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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1971
Page
2
Butte officials from Anaconda Co. held separate sessions in the Thornton Building with operating engineers and teamster union spokesmen. Simultaneously, Anaconda leaders in Salt Lake City met with United Steelworkers miners teamsters and craft leaders on national points. All Butte Hill contracts expire June 30.
James Frank Jones aged 89 of 3601 Oregon died Thursday in a local hospital. Born May 14, 1882 in Columbus Ohio he lived here since 1918 after marrying Isabelle Burns in Butte. He worked as a fruit and vegetable vendor with survivors including daughter in law Mary Healey and Harold E. Clark of Butte and a granddaughter Alice Austin of Butte along with seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
The Butte Fire Department extinguished a basement fire in a vacant apartment building at 705 S. Wyoming Thursday morning. Firefighters forced entry. the building owned by Fred Downing at 2940 Hecla sustained burned floor joists but no further damage. A separate note mentions a Tokyo International Trade Fair where a bicycle tree display impressed attendees, featuring seventeen manufacturers.
Helena AP notes the Montana Legislature on June 24 1971 in the second special session. Highlights include Senate actions on highway beautification and petition signatures plus House moves to fund state agencies education and land acquisition for the Capital complex. Several appropriations are listed for the 1971 73 biennium and for elective offices community colleges and the Long Range Building Program.
Helena The 42nd legislature abolished the Coordinator of Indian Affairs after failing to provide funds beyond June 30. Harold J. Boyd of Poplar and a secretary lose their posts. the two person agency had a 1969 71 budget of 45 550 and served Indians on education welfare and loans while advising the governor and legislature.
Ecuador’s 1970 pyrethrum crop totaled 2.9 million pounds, down 2 percent from 1969. Exports of flowers, extract and waste used in insecticides earned 1.27 million dollars, down from 1.47 million in 1969.
Missoula County deputy sheriff discovered his car was not stolen after all. Law enforcement had searched for five days following Lee Meltzer’s missing car report. Residents had spotted the car near Missoula before Meltzer found it intact in front of a radio repair shop. He had mistaken the official vehicle for his own.
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