Yule Traffic Toll Reaches 225. New Year Safety Appeal Issued
The Associated Press reports 225 traffic fatalities during the 30-hour Christmas period, plus 27 in fires and 26 in other accidents, totaling 278. National Safety Council president Ned H. Dearborn urges sobriety and a new low in New Year fatalities, noting mild weather as an risk factor and comparing to postwar records.
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Associated Press
Ned H. Dear
Born
National Safety Council
NSC
State's Homicide Total Under Postwar Average
Montana faces a year of below postwar homicide totals with 19 killings in 1957, down from the postwar average of 22. The year includes high-profile cases in Helena and Billings, with charges against Marie Margaret Laurence and Joseph C. Warf for murders, a 25-year sentence for Walter Watts in a separate shooting, and a top-10 Montana story near Joplin.
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Helena
Montana
Associated Press
Treasure State
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Billings
Marie Margaret Laurence
Stanley Skinner
Joseph C. Warf
Raymon C. Toll
Helena Carpenter
Warf
Walter B. Watts
Nadi Ledesma Andora
Watts
Joplin
Donald L. Bujok
Governor to name acting head at Montana sanitarium
Gov J Hugo Aronson said he will appoint Dr A C Knight acting superintendent of the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Galen after the death of Dr F I Terrill. Knight is the ranking physician. a permanent successor will be named later. The Board of Examiners also urged a secretary treasurer bonded at 25000 and planned a post year start meeting with the sanitarium executive board.
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Forrest H. Anderson
Knight
Galen Sanitarium
Aronson
Sanitarium
Board of Examiners
Terrill
G. A. Anderson
Soviets Offer Oil Autos to Brazil in Trade Push
In Rio de Janeiro Soviet Russia reportedly offered oil and automobiles to Brazil to expand trade and establish diplomatic ties. A business observer called it “bait,” noting Brazil imports most of both commodities.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Russia
Protests Defense Spending Orgy In Helena
A Montana Taxpayers Assn president denounces defense budget excess as a smokescreen for higher taxes and waste. He urged cutting nondefense spending and missile programs to avoid inflation, debt rise, and deficits, while supporting robust missile spending to counter Soviet advances.
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Helena
Montana
Hibbard
National Conference of State Taxpayer Executives
Car-Truck Meet Kills Five and Wounds Five in Ala Crash
Five people died and five were injured when a 22 ton truck collided head on with a car four miles south of Stapleton Alabama on U S 31 Thursday night. The auto driver Sherman E Golden of Atlanta died along with several victims inside the car. The truck driver Arthur Paul Evans of Atmore Alabama Age 18 survived. Victims included Mr and Mrs Wilson Golden of Uriah and Linda Warren of Atlanta.
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Stapleton
Ala
U. S. 31
J. C. Bankston
Gerald Hughes
Sherman E. Golden
Atlanta
Mattie L. Rhodes
West Germany likely to reject Israeli arms imports
Bonn officials indicate the government will almost certainly refuse any Israeli attempt to obtain submarines or other weapons from West Germany, according to informed sources.
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Bonn
Germany
U.P
U.S. Drafting Reply to Soviet Letter
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration is drafting a reply to Bulganin. The note will reject an immediate summit and seek a coordinated response from 15 Atlantic Pact governments within about two weeks. Dulles and Eisenhower met to review international issues and the State Department is preparing several drafts.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Bulganin
State Dept
Florida Family Shot to Death in St Petersburg Home
In St Petersburg Florida a prominent local man H Sanford Williams 48 his wife 49 and two young sons Ward 10 Eldon 9 were found shot to death in their home Williams who headed the National Retirement Foundation reportedly despondent over donations and may have killed himself after shooting his wife and children The four apparently died early Tuesday with signs of a hurried breakfast and a thawing frozen turkey noted at the scene
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Earl Newberry
H. Sanford Williams
Ward
Eldon
Williams
National Retirement Foundation
W. H. Greene
Beatrice Jones
Newberry
Montana Weather Outlook Mixed Clouds and Showers
Montana west will see mostly cloudy skies with rain or snow showers at times through Saturday and little temperature change. Highs Friday and Saturday range 35 to 45, lows Friday night 20 to 30. East will be largely cloudy with scattered showers in western mountains and windy east slopes, highs 40 to 50, lows 20 to 30, with southwest 10 to 20. Maximums refer to 12 hours and minimums to 18 hours ending 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Montana
French Assembly Adopts Gaillard Budget Vote 288 233
Paris The National Assembly approved Premier Felix Gaillard's 1958 budget by 288 to 233. The plan calls for spending 5,295 billion francs and receipts of 4,695 billion, leaving a deficit near 600 billion francs about 1.4 billion dollars.
