PACE kickoff draws strong turnout for active community effort
Butte residents prepare for a PACE program event featuring Quinn Tamm of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Neil J. Lynch will MC as 250 ticketed attendance is projected and 35 law enforcement officers plan to attend with spouses.
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Neil J. Lynch
Butte
PACE
Quinn Tamm
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Tamm
FBI
Lynch
Bet Mel
Singleton
Governors Converge Again Over Western Copper Strike
Gov Tim Babcock calls a second meeting of western governors in Helena to press for presidential intervention amid a six week copper strike. Attending are Cal Rampton David M. Cardoza Paul Laxalt and Jack Williams plus mediation reps. He cites dwindling copper reserves and rising welfare costs as impact.
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Helena
Tim Babcock
Babcock
Johnson
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
Great Falls
Clavadetscher
Salt Lake City
Calvin L. Rampton
Rampton
Babcock and Cy
David
Paul Laxalt
Jack Williams
Strikes stall as Montana copper talks end in 40 minutes
Union and Anaconda Co negotiators met in Butte for 40 minutes with negligible progress on the large Montana copper strike. 7,350 workers across Butte Anaconda Great Falls and East Helena remain idled as Gov. Tim Babcock requested the talks and federal intervention has not appeared.
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Montana
Anaconda Co
Butte
Carl Clavadetscher
Great Falls
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Anaconda
East Helena
Washington, D.C
Gov. Babcock
Anaconda Co. CLaims Unions Demand Too Much in Strike
Martin K. Hannifan of Anaconda Co. Montana GM says union demands exceed 2 per hour or 50 percent. He cites 1967 4.6 percent average settlements for 1.5 million workers. Company offers wage increases 2.28 to 3.40 per day plus pensions. Leaders not ready to work toward settlement of the strike.
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Martin K. Hannifan
Montana
Anaconda Co
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ae Montana Op
North Vietnam claims huge U S plane losses in Hanoi raids
A Hanoi broadcast alleges North Vietnam shot down 10 U S planes in raids on the capital, with many crewmen captured or missing. The claim, unconfirmed by Saigon officials, follows intensified U S air raids and reports of civilian casualties around Hanoi. Tass and Soviet sources warn the war could escalate, though their statements lack detail.
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Saigon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Foreign Ministry
Ho Chi Minh
U.S
Tass
Ment
United States
Vietnam
Washington
Forest Service recruits nearly 1 000 to fight Northwest fires
Deer Lodge National Forest office signs up hundreds of men to join firefighting crews. More than 460 enlistments come as unemployment driven by the copper strike supplies workers from Butte and Anaconda. Trainees are paid two dollars an hour, airlifted to Coeur d Alene, and assigned to burning 86 000 acre districts. Supervisors are being drawn from the district to support other areas, raising concerns about staffing as forests near closure potential.
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Deerlodge National Forest
Forest Service
Northwest
Butte
Anaconda
Couer d’Alene
Deerlodge
Deerlodge Forest
Don Durland
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Clark Fork River Polluting Debacle Improves After Treatment Restart
Clark Fork shows rapid recovery from copper pollution as the Anaconda Co. treatment plant resumes operation. Officials report better water quality and signs of insect life returning while Newsweek references the river issue. no violence expected, says organizer Barney Rask.
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Helena
Clark Fork
Anaconda Co
C. W. Brinck
Brinck
Ee. Water Pollution Control Council
Unions accuse Anaconda Co of refusing to yield
A Wednesday release from Edward Skinner of the joint bargaining committee says the Butte negotiation session failed after the company refused to reconsider a July 13 offer. Barney Rask, cochairman, says unions have sought meaningful talks, including with Gov. Tim Babcock, but two months of meetings yielded no progress.
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Edward Skinner
Joint Bargaining Committee
Anaconda Co
Montana
Butte
Barney Rask
Cochairman
Tim Babcock
Dr James C Shields 85 Dies in Butte Hospital
Dr James Charles Shields a 50 year Butte physician and surgeon died Wednesday night at St James Community Hospital after admission on August 13 His home is 1120 Diamond Sayatovic Whites Funeral Home has his body services set for Saturday 8 30am at Immaculate Conception Church Requiem Mass 9 Interment Holy Cross Cemetery Rosary Friday 7 30 at St Patrick Church Survived by wife Florence and others Details continued on page 2 column 3
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James Charles Shields
Butte
St. James Community Hospital
Diamond
Sayatovic- White
Immaculate Conception Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
St. Patrick Church
Florence
Wind and lightning push forests under red flag alert
Firefighters in the U S Forest Service northern region monitor winds and lightning as red flag conditions spread. Trapper Peak fire near Priest Lake and the Canadian border grows to 6,300 acres while Plume Creek near Sandpoint increases to 1,600 acres. Two fires in Nez Perce National Forest are controlled, but eighteen other major fires burn across six-state region in Idaho and Montana.
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U. S. Forest Service
Missoula
Trapper Peak
Plume Creek
Kaniksu Navy
Priest Lake
Canadian
Sandpoint
Idaho
Nez Perce National Forest
Montana
Weather outlook and relief efforts in Idaho forests
Partly cloudy and cooler with a 10 percent chance of rain today and none tonight. High near 82 and low around 50. A rest camp at Priest Lake supports firefighting crews with Idaho National Guard aid including portable showers and field kitchens. A year ago temperatures reached 88 and 39.
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Butte-Anaconda
Idaho National Guard
Forest Service
Priest Lake
Idaho
Idaho Guardsmen
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R. V. Shannon
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Rick Reichardt
Clark
By Jerry Holloron
Standard State Bureau
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Jack L. Green
Warm Springs
Garrison
Newsweek
Butte, Cochairman
Rask
James C. Shields
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