Butte prepares for Keep America Beautiful Day event
Butte hosts a multi group cleanup on Saturday April 29. Sponsored by Boy Scouts Girl Scouts 4H YMCA Model Cities and local Chamber group the effort launches a year long program against blight with landscaping beautification and trash pickup. The Montana Standard will run coupons for locating blight and junk cars while Don Ulrich Ed Riley and Tom Cash outline coordinated youth and civic support and potential National Guard participation.
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Butte
YMCA
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scout
Bill Sallee
Montana Standard
Tom Cash
National Guard
Con-con lawyers draft brief for Montana Supreme Court
Two attorney delegates from the Montana Constitutional Convention finished a voluminous brief to defend continued spending by the Voter Education Committee. Jerome Loendorf and Marshall Murray led research with other lawyer-delegates in Helena. An adversary hearing is set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the high court where Oscar Kvaalen contends the convention lacks power to spend after adjournment sine die on March 25.
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High Court
Oscar Kvaalen
R-Lambert
Lambert
Supreme Court
Leendorf
Spring storm stalks Wyoming Montana. warnings issued
Travelers and stockmen are warned of a deepening low center crossing northern Wyoming and southern Montana. The National Weather Service at Great Falls forecasts wet snow and cold rain, posing hazards to livestock and hazardous driving, with heavy snow possible in southern and eastern parts today.
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Divide
Wyoming
Montana
National Weather Service
Great Falls
Weather Service
Fire floods Missoula bedroom after waterbed burst
A waterbed bursting at the Mike Picchionni home on Fairview Avenue in Missoula prompted a rapid response from firemen and neighbors. A vacuum hose, normally used for grass fires, was employed to remove the water and salvage the room.
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Missoula
Mont
Mike Picchionni
Fairview Ave
Picchionni
Kawabata, Nobel Laureate, Found Dead in Yokohama
Nobel Prize winning novelist Yasunari Kawabata was found dead in Yokohama, aged 72, with a gas hose in his mouth. He had been in ill health and was the only Japanese winner of the literature prize.
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Yasunari Kawabati
Yokohama
Kawabati
Weather outlook: rain snow with cold temperatures
Occasional rain or snow expected with colder conditions. Today’s high near 36 and low around 22, with unsettled skies continuing. See more details on Page 2.
Apollo 16 Crew Faces Lunar Module Skin Peel During Flight
Apollo 16 astronauts Duke Young and Mattingly aborted the lunar module activation after reports of skin peeling on the lander. Mission Control warned a tank leak in the thruster system could threaten the craft, while the crew remained in no danger.
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Elizabeth Mattingly
Thomas K. Mattingly II
Casper
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
Earth
Duke
Young
Mat
Mission Control
Three Die In Head-On Crash South Of Melrose Montana
Three people died and four were injured in a head-on collision about 5 miles south of Melrose near U.S. 91 in Madison County Sunday night. Victims include Kathleen Adler 10 and Allen Adler 7 of Melrose, Arthur Adler and James Jacobs among the injured. authorities withheld names pending relatives.
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Melrose
U.S. 91
Beaverhead
Dillon
Kathleen Adler
Great Falls
Butte
Adler
St. James Community Hospital
Arthur Adler
Allen Adler
James Jacobs
Barrett Hospital
Brown’s Bridge
Madison County
Roy Kitson
Bombings raise alarms as U S action draws wide reaction
Senate leaders and foreign officials react to the Hanoi Haiphong bombing with calls to end all North Vietnam war activity. Muskie introduces a resolution for immediate cessation while Paris negotiators vow to restudy demands as Washington faces global criticism.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Edmund S. Muskie
Senate
North Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi- Haiphong
Barry Goldwater
Hubert H. Humphrey
Bombers hunted North Viet fuel facilities in new raids
Pentagon officials said U S air attacks near Haiphong targeted fuel facilities with possible expansion to North Vietnam port targets. Officials stressed ongoing assessment day by day and anticipated deeper raids into the North as Congress prepared for hearings on foreign aid and defense issues. President Nixon met with Henry Kissinger as the White House kept a low profile amid growing opposition to the widening bombing campaign.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Haihong
Uel
North Vietnam
White House
State Department
Congress
William P. Rogers
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Bombing Deep in North Vietnam B52s Hit Hanoi and Haiphong
U S aircraft struck targets around Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam causing heavy damage and flames. A Soviet freighter was reported hit at Haiphong while U S pilots said huge fireballs rose from near Hanoi. Two U S airmen were missing and one rescued as fighting around An Loc continued.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Sunda
Hanoi
Haiphong
Soviet Union
An Loc
Nguyen
Vietnam
Kickback Web Exposed In Real Estate Deals
Federal investigators reveal widespread abuses in home transactions. Title insurers and lawyers in Newark Indianapolis Washington San Antonio Seattle Los Angeles provide kickbacks and free services to brokers lenders and developers. Legislation seeks to curb closing costs and curb excess referral fees with HUD and VA actions and House consideration.
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Washington (Ap
George Romney
The
Department of Housing
Veterans Administration
HUD
Senate
House
Newark
N.J
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Washington
D.C
Jacksonville
Fla
Los Angeles
Seattle
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Don Ulrich
Ed Riley
Butte Weather
Mattingly
Paris
Xuan Thuy
William J. Porter
Spiro T. Agnew
Jacob Beam
Foreign Ministry
Moscow
Andrei Gromyko
Beam
Mike Mansfield
People’s Republic
North Vietna
Praom
Heiphons
Laos
Cambodia
Quang Tri
de Near
Sagion
China
Hainan
Sou'm
China Sea
North Viet
Sen
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
United States
San Antonio
Tex
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