Wreckage of Airliners Is Found And Road Dedication
Governor J Hugo Aronson spoke at the dedication of a $2 million four lane highway west of Butte as part of Montana’s highway program under the $33 billion federal bill. The plan calls for $618,744,000 in Montana over 1957 to 1969 with $442,967,000 federal and $175,777,000 state funds.
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Montana
J. Hugo Aronson
Butte
Aronson
Magicland
Larry Smith
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Magicland Relations Committee
Anaconda
Dillon
Deer Lodge
Sheridan
Whitehall
Philipsburg
Twin Bridges
Helena
Silver Bow County
Board of County Commissioners
Airman 116th Montana Car Accident Victim
GREAT FALLS Airman T Sgt Lee K Nash 29 in charge of Malmstrom AFB base communications was killed in a Sunday auto crash near Fort Shaw. Co driver Lt Charles A Fox 29 suffered a compound leg fracture. Nash married father of two. Fox from Bryan Texas single. Montana highway fatalities for 1956 reached 116, up from 92.
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Great Falls
Lee K. Nash
Fort Shaw
Malmstrom Air Force Base
Nash
Charles A. Fox
Strategic Fighter Squadron
Chandler Heights
Ariz
Augusta
Air Force
Fox
Malmstrom
Bryan
Tex
Parks Air Force
Pan Calif
Montana
Montana Weather Summary for Regions and Cities
Partly cloudy Monday with scattered thundershowers mainly south in east Montana and little temperature change. West Montana: partly cloudy Monday and Tuesday with scattered afternoon and evening storms and little change. Table lists 12 hour maximums and 18 hour minimums ending 5:30 pm Sunday for cities including Billings Belgrade Cut Bank Glasgow Kalispell Lewistown Missoula Miles City Great Falls and more with highs in the 60s and lows 40s to 50s.
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Montana
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus Eeeceeeoeees FF
Ein
Cut Bank
Drummond
Glasgow Ie
Great Falls
Speckmen Erate
Eees
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingstone
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
Crazy Daze Festivities Boost Butte Fiesta Days
Butte marks its 75th Bow County Fiesta with Crazy Daze on Monday and Tuesday in uptown and South Side shops. Merchants decorate storefronts for bargain events and national music adds to the gaiety as crowds shop for up-to-the-minute stocks.
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Butte
Uptown
South Side
Silver Bow County
Butte Celebrations Inc
Vern Griffith
Keynoter Fjare Addresses GOP
Helena Montana U S Rep Orvin B Flare keynoted the 1956 Montana Republican platform convention. He opposed federal aid to education saying it is not needed and would be a stopgap five year measure. He urged Republicans to unite for victory and support the president with a Republican Congress.
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Helena
U. S
Orvin B. Flare
Flare
Montana
White House
Three-year-old girl injured in two-car collision
A 3-year-old Butte girl was admitted to St James Hospital for observation after a two-car wreck at Platinum and Montana. Pedestrian crashes harmed Oscar Granberg, Colleen Allen, and an unidentified child. Granberg admitted to St James, Allen released after treatment at Community Memorial. a small girl escaped injuries after running into Tom Quinlan’s car on South Dakota.
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Butte
St. James Hospital
Platinum
Montana
Sherry Crossley
Waukesha
Viola Crossley
S. Gaylord
Platinum - Montana
Jim Edwards
Dixon
Crossley
Mr. Edwards
Oscar Granberg
Redwood
Collen Allen
Granberg
Park and
Arizona
Manuel Emery Salcido
S. Wyoming
Allen
Community Memorial Hospital
Leroy Horn
Tom Quinlan
S. Montana
South Dakota
Poznan After Revolt Rife With Purge Fears
Two Polish divisions and thousands of police hunted rebels in Poznan after a three day revolt for bread and freedom ended. Witnesses estimate 200 to 600 killed with hundreds wounded as authorities sealed the city and began a dragnet. Churches filled with prayers as Western businessmen warned the Red regime may crush Poznan in retaliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Topping
Berlin
Poznan
Opin
Juedeman Heads Montana GOP In 1948 Convention
State Rep. R F Juedeman Shelby oilman farmer was elected chairman of the Montana Republican Central Committee succeeding William R Mackay. The convention cut the Executive Committee to 11 from 21 and gave the new chair wide appointive powers including secretary finance chairman and counsel. Helen Sullivan defeated Frances Sanborn for vice chair 86 to 85 and was later renominated from the floor.
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Helena
R. F. Juedeman
Shelby Oilman-Farmer
Montana
Republican Central Committee
William R. Mackay
Roscoe
GOP
Helen Sullivan
Froid
Frances Sanborn
Great Falls
Sullivan
Juedeman
Clark S. Pyfer
Pyfer
Sanborn
Rules Committee
Executive Committee
Wellington D. Rankin
Montana GOP platform backs study group between sessions
The State Republican Party’s 1956 platform adopted in Helena endorses establishing an additional between sessions legislative study group. It cites the Little Hoover Commission as the first such model, authorized by the Legislature, and recommends its continuation as a formal mechanism for review between sessions.
