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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1970
Page
2
Public notices run weekly on Tuesdays from Pend Oreille Printers in Sandpoint Idaho. The newspaper operates Monday through Friday with holiday exceptions and lists subscription rates four dollars twenty cents per quarter or sixteen dollars eighty cents per year for U S delivery.
A correspondent rails at modern society criticizing gun rights groups, media, and social decay. They condemn technology, sex education, pollution, and racial injustice while warning of an impending crisis and calling readers to reassess civilization.
UPI reports U S plans to keep 285 000 troops in Europe through June 30 1971 while considering reductions in Vietnam and Korea. Senate leaders and scholars question the heavy peacetime burden, fearing erosion of deterrence and European morale amid NATO nuclear dynamics.
Joseph Demers 96 died Thursday November 12 in a Spokane hospital. Funeral Mass Monday November 16 at 10 a.m. from Saint Josephs Catholic Church with Rev. A V Dulberg officiating. Rosary Sunday November 15 at 7 p.m. from Moon Chapel. Interment Pinecrest Memorial Park. Born June 15 1874 Rice Lake Wisconsin moved to Spokane in 1903 from Mosinee Wisconsin. Managed Humbird Lumber before retiring in 1931. Married Madeline List February 15 1904 in Mosinee. Survivors include daughter Mrs J W Gauthier Helena Montana three grandchildren one brother Med Demers of Sandpoint and sister-in-law Mrs B J List Sandpoint.
United Press International reports Sacramento buyer Gordon Dishington outbid rivals by five dollars to win Clark Gable khaki pants for 115 dollars at a garage sale benefiting the North Highlands Seventh Day Adventist Church. Milton James Jr turns 13 on a superstition laden Friday with 13s surrounding his school day.
Franklin County Common Pleas Court notes a computer produced 100 female names from voter rolls for juror selection. Jury Commissioner William Carpenter calls the output odd and not gender filtered, while noting no male names are separated in the database.
A Columbia Falls, Montana trucker, en route from Portland after repairs, failed to locate the trip permit sign in Sandpoint and was ticketed for not paying. he paid a total of $11 in fines.
A missing road sign caused Canadian truckers to post bonds while drivers faced delays to verify the sign from Columbia Falls. After a three hour city delay and a $1 bond refunds, the sign was replaced, but two other truckers paid over $20 each before corrections.
In Priest River Police Court Donald Leroy Pence of Route 5 Priest River paid a $25 bond for careless driving. Colin Campbell Taylor of Spokane forfeited $15 for failing to stop at a stop sign. Jimmy Wayne Lindgren of Spokane forfeited $10 for speeding 45 mph in a 35 mph zone. Steve Dawson of Sandpoint pled guilty to failure to be reasonable and prudent and was fined $25 with $10 suspended.
Priest River Junior High students began a community sale this week to raise money for a large trophy case in the main hall of the new building. A spokesman said profits could fund other needed items. The school found trophies stored away last year with nowhere to display them. The 7th grade basketball team earned a new trophy and faced storage for it as well.
Three conservation groups led by the Hells Canyon Preservation Council urge the Federal Power Commission to deny licenses for any dams on the Middle Snake River. Pete Hanault said a legal brief filed calls the Hells Canyon region an obvious national park site and argues a dam would ruin its beauty.
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