Idaho Legislature Ends After 55 Days of Wrangling
Idaho lawmakers wrapped up the second session of the 40th Legislature after 55 days, adjourning at 5 47 p m. Democrats stayed for Jefferson Jackson Day speeches by Sen Alan Cranston. The session approved a constitutional revision for voters next November but left major issues unresolved including local tax relief and revenue restrictions. Governor Samuelson praised the session as realistic and hard working while noting restraint in supplemental appropriations. Final general fund supplementary appropriations totaled 5 229 992 dollars.
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Boise
UPD
Idaho
Sinc
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Senate
House
Terry Crapo
Idaho Falls
Don Samuelson
Samuelson
Legisla
Ture
James Ellsworth
Leadore
John Evans
Malad
William Lanting
Hollister
Ed Williams
Lewiston
Siend
Bonus Likely For Widow Rewarded Find Turns Back
A frail 58 year old widow in Los Angeles found 100 dollars in a gutter and walked 10 blocks to turn it in at Parker Center. Police say 16 reports have been filed by missing money claimants but the money may belong to her unless serial numbers prove otherwise. Officers noted the public offered money clothing and a place to live and she said she walked because she had no bus fare and would have kept it if not for needs.
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Los Angeles
UPID
Jean Cardon
Parker Center
Jose Munoz
Spokane teen ties marathon chess record for kidney fund
Pat Herberts, 19, set a 72 hour chess marathon at Gonzaga University raising $144 for Kelly Phillips 9 awaiting a kidney transplant in Seattle. He played 224 games with 200 wins 17 losses and seven draws amid a crowd of supporters.
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Spokane
Wash
UPI
Pat Herberts
Kelly Phillips
Little Kelly
Seattle
Herberts
Gonzaga University
Kelly
Spokane Community College
Paul Wokes
Paul University
Great Britain
Marines Begin Phased Withdrawal From Vietnam War Zone
The U S Command states over 7 000 Marines will start boarding ships and planes home Tuesday as part of Nixon's phased drawdown. More than 3 000 have already left. most served nine months. All will depart by March 20 for bases at Camp Pendleton and Twenty Nine Palms California. An apparent helicopter gunship malfunction killed two Vietnamese civilians and wounded 11 near Saigon. Six U S servicemen died and 24 were wounded Sunday in fighting near the Cambodian border as B 52 bombers dropped over 1 000 tons on guerrilla bunkers near Ben Het Phuoc Long and other sites.
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UPD
U.S
Nixon
26Th Marine Regiment
Vietnam
Camp Pendleton
Palms
Calif
Tan Son Nhut
Ben Het Green Beret
Phuoc Long
Capital
Idaho Power rate hike case heard by Idaho PUC
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission heard motions to dismiss and to reopen Idaho Power's proposed rate increase case. Intervenors including the Atomic Energy Commission and others urged dismissal, while Idaho Power offered new evidence to answer concerns about geographic spread and class fairness. The case was suspended earlier to July 1, 1970, with a possible further delay if reopened.
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BOISE
UPI
Idaho
Public Utilities Commission
Idaho Power Company
James Bruce
Idaho Power
Atomic Energy Commission
The
Food Machinery Corporation
Idaho Irrigators and Pumpers Association
Oil Heat Institute
PUC
Sudden incident activity high over Laos linked to Plain of Jars
U S war planes fly about 400 sorties daily over Laos. North Vietnamese engineers work at night to clear or build detours around cratered roads to keep truck traffic moving toward the Plain of Jars. Main supply routes include Highway 7 from North Vietnam to the Plain of Jars and Highway 13 to Luang Prabang.
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Vientiane
UPD
U.S
Laos
North Vietnam
Plain of Jars
Luang Prabang
Plane crash kills six after joyride over St Augustine
A private single engine plane crashed into a swamp near St Augustine during a storm sending four dead and two critically injured. Pilot Jack Free man Hatcher 41 of Naples and his stepdaughter Elizabeth Sexton 19 were killed along with David Snellenberger 23 of Apopka and Mary Jane Down 33 of Jacksonville. Hatcher’s daughter Janice 10 and Ramona Wilcox were in critical condition. The plane struck after two passes over the airport in nine mile swamp during a 15 minute flight.
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Mary Jane Down
Jacksonville
Hatcher
Janice
Ramona Wilcox
Laurel
St. Augustine
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