Anaconda Copper Promotes Key Western Staff
E S McGlone announced Jan 1 promotions at Anaconda Copper Mining. Chester Steele becomes general manager Western mining operations headquartered in Butte with properties in Nevada New Mexico California Washington Idaho. Edward P Shea and John W Warren receive senior engineering roles while A S Richardson retires to consulting duties. Martin K Hannifan appointed assistant general superintendent of mines in charge of the Kelley Mine as Greater Butte Project advances.
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Steele
Edward P. Shea
Butte
Geological Department
Anaconda Company
Montana State School of Mines
Portland
Ore
Butte High School
Montana School of Mines
Montana Society of Engineers
Montana
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Society of Economic Geologists
Rotary Club
Butte Country Club
1200 Steel
David Nelson
Anaconda
Charles B. Steele
San Francisco
Shea
John Shea
St. Patrick
Central High School
Montana Highway Commission
Harding Way
Davis Daly Copper Company
Anacconda Company
Missouri Basin Survey Planned
President Truman created an all member Missouri basin survey commission to study land and water resource development and protection across 10 states. The one year deadline targets flood control power development and conservation. The panel will include private citizens and members of Congress with funds to be sought after the final report.
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Washington
Jan
Truman
Missouri Basin Survey Commission
Midwest Basin
Montana
Wyoming
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Colorado
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Iowa
Congress
Capitol Hill
Hennings
D-Mo
Page & Col
Help for Captain Carlsen Arrives
The tug Turmoil reached the drifting freighter Flying Enterprise and her lone captain Kurt Carlsen in the Atlantic. The Weeks and Turmoil prepared to tow as Carlsen endured six days aboard the listing hull. The Weeks delivered coffee and provisions while awaiting daylight for line connect.
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London
Kurt Carlsen
Atlantic
United States Navy
United States
John W. Weeks
Weeks
Carlson
Isbrandtsen Line
Dan Parker
Parker
Carlsen
West
England
Capt
Enterprise
Cold Cat Freezer Rescue in Utah Town
In Mount Pleasant Utah on January 3 a cat’s tail froze to the ground during a deep cold snap. Owner Bert Wilcox freed the animal after cutting away fur and frost.
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Mount Pleasant
Utah
Bert Wilcox
Reds expected to offer new prisoner plan
MUNSAN Korea Friday Allied truce negotiators anticipated a new Korean prisoner exchange plan from the Communists as talks resume at Panmunjom on prisoners and policing the truce. Peiping radio denounced the Allied plan as a horse trade in human flesh while Rear Adm Libby urged restudy of the proposal.
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Munsan
Korea
Panmunjom
United Nations
Tokyo
Paris
UN Security Council
Washington
United States
Red Peiping
Red
Associated Press
San Francisco
R. E. Libby
Libby
Truman Confirms Murphy Story
President Truman acknowledged reports that Federal Judge Thomas F. Murphy of New York once accepted and later declined to head an inquiry into government corruption. He avoided commenting on a rumor that Attorney General McGrath offered to resign from the cabinet as critics press for tougher action. Truman said his cleanup program and tax plan will proceed, and hinted Symington may leave the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He left Kefauver’s outreach to chance and defended recent agency changes.
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Washington
Truman
Thomas F. Murphy
New York
McGrath
Congress
W. Stuart Symington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
Crime Investigating
Kinnear Named to Metals and Minerals Post
John Charles Kinnear, former vice president of Kennecott Copper, was named assistant to Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson to head metals and minerals. He retired Dec. 31 after 42 years with Kennecott. Resides in McGill Nevada with recent seven years in New York directing operations in the U S and South America. Former president of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America and long-time Nevada state education head.
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Washington
John Charles Kinnear
Kennecott Copper Corporation
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Kinnear
Kennecott Post
McGill
Nev
New York
Kennecott
South America
The
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America
Nevada State Board of Education
Montana to pay 55000 WWII veterans $22 million bonus
About 55,000 Montana veterans will split a $22,000,000 bonus once the state raises funds. The Montana Supreme Court upheld the bonus law’s constitutionality, with Gov. Bonner stating bond houses are not bidding due to credit limits. The plan relies on cigarette tax revenues to retire bonds, with applications due within two years of the law’s effective date.
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Helena
Jan
Montana
Supreme Court
John W. Bonner
Bonner
Ex Miners
Payment of Bonus in Butte Exceeds Two Million Dollars
Silver Bow county World War II veterans about 6500 people will share roughly 2,212,500 in state bonus payments after Montana Supreme Court action. The fund totals 22,000,000 with average payments around 325 to 55,000 veterans or dependents. Many Butte veterans will receive the maximum 675, and funds go to survivors of veterans who died in service or afterward. Funds will be used to pay debts, buy furniture, and support home or auto purchases forthcoming.
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Silver Bow County
Montana
Supreme Court
Montana Veterans Welfare Commission
Butte
Battle Near Suez Railway Shops Kills Fifteen British Troops
In the Suez Canal Zone city of Suez a three hour gun battle outside the railway shops left 15 British troopers dead and 14 Egyptians wounded. Cairo said 1,800 British troops with tanks and Bren carriers were involved. police and civilians among the wounded.
