Bonner County History - Feb. 10, 2022

From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Feb. 10, 1972 – PROUDLY WE SALUTE…

Torpedoman 2-C Edward Walson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Walson of Sandpoint, was in the Navy’s first class of saturation divers which graduated Jan. 3 at San Diego’s Submarine Development One. The 16 divers underwent intensive training at Ballast Point and aboard the Naval Undersea Research and Development center’s Elk River (IX-501). In saturation diving, a man is pressurized to a known working depth on the surface in a decompression chamber and taken by a personnel transfer capsule to a working depth. After sufficient exposure to the surrounding pressures, the diver acquires a gas saturation in his body which balances the water pressure. When the diver is not working, he lives under pressure on the surface. This eliminates the lengthy decompression steps required with more conventional diving methods.

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TORCH CLUB MEMBERS ATTEND STATE MEET

Dan Young, Torch Club district representative; and members Marie Peterson, Linda Murray, Stephanie Cornagey, Lynn Hofmeister and Sandy Lund, with Co-Advisor Mrs. Jack Murray, flew to Boise where they spent Jan. 20-23 attending a state meeting.

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PHYSICAL FITNESS CLASSES

Physical Fitness is promoted every Saturday at Sandpoint Junior High, with tumbling classes for 5th and 6th grade girls conducted by Helen Walkley. The girls have a good time learning and working off steam.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

Feb. 10, 1922 – SCHOOL SITE STILL IN AIR

Lost, strayed or stolen, a site for a perfectly good high school building. Anyone having information that will lead to recovery of the same will confer a favor by reporting to any member of the school board. Up to the hour of going to press, the high school site was still in hiding with the groundhog awaiting brighter days. Since last week’s school board meeting, no solving of the problem has been made. The Methodist church board met Monday to consider the sale of their two lots to the district. It was decided to make an offer at $7500, or for a less sum, if the school district would furnish two lots of equal value to which to remove the church and parsonage structures. The district owns the lots in the rear of the Methodist church. No school board meeting was held this week to consider the proposition, but several board members expressed the opinion that the price asked would be prohibitive.

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CITY BREVITIES

While Eugene Vaillancourt and James Bradley were in Spokane this week, they visited William Polley, Sandpoint boy wounded in the war who recently underwent an operation at Sacred Heart hospital for the relief of a foot shattered by a German shell.

The chamber of commerce on Monday received a copy of the menu of the Windsor hotel at Jacksonville, Fla. for January 30, with a circle traced around the day’s “special” dish. “Idaho Baked Potatoes, 25c.” The menu was sent by T.J. Humbird, who, with Mrs. Humbird, is spending a part of the winter in Florida.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.