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Helena
Montana
Republican Party
Little Hoover Commission
Legis
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
GOP
Missouri and
Columbia Basins
Chamber to Honor New Members at Dinner Tonight
The Butte Chamber of Commerce will honor new members at a no host stag dinner in the Hotel Finlen tonight. Jerry Pratt of the United States Chamber of Commerce will speak on the value of chamber affiliation.
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Butte Chamber of Commerce
Finlen
Jerry Pratt
Northwest
United States Chamber of Commerce
Stop in Time Pope Again Warns World
Pope Pius XII urged 25 000 gathered in the Vatican Basilica to halt before disaster and reflect that true lasting peace requires Jesus. He warned the world to stop in time on the brink of the precipice and spoke to laymen and women of the Franciscan Order.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Jesus
Vatican Basilica
Torrential rains in Tungurahua Province deadly
Reports from the mother Sunday said 25 persons have perished in torrential rains in Tungurahua Province.
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Quito
Ecuador
Tungurahua Province
Picayune Money Tied to Ads and Thrift
A brief era note traces the term picayune from a Piedmont copper coin to the U S meaning trivial. Ads can convert small items into dollars, with a Want Ad writer available at phone 5451. an ad mentions a Thor wringer washer nearly new for $10,000 on W Broadway.
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Piedmont
Italy
United States
Florida
Louisiana
Thor Wringer
Broadway
Nation Stares Down Steel Strike Turmoil
United Steelworkers walkout by 650,000 workers halts 90 percent of steel production, crippling the economy. Federal Mediation Service chief Joseph Finnegan says talks may resume later in the week after the July 4 holiday as negotiators seek time to think.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Washington
Finnegan
America
New York
Fatal midair collision rocks Grand Canyon air route
Charred wreckage of two airliners with 128 aboard found in Grand Canyon country. No survivors flagged by medical staff on scene. Rescue teams prepared for body recovery as civil and military investigators converged for the tragedy, the worst single United States air disaster to date.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Arizona
United Air Lines
Los Angeles
TWA
Colorado
Civil Aeronautics Board
Byrd Ryland
March Afb
Calif
Plane Crash Kills Augusta Bridegroom Pilot
Russell Cooper, a newly married civilian mechanic in the Air National Guard, died when his light plane crashed near Augusta Montana. Four witnesses saw the low flight strike a telephone pole and flip into a plowed field along State Highway 20. Cooper married Ann Sampson earlier in June and is survived by his parents and siblings. Local Lewis and Clark county officials will investigate.
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Augusta
Russell Cooper
Montana
Joe Westfield
Cooper
Air National Guard
120Th
Great Falls
Ann Sampson
Stevensville
Columbus Hospital
Charles A. Cooper
Lewis and Clark County
Girls Lost Five Days in Park Brought World Attention
Editor's note recounts how Barbara Charles, 18, Tooele Utah, and Ivonne Hill, 19, Utah State College sophomore from Logan, Utah, were lost five days in Yellowstone National Park. They survived blistered feet and wandered until a truck rescued them near the Canyon area where they worked for the summer. Barbara tells the story of their ordeal.
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Barbara Charles
Tooele
Utah
Ivonne Hill
Utah State College
Logan
Yellowstone National Park
Canyon
Barbara
Thomas P. Liss Taken by Death
Thomas P. Liss 66 of Butte died Sunday at his home after a long illness. A native of Oshkosh Wisconsin he came to Butte in 1911 and ran a barber shop and beauty parlor influencing many in his craft. Survived by wife Della two children and several relatives in Butte Oshkosh and Chicago.
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Thomas P
Tom) Liss
Butte
W. Porphyry
Mr. Liss
Oshkosh
Wis
State Board of Examiners For
Barbers and
Liss
Treasure State
Della Liss
James Egan
Thomas P. Liss Jr
Salt Lake City
Herbert Liss
Deltroit
Margaret Westberg
Nancy
Albert Pet
Lost in Yellowstone Prays and Plans for Rescue
The two Utah women recounts getting lost after taking the wrong trail near Clear Lake in Yellowstone Park. They walked about 50 miles, prayed, and kept exploring as rangers, park crews, and planes searched. They faced blisters, freezing cold, and mosquitoes, finally resting with hope until rescue.
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Associated Press
Yellowstone Park
Park
Edmund B. Rogers
Clear Lake
Canyon Hotel
Wapati Lake
Ivonne
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
Wagner Seen as Running Mate for Adlai Stevenson
Washington reports rising talk among Stevenson supporters that New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner could be his pick for vice president if Stevenson secures the Democratic nomination. Harriman argues Stevenson cannot win New York without him, while Wagner’s Catholic status and regional fit are debated amid strategies to carry the state and farm votes.
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Washington
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Wagner
Averell Harriman
Eisenhower
Harriman
Harry S. Truman
South
Midwest
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
King Penguins Break Records With Three Eggs Layed
In Vancouver Stanley Park Zoo the King Penguins laid three eggs this year, a record for North American zoos. Previously only one egg per year had been produced in St Louis in 1929 the Bronx and Vancouver last year. Zoo officials are excited as penguins rarely nest in captivity.
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Vancouver
B. C
Stanley Park Zoo
North American
St Louis
Bronx
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Child
Poland
Juedeman of
Shelby
Bertha Weiloff
Republican Women Federation
Pope
Picayune
John Moody
Lawrence Malkin
Thomas P. Liss
Adlai
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