Anaconda zinc plant to close amid workforce cuts
Anaconda Copper Mining Co will shut its zinc plant at Anaconda on August 1 due to a shortage of zinc concentrates, affecting about 300 workers and leaving room to reactivate two units at its Great Falls plant to restore capacity. Transfers will be offered to Montana staff where possible.
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Soviet Navy to Make First Cuba Visit in July
The Kremlin announced a Soviet naval squadron will visit Havana in July 2027. The force includes a rocket armed cruiser two destroyers two submarines a tender and a tanker. Western diplomats say the move signals displeasure with President Nixon’s August trip to Romania.
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Nixon
Romania
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White House
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Fidel Castro
Channel storm roils Brittany and Normandy killing 23
A sudden Atlantic storm sweeping Brittany and Normandy killed 23 vacation sailors and left several missing. Rescue teams searched waters off Caen Brittany and Jersey while British crews hunted eight missing aboard a plane and a speedboat near Bosham and Le Touquet. The storm toppled poles and caved roofs as it moved inland from the coast.
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Normandy
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Bay of
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le Touquet
Lympne
Kent
Bosham Harbor
England
Butte Woman Dies in Wreck Near Missoula
A Butte woman and a Missoula man were killed in a head on collision of two pickup trucks on old U S 10 near Clinton about ten miles east of Missoula. A Butte man was injured. The deaths raise Montana highway deaths to 155 for the year.
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Missoula
U.S. 10
Clinton
Montana
Mississippi town swears in first Negro mayor since Reconstruction
Fayette Mississippi witnessed Charles Evers sworn in as the town’s first Black mayor amid hundreds of Black residents and national figures. Evers defeated white incumbent R J Allen 386 to 255 and led an all black board, signaling a broader shift toward majority Black electorate in the region.
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Charles Evers
Evers
Jefferson County
Vicksburg
Natchez
R. J. Allen
National Negro
Whitney Young
National Urban League
Julian Bond
Georgia
Carl Stokes
Cleveland
John Lewis
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Load shifted by wreck kills Billings trucker
Kenneth C. Parker, 34, of Billings died in a two vehicle crash just outside the city when his loaded dump truck struck a car driven by Edward Popp. The truck veered into an irrigation ditch as its load shifted, killing Parker and leaving Popp unharmed. Montana's 1969 traffic fatalities rose to 153.
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Billings
Kenneth C. Parker
Parker
Edward Popp
Popp
Holiday traffic toll hits 609 in three day window
The National Safety Council reports 609 deaths over a July Fourth holiday weekend from Thursday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight, surpassing the 1966 four day record of 732 set in 1967. The prior three day total was 576, with estimates ranging from 550 to 650 highway fatalities nationally.
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Iun
National Safety Council
Israelis say raid by Egyptian commandos repelled
Israeli troops drove off a squad of Egyptian commandos that crossed the Suez Canal Sunday night and killed three attackers. The Egyptian dead were left behind as they retreated from the Timsa Lake area. Both sides claimed air victories.
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Associated Press
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Timsa Lake
Sinai Desert
Cairo
Butte Couple Missing After 10 Day Absence
Sheriff issues all-points bulletin for 82 year old Roy Brown and 76 year old wife from Butte reporting them overdue after leaving June 24 in a 1969 blue Buick with white top. Daughter Mrs Thomas Cleary of Walkerville reports they planned to reach Seattle by June 26 or 27. Authorities will alert Northwest agencies and check for accidents or hospital stays.
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Seattle
Roy O. Brown
Virginia Apts
Thomas Cleary
Bennett
Walkerville
Cleary
Ken Cunningham
Northwest
Brown
Senate Rejects Ceiling on Federal Farm Payments
The Senate defeated a $20,000 cap on payments to any one farmer by 53 to 34, aligning with the Agriculture Committee and the Nixon administration to remove the limit from the agriculture appropriation. The bill totals $7.6 billion, with $252.4 million for child nutrition programs. Senator John J. Williams led the push for the limit, citing large payouts to a few farms, including a $600,000 payment to a Mississippi plantation.
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Agriculture Committee
Nixon Administration
Department of Agriculture
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Illinois
Goodell
Agriculture Department
Dirksen
John J. Williams
Mississippi
Eastland Plantation, Inc
James C. Eastland
Dmiss
Space monkey Benny ends Pacific splashdown early
Astromonk Benny, a 14 pound pigtail male, ended a 30 day NASA mission with an 8% day abort after showing sluggishness and lack of response. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific about 100 miles off schedule and was recovered for examination at Hickam Air Force Base.
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Benny
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Mansfield, Metcalf Back Farm Payment Clash in Senate
In Washington on Monday the Senate rejected a $20 000 ceiling on individual farm crop payments with Sen Mansfield voting against the reversal and Sen Metcalf paired for the action while Sen Nelson of Wisconsin opposed.
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Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Senate
Lee Metcalf
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Avis Verton Celebrates Seventh Birthday
GASSAWAY West Virginia Avis Verton daughter of Mr and Mrs John Verton celebrated her seventh birthday Monday Born at 7 p m on the seventh day of the seventh month in 1962 she weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces at birth she was the Vertons seventh child
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Avis Verton
John Verton
Avis
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Billings man charged in downtown shooting murder
John M. Radford of Billings, 21, was charged in district court with first degree murder and first degree assault after a Thursday night shooting on a downtown street. Clifford Wolfe, 24, Belfry, died within an hour and Gary Cattnach, 24, Billings, was hospitalized in fair condition. Police say both men were hit multiple times with a .38 caliber pistol following an argument between two vehicle occupants.
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John M. Radford
Billings Street
Clifford C. Wolfe
Belfry
Gary Cattnach
Cattnach
Wolfe
Gerald Dunbar
Apollo 11 astronauts rehearse moon blastoff and linkup
Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins trained for moon departure and rendezvous with the command ship as public health precautions reach President Nixon delaying a dinner. A 21 day quarantine could extend if lunar illness is detected.
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Jim Strothman
AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Moon
Nixon
Charles A. Berry
National Aeronautics and Space Administra
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Ronald L. Ziegler
Washington
D.C
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Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Armstrong
Aldrin
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