Montana Standard-Post (Newspaper) - March 18, 1962, Butte, Montana Watch for Ice Is the traffic toll for Montani this year f Was the traffic toll on this data io 1961 And Cross indicates fatality The Butte Daily Post Corvallis Cops Class C Crown 2nd Page 7 Vol 230 Established 1876 Montana Sunday Morning March 18 1962 Entered and Published B3 Second Claes Matter at 25 W Granite Butte Mont Under Act of March 3 1879 Home Edition Price 15 Cents Flare Spotted in Plane Search Helena's Water Green May Be Chlor By PAUL M O'QUINN Son of HELENA UPI Now Paddy dear oh did you hear the word that can seen Someone took over Helena and turned the wa- ter green It's rumored that the defunct IHA had something to do on St Patrick's Day Saturday with the water from one ot Helena's voirs turning a shimmering green us it left faucets in City residents homes Now mind you tis a serious proposition to mess with a water supply of any kind But green is the proper color on St Patty's Feast day Several residents up and ed on Helena's cast side Saturday morning as a little hit of the Emerald Isle trickled into their water glasses The whole had the city officials in a tizzy Phone calls flooded the at the water plant Casey O'Brien of Clancy the Irishman who last summer the State Board of ners to clean off his hero General Thomas Francis Meagher's statue on the State Capitol Grounds com- on the green water for UPI Green beer's wrong with green O'Brien said I only regret that I didn't have green water running in my II would have helped my celebration of this fine day even he added I had to settle for plain old green beer He added however It was kind of foolish to mess with the I any man would pull a stunt like that City waler official George ben when asked if he ed the Irish said Well say I just suspect pranksters But the pranksters Irish or not should have realized Malben said It's a federal offense to monkey with a municipal waler supply Helena Irishman Harry Billings who was one of the notice the water commented It's ling I suspect a leprechaun lings said he didn't mind the green waler at all except I won't drink it The waler first started running green around 9 o'clock Saturday morning Malben investigated and the water was rerouted to cut off the supply from the contaminated reservoir Only the east section of town was affected A state chemist determined that coloring used to turn the waler green was a ful and tasteless Helena police started a search for the pranksters One Irishman quipped It must have been a little bit of heaven falling from out of the sky one day By V G MILLER GUAM Sunday U S Air Force search plane hunting for the 107 persons aboard a missing airliner reported spotting a flare 408 miles northwest of Guam Saturday night The plane reported making dar contact with a surface object The pilot said he dropped a flare to illuminate the area and re- ported seeing an answering flare Eight naval vessels continued the search on the surface The reported flare sighting was made hundreds of miles from the spot where floating objects were sighted Saturday The destroyer escort Brister was ordered lo the scene of that sighting and was expected to reach BULLETIN sighting and was expected it in a mailer of hours The floating objects were spoiled 750 miles west of Guam The exact from the island was west-northwest A skywarrior jet recon HONOLULU Air Force naissance plane sped to the area officer coordinating search for a missing plane with 107 of the floating and took pictures of them But examination objects and one of a flare had been checked out wilh negative results Air Force and air rescue planes ly sped to the area The USS Illusive a Navy mine sweeper also steamed toward the reported sighting The third day ot an all-out search effort for the plane ing since early Friday Guam time on a flight from California to Viet Nam got under way early Sunday Ninety-three Viet bound GIs were among those aboard Twenty-six planes left Guam to cover the search area relieving the aircraft which had spent the night searching Butte Toasts Apostle of Friendly Sons By Father of Paul M O'Quinn the patron saint of land must have felt proud al the honor accorded his memory day in the Mining City He tad reason to be for the manner in which the Sons of the Gael and their neighbors and friends paid tribute to Patrick the apostle of Ireland and probably the known saint in the whole world Nearly 300 members of the Friendly Sons and their guests in the Silver Bow room of the Finlen Hotel for the annual St Patrick Day banquet of the Butte i They toasted Patrick and Ireland oratory music and song ers lay and priest alike told of the work of the Irish apostle in Saul Heath Slane Tara Connacht and Down Patrick as he traveled from the north to