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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1964
Page
2
The Montana Republics discuss a statewide initiative to void the constitutional ban on lotteries and gambling. If voters approve, lawmakers could not prohibit gambling. taxes on devices would fund a state board, with proceeds split among state, counties, and departments.
The feature covers bareback bronc riding and calf roping as the rodeo opens. Void, 19, is seen as a future saddle bronc champion after a $5,297 season. Prize money here counts toward world championships decided by season totals. Big Dean Ohiver, last year’s champ, may defend his title this weekend. as of June 15 the dollar leader stood at $14,792. Reynolds, 28, won the 1961 Cowboys sweepstakes with $31,309. Benny has been in the East recently.
The White House sent Wheeler’s nomination to a two year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the Senate. Gen Taylor, former chairman of the joint chiefs, is to be placed on the Army retired list if confirmed. Taylor led the JCS under Kennedy and Johnson and later served in Korea and commanded Cavalry regiments.
In Goteborg Khrushchev told cheering shipyard workers that he used to work in the shipyard, a claim absent from his official biographies. His wife Nina launched a new refrigerator at Goetaverkan Yards as the crowd listened.
The passage describes silk making reaching Europe from the Orient in 550 A.D. by two Persian monks serving Roman Emperor Justinian. Their voyage introduced sericulture to the Western world and influenced early trade and fashion.
Arndt of Chinook died in a Helena hospital after a motorbike crash just west of Wolf Creek. Gary Cloninger of Wolf Creek was severely injured. The bike emerged from a ditch and struck a car driven by Lila Hicks of Wolf Creek. An inquest was planned with no charges filed.
The FTC adopts a generic warning approach for cigarette labels while postponing enforcement of the rule until next year to foster voluntary industry-wide changes. Testimony in hearings included tobacco industry lawyers offering no challenge to the surgeon general's report on health hazards.
A British engineering firm has finished a modernization survey of Cuba's sugar ports, disclosed Wednesday.
Montana awards total 16 major highway contracts including gravel and surface work on 3.8 miles of the Superior east section and a 17 foot grade separation. Projects cover 24.3 miles Baker to Wibaux and a 757 foot steel bridge over the Clark Fork River near Superior. Awards list firms such as Zook Bros Great Falls, Peter Kiewit & Sons Billings, and Francis Tindall Lewistown with values from $231,995 to $6,468,163 and include progress notes and conditions.
A one car accident two miles west of Butte on Highway 10 sent 19 year old Gerald Fall of Silver Bow to St James Community Hospital with a severe concussion a broken shoulder blade and a small neck fracture. The crash occurred around 9 p m at the first bridge on the west bound lane past the Skyline Service Station.
The Berkeley Pit in Butte developed as the city�s principal open pit mine with initial development starting in 1954.
Phengan, Laos neutralist foreign minister in the coalition government, said the Red Chinese economic and cultural mission in Vientiane was set up illegally without coalition knowledge. He added China had permission only to establish an embassy in Vientiane.
It is hoped that a safe northern water route will aid the Canadian North whose mineral resources have scarcely been tapped.
A new bill would extend child benefits to age 22 for students and raise payroll taxes from 3.625 to 3.8 percent starting 1965 with a schedule through 1971. Tips would become income for pension calculations. Widows could retire at 60 with a modest benefit cut. The fund now pays about $17 billion annually, rising by about $1 billion under the plan.
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