Icy Roads Trigger Multiple Area Crashes This Week
Icy road conditions blamed for several accidents from Tuesday to Wednesday near Sagle Colburn Garfield Bay and Sandpoint. Deb orah L Pielli suffered cuts after a 60 degree embankment crash on Talache Road with $1000 vehicle damage. Mary Wilkinson injured in a Cransell vehicle slide with $400 damage. Edward H Miller escaped injury after skidding down an embankment with $250 damage. Shannon Abromeit backed into a parked car in Sandpoint with $100 damage. No hit and run reports.
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Deborah L. Pielli
Talache
Sagle
Pielli
U.S. 95
Colburn
Earl P. Cransell
Ali Samuals
Mary Wilkinson
Cronsell
Garfield Bay
Edward H. Miller
Sandpoint
Miller
Shannon E. Abromeit
219 Club
Phosphate plan faces criticism from Idaho governor
Gov. Cecil D. Andrus condemns a federal environmental impact statement on proposed southeastern Idaho phosphate mining for severe weaknesses. Eighteen companies seek 16 new mines near Soda Springs with 121000 acres affected and four processing plants planned by 1981, but construction is stalled pending the study’s completion.
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Boise
UPI
Cecil D. Andrus
Idaho
Soda Springs
Andrus
William J. Schneider
Pocatello
Interior Department
Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Bunker Hill Cites Pollution Control Progress at Kellogg
Bunker Hill President James Halley reported an 80 percent drop in particulate emissions from the Kellogg main smelter stack and a 75 percent reduction in fugitive emissions. The company plans twin 700 foot stacks and a $13 million dust reduction program to meet Clean Air Act goals and diffuses emissions above inversion layers. EPA set to issue final sulfur dioxide rules by month end. agency seeks 85 percent preventive target, while Bunker Hill controls about 72 percent of SO2 emissions.
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Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Bunker Hill
James Halley
Halley
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Weather Outlook for Sand Point Area
Fair and warm today with increasing clouds tonight. Chance of showers Friday. Variable winds 5 to 15 mph. Precipitation risk 10 percent today, 20 percent tonight, 40 percent Friday. Highs around 50 today and 45 Friday. lows near 35 tonight.
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Sandpoint
Idaho Bridge Width Standoff With Coast Guard
Idaho leaders and the Coast Guard spar over required bridge width for the Clearwater River crossing at Lewiston. The board pushes 82 feet, while the Coast Guard offers a 62 foot fixed bridge, warning that funding hinges on federal approvals amid tight state budgets and looming repairs.
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Carl Moore
Lewiston
Coast Guard
Moore
Lloyd Barron
Andrus Cuts Land Budget For FY 76 Idaho Land Board
Gov Cecil D Andrus unveiled the FY 76 Land Department budget cutting the requested 22 percent general fund increase to 6.9 percent and proposing staff grow to 311 from 294. He warned of tighter budgets and favored surplus budgeting to fund one shot items while noting FY 75 general fund appropriation was 3.5 million. The board also denied a land sale for state hospital grounds and approved amending a right of way deed for Parma's Arena Public Park Association to use three acres for a community hall with the rest leased to fund public schools. The board will wait on Utah’s indemnity case before Idaho joins as friend of the court.
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Margaret Bailey Boise
UPI
Cecil D Andrus
Land Department
The
Land Board
Andrus
State Historical Museum
James Bax
State Health and Welfare Department
State Hospital North
Emil Rodakowski
Orofino
State Hospital Administration
Bax
Department
Gordon Trombley
Arena Public Park Association
Parma
Two County Employees Rehire After Discrimination Dispute
Two Bonner County assessors workers Judy Woods and Jaynee Pick were fired last Friday for leaving early to observe their Sabbath but were reinstated yesterday with no loss of pay after legal advice suggested the dismissal would face a likely victory for the employees. The dispute touched on potential loss of federal CETA funding and other grants if discrimination claims progressed.
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Bonner County
Dennis Benda
Judy Woods
Jaynee Pick
Benda
Idaho Human Rights Commission
Pick
Woods
Norma Strecker
Dan Featherston
Assessor's
Lucinda Weiss
Coeur d’Alene
Bob Sullivan
Sullivan
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Featherston
Idaho Oversight Leaves $6000 Folding Machine Idle
Idaho faces a $6000 folding machine sitting idle after the Department of Employment bought a heavy duty unit to fold tax reports. With 18,000 reports quarterly, officials weigh whether to keep both machines or return the newcomer, facing potential penalties and shipping costs if returned.
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Boise
UPI
State of Idaho
Department of Employment
Departments of Employment and Administration
Skip
Chilberg
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Senior Citizen Center
City Bee Photo
Robert van Buskirk
UPT
Idaho Transportation Board
Clearwater River
Ralph Mancil
Washington DC
Manning
Joint Legislative Interim
Dean Tisdale
Tisdale
Byron Walker
Washington, DC
Lion
Peter Cenarrosa
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Weiss
Glenn Nichols
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