Government Forces and Rebels Clash North of Santa Rosa
Government and rebel forces renew fighting north of Santa Rosa as reports circulate of rebel landings near Limon and reinforced rebel troops in La Cruz. Officials deny defeats while rebel broadcasts claim heavy casualties on government troops and vow to attack San Jose.
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Santa Rosa
San Jose
Costa Rica
Managua
Nicara
Gua
Limon
Caribbean
la Cruz
Jose Figueres
Enrique
Figueres
San Salvador
el Salvador
Five More Bills Placed Before Montana Senate
Montana Senate advanced three bills to third reading and sent two House measures to committees. A snow removal levy of three mills would fund city snow relief and a three mill cap would limit funds. Bills also ease tax refunds on aviation fuel and allow counties and towns to invest surplus public money in one year federal bonds. A $100,000 capstone for Capitol repairs and creation of a National Rodeo Hall of Fame were proposed. Committees to study interim appointments to three state boards and an executive position were scheduled for hearing, with names including Charles L. Harrington and Msgr. Emmet J. Riley.
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Helena
Montana Senate
Senate
House
Capitol
Montana
Henry H. Anderson
Lincoln
C. E. LaCombe
Mineral
Anderson
Libby
State Hospital
Warm Springs
Charles L. Harrington
Butte
Board of Education
Msgr
Emmet J. Riley
State Soldiers Home
Columbia Falls
Hans Hanson
Great
Demolition Begins for Off Street Parking Lot in Butte
Structures once part of Butte's terraced restricted district will be demolished starting Wednesday to create off street parking for about 50 vehicles. Mayor Tim J. Sullivan said the City Council approved the purchase and a deed was finalized Tuesday with payment due Wednesday morning.
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Butte
Galena
Mercury
Mercury Alley
Tim J. Sullivan
Sullivan
Dr Sam Sheppards Father Dies in Cleveland
Dr Richard A Sheppard father of convicted wife killer Dr Samuel H Sheppard died Tuesday night at the hospital he founded in Cleveland. His death followed a pleurisy illness that worsened after his wife Ethel Sheppard, 64, killed herself January 7. His two other sons Dr Richard N Sheppard and Dr Stephen A Sheppard were present with their wives.
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Cleveland
Ohio
U.P
Richard A. Sheppard
Samuel H. Sheppard
Richard N
Stephen A. Sheppard
Cleveland Clinic
Richard N. Sheppard
Ethel Sheppard
Hammarskjold Arrives for U N Report to Dulles
Secretary of State Dulles said Dag Hammarskjold would fly to Washington for a face to face briefing on United Nations efforts to free American airmen held in Red China. Dulles would withhold judgment on Knowland’s claim that Hammarskjold failed in Peiping and noted Hammarskjold would be accompanied by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Washington
Dulles
Hammarskjold
United Nations
Red
China
Senate
Knowland
California
U. N
Peiping
Henry Cabot Lodge
Con
Health Planning Council Formed in Butte
The Silver Bow Health Planning Council, formed by private citizens and public officials from Butte and county, will study local health facilities and needs and advise city and county authorities. The group plans to educate residents and meets next at the Montana Power Auditorium on February 15 at 8 p.m. Charter members were named, including Mrs. William G. Nelson.
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Silver Bow
William G. Nelson
Notice of 1954 earnings statements for Butte Mines employees
Statements of earnings for 1954 will be issued at the Mines Pay Office 18 E Quartz St Butte from Wednesday January 19 to Friday January 21 1955. Office hours are 9 am to 12 noon and 1 pm to 6 pm. Statements needed for federal and state tax returns.
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Butte
Quartz St
Montana House Proposes Voting Age Cut to 18
In Helena the Montana House proposed amending the state constitution to lower the voting age to 18. Rep. Robert A. Durkee said the exact number of affected individuals is unknown and noted support from President Eisenhower’s similar initiative. The measure would not change liquor or other 21 year old requirements. The Veterans of Foreign Wars reportedly approved the proposal.
