Bulgarian Mob Attacks U.S. Legation in Sofia in Protest
In Sofia a 3,000 strong Bulgarian mob attacked the U.S. legation with stones coal and ice amid protest over a Bulgarian diplomat's espionage for the United States. Windows were broken cars wrecked and a display window of life in America shattered. Two Americans inside were unharmed. Police restored order as the Georgiev espionage trial continued two blocks away at the Supreme Court building.
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Vienna
UPI
U.S
Sofia
United States
America
Legation
Supreme Court
Ivan-Assen Hristov Georgiev
Georgiev
New York
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Paris
Johnson Claims Broad Support For Base Closures
President Johnson reported strong public backing for his order to shut 33 defense bases and criticized Barry Goldwater. At a ranch news conference with Hickory smoke and a horse departure, Johnson previewed talks with West Germany's Ludwig Erhard while sparring with Goldwater in Phoenix about foreign aid and timing in Congress. Mail reaction to the base cuts ran five to one in favor, and CIA chief John McCone was asked to seek a meeting with former President Eisenhower to brief him on administration steps.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Lbj
Ludwig Erhard
West Germany
Goldwater
Congress
Senate
Sen. Goldwater
Phoenix
Ariz
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Man Arrested For LBJ Threat In Hartford
James Francis Burns unemployed kitchen worker was arrested on a federal warrant for threatening President. He allegedly said he would go to Washington to pull an Oswald. The offense carries up to five years and a $1000 fine. Bond set at $3500. Hearing postponed to Tuesday.
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Hartford
Burns
William Johnston
Veterans Administration
U N Council Intervenes in Cyprus Dispute
In Nicosia Cyprus the U N Security Council held an emergency session in New York after Cyprus rumors of Turkish troop landings. ZeNon Rossides announced the call citing reports of five Turkish submarines four destroyers and three troop carriers in Cypriot waters.
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New York
Cyprus
Mediterranean Island
U.S
Frazer Wilkins
Denis Cleary
Makarios
U.N
Zenon Rossides
York
Rossides
Washington
Johnson hosts multiple press conferences on hay bale platform
At LBJ Ranch a Yuletide barbecu e for 200 reporters turned into a series of news conferences. President Johnson spoke from a hay bale lectern and rode a Tennessee walking horse after grilling spare ribs. Cabinet members Rusk Freeman Mann appeared in Western and formal attire during the Texas gathering.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
Pedernales
Texas White House
Johnson
Lbj Ranch
State and Agriculture
Dean Rusk
Orville Freeman
Thomas C. Mann
Lady Bird
Texas
Johnsons
Ranch Country
Washington
Agriculture
Rusk
Freeman
Montana Board Faces Legislature On Soldiers Home Transfers
Helena AP The Montana Board of Public Institutions may need legislative help to transfer 11 women residents from the State Soldiers Home in Columbia Falls. Dist Judge Frank I Haswell ruled the board acted without lawful authority, blocking transfers. He noted widows of veterans must be admitted to the Montana Veterans Home and suggested avenues for appeal or Supreme Court review.
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Board of Institutions
Kalispell
State Soldiers Home
Columbia Falls
Haswell
Montana
Veterans’ Home
Helena
State Board
Montana Supreme Court
High Court
Lewistown
Dorothy B. FitzGerald
New Trial Motion Filed in Franklin School Fire Case
Six insurers moved for a new trial in the Franklin School fire case in district court. A jury awarded $202,821 to School Dist. No. 1, plus over $31,000 in interest to date, with rate rising monthly. Judge Bottomly ordered 6 percent interest from May 20, 1961, totaling over $31,000. separate interests allocated to each insurer.
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Franklin
R. V. Bottomly
Great Falls
Bottomly
United States Fidelity and Guaranty
Globe and Republic Insurance Co. of America
Insurance Co. of North America
Western Fire Insurance Co
New Zealand Insurance Co
New York Underwriters Insurance Co
Malmstrom Officers Meet Butte Residents for Luncheon
Col George Budway and a group of Malmstrom AFB officers visited Raymonds in Great Falls for a Friday luncheon with about 40 Butte residents. John Newland chaired the event, which highlighted Malmstrom’s role in national defense and detailed missile operations including KC 135 refueling and Minuteman security and launch precautions.
