Hijacker Parachutes, Bails Out With Airline Cash
A young man hijacked a Hughes Airwest jet and parachuted from the plane with $50,000 of the airline’s money. He was captured Thursday in a remote Colorado area less than three hours after the escape, described by state patrol as about 25 years old with a mustache.
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Denver
Hughes Airwest
Colorado
Colorado State Patrol
Plains
FBI
McCarran International Airport
Las Vegas
Nev
Don Burkhard
Burkhard
Frank McDonald
Trudi Hunt
Anaconda City Power Hit By Sudden Outage
A Thursday night wind and drizzle caused a widespread power blackout in Anaconda after high winds knocked down lines near Pine and West Sixth. Montana Power crews restored service by 9 p.m. with temporary repairs, while alarms triggered two fire calls and a canceled basketball game.
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Anaconda
Montana Power
Pine
West Sixth
Birch
Spruce
Anaconda Fire Department
Anaconda Memorial
Butte High
Butte delegate opposes judicial reform plan at con-con
Butte Democrat David L. Holland challenges the Montana Plan during a Judiciary Committee hearing. He warns centralized power could concentrate control in the Montana Supreme Court, fearing weak safeguards against poor judges and loss of legislative oversight.
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Butte
Con-Con
Montana
Holland
David Mason
University of Montana Law School
Montana Supreme Court
Mason
Dean Robert Sullivan
CON
Florida warden defends no vacancy policy amid prison crowd
Gainesville is scene as Louis Wainwright defends shutting doors to new inmates to ease overcrowding. Judge John Crews warns of contempt if the policy persists while Georgia’s corrections chief applauds the stance. Wainwright cites a system built for 8323 inmates housing 9568 with Lake Butler overcapacity. By moving 115 inmates out, he may reopen intake from the most crowded counties.
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Gainesville
Fla
John Crews
Florida
Louis Wainwright
Wainwright
Ellis MacDougall
Georgia
MacDougall
Lake Butler
Crews
Soldier-of-fortune pilot recalls Laos rescue ordeal
Air America pilot James Wallace Russell 49 Odessa Texas outran North Vietnamese pursuers for two miles in Laos before helicopter extraction after his Porter aircraft was hit by mortar fire. He described the classified mission carrying Swamp Rat and five associates near Site 113 north of Vientiane. He has seven years with Air America and a World War II combat record including a Silver Star and two Distinguished Flying Crosses.
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Vientiane, Laos
Air America
Laos
James Wallace Russell
Odessa
Tex
Vientiane
Russell
CIA
Borneo
Site 113
Vietnam
Con-con May Recess On March Civic Center Night
Page six reports a possible March recess for the convention at the Civic Center tonight. Page twenty four notes internal caution about leadership in Butte police and a Sunday Standard report on prisoners pursuing academics.
Butte Weather Outlook From Daily Map Page
Considerable cloudiness and continued mild in Butte with windy intervals. Today’s forecast cites a high near 42 and a low around 26, as shown on the weather map on Page 12.
Dunkle ousted as Montana fish and game chief
Frank H. Dunkle was forced to resign as director of the Fish and Game Commission in Helena after the five commissioners demanded immediate resignation. Indications pointed to Keith Freseman Don Brown Kalispell district supervisor Leland Schoonover as potential successors with a new director to be chosen by Friday morning.
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Helena
Frank H. Dunkle
Fish and Game Commission
Dunkle
Keith Freseman
Don Brown
Kalispell
Leland Schoonover
Polson
Robert
Montana
Butteman 78 killed in Utah crash near Winesday
Hans Lauesen 78 of Brown's Gulch died in a Santa Clara hospital from injuries after a collision with a front-end loader in a flagged area while following a convoy of state construction vehicles. He was alone. The body will reach Wayrynen Richards Funeral Home Friday night. survivors include son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Oliver Hoge.
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Hans Lauesen
Brown’s Gulch
Santa Clara
Utah
Lauesen
Wayrynen-Richards
Oliver Hoge
Montanans Buy Mislabelled Pabst Beer By The Case
A Montana brewery mix up led to a sale of 16 000 to 20 000 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer destined for West Virginia. The cans read West Virginia Tax paid and thieves stole some beer from a sealed interstate car.
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Helena
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Montana
West Virginia
Butte
FBI
Montana Liquor Control Board
Francis B. Welsh
Billings
Pabst Brewery
Peoria
Welsh
Joseph T. Shea
Great Falls
Missoula
Bob Koprivkca
Bob
Nixon urges bipartisanship as he pushes 1972 agenda
President Nixon appeals to a Democratic Congress to back more than 90 administration proposals and a larger defense budget while promoting a new technology program and school property tax relief. He emphasizes local control over schools, hints at a value added tax, and warns against letting politics hostage national programs.
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Washington
Nixon
Democratic Congress
White House
House
Senate
Congress
Hugh Scott
Mike Mansfield
Lottery vote urged by Montana Constitutional Committee
A Constitutional Convention committee in Helena reviews drafts to allow either the legislature or the people to legalize lotteries. The current Constitution bans all lotteries, but proposals would permit or enable a popular vote to legalize gambling.
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Helena
Constitutional Convention
Chango
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Cliff Moore
Ban Tha Si
Butte Weather
J. Emmons
Frank Dunkle
Emmons
Willis B. Jones
Butteman
Standard State Bureau
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