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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1968
Page
5
Readers share personal struggles from coming out and planning a wedding to handling pregnancy rumors and parenting crises. Ann Landers urges transparency, medical guidance on sexuality, and professional help for mother child hostility, emphasizing honesty and support from real friends and clinicians.
The column offers daily guidance for each zodiac sign from Cancer to Gemini. Advice covers managing imagination with facts, including family in plans, applying effort to tasks, preserving authority, and pursuing suitable personal and community involvement.
Leslie Elizabeth Wardie Waugh and Pfc. Douglas Andrew Binns Jr. were married June 20 in the Little Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Thomas Smatra officiating in the presence of immediate families. Attendants were Caroline Binns and Daniel Scholler. The couple who attended local schools plan to reside with Wardie Waugh’s family until Binns returns from Vietnam. A preliminary miscellaneous shower was held for the bride at the Pollack residence with 35 guests.
Butte unit of the American Contract Bridge League hosted Honor the Clubs at the Jolley home 102 Fleecer Drive with over 150 guests. Tom Joyce presided as master of ceremonies as cochairmen and a large committee organized the event.
The East ern Star holds a joint installation at the Masonic Temple for Butte Chapter No. 39 and Ruth Chapter No. 2 with Mr and Mrs Ray Wayrynen and Mr and Mrs James Boldt to be installed as worthy matrons and patrons. Other officers from both chapters are listed, past jewels presented to outgoing leaders, and Ruth Chapter matron Florence Boldt to receive the gavel. The ceremony includes several installing officers from Butte and Ruth chapters and attendees from Montana. The Jolley Duplicate Bridge Club then reports a master point game with 11 tables, Mitchell movement, and winners across north-south and east-west directions, plus top monthly scorers.
Clara M Capp, 78, of Whitehall, died Friday in a Butte hospital. She leaves 12 children among 74 direct descendants and lived in Jefferson Valley over 50 years. Born February 20 1890 in Butte she married John B Capp in 1907. Services will be announced by a Whitehall funeral home. Survivors include numerous Capp family members and relatives in Whitehall Butte Anaconda Veneta and several states.
Dr. John S. Anderson says Montana is at the upper end of a mumps cycle. The 1968 reported mumps total reaches 412, higher than 1967, as interest grows with vaccine availability. He notes flu cases rising to 2,540 from 923, but says no pattern or cause for alarm.
Tom Rimmer, assistant executive director of the Montana Tuberculosis Association, resigns to become executive director of the New Hampshire Tuberculosis and Health Association. A Clinton, Iowa native, he arrived in Helena in 1961 as Carroll College public relations director and has served with the Montana TB group for 20 years. He has also chaired Helena’s Model City Committee and served on the Rocky Mountain Development Council board.
An F4C jet from Davis-Monthan AFB crashed near Gila Bend Arizona killing two pilots Captain Charles Bolin 25 Tucson and First Lieutenant Larry Arnold 26 Billings Montana. The plane was on a gunnery training mission with the combat crew training wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Judge James Freebourn signed district court dismissal orders Friday in the suits of Gary Pat Rooney and Nancy Rooney against Continental Insurance Co. and of Continental against James P Sullivan.
James Campbell of 2830 Moulton told the sheriff Friday that the rear of his parked and locked car was broken into. Missing items include a lug wrench bumper jack jumper cables spare tire and wheel and tire chains.
Georgetown homeowners plan a Sunday 3 p.m. meeting and picnic at Ecclestons near Georgetown Lake. Local residents, possibly including property owners, gather to discuss community concerns and socialize.
The traditional burial place of the Delaware Indian chief Ta manend or Tammany is Chal font in Pennsylvania.
Helena AP reports ten Montana school districts will get special state funds under a 1965 law aiding districts hosting state institutions. Superintendent Harriet Miller said the payments total 21018 dollars and mark the third year of these "state impact aid" grants. Districts include Miles City Elementary 590, Custer County High 1020, Warm Springs Elementary 5534, Anaconda High 3250, Boulder Elementary 1199, Jefferson County High 1500, Twin Bridges Elementary 900, Twin Bridges High 0, Powell County Elementary 4025, Powell County High 2250.
Governor Tim Babcock praised cooperation between Montana fire chiefs and firemen at the sixth annual joint convention in Billings. He cited 6000 fires last year with 27 deaths and substantial property loss, and urged management labor harmony as a model for other industries. State Fire Marshal William A. Pentula attended.
A district court jury awarded Richard M. Richards of Spokane 5000 dollars against Iva Ruckdaschel in a damage suit. The case involved Richards and his wife Mary seeking 126 011.44 with a defendant counterclaim of 68 625. The verdict was reached Thursday night after a three day trial in Judge James D. Freebourn's department. The Aug 12 collision on U S Highway 10 about 4% miles west of was cited as the basis of the action.
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