Bonner County History - Dec. 21, 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

and Sandpoint Bee

Dec. 21, 1975 — INDOOR TENNIS ALL SET 

The Sandpoint Racquet Club will again use the main Bonner County Fairgrounds building for winter indoor tennis. The club is charged only a $200 deposit and electrical and janitorial fees. The facility is unheated and each day that members play, $3 goes to the caretaker who must open the doors and lock up. Because of these savings, each member is charged only $20 for the entire winter, with $10 for the first additional family member and $5 for other family members. The Club has organized indoor tournaments and practice clinics through the long, cold winter. Jim Parsons runs the membership drive. 

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STAMP SUPPLIES STRAINED BY ORDER 

Post offices throughout the country are left holding large supplies of 13-cent stamps following a court ruling blocking a planned Dec. 28 postage rate hike. A Federal Judge ruled the Postal Service failed to meet legal guidelines for imposing the hike. The financially strapped Postal Service has printed billions of the 13-cent stamps and plans to appeal the order. The delayed rate increase, a three-cent hike for first class stamps, has many area postal officials unsure of how to meet the need for 10-cent postage since they are now well-stocked with 13-cent stamps. Although no directives have yet been received, Doug Moran, supervisor of the Sandpoint Post Office says they may exhaust their supplies of seven and three-cent stamps to meet the demand.  

75 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Dec. 21,1950 — RAIN PRESAGES MILD XMAS 

With rain for six of the last seven days, prospects are looming of a nearly black Christmas. For the seven-day period, precipitation, all rain, was 1.77 inches. Monday was fair, but Tuesday had .35” of rain; Wednesday was nearly a duplicate with .34”. 

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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO SERVICE MEN 

Scattered through this Christmas issue of the News-Bulletin is mention of many Bonner county boys who are serving overseas. Some have been in the service several years, others only months. It is  not possible to name all who have enlisted from Bonner county, but an earnest effort has been made to list as many as possible now overseas, our way of telling them “Merry Christmas” and you are home with us that day even “if only in our dreams.” In Korea: Cpl. Richard L. Brown; Pfc. Robert L. Demers (hospitalized); Pfc Eldon B. Carrithers; Cpl. John Mackenzie; Arthur L. Evans, SK3/c (was in Korea, now hospitalized in Vallejo, Calif.); Capt. Jasper P. Munson; Sgt. Elmo A. Clark; S/Sgt. Ward D. Robinson; SFC Howard Leonard; Pfc Robert Lee; Pfc William J. Cadwallader. Japan: Cpl. Wayne A. Davis; Sgt. Robert D. Nordby. Guam: Pfc. Wm. D. Parker. Germany: Cpl. Wilfred E. Allen. Okinawa: Cpl. Harry Lee; Pvt. Robert B. Becker. APO San Francisco: Cpl. Leslie Montgomery; Cyril D. Mercer, MA3. USS C.P. Cecil: Emmett Dawson, S1c. USS Shannon: Floyd D. Rauer, GMSN. USS Perch: Carl Richard Berg. USS Rupertus: Blaine Sisson, BT3.

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