Fat stock sale sparks editorials on fairness at Bonner County Fair
A Bonner County reader criticizes bias at the Fairgrounds fat stock sale after a Future Farmers of America member wins Grand Champion steer but receives low bids while 4-H steers fetch higher prices. The letter questions press impartiality and calls for recognition of youth efforts.
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Bonner County Fairgrounds
Future
Farmers of America
FFA
Vernon E. Hatter
Ed Raser
Sandpoint News Stand Contact and Circulation Details
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Pend Oreille Printers, Inc
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Sandpoint
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Bonner County Fair Sparks Mixed Cheer and Call for Volunteers
Sound Off notes broad interest in the Bonner County Fair despite problems. The column cites thefts in crafts, declining agriculture and homemaking exhibits, and timing issues with school starting. Positives include a strong fat stock sale and a record crowd on a weathered weekend. Volunteer effort urged to improve next year.
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Bonner County
Television schedule highlights and prime time lineup
A detailed listing of shows for the evening and following afternoon including Partridge Family Merv Griffin FBI Hogan's Heroes Star Trek News Scene and a mix of movies dramas and public affairs programs. Notable entries include Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Shadow in the Streets with several educational children's programs such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
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Partridge Family
Merv Griffin
FBI
Sesame Street
Hogan’s Heroes
News Alive
Electric Company
Hollywood Squares
Robert MacNeil
Burt Coavy
Branki¢ Avalon
Banjo Hackett
Theater
America
Starsky and Hutch
John Berryman
Channel 2
Mary Hartman
Louis Armstrong
The Egg Cubing Craze Heads Toward Kitchen Tables
In a playful column Dick West imagines a future of cube eggs to solve stacking woes. The piece highlights a proposed egg cuber that presses boiled shells into square blocks, noting current rolling oblongs and the potential culinary and novelty uses.
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Dick West
Washington Ups
Parents oppose universal kindergartens in letter to editor
Anna M. Ahlers of Priest River argues against mandatory kindergartens for all young children, saying she won’t send her under six to school and that parents should educate their children first. She notes high taxes and farms 520 acres, citing rural hardship and duty of parents.
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Anna M. Ahlers
Priest River
Old Is Beautiful at Bonner County Senior Fair
The Bonner County Senior Citizen Fair booth celebrated 50 plus years of living with a blue ribbon win for a contest guessing the total age of eight seniors. Gale Barrus of Kootenai Idaho was the participant behind the correct sum of 561 years 11 months 15 days. organizer urges seniors to embrace aging with pride and grace.
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Bonner County
Gale Barrus
Kootenai
Ida
Grange Program Described to Encourage Voter Participation
Idaho Grange leaders explain the national My Vote Counts program led by National Lecturer Kermit Richardson. Local State Lecturer coordinates efforts for about 150 Idaho Grange chapters to inform members on issues, register voters, and vote on November 1 while remaining nonpartisan.
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Edgemere Grange
Kermit Richardson
Idaho
Grange
Carter compared to Pontius Pilate in abortion stance
Father Francis A Hebert of Orofino likens Jimmy Carter to Pontius Pilate saying his pro abortion Democratic platform condemns unborn children and he refuses to change the law by amendment. Hebert emphasizes guilt over the slaughter of the innocents.
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Jimmy Carter
Pontius Pilate
Jesus
Carter
Needlework Exhibit Shines At County Fair
Susan Gohs Extension Home Economics Agent praises helpers for a well displayed needlework section protected by wire mesh and tall walls. The reader notes how sheltered yet accessible displays encourage more stitchery entrants, appreciating a county fair untarnished by commercial excess.
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Susan Gohs
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