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From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864
208-263-2344
50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
May 17, 1968 — RUSK RECEIVES Ph.D.
Jerrold Glenn Rusk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rusk, 423 South Huron Ave., Sandpoint, was one of 171 University of Michigan students receiving their doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees at spring commencement on April 27 at Ann Arbor.
Rusk’s field is political science. He is a 1960 graduate of Sandpoint Senior High School.
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ROHRER SONS VISIT
Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Rohrer of Clark Fork, is their son, Sam, who just returned from Vietnam where he has been teaching basic electronics to a class of Vietnamese.
Rohrer was in Saigon when it was invaded by the Viet Cong. The hotel in which he was quartered was one of the first buildings burned.
Another son, Francis, was a recent visitor of the Walter Rohrer’s. He had also returned from a 2 1/2-year tour of duty in Vietnamese waters aboard the USS Lowe.
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LINDA NEELY RECEIVED MEMBERSHIP
Linda Neely, 15, Sandpoint, has been granted a junior membership in the American Angus Assn. at St. Joseph, Mo. 230 young people in the U.S. received junior memberships last month.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
May 17, 1918 — THE SON OF A HUN
In years to come, tales will be told of deeds of “Sammies” brave and bold, who fought to crush the rule of one - Kaiser Bill, the son of a Hun.
For he it was who set the pace to kill off all the human race, except, of course, his “place in the sun” - Old Kaiser Bill - the son of a Hun.
Of all the crimes yet known to men, and all the wrongs he did again to conquered foes - there isn’t one like Kaiser Bill’s, the son of a Hun.
Who so fiendishly - wholly vile - so barbarous, savage, all the while, as that old tyrant of Verdun - Old Kaiser Bill, the son of a Hun.
We speak of devilish folks on earth as those whom Satan gave their birth, and oft call each “a son of a gun,” but Kaiser Bill is “a son of a Hun;”
Which means today, where’er he’s known, Old Kaiser Bill is “the Devil’s own.”
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24 HOURS WITHOUT POWER
Sandpoint was without light and power for 24 hours Tuesday night and all day Wednesday owing to a break in the transmission line of the Washington Water Power’s circuit between the Post Falls power plant and Newport.
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REV. SANDERS TO “GO ACROSS”
Rev. M.L. Sanders, pastor of the Methodist church, has received an appointment to Y.M.C.A. war service across the seas. Mrs. Sanders and the three children will go to the old family home at New Sharon, Iowa while Rev. Sanders is abroad in his country’s service.
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