Power Company President Opposes Preferential Gas Rates
In Butte hearing Montana Power Co president J E Corette said there is no basis for a preferential rate for Great Falls Gas Co. and urged uniform rates for firm gas. Cross-examining protestants, he cited Chinook and Bowes field locations, while discussions noted tax-return disclosure limits and changes in promised investment return due to 1962 assessments. The commission recessed the hearing to Thursday. ongoing debate concerns rate structure and allowed returns.
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J. E. Corette
Butte
Great Falls Gas Co
Montana Power Co
Shelby
State Public Service Commission
Shel
Corette
Montana Power
Leo Graybill Jr
Jack Holmes
Paul T. Smith
Louis Boedecker
Chinook
Bowes Gas Field
Bowes
Commission
Altana Exploration
Alberta
Holmes
Helena
State Commission
Graybill
Space Shot Put Off Til Friday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. AP Astronaut Virgil I Grissom’s planned flight atop a Redstone rocket was postponed to 6 am Friday due to heavy clouds. Grissom nearly launched before cancelation, with engineers to purge fuel and check the missile after a two day delay.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Virgil I. Grissom
Grissom
Space Agency
Shepard
Atlantic Ocean
Butte Heat Records Against 1960s Summers
Butte endured extreme heat with a 96 degree high on July 19 and again on July 20, marking a 20 year high. The city cooled to 77 on Wednesday, with an 80 forecast. Historical peaks show 100 on July 22, 1931, and 99 on August 12, 1940, while some years never reach 90s.
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Butte
Mercury
West Granite Street to be repaved this Friday
City Engineer Neil Sullivan said West Granite Street from Montana to Excelsior will be repaved Friday. Crews work from 6 a.m. until finished likely that evening, with street access restricted and residents required to move cars for the day. Parking is banned Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for gutter sweeping.
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West Granite
Montana
Excelsior
Neil Sullivan
Sullivan
Dewey
Harrison
Hill
East Granite
Arizona
Thornton
Latinum and Steel
Fourteen road projects awarded by Montana highway board
Fourteen highway bids totaling 4.13 million dollars were let by the Montana Highway Commission, including a 13 mile Interstate 94 project west of Miles City and the replacement of a 72 year old Missouri River bridge at Fort Benton. Schultz Lindsay Co. of Fargo won the Hathaway Flats contracts. The panel expects future lettings to exceed 1958 levels as the year progresses.
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Helena
Miles City
Milon
Highway Commission
Custer
Rosebud
Hathaway Flats
Schultz & Lindsay Co
Fargo, N.C
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Hill County
Butte Budget Requests Top $2 Million Mark
Butte City Council faced a budget topping two million as requests totalled 2,033,865.23 with incomplete departments possibly raising the sum. A at least 169,298 must be pared to align with an estimated revenue around 1.864 million, while the 1960-61 budget was 1,977,008.47. The general fund requests 688,142.02 for life and property protection, with revenue projected 521,516.21, down from prior year.
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Butte
Beryl Wilson
Rease
Butte to use equalizer for lighting and hydrant rents
Mayor Vern Griffith told Aldermen Wednesday that Butte will create special improvement districts to fund street lighting and hydrant rental as an equalizer. He stressed the plan is legal and not a tax increase, replacing a 3 mill levy with district assessments while coverage expands citywide.
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Butte
Vern Grifah
Pete Sodja
Griffith
Montana
Sodja
Raises Appear Doomed for City's Empl oy es in June Requests
City officials predict no wage increases this year as local tax valuation falls amid Butte’s ongoing slump. Four separate requests totaling raises for police clerks and a city engineer’s staff were reviewed by the City Council on Wednesday night.
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Butte
George Stanich
James Kane
Betty Harvey
Mary Stanisich
Stanich
Neil Sullivan
Laura Williams
Sullivan
Williams
67 Are Killed In Argentine Airline Crash
A government Aerolineas Argentinas DC6 carrying 67 people crashed during an emergency landing near Cachari 125 miles south of Buenos Aires. Police report no survivors. Witnesses said lightning struck the four engine plane as heavy rain fell. US oil experts often fly between Buenos Aires and Comodoro Rivadavia.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Aerolineas Argentinas
Patagonian
Cachari
Airli
U.S
Comodoro Rivadavia
Petroleum Indus
National Emergency May Be Declared and Military Buildup
President Kennedy indicated decisions on a possible national emergency and military buildup, with a televised address next Tuesday night. He pledged a Congress-bound program for funds to reinforce free-world defenses and aimed to avoid tax increases despite larger conventional weapons and force outlays. A White House statement on Berlin and Germany accompanied the conference, as he urged the Soviet Union to reconsider and negotiate.
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Washington
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Berlin
United States
Congress
Germany
House Rules Committee
French and Tunisian Clash in Bizerte Ambush
Tunisian forces and French troops clash at the Bizerte naval base with artillery, incendiaries, and air attacks. Paris reports 30 French soldiers and at least 6 Tunisians wounded. Tunisia accuses France of bombing the city and enforcing a land sea air blockade to force French withdrawal. Volunteers mass as both sides brace for continued fighting and diplomatic wrangles over the strategic base.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Bizerte
Paris
France
Atlantic Alliance
la Pecherie
Mediterranean
Sahara
Weather Forecast for Butte and Montana Regions
Partly cloudy through Friday with a high of 80 and a low of 48 in Butte. East Montana expects partly cloudy skies Thursday through Friday with possible afternoon or evening showers and thundershowers. Thursday highs 80 to 90, Thursday night 50 to 60, Friday 80 to 95. West Montana remains partly cloudy with warmer temperatures. Thursday and Friday highs 80 to 90, Thursday night 45 to 55. Maximums are for 12 hours, minimums for 18 hours ending at 5 p.m. MST Wednesday.
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Butte
Montana
Milk price rise set to 24 cents in Dillon area
The Montana Milk Control Board raised the minimum price of milk to 24 cents in marketing area No 1 including Dillon and Beaverhead County effective Aug 1. Local attorneys for milk consumers say Dillon and Beaverhead were previously promised exclusion and may seek court review. Beaverhead Chamber of Commerce and PTA Council report funds exhausted after three year legal battle.
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Dillon
Montana Milk Control Board
Beaverhead County
Frank Davis
Carl Davis
Milk Board
Bozeman
Beaverhead
Retail Merchants Committee
Beaverhead Chamber of Commerce
Parent- Teachers Association Council
Sumer Battle Etc
Fire Breaks Out At Ohio Penitentiary Mill
A fire erupted in the planing mill at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus on Wednesday night and was brought under control about an hour later with no injuries reported. The two story mill building sits in the northwest corner separate from cell blocks. The penitentiary previously endured the Easter Monday 1930 disaster that killed 320 inmates and injured 183 others.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State Penitentiary
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