Montana House to hear weighted reapportionment plan
Rep W S Mather will introduce a weighted voting plan for Montana’s House and Senate. It sets 77 members per house with one vote per 1000 residents, assigning up to 15 votes per county and listing Yellowstone Cascade Silver Bow and Missoula as examples.
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Cascade County
Petroleum
New Jersey Senate
New
Mather
Yellowstone
Cascade
Silver Bow
Missoula
Montana
HOUSE
John Sheehy
Senate
David James
State Senate Measures Seek Congress Aid on Remapping
In Helena the Montana Senate signed two measures urging Congress to authorize legal steps for states to ignore court reapportionment orders. Fifty-one of 56 members supported the resolutions, while five abstained, citing doubts about their value. The Reapportionment Committee, newly formed, was set to act, with one signer declining.
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Senate
Congress
Gene Huntley
Frank D. Reardon
D-Silver Bow
Reardon
U.S
W. E. Harris
D-Park
Sen
Warren H. Davis
D-Deer
Calf Elk Returns to Hills After Butte Sighting
A calf elk wandered into the McQueen Addition seeking greener pastures. Residents corralled it with a rope around 5:30 p.m. and loaded it into a pickup to return to the mountains, ending about two hours of wandering.
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McQueen Addition
Foreign Aid Request Hits 3.38 Billion for Next Year
President Johnson asked Congress for 3.38 billion dollars in foreign aid for the next fiscal year the lowest request since World War II era programs began. The plan seeks economic and military aid totaling 2.21 billion for economic help and 1.17 billion for arms with open-ended authorization for further Vietnam and Laos aid.
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South Viet Nam
Laos
Johnson
Montana university names bill clears House with 83 2 vote
The Montana House passed HB18 to rename six university units as Montana University System, Montana State University, Eastern Montana College, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology and Western Montana College while Northern Montana College keeps its name. The bill aims to reflect university status for Montana State College. Two Missoula representatives opposed the measure calling it ridiculous.
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Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology
Dillon
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Robert L. Deschamps Jr
Haines
Associated Press
War veterans tax relief bill gains quick approval
Representative Eskildsen explains the bill would extend the World War I veteran tax exemption to World War II and Korea veterans. Representative Stranahan notes his WWI veteran stake. The presiding officer joked after voice approval as the session continues.
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Korea
C. G. Stranahan
D-Chou
Teau
Haines
Stranahan
Cetnets Corps Ieee
Fred W. Schepens
Hughes Homes Insolvent Liquidation Approved by Judge
U S Judge W D Murray held five Hughes Homes companies in four states insolvent and signed orders for liquidation converting all assets to cash. Each company must stand on its own with assets used to discharge its own debts and creditors after costs.
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Butte
Murray
Newland
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Weather forecast for Butte Anaconda area and Divide east and west
Variable cloudiness today through Saturday with little temperature change. Highs around 40 and lows near 25. East of Divide expect mostly cloudy with a few showers or snow flurries in the western mountains Friday and Saturday, highs 35 to 40, lows 20 to 38. West of Divide expect mostly cloudy with a few showers or snow flurries in the mountains Friday and Saturday, plus valley fog at night and morning, highs 35 to 40, lows 15 to 30. Table notes 12 hour maximums and 18 hour minimums and 24 hour precipitation ending 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Satuday
New Construction Record Expected at Montana Convention
Frank Quinn reports at the Montana Contractors Association meeting that 1965 total construction volume should top 91 billion dollars, surpassing 1946 by 3 billion. The AGC projects 69 billion in new construction and 22.5 billion in maintenance and repair, as the 29th annual conference opens.
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Montana Contractors Association
F. L. Oliver
Billings
Montana Association
A. W. McIntyre
Great Falls
J. F. Ratchge
Gus M. Albert
J. W. Marlow
State Association
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Kalispell Woman Killed in Wreck
Kalispell Montana car driver Lillian L. Clark, 65, died from head injuries and multiple fractures after her vehicle was struck by a loaded logging truck at a U.S. 2 intersection in a Kalispell business area. Police said she stopped at a stop sign and pulled into the truck’s path. the truck swerved to avoid. Driver David Reeser of Kalispell was the truck operator. Coroner Sol Catron planned an inquest as Montana's third traffic death of the year.
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Lillian L. Clark
Reeser
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Sol Catron
Arends Keeps Job as GOP White House Whip Vote
House Republicans re elected Leslie C. Arends of Illinois as party whip 70 to 59 over Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey. Rep. Gerald Ford had supported Frelinghuysen but failed to secure the post, prompting Ford to say the result may affect his authority. Arends pledged loyalty to Ford, insisting the vote was not a rebuke.
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Gerald R. Ford
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Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
House
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
Ford
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
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Jerry Ford
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Critics of Aid Say Johnsons Request Too Big
Washington AP critics in Congress say President Johnsons new 3.38 billion aid request is too large and plan to bar aid to unfriendly countries. Some oppose stand by authority for military spending in South Vietnam and Laos as an open ended blank check. Yet many lawmakers display wait and see, noting the total is the lowest aid request since the program began though still above last years enacted level.
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Johnson
America
South Viet Nam
Laos
Congress
Gordon Allott
R-Corp
House
Meeting Called For Survey On Retardation
A countywide meeting of the new local committee for mental retardation planning will be held Feb. 4 at 8 p.m. in the Webster Garfield School Auditorium. Chairman Charles C. Davis announced the gathering under the State Board of Health to organize a similar committee in each county in Montana. The Butte meeting will discuss surveying the mental retardation situation in Silver Bow County to expand work with the Rocky Mountain Association for Retarded Children. The program includes six classes for retarded children and a pre school class at the Lincoln.
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Charles C. Davis
State Board of Health
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Butte
Silver Bow County
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Rocky Mountain Association For
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