Butte Weather Forecast Brief
Fair today with a chance of storms. High near 65, low around 35. Regional forecast note appears on weather map, page 12.
06 Apr 1971
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1971
Page
1
Fair today with a chance of storms. High near 65, low around 35. Regional forecast note appears on weather map, page 12.
Joseph Colombo Sr and the Brooklyn JDAOC director credit a Justice Department inquiry with no phone tap. Lefkowitz had said a tap warned of an impending arrest, a claim Magistrate Catoggio called an obvious bluff.
In Butte voters elected Mario "Mike" Micone to a second term as mayor, defeating Republican Joseph F. Maloney 4922 to 2386. A 350 dwelling units senior citizen housing referendum passed 4010 to 1099. Turnout was 63 percent with 6736 ballots cast. Republicans failed to win any city council seats as Democrats swept all wards and maintained the governing majority.
Progressive Party candidate Ray Lynch edged N. C. Skeets Murray 382 to 350 to become Dillon's new mayor as turnout remained under 50 percent. Other Montana towns reported various mayoral results and local aldermen elected across wards.
Thomas F. Flanagan 37 of 105 Maple Anaconda a plumber and Anthony Gregrich 62 a welder at the smelter were killed in a two vehicle collision near Crackerville junction Opportunity around 730 PM Monday. Gregrich drove a northbound Scout through a stop sign and struck Flanagan in a Cadillac. Coroner Arthur A. Longfellow identified the victims as authorities investigated with highway patrol sheriff city police and coroner staff. Both bodies were taken to Finnegan Co Funeral Home for funeral and burial services. This marked Deer Lodge County's first deaths of the year and increased Montana’s death toll to 46.
In Santiago the municipal elections yielded broad support for President Salvador Allende Gossens and his Popular Unity Coalition. Opponents gathered strong numbers, while 49.73 percent went to Allende aligned parties and 48.05 percent to opposition groups across 280 municipalities.
Voters backed adding 75 senior housing units by 1,210 to 377 and chose city officials. Mayor Ben Goodman received 1,399 votes, City Treasurer Mary Mulvihill 1,411, Police Magistrate George Terkla 1,319. Aldermen results varied by ward with multiple candidates and write ins.
In a Senate Interior hearing chaired by Sen. Frank Church the Forest Service faced sharp criticism for allowing clear cutting in national forests. The crowded room heard attacks from conservationists and timber industry spokesmen as testimony began, with 92 witnesses slated and more critics to testify.
House Democratic leader Hale Boggs accuses FBI Director J Edgar Hoover of using tactics like those of the Soviet Union and Hitler and calls on Attorney General Mitchell to seek Hoover's resignation. He alleges wiretapping of Congress and campus spying, while the FBI denies the claims. Senator Montoya also cites Capitol Hill wiretapping rumors.
In a satirical exchange on Dugout Gasbaggery, W. J. Bryan IV, a young Cal Tech star, spars with host Bill Bellclapper over fame, book royalties, and his stance on baseball’s old guard while revealing no love for the sport.
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