Miss Idaho Returns to Boise Tonight
Miss Idaho Karen Herd of Idaho Falls places first runner up at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. She plans return trips to Idaho Falls and Boise before resuming studies at Boise State College.
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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1971
Page
4
Miss Idaho Karen Herd of Idaho Falls places first runner up at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. She plans return trips to Idaho Falls and Boise before resuming studies at Boise State College.
A school bus carrying Gunnison High School junior varsity players crashed on Monarch Pass near Garfield after brakes failed. Eight players and a coach died, 39 injured. driver Royce Mustain among the hospitalized, with 19 still in care. Airlifted victims were taken to Denver for treatment.
The Idaho traffic toll climbed to 211 as Mark Leboutillier 23 Soda Springs Karen Wall 20 Boise and John Gillaspy 35 Meridian died in separate crashes. Leboutillier died in a one car rollover on King Hill Trail Canyon near Soda Springs after failing to negotiate a curve. Wall was struck beside her car on Interstate 80 near Meridian and a hit and run driver remained at large. Gillaspy died from injuries sustained in a Boise transfer after an Aug 22 motorcycle crash near Gardena California.
In Essex a wheat field blaze spread while firefighters battled flames, delaying notice of their own fire engine which ultimately burned. Village officials ordered a report. A fire brigade spokesman cited thick smoke and heat as reasons for poor scene watch.
Pope Paul VI changes the Roman Catholic sacrament of confirmation to anointing on the forehead with perfumed oil rather than laying on of hands. The former kiss of peace replaces the old knightly cheek slap and the new formula includes a return to an ancient eastern practice. The change takes immediate effect with a deadline to use the new rite by January 1 1973.
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