Butte youths arrested on marijuana charges
Two 16 year old youths face juvenile court proceedings under Montana dangerous drug law after marijuana is seized in a raid in Butte. A 15 year old was released. The suspects remain in parental custody with probation pending. Deputies, aided by county officials, conducted raids with cooperation from the youths' parents.
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Butte
Montana
Ken Cunningham
Martin T. Mangan
John T. Sheehan
Cunningham
Jack Holstrom
Dewey Burns
Ed Maguire
Weather Outlook Partly Cloudy With 78 High
Partly cloudy conditions expected with a daytime high near 78 and a night low around 45. Weather map referenced on Page 2.
Offshore oil drilling reviewed
Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel began reviewing recommendations to let Union Oil Co. resume oil production from its leak plagued platform off Santa Barbara California. The panel’s findings prompted immediate responses from involved parties as the issue moves toward a decision.
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Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Union Oil Co
Santa Barbara
Calif
Butte Hearing Slated Tonight on Interstate Work
The public is invited to express views tonight at 7 30 on two State Highway Dept projects in the Butte area. One converts a 2 lane section to four lanes from East Butte interchange to East Range outskirts. The second plans a 9.5 mile stretch from the Silver Bow Jefferson county line northerly through Elk Park. The hearing will be in the voted school room 1, with entrance on Wyoming Street.
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Butte
State Highway Dept
East Butte
East Range
Silver Bow
Jefferson County
Elk Park
Wyoming Street
Australian carrier Melbourne halves US destroyer Evans in SEATO collision
In early dawn SEATO maneuvers in the South China Sea the Australian carrier Melbourne cut the US destroyer Evans in two. One sailor dead, 57 missing, 216 rescued. Melbourne sustained bow damage and returned to duty amid ongoing rescue and investigation.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
U. S
Navy
U.S
Frank E. Evans
Melbourne
South China Sea
Manila
A. S. McLemore
Sea Spirit
Kearsarge
Australia
Kennedy and Humphrey take risks over divergent Vietnam views
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey pursue contrasting paths on Vietnam peace prospects. Kennedy attacks U.S. military strategy while Humphrey suggests Nixon may resolve the war before 1972, with Muskie and McGovern offering alternative stances amid debates on Paris talks and domestic urban issues.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
Edward M. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Massachusetts
Humphrey
Kennedy
U.S
Dong Ap bin Hill
Nixon
A Shau
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
U. S
George S. McGovern
South Dakota
Paris
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Massachusetts Democrat
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Mewsmen
Vietnam
Sirhan says Kennedy assassination worth lives but cure wish alive
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan told NBC in New York that he believes RFK’s assassination was worth both their lives yet he wishes the senator were still alive. He added that every morning he wishes Kennedy were alive to avoid his own confinement.
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New York
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
NBC News
Seventy-seven holiday deaths mark Memorial Day weekend
Seven traffic deaths were reported over the Memorial Day weekend in Montana raising the state's 1969 road toll to 114. Bonnie Messmer and her 2-year-old daughter died in a head on crash near Columbus. Emma Colhoff of Sheridan died in another crash near Lame Deer.
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Associated Press
Montana
Columbus
Bonnie M. Messmer
Patricia
Forest Grove
Ore
Montana Highway Patrol
U.S. 10
Sheridan
Wyo
Emma Colhoff
Lame Deer
Highway Patrol
National Safety Council
Armed robbers take $900 from Butte station operator
Wayne Mynher, operator of Town Pump Station at Main and Quartz, reported being beaten and robbed of about $900 early Monday. He described two men as shabby, wearing dark clothes sunglasses and gloves, who fled in an older black car after directing him to reveal receipts.
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Wayne Mynher
Main and
Quartz
Mynher
Mynder
Butte High to graduate 506 seniors with Porter speaker
Butte High School will award 506 diplomas at commencement with Howard C. Porter, president of Billings Business College, as guest speaker on a program starting at 8 p.m. at the Civic Center Auditorium. Porter will speak on Aspiration Aspirin Accomplishment as 258 boys and 248 girls graduate.
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Butte High School
Howard C. Porter
Billings Business College
Porter
Civic Center
Billings Chamber of Commerce
Billings
Greater Billings Development Corporation
United Business School Association
Library Week
West
Midwest
Ray Sims
Lobell Bennett
America
Why is Russia expanding military power now
US defense officials monitor Soviet push to close the gap with the United States in long range missiles and new aircraft while NATO reports show Moscow's mobilization capability. Observers fear a bid to surpass US power before arms talks and to gain influence as Britain reduces commitments after Vietnam.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington (Ap
U.S
United States
NATO
Czechoslovakia
Pentagon
Russia
Moscow
Nixon
Kremlin
United
Britain
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