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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1970
Page
3
Idaho officials warn against importing transporting or releasing walking catfish with a permit required for live animals. Fisheries chief James C Simpson urges owners to destroy any such fish and not release them into streams or reservoirs.
Morrison-Knudsen announces a joint venture with Knusen Co and American General Insurance Co of Houston for a major commercial real estate development. B L Perkins, Morrison-Knudsen president, says total investment will be about $15 million, marking a significant entry into large scale real estate development.
Three minimum security inmates James Lewis Blackhorse James Harold Leek and James Jake Kitchen escaped from Eagle Island Prison farm nine miles west of Boise around 9 p m Monday. Officers from state county and city joined a manhunt concentrated in the Eagle area. Kitchen faces forgery burglary charges while Blackhorse and Leek are held on burglary charges.
Chief Justice McFadden said the Idaho Judicial Council sent Gov. Don Samuelson three names to fill the Boise district judge post vacated by Marlin Young. Young resigned to become a federal bankruptcy referee on March 1. Names kept confidential.
More than 60 students and faculty occupied Skinner Hall to protest the dismissal of two Philosophy Department teachers. They were charged with trespass as they left peacefully after police ordered them from the building. C. Richard Roloff was among those arrested.
More than 200 farmers from southern Idaho paraded to Boise to pressure Gov. Samuelson over potato prices. Despite meetings with state officials and the National Farmers Organization, he refused to issue a public statement acknowledging agriculture's economic role. Farmers criticized advisers as processors and warned of political repercussions as they estimated two million pounds of spuds in circulation.
In New Orleans conservationists urged an indefinite offshore drilling shutdown after the largest oil slick in history. Sierra Club president Phillip Berry called for no new land leases on the outer Continental Shelf until fail safe methods exist. Demonstrators picketed Chevron’s New Orleans office, while two of eight wells continued to spill into the Gulf.
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