Butte Area Fatalities Spark Early Montana Highway Toll
Four separate Sunday crashes near Butte left Joseph Anzik 17 dead and Frank Green severely injured. Teenager Anzik died when his car overturned on U.S. 91 north of Butte early Sunday. Six others were treated. two more youths were hospitalized with injuries. A second crash near Opportunity involved Green, a Butte carpenter, who was gravely injured when his car collided with a meat truck.
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Joseph Donald Anzik
Hazel
Frank Green
W. Iron
Young Anzik
Joseph Anzik
Butte
Woodville
Anzik
Hardin
Frost
Crow Agency
al Vanek
William Madlena
Vanek
St. James
Donald Guizzo
Main
Meaderville
Howard Vivian
Jerry Serich
S. Dakota
Dave Jauron
W. Gold
Steve Mandic
Elk Park
Green
Butte Community Memorial Hospital
Harry Burnham
Dick Albert
Deer Lodge
Stewart Street
Albert
James L. Clark
Legislature Expected to Get 100 Bills in Montana
Montana lawmakers in Helena plan to file about 100 new bills before the Tuesday deadline as both houses debate education and voting age measures. Hearings are set on school funding for non accredited high schools, two foundation program bills, and an 18 year old voting measure. Highway taxes and revenue proposals also feature in last week’s activity.
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Helena
Montana
House Constitutional Amendments and Federal Relations Committee
Robert A. Durkee
D-Hill
House
Legislative Assembly
Soviet Formosa cease fire demand tied to U S withdrawal
United Nations discussions opened on a Soviet drafted cease fire for Formosa and its offshore islands, coupled with a demand for withdrawal of all U S armed forces from the area. The draft attacked U S aggression against the Chinese People’s Republic and intensified pre council strategy among New Zealand Britain France and the United States. The agenda item centers on hostilities around the Taiwan Formosa area and Quemoy Tachens.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Formosa
U. S
Pescadores
United States
U. N. Security Council
Red China
Security Council
New Zealand
China Islands
Tachens
Quemoy
Britain
France
Leslie Munro
China
Arkady A. Sobolev
Taiwan
Erase Halo Call for Full Facts from Democrats
Helena Montana Sunday speech by Elizabeth Snyder chair of California Democratic Party urged Democrats to erase the halo around President Eisenhower and present the true facts. She defended Truman and criticized press coverage, saying Republicans hope Eisenhower runs again.
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Helena
Mont
California
Democratic Party
Elizabeth Snyder
Los Angeles
Eisenhower
Montana
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Snyder
Harry Truman
Newspapers of America
Truman
United States
Nixon
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Republican Party
Lost articles and ad writing tips in helpsy note
A brief notice advises using name labeled clothes pins to clip footwear at events and suggests Want Ads to recover lost items. It promotes rubbing brushes on raincoats rings and other things and offers an ad writing service dial 5451.
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Dial
Four State Hospital inmates hijack truck in two hour pursuit
Four male inmates from Warm Springs State Hospital seized a confiscated truck at 4 p.m. Sunday triggering a two hour chase through Opportunity and west toward Ramsay. Police and highway patrol fired at tires to stop the fugitives, who finally halted and were recaptured near Ramsay. No injuries were reported.
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Warm Springs
Frank LaForest
Anaconda
Butte
Silver Bow County
Walter Stocker
Rodney Salo
Harry Burnham
Dick Albert
Frank Green
Gregson
Albert
Sgt
Burnham
al Vanek
Vanek
Ramsay
Sgt. Burnham
Tenement Fire Takes Six Lives on Lower East Side
A Manhattan tenement blaze on the Lower East Side killed six people including Frank Cordero 25 and his wife Gloria 22 along with their three children Lucky 6 Vivian 3 and Margie 1 and Gloria Cordero’s brother Angel Rivera 16 An escapee Wilfredo Rivera 20 was severely burned The fire started from an exploding stove and was controlled quickly as residents fled into freezing 19 degree cold.
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New York
Manhattan
Lower East Side
Frank Cordero
Gloria
Lucky
Vivian
Margie
Tennessee Trio Is Found Slain In Bumstead Home
A Mount Pleasant hardware store owner Dudley Moore his wife Annie Ruth and friend James Cooper were found slain in a charred living room after a Saturday night fire. Police say robbery motive. money missing, no gun found. Cooper may have arrived earlier and may have died before the other two.
