Anaconda Company Boosts Montana Wage Offer
The Anaconda Company announced a wage increase of 92 cents per shift for all employees in Butte Anaconda and Great Falls effective July 1 1955 plus a 2 cent per hour 4 cent per day raise in the gaps between job classifications The move follows union meetings and aims to avert a repeat of last year’s stoppage The Butte Miners Union No 1 scheduled a Sunday referendum to decide whether to accept the new terms with unions observing mediation and joint committee review Barney Rask and Ernest Salvas said a 10 a m Saturday meeting would assess the offer before a 2 p m Sunday ballot at the Civic Center
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Miners Union No. 1
Civic Center
William G. Hosie
Anaconda Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Great Falls Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Butte Stationary Engineers’ Union
Butte
Montana
Anaconda
Anaconda Company
Great Falls
Butte Miners’ Union
Joint Negotiating Committee
Butte Miners Union
County Accepts 33525.85 Indemnity Check From Anchor Co
Silver Bow County commissioners accepted a 33525.85 check from Anchor Casualty Co of St. Paul Minnesota as indemnity for alleged shortages in the accounts of former county treasurer Robert Maguire. They reserved the right to sue for the difference between the amount accepted and Maguire's $100000 bond, noting state law holds the treasurer responsible for unpaid personal property taxes during his term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Bow County
Board of Commissioners
Anchor Casualty Co
St. Paul
Maguire
Cooling tips and ads urge reusing idle items
The notice promotes re freezing foods and toilet articles for summer use and offers cash for idle refrigerators and items. An example shows a surplus item listing for a 1974 Harley Davidson OHV 6000 from Burlington with a phone contact for an ad writer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pop
Burlington
Cuts in Foreign Aid by Committee Prompt Large Reductions
The House Appropriations Committee cut 627.9 million from Eisenhower’s foreign aid request, citing questionable practices and a chaotic military aid program. It approved 2.6387 billion for the current year, with total authorizations capped at 3.2858 billion and potential further cuts anticipated when debate resumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Appropriations
Asia
Congressman Bell Indicted in Conspiracy Case in Texas
Seguin Texas grand jury indicted U S Rep John J Bell D Tex and two others on charges of conspiring to steal 154810 in state veterans land funds Bond set at 1000 each Bell called the charges shocking and denied guilt saying he violated no law and represented clients as an attorney before veterans land board agents while in Washington He planned to stay there and not return to Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin
Tex
U. S
John J. Bell
D-Tex
J. T. Wofford
Cuero
Bell
T. J. McLary
Denver
Colo
Arthur Tschoepe
14Th
Washington
Veterans Land Board
Texas
New Polio Vaccine Program and Expanded Testing Announced
Washington reports a new government program to improve production and testing of the Salk polio vaccine. 300,000 shots were released by the Public Health Service as the stalled drive seeks renewed momentum. The effort includes collaboration with universities and industry and assigns service scientists to six vaccine plants to speed information exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Heath Service
The
Health Service
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Jonas Salk
Patrolman Slugged Kidnapped and Robbed in City Car
Patrolman Robert Holcomb stopped a car with two men who slugged him and drove him around the eastern Kansas City area for about an hour. They abducted him, took his revolver badge and $6 before abandoning him as a citywide manhunt closed in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
U.P
Robert Holcomb
Holcomb
Montana Leaders Head to Yakima for Montana Day Flight
Mayor Tim J. Sullivan and 18 Montana business executives will fly from Butte by Air Force plane to Yakima Washington for Montana Day at the Yakima Fire Center an Army Reserve training hub. Gov J Hugo Aronson Col Fred McManaway and other officials will join in observances highlighting citizen soldier life and Montana reserve training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Montana
Tim J. Sullivan
J. D. Murphy
Anaconda Company
Leonard Kaufman
Butte
Army Reserve
J. Hugo Aronson
Treasure State
Air Force
Wash
Fred McManaway
Fort Missoula
Sullivan
Montana Military District
United States Sixth Army
Disastrous Floods Feared Across Bavarian Rivers and Danube
Persistent rainfall for 72 hours swelled the Isar and Danube, threatening further flooding near Munich while Enns and Traun rose in Austria. Authorities warned of continuing rises through the night and recalled the 1954 Central Europe floods that left thousands homeless and millions in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regensburg
Germany
Munich
Isar
Weather Bureau
Danube
Austria
Enns
Traun
Steyr
Wels
Europe
Liquor Dealers Must Pay Licenses After Ruling
Judge McClernan quashed a restraining order that allowed Butte liquor dealers to pay 1955 and 1955 56 license fees under protest. The dispute, moved to District Court, centers on whether $1,300 annual state and city fees are oppressive and illegal. Parties received 10 days for further pleadings.
