VA delays Miles City Hospital closure amid funding gaps
Acting Veterans Administrator William Driver rejected Montana Senators request to keep Miles City VA Hospital open 60 more days citing no funds in the budget to sustain the facility. He noted six VA hospitals across the region could serve veterans and that patients would be moved over five months. He denied reliance on a computer to decide closures, saying 1960 census data influenced policy. The Miles City hospital faces eventual shutdown.
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Washington
William J. Driver
Montana
Miles City
Mont
Driver
Lee Metcalf
D-Mont
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Dmont
Johnson
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oming
Metcalf
Mansfield Dirksen condemn closures of VA hospitals
A Senate hearing opened amid protests against plans to close 11 VA hospitals and four domiciliary facilities, with leaders Mansfield and Dirksen opposing shutdowns. VA Administrator Driver defended consolidation toward large urban hospitals near medical schools, promising efforts to lessen dislocation impacts for veterans and communities.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Veterans Administration
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
W. J. Driver
Senate Veterans Subcommittee
Mansfield
Montana Legislator Denounces Returning Veterans Treatment
The speaker blasted lingering discrimination against returned servicemen and their families. He said veterans, once promised equality, are being treated as second class citizens and forgotten by society. The majority leader added that Montanans share the discontent.
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Montana
Weather Eye satellite shots into orbit over Earth
The UPI report notes America's Tiros-9 weather satellite launched from Cape Kennedy into a polar egg-shaped orbit. It carries two cameras in a wheel-like frame and will be aimed to provide a global view of cloud cover, though orbit height varied from planned 460 miles to 436–1602 miles, with full coverage expected after activation.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
Earth
Six Weather Bureau
Storm Hunters
Montana House Debates Governor Building Plan Approval
Montana lawmakers consider Gov. Tim Babcock s 17.2 million building program financed by cigarette tax and including 9.3 million for university construction and 5.4 million for other state institutions. The measure accompanies 66 other bills on fast track with various approvals and rejections as the 19th day of the session unfolds.
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Helena
Tim Babcock
Montana House
Reapportionment Plan Proposes Multi District Counties
Montana House Reapportionment Chairman John C. Sheehy proposes remapping that would create a 105 member Senate and House, with largest counties split into multiple districts and smaller counties guaranteed one senator and one representative. Yellowstone would have 12 districts, Cascade 11, Silver Bow 6, Missoula 6, and others varying. A separate bill would criminalize transcription of conversations without consent, punishable as a felony up to $10,000 and two years in jail.
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Senate
House
John C. Sheehy
Yellowstone
Sheehy
Yellowstone County
Cascade
Silver Bowl
Missoula
Flathead
Lewis and Clark and Gallatin
Hill
Deer Lodge
Valley
Fergus
Custer
Park and Lake Counties
Britain reshuffles as Foreign Secretary resigns after by election defeat
Patrick Gordon Walker resigns as Foreign Secretary after losing Leyton by election by 205 votes. Michael Stewart succeeds him, becoming Foreign Secretary in Harold Wilson's cabinet reshuffle during a 98 day government crisis. Antony Crosland becomes Education Minister as Labour's fragile three vote Commons majority faces further strain.
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London
FPI
Patrick Gordon Walker
Michael Stewart
Labor
Harold Wilson
Gordon Walker
Stewart
Wilson
House of Commons
House of Lords
Leyton
Antony Crosland
Treasury
Weather outlook for Butte Area through Sunday
Considerable cloudiness continues in the Butte Anaconda region through Sunday. Highs near 28 today with a low near zero tonight. A year ago Butte recorded 17 and minus 13 in temperature.
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Butte-Anaconda
Butte
Weather watch: cloudy east and west of Divide with snow flurries
Clouds dominate east of Divide with scattered snow flurries Saturday to Sunday and little temperature change. Highs 20 to 35, lows 5 to 20. West of Divide remains mostly cloudy with light snow and minimal temp shifts, highs 25 to 35, lows 5 to 20. Table notes maxs cover 12 hours and mins 18 hours.
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Divide
Buddhists Riot at Saigon U.S. Embassy Over Huong Rule
In Saigon Buddhist protesters marching toward the U.S. Embassy clashed with security as they denounced Premier Tran Van Huong and U.S. support for his regime. Monks and nuns led a 10 block march, police used tear gas and clubs, 55 Buddhists were arrested, and a petition was noted for Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S. Information Agency
Tran van Huong
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Huong
Taylor
Enim
Sir Winston Churchill Near Death as Stroke Worsens
London report says Sir Winston Churchill, 90, grew closer to death after a stroke nine days prior. Lord Moran noted a restful day but some deterioration while nurses kept vigil at Hyde Park Gate. A great grandson was also born in London during the same period.
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Robert Musel
London
UPI
Sir Winston Churchil
Lord Moran
Winston
Churchill
Canterbury
Birmingham
Hyde Park Gate
Winston Churchill III
Minne D’erlanger
University College Hospital
Randolph Churchill
Bliss Takes GOP Helm After Burch Resigns
Ray C. Bliss was elected Republican National Chairman to replace John Burch who resigned effective April 1. Bliss, Ohio state party chair, pledged to rebuild the GOP after the 1964 losses and urged party unity amid anti Goldwater forces. Nixon called the move the best path to avert a GOP split since 1912.
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Chicago
UPI
Ray C. Bliss
National Committee
Burch
GOP
Ohio
Bliss
Barry M. Goldwater
Sup
Goldwater
Burchard M. Nixon
Burch- Goldwater
Theodore Roosevelt
Bull Moose
Nixon
Arizona
Rock Slide Buries 100 Feet Of Highway West Of Anaconda
A rock slide buried 100 feet of U.S. Highway 10A nine miles south of Philipsburg with a maximum 8 foot high section. No injuries reported. The road was closed but one-way traffic resumed Friday night while Montana Highway Department crews clear debris. further closure expected due to freezing thawing conditions.
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Philipsburg
Granite County
Nick Munis
Anaconda
Montana Highway Department
Montana Senate Braces for Deadline Day Highway Bill Moves
Deadline day in Helena as the Montana Senate gears for a flood of new bills led by a 123 page highway measure and a school funding plan to lift state payments by about 4 million. Chairman Cotton notes a 6 percent rise in elementary and high school payments and a two mill cut in county school levies with a 51 million yearly elementary and high school spend forecast and 158000 students now, rising by 16000. The highway bill reportedly includes a higher per diem for highway commissioners.
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Tives
Senate
House
Montana
Cotton
Charles A. Bovey
D-Cascade
Highway Committee
Montana Airman Is Traffic Victim
A two car crash west of Great Falls killed Malmstrom Air Force Base S. Sgt. Billy B. Locklear, 36. The collision occurred six miles northwest of Belt on U S 87 89. Survivors Harold Gemar 48 Lloyd Allee 37 and Howard Barrett 33 of Great Falls were hospitalized with conditions not known.
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Great Falls
Malmstrom Air Force
Billy B. Locklear
Belt
U. S
Harold Gemar
Lloyd Allee
Howard Barrett
Locklear
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