Butte Copper City Faces Tough Times Amid Change
Anthony Harrigan outlines Butte Montana known as the Richest Hill on Earth, once producing a third of the world copper and now shrinking from underground to open pit mining. Berkeley Pit towers over a city transformed by mechanization, with 45,000 residents and a copper economy in decline as prices fall and imports rise. The piece notes the city’s Victorian copper kings, historic architecture, and questions Butte’s future, aided by highway access and Montana Tech as potential economic anchors.
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Battle Hill
Aannor Am
America
Butte
Anaconda Company
Berkeley Pit
Butte Hill
Peru
Chili Zaire
Zambia
Copper Kings
Butte Hit
Montana
Montana Tech
Montana College of Mineral Science
State's gasoline upheaval looms as July law takes effect
Maryland's gasoline industry faces a major upheaval next July when a 1974 law bans oil companies from owning stations. Exxon plans to discharge up to 1,000 company workers, with many offered relocation or severance. BP and Crown Central face similar pressure. The move aims to force dealer ownership and may raise unemployment insurance costs and trigger employee shifts across the state's 3,525 stations.
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Associated Press
Maryland
U.S. Supreme Court
Exxon Corp
Exxon
BP Oil, Inc
Crown Central
State Comptroller's Office
Exon
Frank 0. Heintz
James E. Grady
J.C. Teschner
Teschner
Victor Rasheed
Greater Washington-Maryland
Secret Service director to address Retail Bureau luncheon
H. Stuart Knight, director of the U S Secret Service, will speak at the Retail Bureau Appreciation Luncheon on November 29 at noon in the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel main ballroom. The event honors local law enforcement for anti crime work including shoplifting prosecutions as part of the bureau's ninth annual campaign.
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Secret Service
H. Stuart Knight
United States Secret Service
Retail Bureau
Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel
Warren B. Duckett Jr
Anne Arundel County
James N. Owens
D. C. Superior Court
Kenneth R. Wilson
Fairfax County
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Charles D. Tandy
Witt
Charles Tandy
First Maryland Bancorp
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First National Bank of Maryland
U.S. Treasury
Jacqueline Mishler
Certificate of Deposit Funds
Cathdraton
Teilhirstational Bank
Francis Scott Key
Fredenck
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