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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1970
Page
3
Federal Judge Ray McNichols found no evidence of fraud in the Indian Hill Irrigation Co. dispute near Hammett Idaho involving 12 desert entrymen. Udall was ruled to have acted arbitrarily when reversing a prior decision and charging fraud in the case.
The House passed a measure restoring water rights for the University of Idaho Agricultural Experimental Station at Caldwell and the Idaho State School and Hospital at Nampa. The Senate must concur in minor amendments before the bill goes to the President. A separate Coeur d Alene meeting considered annexation proposals to support local improvement districts.
A government report shows Idaho growers expect to plant 321 000 acres of potatoes statewide in 1970, up two percent from 1969. The forecast, based on March 1 data, signals little change in the southwest counties and notes land shifts to offset crop-rotation trends. Appointment of Arthur R. Bangle as Mountain Bell plant manager in Idaho effective April 1 was announced, replacing Leo W. Cashmen who goes to Phoenix.
President Nixon told Republican leaders he is weighing new federal laws to curb a spate of bombings across the country. Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott cited a near term request for special legislation while security on Capitol Hill may be increased.
San Francisco resumes normal service as four unions approve a 6.2 million pay proposal after a four day strike that affected 14 000 city employees and 400 000 transit users. Mayor Alioto led negotiations with City and County Employee Local 400 Hospital and Institutional Workers Local 250 Janitors Local 660 Stationary Engineers Local 39 and California Nurses Association.
President Nixon called for higher federal subsidies and faster training of skilled construction workers to spur home building and curb rising housing costs. He urged scheduling of government projects in winter, rejected cuts to state programs, and pushed a $250 million subsidy plan for savings and loan mortgage expansion alongside boosting subsidized housing to 450,000 units this year. He also directed enforcement of equal opportunity laws in the industry.
HEW Secretary Robert H Finch urged Senate action to back Nixon antipollution plans. The proposal would bar foreign cars not meeting standards, empower assembly line testing, revoke conformance certificates, and regulate gasoline additives amid widespread hazes across much of the United States. Vincent J Schaefer cited pervasive bluish haze over about half the country.
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