31 Dec 1977
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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1977
Page
1
A brief mentions safety aids at Silver Bow Homes Newman community launch tied to Tech Water with no water details. The note references news on Page Today’s Mining City television guide and predicts Oakland, Dallas routs, with football bowl action continuing today.
Two Anaconda men missing since Wednesday were found dead Friday near the snow covered wreckage of their four passenger Grumman American Traveler. Pilot Leo Perkins, 33, and passenger Dick Parini, 32, were located half a mile southeast of Anaconda airport after a two day ground search and aerial sweep. Investigators note the craft likely struck in dense fog and debris spread over a large area. FAA and NTSB teams will lead the formal inquiry with possible months before conclusions.
Energy officials predict residential gas bills for Montana Power customers have more than doubled in four years but will not double again in the next four. The elderly on fixed incomes face the harshest impact as bills rise and budgets tighten.
Whitehall will no longer appear in the state temperature chart as the National Weather Service discontinues its second order weather station. The Helena airport will monitor the Whitehall valley and Pipestone Pass, ending nearly 17 years of Mulligan family readings.
President Carter pledged that the United States would not start a war except by mistake and said the Soviet Union would begin a war only under profound provocation or misunderstanding. He spoke at a state dinner in Warsaw with Polish Party leader Edward Gierek as about 100 dissidents shouted outside. Carter also noted Poland’s human rights record and pressed for open journalism, saying dissident reporters were barred from a news conference. He left open a possible visit to Egypt's Anwar Sadat if feasible.
The Montana Standard previews a Sunday wrapup analyzing 1977 in Butte and Silver Bow County. It covers the new city government copper market and strikes, uptown revitalization plans, magnetohydrodynamics projects, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and major crimes.
Don Campbell reports at a six nation trip banquet that the Polish interpreter Jerzy Krycki failed to translate Carter’s toast prompting a substitution by Gierek’s interpreter. Barry Jagoda defended Krycki noting prior praise for his translating while Krycki struggled to render Carter’s remarks.
Victor the giraffe died after a five day fight for life at Marwell Zoo. The year featured a 3 inch snail darter versus Tellico Dam and a landmark use of the Endangered Species Act. Elephants figured prominently with Colonel Joe needing rescue near Palmdale and a Burmese ransom case ending with the elephant returned. Shanti the baby elephant joined Amy Carter at the National Zoo along with reindeer gifts Salla and Anta from Finland. Weather ends with a cold, sunny period outlook.
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