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Paris
National Assembly
Felix Gaillard
Union Files Appeal Over Union Security Clause Case
Teachers Union No 332 AFL CIO filed a notice of appeal from a district court ruling invalidating a union security clause in its contract with School District No 1 of Silver Bow County. The appeal to the Montana Supreme Court covers the decision favoring eight non union teachers who claimed the clause was discriminatory and sought salary adjustments.
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Butte Teachers Union No. 332
Afl-Cio
Silver Bow County
William F. Shallenberger
Missoula
Montana Supreme Court
Arnold H. Olsen
John Ligtenberg
Chicago
American Federation of Teachers
Aflcio
Shallenberger
Maurice F. Hennessey
Son Like Father Before Him Dies In Auto Accident
Ronan Harvey Pullar 21 formerly of Ronan died in a Seattle hospital Christmas Day from auto crash injuries on a Seattle freeway Christmas Eve. His father Kernellis Pullar was killed in an auto crash near Rowan November 2 1956. His mother Sophia Pullar was in Seattle visiting. He telephoned his mother shortly before the wreck and said he would be right home. Body to be removed to Ronan for burial.
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Harvey Pullar
Seattle
Kernellis Pullar
Rowan
Sophia Pullar
Forrest Anderson Named by UP As 'Man of Year'
Montana Attorney General Forrest H. Anderson, 44, narrowly outpolled U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield and Gov. J. Hugo Aronson in a United Press editors poll for Montana Man of the Year. Voters cited his role in quelling a prison riot last July 30 and his rise from Lewis and Clark County attorney to Montana Supreme Court justice and attorney general. Anderson, born 1913 in Helena, is a Democrat with wife Evelyn and three children. Mansfield, 66, noted for national and international politics and missile statements, while Aronson, 66, received votes for the publicity he has brought to the state.
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U.P
Montana
Forrest H. Anderson
Mike Mansfield
J. Hugo Aronson
United Press
Anderson
Aronson
Mansfield
Montana UP
House of Representatives
Lewis and Clark County
Montana Supreme Court
Evelyn
Contract Wedding Annulled by Court
MISSOULA Montana Dist Judge William F Shallenberger granted an annulment in the case of Marquita F Wolf against Calvin I Wolf. The brief hearing found no test of Montana contract marriage law and the annulment was granted without protest. Wolf contended the contract was invalid for lack of three witnesses and for fraud claiming she was told contract marriages were legal. The complaint mentioned the contract marriage legality and void status.
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Missoula — Dist
William F. Shallenberger
Marquita F. Wolf
Calvin I. Wolf
Montana
Bang-up Christmas at Charleston Used Car Lot
Police said a person damaged 18 automobiles at Gene Byard's used car lot by driving them around and ramming them together. Entrances were blocked but keys were left in the cars, and the incident occurred during the holiday period in Charleston West Virginia.
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Charleston
W. Va
Gene Byard
Montana Gov Warns Careful Driving for New Year
Gov. J Hugo Aronson said Montana had no Christmas highway deaths and urged Montanans to stay cautious during the New Year holiday to keep the season free of fatalities. He repeated his Christmas plea for careful driving on the highways.
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Helena
Montana
J. Hugo Aronson
Montana Traffic Deaths Show Big 1956 Drop
Montana highway patrol reports 203 traffic deaths so far in 1956, down from 265 on day 360 last year, with Missoula and several cities achieving sharp declines. Patrol chief Alex Stephenson cites stepped up enforcement and improved traffic control as key factors.
