Glittering Rodeo Opens at Butte Civic Center Jubilee Night
Butte's Diamond Jubilee rodeo opened with a dazzling show at the Civic Center Wednesday night. The program featured bronc and bull riding calf roping steer wrestling and a new wild horse stampede among packed stands. Tom Villeneau of Anaconda fell in the bareback event as the crowd cheered the Northwest’s biggest indoor rodeo with three more evening performances planned and a free matinee for children Thursday.
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Butte Civic Center
Arena
Butte
Northwest
South Side Businessmen, Inc
Recreation Palace
Tom Villeneau
Anaconda
Mayor Urges City to Pare Budget Requests
Mayor Tim J. Sullivan urged Butte officials to pare budget requests to essentials to avoid tax hikes. At the Wednesday council session a resolution aimed to fund a $45,000 sanitary sewer extension on Lexington Avenue via a new improvement district, replacing a prior $50,000 estimate. Budget timelines were set with July targets. last year’s tax valuation was $17,176,091 and taxes 40.68 mills. 1953-54 receipts and expenditures were detailed for planning.
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Lexington Avenue
Ways and Means Committee
Beryl] Wilson
Sldermen
Wilson
Falls Man Loses Right Eye in Odd Accident
GREAT FALLS Lou Richmond, 38, lost his right eye in an accident at his service station. He was struck Tuesday by a broken fan blade from an auto engine he was repairing. An attending doctor said the blade sliced Richmond’s forehead and fractured the frontal and maxillary sinuses. His condition is serious.
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Great Falls
Lou Richmond
Richmond
St Louis Library Returns Four Year Overdue Book
The St Louis Public Library reported a book overdue over four years has been returned. The title is Progressive Relaxation.
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ST. Louis
Endorsed by Padbury Offered in Trial Check
A Helena mail fraud case features a check signed by F. E. Perry and endorsed by George W. Padbury Jr. The trial centers on Padbury and a Helena couple charged with 10 counts of using the mails to defraud the Montana government and one count of conspiring. Testimony shows a Montana Feed and Seed Co. account at Metals Bank and Trust Co. in Butte used to deposit fraudulent warrants.
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Helena
F. E. Perry
George W. Padbury Jr
Dist
Pat Maloney
Montana Feed and Seed Co
Metals Bank and Trust Co
Butte
Padbury
Maloney
John
Louise Phillips
Montana
U. S. Dist. Atty. Krest Cyr
Metals Bank
Thomas M. Powers
Harold Wing
State Board of Equalization
Powers
Super-Bomb Tests to Be Continued
United Nations officials reported on Wednesday that U S super-bomb tests will continue indefinitely at Eniwetok and Bikini. Mason Sears said the United States has the right to conduct tests and that islanders and personnel have recovered. He asserted precautions will safeguard the present and future well-being of the islanders involved.
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United Nations
US S
Eniwetok
Bikini
Marshall Islands
U. N. Trusteeship Council
U. S. Administration
Pacific Island
Mason Sears
U. S
Council
United States
Marshall
France Plans to Use Draftee Army
Premier Mendes France announced in the National Assembly that France may deploy draftees to Indochina if Geneva talks fail to end the fighting. He said he would seek parliamentary approval only if necessary and pledged to resign if a cease fire cannot be secured by July 20.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Indochina
National Assembly
Mendes-France
French Foreign Legion
Assembly
Mendes- France
de Gaullists
Senate Approves Higher Dairy Supports for 12 Months
The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 8-7 to raise parity for dairy products to 85 percent for the year starting Sept 1. The Agriculture Department will also raise the buying price for surplus cheese and nonfat dry milk by one cent per pound starting next Monday to ensure farmers receive promised manufacturing milk prices. Butter price support remains unchanged.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Senate Committee
Benson
House
Department
Butte Children Gather Today at Columbia Gardens
Butte youngsters will attend Children's Day at Columbia Gardens to escape heat. Bus service starts at Park and Main at 9:20 a.m., runs every 20 minutes, last bus leaves Gardens at 4 p.m. Supervisors will oversee playtime, buses free with Anaconda Copper Mining Company hosting riders under 14.
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Butte
Columbia Gardens
Park and Main
Gardens
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Engineer Proposes Speed Tax to Cut National Debt
Washington reports Rep Judd and Minneapolis engineer Russell Solheim urge Congress to tax speeds over 50 mph to reduce the debt. Tax rates rise with speed, gadget meters would track miles and compute yearly dues, potentially $50 per driver, with projected national revenue of billions.
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Washington
Congress
Rep
Judd
R-Minn
Russell Solheim
Minneapolis
Solheim
Glory
Montana Receives Early Federal Highway Apportionment
The Bureau of Public Roads announced an 875 million dollar early apportionment under the 1954 Federal Highway Act, enabling nationwide contracts within 90 days for 100 million dollars in road work. Montana's share totals 13,531,734 with 57 percent federal aid for primary, secondary and urban roads and 67 percent for the 1,200 miles of interstate system. remaining funds come from state and local matches.
