Montana's Tim Babcock seeks sales tax to close 2 million deficit
Outgoing Gov. Tim Babcock presents a 1969-71 budget with a 2 million general fund deficit and proposes a 3 percent retail sales tax to cover the shortfall. The plan would raise about 60 million, fund a school foundation, cut property taxes by 16 million, and provide 5 million in city aid, before his term ends.
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Helena
Tim Babcock
Montana
Babcock
Capitol
Forrest H. Anderson
Senate
S& Million
Anderson
Montana lawmakers set to convene with leadership changes
Senate and House leaders were to be formally installed after noon Monday as Mahoney assumes Senate majority leader and James Lucas wins House speaker. GOP James M Haughey named Senate minority leader and John C Hall House minority leader. Committee chairs and staff roles were also announced, with party lines shaping key posts. House Speaker James P Lucas, 41, Miles City, and W S Mather as majority floor leader. Senate pro tem Gordon McGowan to preside in absence of Mahoney. Lt. Gov. Thomas L. Judge named Mahoney's assistant.
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John C. Hall
Great Falls
Mahoney
Senate Democrats
Gordon McGowan
Highwood Rancher
McGowan
Senate
Thomas L. Judge
William F Hafferman
Libby Merchant
David F. James
Joplin Farmer
Connie R. Thiessen
Lambert Farmer
John L.luke McKeon
Anaconda
Carroll A. Graham
Lodge Grass
Dick Ozivi
Gordon E. Bollinger
Glasgow
Carl Rostad
Martinsdale
Hafferman
Rostad
Senate Rules Committee
William A. Groff
D-Victor
William R. Mackay
Roscoe
Haughey
Democrats
Walter H Marshall
Helena
House
Richard Nixon
Hogeland
Martin A Baumann
Mackay
Antoinette Fraser Rosell
Billings
Hall
Ray J. Wayrynen
Butte
First International Snowmobile Meet Draws Six States and Canada
Snowmobile enthusiasts from six states and Canada gather for the First Annual International Snowmobile Meet to be held Saturday and Sunday at Elk Park with a parade planned along Harrison Avenue weather permitting. Open class entries include Tony Burkle Roseau Minn Darrell Tribu Roseau Minn Marvin Ode Roseau Minn Robert Cameron Spokane Gene Hauf Spokane Tom Faults Spokane Bob Taylor Kalispell Ray Semurchak Libby Paul Laisy Missoula Robert Menne Missoula Martin Andre Philipsburg Terry Whindom Butte Jim Randuck Anaconda See SNOWMOBILE Page 3
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Elk Park
Tony Burkle
Polaris
Polaris Industries
Greenbush
Minn
Darrell Tribu
Roseau
Marvin Ode
Robert Cameron
Ski Doo
Butte
Gene Hauf
Spokane
Tom Faults
Bob Taylor
Ski Daddlar
Kalispell
Ray Semurchak
Moto Ski
Libby
Paul Laisy
Moto
Helena nun founder dies at 73
Mother Mary Stanislaus, 73, founder of the Handmaids of Mary Immaculate and longtime teacher at Carroll College, died Sunday at St. John Hospital in Helena. A Requiem Mass is tentatively set for Thursday at 10 at St. Helena Cathedral with burial to follow.
Mansfield vows to stay Senate leader beyond 1970
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said on CBS that he has no plan to retire in 1970 or to relinquish his leadership post to Edward Kennedy. He emphasized he is content as a senator from Montana and not pursuing higher office.
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Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Montana
Mudd
Mansfield
Samuel Shaffer
Congressional
Newsweek Magazine
Lyndon Johnson
United States
Nader team calls FTC failing consumers
A Nader linked group of young lawyers and students urge major FTC reform led by resigning Chairman Paul Dixon. They label the agency inept and corrupt, accusing it of incompetence cronyism and partisan tactics while calling for top to bottom overhaul of the commission.
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Joseph E. Mohbat
Washington
Ralph Nader
Federal Trade Commission
Nader
Paul Paud Dixon
Dixon
FTC
Congress
Weather swings from deep freeze to bright sun in Mining City
Residents endured a minus 31 degree morning last Tuesday before sunshine returned and temperatures climbed into the mid forties. Snow flurried briefly as the latest weather shifts drew comment and curiosity from locals.
Weather Outlook for Butte Anaconda Projected Snow and Rain
Cloudy with periods of snow or rain through Tuesday. High near 35 with a low around 22. Precipitation chance 60 percent today. One year ago the area logged minus 2 daytime and minus 30 overnight temperatures. Weather table on Page 3.
Search hampered as ice and snow hinder plane hunt
Four planes from Kalispell and Missoula scoured the rugged Mission Mountains for a light plane missing since Saturday with three aboard on a Polson to Billings trip. Pilot Cecil Mccabee and his two sons were aboard. Bad flying conditions grounded air searches. fog and icing limited ground and air coverage Sunday.
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Missoula
Kalispell
Mission Mountains
Polson
Billings
Cecil Mccabee
Jack
Allen
Jack Hughes
Ovando
Hughes
Jocko Pass
Nixon taps Lodge to head peace mission
President elect Nixon names Henry Cabot Lodge to head the U S delegation to the Vietnam peace talks in Paris after the inauguration. Lawrence Walsh named deputy negotiator. Cyrus Vance to stay on briefly for continuity. Marshall Green and Philip Habib assignable to the team. Lodge previously ambassador to South Vietnam and Germany.
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Lodge
New York
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
U.S
Vietnam
Paris
Lawrence E. Walsh
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ziegler
Cyrus R. Vance
Marshall Green
Indonesia
Philip Habib
Foreign Service
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