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Helena
Montana
House of Representatives
Robert A. Durkee
D-Hill
Eisenhower
Durkee
Appeal issued in Dillon slaying exonerates others
County attorney via FBI report states a Remington .35 rifle fired the fatal shot that killed Bill Orr during last hunting season at Blacktail Creek. The statement clears Tom Orr Gene Pilon and Everett Pearson of blame and urges reporting any knowledge of .35 caliber guns or unusual circumstances to authorities. It condemns the hunter who fired the shot for not coming forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Pilon
Everett Pearson
Blacktail
Oil Field Worker Killed in Montana Highway Crash
Charles E. Murray a 20 year old oil field worker from Powell Wyoming was killed Tuesday in a highway crash 13 miles south of Bridger Montana His sedan failed to negotiate a curve at an underpass plunged into a borrow pit overturned twice and he was flung 129 feet from the vehicle The death marked the 14th highway fatality in Montana for 1955 compared with six the previous year
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Billings
Mont
Charles E. Murray
Powell
Wyo
Bridger
Murray
Borrow
Montana
Dulles Indicates U.S. Will Not Step Into Chinese Strife Now
Boston report details four armed convicts at Massachusetts State Prison threatening to kill five guards and six other hostages if force is used. Theodore Green, a 39 year old bank robber, sent a message to Warden OBrien vowing deaths for each shot fired. Officials said they would wait out the revolt, with police on alert and guards confined by floodlights. The hostages, Catholics, sought confessions from Father Hartigan as the inmates demanded safe departure or “fireworks.”
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Boston
Massachusetts State
Theodore
Teddy) Green
John J. O'Brien
O'Brien
Edward F. Hartigan
Bastile
Massachusetts
George Fingold
Father Hartigan
Mystery Blast Rocks Kalispell Area
A mysterious explosion heard and seen over a 60 mile area near Kalispell Montana puzzled authorities. Sheriff Walsh said no trace was found and agencies continued to investigate despite poor visibility and light snow.
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Kalispell
Montana
Dick Walsh
Flathead County
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Helena
Code Richard
Wilson backs broader trade with Communists
Secretary of Defense Wilson urged expanding trade with the Communist world as a path to strengthen the free world. He favored selling surplus butter to Soviet Russia perhaps for manganese and noted other possible exchanges to ease fear and antagonism. He testified with others in support of a three year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act amid Eisenhower tariff-cut proposals.
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Washington
Wilson
Soviet Russia
U.S
Eisenhower
Weeks
Mitchell
General Executed in Formosa for Corruption and Abuse
General Pao Chi-huang former judge advocate general of the Nationalist army was executed after a military court sentenced him on January 5 for corruption and abuse of power.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Pao Chi-huang
Marriage Quiz and ads shape American family life
The piece notes marriage is breaking down or improving through companionship and democracy. It promotes Want Ads as real democracy in business and urges dialing 5451 to place ads. An example ad highlights a 1947 Olds Club Coupe offering take over payments with a contact 0000.
Reds seize Yikiangshan in Formosa invasion
Nationalist report says Communist forces landed on Yikiangshan after a 22 minute air pounding and a flotilla of 100 junks with 30 support ships. Guerrilla gunners and ground fire resisted, sinking vessels and damaging planes while Nationalist air power attacked around the Tachens.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Yikiangshan
Tachen Islands
Tachens
Peiping Radio
Nationalist
American Brass to Build 25 Million Plant Near Terre Haute Ind
The American Brass Co plans a 25 million dollar aluminum mill and office building on a 315 acre Otter Creek Township site four miles north of Terre Haute Indiana. The facility will cover 500000 square feet and employ about 1000 workers eventually. James F. Ackerman will lead Terre Haute operations with production including ingots billets sheet strip and extrusions. The project aligns with Anaconda Copper Mining Co entry into aluminum.
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Terre Haute, Ind
American Brass Co
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Terre Haute
Anaconda
American Brass
Arthur H. Quigley
Otter Creek Township
James F. Ackerman
Torrington, Conn
Dwyer
Quigley
Anaconda Aluminum Co
Columbia Falls
Lattimore Wins Court Decision Tosses Indictment as Vague
U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ruled the new indictment against Owen Lattimore too vague to require a trial on the two charges alleging he lied under oath about following the Communist line and promoting Red interests. The decision preserves five lesser counts from the 1952 indictment. Lattimore, a Far Eastern affairs expert, previously taught at Johns Hopkins.
