Mining City Parade Sets Off At 10 For July Fourth
Montana's oldest July 4 celebration in Butte kicks off at 10 a.m. with a 122 unit parade themed World Peace. Up to 40,000 spectators are expected as veterans, bands, political leaders, and civic groups participate along a route ending near the Bonanza store.
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Butte
Wyoming
Granite
Broadway
Park
Arizona
Utah
Front
Harrison
Bonanza
Majors
City Hall
Montana road deaths rise during long 1972 Fourth of July weekend
Six people died on Montana roads over the four day holiday period raising the state toll to 176 for 1972. Across the nation highway fatalities reached 510 by Monday as accidents occurred from Hinsdale to Kalispell including a head on crash near Hinsdale and a motorcycle collision near Evaro Hill.
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Associated Press
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Missoula
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Condon
Kalispell
Robert Bryson
Saco
Bill Bowman
U.S. 2
Bowman
Mark Allery
Bryson
U.S. 93
Evaro Hill
Theodore L. DeMarce
Ronan
Weather outlook Warm day with low 70s highs
Fair to partly cloudy conditions expected with warmer temperatures. Today's forecast calls for lower 70s during the day and lower 40s at night with a mild change from yesterday.
Butte to Break Ground on Largest FHA Housing Project in Montana
A 2.7 million FHA backed project in Butte will start Wednesday at 3 30 PM on 15 3 acres east of the municipal golf course. Everett Cloninger leads planning with O Connell Bentley the contractor aiming for occupancy by December and 12 month completion.
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Vern Griffith
Bill Daley
Butte
Federal Housing Administration
Montana
Butte American Legion
FHA
Everett Cloninger
Butte Legion Post
Cloninger
O’connell-Bentley
Butte Municipal Golf Course
Wynne Avenue
Hill Street
Holmes Avenue
Sampson
Clonginger
Eldred Ogle
Jerry Aanes
Fischer Accepts Extra Prize for World Chess Match
Bobby Fischer agreed to travel to Reykjavik to face Boris Spassky for the world championship with an extra $130,000 prize from banker James D. Slater. Paul Marshall said Fischer accepted the offer and would arrive by Tuesday noon. sponsors had rejected Fischer's bid for gate receipts.
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Boris Spassky
London
Paul Marshall
New York
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James D. Slater
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Slater
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Bozeman Youth Found Dead in Mt Stewart Crevasse
The body of Ken Rothgeb of Bozeman Montana, a Walla Walla College student and survival group member, was recovered from a crevasse at Mt Stewart base. Deputies say he fell in and was retrieved by helicopter two days later. companion Rodney Dodd fled the scene after hiking 12 miles to a road and to Leavenworth.
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Chelan County
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Bozeman
Mont
Rodney Dodd
Leavenworth
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Adams and Rotundity clash over title in early Congress
Baltimore AP reports John Adams proposed addressing the president as His Highness in 1789. House members mocked him with His Rotundity, part of a volume from Johns Hopkins Press on the First Federal Congress detailing debates and the Bill of Rights and early term limits discussion.
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U.S
British army halts Belfast Protestant barricade showdown
In West Belfast a four hour stand off ends as Gen. Robert Ford orders a pullback. Thousands of Protestant militants and UDA supporters faced a massive British military deployment including armored carriers and armored cars. Army denies barrier plan to protect a Roman Catholic enclave while vowing control and continued patrols.
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Court declines to rule on California delegate dispute
A U S District Court refused to intervene in the battle over California delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Judge George L. Hart Jr. said the winner take all primary fairness is for the party to decide, not the courts, as appeals loom from both the McGovern and Daley delegate actions.
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George McGovern
George L. Hart Jr
South Dakota
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Chicago
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Illinois
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Waverly
Minn
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Kennebunkport
Miami Beach
Nixon to address nation on July Fourth from Western White House
President Nixon will deliver a 10 minute radio speech Tuesday at 9 05 a m PDT from the Western White House. Ziegler said the address will be carried nationwide and touch on the Bicentennial preparations for 1976 and other Fourth of July matters.
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Nixon
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Ziegler
Bus hijack robs 46 fans en route to Delaware Park
Two armed men boarded a Baltimore bus carrying 46 race track fans at the Civic Center. They forced the driver to circle the city on the beltway and robbed 43 passengers before fleeing near the Baltimore Beltway Interchange with Route 95 in Halethorpe. No one was hurt.
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