Unemployment in Bonner County shows fall improvement
Bonner County unemployment appears to be high yet shows improvement from October 1975. Idaho Department notes October claims down about 400 from last year, with 396 new claims and 2,476 continuing claims. Seasonal layoffs begin as Forest Service, construction, and logging slow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonner County
Bob. ‘Jones
Sandpoint
Idaho. Dept
Forza
Jones
Forest Service
State Dept. of Employment
Idaho
Controversy Over 13-Acre Riverside Campground Plan
Bonner County debated Bill Enos's proposal to develop a 102-space campground, marina, and nine acre subdivision along the Pend Oreille River. Neighbors led by Ted Baca Jr oppose citing traffic, crime, and overdevelopment, while Enos argues added tax revenue, jobs, and public access. A November 18 public hearing will decide the conditional use permit.
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Pend Oreille River
Sandpoint
Priest River
Bill Enos
Enos
Ted Baca, Jr
Bonner
County Planning and Zoning Commission
Commission
Baca
Sheriff's Department
Riley Creek
Springy Point
JUB Engineering
Coeur d’ Alene
Bible Exorcism Beatings Linked to Child Death Trial
In Yakima Washington a jury hears a tape where Velma Cunningham describes beating 3 year old David Weisbacher to drive out the Devil. The room with the body was disinfected and sealed as adults in a Christian cult await resurrection, while Caroline Cunningham says the boy "just passed out" after a spanking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima, Wash
API
Velma Cunningham
David Weisbacher
David
Caroline Cunningham
Velma
Three New US Fish and Wildlife Area Managers Named
R Kehler Martinson announced three Area Manager posts for the western region. Joseph Blum leads Washington State, Phillip Aus covers Oregon Idaho, and William Sweeney oversees California Nevada. Offices will be in Olympia Boise and Sacramento with 5-7 staff each, shifting some Portland Regional office staff. Aus, 42, a veteran wildlife official, will reside in Boise with his wife Christina.
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R. Kehler Martinson
Fish ’ and Wildlife Service
Joseph R. Blum
Washington State
Phillip B. Aux
Oregon
Idaho
William D. Sweeney
California
Nevada
Fish and ‘Wildlife’ Service
Berneralpu
Olympia
Washington
Boise
Sacramento
Portland
Phillip B. Aus
Minnesota In Forest and Wildlife
The
University
Montana
University of North Dakota
Aus
Fish and Wildlife Service
Minnesota
Division of
River Basin Studies and Wildlife Services
North
South Dakota
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Charles M. Russell Range
Lewiston
Interior Department
D.C
Fish and Wildlife Administration
Southern Area
Annapolis
Maryland
Rus
Christina
Boise Area
Nominees Sought for Idaho Landholder Sportsman of the Year
The Idaho Landholder Sportsman Council invites nominations for 1976 Landholder Sportsman of the Year. Nominations should be sent to John Emery or the Bureau of Information and Education by January 1. The winner will be announced in late January with a statewide winner and runners-up from four Fish and Game districts.
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Idaho Landholder- Sportsman Council
J. Ward Chatburn
Chatbam
John Emery
P.O. Box
Boise
Bureau of Information and Education
Department of Fish and Game
Council
Fish and Game Commission
Wet Summer Halts Forest Fire Experiments in West
Boise National Forest official says the wet season prevented severe tests of controlled natural fires. Experiments allow lightning sparked fires to burn in wilderness areas but cap burns at 1 000 acres and avoid public danger. A Sawtooth Wilderness proposal is under development.
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Boise
UPI
Boise National’ Forest
The
Forest Service
Solway-Bitterroot
Idaho
Bridger-Teton National Forest
Teton National Park
Wyoming
Shiverdecker
Sawtooth
Rescue Ships Converge After Freighter Carnelian-1 Sinks
Panamanian freighter Carnelian-1 with 33 crew sinks . nine survivors rescued by two freighters amid 40 knot winds and 20 foot seas. Burmese and Japanese nationals rescued. logjam cargo and liferafts keep mariners afloat. Coast Guard crews aid survivors with life rafts, survival packs, and parachute flares as rescue efforts continue 1,400 miles northwest of Honolulu.
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Honolulu
UPI
Aleutian Islands
Coast Guard
San Francisco
Mellon
Kodiak
Alaska
Hunter
Cancer blocks job search and stigma of illness discussed
Mary Ann Ricker told TVA workers she had cancer and was fired a year ago. Panelists including Joe and Dorothy Hill shared struggles in finding interviews and employment while facing Hodgkin's disease and other hardships. A counselor urged firms doing business with the federal government to hire qualified cancer patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Sease
Birmingham
Ala
Mary Ann Ricker
Tennessee Valley Authority
Louis Josef
University of Alabama
Spain Rehabilitation Center
Joe
Dorothy Hill
Energy Rise May Trigger Rapid Polar Ice Melt Theory
Emory physicist Dr. Peter Fong warned at the American Physical Society meeting that four times today’s energy use could drive a shift in Earth’s climate. His model links interstellar gas clouds to glacial cycles and predicts icecaps could melt within about 2,000 years if energy demand remains high.
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Charles S. Taylor
Atlanta
UPI
Emory University
Peter Fong
Fong
American Physical Society
Virginia Beach
Equator
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Marina
Army Corps of Engineers
Dufort
Dufort Road
Dennis Benda
Ted Baca Enos
Palm Springs
Bee
Mike Anderson
George Eastman
Kodak
Phillip Butcher
Boy
IFG
Sportmen of
Wallace C. Shiverdecker
Boise National Forest
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