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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1966
Page
1
A wartime report notes Shrikes missions with seven squadrons and 20 aircraft, suffering uneven losses. Soldiers describe flying through deadly combat over North Viet Nam and claim no aircraft enemy miscalculation occurred.
Secretary McNamara said the United States would reduce armed manpower in Europe if the Soviet Union cuts forces in the Communist East. He refused to confirm any talks with Moscow and warned it would be unwise to reduce combat strength without reciprocal concessions. State Department officials said there has been no…
U S Health and Welfare grants 100000 to a Boulder training school and hospital for mentally retarded persons under the Community Mental Health Centers Act. The project costs 691615 dollars and will serve 1090 patients with 150 beds. Funds awarded this month may be followed by additional money in the new fiscal year.
Two Montana National Guardsmen died when a helicopter crashed and burned in the Limestone Hills near Townsend. Pilot CWO James W. Schwarzrock 44 of Billings and 1st Lt. Donald E. Hodges 35 of Laurel were killed. An investigation team was at the site as officials noted no determined cause and that this marked the first fatalities in two decades of Montana aviation.
French President Charles de Gaulle met three hours with Soviet leaders in the Kremlin to discuss Europe’s future and German division. The talks, described as frank and cordial, aimed at continued consultations after his Moscow mission. Brezhnev led the sessions, with De Gaulle urging French Soviet partnership free of U S interference.
Montana highway officials will recommend two interchanges for the Dillon Beaverhead County end of the interstate system to the U S Bureau of Public Roads. The plan calls for north and south interchanges on U S 91 at Dillon and near the fairgrounds, confirming a two interchange decision after Dillon residents protested a single interchange. A separate Chinook request sought a cost estimate to rebuild U S Highway 2 through Blaine County, with potential let date next year if updated under new city participation rules.
Clifford N. Galle, 48, an Anaconda Co. employee, died at 4 55 p.m. in St James Community Hospital after a tire blowout in the Berkeley pit tire department. He was removing an outside unit when a lock ring broke loose, causing the tire to burst and throw him about 20 feet. He lived north of Anaconda on Lost Creek.
Police ended the four day siege at the Vien Hoa Dao Pagoda in Saigon as hundreds of monks and civilians fled. A youth had shot a plainclothes policeman and sought refuge inside the pagoda, ending a key Buddhist protest against Premier Ky's government.
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