Municipal League Elects R. G. Arnot as President
R G Arnot, mayor of Conrad, was elected president of the Montana Municipal League at its 27th annual convention closing session. James R Shea of Walkerville passed the role to Arnot. Officers named include Martin Miller Glasgow vice president, Grace Martell Missoula second vice president, Roland White Sunburst third vice president, Nina Settle Helena treasurer. Nominating committee members are White, McDonald, Miller, Bloom. Patrick J Healy Jr addressed delegates on urban growth, planning and the duties of city government amid postwar population shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Arnot
Conrad
Montana Municipal League
James R. Shea
Walkeville
Martin Miller
Glasgow
Grace Martell
Missoula
Roland M. White
Sunburst
Nina M. Settle
Helena
Alex McDonald
Butte
Clair Bloom
Lewistown
League
Patrick J. Healy Jr
American Municipal Assn
Washington, D. C
Shea
Healy
America
Montana
Over 200 Iris Species Popular in Gardens and Markets
The iris, named after the Greek rainbow goddess, is discussed as a popular garden flower with widespread appeal. A notice notes that want ads are the common method to sell summer sports equipment and other items, with a dial number provided to place ads.
Pony Express Invitation To Butte Rodeo Heads To Governor
Sam McDowell of the Ranching McDowells will ride from Butte to Helena delivering an invitation from Mayor Donnelly to Gov. Aronson for Vigilante Days Rodeo June 26 28. The 66 mile ride with multiple horse changes aims under five hours with a Montana Highway Patrol escort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam McDowell
McDowell
Big Hole Basin
Butte
Helena
W. P. Donnelly
J. Hugo Aronson
Civic Center
Butte Vigilante Rodeo and Saddle Club
Capitol Building
Darryl Coover
Here
Bob Henningsen
Vigilante Rodeo Committee
Mel McDowell
Wisdom
Sam
John Downey
Bob McDowell
McDowells
Montana Highway Patrol
Vigilante Rodeo and Saddle Club
Butte Girl Lost Four Hours Found Safe in Hills
Three year old Jennie Weeks of Butte wandered off with her uncle Roy Weeks while logging near Flume Gulch about 23 miles north of Butte. A massive search by Silver Bow deputies and officers from Powell and Deer Lodge counties used a mobile radio unit before two Anaconda smeltermen spotted the girl and brought her to Race Track. She refused to speak about the ordeal, keeping her tale secret with her dolly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Weeks
Butte
Dolly
Jennie
Margaret Knight
Roy Weeks
Flume Gulch
Silver Bow
W. L. Dalling
John O’pourke
James Konen
Powell
Deer Lodge
Anaconda
Spurlin Martin
W. C. Whitehead
Father Hangs Self As Children Watch
Lawrence Kansas AP report says Joseph Cool 32 hanged himself from a tree as several of his six children watched. He tied a rope to a tree, stood on a swing and jumped. His seven-year-old son tried to lift the body to ease the rope but failed. Mrs Cool left for help but Cool was dead when cut down. She had learned the day before she would likely give birth to twins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence, Kan
Joseph Cool
Dale Chappel
Cool
Mrs. Cool
Butte to Launch City Wide Clean Up Campaign
Butte schedules a June 9 to 22 Clean Up Paint Up Fix Up drive to spruce homes and streets. Led by E N Sparks, the effort urges residents to wash screens, repair porches, paint furniture, tidy lawns, and remove fire hazards from basements and attics while joining 6 000 towns in this national anti blight effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
E. N. Sparks
Sparks
Laurence Kiefer
National
Washington, D. C
Kiefer
Five Die in Waco Two-Car Collision During Police Pursuit
In Waco Texas five people were killed and five seriously injured in a two car crash as police chased one vehicle Saturday night. The dead include Rodrigo Alonzo 64 Margarita Alonzo 55 Dolores Alonzo 38 Christine Guerra and Paul Nino 22 all of Waco. The injured are Natalie Alonzo 33 Georgia Guerra 30 Gilbert Guerra 4 Joe Guerra 6 and Cruz Guerra 3, also of Waco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco, Tex
Rodrigo Alonzo
Margarita Alonzo
Dolores Alonzo
Christine Guerra
Paul Nino
Waco
Alonzo
Nino
Natalie Alonzo
Georgia Guerra
Gilbert Guerra
Joe Guerra
Cruz Guerra
Soviet diplomat expelled by United States over secret material bid
The United States ordered Nikolai I. Kurochkin, a Soviet Embassy third secretary, to leave after he sought to obtain U S Army manuals and secret documents. Beaumet, a 25 year old journalist for The National Guardsman, reported the request to the FBI and stated he received about 435 dollars for unclassified materials. No charges or arrests against Beaumet were announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Department
Charles Beaumet
FBI
State Department
Beaumet
Nikolai I. Kurochkin
Kurochkin
Cabinet backs De Gaulle stance on Algeria unity drive
Paris AP reports the Cabinet endorsed Charles de Gaulle after his Algeria peace mission. He announced local elections in Algeria within about a month with equal voting rights for Arab-Berber and French populations. The cabinet also agreed to include an Algerian Muslim in the cabinet and pushed back right wing safety committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
de Gaulle
Montana Weather Outlook East and West Regions
Eastern Montana expects considerable cloudiness with numerous thundershowers and some hail through Sunday and Monday. Highs 60 to 70, nights 45 to 55. Western Montana may see showers or thundershowers with highs 60 to 70 and cooler nights 35 to 45. Table notes maximums cover 12 hours and minimums 18 hours to 5 30 p m Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
States Slow to Act On Ike's Jobless Benefits Extension
President Eisenhower asked Congress for 665.7 million dollars to fund emergency unemployment relief with 2.65 million workers expected to receive benefits for about eight weeks. An Associated Press survey shows Pennsylvania as first to sign up, while several states defer or hesitate, with New York Michigan Massachusetts Rhode Island Minnesota Maryland Indiana and Connecticut weighing action or extending existing programs.