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Missoula
Congress
Bureau of Public Roads
Karl Chamberlain
Bureau
Montana
Lost Items Ad promotes quick recoveries
A lost ad service urges readers to place a Lost Ad for fast return of valuables. It highlights ease of ordering, a friendly ad-writer, and a successful recovery of a keys incident with a reward notice.
Ike Says CIA Closely Watched by Administration
President Eisenhower announced a constant routine check of the Central Intelligence Agency and voiced full confidence in Director Allen W. Dulles. He named retired Gen. Mark W. Clark to head a Hoover Commission task force to review the agency, as Sen. McCarthy pondered a possible probe into CIA infiltration while pledging to share information with Clark.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Central Intelligence Agency
Allen W. Dulles
Mark W. Clark
Hoover Commission
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
CIA
McCarthy
Clark
U S Demands Czechs Free Yank Soldiers
The United States condemned Communist Czechoslovakia for abducting seven American soldiers near Baernau on the Czech German border. The State Department issued a strong note denying spying charges and demanding immediate return to U S authorities in Germany. Diplomatic steps and possible actions were not disclosed.
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Washington
United States
Czechoslovakia
Prague
John Clams
Baernau
U. S
Germany
State Department
Henry Suydam
Suydam
Defense Department
Communist Czechoslovakia says seven U.S. soldiers executed espionage mission
Prague officials charged Wednesday that seven American soldiers captured near the West German border carried out observations and an espionage mission. The note said they penetrated the Iron Curtain and were seized after completing their reconnaissance. Continued on page 7.
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London
W.P
Czechoslovakia
Jet crashes into homes killing four in Kansas City
An Air Force F-84F jet from Fairfax Airport crashed in a residential district near 9th Street and Nebraska Avenue, killing the pilot 2nd Lt. John H. Kopeles and three residents Miss Gertrude Lankford Miss Edna Hoffman and Ural Redwine. Nine others injured and two firefighters hurt as flames engulfed several homes and a department store area.
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Kansas City
Air Force
9Th St
Nebraska Ave
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Tex
John H. Kopeles
Casper
Wye
Gertrude Lankford
Edna Hoffman
Ural Redwine
Fairfax Airport
Tinker Field
Oklo
Swanky Terrace Club
Brotherhood
Bert Kinney Jr
Eisenhower Sees Rosy Fall Legislative Record
President Eisenhower and Congressional leaders voiced confidence they can present a constructive legislative record to voters before the fall elections. The president called the prospects rosy and stressed GOP achievements ahead of the fall campaign.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Eisenhower Opposes Red China Seat in U N
President Eisenhower voiced firm opposition to admitting Red China to the United Nations as things stand. He urged Congress to proceed cautiously on pulling the U N membership if Reds are admitted, calling U N duties solemn and requiring careful deliberation. He warned other members unlikely to override U S wishes and cited potential political campaigning tied to the administration’s program.
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Washington
Eisenhower
China
United Nations
Congress
America
U. N
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
United States
Geneva
Korea
Indochina
Assembly
North Korea
Weather outlook with scattered thundershowers anticipated
Partly cloudy conditions with thundershowers in the vicinity on Thursday. Fair and cooler Friday with highs around 80. Thursday maximum 85 and Thursday night low near 50. Regional details show West of Divide fair on Thursday and Friday with isolated thundershowers Thursday afternoon, and East of Divide fair to partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers south on Thursday. Maxims and timing explained.
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Divide
Divide—Fair
Red troops fire on Allied patrol boat near Panmunjom
In Han River near Panmunjom a patrol boat of the U N Command ran aground and was fired upon by Communist forces on the north bank. The U N Command charged a violation of the armistice and requested a joint investigation by the Military Armistice Commission. no casualty details were released.
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Munsan
Korea
Han River
Panmunjom
U. N
Adm
T. B. Brittain
U. N. Command
Han Estuary
Han
Britain
Military Armistice Commission
Signatures Counted for Montana Initiative on Workmen’s Act
Helena MT The secretary of state reports 4,996 of 21,104 required signatures certified to place a measure before Montana voters on November 2. The petition targets occupational disease coverage under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Only Liberty and Treasure counties reached eight percent of the latest gubernatorial vote.
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Helena
Secretary of State’s Office
Montana
Liberty and
Treasure
Reynolds Sworn In as Omaha Senator to Succeed Butler
Sam W. Reynolds, a Republican from Omaha, was sworn in as a new United States senator on Wednesday. He fills the seat left by the late Son. Hugh Butler, continuing the Republican representation.
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Senate
Washington
Sam W. Reynolds
Omaha
Hugh Butler
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