Poor People's marchers camp at Justice Department
About 350 Poor People's Campaign supporters staged a long night protest at the Justice Department in Washington. They pressed for 72 hour immunity for two of 13 Mexican Americans indicted in Los Angeles and demanded a meeting with Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Memorial Day weekend road death toll hits record 628
The Associated Press reports Memorial Day weekend traffic fatalities rose to 628, surpassing prior totals for comparable periods. Howard Pyle of the National Safety Council notes more defensive driving and safer highways, while the official four day observance comparison shows records set and targets for overall holiday tolls.
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Salt Lake Butte train plan rapped by senator
Sen Frank Church of Idaho charged Union Pacific with violating ICC rules by cutting daily service on the Salt Lake City to Butte route. He said the tri weekly schedule ignores the commission order and asks ICC to force restoration of daily service if the railroad cannot file a compliant plan.
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Frank Church
D-Idaho
Union Pacific Railroad
Idaho
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Union Pacific
Salt Lake City
Butter Mont
Butte
Church
Paul J. Tierney
Des Moines Founding and Rise as Iowa’s Capital
Des Moines was incorporated in 1851 and later became the capital of Iowa in 1857 marking its ascent as a key political center. The sequence highlights the city’s early legal formation and its eventual role as state government seat.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Helena Youth Hurt in Fire Explosion
Johnny King aged 15 was hospitalized with second degree burns over 25 percent of his body after an explosion and fire on Helena south side. The blast, likely from escaping natural gas, collapsed parts of a two story building and gutted the frame and stone structure. King, alone in the home, is reported in good condition by his physician Dr. John Bovington.
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Helena
Johnny King
Helena South Side
Battle updates recount rockets destroying cargo barges
Cong rockets continued to strike as South Vietnamese forces reported about 65 cargo barges destroyed or damaged. The military also noted shelling near a capital in the central highlands and a training center near Cu Chi. Ban Me Thuot endured 25 mortar rounds with no casualties reported.
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Cu Chi
Saigon
Ban Me Thuot
Darlack
U.S
Com
Voting guidance and war news mix from Silver Bow County
Voters prepare for Montana primaries with guidance on machine ballots and precincts as absentee ballots in Silver Bow County approach 1,200. In Vietnam the Viet Cong shelled Cu Chi and Saigon with rockets, wounding four soldiers and damaging ships. U S and Vietnamese planes returned fire as shelling continues nightly.
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Silver Bow County
Duckham
Montana
McCarthy and Kennedy Trade Barbs Over Civil Rights Campaign
In a weekend push McCarthy labeled Kennedy’s South Africa stance as akin to apartheid policy while Kennedy accused McCarthy of desperation. McCarthy denounced a newspaper ad that claimed to compare records on law enforcement and urged rapid arraignment for 13 Mexican Americans jailed in Los Angeles. Officials expect high turnout in California with 174 convention votes at stake.
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Kennedy
South Africa
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Los Angeles
Minnesota
California
Model Cities hires set salaries and names staff in 1960 plan
James J. Murphy, the executive director, announces raises of ten thousand five hundred dollars for city appointees and a like salary for an educational specialist to be named soon. Rice, a Whitehall native with degrees from Alameda State College and Florida State University, joins the Public Welfare Department staff. Office locations, secretaries, and a 10 unit organizational group will coordinate efforts on employment, health, welfare, youth and delinquency, and aging under three neighborhood councils with paid staff.
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Charles E. Rice
James J. Murphy
Guy Ripley
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Rice
Whitehall
Dorothy
Linda
E. Lake Street
Alameda
Calif
Florida State University
Department of Public Welfare
Silver Bow County
Medical Arts
Judy Buckley
Linda Mehrens
South Korea Police To Receive U.S. Equipment Aid
Seoul reports a 5 million dollar American aid package to South Korea's 40000 strong national police force. The shipment includes 500 vehicles grenade launchers and rifles to bolster border and infiltrator control from North Korea.
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Seoul
South Korea
North Korea
Montana State Primary Outlook and Key Races
Statewide primaries loom with Rep. James F. Battin facing no GOP opponent and a possible November matchup against Democrat Robert L. Kelleher or Gerald E. Hudson. Harriet Miller seeks the Western District seat against Arnold Olsen’s bid, while party nominees fill attorney general treasurer and judiciary contests. Polls open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. formal counts arrive weeks later.
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James F. Battin
R-Mont
Robert L. Kelleher
Gerald E. Hudson
Arnold Olsen
D-Mont
Public Instruction
Harriet Miller
Dick Smiley
Wayne W. Montemery
Olsen-Miller
Associated Press-United Press International
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Thomas J. Hanrahan
Francis J. McCarvel
James J. Palma
Railroad and Public Servicg Commission
Ernest C. Steel
Robert J. Olds
Henry Asia
Secre
Frank Murray
Elizabeth Guffey
Frank J. Haswell
Tiny Wyoming town Acme changes hands again
Acme Wyoming on the Tongue River near Sheridan is sold again with new owners Mr and Mrs Charles Evinger of Terre Haute Indiana taking over from Mr and Mrs Merton Bond and planning to assume ownership Saturday The town had been publicized for sale earlier this year in a Chicago newspaper advertisement.
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ACME
Wyo
Tongue River
Sheridan
Chicago
Charles Evinger
Terre Haute
Ind
Merton Bond
Officer glad youth's gun was unloaded
Billings police detec tive Charles Hensley said he was glad the pistol carried by 18 year old John Burns was unloaded after Burns attempted to force the release of two youths. Burns faces assault with a deadly weapon charges.
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Billings (Ap
Charles Hensley
Billings
Hensley
John Burns
Burns
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