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Ike
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Asst
Newell Brown
New York
Michigan
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Minnesota
Maryland
Indiana
Connecticut
Macmillan Ike Confer on World Problems
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived in Washington to meet with President Eisenhower for informal talks on the French crisis and a possible summit with the Soviet Union. They discuss Western trade with the USSR, a Kremlin summit, and strengthened anti war economic measures while De Gaulle may be informed. Macmillan will visit Indiana and speak at DePauw University as part of the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Eisenhower
Russia
Macmillan
London
U. S
Soviet Union
Charles de Gaulle
France
Paris
de Gaulle
Dulles
Indiana
DePauw University
Greencastle
Senate Labor Bill faces fresh GOP criticism
Senator Carl Curtis condemns the Senate labor bill as inadequate while Senator Barry Goldwater derides it as milk toast. Senator John L. McClellan backs the measure after a 12 to 1 labor committee vote, with Kennedy championing the legislation to curb union abuses and increase member control and public financial reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Curtis
Barry Goldwater
R-Ark
Labor Committee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Rackets Investigating Committee
McClellan
John F. Kenedy
Vehicles Driven By Husband Wife Collide in Iowa
Mrs. Vern Busse, 37, noted for 4-H work, drove to meet her husband in Plainfield during a rainstorm. Her pickup skidded on wet pavement and struck her husband, 47, who died of a crushed chest. The wife and three children survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
Iowa
Vern Busse
Busse
Hailstorm Damages Billings Area and Gallatin Valley
A brisk northwest wind-driven hailstorm struck Billings, damaging crops, windows, and neon signs. Earlier, hail in Gallatin Valley near Bozeman punched holes in barn roofs and stripped trees. Weather officials reported two inch hail at Billings airport. insurance adjusters rushed to survey damage. Hundreds of windows across Billings were broken and flights canceled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Mont
Gallatin Valley
Bozeman
Weather Bureau
Miners Union Day Sets 20 Teams in First Aid Contest
Twenty teams of six from Butte Hill mines shops and departments will compete on Friday June 13 for first aid honors at Columbia Gardens. The event begins at 11 a.m. with 120 contestants practicing since May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Company
Columbia Gardens
Butte
H. A. Wendel
Bureau of Safety
Ground Broken For ICBM Base In Cheyenne
Ground breaking for Warren Air Force Base Cheyenne marks the nation first ICBM base The event features Maj Gen Schreiver and Sen Barrett with plans for Atlas missiles in Cheyenne by 1960 Contracts for a communications building and four launching facilities are set for late 1958 to fall 1959 The base aims to deter Soviet attack and connect to SAC headquarters in Omaha with direct lines for missile firings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Leeright
Cheyenne
Wyo
Bernard A. Schreiver
Air Force Ballistics Missile Division
Warren Air Force Base
Ft. D. A. Russell
Union Pacific Railroad
Warren
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Neb
SAC
Army
U. S
Frank A. Barrett
R-Wyo
Nathan Twining
Joint Chiefs of Staff
William M. Holaday
Defense Dept
G.E. Galloway
Corps of Engineers
David Wade
1St
Cooke Afb
Calif
Schreiver
Air Force
Twining
Soviet Union
Six Die in Auto Collision in Georgia Head-On Crash
In Moreland, Georgia, six people were killed and a seventh critically injured in a head on collision between two cars Saturday. Victims include Howard A. McNeil Jr. and Marcus D. Hennings of Newnan, Hiram W. Jennings Jr. of Asheboro, Richard Ring and wife from Miami, and John Marshall Ring, 17, who died hours after the crash. Son Michael Ring, 15, is in critical condition. Ring, a former traffic safety advocate and accounting leader, was connected to Eisenhower era highway safety efforts and professional groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moreland
Howard A. McNeil Jr
Marcus D. Hennings
Newnan
Hiram W. Jennings Jr
Asheboro
N.C
Richard Warner Ring
Miami
Fla
John Marshall Ring
Ring
John Marshall
Michael Warner Ring
Eisenhower
Committee
Southern States Accountants Conference
American Institute of Accounting
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Silver Bow County
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Guy Weeks
Abilene
Texas
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Melrose
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Okla
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Winn
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Ore
Jat T. Smith
Iona
Idaho
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Monument
N.M
Willard Combs
Checotah
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Oklahoma City
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Coolidge
Ariz
Hills
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U.S
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