the south ning kings druids and laymen for Christ The Rev Charles McCarthy tive priest now at East Helena responded to the St A Patrick Tim McCullough reared in Butte now sheriff of King County Seattle reviewed the history of the Irish in America The invocation was given by the Rt Rev Msgr M M as toastmaster in the best tradition dean of the Butte conference of Catholic Clergy Robert O'Leary native Butte attorney now ant U.S District Attorney served of tlie nearly Gay Irish songs were sung by Continued Page 12 Col 3 Explosion Rips North Spokane SPOKANE Wash UPI At least 18 persons were hurt none critically when an explosion followed by fire ripped through half a city block in north Spokane Saturday night The blast occurred in the one- story North Co It demolished the store an adja cent cafe shoe store and pizza house and knocked out as far away as one mile Police Inspector Robert Piper said it was believed to have been a gas explosion He said as far as could be determined no on Continued Page 12 Col 2 Granite Powell High Students Win Grand Prizes in District 3 Science Fair Granite Powell and Butle High attend the National High School School students captured Science Fair in Seattle in May i 1 prize honors in the District No 3 Science Fair which closed in the Civic Center Saturday night The top five grand prize winners were Robert Greenheck Granite County Philipsburg first Matthies Butte High second Jim Loomis Butte High third Gary Swant Powell Deer Lodge fourth and Marsha Anderson Powell fifth Top Exhibits Miss Anderson's exhibit and in the zoology ion was named the tops among girls project The of Hypoxia on the Em- or lack of oxygen in such development was named the top boy exhibit The success of Greenheck grand prize winner last year and Anderson entitle them through their schools or as individuals to ners in addition to receiving a plaque received a scholarship o the college of their choice BUTTE Fair and mild today through High today 45 low tonight 16 East of Variable high cloudiness Sunday through day Somewhat wanner and northcentral portions Sunday and Sunday night Highs both Lows Sunday night 25 West of Partly cloudy Sunday through Monday Little temperature change Highs both days Lows Sunday night 5 20 THE TABLE Maximums are for 12 hours anc minimums for 18 hours ending at p.m Saturday Billings 44 27 Belgrade 37 6 Broadus 23 42 Cut Bank 42 21 Dillon 48 19 Drummond Glasgow 33 12 Falls 25 Havre 24 3 Helena 49 21 43 18 47 20 Livingston 51 19 Miles City 45 20 Missoula 47 20 West Yellowstone 44 M 18 William P Riley Businessman Taken by Death William P Riley owner of Butte Bottlers Supply Co 112 S Main died in a local hospital Saturday Mr Riley had operated the busi ness since 1934 The family home is 706 W Broadway He was born in Butte and at tended local schools He was member of Butte Elks Lodge 240 United Commercial Travelers Butte Town Club and St Patrick Church Surviving are his wife Vernie brother Karl J Riley Chicago mother Mrs P J Riley and sis tor Ethel D Riley Los Angeles daughter Mrs Diane R Toler Palm Springs Calif The Rosary will be recited at p.m Monday in St Patrick Church Officers and members of Butt Elks lodge will conduct a Lodge o Sorrow at 8 p.m Monday in Daly Shea Mortuary The funeral will be at Tues day from mortuary to St Patrick Church for lion ot solemn requiem mass at 10 Burial will be in Holy Cross tery Matthies second place gran prize winning project was The Determination of the Elec Charge Loomis presented The Hilsch and Swan Continued Page 12 Col 3 ve of the floating The weather was reported goot nd the Air Force ordered more lan 100 planes into search unday to supplement the 40 lanes and nine ships in It was becoming one o IB biggest efforts since the earch for Amelia Earhart many ears ago The Constellation rom the Flying Tiger Line by the U S government early Friday on a nigh light from Guam to Manila Continued Page 12 Col 7 Philipsburg Man Aboard Missing Plane PHILIPSBURG Sgt James C Sorensen 44 son of Mr and Mrs James W Sorensen of s reported to have been aboard ie Flying Tiger Constellation mis ing in the Western Pacific The parents said th base commander at Ft Lewis Wash where Sorensen was sta notified them their son wa on the ill-fated chartered airline that disappeared Thursday nigh with 107 persons on board Sorensen's family said he ha been in the service since 1939 an planned to retire soon This wa to be his last mission He was born June 6 1917 American Falls Idaho attendee Philipsburg elementary schools an was graduated from Granit County High School His wif Vivian three sons Charles Wil liam and Kenneth and daughter Myla all live in Spanaway Was Others of his immediate famil are a brother Clark J Sorensen of Philipsburg four sisters Mrs