Silver Bow budget sparks tax group recommendations
County taxpaying groups pressed five major changes to the 1953-54 general fund during a meeting with county commissioners. They urged reviewing items above the 10 percent growth limit, moving the idle county addressograph, merging county and city health departments, rechecking annual fire insurance costs, and studying prisoner care costs across Silver Bow Cascade and Yellowstone counties. The session followed a reduced overdraft in the general fund.
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Silver Bow County
County General Fund
Tax Committee
Silver Bow
Cascade
Yellowstone
Chamber of Commerce and
Butte Development Assn
Copper Prices Fall Sharply After Government Control Ends
Copper futures and spot prices dropped as London Metal Exchange trading returned to private hands after 14 years of government control. Cash prices led the decline with 215 to 217 pounds per ton, while three month futures moved lower and turnover reached 2,250 tons. The government holds about 240,000 tons of copper stocks and plans to release reserves as needed to keep the market full.
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London
London Metal Exchange
U. S
U.S
Financial Times
GOP Missed Bet on Youth Vote, Gregg Says
Gov. Hugh Gregg of New Hampshire says the GOP has missed a good bet by not courting younger voters. He credits the Democrats with exploiting the opportunity and gaining substantial added voting power.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Hugh Gregg
New Hampshire
Gregg
Bedouin Groom Pays Camels for Bride
A Bedouin bachelor must pay camels for a wife with ten animals cited for a good looking lady. Most marry for love and sell livestock for cash via Want-Ads. An ad offers extra cash and a General Electric refrigerator and electric range with phone contact.
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General Electric
Unions Report on Negotiations With Anaconda Copper
The Montana Joint Negotiating Committee representing four unions states that talks with Anaconda Copper Mining Co. have not yet yielded a satisfactory settlement. Progress noted, with future meetings planned aided by the U S Conciliation Service. Company offers 5 cent hourly wage rise plus benefits worth 1 cent hourly for holiday pay and reduced hospital contributions retroactive to July 1, 1953 if accepted promptly.
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Montana Joint Negotiating Committee
Butte Miners’ Union
Anaconda Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Great Falls Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Butte Engineers’ Union
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Joe Mason
Charles McLean
U. S. Conciliation Service
Children’s Day Set Today at Gardens
Children of Butte and visitors are invited to spend the day at Columbia Gardens for Children’s Day. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company provides free bus transportation for children under 14, with pickups starting at 9:20 a.m. from Park and Main, buses every 20 minutes, final return at 4 p.m. Supervisors and first aid staff will be on duty at the playgrounds.
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Columbia Gardens
Ted Beech
Butte
Anaconda
The
Scrutiny Tightens Over Big Four German Talks
Washington officials digest the Soviet counter proposal for a Big Four conference on German unification while warning the note leaves issues clouded by Western relations with China. The United States seeks British and French input before replying. Separately Washington demands compensation over the July B50 shootdown, disputing Soviet denials and seeking survivors inquiry.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Russia
State Department
Red China
Moscow
Siberia
Department
Fifth of Russian Budget Goes to Armed Forces
Premier Malenkov presented the Soviet Union’s largest budget, with more than one fifth of the 110.2 billion rubles earmarked for the armed forces. Finance Minister Arseny Zverev noted a 3.6 billion ruble decrease from 1952.
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Moscow
Georgi M. Malenkov
Supreme Soviet
U.S.S.R
Arseny Zverev
Soviet Union
United States
Desertions surge as POWs and railway workers flee East Germany
A wave of mass desertions from East Germany hits the Red Wehrmacht and police as thousands of Soviet zone railway workers aid relief deliveries to Berlin. Twenty soldiers and 17 police escape to West Berlin, while 40,000 Brandenburger railway workers bypass the relief ban. Since Jan 1, 1,675 troops and 880 police have deserted to West Berlin. The escapes come as East German authorities brand relief seekers as Western spies and intensify crackdowns.
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Berlin
East Germany
Red Wehrmacht
West Berlin
Brandenburg
Brandenbrugers
Saxony
Thuringia
Saxony-Anhalt
Necklenburg
Bonn Republic
Alllied
Otto Grotewohl
Communist Central Committee
U.S. State Department
Neue Zeitung
Four RB-36 aircrew survive stormy Atlantic crash find
Rescue planes and ships scoured the North Atlantic as four airmen survived the crash of a 10 engine RB-36 bomber en route from Travis to Lakenheath. Survivors were taken aboard the Manchester Shipper and Manchester Pioneer while a body and wounded crew were aboard other vessels. The search swelled with more than 20 U.S. planes joining multi nation ships as crews tried to locate the remaining missing airmen.
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London
North Atlantic
Air Force
U.S
Shannon
Manchester
Ireland
Britain
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Atlantic
Manchester Shipper
U.S. Air Force
Arthur P. Beam
Lakenheath Air Base
England
Keflavik
Iceland
Dulles and Rhee Near Agreement on Security Pact
US Secretary of State Dulles and President Rhee meet at Rhee’s mansion amid reports nearing a mutual security pact. They focus on post armistice issues and economic plans as talks indicate progress toward a treaty before Dulles leaves for Washington.
