Thousands mourn Elvis Presley in Memphis funeral crowds
Elvis Presley was laid to rest at Graceland with private services attended by celebrities and family as thousands lined the five mile route from the mansion to Forest Hill Cemetery. A car plowed into the mourners outside the home, killing two and injuring one, with Treasure Wheeler of Memphis charged with two counts of second degree murder. Public viewing drew international media, and notable attendees included Gov. Ray Blanton, John Wayne, Ann Margret, Sammy Davis Jr., George Hamilton, Burt Reynolds, James Brown, and Caroline Kennedy reporting for the New York Daily News. Floral tributes came from Sinatra, Glenn Campbell, O. J. Simpson, Gov. George Wallace, and a Presley fan club in Africa.
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Inside Page Headlines From Butte Area News
Butte area pages feature obituaries and vital statistics, a judge named Baucus seeks Butte audience, county fairs thriving, and a Chargers win in Legion state tournament. Also coverage of women’s softball regionals start and Mining City TV schedule.
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Labor leader urges unity against right wing money in Montana
National AFL-CIO figure Al Barkan addressed 117 delegates and about 60 guests at the Montana AFL-CIO convention in Butte warning that labor must prepare to fight right wing funding and pursue political education. He criticized Carter on labor policy, urged voter registration, and noted new payroll checkoff provisions for COPE. He predicted continued right to work activity and urged reforms to Taft Hartley while signaling a potential Senate race change and a looming Democratic primary.
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Afl-Cio
Committee On Political Education
COPE
Butte
Barkan
Ramada Inn
Jimmy Carter
Carter
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Charles Mentrin
Meat Cutters Union
Chicago
Lee Metcalf
Congress
Metcalf
Max Baucus
Tom Judge
Democratic Party
Labor Movement
Judge
Bauds
Humphrey learns pelvic cancer beyond surgery limits
Minnesota doctors say Senator Hubert Humphrey, 66, has pelvic cancer that cannot be operated on. Chemotherapy may slow tumor growth and allow near normal activity. Humphrey to continue treatment and resume Senate duties soon.
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Hubert Humphrey
John Najarian
Humphrey
Najarian
University of Minnesota
Senate
Washington
D.C
Butte Sees Record Heat on Warm Summer Thursday
Butte marked its hot test day with a 93 degree high, a record for the date. The city has rarely hit the century mark, with only one 100 degree day on record in 1931. Frost and snow noted nearby earlier in July highlight regional temperature swings.
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Butte
Bert Mooney
Mile High Butte
Sioux Arrow Factory Opens Under Federal Plan
A federal program teaches Sioux Indians on Pine Ridge Reservation to make arrows. An abandoned schoolhouse plant will be dedicated August 26 in Wanblee. Sioux workers earn 2.30 an hour plus weekly attendance bonuses and a monthly holiday. Each arrow bears a personal signature. Weather: 82 today, 47 Saturday.
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Pine Ridge Reservation
South Dakota
George Custer
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
Tom Loomis
South Dakota Job Services Organization
Loomis
Browning Manufacturing Co
Mudd case remains dark in bid to win clemency
President Carter is urged to overturn the military conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd who set Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg. Rep. Paul Simon and Sen. Charles Mathias join Mudd relatives in seeking exoneration, arguing unfair trial by military commission and Booth’s disguise. Roger Mudd, a nephew, backs freeing his great uncle.
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Mudd
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Charles McC. Mathias Jr
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Richard Mudd
Saginaw
Mich
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CBS
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Booth
Ford
Foreign jeans piracy bust nets 52000 fake Levi's in Basel
Swiss and Dutch police cracked an international ring selling counterfeit Levi's from the Far East to Europe. About 52000 forged jeans valued at 800000 dollars were seized in Basel with four foreigners arrested and bail set. Additional 22000 fakes found in Amsterdam tied to South Korea manufacture. Investigation ongoing.
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Germany
Marco Lasagne
Taiwan
Amsterdam
South Korea
Lasagne
Spacecraft Voyagers Set to Launch for Outer Solar System
The United States plans the first of two Voyager probes to lift off at 10 25 a m Saturday from Kennedy Space Center Florida aiming to study Jupiter Saturn and possibly Uranus with cameras and sensors The cost tops 400 million and the mission uses gravity assists to reach multiple worlds before entering interstellar space in about four years
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Pasadena
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Pluto
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Mercury
Murray
Three Montana inmates vanish from work detail near Deer Lodge
No trace Thursday of three state prison inmates who escaped a work detail near Deer Lodge. Deputy Warden Jim Blodgett said the escapees left no signs of theft or damage, suggesting they may have hopped a freight train. The trio Michael Ross Klepinger James Edward Stinger and Clifford Adams were working on a septic tank about three miles north of the town when they slipped into a barn around 3:30 p.m.
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Deer Lodge
Jim Blodgett
Blodgett
Michael Ross Klepinger
Billings
James Edward Stinger
Missoula
Clifford Adams
Miles City
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