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Montana
Associated Press
Montana Traffic News
Alex B. Stephenson
Stephenson
Missoula
Butte
Anaconda
Glasgow
Garfield
Golden Valley
Liberty
McCone
Meagher
Petroleum
Sanders
Petroleum County
Missoula County
Glacier County
Cascade
Fire destroys block and threatens town center
SPRINGHILL Nova Scotia a Thursday night blaze consumes an entire block and menaces the business district. By late in the evening the fire was reported out of control as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze in the northern mining town.
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Springhill
N. S
Nova Scotia
Congress to vote heavier defense spending in new session
Washington lawmakers face a stormy start as the 85th Congress reconvenes aiming to boost defense outlays by about two billion dollars amid the Soviet satellite and missile advances. Tax relief is sidelined in an election year, with debate likely over education aid programs and federal worker funding. Senator Sparkman urges faster housing aid releases and criticizes the administration for slow action on economic recovery measures. The White House already released voted housing funds of 177 million dollars. A FHA mortgage rate cut to 4 percent is proposed to energize housing and the economy.
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Eisenhower
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Ike and Nixon To Kick Off Election Drive
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon with six Cabinet members will launch the 1958 congressional campaign on January 20 at Republican fund-raising dinners. Thirty seven dinners in 26 states plus D C are planned with ten other prominent speakers. Eisenhower will speak in Chicago and Nixon in New York with cabinet officers in various cities for coast to coast telecast plans. Michigan leads with seven dinners, Oregon plans 15 county dinners, and Denver listed among early sites.
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Eisenhower
Nixon
R. Douglas Stuart
Fred G. Gurley
Chicago
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District of Columbia
Michigan
Oregon
Colorado
Denver
Broadway Actor Beaten to Death in City Street Brawl
Gerald Sarracini a 30 year old Broadway actor who starred as Romanoff in the show Romanoff and Juliet died from a beating after a tavern round with Tommy Bell a former welterweight contender. Bell a frequent companion was questioned by police amid earlier fights and arrests in the Broadway 64th Street area.
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New York
Gerald Sarracini
Romanolf and
Juliet
Tommy Bell
Bell
Sarracini
Pat Muldoon
Romanoff
Peter Ustinov
Broadway
64Th Street
Sugar Ray Robinson
Montana Highway Deaths Rise to 203 in Year
Helena dispatch reports the Montana Highway Patrol added 70 year old Henry William Vaughan of Bozeman to 1957 traffic fatalities. Vaughan died in a Bozeman hospital November 9 from injuries from an August 24 accident on Montana Highway 8 near Ashland, bringing the year’s toll to 203 versus 265 last year.
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Helena
Highway Patrol
Henry William Vaughan
Bozeman
Vaughan
Rosebud
Montana
Ashland
Scott Is Handed Life Sentence
In Los Angeles a jury sentenced L Ewing Scott to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Eve lyn Scott, who vanished nearly three years ago. The 61 year old former stock broker showed no emotion as the verdict followed a prior first degree murder conviction based on circumstantial evidence. The judge set January 14 for the formal sentence while defense counsel sought a new trial after a 4 1/2 hour deliberation.
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Los Angeles
L. Ewing Scott
Evelyn T. Scott
Scott
California
Clement D. Nye
Atty. P. Basil Lambros
Pounding Rains Hit Atlantic Coast
Storms drenched the Atlantic coast from Florida to New England with heavy rain and winds over 50 mph in the New York City area. Lakehurst New Jersey and Tampa Florida received over an inch of rain, while most areas south of New York had about an inch. A secondary storm along the Canadian border dropped one to three inches of snow in northern Nevada Idaho and southwestern Montana.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Florida
New England
North Atlantic
New York City
Lakehurst
N. J
Tampa
Fla
New York
Canadian
Nevada
Idaho
Montana
Dag Hammarskjold Meets Egyptian Minister in Cairo
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold conferred with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi in Cairo and planned a Thursday night dinner with President Nasser. He will depart for Beirut and Lebanon on Friday morning by U N transport and then proceed to New York after talks there.
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U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Mahmoud Fawzi
Nasser
Hammarskjold
Beirut
Lebanon
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