Military and Civilian Cuts Made Without Combat Power Loss
The Defense Department says in the two years ending June 30 it cut military staffing by 9 percent and civilian rolls by 6 percent without weakening combat power. Army, Navy, and Air Force report reductions, reallocations, and efficiency gains with no drop in readiness.
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Washington
Defense Department
House Civil Service
Rep
Corbett
R-Pa
Armed Services
House
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Oil Lease Ruling Heads to Supreme Court
Helena tax payer Ford Johnson and counsel Ralph J. Anderson said the US Supreme Court will review the Montana Supreme Court 3-2 ruling that outlawed state oil and gas leases for indefinite terms. The decision voided the 1953 act allowing 10 year leases or longer while producing.
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Helena
Mont
U. S. Supreme Court
Montana Supreme Court
Ralph J. Anderson
Ford Johnson
Montana
State Supreme Court
Montana Land Board
Johnson
Junk mail ends in cities March 31 under simplified address plan
Postmaster General Summerfield announced the city and town trial of simplified address mail will end March 31. Third class mail has been sent with only tenant or similar labels, no street addresses, and no sorting. Rural routes and boxholders will continue. The scheme failed to meet objectives and higher postage may follow.
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Washington
Summerfield
Post Office Department
Gloria Vanderbilt and Leopold Stokowski End Nine-Year Marriage
Gloria Vanderbilt leaves Leopold Stokowski after nine years of marriage and moves with her two sons from their 18-room New York apartment. The 30 year old heiress seeks a home for Stan and Chris as Stokowski tours internationally. She pursues theater work while remaining near New York. No public reason given for the separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gloria Vanderbilt
Prince Charming
Leopold Stokowski
Gloria
Stokowski
Stan
Chris
Franchot Tone
Anaconda Man Joseph Roy Promoted at East Helena Plant
East Helena American Smelting and Refining Co. promotes Joseph T. Roy to plant manager. Roy, a Montana School of Mines alumnus born in Anaconda, begins after a career as chemist, metallurgist, and superintendent at East Helena and other U S and R plants. Stanley Lane becomes East Helena plant superintendent, while Kuno Doerr Jr. moves to Garfield and W G Rouillard heads Tacoma plant.
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East Helena
American Smelting and Refining Co
Joseph T. Roy
Roy
Kuno Doerr Jr
U. S
R Garfield
Utah
Anaconda
Montana School of Mines
Butte
U. S. and R
Selby
Calif
Montana
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Last Chance Gulch Mining Assn
Montana School of Mines Alumni Assn
Stanley Lane
Garfield
Doerr
W. G. Rouillard
Tacoma
Wash
UN Official Leaves for Peiping Parley
Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations secretary-general, flew to Peiping to seek release of 11 American airmen and other UN personnel held by Chinese Communists. Ambassadors and officials voiced support as Hammarskjold underscored the high stakes and uncertain outcome of personal talks.
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New York
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Peiping
U. N
Henry Cabot Lodge
U. S
Hammarskjold
Red China
27 Organizations Added to Subversive List
Atty. Gen. Brownell named 27 groups to be added to the subversive list boosting total to 282. He asserts each is Communist dominated and urges hearings within 10 days. The Jefferson School of Social Science in New York was found by SACB to be directed and controlled by the Communist party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brownell
Subversives Activities Control Board
SACB
Jefferson School of Social Science
New York City
Communist Party
Supreme Court
Butte Welcomes New Year with Services and Parties
Butte residents plan Watch Night services at Protestant churches and private homes while Catholic worships on New Year’s Day. Public gatherings appear at Elks, Eagles, Butte Country Club, VFW, and other venues with dancing. City offices close by noon, police court session at 10, and banks follow 10 to 2 hours.
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Butte
the Elks, Eagles
Butte Country Club
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Federal Building
City Hall
State's Highway Projects Set All Time Mark
Montana's 1954 highway program set a record high of 14,990,199 dollars for 120 projects as six contracts totaling 753,490 dollars were awarded to low bidders. Projects include Whitefish-Stryker road work in Flathead, new bridges on the Crow Agency road, Molese-Charle-Nine Pipe road work, and repairs in Silver Bow Missoula Cascade. The commission planned one delegation visit in the final session, with Missoula commerce on city roads.
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Helena
Montana
Montana Highway Commission
Whitefish-Stryker
Naranche
Konda
Butte
Big Horn
Wyoming Line
Crow Agency Road
McClelland and MacQueen
Worland
Wyo
Molese-Charle-Nine Pipe
Francis P. Holland
Bozeman
Silver Bow
Cahill-Mooney
Missoula
Clearwater
Seeley Lake Road
Bonner-Lincoln Highway
Arnt
Cascade County
Hilde Construction
Great Falls
Red faced safety director fined in Spokane police court
Walter J. Barland, director of the Fairchild Air Force Base Grade School Safety Patrol, was fined 25 dollars for failing to stop for a loading school bus. Judge Gordon Lower suspended the fine after Barland pleaded that heavy traffic prevented him from seeing the bus.
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Spokane
Walter J. Barland
Fairchild Air Force Base
Gordon Lower
Barland
Doctor claims packs of cigarettes shorten life by six hours
Berkeley physician Dr Hardin B Jones presented calculations linking smoking to a shorter life. He cites American Cancer Society figures and English studies claiming a pack a day for a decade cuts about 10 years from the average lifespan. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee disputes the conclusions.
