Bridge Traffic Delays Extend At Lake Pend Oreille Bridge
A Highway Department crew will keep one lane closed Monday through Thursday for about two more weeks while installing steel saddles on cracked concrete stringers beneath the Lake Pend Oreille bridge south of Sandpoint. Assistant District Engineer Neil Barrus said the repairs use a mobile catwalk system and mirror earlier work, with plans to broaden repairs after assessing costs versus the bridge's remaining life. The same crew recently completed fixes on bridges at Clark Fork, Newport, and Dover.
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Lake Pend Oreille
Sandpoint
State Highway Department
Neil Barrus
Coeur d’Alene
Barrus
Highway Department
Clark Fork
Newport
Dover
Highway Dept
Bee
Plan Considered For Ballot Issue
Members of the city's Planning and Zoning Commission will decide before the next city council meeting whether to recommend that an amended version of a controversial comprehensive growth plan be put before voters. Commission Chairman Clarence Reed said a Wednesday meeting with a citizen committee will guide the recommendation to the council. The committee was formed after strong opposition to the plan earlier this year and follows two bitter meetings in February and a March 7 special session at Sandpoint Junior High School. An anonymous caller later threatened at the event.
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Planning and Zoning Commission
Commission
Clarence Reed
Citizens Committee
Sandpoint Junior High School
Sandpoint area thefts reported midweek
Multiple thefts in the Sandpoint area over three days involve a $70 money order stolen from Shirley Goughnour’s locked home, a $410 chain saw taken from Jerry Cullen’s pickup, a $75 transmission from Thomas Engle’s truck, a $198.36 Minolta camera from the Bonner County Fairgrounds office, $60 in food stamps stolen from Walter Byfield’s home, and missing golf clubs, tools, an undetermined loss from an Outlet Tract cabin, and a $700 aircraft radio from Henley Aerodrome after a repairman left the state.
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Sandpoint
Shirley Goughnour
Cedar
Jerry M. Cullen
Thomas L. Engle
Elder
Minolta
Bonner County Fairgrounds
Bonner County
Clay Henley
Henley Aerodrome
Grand Jury System Proposed By Idaho Attorney General
Idaho Attorney General Wayne Kidwell urged the 1976 Legislature to adopt a statewide grand jury. He said county systems fail and cited praise from Oklahoma and New Jersey officials. A statewide system would broaden subpoena power and aid prosecutions in drug trafficking and white collar crimes crossing counties.
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Boise
API
Wayne Kidwell
Idaho
Kidwell
Oklahoma
New Jersey
Rustler Shot At In Idaho County Cattle Plot
Chief Deputy Harry Button reports two ranch workers heard noises in the early hours near Kootenai County. A man fired an arrow at a figure leading two horses, who fled into darkness. Authorities found part of the arrow but no hit sign. The Idaho Cattlemen's Association offers up to 1000 dollars for information leading to arrests in rustling and cattle mutilations amid rising stock losses.
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Harry Button
Kootenai County
Button
Idaho Cattlemen's Association
Rolland Patrick
Rogerson
Idaho Cattlemen’s Association
Patrick
Wallace couple sue railroad over cow loss near Careywood
John T. and Claire L. Wallace filed a lawsuit against Burlington Northern Railroad seeking 1800 dollars. They allege failure to fence lands along the right of way and to maintain cattlegates near their Careywood property, claiming the loss of a cow last March and asking 1200 as twice the animal’s value plus 600 in attorney fees.
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Careywood
John T
Claire L. Wallace
Burlington Northern Railroad
Wallace
Burlington Northern
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University OF Idaho Library
Moscow
Walter Byfield
HCR 66
Rustler
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