Congress Ends Session With Nixon Farewell
Congress adjourned the 1969 session amid Christmas greetings from President Nixon. lawmakers sent a trade control bill to the White House with a Commerce Department review, and celebrated passage of a major tax cut and reform package set to take effect in 1973. Senate and House adjourned in the early afternoon after brief remarks and a luncheon with leaders.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
White House
Commerce Department
Sen
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Women bring back list of U S POWs
Two antiwar leaders returned from North Vietnam with names of 131 captives and confirmed letters from prisoners. They said the State Department notified families of five additional men and described the pilots they met as healthy and in good spirits. The trio also presented drawings and cartoons from prisoners and said they were invited by the Vietnam Women's Union.
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San Francisco
North Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S. Department
State Department
Madeline Duckles
Berkeley
Calif
West Coast
Committee of Responsibility
Cora Weiss
New York
Women Strike For Peace
Mark Gartley
Greenville
Paul Bordon Brown
Newton, Mass
William J
New Manchester
Gerald Coffee
Sanford
Fla
Navy
David Jay Carey
Jeannette
Albert Edwards Runyan
Sumper, S.C
Vietnam Women’s Union
Ethel Taylor
Cities Service studies copper mine near Miami Arizona
Cities Service Co. announced a study to develop an open pit copper mine at Pinto Valley adjacent to the Castle Dome site near Miami Arizona. An engineering consultant will assess feasibility for processing 40 000 tons of copper daily with deposits above 350 million tons, operated by Miami Copper Co. a Cities Service subsidiary.
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New York
Cities Service Co
Miami
Ariz
Pinto Valley
Castle Dome
Miami Copper Co
Cities Service
Globe-Miami
Arizona
Montana liquor probe goes behind closed doors
The legislative audit committee met in executive session to brief on alleged irregularities in Montana's liquor monopoly and ordered a moratorium on further comment until the audit concludes. Gov. Forrest H. Anderson backed the pause. Atty. Gen. Woodahl had not commented for two days.
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Helena
Legislative Audit Committee
Forrest H. Anderson
Robert L. Woodahl
Woodahl
Legislative
Morris L. Brusett
Boulder River School gets new superintendent Perry
Robert M. Perry of Pueblo Colorado was named by Montana’s Board of Institutions as the Boulder River School and Hospital superintendent and mental retardation coordinator. He will start February 1 1970 and replace Stephen Chiovaro who resigned January 1.
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Pueblo
Ed Kellner
Department of Institutions
Charles Dell
Department
Boulder
Perry
State Board
Stephen J. Chiovaro
Chiovaro
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Wisconsin
Highlands University
University of Texas
Cross
Eastmont Training Center
Glendive
Boulder School
Eastern Montana College of Education
Department of Public Instruction
Department of Welfare
Department of Health
Montana Association For Retarded Children
Montana
Rogers cautious on Vietnam progress and Middle East plan
Secretary of State William P. Rogers reported a 60 percent drop in North Vietnamese infiltration year to year and praised Vietnamization as showing results in the IV Corps Mekong Delta. He defended U.S. Middle East proposals as fair and rejected Israel’s charge of appeasement.
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Washington
Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Saigon
Rogers
U.S
Middle East
Israel
Nixon
Dle
United Nations Security Council
United States
Butte Christmas spirit drives liquor store sales high
Butte and Walkerville liquor stores report holiday rush with over eight thousand dollars in Walkerville sales and thirteen thousand in Harrison Avenue, as bourbon brandy rum and vodka top the list. State figures are delayed but described as way up. Scattered lines form long queues with exhausted staff.
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Butte
Walkerville
Harrison Avenue
Harrison
Park Street
Joseph T. Shea
State Liquor Control Board
Helena
Control Board
Butte Weather Outlook Hints Snow on Christmas
Fair to partly cloudy Wednesday in Butte with a chance of snow on Christmas. Today's high around 34 with a low near 28.
50 50 Snow Chance Tangles With Christmas Weather
A Helena Weather Bureau forecaster calls the next two days indefi nite with a developing storm off the California coast. The Butte area faces a 50 percent chance of snow showers from late Christmas Eve into Christmas Day with broad scattered coverage depending on conditions between here and there.
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Butte
US Weather Bureau
Helena
California
Nixon weighing veto on tax bill amid revenue concerns
Government agencies urged Nixon to sign the tax bill citing short term revenue gains from extending surcharges and repealing investment credits. A minority within the White House favors veto for political and long term inflation risks as 1971 budget balance Looms.
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The
Treasury
Bureau of the Budget
Council of Economic
Nixon
Council
Budget Bureau
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Harold E. Gerke
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