Union Charges Intimidation In Falls Issue
The 129 day Montana metal strike widens in Great Falls as Mine Mill and Smelter Workers accuse Anaconda Co of intimidation and threats to move zinc work. The union demands negotiations while Anaconda readies units in Anaconda to handle zinc if needed. About 5,000 workers remain on strike across Great Falls Butte East Helena and Tooele Utah.
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Great Falls
Mont
Montana
Anaconda Co
International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Ind
Anaconda
John Clark
Clark
Raymond Graham
Graham
Butte
E. I. Renouard
Western
Renouard
Floyd F.’ Weimer
East Helena
Tooele
Utah
Steel Strikers Seek Court Order On Pay Hike
United Steelworkers union asks U S District Court for a four cent hourly cost-of-living raise next month and retroactive wage contracts to November 7 after Taft Hartley injunction ended a 116 day strike. Hearing set for January 4 before Judge Herbert P Sorg.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
U.S. District Court
Herbert P. Sorg
Sorg
U.S. Labor Department
Washington
Montana Weather Summary For Regions And Cities
Montana east forecasts mostly cloudy with Friday snow in mountains and scattered rain or snow in lower elevations. Friday highs 35, cooler west. Friday night lows 15 to 30. Saturday cooler with highs 25 to 40. Montana west cloudy with occasional snow Friday and Friday night, Saturday scattered snow. highs 25 to 35, lows 10 to 25. Table notes 12 hour maxes and 18 hour min ending 5 p.m. Thursday for listed towns including Billings Belgrade Great Falls Helena Kalispell Missoula and others.
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Montana
Montana High
Pep
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus
Drummond
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingstone
Miles
City Stad
Missoula
West Yellowstone
Rail unions and Kennecott reach Utah accord
Two small Utah railway locals of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen agreed to contracts with Kennecott Copper Corp. The accord comes as Kennecott negotiates with other unions to end a strike idling ore operations since August 10. The wage package matches 22.3 cents an hour and covers about 2,600 workers.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Kennecott Copper Corp
Kennecott
Operatons
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Brotherhood of
Garfield
United Steel Workers
International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
Record copper production posted for Chile in 1959
Chile reports 1959 copper output at 493000 metric tons official tally shows potential to top 550000 if El Teniente strike had not occurred. Previous annual high was 475000 tons in 1954.
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Santiago
Chile
Fernando Varas Aguirre
Copper Department
el Teniente
Bethlehem manger scene staged by local children
On Christmas morning the Butte Gold Hill Lutheran Church staged a Bethlehem manger scene. Deborah Waland portrayed Mary, Kathy Thompson an angel, and Kenneth Rohret played Joseph in the village tableau photographed by Ken Lewis.
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Bethlehem
Butte Gold Hill Lutheran Church
Deborah Waland
Mary
Kathy Thompson
Kenneth Rohret
Joseph
Ken Lewis
Snow May Visit Western Montana Today
Scattered snows may whiten Montana mountains west of the Divide on Christmas Day with only light shower activity elsewhere. A cold front from the west coast could lower western temperatures while the system breaks up across the Divide, leaving eastern Montana mostly dry. Yuletide snow is already on the ground at higher elevations, with Christmas highs 25 to 35 west and 35 to 45 east.
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Mountain Barrier
Belgrade- Bozeman
Glasgow
Miles City
Great Falls
Smeltermen and Anaconda Co sign new contract
Anaconda smeltermen and the Anaconda Co signed a new contract Thursday boosting pay by 22.5 cents hourly and adding a broad health and welfare clause with doctors visits and prescriptions. Unemployed workers may file Monday at 8 a.m. at designated Montana Hotel offices. The pact runs to June 30, 1962, and includes eight double time holidays, expanded vacation provisions, and extended pension and insurance terms.
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Anaconda
Anaconda Co
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Two More Traffic Fatalities Boost Montana Toll to 231
A Bil lings woman Mrs John Hanson died after a car left U S Highway 87 and rolled over three times west of Lewistown in Judith Basin County. Her husband and 12 year old son were seriously injured as a fire started in the grass before a passerby put it out. The accident occurred about 7 15 p m three miles west of Edys Corner. This death raises Montana 1959 highway toll to 231 with three Montanans killed and nine injured in Wednesday crashes.
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Billings
John Hanson
Robert Bragg
Lewistown
Bragg
Hanson
Eddy’s Corner
Judith Basin
Montana
Robert Gideon
Bozeman
Joe Wamsiey
Morese
Wamsley
Dixon-Charlo Road
Butte Christmas Spell Enchants Town In Festive Glow
The Butte community lights up for Christmas with over 3,000 downtown lights and glittering home displays from Walkerville to East Butte. Crowds prepare for midnight services and Christmas dinners as families reunite and open houses abound amid holiday peace and goodwill.
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Walkerville
School of Mines
East Butte
Holiday Death Toll Starts Slow As Weather Baffles Roads
The Associated Press notes a slow start to Christmas Eve traffic fatalities amid foggy and slushy conditions across the Midwest and East. The National Safety Council urged extreme caution as it forecasts up to 530 deaths over the four day weekend, with total toll possibly near 884 including fires and other causes.
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Associated Press
Midwest
East
National Safety Council
Ancient Rites Recall Christ's Birth in Bethlehem
In Bethlehem Jordan on Christmas Eve crowds packed narrow streets and the Church of the Nativity grotto as Latin Patriarch Alberto Gori led a procession. Most worshippers waited outside while a statue of the infant Jesus was placed on a silver star and later moved to a manger for Epiphany.
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Christ
Jerusalem
Alberto Gori
Jesus
Manger
Holy Land
Bethlehem
Manger Square
Man Returns Found $20 Bill to Police on Christmas Eve
A man entered the Butte police station on Christmas Eve to turn in a $20 bill found near Mercury and Colorado. The finder was Rev. Raymond Johnson, pastor of Covenant Mission Church, of 1031 S. Main.
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Butte
Mercury
Colorado
Raymond Johnson
S. Main
Covenant Mission Church
Star of Bethlehem Lights a World of Peace and Tragedy
The Star of Bethlehem signals renewed holiday peace with fewer global tensions and more pilgrims in Bethlehem for Christmas rites. Yet amid goodwill a frontline Israeli soldier dies and Syrians report Arab wounded in a border gunfire incident.
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Star of Bethlehem
Sea of Galilee
Israel
Syria
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Eisenhower
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