endorsements are coalescing as he plans a late start. D.F.
Walter J Van Stone aged 76 died February 28 at Bonner General Hospital. Born September 8, 1899 in Canbri Wyoming to Enoch and Mamie Van Stone he moved from Missoula to the area in 1904. He married Margaret Weisz May 26, 137 in Sandpoint Idaho and worked in Hope and at Colburn mill retiring in 1967. He leaves wife Margaret, son David, daughter Judy Gaudet, six grandchildren, two brothers Dan and Chet, three sisters and other relatives. Funeral March 2 at Moon Chapel with Father M. John O Donavan. burial Pinecrest Memorial Park.
A dense scan shows evening programming across channels with news at 6 00 and 6 30 blocks a mix of dramas comedies game shows and movies including Young Pioneers Rich Man Poor Man All in the Family Maude and Medical Center plus late-night talk and news segments from Eyewitness News and Tonight Show.
A columnist views Idaho's second regular session of the 43rd Legislature as a caretaker session focused on housekeeping and budgeting with few substantial laws. He notes fear of controversy, calls for biennial budgeting, and satire on the lawmakers and electorate amid an election year climate.
In the 1976 primaries the pattern repeats history shows only six of twelve top primaries winners won their party nomination and four reached the White House since the 1904 start by Robert LaFollette. Primaries wax and wane but remain central as reformers and insiders clash over influence.
The Idaho Senate passed 32-0 a bill to raise the small claims limit from $300 to $500, sending the measure to the House. The change would expand the jurisdiction of Small Claims Court to cases up to five hundred dollars.
Church states inflation recession and unemployment as major concerns. He warns foreign policy must align with current global realities, criticizing postwar Europe strategy of imposing stability. He calls for a shift away from the late World War II framework.
Farm Bureau members deny coordinating anti-bond advertising for School District 82’s $4.5 million bond. Frank Findlay, a bureau board member, says individual volunteers helped pay for one ad, but bureau funds are not used and the group takes no official stance.
GOODING Idaho The Bureau of Reclamation has approved plans and specifications for the American Falls dam clearing the way for bids on the 44.5 million project Advertisements will be published soon with bids due for an April 20 opening Spaceholder authorization representative Cecil B Hobdey said the district expects to sell bonds to finance the project early this summer noting a possibly lower municipal bond rate this summer than in the past Local water users in Magic Valley have sought to delay the project but attorneys for spaceholders express little concern
Idaho lawmakers debate a bill to let cities form offices, merge functions, share data processing and road equipment, and create joint golf courses. Critics warn it could widen local taxing power while supporters argue it preserves local control and efficiency.
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