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Mount Pleasant
Tenn
Dudley Moore
Moore Hardware and Home Supply Co
Annie Ruth Moore
James Cooper
Moore
North Main Street
Clare McAfee
Moores
McAfee
Cooper
Jack Lovett
Maury County
Democratic senators challenge Eisenhower military manpower cuts
Three Democratic senators Humphrey Sparkman and Douglas criticize the plan to reduce Army Navy and Marine manpower by mid-1956 while Formosa policy is backed. They joined a Formosa resolution signed by Eisenhower, and expect a House Armed Services hearing with Ridgeway and Stevens testifying on the proposed reductions and form of defense posture.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Formosa
Pentagon
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Sparkman
D-Ala
Douglas
D-Ill
Navy
House Armed Services Committee
Matthew B. Ridgeway
Army
Stevens
Vinson
D-Ga
Wilson
Mothers' March on Polio Lights up City Tonight
Tonight at 7 o'clock the Mothers' March on Polio kicks off with about 200 women visiting homes in designated districts as part of the 1955 March of Dimes. Lights in windows signal support while collected funds go to Prudential Savings and Loan, with last year’s total just over $6,000.
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Harry Rowe
Silver Bow County
Pilot knocked unconscious after model plane hits power line
In Sunnyvale California Lt. Ernest Callaway, a 28-year-old Navy pilot, was knocked unconscious and suffered minor burns when his model plane looping around a 12,000 volt power line. He had been flying the plane on a wire for neighborhood children.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
Ernest Callaway
Costa Rican War Flares in Border Clashes
SAN JOSE says Col. Rodolfo Quiros reports 10 rebels killed in two clashes with a government patrol near the Nicaragua border on Saturday. Seven patrol members unaccounted for. one interned in Nicaragua after straying across. Nicaraguan planes reportedly flew over without firing. The general staff mobilized reservists as tensions eased.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Rodolfo Quiros
Army
Nicaragua
la Cruz
President Returns to White House From Augusta Golf Trip
President Eisenhower flew back to Washington Sunday night aboard the Columbine after a weekend of golf and rest in Augusta Georgia. The private plane landed at National Airport at 6 25 p m EST following a 1 hour 39 minute flight from Augusta.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Capital
Augusta
Columbine
National Airport
General asks more armor for continent
Lt Gen Anthony C McAuliffe on the eve of taking command in Europe said he has asked Washington for more armor to increase mobility in atomic warfare He indicated another armored division for Germany and more armored carriers may be approved to replace an infantry division In Europe four American infantry divisions and one armored division plus other armored elements are present British divisions in Germany are armored The general discussed a move toward more mobile defense and decentralization of command noting training assumes atomic capability and planning to use it He cited piecemeal rotation as a problem and described a new unit rotation plan with the 1st Infantry Division due to rotate home this summer replaced by the 10th Infantry Division
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Stuttgart
Germany
Anthony C. McAuliffe
U. S. Army
Europe
Washington
Bastogne
McAuliffe
7Th Army
William M. Hoge
East Germany
10Th Infantry Division
Income Tax Cut in 55 Predicted by House Leaders
Washington House Majority Leader McCormack says strong sentiment grows for cutting all income taxes this year. Representative Boggs predicts a general income tax cut will pass the House before June, with Democrats now favoring action in 1955 rather than delaying to 1956.
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Washington
House
McCormack
Dmass
Congress
Rep
Boggs
D-La
Ways and Means Committee
Rayburn
D-Tex
Swede Buried Eight Days in Snow Finds Right Ticket
In Tarnaby Sweden a 23 year old hunter Evert Stenmark was buried eight days by an avalanche while ptarmigan hunting in Lappland. His brother Kjell found him after spotting a red movie ticket protruding from snow. He survived on three ptarmigan, frostbite feared but recovery expected.
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Tarnaby
Sweden
Evert Stenmark
Amasso
Ptarmigan
Lappland
Kjell
Weather report for Butte and Montana forecast
Mostly cloudy conditions in Butte with a chance of light snow in the vicinity. Monday highs near 32 and Monday night lows around 18, with Sunday readings up to 38 and down to 14. East Slope and West Montana show mixed clouds, showers, and winds with highs in the mid 30s to mid 40s and scattered snow.
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Butte
Montana
Billings
Belgrade
Livingston Ee
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Eeern
Reds and Nationalists clash as evacuation plans loom
Formosa reports Chinese forces trading fire around the Tachens and Quemoy. Nationalists claim sinking a Red gunboat and claim preparations for a large pullout of 15,000 troops on Tachens under tight U.S. watch. Adm. Stump warned U.S. forces defend themselves if attacked.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Tachen Islands
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Tachen
Felix B. Stump
Pacific Fleet
Stump
Defense Ministry
Tachens
Lower Tachen
Tateng Island
Quemoy
U. S
Chiang Kai-shek
Liu Lien-yi
Chiang
United States
Matsu
Matsu Island
Foochow
Minhow
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U.S
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U. N
Erase Halo
Jack Zygmond
State Hospital
Roe
Tennessee Trio
John B. Storer
Ft. Knox
Eugene W. Coleman
Monroe
Mich
NEA
White House
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