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Washington
U. S
Luther W. Youngdahl
Owen Lattimore
Youngdahl
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Crosby to Undergo Kidney Stone Surgery
Bing Crosby will have a kidney stone removed at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica on Wednesday morning. Dr Frederick Schlumberger called it a major operation likely lasting an hour or more with no complications expected. The ailment has hampered his golf and sidelined him from a new movie project.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Bing Crosby
St. John's Hospital
Frederick Schlumberger
Crosby
Pebble Beach
Cattle rustling activity reported in Big Hole area
Verne Stanchfield of Wise River reports a killed and butchered stray heifer along the highway with hind quarters removed. He says he and two neighboring ranches have lost nine cattle recently while others including Charles Ralston and Howard Johnson confirm losses. He asks hunters and motorists to note license numbers of suspicious vehicles.
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DILLON—Verne_ Stanchfield
Wise River
Dulles Seeks UN Cease Fire Over Formosa Strait
Secretary of State Dulles indicated the United States would not use military force if the Communists attacked the Tachens north of Formosa. He said the Tachens are marginal to defense of Formosa and that a UN peace plan could halt the fighting, though no country has pushed the UN to act. He noted a cease fire would be difficult and the U S would not negotiate one unilaterally.
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Washington
State Dulles
United States
Tachen Islands
Formosa
Yikiangshan Island
U. N
Formosa Strait
Eisenhower
China Coast
Yikiangshan
Defense Department
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pescadores Islands
Dulles
United Nations
World Organization
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Benjamin W. Cohen
State Department
Truman
Aircraft Carrier Sent to Help Marooned Scots
Britain sent an aircraft carrier to deliver emergency relief to about 55 000 hungry Highlanders stranded by blizzards in Northern Scotland. The Royal Navy vessel Glory will distribute gasoline to support food drops by helicopters and planes as snowbound communities face isolation and fuel shortages amid worsening winter storms.
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London
Britain
Scotland
British Isles
Europe
Corinthia
Civitavecchia
Rome
Royal Navy
Glory
Clyde
Highlands
Sutherland
Wick
Caithness
Laid
Loch Eriboll
Kirk Hall
Robert Dain
Northern Ireland
England
Londonderry
Weather Summary for Montana Regions
Mostly cloudy with light snow showers on Wednesday. Temperatures reach 20 to 30 degrees in eastern Montana and similar highs in western Montana. Overnight lows drop to near 1 above or below zero with nocturnal readings around minus 13.
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Montana
Western Mountains
Accord Reached to Rate Building Demolition in Butte
Butte officials and the State Auditor's office agreed to reduce the Murray Hospital Building on Quartz and Alaska streets to a two story shell. The city will fund demolition to remove hazard, then the state will advertise bids and sell the site to reimburse the city. County Attorney Rotering secured condemnation. last owner search was unsuccessful. The site could become off street parking after restoration.
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Butte
State Auditor’s
Murray Hospital
Quartz
Alaska
Tim J. Sullivan
Nick Rotering
Children Grow Bigger Faster
Scientists report that children today grow bigger faster than in the past. A 14-year-old Detroit boy is almost six inches taller and 31 pounds heavier than a 14-year-old Boston boy in 1877. The pattern holds across ages and shows girls affected as well, per Dr. W. Edgar’s study.
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Washington
Detroit
Boston
Milwaukee
Hagerstown
W. Edgar
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Sam Sheppard
Health Planning Council
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte Mines
West Point
Teodoro Picado Jr
Picado
Dillon
Green
Mystery Blast Rocks
Kalispell Area
Nationalist Island
Reds
Ind
Big Hole
Max
Eeceeneeees
Belgrade
Aereee
Broadus Errreee
Cut Bank
Drummond
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Secceenee
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Aebasos Ae
Arthur Edson
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