Butte Strike Near End as Operators Study Contract
The Butte telephone operators strike against Mountain States Tel and Tel Co may be nearing a resolution. After 10 hour talks, both sides reported progress and an agreed contract draft will be studied by union representatives. The dispute centers on five supervisors and one other employee and next goes to the National Labor Relations Board.
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Butte Telephone
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co
Don Mahoney
Union
Mahoney
National Labor Relations Board
National Relations Board
Latin neighbors urge Cuba to leave leftward course for peace
At the OAS ministerial meeting in San Jose Costa Rica Colombia Mexico and Venezuela condemn Cuba under Fidel Castro for its leftward march and urge it to rejoin anti Communist alignment and pursue elections while the United States accuses Havana of training spies and guerrillas.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Cuba
Fidel Castro
United States
Colombia
Mexico
Venezuela
Organization of American States’ Foreign Ministers Conference
Christian A. Herter
U.S
Latin America
Carlos Lechuga
OAS
Julio Cesar Turbay-Ayala
Tur
Two Sierra Fires Parity Contained
Low winds and higher humidity brought partial containment to two Sierra timber fires near Donner Lake Ridge and Foresthills. Firefighting crews around the 70 mile and 45 mile perimeters halted the northward push, with 39 000 and 25 hundred acres affected, while timber losses reached 250 million board feet and eight point five million dollars in value.
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Reno
Nev
California
U.S. Forest
Dana Cox
Donner Lake Ridge
Lake Tahoe
Warren Johnson
Foresthills
U.S. Forest Service
Montana Parks seek $250000 more in state funding
The Montana Highway Commission asked the Legislature for a $250000 appropriation for the state parks program, a $100000 increase from two years ago. The plan envisions adding 10 parks in five years and 40 more in 10 years, with $25000 annually for land acquisition and $50000 for capital investment.
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Helena
Montana Highway Commission
Ashley Roberts
Roberts
Bureau of Land Management
Montana
Mary Steinberger Dies at 93 Deer Lodge Nurse Longtime Pennsylvania born immigrant
Mrs. Mary Steinberger 93 longtime Deer Lodge nurse died Monday in a Stevensville convalescent home. Born in Württemberg Germany on June 27 1867 she came to Pennsylvania as a young girl and married John Steinberger who died in 1892. She worked as a nurse in Phoenixville Tacoma and Butte before moving to Deer Lodge 43 years ago. The body will be sent to Phoenixville for burial in Morris Cemetery Saturday accompanying are her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Noel Boyer of Deer Lodge.
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Deer Lodge
Mary Steinberger
Stevensville
Steinberger
Wurtenburg
Germany
Pennsylvania
John Steinberger
Phoenixville
Tacoma
Wash
Butte
Ross Funeral Home
Morris Cemetery
Noel Boyer
East German farmer crosses Iron Curtain into West Germany
A young East German farmer hitched two horses to a farm wagon and casually drove across the Iron Curtain border into West Germany. He crossed about 200 yards from a border watchtower, border officials reported Tuesday near Brunswick.
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Brunswick
Germany
Iron Curtain
West Germany
U.N. Possibly Involved in Congo Battles
Heavy fighting erupts at Albertville in northern Katanga with reports Mali Federation troops clashing with Balubakat tribesmen. Belgians defend the railway station while the U.N. Command declines comment and Mali soldiers seek reinforcements amid suspected mutiny and revolt.
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U.N
Congo
Elisabethville
Albertville
Katanga
United Nations
Moise Tshombe
Brussels
Mali
Sudan
Senegal
Abertville
Wheat Moisture Short and Hay Yields Lower in Montana
The Montana Agriculture Department reports moisture shortages for winter wheat and below normal yields for spring sown crops and hay. Scattered hail and grasshopper damage contributed to losses, while grazing prospects range from fair to good with some eastern and western areas poor. Planting begins in September as drought lingers.
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Helena
Montana
Agriculture Department
Montana Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Daniels
Sheridan
Roosevelt
Senate Defeats Health Aid Proposals as Grants Approved
The Senate approved a bill to boost federal medical grants for the needy elderly 91 to 2, while defeating Democratic and Republican plans to extend medical care or insurance to broader elderly populations. The measure includes expanded grants for those on relief and low income individuals, with added funding to cover mentally ill and tuberculosis patients. Also contested were proposals tied to Social Security medical coverage, which Kennedy opposed, signaling a campaign emphasis on national social policy.
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Washington
Senate
House
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Richard M. Nixon
Strom Thurmond
D-Sc
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Senate Finance Committee
Eisenhower
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Russell B. Long
D-La
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Kennedy
Great Powers Haggled Over Red Activities at Potsdam
Des Moines and Minneapolis papers publish secret state papers from the 1945 Potsdam Conference. U S Secretary Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Eden argued with Molotov over Soviet infiltration in Bulgaria Romania Yugoslavia Italy Greece and Poland. The reports say the talks reflected waning American faith in postwar reconstruction and hint at Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” warning.