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John B. McClernan
State Liquor Control Board
T. E. Downey
Butte
Department No. 1
District Court
McClernan
H. J. Luxan
Downey
B. J. Riley
Joseph P. Monaghan
Francis P. Kelly
Robert P. McGee
Luxan
Kelly
McGee
Monakhan
U S Employment Hits New Record
Washington reports June employment at 64 016 000, the highest in history, up from 62 073 000 in May. Unemployment rose 190 000 to 2 679 000, with more job seekers entering the market as schools closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor and Commerce Departments
Judge Reprimands Himself In Own Court Case
Louisville traffic judge M. D. Elston paid a $5 fine he had assessed Thursday to Mrs. Del B. Harrington a cab driver for making an illegal left turn. He said he was in a hurry to get to court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
M. D. Elston
del B. Harrington
N C Simonsen Fatally Injured in Fall
Neils Christian Simon sen president of the Pacific Northwest Scandinavian Fraternity died Friday after a fall near his Nissler home. Coroner Dr Emmet J Paulsen ruled the death accidental. He fell in a root cellar 150 feet from his home when a board gave way, striking his head on a pipe. Firemen performed resuscitation efforts but he died at the scene. Surviving are his wife, son and daughter in law, brothers, grandchildren, a foster daughter, and other relatives.
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Neils Christian
Chris) Simonsen
Pacific Northwest Scandinavian Fraternity
Nissler
Emmet J. Paulsen
Silver Bow
Simonsen
Butte
Mr. Simonsen
Little Rise
Sheridan
Portland
Ore
Duggan
Merrill Mortuary
FBI arrests teen girl and accomplice in Ohio bank robbery
Detroit FBI agents captured 17 year old Lora Lee Ritenour and 27 year old Louis Emery Teller after a midnight raid that left behind a shotgun and pistols. They face federal charges for a $23 900 Cleveland Trust bank robbery and are suspected in other stickups including a June 24 jewelry store robbery. Teller faces bond totaling 75 000 and Ritenour 25 000. Neighbors evacuated as agents closed in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Lora Lee Ritenour
Louis Emery Teller
FBI
Arthur Koscinski
Teller
Cleveland (Ohio
Geneva Kasparian
Lincoln Park
Louis
Lora
Ohio
Shaker Heights National
Cleveland Trust
Akron
Montana Weekend Weather Outlook
East half sees showers and scattered storms with cool reception Saturday into Sunday. North to northeast winds. Highs 60 to 65 north and 65 to 75 south Saturday, cooler Sunday. West half mostly cloudy with possible showers and storms, little temperature change highs near 70 Saturday, cooler Sunday.
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Montana
Ike Plan for Bond Issues Was Shunted Aside
A House subcommittee rejected President Eisenhower’s bond funded road plan and backed immediate tax increases on fuel and trucks to fund road building. They estimate roughly one billion dollars annual revenue for pay as you go. The panel also outlined a 12 year program totaling about 43 billion in federal and state funds for interstate highways and related roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Eisenhower
House Public Works Committee
Ex-convict freed as $87,000 returned in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas police freed Frank Elsworth of Omaha and detained Ray Wilson of Tulsa after seizing $87,000 mostly in hundred dollar bills. A habeas corpus writ returned the money to Elsworth, while Wilson remained jailed awaiting release. A New York prosecutor questioned connections to a Queens bank robbery. officials stressed no link found.
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Las Vegas
Nev
New York
Frank Elsworth
Omaha
Neb
Ray Wilson
Tulsa
Okla
Frank McGlynn
Chase Manhattan Bank of Queens
Queens
Ellsworth
Wilson
Tampa
Fla
Dist
A. S. Henderson
Another Billings Child Is Traffic Fatality
A 3-year-old, Priscilla Tieszen, died after being struck by a car near her home in Billings. Police said the child darted from a lilac hedge into an alley and the driver did not see her. Coroner Mel Boice ordered an autopsy.
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Billings
Priscilla Tieszen
John S. Larson
Mel Boice
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C. H. Steele
Barney Rask
Ernest Salvas
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
County
Casualty Co
Manchester
N. H
Patricia Johnson
Hillsborough County
Conrad Danais
Walter Bourque Jr
Patricia
Danais
Bourque
Richard Johnson
Johnsons
John
Richard Je
House Group
Helena
Bozeman
Missoula
Kalispell
Calgary
Butte High School
City
Stephen Cipolla
Phoenix
Aziz
U.S
Judge T
N. C. Simonsen
Girl
Montana Weather
Broadus
Ad Butte
Cut Bank
Dillon
Drummond Seans
Glasgow
Havrepee
Seesewece
Lewistown
Eccre
Livingston Esesens
Miles City
Ike
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