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50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Jan. 14, 1975 – ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hruza, and Fred Hartman, Sandpoint, announce the engagement of their daughter, Linda Sue, to Daniel Alan Remsburg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Remsburg of Sagle. Both are SHS graduates. Remsburg is with the U.S. Navy at Great Lakes, Ill. No wedding date has been set. 

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QUALITY BOXING CARD SCHEDULED

Probably the best boxing card ever staged here is set for Jan. 18, at the Sandpoint Jr. High gym, when the Sandpoint Elks Boxing Club hosts the Albany, Ore. Club. The main event pits 119 Larry Davis against Larry Jackson, a member of the North American team which has fought European and Asian teams. Another stalwart, Jeff McCracken, will fight the winner of the West Coast tournament in the 147-lb. division, and Robbie Kucherry will face Marty Evans, four-time West Coast championship winner in the 85-lb. class. Fifteen fights will fill out the card. 

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BULLDOG CAGERS WIN AGAIN

The SHS Bulldogs downed Lewiston Saturday, bringing their record to 6-2, and vaulting them into a first place tie in the Inland Empire League. Big Bill Malone tossed in 30 points, 24 in the first half. The Bengals doubled up on him in the final two periods, but couldn’t handle senior guard Jeff Clark, whose slashing drives and pin-point passes enabled the Bulldogs to hold out for a 63-61 win. Clark had 14 points, followed by Mike Hagadone with 11, and George Andrews and Terry Allen with four apiece. “It was a good win for us,” said Coach Ron Hunt.

75 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Jan. 14, 1950 – WINS RACE WITH STORK

A telephone call about 5 a.m. Saturday took police officer Everett Jubenville to 1313 Chestnut where a worried prospective father had gotten the family car stalled in the snow even as the flutter of stork wings could be heard. The mother-to-be was transferred to Jubenville’s police car, a new Ford recently put into service, and the race to Bonner General hospital began. Almost bogged down on several occasions, it looked for a time as if the big bird might overtake them, but they made it safely to the hospital with only minutes to spare. At 5:40 a.m., a baby girl [Judy] was delivered to Mrs. Charles Kramer. Mother and daughter are doing fine. Daddy Kramer has recovered from the excitement, and officer Jubenville swears by that black Ford.

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CREW CLEARING HYDRANTS

Two extra men were hired by the fire department to dig out the fire hydrants about the city, In some places, the snow had been banked more than six feet high by plows and property holders clearing their sidewalks. “Folks laughed at me this fall. They thought I was expecting too much when I had eight foot stake markers wired to fire hydrants,” said fire chief Claude Simon. “Now in some places, very little of the marker shows.” Where ice is packed in with the snow, the men need picks as well as shovels.

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