Skylab astronauts complete 28 day orbital mission
Skylab astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph P Kerwin and Paul J Weitz return to Earth after 28 days in orbit aboard the USS Ticonderoga landing in the Pacific about 830 miles southwest of San Diego. They walk and wave on recovery deck amid medical exams and praise for repairs that salvaged the space station.
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Uss Ticonderoga
Earth
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Pacific Ocean
San Diego
Calif
Space Agency
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Orbit
Sal
Vaged Space Station
Orbiting Laboratory
Fletcher
Fish and Game backs I-15 bypass of Butte
The Montana Fish and Game Commission urged the State Highway Department to keep I-15 south of Boulder and bypass Butte. It rejected two proposed Butte-connecting routes for harming fish and wildlife, endorsing Cardwell and Whitetail corridors that would tie into I-90 east of Butte. James A. Posewitz noted environmental concerns.
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Basin
Cardwell
Whitetail
Butte
James A. Posewitz
Environ
Department of Fish and Game
Boulder
Nez Perce
Whitetail Pass
Pipestone
Boulder Valley
Posewitz
Commission
W. Leslie Pengelly
Missoula
Interstate 15 Taskforce
Helena
Fish and Game
Frank H. Dunkle
Dunkle
Highway Commission
Fish and Game Department
Montana
Ecological Consulting Service
Nixon Brezhnev sign pact to avert war and nuclear danger
In Washington Nixon and Brezhnev signed a declaration pledging joint efforts to prevent war and nuclear disaster. The pact, the eighth of their summit talks, aims to cooperate if any third country threatens international peace. They planned to continue talks in California at the President’s San Clemente home.
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Washington
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
China
United States
Soviet Union
White House
California
San Clemente
Moscow
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
People’s Republic of China
Tax cut a good bet for property owners
Eight of Montana’s property taxpayers may see lower total levies due to a 1973 law creating county wide equalization for education funding. Large counties and cities expect relief, while eastern rural areas may face up to a 20 mill increase, with one statewide mill generating about $1 million.
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Steven P. Rosenfeld
Helena
Montana
Mike Billings
State Budget Bureau
Senate panel warns frost of food shortages amid price freeze
The Senate Agriculture Committee praised Nixon for inflation curb but warned the 60 day price freeze could trigger a disastrous food shortage. It urged removing farm products from the freeze and adopting a Phase 4 plan for orderly production.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Nixon
Western Airlines jet blows tires at takeoff
A Western Airlines 737 carrying 95 passengers and six crew blew two tires during takeoff from Butte to Salt Lake City Friday morning. No injuries. The flight was delayed about five hours for repairs, replacements arranged with bases in Butte and Great Falls.
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Western Airlines
Butte
Salt Lake City
June heat slips past eighty seven at mountain town airport
Friday brought a high of 87 at the airport Flight Service Station though mid town thermometers hit over 90. The reading trails a June record set in 1937 by six degrees as officials note only two other 90s in 24 years. The National Weather Service predicts weekend highs in the 80s to 85 with scattered thundershowers. Meanwhile in Cooke City a summer ski camp reports excellent glacier skiing with several inches of new snow and freezing temperatures.
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Eee -Radio
National Weather Service
Butte
Montana
Cooke City
Film makers react to Supreme Court obscenity ruling
Los Angeles reporters summarize film industry reactions to the 5 4 Supreme Court decision allowing local standards to judge obscenity. Guild leaders warn of local censorship spread, possible lawsuits, and restrictions on distributing national films. some call the ruling a civil liberties denial and a setback for artistic freedom.
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Los Angeles
Supreme Court
Mark Robson
Peyton Place
Writers Guild of America
Chester L. Migden
Screen Actors Guild
Robert Aldrich
The
Dirty Dozen
Producers Association
Aldrich
Chillicothe
Code Administration
Robert Wise
West
Directors Guild
Congress
Pig crop down chicks drowned in Texas poultry woes
Government data show the Corn Belt pig crop fell 3 percent in the March May period, signaling fewer baby pigs for fall markets. Texas poultry growers destroy eggs and chicks amid feed cost pressures from Nixon price freezes, with one producer reporting $72,000 losses and warnings of a severe feed shortage by autumn.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Corn
Texas
South Texas
T.C. Moore
Home Foods
Nixon
Tex
Moore
Biddle
U.S
Bill Cawley
Texas A&m University Extension Service
Cawley
Hairnets and Hardhats Start at Anaconda Berkeley Pit
A company spokesman said hairnets were ordered Thursday and distributed Friday to three long haired machine shop workers at Anaconda Co. Berkeley Pit. Seventy two hairnets were ordered total, to meet a state law requiring long hair around machinery to be confined. No reaction from the three workers had been reported. Teasing by hardhats was possible.
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Anaconda Co
Berkeley
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Space Center, Houston
Space
Space Station
NASA
James Fletcher
Skip Butte
Cliff Moore
Brezhnev
Butte Weather
Theodore J. Wirth
Nez Perse
Washington Star-News
Flight 21
Western
Great Falls
Vic Heinitz
Orval Hill
Northwest
Side Story
the Sound of Music
Directors Guild of America
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