Ruland Cooper and Mrs Jack Cooper of Missoula Mrs LaVern Edgar of Florida and Mrs Sylvia Barrott of Pocatello Congress Holds Key to Future Dr Herminio Cabrera and his wife Gloria of Butte are keeping an eye on ington hoping Congress will approve a special which would permit them to re- main in this country They are natives of the Philippines Three of their children were born in Butte and the other an adopted son in Anaconda Here the doctor holds 1 and Mrs Cabrera has Nilo 8 months The others are Mary Belle 7 and Herminio Jr 2 Doctor Seeks to Remain Here Congress Musi Decide By WILLIAM J CLARK Sentiment has been marshaled here to support a Butte plea to Congress to permit him and his family to stay in the United States until he can become an American citizen The doctor is Herminio B brera a native of the Philippines and a Butte resident since 1954 He entered this country on a student visa Shortly afterward he took 5 his professional residency at the utte Community Memorial ital now St James Community Some Butte service cmbs and a behind the doctor Letters re being circulated to ask that be addressed to Sens Mike lansfield and Lee Metcalf and lep Arnold H Olsen all Montana and Rep James F Montana Republican The is for public support of a House HE 2843 offering the Cabrera family the personal relief seeks The presently Is in the gration Subcommittee of the Committee of the House In 958 Metcalf then a representative a to help Cabrera jut the measure died when the ion of Congress ended Olsen since has the identical measure The Olsen proposal was uled for tabling by the ee last Wednesday but Olsen told ure Co of Great Falls has been awarded the contract lo erect the one-story steel of- ice building The building will consist of two units in a T shape One unit Mrs Kambich Gets Presidential Greeting Mrs Kambich of Melrose 100 years old day had a birthday party in Melrose Saturday More than 350 friends and relatives attended Mrs Kambich is shown with her six surviving children Left to right are front row Carl Kambich Divide Mrs Kambich Mrs Mary Chinn Rocker standing Jack Kambich Buhl Idaho Kambich Rocker Mike Kambich BuW and Kambich Seattle in holding a message of congratulations from President John F Kennedy The President Sincere tions on your 100th birthday from myself and Mrs Kennedy May good health be yours for many happy years Mrs Kambich also received congratulations from Mike Mansfield and Lee and Rep Arnold Olsen The Montana had obtained a delay Rep Francis E Walter il the subcommittee chairman Cabrera interned at the Com- munity Hospital and thereafter was resident physician at Community and then chief resident at the Silver borne DUtie service anu a umber of individuals have swung Bow General Hospital This is all permitted under state law Whats stopping him from taking a tana State Board of Medical Exam Continued Page 14 Col 2 Office Building Work Will Siarl Construction of a temporary of- fice building for the Anaconda Co multi-million dollar copper ore con- project in Butte will start this week The company announced day that the Palmer Steel Chinook Fatality CHINOOK A old high school senior from nook High was killed early morning when his car ed into a bridge abutment on U S 2 a half mile east of here The victim Kenneth H Friede died instantly Investigating officers highway hide The patrolman John Garland and nook policeman William Skillen said the youth apparently fell asleep at the wheel The car was traveling east and struck the ment on the north side of the way the wrong lane for the 1956 model sedan Friede was driving was demolished Friede lived south of Zurich with his parents Mr and Mrs Friede The accident occurred at the same spot where three persons perished last summer when their car smashed into the same abut ment Friede's death pushed the 1952 highway traffic death toll to as compared to 45 on date year UJ l be 24 by 128 feet and the other Picture Page 14 24 by 60 feet It will house the Anaconda engineering offices for the project and offices of the Ralph M Parsons Co of Los Angeles which has the general contract to construct the plant About two months will be re- quired to complete the office ing It will be located near the temporary warehouse which was erected on the site southeast of the Berkeley Pit loading bins last week Fencing of the plant site also will start this week A chavn Irak fence will be placed around the en- tire area With the exterior of the house completed work now will proceed on an interior concrete The entrance road to the site has been surfaced and a parking area will be surfaced The concentrating plant witn a planned capacity of tons per days is scheduled to be completed in 1964 At the peak of tion it is expected about en will required on project
