Butte Boys Build and Fly Simulated Spacecraft
Two Butte youths, Mike Doughty and Steve Bolton, plan a 72 hour simulated space voyage in a self built unit. Their eight-foot diameter craft features a divan bed, three clocks, maps, and an escape hatch, funded by $36 earned from yard work and loans from parents.
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Butte
Mike Doughty
Steve Bolton
Doughty
Robert M. Doughty
Harvard
Bolton
Frank Bolton
Riots Blamed on Militants in Cambridge and Elsewhere
Congressional investigators blamed some racial rioting on militant civil rights groups. Cambridge chief Brice Kinnamon said H. Rap Brown caused the July 24 riot there. Hoover said no mass conspiracy. hints of outside agitators noted by the Johnson commission.
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Washington
Cambridge
H. Rap Brown
Brice Kinnamon
Senate Judiciary Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Kinnamon
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Ill
Newark
Detroit
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
David Ginsburg
Johnson
Commission On Civil Disorders
Hoover
Dinating Committee
Revolutionary Action Movement
RAM
ACT
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Oflhee
Atlanta
Nashville
Tenn
Chicago
Los Angeles
Watts
Viet Cong attack near Saigon hits U S Navy site
Viet Cong artillery struck within a mile of a large U S Navy installation near Saigon and a fuel storage area at Nha Be village. Two gasoline tanks burned as shells damaged a pier and storage facilities. Casualties included six civilians killed and 23 wounded in Viet Cong attacks on resettlement villages and a funeral cortege. An Army helicopter incident killed one soldier and wounded seven. The Mekong Delta offensive, Operation Corona II, reported 245 enemy dead with 16 Americans killed and 59 wounded.
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Saigon
Saion
U.S
Nha Be
Long Tao
Shell Oil
U.S. Command
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
Mekong
Clark Fork River Declared Dead From Copper Pollution
Montana officials say the Clark Fork River is dead from copper pollution caused by a halted copper precipitator at Butte mines. Brinck of the Montana Water Pollution Council reports life extinct from Warm Springs to Garrison, with dead fish reported and aquatic life altered downstream toward Rock Creek. Anaconda Co. and unions clash over remediation proposals.
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Jerry Holloron
Standard State Bureau
Helena
Clark Fork
Anaconda Co
C. W. Brinck
Montana Water Pollution Council
Warm Springs
Garrison
Butte
Brinck
Rock Creek
Missoula
Polluted copper plant talks stall amid union stand
In Butte Anaconda area discussions over restarting a copper precipitation plant stall as unions resist operation. Tracy reports three union plans to divert or dilute wastewater or dam the creek, while the company rejects proposals and seeks a resolution with state officials.
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Standard State Bureau
Tracy
Meaderville
Anaconda
Council orders self-service gas stations have attendants
The Butte City Council passed an emergency ordinance requiring attendants at all self-service gas stations, drafted by a Teamsters attorney. Mayor Powers denied it targets the union dispute, while City Attorney Geagan pressed to file his draft. a past Billings incident was cited as a hazard.
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Tony Fuller
Teamsters
Butte
Thomas Powers
Teamster’s
Local 2
Charles V. Huppe
Helena
Teamsters Union
William Geagan
Geagan
Billings
Montana Business Dean resigns amid administration clash
Dr. James L. Athearn, dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Montana, resigns effective Sept. 1 after accusing university leadership of suppressing top talent and hampering staff reforms. He cites a “mediocre minority” among faculty and says lack of support makes his position untenable. He had warned three years ago of serious problems and says business leaders statewide have supported the school.
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Athearn
West Glacier
Panther
Effec
Tive
Pantzer
University of Florida
School of Business
Tion
Atgearn
City County budgets shown in study at budget time
City Hall and the courthouse study budgets as both report higher total taxables from last year. The city seeks a small tax-rate rise to .05270 mills, with total spending at 2.264 million and a potential federal grant around 1.9 million for a model city program, plus Longfellow sewer and street work.
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Butte
Longfellow
Western governors failed to reach copper strike settlement
Governors Rampton Babcock Cargo Laxalt and Williams met with federal mediators and Kennecott officials for four hours in Salt Lake City seeking a settlement to the 20 day old copper strike. They reported no dramatic results but said progress was made in bargaining and will consider federal action short of Taft Hartley.
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Salt Lake City
Calvin L. Rampton
Utah
Tim Babcock
Montana
David Cargo
New Mexico
Paul Laxalt
Nevada
John R. Williams
Arizona
Kennecott Copper Corp
Rampton
White House
Department of Labor
Butte Grocery Hit by Night Theft at Brown's Foods
Undersheriff Kenneth and local police investigated a break in at Brown's Foods, 803 S Montana, in Butte. Thieves forced entry Monday night or early Tuesday and escaped with about $900 in cash. Local authorities pursue leads.
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Brown’s Foods
S. Montana
Kenneth
County to consider special investigator for county attorney
County attorney Mark Sullivan seeks authority to hire a public investigator attached to the county attorney's office at a salary of 475 dollars per month, contingent on the new county budget approved by the commissioners. Commissioner Earl Holman opposed the move as unnecessary expense, while Sullivan reiterates the request with no candidate in mind yet.
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Mark P. Sullivan
Earl Holman
Sheriff's Office
Sullivan
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St. Ann School
Mike
Steve
Congressional
Butte - Anaconda
Frank Dunkle
Montana Fish and Game Department
Union
Council
Boulder
Dean Athearn
William J. Clark
Standard
Ramptep
Butte Grocery
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