Butte Ballot Irregularities Prompt Recount At School Election
In Butte the School Administration Building hosts a recount discussion after ballot boxes from multiple precincts showed improper seals. Clerk Margaret Leary and Frank Young of the United School Party reported irregularities, while Deputy Sheriff Mark Jordan inspected five boxes with loose seals. Candidates James Murphy and Jack Schara were involved as recount considerations loom with a narrow margin.
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N. Montana
Margaret Leary
Frank Young
United School Party
Young
Independent School Party
Tom Tracy
James“Jayla” Murphy
Independent
Mark Jordan
Jack Schara
United Party
Murphy
Independent Party
Tracy
Schara
Bill van Matre
van Matre
Nixon to Review Calley Case
President Nixon announced he will personally review the Calley case before the military final decision is made. The move follows widespread questions about Lt. William L. Calley Jr. who was sentenced to life for My Lai civilians killings.
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San Clemente
Calif
Nixon
William L. Calley Jr
My Lai
White House
Calley
Ronald L. Ziegler
John Ehrlichman
Ziegler
Auto pedestrian tragedy in Butte claims Willis Harris
A 53 year old Butte man Willis Otto Harris of 1540 Philips died after being struck while crossing Front Street at Utah. Driver William Ygnatowiz 28 of 911 S Colorado was questioned and released to his attorney. Police noted 107 feet of skid marks and ongoing investigation as state traffic toll rises to 42 for 1971. Funeral services for Harris, a Mountain Con Mine worker, set for Monday at 11.
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Butte
Utah
Willis Otto Harris
Philips
William Ygnatowiz
S. Colorado
Harris
Ygnatowiz
Ygnatowit
Silver Bow County
Mountain Con
Sayatovic-White
Ony Burke
Mountain View
Mr. Harris
Jefferson Island
Anaconda Co
The
Con
Miners Union 1
Florence
Kenneth Bucchi
Clifford Raymond
Robert Yates
Cardwell
Dave Swisher
Sun River
Hazel Matthews
Harold Johns
Clovis Hinton
Butte mayoral race and housing plan on ballot
Monday voters in Butte face a mayoral contest between Mike Micone and Republican Joe Maloney. A second issue asks approval for housing authority funds to build up to 350 low rent units for elderly with no bonds or local financing. Polls open 8 to 8 at same precincts.
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Mike Micone
Butte
Micone
Joe F. Maloney
Montana Faces Second Special Session Over 200 Million Budget
Democratic lawmakers backed Gov. Anderson to finance a 200 million general fund with higher income taxes while Republicans pressed for a general sales tax. Despite 55 joint conference committees the gap remained, forcing Montana into a second special session after the assembly adjourned sine die.
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Forrest H. Anderson
Montana
Legislative Assembly
Eight chosen for Con-Con
Five former state legislators are among the first eight named to Montana's 16 member Constitutional Convention preparatory agency. Appointees include Eugene Phillips Clyde Hawks Charles Bovey and Charles Harrington. Senate and House leaders also named, with Gov Anderson to appoint four more and a possible woman. Delegates to the convention will be nominated September 14 and elected November 2 1971.
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Virginia City
Charles Harrington
Butte
Senate Committee On Committees
Eugene H. Mahoney
Thompson Falls
Senate
House
Alex Blewett
Great Falls
Jack Brenner
Clyde Radar
Hardin
Forrest H. Anderson
Firman Brown
Missoula
Montana Supreme Court
Louis Armstrong Improves Overnight in New York Hospital
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong aged seventy shows significant overnight improvement but remains critically ill in a New York hospital. Doctors report heart and respiratory ailments under treatment.
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Louis
Satchmo
Armstrong
New York
Last of the flying daredevils plans 60th anniversary stunt
Benny Fox 76, a semiretired daredevil once famed for wall climbing, says he will mark 60 years of feats next Tuesday by standing on his head on a five inch board eight feet out from a 20 story skyscraper in Orange. He recalls dangling his daughter from a high perch in Houston at age 70 and notes peers Shipwreck Kelly and Joe Powers are long gone.
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Orange
Betty
Sheraton-Lincoln
Houston
Tex
Human Fly John Fox performs without safety net on tour
Fox, claiming 60 years without a mistake, notes his act Tuesday will be unroped with 300 feet of drop below. He traces his balance to careful steps and recalls becoming a human fly in 1911 after touring with his circus family. Born in a Rochester Indiana truck in 1895, Fox performed from major cities to 29 foreign nations.
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Fox
Rochester
Ind
America
Peterson Schara Win Seats on Butte School Board
Peterson led with 3,863 votes while Jack Schara won a tight race at 3,058 and Jaula Murphy 3,048 amid 33 percent turnout. Other candidates Jim Garrett 2,551 and James Murphy 1,915, with Tom Tracy hinting at a recount if the official tally shifts. Peterson vows no closed meetings.
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Rick Foote
Jack Schara
James
Jaula” Murphy
Jack Peterson
Butte
Murphy
Schara
West Junior High
Peterson
Independent School Party
United School Party
Jim Garrett
United Party
James Murphy
Jaula”urphy
Tom Tracy
Independent Party
Fire gutts Donnabelle Drive Inn after bomb threat warning
A late Saturday fire gutted the Donnabelle Drive Inn at 3301 Harrison amid a police warning of a bomb threat targeting three Harrison area premises. Officers checked the Tinker Bell Drive Inn and Ponderosa Saloon. no bombs exploded and no evacuations were reported.
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Donnabelle Drive Inn
Harrison
Donnabelle
Tinker Bell Drive Inn
Ponderosa Saloon
Ponderosa
Roger Edington
Regina Edington
Tinker Bell
Jean Edington
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Helena
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