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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

Feb. 24, 1969 — CROWDED

With occupancy averaging nearly 80 percent at Bonner General Hospital, it is not unusual for the institution to have to place beds in corridors in order to care for patients. Idaho Board of Health has given the area a 1970 deadline to make provision for a new structure.

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WINTERS REPORTED COLDER

Winters aren’t what they were back in 1950. They’re colder and experts say air pollution is to blame. In North America and in Europe, the cooling trend has made winters a bit harsher and summers slightly milder.

The cooler weather contrasts with the warming trend observed the first half of the 20th century.

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PVT. STRAND HOME ON LEAVE

Pvt. Steven Strand is spending a two weeks leave at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Strand, Route 1, Sagle.

At the completion of his leave, he will return to Fort Lewis, Wash., and from there depart for assignment in Vietnam.

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TWO NATIONAL MERIT FINALISTS NAMED

Sandpoint Senior High seniors Janet Langston and Ted Lund are listed as finalists in the National Merit tests. To be named a finalist, a student must be in the top half percent of those testing.

100 Years Ago

Northern Idaho News

Feb. 24, 1919 — NEWS FROM GLENGARY

Herb Warren arrived home from Camp Logan last week. Believe me, wife and mother and young daughter are happy.

Saturday Mrs. Nutter gave a candy pull in honor of her niece to all the young girls of the neighborhood. In the evening the grownups played cards and partook of a fine lunch, appropriate to Washington’s birthday.

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SCOUTS FIT UP NEW HEADQUARTERS

The Boy Scouts secured the little building just south of the News office (First and Cedar) and are fitting it up as their headquarters. The front room will have a counter at which soft drinks, confectionery, etc. will be sold to members. Chairs and tables will make it a comfortable and attractive place for the boys to spend leisure time.

The back room will be a gymnasium furnished with apparatus as fast as it can be secured. The boys already have a set of boxing gloves and another piece or two of equipment, but their proudest possessions are two totem poles won at Camp Delight, their annual encampment at Twin Lakes the past three years. Two years of the three, the totem pole, denoting orderliness and skill in scout craft and camp cookery, has been carried off by the Sandpoint patrol. About 60 scouts are registered in the local organization. Rev. W.N. Byars is scoutmaster and Dr. Floyd G. Wendle, assistant.

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