Bonner County History - June 3, 2025
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Bonner County Historical
Society and Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864
208-263-2344
50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
June 3, 1975 – GEE IS HONOR STUDENT
Kenneth Gee, son of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Gee, graduated as an honor student in food service and management from the school of Vo-Tech Education at ISU. He is currently employed as manager of food service at East Gate Nursing Home in Pocatello.
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HUBBARD ENDS BASIC COURSE
Navy Machinist’s Mate Third Class James A. Hubbard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hubbard Rte. 1, Sagle, has graduated from a six-week Basic Course at the Naval Submarine School, Groton, Conn.
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FIFTH ANNUAL AIR SHOW DRAWS 1100
The weather smiled on the Pend Oreille Flyers fly-in breakfast May 25 for which a record number of private pilots flew in to the Sandpoint airport, with 1100–1200 spectators attending. Athol’s Henley Aerodrome provided two parachute drops. The first, from a twin-Beech, had seven jumpers, then one jumper dropped from another WWII trainer, a Tiger Moth, as Cliff Howard created smoke rings around his path earthward. Sandpoint’s Junior Miss, Kirsten Thompson and First Princess Naomi Marquez had the traditional royal ride in Gene Soper’s home-built bi-plane. Soper gave them coveralls, helmets and goggles, talked Harold Riese into spinning the prop, and they were off for a ride over the countryside, including Wrencoe where the Junior Miss lives.
75 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
June 3, 1950 – JUNE LOGGING 1950!
It may seem like springtime in the foothills around Sandpoint right now, but Pack River logging crews are working in three to four feet of snow in the Ruby Creek district a few miles north. Snow has to be shoveled out from around trees before saw crews move in, so stumps do not exceed a certain height.
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JOB’S DAUGHTERS OFFICERS INSTALLED
New Job’s Daughters’ officers installed Friday at the Masonic temple were Miss Gloria Pietsch, queen; Janice Crockett, senior princess; Firle Selle, junior princess; and Peggy Patton, past honored queen. Afterwards, the queen’s ball was held to honor the new queen. Also attending the ball, for which a Cinderella motif was used, were Cara Lee Hupp, Barbara Breinich, Irene West, Janet Butler, Alberta Pennington, Geraldine Evans, Cleo Hawley, Shirley Eastman, Retta Jean Rheinschmidt, Donna Diehl, Sally Holz, Elizabeth Curtis, Catherine Curtis, Colleen O’Donnell, Carol Burgess, Gail Waring, Ora Jean Moran, Marilyn Cox, Marilla Wilson, Sonja Bond, Joan Cady, Karen Becker, Ruby Mayo, Joanne Pennington, Shirley Bates, Geraldine Farrar, Barbara Lindsey, Donna Mackey and Ilene Irons.
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TINY TOT BREAKS HIP
Little Julie Clark, two-and-a-half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Clark, Pine street, is in traction at the hospital for treatment of a broken right hip sustained in a fall from playground equipment at the triangle playground near her home on Thursday.
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