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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1960
Page
6
London Johnny Mayberry five lights a candle to search under the bed and ignites bedclothes causing a house fire. His brother Robert eleven, alone at home, escapes unharmed.
Paul Cannon Montana's controversial lieutenant governor topped a AP poll with 50 points as the year's leading newsmaker 1960. Sen. James E Murray followed with 30 points as a retiring figure, while others listed include Gov elect Donald Nutter Gov. Aronson labor mediator Joseph Finnegan and Sen. Mike Mansfield. Nutter became governor from eastern Montana and Cannon's year featured a long running feud with Montana press and a failed bid for the governorship. Officers promised to fulfill a boy's Christmas wish after a Davidson County shooting incident reported by police.
Nashville reports a malnourished five year old, Darrell Bateman, found in a two room shack. He was learning about Christmas for the first time as neighbors and authorities acted. The boy’s father Kenneth Bateman was arrested for child neglect while his stepmother had a stillborn Thursday.
The ricksha used in the Orient today was invented by Jonathan Gable, a U S Marine who visited Japan with Perry in 1854.
Montana census shows median resident age at 27.6 with a decade of decline. In the 1950s the median was 29.9 and males averaged 28 while females 27.1. There are 260,409 residents under 18, with 83,102 under five and 77,048 aged five to nine.
On September 7 1776 Ezra Lee used the Turtle submarine built by David Bushnell of Saybrook Connecticut to attack the British ship Eagle in New York harbor. A time bomb exploded but caused no serious damage.
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