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Berkeley
Calif
American Cancer Society
Hardin B. Jones
University of California
American Assn. For the Advancement of Science
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Jones
New York
Waterloo Man Shot When Taken for Deer
Guy George Jr. of Waterloo, about 32, was shot in the left arm at his ranch when a hunter mistook him for a deer. He was treated at St. James Hospital for a compound fracture and radial nerve injury with a good condition reported Thursday night.
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Guy George Jr
Waterloo
St. James Hospital
Silver Bow County
George
Motorists Advised of Monida Pass Storm
A severe snow storm hit Monida and was reported moving toward Dillon. Officers warned of very strong winds and zero visibility with highway travel discouraged on both sides of Monida Pass.
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Monida Pass
Dillon
Monida
Butte Business College President Dies at 61
J. Lawrence Scott of 221 N. Clark, president and sole owner of the Butte Business College, died in a local hospital after illness. Born December 1893 in Newton Missouri, he served in World War I, moved to Butte in 1922, became president in 1946, and led civic groups. Surviving are wife Clelia. sons Owen and Donald. daughter-in-law in Berkeley.
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J. Lawrence Scott
N. Clark
Butte Business College
Butte
Mr. Scott
Newton
Kirkeville State Normal College
Chillicothe
Muskegon
Mich
Scott
A. F. Rice
J. Lee Rice
Business School
Montana Business College
Montana Assn. of Business Colleges
First Baptist Church
Butte Exchange Club
The
American Legion
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Butte Community Memorial Hospital
Clelia A. Scott
Owen Scott
Donald Scott
Berkeley
Calif
Daught
Mid-Continent storm leaves 23 dead and widespread unsettled weather
A major storm that blanketed the central United States with snow over two days faded as it moved eastward into freezing drizzle and fog. The Weather Bureau cited 23 deaths from the system, with lingering flurries in Michigan and northern New England, and snowfall totals reaching 26 inches at Caribou Maine and 16 inches at Mt. Washington New Hampshire. Coastal rain persisted from the West Coast to the plains, with Cape Blanco Oregon recording 1.34 inches.
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Weather Bureau
New England
Midwest
Michigan
Caribou
Maine
Mt. Washington
N. H
Plains
Plateau
Idaho Falls
Decision Favors Sheriff Brook in Madison County
Virginia City Madison County Sheriff Lloyd Brook, Republican, defeats Democrat Chester E. Stine by six votes after a district court contest. Judge John B. McClernan ordered judgment based on the original tally, recounts had initially shown Stine ahead by eight votes before final totals. Brook has served as sheriff since 1938 and expressed satisfaction with the ruling.
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Virginia
Lloyd Brook
Madison County
Chester E. Stine
John B. McClernan
Butte
Brook
Stine
Sheridan
Pari Mutuel Betting Invented in 1865
Pierre Oller a Paris perfumer created the pari mutuel system in 1865 to curb cheating by race track bookies. The note shifts to a classified ad pitch urging readers to contact an ad-writer with offers to buy sell or rent, promising results and claiming no gambling in the ad. A for sale line is included with a placeholder phone number.
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Pierre Oller
Paris
French Assembly approves West German rearmament pact
The French National Assembly approved by 287 to 260 a treaty to admit a rearmed West Germany into a Western alliance including Italy Britain France Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The vote strengthens NATO backed defense, with about 500000 German troops under alliance orders.
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Paris
National Assembly
West Germany
Western European Union
WEU
Italy
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
NATO
Pierre Mendes-France
Germany
Ike Hails Vote as Sign of Free World Unity
President Eisenhower hailed France's acceptance of West Germany as a NATO partner as a sign of free world solidarity. He noted the French National Assembly vote, praising the move as good augury for the years ahead and said the United States and the free world are gratified. Dulles called the decision a patriotic burial of old hostilities.
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Eisenhower
United States
Free World
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Assembly
Mendes-France
Kremlin
Paris
Dulles
Washington
France
Fjare Named 1954 Montana News Personality
Orvin B. Fjare a 36 year old Big Timber haberdasher and congressman elect was voted Montana’s outstanding news personality in 1954 by editors in an AP poll. He has limited political experience with two terms as a grade school trustee and brief roles on the Welfare Board and Republican committees.
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Helena
Big Timber
Orvin B. Fjare
R-Mont
Montana
Associated Press
Fjare
State Public Welfare Board
Republican Executive Committee
National Junior Chamber
Weather forecast shows clearing and colder with mixed precipitation
State forecasts for Montana east and west vary. East will be cloudy with rain or snow southwest and snow in mountains, highs 30 to 40, with partly cloudy skies and warmer east Friday night. West will see widespread rain or snow lower elevations and heavy snow in passes, highs 35 to 42, with continued cloudiness Friday night into Saturday.
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Montana
State and City Restrained on Liquor Fees
Owners of 102 Butte liquor and beer outlets win a court restraining order delaying state and city license fee payments. Judge Downey's order bars collection while a petition seeks to void the fees as unconstitutional and to refund already paid sums. Defendants include Butte officials and liquor authorities. next hearing set for Friday.
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Butte
T. E. Downey
City of
State Liquor Control Board
United States
Butte City
Downey
Tim Sullivan
Beryl Wilson
Notice of altered pay day for Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Weekly employees at the Butte mines and shops will be paid Friday December 31 instead of Saturday January 1. Pay office hours are 8 30 A.M. to 6 P.M. Friday and closed all day Saturday New Year s Day.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte Mines and Shops
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Cut Bank
Manee Renee
Cee Wweee
Drummond @ee
Glasgow
Havre
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston
Ewerenee
Miles City
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