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Suez Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Suez
No Man’s Land
Cairo
Allies Retake Christmas Hill In Korea Ridge Fight
Allied troops in east central Korea fought through heavy mortar and automatic fire to retake the Christmas hill outpost west of Mun dung valley after a night attack by Communist forces. The outpost had been won by Reds on Christmas Day and retaken by Allies a week earlier amid seesaw combat.
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Seoul
Korea
Christmas Hill
Mundung Valley
Korangpo
Peiping
Taedok
Truman Appeals to Steel Union
President Truman urged CIO steelworkers to cancel any strike, signaling the union will likely delay plans. He praised Steelworkers head Murray for postponing the New Year strike deadline and urged continued work to avoid national production disruption amid mobilization needs. The Wage Stabilization Board has an initial hearing next Monday in Washington.
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Atlantic City
Truman
CIO
Phil” Murray
Steelworkers
Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
White House
WSB
Washington
Former Great Falls Resident Dies in Auto Accident
Two women died and another woman was seriously injured when an ice slick on United States Highway 99 caused a collision 15 miles south of Seattle. Identified victims include Armosa M. Wrixon of Pasco, a former Great Falls and Chateau Mont resident, and Leona Hogan. The male drivers were hospitalized with serious injuries and could not provide statements.
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Seattle
King County
Armosa M. Wrixon
Pasco
Great Falls
Chateau
Mont
Leona Hogan
New Benton Hospital
Dignity Be Hanged on Sled by 80-Year-Old Miss Cutter
In Jaffrey Center New Hampshire Miss Mabelle Cutter aged 80 sleds belly down from Main street claiming she started on her 80th birthday and will continue while snow lasts, defying the genteel pose she once used.
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Jaffprey Center
N. H
Mabelle E. Cutter
Main Street
Soviet Foreigner Hints of War on China’s Southern Border
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky warned of possible new military action on China’s southern flank amid Korea armistice talks. He accused the United States of planning aggressive moves against Red China near Thailand Burma and Yunnan. Russia proposed a special UN Security Council meeting to discuss armistice ties but the idea was rejected by American officials.
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Paris
Russia
United Nations Security Council
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Southeast Asia
United States
Red China
Special Security Council
Washington
Korea
Vishinsky
China
Russians Denounce US Arms Charge in Southeast Asia
The State department rebutted Andrei Vishinsky's UN speech accusing Washington of arming Chinese Nationalist forces. Officials insisted the US provides no arms to Gen Lei Mi's Burmese troops and warned of Red China's threat to Indochina amid Soviet rhetoric.
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Washington
State Department
Russia
United States
Southeast Asia
Andrei Vishinsky
United Nations Assembly
Paris
Michael J. McDermott
Vishinsky
Lei Mi
Indo- China
Vishinaky
Speakin
UN Politica Committee
Red China
Governor Langlite bemused by plea for gift dog from Missouri mother
Gov. Arthur B. Langlite of Olympia received a letter from Mrs. Raymond Wiseman of Independence Missouri asking him to send a dog for her infant daughter. The governor noted he had no spare gift dogs to send.
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Olympia
Wash
Arthur B. Langlite
Independence
Raymond Wiseman
Route 1
P. S
Weather Forecast ELITE Mostly cloudy and cool with rising temps
Mostly cloudy conditions persist with slow temperature increases Friday and Friday night. Readings show subzero lows at the Airport and School of Mines with gradual moderation into the 60s and 70s elsewhere, and light snows west of Divide. Winds along the divide howl 20 to 35 mph with varied cloudiness and cooler pockets in eastward valleys.
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School of Mines
Divide
Havre
Lewistown
Billings
Continental Divide
Symington to resign as RFC cleanup head in January
W Stuart Symington will leave the Reconstruction Finance Corporation this month. President Truman announced at a news conference that Symington has wanted to depart for about eighteen months and plans a five week Jamaica vacation starting February 15 before entering private business.
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Washington
W. Stuart Symington
Reconstruction Finance Coreporation
Truman
Symington
RFC
St. Louis
Senate
Jamaica
Associates
Peter L. Bukowski
Fulbright
D-Ark
White House
Bukowski
Historical Library Relics Are Stolen in Helena
Helena police and county probation officers investigate the theft of several articles from a Montana Historical Library showcase. The items include a Crow Indian headdress, Left Hand Boy war bonnet, a 44 caliber Colt used as a gavel in 1864 Bannack assembly, two secret service knives, and Bridger trail massacre relics.
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Helena
Montana Historical Library
John Pred
Legislative Assembly
Bannack
Bridger Tral
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Anaconda Copper
Chester H. Steele
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Martin K. Hannifan
Kelley
Missouri Basin Survey
Captain Carlsen
Reds
Murphy
Security Council
State Board of Examiners
Examiners Board
Lee Metcalf
William F. Wilford
Ray W. Marks
Bozeman
High Court
Metcalf
C. B. Elwell
A. H. Angstman
Joe Willie Riley
Chicago
Draft Board
Riley
NEA
Steel
South China
Belgrade
Broadus
Butte Cut Bank
Dillon
Drummond
Glasgow
Kalispell
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
Superior
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
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