Chamber Directors to Vote on Tourist Information Center
The Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce faces a Tuesday vote by its Board of Directors to commit to building a tourist information center at the north city limits along U S Highway 95. The project budget runs under 14 000 with about 5 000 already on hand, and Architects West of Sandpoint prepared the plan.
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Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Chamber
Barb Remmers
Architects
West
Sandpoint
Don McCormick
Sand Creek
U.S. Highway 95
Soil Conservation Service
City Limits
City Hall
John Porter
Merchants Committee Board
Letter Sparks Fatal Fight and Gunfire in Pine Mountain
Bonner County sheriff says Arlie Lawrence was shot in the ear and scalp while his neighbor Joseph Opferman was treated for a split lip after a confrontation over a Bee Sound Off letter about School Bus Service Extension. Opferman's son joined the fray but was unhurt. Opferman released, Lawrence under observation. No charges yet as investigation continues.
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Black Pine Mountain
Bonner County
Robert Wilcox
Arlie D. Lawrence
Joseph Opferman
Wilcox
Bee-Bulletin
Opferman
Lawrence
Bonner General Hospital
Local youths charged in train derailment and bomb threat
Two 14 year old Sandpoint boys face charges over a September 3 Union Pacific derailment after a switch was left partially open near the north city limits. A 13 year old Kootenai youth will be charged for a September 10 bomb threat at Stidwell Junior High School.
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Sandpoint
Union Pacific
Kootenai
Stidwell Junior High School
Gary Finney
Spokane
Eastport
Fifth Ave
Bastian
Idaho Faces Rapid Land Shifts From Urban Growth
A federal state report on Idaho land use projects 114000 acres to urbanize in five years, mostly farmland, with 376000 acres more converting to irrigated cropland. Bonner County will see 50000 acres shift to recreation and growth, while rangeland to irrigation dominates statewide changes through 1980. Canyon County remains comparatively stable.
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Boise
UPS
Idaho
Bonner County
Elmore
Nampa
Caldwell
Canyon County
Federal Soil Conservation Service
State Office of Budget, Policy Planning and Coordination
IRS Warn Tax Claim Ad Firms Target Homeowners
Boise IRS district cautions taxpayers to ignore ads claiming energy saving devices are legitimate tax deductions. Congress has proposed a deduction bill, but it is not law yet.
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Boise
UPI
Boise District
Internal Revenue Services Office
Congress
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Information Center
Due Chamber
Merchant Committee
Cocolalla Area
Sheriff’s Office
First Street
National Association of Conservation Districts
IRS
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