Nixon Landslide Victory Sets Record Presidential Win
President Nixon crushed George McGovern in a landslide, winning 521 of 538 electoral votes and more than 44 million popular votes. McGovern won Massachusetts and D.C. while Republicans lost major Senate and House ground, yielding a Democratic-led Congress.
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Nixon
George S. McGovern
Congress
McGovern
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
John Schmi
Sandpoint Weather Partial Clouds Rosters to Rain
Weather report for Sandpoint shows partly cloudy night increasing to cloudy with a chance of rain on Thursday. Temperatures steady with a high of 50 both days and a low of 35 tonight. Rain chances 10 percent tonight and 50 percent Thursday.
Nixon leads in Bonner County vote tally in 1972 election
Unofficial Bonner County results show President Nixon with 4,305 votes and George McGovern with 2,599 for county totals out of more than 7,000 ballots. U.S. Senator James A. McClure (R) also won his senate bid.
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Doris Kenney
Richard Nixon
White House
Nixon
George McGovern
James A. McClure
U.S. Senate
Two Killed In Auto Mishaps Across Idaho
Two fatal accidents raise Idaho’s highway toll to 292 for the year. Howard K. Cowlishaw 56 of Blackfoot died when his car left a curve and hit an embankment near Inkom Bannock County. George R. Stiller 63 of New Plymouth a bus driver and part time cop died in a two car collision near New Plymouth. Investigator George Enerson 46 of New Plymouth charged with failure to yield. Election results and local races are also reported with details on several candidates and county offices.
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Blackfoot
George R. Stiller
New Plymouth
Cowlishaw
Inkom
Marsh Creek
Bannock County
Stiller
George A. Enerson
WWP Names Sandpoint District Manager Earl Midkiff
Earl Midkiff formerly Residential Rural Representative in Spokane is named Manager of Washington Water Power Company Sandpoint District replacing the late Floyd Gray. Midkiff joined WWP in 1956 and has held multiple GAS and Sales roles. He will relocate to Sandpoint with his wife Pauline and two married children.
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Spokane
Washington Water Power
Midkiff
Floyd Gray
WWP
Northport
Washington
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