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From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Dec. 14, 1967 — FIRST COLD SPELL
Tuesday and Wednesday provided the first real cold spell of the season. Tuesday’s reading at the U of I Experiment Station was nine degrees. The next morning’s unofficial temperature was eight degrees, but some outlying areas had nearer to zero reading. The cold spell follows the Chinook of Saturday and Sunday that took off much of the snow cover in the Sandpoint area below 2500 ft.
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VANDALS HIT AIRPORT
Sheriff Butigan reports vandalism at the airport Monday night. A tire was slashed on a Piper Cub belonging to Donald Kramer, and the cockpit of a plane owned by Charles Brown was ransacked. Papers were torn up, tools stolen, and upholstery slashed. The incident is under investigation.
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ELKS-PANIDA WILL GIVE FREE SHOW
For the 22nd straight year, Sandpoint Elks Lodge No. 1376 and the Panida Theatre are co-sponsoring a free Christmas movie matinee for children age 12 and under. Floyd Gray, Panida, and Don Leaverton, Elks exalted ruler, said the show will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 23 and the theatre will be open at 12:30 p.m.
The show will be “Zelda in the Kitchen” starring Jay North, the young man who played Dennis the Menace on television a few years ago and who stars in television’s “Maya.”
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Dec. 14, 1917 — THE TOBACCO FUND
The Review previously acknowledged 22 kits of tobacco ordered for its army tobacco fund and donations for ten more kits have since been received. A tobacco kit for a soldier in the great struggle would be an acceptable Christmas remembrance. Send a half dollar or a dollar to the Review and help the Review tobacco fund along.
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IDAHO’S PROHIBITION LAW SUSTAINED
Idaho’s prohibition law, said to be the most stringent in the U.S., was held constitutional by the supreme court of the United States in a decision handed down Monday in Washington.
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ONE OF HOME COMPANY RETURNS
L.C. Johnson of Bonners Ferry, a former member of Company A, was here Wednesday on his way home after receiving a discharge at Camp Mills for a slight disability. He says the boys are in fine condition and excellent spirits and though the weather has been cold in the east, the soldier boys have been reasonably well cared for, and it was “not so bad.” He says most of the boys of Sandpoint are making excellent soldiers.
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SANDPOINT SOLDIERS ON BRINY DEEP
Word was received here yesterday that old Company A, now Battery C, 146th Field Artillery, is on transport on its way to “somewhere in France.”
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