Postal Groups Convene in Butte for annual events
In Butte the Finlen Hotel hosts the Saturday convention meetings and banquet in the Silver Bow Ballroom at 6 30 with Rep Arnold Olsen as speaker and Dr Joseph Kelly master of ceremonies. A dance follows the banquet. Sunday features group meetings, a noon luncheon, and a joint session at 1 30. Rev Powers will offer invocation and Postmaster Wilkinson attends.
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Finlen Hotel
Arnold Olsen
Silver Bow Ballroom
Joseph Kelly
Helena
Kelly
F. Powers
Alfred E. Wilkinson
Bullet damage linked to illfated Pacific Air Lines crash
FBI reports definite bullet damage to a tubing piece from the plane wreckage of the May 7 San Ramon crash that killed 44. The indentation suggests a bullet along the pilot’s backrest line of fire. The CAB noted last radio transmission: Skipper’s shot. We’ve been shot.
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Washington
Pacific Air Lines
San Ramon
Calif
FBI
Civil Aeronautics Board
J. Edgar Hoover
CAB
Alan S. Boyd
Hoover
Bell Telene Laboratories
San Francisco
Allies Pay Tribute to Dead On D-Day Twenty Years On
Allied governments and veterans marked the 20th anniversary of the Normandy invasion with ceremonies at Douvres la Delivrande Colleville Montgomery Hermanville sur Mer and Lion sur Mer led by Gen Omar Bradley. Veterans recalled personal landmarks as crowds observed hymns prayers and national anthems amid fickle Normandy weather.
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Allies
D-Day
Omaha Beach
Omar Bradley
U.S
Douvres-la-Delivrande
France
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Douvresla-Delivrande
Colleville-Montgomery
Hermanville-sur-Mer
Lion-sur-Mer
Omaha
Utah Beach
Normandy
Youth Confesses to Murder of Five Across States
Larry Lee Ranes, 19, confessed to five slayings in separate states. He admitted shooting Gary Smock in Michigan during a Memorial Day robbery, then killing Charles Snider in Indiana, Airman Vernon Labenne in Michigan, with additional killings in Kentucky and near Las Vegas. Police say he is in Kalamazoo County Jail as investigations continue.
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Larry Lee Ranes
Kalamazoo County
Gary Albert Smock
Plymouth
Mich
Donald Burge
Ranes
Smock
Karl Lutz
Indiana
Charles E. Snider
Elkhart
Ind
Lutz
Vernon Labenne
Battle Creek
Kentucky
Las Vegas
Nev
Michigan
Communist Attack Breaks Lull in Laotian Civil War
Pathet Lao attacked a neutralist hill position northwest of the Plaine des Jarres, breaking a five day lull. Neutralists repulsed the seven hour fight with 10 enemy killed. defender casualties not disclosed. Weather delayed U S air support and diplomats discussed possible peace moves in Europe.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
Plaine Des Jarres
Phou Koutt
Paris
U.S
George W. Ball
Johnson
Asia
Charles de Gaulle
London
Britain
Soviet Union
Switzerland
No Street Work Today in Butte Project Uptown Plans Sunday Stop
Butte plans a Sunday halt to street work on Granite Street between Montana and Wyoming and no traffic on Broadway north side to allow free flow for the Kiel Construction Co. crews. Mayor Thomas F. Powers says Saturday off for crews, back Sunday. project aimed at faster completion with minimal inconvenience.
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Butte
Thomas F. Powers
Kiely Construction Co
Granite Street
Montana
Wyoming
Broadway
Speed Powers
Scorched Earth Warfare Begins in Viet Nam Border Zone
In Tay Ninh region Vietnam US and Vietnamese troops launched a scorched earth operation along the Cambodian frontier. Helicopters with loudspeakers ordered villagers to evacuate as huts, sampans, and rice stores were destroyed or carried off. About 25 guerrillas killed. roughly 700 civilians moved. 1,500 Viet Cong potentially in range of later strikes.
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Tay Ninh
South Viet Nam
Vaio Oriental
Cambodia
Johnson Warns Turkey Against Invasion of Cyprus
President Johnson warned Ismet Inonu against any invasion of Cyprus amid a Turkish military buildup near Iskenderun. Greek and Turkish Cypriots clash on the island as Greece and Turkey brace for potential NATO tensions and a possible clash that could threaten the Western alliance.
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Johnson
Turkey
Cyprus
Ankara
UPI
Ismet Inonu
Iskenderun
Washington
White House
Inonu
Nicosia
Greece
George Papandreou
Michael Papaconstantinou
Athens
Britain
United States
Makarios
Makarios An
Llama Louie Escapes In Thornton Twp Llamapocalypse
Louie the llama escaped from Clarence Smit in Thornton Township and triggered a citywide chase. About 50 llama hunters pursued the creature, trampling an onion patch and blocking the Calumet Expressway before Milton Smit and Clarence Smith corralled and returned Louie to his pen.
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South Holland
Ill
Louie
Clarence Smit
Thornton Township
Smits
Calumet
Milton Smit
Illiana Veterinary Hospital
Clarence Smith
Kennedy Widow Gives Testimony In Dallas Assassination Inquiry
The Warren Commission, near completion after six months, heard testimony Friday from Jacqueline Kennedy. The commission said it is nearing its report and has not discussed final conclusions, noting the testimony related to the Dallas assassination incident.
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Washington
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Earl Warren
Governors Conference Invites Lead Republican Leaders
An official invitation went to Sen. Barry Goldwater and telegram to former Vice President Richard Nixon for the Cleveland conference. President Johnson is also invited to address the 56th annual session while Eisenhower will speak at a dinner. Salinger received an invitation as the Democratic Senate candidate from California.
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Cleveland
Barry Goldwater
National Conference of Governors
Curtis Lee Smith
Richard M. Nixon
Johnson
Goldwater
Nixon
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
George Romney
Michigan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Pierre Salinger
John
Officials Schedule Meeting Over Pesticide Controversy
Helena AP report says federal and state agencies handling post-poison fur issues will convene this month. Frank H. Dunkle, director of the Montana Fish and Game Department, stated the plan on Friday.
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Helena
Frank H. Dunkle
Montana Fish and Game Department
Weather and pesticide testing plans spark Montana officials meeting
The Helena discussion focused on pesticide research before timberland spraying. Montana and Idaho fish game officials and Forest Service representatives considered malathion testing on 376000 forest acres to compare with DDT and assess wildlife impact. Dunkle warned DDT’s harm to wildlife despite its past use.
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U. S. Forest Service
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
State Fish and Game Department
Fish and Game
Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management
Dunkle
Helena
Montana
Idaho
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Verne Roney
Olympia
Wash
Bernard O’neill
UFPC
Robert Haran
Harry Clague
National Association of Letter Carriers
Walter E. Harrington
Seattle
Will
By Antoine Yared
Viet Nam
Heli
Copters
Western Alliance
NATO
Nounced
Louie Llama
California
Edmund G. Brown
Salinger
Butte-Anaconda
Divide
City
Anaconda
Billings
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