Senate Votes Against Helping Reds
The Senate rejected 43 to 42 a proposal to give President Eisenhower power to use foreign aid to assist Communist nations. The vote followed a floor fight by rivals to exclude the authority from the foreign aid bill, with Knowland and Bridges opposing the expansion and Aiken criticizing the White House stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Moscow
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William F. Knowland
Calif
Styles Bridges
GOP
Yugoslavia
Poland
East Germany
Rumania
Knowland
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
White House
Aiken
Congress
State Dept
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Knowland and
Bridges
Wisconsin Tornado Toll Tops Thirty Dead
Three Wisconsin tornadoes killed 30 people and injured 350 as a 90 mile path of destruction touched Colfax and surrounding towns. Gov. Thomson toured the area calling it horrible while Red Cross estimated over 615 families affected and farm and property damage exceeding 1.5 million dollars.
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Menomonie
Wis
Vernon Thomson
Red Cross
Wilson
Colfax
Here
Knapp
Menominie
Thorp
Rice Lake
Stanley
Boyd
Chippewa Falls
Eau Claire
Wausau
House Approves One-Year Extension of Excise Taxes
House reluctantly approved a year's extension of current excise taxes on autos corporations liquor and cigarettes. Full repeal would cut about 2.6 billion dollars in annual revenue. Senators are expected to follow, with possible moves to trim taxes on transportation and new cars amid recession pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
Treasury
Senate
Top Executives Call Recession Worst Since War
Washington AP report shows fourteen leading industrial and financial executives saying the current recession is the worst of postwar slumps. They favor tax cuts over public works as anti-recession steps while urging caution on government remedies due to inflation risk. Several name firms and banks including Penn Railroad, American Gas & Electric, Woolworth, Sears Roebuck, Philadelphia Electric, and First National City Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
J. M. Symes
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philip Sporn
American Gas & Electric Co
House
Senate
Eisenhower
William J. Levitt
James T. Leftwich
F. W. Woolworth Co
H. J. Livingston
First National Bank of Chicago
F. F. McConnell
Sears, Roebuck & Co
R. G. Rincliffe
Philadelphia Electric Co
James S. Rockefeller
First National City Bank of New York
C. R. Smith
American Airlines
Sporn, Symes
William R. Odell
International Harvester Co
Cupid Scores 9 Mariages in One June Day at Butte License Office
Nine couples obtained marriage licenses in Butte on Thursday as June sunshine drew a rush at the county license counter. Officials said the day matched June records and tied a best June total from last year, with no unusual pricing or promotions reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Butte
Frank Gabse
District Court
Dan Bukvich
Alice Sullivan
Mike McGlynn
Gable
Two Airmen Die In Jet Training Crash
Two Air Force pilots died when their 1T33 jet trainer crashed during a training flight from Lea Air Force Base. The victims were 1st Lt. Darrell E. Rodenbeek 24 of Mt. Vernon Washington the pilot and 1st Lt. George T. Jost 26 of San Jose California the copilot. The crash occurred in remote western Utah near Wendover Air Force Base. The aircraft belonged to the 332nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Larson AFB near Moses Lake Washington.
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Wendover Air Force Base
Utah
Lea Air Force Base
Air Force
Darrell E. Rodenbeek
Mt. Vernon
Wash
George T. Jost
San Jose
Calif
332Nd
Larson Afb
Moses Lake
Government sees housing rebound as mortgage buys boost economy
Washington reports government housing officials expect a late year revival in home building tied to the anti-recession mortgage buying program. They note Memorial Day week strength with $40.73 million in government backed mortgage purchases and a broader spring expansion in construction to May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPS
Commerce and Labor Departments
Marvin L. McLain
Senate Agriculture Committee
McLain
Congress
Federal National Mortgage Assn
John Fitch Demonstrates Early Steamship in Philadelphia
In 1787 the steam powered boat built by John Fitch showed a four mile per hour performance in Philadelphia. The Fulton design reached full perfection about fifteen years afterward, while the era’s want ads show daily use to locate articles and pets, sell items, and post jobs with the number 5451 for placing ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Fitch
Philadelphia
Fulton
Rebels Reject De Gaulle Plea for Unity in Algeria
Premier Charles de Gaulle urged Moslem nationalist fighters to join 10 million Frenchmen of Algeria, but rebel spokesmen in Cairo and Tunis rejected the call. They said independence remains the sole goal and will continue despite strong French garrisons and recent rallies in Constantine and Bone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Mason Bone
Algeria
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Constantine
Bone
Cairo
Tunis
Algerian National Movement
FLN
Tunisia
Paris
Strauss to Quit AEC on June 30
Adm Lewis L Strauss will resign as chair and member of the Atomic Energy Commission at month end and give up his White House role as special adviser on atomic matters. He will become special assistant in charge of promoting the atoms for peace program. President Eisenhower praised his leadership while noting the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
AEC
Eisenhower
New York
Commission
Strauss
Congress
James C. Hagerty
Harold S. Vance
Defense
Gordon Gray
T. Keith Glennan
Case Institute of Technology
Cleveland
Morehead Patterson
American Machine & Foundry Co
Lewis
Missoula Child Drowns in Irrigation Ditch