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Seoul
Dulles
Syngman Rhee
U.s.-Korea
Rhee
South Korea
Washington
U.S. Army
Robert T. Stevens
Maxwell D. Taylor
8Th Army
Stevens
Navy Launches $500000 Experimental Vessel in Tampa
The Navy rolled a cigar shaped object into Tampa Bay in a ceremony described as an experimental design. Cmdr J A McDonough said it cost about 500000 and reporters could only learn it is a special construction for experimental purposes. Miss Annabel Rodger broke a champagne bottle to christen the launch.
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Tampa
Fla
Navy
Cmdr
J. A. McDonough
Navy Shipbuilding
Tampa Bay Area
Annabel Rodger
Thomas R. Rodger
No Protests Made on City Budget Final Due Monday
Butte City Council, in regular session, scheduled adoption of the 1953-54 city operating budget and tax levies for Monday. A preliminary budget of 1,396,914.94 for government costs was opened for public hearing with no protests received. The plan calls for a 1.45 mill tax levy increase to 42.13, and an ambulance control ordinance was passed 15-1 as an emergency measure requiring trained first aid personnel and sanitary equipment standards.
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Butte
Beryl Wilson
Tim J. Sullivan
Terry Kelly
President Eisenhower to Address Nation on Congress Session
President Eisenhower will deliver a radio report tonight reviewing his administration's record to date with emphasis on the just concluded Congress session. The address will be aired by the four major networks between 6 30 and 7 00 p m MST.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Navarre says China could not attack without World War III
Indochina general Henri Navarre warned on Wednesday night that Communist China could not strike at France’s Indochina forces without risking a larger conflict. He spoke as tensions rose over regional actions and Allied defenses.
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HANDI
Indochina
Henri Eugene Navarre
China
Prisoners Die Highlight Pitiful Exchange At Panmunjom
A second Korean War prisoner exchange returns 70 Americans and 392 other Allied captives. Many sick and dead are reported, including 42 ill Americans and a South Korean who died on arrival. Some prisoners show good health while others provoke near riots.
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Panmunjom
Freedom Village
Munsan
Washington
Sen. Potter
Rmich
Senate
U.S
John Foster Dull
Lyn
Freed Americans Describe Death Marches and Atrocities
Former prisoners testified of 1250 deaths on a North Korean death march and widespread starvation in Communist captivity. Cpl. Davis recounted a February 1951 march with 150 survivors out of 1400. Maj. Daujat said Americans faced prison terms for actions against peace before Panmunjom.
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Freedom Village
U. S
Richard M. Davis
Boonville
Ark
James Davis
Mullins
S. C
Maj
John Daujat
Richmond
Calif
Panmunjom
Daulat
Mother of Freed POW Deported
The mother of Pvt. Felipe Pacheco, one of the first American POWs released by the Communists in Korea, has been deported to Mexico. The Laredo Times confirmed the deportation while tracing Mrs. Isidra P. Ramirez, mother of the discharged soldier from Co. K, 19th Regiment, 24th Division.
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Laredo
Tex
U.P
Korea
Mexico
Laredo Times
Isidra P. Ramirez
Felipe Pacheco
Co. K
Telephone cheaper than grenade stunt ends in fine
Samuel Taylor learned a phone call would have been cheaper after a grenade outside his girlfriend’s workplace led to a $25 fine plus costs in South State Street Court for setting off explosives within city limits.
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Chicago
Taylor Samuel
South State Street Court
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana varies by region
Mostly clear in Butte on Thursday with little change in temperature. Thursday highs reach about 80 after a morning low near 40. period highs 77 to 88 and scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly west of Divide and in the east portion mostly cloudy or partly sunny.
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Divide
Wisdom Youth Wounded in Korea on Armistice Day
Pfc. Sam McDowell son of Mr and Mrs Frank McDowell Big Hole Basin ranchers was wounded in Korea July 25 the day Panmunjom armistice was signed He received a leg wound from shrapnel the letter to his parents says the wound is not serious and he will write again His unit began service last November completed basic in April shipped to Korea in May His wife resides in Phoenix Arizona at the time of his call to service
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Wisdom
Pfc
Sam McDowel
Frank McDowell
Kore
Panmunjom
McDowe
McDowell
Tl Armed Forces
Korea
Phoenix
Ariz
Idaho Soldier Among Prisoners Freed In Big Switch
Pfc. S Smith of New Plymouth Idaho, member of Company B 31st Infantry, listed as next of kin Edith M Smith, was among 70 Americans freed in the second day of Operation Big Switch. Cpl B Vara of Trinidad Colorado was released earlier. Maj. Thomas D Harrison’s nephew, the husband of Mrs De J Harrison of Clovis New Mexico, was identified among the freed.
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Dr S. Smith
New Plymouth
Idal
Thomas D. Harrison
William K. Harrison
de J. Harrison
Clovis, N. M
New York Veterans Council Backs McCarthy Aid Plan
The New York City Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars urged Congress to back a $30,000 support package for Senator McCarthy’s anti Communism probes. Delegates at the 54th VFW Encampment in Milwaukee approved the move amid concerns after two Republican deaths. The council, with over 9,000 members across two boroughs, said it would fund McCarthy’s campaign to combat communism, while questioning the need to withhold funds from his investigations.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Congress
Uni Nations
Seph McCarthy
R-Wis
Comnism
New York City
Carthy
McCa
McCarthy
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Tokyo
Daniel DE Luce
Robert D. Tuckman
U. N
George A. McArthur
Montana
Montana Max
Billings
Belgrade
Wisdom Youth Wounde
Idaho
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