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From the archives of the
Bonner County Historical Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Apr. 19, 1966 – PLAN REVISION ORDERED
The board of trustees of School District 82 have been directed to come up with a plan for revision of the school trustee zones within 150 days by District Judge Watt Prather. Judge Prather handed down his decision in ruling on a motion made by district attorney Dar Cogswell to dismiss the action brought by Dr. F. E. Marienau in February 1965. Dr. Marienau requested a preemptory writ to require the trustees to divide and zone the county in accordance with Idaho Code 33-313 or in accordance with population.
Marienau attacked 33-313 as “unconstitutional and impossible of interpretation.”
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LIBRARY CIRCULATION GROWING
Sandpoint’s library operated by Chief Librarian Mary Sindelar and assistant Mrs. Redena Mosher boasted a book circulation last month of 2,016. Seventy new library cards were issued in March.
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GOVERNOR SMYLIE IN TOWN OVERNIGHT
“Better a fourth term than a fourth-rater,” Idaho’s Governor Robert E. Smylie told a group of area persons who greeted him at a breakfast discussion at the North Shore Lodge in Sandpoint last week. Smylie credited former President Franklin D. Roosevelt with using the expression first, but said it applied to himself.
100 Years Ago
Northern Idaho News
Apr. 19, 1916 – CORRECTION
The accounting of last week’s meeting of the Sandpoint school district trustees, at which Mrs. Helphrey resigned, was erroneous in some respects. So far as the article related to the resignation because the board decided to re-employ a teacher to whom she objected, the story was correct, but the impression created, that there had been much disagreement in the board in the past and probably similar developments in the future, was entirely wrong.
The News has found that part of the story did an injustice and might cause embarrassment, so we gladly make the correction. Misunderstanding and haste in preparing was responsible for the account as it appeared.
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COMMISSIONERS WILL CUT SALARIES
At last week’s county commission meeting, the county treasurer’s salary was reduced from $2000 to $1500 and the county probate judge and superintendent were each cut from $1500 to $1200, saving the county $1100 per year. The remaining county officers were not changed.
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NO BIDS TO BUILD BOTTLE BAY ROAD
When it was time for the county commissioners to open bids for construction of the planned Bottle Bay road it was found no one had the temerity to bid on it and so people of the peninsula will have to wait still longer to get their road.
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