In Missoula Montana 18 month old Vinnie Jo McMillan daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert McMillan drowned Thursday in an irrigation ditch in the southwest section. Sheriff deputies and neighbors searched after observers saw the child topple in the ditch. the body was recovered about 9 30 p m after water was shut off. The incident marked the 18th drowning in Montana for the year 1957 totaling 39 across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Vinnie Jo McMillan
Robert McMillan
Montana
Welch Leads GOP Senate Nomination In Montana
Finalish returns show Lou W. Welch leading Democrat Blanche Anderson by 79 votes for the Republican U. S. Senate nomination in Montana. Welch 19,723 to Anderson 19,644 with one precinct remaining. Mansfield dominates Democratic side with about 92,000 more votes than rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche S. Anderson
Welch
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Montana State College
Associated Press
U. S
Great Falls Pilot Killed In Alaskan Jet Crash
Lt. Richard H. Boyce 27, of the 407th Air Refueling Lqd Malmstrom AFB, was killed in a T33 trainer crash 22 miles northwest of Elmendorf AFB Alaska during a routine TDY flight. He had been in the Air Force five years, was assigned near Great Falls since 1957, and his Seattle home was listed. His wife Anna was in Alaska visiting her parents in Anchorage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Falls
Richard H. Boyce
407Th Air Refueling Lqd
Malmstrom Air Force Base
Alaska
Malmstrom
Elmendorf Afb
Boyce
Seattle
Air Force
Anna
Anchorage
Anaconda Head Sees Copper Prices Rising This Year
Charles Brinckerhoff president of The Anaconda Company told a Santiago news conference copper prices should climb in six months. He cited a bottom in prices and noted 30 to 32 cents a pound as agreeable, while opposing Seaton's copper subsidy plan and supporting government purchases of domestic stocks.
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Santiago
Chile
Charles Brinckerhoff
Anaconda Company
United States
New York
Brinckerhoff
U. S
Interior
Fred Seaton
Anaconda
Private utility chief attacks new Northwest power agency
J. E. Corette, president of Montana Power Co., warned a Senate panel that a proposed federal Northwest power agency would be dangerous and a thinly disguised Columbia Valley Authority with broad powers over regional resources. He linked it to a national threat and compared it to the Tennessee Valley Authority, arguing it could damage investor owned utilities and the Northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Pacific Northwest
J. E. Corette
Montana Power Co
Senate Public Works
Columbia Valley Authority
Northwest
Richard L. Neuberger
Dorp
Columbia River Development Corp
Glasgow Air Force Base project approved for 10.6 million
The House Armed Services Committee tentatively approved 17 Air Force projects totaling 66.7 million as part of a military public works bill for the next fiscal year. Included is Glasgow Montana Air Force Base with 10.659 million, all for Air Defense Command facilities. Approval of funds awaits further congressional action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Armed Services Committee
Congress
Air Defense Command
Glasgow
Mont
Air Force Base
Congress Rejects Ike Proposal to Cut Army manpower
The House refused President Eisenhower’s bid to trim Army strength by 30,000 while approving a record defense appropriation of 38.41 billion dollars. Lawmakers backed higher funding for missile and submarine programs, a stronger Marine Corps, and larger National Guard and reserves, boosting total defense by 212.6 million over the administration request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Isenhower
Marine Corps, National Guard
Military Reserve
Senate
Appropriations
Defense Dept
Appropriations Committee
Army
Navy
Secretary of Defense
Marine Corps
National Guard
Conferees Agree On 2.5 Million Yellowtail Price
Conferees from Senate and House reached an agreement that the Crow Indians should receive 2.5 million dollars for land flooded by Yellowtail Dam in Montana. They urged allowing a Court of Claims suit for additional payment of any power site value. The deal awaits approval by both chambers before presentation to President Eisenhower, who vetoed a 5 million dollar proposal in 1956. Negotiations stall a 115 million dollar power irrigation project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate House
Yellowtail Dam
Montana
Court of Claims
Big Horn River
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate
House
James E. Murray
Mont
U. S
W. J. Jameson
Murray
U. S. District Court
Montana Weather Summary for Friday to Saturday
Montana east mostly fair Friday and Friday night with late thunderstorms in southwest and extreme west. Warmer highs 70 to 80, lows 45 to 60. Saturday mainly fair and warmer east with scattered thunder showers and warm west. highs 75 to 85. Montana west mostly fair with late afternoon thunder Showers, warmer, Saturday partly cloudy with scattered thunder, highs 75 to 85, lows 45 to 55. The table notes maximums for 12 hours and minimums for 18 hours ending at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Municipal League Convenes Today in Butte
The Montana Municipal League opens Friday with S Keith Anderson of the Montana Taxpayers Assn to speak on looking ahead. Mayor W P Donnelly welcomes city leaders. responses by Mayor Robert Arnot. Executive committee meets to review policy and view a water and sewage film by Chester Truman of Spokane.
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S. Keith Anderson
Montana Taxpayers Assn
Helena
Montana Municipal League
W. P. Donnelly
Montana
Butte
Donnelly
Jimmy R. Shea
Walkerville
League
Butte Expected to Receive Federal Urban Development Grant
Montana's congressional delegation said federal grants for urban development at Billings Butte and Great Falls are anticipated in the next fiscal year. The Senate Appropriations Committee boosted the grants-in-aid appropriation to 342 million dollars from three million for urban development programs.
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Washington
Montana
Billings
Butte
Great Falls
Senate Appropriations Committee
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