Poverty march fuels King widow plea in Washington
Tens of thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for Solidarity Day as Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. urged diverting war costs to a Poor People’s campaign. She called on American women to lead in nonviolence and urged ending the Vietnam War for a peace settlement.
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Lincoln Memorial
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Washington Monument
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Memorial
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King
SCLC
Resurrection City
Abernathy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Hubert H. Humphrey
McCarthy
Vietnam
Lasting echoes of the crowd at the capital protest
In a charged capital gathering 4,300 police and National Guardsmen protected a vast crowd as banners and picnic gear filled the scene. Abernathy denounced the administration, saying the Poor People’s Campaign had been betrayed and captured by politicians amid the peaceful, sunlit turnout.
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Abernathy
Six-County Employment Project Receives $2 Million
The program led by the Butte-Silver Bow Anti-Poverty Council wins a $1,997,405 federal allocation approved by Secretary Willard Wirtz. It targets Silver Bow, Deer Lodge, Lewis and Clark, Broadwater, Jefferson and Meagher counties to aid nearly 1,000 disadvantaged and long-term unemployed residents through training, job development, and employment services.
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Butte-Silver Bow
Gene Vukovich
Anaconda
John Paul
Butte
Henry Lang
Helena
Butte Civic Center
Broadwater
Jefferson
Meagher
Eisenhower Still On Critical List In Week After Heart Attack
Doctors at Walter Reed say former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 77, remains in critical recovery after a fifth heart attack since 1955. He shows occasional heartbeat irregularities but no heart failure signs and is described as comfortable and in good spirits as treatment continues.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Eisenhower
Daily Bulletin
Weather outlook for Butte Anaconda region
Variably cloudy with afternoon rain and evening thundershowers. Friday stays fair to partly cloudy and warmer. Cooler today with highs near 70 and lows around 40. Moisture chances are 40 percent today and 10 percent tonight. One year ago chart shows 68 and 46 with precipitation .68.
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Butte - Anaconda
City Council studies objection to free parking at courthouse
Page 19 notes council vocal opposition to free parking for courthouse employees. Page 24 reports Mansfield calls for a probe into the Vietnam corruption charge.
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Mansfield
Vietnam
Montana GOP opens three day convention amid tax talk
The Montana Republican Party begins three days of meetings in Helena with a sales tax dispute and the election of 14 National Republican Convention delegates to Miami Beach. Party leaders expect re election of James Murp hy and Mrs Waldo Moberly to the national committee, while Rep James Lucas signals a broad tax reform approach. Congress style remarks from Gov Babcock and Gov Laxalt highlight the Platform Convention, with four presidential electors and delegates chosen across the four events.
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Capitol
Helena
Montana
Miami Beach
Fla
GOP
National Republican Committee
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Kalispell
Waldo Y. Moberly
Shelby
James P. Lucas
Miles City
Lucas
Montana Fedeation
Republican Women
Bert Amsberry
Bozeman
J. Lloyd O’donnell
National Federation
GOP Central Committee
Tim Babcock
Nevada
Paul Laxalt
James F. Battin
Rmont
Drummond II job set at $9.7 million
Contracts were awarded for east and west construction on the Bearmouth Highway along Interstate 90 between Drummond and Missoula. The 15 mile project totals 9.7 million dollars with bids opened May 28 and coming in above engineers estimates. The Montana Highway Department and the Bureau of Public Roads will not award contracts that run over the limit.
Johnson signs gun bill amid push for broader controls
President Johnson reluctantly signed a wide crime control bill, far from his goal of full gun control. The law expands police wiretaps with court approval and relaxes some confession safeguards, while he urges a ban on all mail gun sales, including rifles and shotguns, to be considered by Congress.
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Johnson
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House
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Dn.y
Mike
Montana Power lists 1968 plan totaling 30 million
The Montana Power Co. rebuts a 1968 construction program amounting to 30 million dollars as the largest in its history. J. E. Corette reports a 180000 kilowatt plant in Billings and an expanded high voltage network while noting earnings for the year ended May at 1.97 dollars per share and that rate increases are under review before the state commission. The meeting drew about 550 stockholders and guests with 6.4 million shares represented.
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J. E. Corette
Corette
L. S. Stadler
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J. E. Tenge
Presi
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We Wu
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