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Air Force
George Budway
Malmstrom Afb
Great Falls
Raymond's
Butte
John Newland
Moody Brickett
Newland
Vern Griffith
Don Ulrich
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Budway
James Jacobson
Paul Bates
Ray
Wine
Joe Church
Malmstrom
Brickett
U.S
Montana
Col
Col. Jacobson
Atlas
Titan
Man Dies in Train and Auto Crash Near Havre
Robert Goddard a 45 year old Ethridge man was killed when his car was struck by a westbound Empire Builder passenger train near ridge Montana. The car was dragged a half mile after crossing a gravel road onto the main line. The train experienced about a one hour delay and no one aboard was injured. The Montana 1963 traffic death toll rose to 227 on this date.
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Havre
Robert Goddard
Ethridge
Empire Builder
Great Northern Railay
Goddard
Ridge
Fat
Shelby
Montana
Joe Darby
West Berlin protests killing of refugee on Red Wall
West Berlin officials directly filed an oral complaint with East German officials over a Christmas killing of a refugee along the Red Wall, signaling a potential shift in Berlin’s East West diplomacy and challenging the long held Western practice of dealing with East Germany only through the Soviets.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
Red Wall
Ernst Lemmer
Willy Brandt
Lemmer
East Berlin
Wall
Kennedy stunned by 10,000 troop plan claim in Laos crisis
Maj. Gen. Chester W. Clifton recalled President Kennedy’s "stunned amazement" upon learning that dispatching 10,000 troops to Southeast Asia would erase nearly all strategic reserve. Clifton, in Army Magazine, notes Kennedy boosted Army programs and airlift, studying guerrilla warfare and enlarging forces amid Laos tensions.
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Charles W. Cord Dry
Washington
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Chester W. Clifton
Joint Chiefs (of Staff
Southwest
Asia
Clifton
Joint Chiefs
Laos
U.S. Army
Kennedy
Elizabeth Lloyd 85 Dies in Dillon After Long Life
Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd widow of W Edwin Lloyd died Friday at age 85 in Dillon. Funeral services are planned Monday at 2 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints with burial in Mountain View Cemetery. She was born December 10 1878 in Wellsville Utah and moved to Bannack in 1898 later settling in Dillon. Surviving are son Keith of Missoula daughters Evelyn and Mrs Edwin Whitworth of Dillon and several sisters in Utah California Idaho and Montana.
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Brundage
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mountain View
Lloyd
Wellsville
Utah
Bannack
Mr. Lloyd
Dillon
Lloyds
Holland Place
LDS Church
Keith
Missoula
Evelyn
Edwin Whitworth
L. C. Parker
Roy
Marie Darley
Corning
Calif
Violet Jones
Burley
Idaho
Edith Blair
Grant, Mont
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Tracy Born to Tom and Margaret Tracy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Tracy, sixth child of Tom and Margaret Tracy, was born Friday at St James Community Hospital. The Tracys, of 2425 Nettie, also have son Thomas Patrick and daughters Colleen Maureen Kathleen Geraldine. Margaret Kilgallen, Tracy’s wife, is from Butte, with grandparents Margaret Harrington and Thomas Tracy Sr. in Butte. Tracy, a 1963 Democratic state representative from Silver Bow County, announced the new arrival.
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St. James Community Hospital
Tom Tracy
Nettie
Tracys
Thomas Patrick
Colleen
Maureen
Kathleen
Geraldine
Tracy
Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Harrington
Butte
Thomas Tracy
Silver Bow County
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Tracy
Weekend Weather Outlook for Butte and West of Divide
The forecast calls for cloudy skies in Butte with occasional snow and minimal temperature changes. Highs near 36 and lows around 8, with slight variations from last year. East of divide expect cloudy conditions Saturday into Sunday with snow flurries in western mountains and scattered snow west Saturday night and Sunday night. west of divide mainly cloudy with occasional snow and Sunday snow flurries. temps 28 to 38 with lows 15 to 25.
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Butte
Divide
Western Mountains
Netunden
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Soldiers Home
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Army Magazine
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