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Potsdam Conference
Des Moines, Iowa
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
U.S
James F Byrnes
Anthony Eden
V. M. Molotov
Bulgaria
Romania
Yugoslavia
Italy
Greece
Poland
Knebel-Bailey
Churchill
Germany
Truman
Tokyo
Potsdam
Knebel and Bailey
Stalin
U S Prosperity Somewhat Spotty
The Commerce Department reports midsummer prosperity near record levels with June output and July stability. Consumer demand shows shifts with more service spending, steady non durable goods, and less auto purchases. Personal income reaches a record annual rate in July while industrial output remains high and employment steady.
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Commerce Department
Nixon aides seek aid for African students from Kennedy funds
The State Department approved a $100 000 grant to bring 250 African students to the United States within two days after James Shepley asked on Nixon’s behalf. Fulbright blasted the move as outside pressure, while Klein said the decision was nonpolitical and Kennedy Foundation funding carried no publicity expectations.
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Washington
State Department
Richard M. Nixon
James Shepley
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Shepley
Sen. J. William Fulbright
Congressional Record
Fulbright
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Herbert G. Klein
Kennedy Foundation
Klein
Africa
Asia
Young Democrats To Meet Tonight In Butte
The Young Democrats of Butte will reorganize Wednesday at 7 30 p m in Patriotic Hall of the courthouse Jerry Lowney Jr president will lead All interested persons aged 16 to 40 invited to join the club campaign for the Democratic ticket A program to bring out the vote will be shown with slides of the 1960 Democratic national convention.
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Butte
Jerry Lowney Jr
Lowney
Car Thief Is Given Term in Institution
Colin F. Orf, 18, was sentenced by U S District Judge W D Murray to an indeterminate period in a federal institution for treatment and supervision after pleading guilty to interstate transportation of a stolen car. Sentencing of John Sallows, 31, was postponed. he pleaded guilty to being in the United States after deportation and was alleged to have stolen a pistol and returned near the Raymond customs building to stay with an American owned carnival.
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Colin F. Orf
U.S
W. D. Murray
Orf
John Sallows
Sallows
United States
Canada
Miles City
Customs
Raymond
Rex. F. Henningsen
Montana Weather: East and West Showers With Cloudy Periods
Montana forecast shows east region partly cloudy today with considerable cloudiness and a few showers mainly in the mountains tonight. West region remains mostly cloudy with scattered showers Wednesday and Thursday, highs 55 to 65 with overnight lows near 35 to 45 in the east and similar ranges in the west.
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Montana
Canadian Wreck Takes Six Lives
A Vancouver family of four and two other people were killed when the car failed to take a detour, smashed through a bridge railing, and fell 60 feet into the Elk River bed 30 miles south of Fernie British Columbia. Charles Hutchinson and his wife and two children were among the dead. Names and ages of the children were not known. Police did not immediately identify the other two victims.
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Fernie
B. C
Vancouver
British Columbia
Elk River
Charles Hutchinson
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Kennedy Brother To Breakfast In Butte Friday
Ted Kennedy, 28, brother of John F. Kennedy, arrives in Montana for a 24 hour tour stopping in seven cities. He will speak at a rally at the Anaconda smelter in the morning and at the East Helena smelter in the afternoon, with meals in Butte Helena Billings Forsyth and Miles City and attend the Democratic State Platform Convention in Miles City.
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Helena
John F. Kennedy
Montana
Ted Kennedy
Anaconda
Butte
East Helena
Billings
Forsyth
Miles City
Citizens For Kennedy Club
Tragic State Crash Kills 16 Year Old Dixie Crabtree
A head on collision on U S Highway 10A near Thompson Falls Montana killed 16 year old Dixie Crabtree of Granite Falls Washington and injured five others. The Crabtree brother James 19 drove one vehicle and five other injured victims included Florence Robinson 17 Trout Creek Montana Helen Hanvick 21 Milk River Alberta Bill Jonas 16 Thompson Falls and Bernice Baylor 16 Thompson Falls. The Canadian car caught fire but was extinguished. It was Sanders County's first fatal crash of the year and Montana's 1960 toll rose to 139.
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Thompson Falls
Granite Falls
Wash
Dixie Crabtree
Bruce Crabtree
James Crabtree
Florence Robinson
Trout Creek
Mont
Helen Hanvick
Milk River
Alta
Bill Jonas
Bernice Baylor
A. Ben Cox
L. A. Wilkes
Crabtree
Cox
Jonas
Hot Springs
Missoula
Miss Baylor
Miss Hanvlck
Robinson
Sanders County
Montana
For Rent Ad Prompt in The Standard-Post Classifieds
Rent vacancies quickly through The Standard-Post rental ads. Readers scan For Rent notices for rooms apartments homes garages offices and stores. Contact Ph 5451 to place your ad. Three rooms newly remodeled. Peewee score Co Fu. PM.
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Peewee Sore
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