Montana House kills 18 year vote bill amid term limits fight
The Montana House rejected a bid to amend the Constitution to allow 18 year olds to vote and moved to lower the voting age to 20 from 21. HB41 was killed 51 to 46 after committee opposition. The session also saw seven bills die on adverse reports as lawmakers weighed inheritance taxes child support, and interpreters for deaf defendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Giesick
James R. Felt
House
Quest of Judiciary
Ways and Means
Constitution, Elections and Federal Relations Committee
Miss Dougherty
D-Great Falls
Pat Williams
D-Butte
James T. Harrison Jr
R-Helena
Edna J. Hinman
Associated Press
Montana
Senate
Felt
Mansfield pushes 18 year voting age amendment
Sen. Mike Mansfield introduced a constitutional amendment to lower the federal voting age from 21 to 18. He argues youth are informed and deserve equal voting rights as life expectancy rises. Two states already lowered ages and Alaska and Hawaii allow 19 and 20 respectively. Passage requires two thirds in Congress and ratification by three fourths of states.
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Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate
Georgia
Kentucky
Freshman Sue Poston Bans Friday the 13th Calendar
Sue Poston a freshman at Arlington State College in Texas creates a personal calendar that eliminates Friday the 13th, aiming to remove bad luck from the traditional superstition. The UPI telephoto caption notes her contrarian approach despite not being superstitious.
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Sue Poston
Arlington
Texas) State College
Sue
UPI
Film extras find fat sometimes unprofitable
Nairobi report recalls eight would be film extras left frustrated as director Henry Hathaway critiqued their weight on location for The Last Safari. The fittest among a group of refugees were chosen while one man, told he was too fat, was assigned supervisor duties.
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Dennis Neeld
Nairobi
Kenya
Ivo Nightingale
Henry Hathaway
Jacques Mermand
Hathaway
Nightingale
Planning board sued for debt in Montana district court
Ashton Printing and Engraving Co. of Butte names the Montana State Planning Board as a defendant in a district court action for alleged debt of 10 192 73 plus interest and costs. Also named are Harold O Seloff Robert B Sands and Robert Reynolds doing business as Production Surveys of Montana. The complaint claims colored pamphlets valued at 22 057 10 were ordered from July 1965 into early 1966 with 11 864 37 paid and the balance unpaid.
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Ashton Printing and Engraving Co
Butte
Montana State Planning Board
Harold O. Seloff
Robert B. Sands
Robert Reynolds
Montana
Ashton
Columbia Falls Soldier Killed in Vietnam
Columbia Falls Mont. specialist Raymond D. Hoerner 4th Class with the 27th Infantry was killed in action in Vietnam during the past week the Defense Department announced Hoerner was the son of Mr and Mrs Vincent A Hoerner of Columbia Falls
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Washington, D.C
UPI
Raymond D. Hoerner
Columbia Falls
Mont
Vietnam
Defense Department
Hoerner
Vincent A. Hoerner
27Th Infantry
Fire council opposes city county unification plan
The Silver Bow Volunteer Fire Council met Thursday in the Walkerville fire hall and voted against any city county unification plans. Delegates from all county volunteer fire departments supported the opposition led by council president Harold Konen. The unification bill, possible in the Legislature, would aid consolidation procedures.
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Silver Bow
House Demos shun Powell probe group
Two men charged in Butte burglaries. Maroons and Copper heads in local cage spot light tonight. Southern Colorado defeats Eastern Montana 80 73.
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Powell
Butte
Maroons
Copperheads
Colorado
Montana
Infantrymen uncover big Viet Cong base camp in jungle
U S infantrymen north of Saigon found an abandoned regimental size Viet Cong base camp used as a main headquarters for attacks on the capital area. In the Mekong Delta US Marines faced an ambush with moderate casualties as the Iron Triangle push continued. Air action hit a storage area near Vinh and cut Route 7 in multiple spots. The operation has located 10 large Viet Cong base camps with ongoing clashes and a rising death toll, while US casualties last week totaled 67 KIA, 479 WIA, and two MIA.
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Eugene V. Risher
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Mekong
U.S. Air Force
Vinh
North Vietnam
Iron Triangle
Butte Talks Unification Over Consolidation In Local Government
Butte officials weigh unification versus consolidation as a path to improved local governance for Butte Walkerville and Silver Bow County. Critics fear consolidation carries a dirty connotation while proponents see unification as a cleaner approach, with discussion continuing on page 2.
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Butte
Walkerville
Silver Bow County
Precinct changes trim Silver Bow voting wards for 1968
Silver Bow County will have three fewer precincts in 1968 elections due to ward reapportionment and mining growth. Precincts 10 and 5 were combined near City Ward 1-B with Quartz Street fire station as the voting place. Precincts 21 and 27 are eliminated. others realign to City Wards 1-A 2-A and 2-B with new polling sites at Immaculate Conception gym, McKinley School, and Butte Free Public Library.
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Silver Bow County
William T. Duckham
Quartz Street
Berkeley Pit
Meaderville
Immaculate Conception Gymnasium
McKinley School
Butte Free Public Library
Mao issues ultimatum as party tightens grip in China
Mao Tse tung orders surrender to regime enemies and gains army loyalty after a purge move. Peking radio reports strong stand against dissidents within the forces while Chen Po ta takes direct control of the Military Cultural Revolutionary Committee.
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Mao
Tokyo
Mao Tse-tung
Peking
Liu Sho-chi
Peking Radio
Chinese People’s Army
Liberation Army Daily
Peking People’s Daily
Red Flag
der Mao
Kyodo
Lin Piao
Military
Cultural Revolutionary Committee
Armed Forces
Chen Po-ta
Chen
Party
Chiang Chiao
Staly Revolutionary Committee
Henry A. Young 83 dies. Spanish-American War veteran
Henry A. Young 83 longtime Butte resident and Spanish-American War veteran died Thursday in a local hospital at 2036 Roberts. Born Anaconda November 30, 1883 he moved to Butte as a child and later worked for Anaconda Co as a miner and stationary engineer. Survived by widow daughter son in law granddaughter great granddaughter and several relatives. Services at Sayatovice- Whites Funeral Home Saturday at 11 with Sunset Memorial Gardens burial.
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United Spanish War Veterans of
Montana
Henry A. Young
Roberts
Mr. Young
Anaconda
Butte
Anaconda Co
Josephine Ethier
Stationary Engineers’ Union
Summit Valley Lodge
Af&am
Bagdad Shrine
Deer Lodge
Royal Arch Masons
Grand Commandery
Knights Templar
George McIntosh
Senate demands alternative revenue plan to sales tax in Montana
The 30 member Montana Senate Democrats force the House to propose a financing plan other than a 3 percent sales tax to cover state needs for the next biennium. Senate leaders push for a bipartisan meeting with House leadership and Ways and Means to explore other revenue sources.
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Mately
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Francis Bardanouve
Helena
Mont
UPI
Montana
Tim Babcock
Sen
Jean Turnage
Particu
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J. D. Holmes Helena
House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
Eleanor M. Dougherty
Billings
Mansfield
Sabie Ara
Bal
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Fire Council
Lewis T. Poole
Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary
St. Patrick School
City Hall
Eugene Mahoney
Thompson Falls
Mahoney
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