One room school pushed toward extinction
Helena The one room schoolhouse faces further extinction under Montana’s new school finance law. Officials say the shift toward state funding reduces local tax advantages, though some isolated cases still exist where small districts persist to preserve pupil numbers. The law reforms levy structure, moving more burden from counties to the state and altering permissive levies.
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Arthur Hutchinson
Helena
Harold W Rehmer
Harold W. Stockton
Stockton
District 1 trustees OK first phase of athletic complex
The board authorized Moyle Aanes and Associates to prepare to bid the first phase of a three stage athletic complex at East Junior High field. Phase one costing 213800 will use 100000 district funds from a new mill levy with a potential 50 50 match from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. It includes concrete work drainage and a 10 lane rubberized track plus field events area and related site work aimed for early fall 1973 completion.
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East Junior High
Moyle-Aanes and Associates Inc
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
William Milligan
Jack Peterson
Butte
Peterson
FAA studies easing of airline passenger searches
The FAA considers ending mandatory screening of all air travelers and carry-ons after five months without a hijacking. A revised plan would test new techniques on several routes before nationwide adoption, with details kept confidential. Some executives oppose broad checks as costly. civil liberties groups challenge constitutionality.
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New York
Federal Aviation Administration
American Civil Liberties Union
Skylab plans space walk to repair power panel
Two Skylab 1 astronauts will crawl outside the station to repair a broken solar panel. If successful, the fix could nearly double power for Skylab, enabling more experiments and extending future missions. The team will practice Wednesday with the repair slated for Thursday morning.
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Space Center, Houston
Space Station
William C. Schneider
Schneider
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Police aid boy scarred by acid
Chicago police teased fresh leads for six weeks as Michael Robinson, scarred by an April 3 acid attack after a robbery, identified Freddie Banks, a 17 year old high school student arrested as an adult on charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery.
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Chicago Daily News
Chicago
Michael Robinson
John Callaghan
Robert Loughran
George Bilecki
Michael
West Side
Freddie Banks
Dr. Kane Dies at 75 Butte Physician Remembered as Leader
Joseph J. Kane 75, longtime Butte physician and health official, died Monday at 1023 S Dakota. He practiced with brothers and nephew, served St. James Community and Silver Bow General hospitals, and held memberships in major medical associations. Survived by brothers John F. and Richard C. Kane. Mass of Resurrection set for Thursday at St. Joseph Church with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery. rosary Wednesday at Dolan's Mortuary.
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Joseph J. Kane
Butte
S. Dakota
Kane
Thornton Bldg
St. James Community
Silver Bow General Hospitals
St. James Hospital
American Academy of Family
John F
Richard C. Kane
St. Joseph Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Dolan’s
Cox raises Ervin ire over televised Watergate hearings
Special prosecutor Archibald Cox urged the Senate Watergate committee to suspend its televised hearings. A majority rejected the bid, arguing delays would hinder investigations and risk letting guilty parties go free. Some senators signaled intentions to decide Tuesday. Charles Inouye indicated tentative support for Ervin.
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Archibald Cox
Washington
Senate Watergate Committee
Cox
Senate
Tom M. Montoya
D-N.m
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
R-Conn
Howard H. Baker Jr
R-Tenn
Edward J. Gurney
R-Fla
Daniel K. Inouye
Hawaii
Ervin
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Edward J. Watergate
Gas shortage drives higher prices at San Francisco station
SAN FRANCISCO AP At 85.9 cents a gallon for regular and 90.9 cents for premium, service station operator Ken Yano still finds people willing to buy his dwindling gas supply. One customer bought 20 gallons as his stock fell to 200 gallons. He preferred raising prices to risking losing regular customers.
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San Francisco
Ken Yano
Yano
Hint of scandal shakes big name record firms
A federal grand jury in Newark New Jersey has questioned a former executive of a major record company amid an expanding ethics probe. The inquiry touches financing and business practices at several prominent music labels and involves unnamed executives and partners.
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New York
Newark, N.J
Port Butte Port Unloads Million Dollar Motorcycle Shipment
The Port of Butte in the industrial park received a $1 million shipment of 1,376 Kawasaki motorcycles from Japan in 30 freight containers on about 15 rail flatcars. Unassembled cycles will be distributed to dealers in 12 states, with Idaho Utah Colorado and the Midwest among them. The shipment, valued at an average $700 per unit, is the port’s largest yet. Port director Jim Hodge attributes the arrival to Kawasaki and to Nebraska’s Fred Masek for strategy and notes the cycles were imported through Seattle customs. The article then veers into unrelated CBS and Columbia Records drug scandal rumors surrounding Clive Davis and others, with denials and unrelated investigations ongoing.
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Butte
Japan
Kawasaki
Idaho
Utah
Colorado
Midwest
Jim Hodge
Hodge
U.S
Fred Masek
Masek Sports Division
Nebraska
Masek
Seattle
Clive Davis
Columbia Records
Davis
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Paramount Records
Tony
Air Force Captain Suicide After Homecoming Birthday
Air Force Capt. Edward Alan Brudno, 33, returned from a North Vietnamese prison camp months earlier and on his birthday left a two line French note suggesting despair. Neighbors noticed no signs of trouble, but authorities found a plastic bag over his head and sleeping pills nearby. Police classify it as suicide while a toxology report awaited.
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Brudno
Bernice Gienstein
Henry Ryan
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