Butte Basin Interstate route OK’d by Secretary Brinegar
The Basin to Butte stretch of I 15 won federal approval ending a decade of local effort to place the north south corridor through Butte. senator Mansfield said the road is approved and construction toward Helena will take several years as environmental and routing debates lingered.
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Butte
Boulder
Basin
Secretary of Transportation
Claude Brinegar
Mike Mansfield
Montana Standard
Helena
Basin-Butte
Montana
Whitetail
Boulder Canyon
Pipestone
Cardwell
Nissler Junction
Dillon
Whitehall
High Commission
North Butte
Trask
Elk Park
Bernice, Basin
Galena Gulch
Local government reform bill offered for two months of study
Helena AP A proposed bill on alternative forms of local government was released Friday for two months of discussion ahead of September hearings. The draft from the Commission on Local Government notes that Montana's 1972 constitution requires optional forms for voters and urges a cafeteria style list of options across counties cities and towns to improve accountability and flexibility.
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Helena
Commission On Local Government
Montana
Harold E. Gerke
Billings
George L. Bousliman
Lan
Bousliman
Nixon Brezhnev See Agreement on Missile Defenses
After four hours of direct talks in Moscow, President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev signaled agreement on limiting antiballistic missile ABM systems. A joint statement notes continued discussion on underground nuclear tests, while implying a likely freeze at current ABM levels under the 1972 treaty. The Soviets protect Moscow, the United States guards Grand Forks North Dakota.
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Moscow
Nixon
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Grand Forks
N.D
Butte school board approves 12 million budget plan
The Butte school board Friday approved a preliminary budget totaling 12,130,883.49 allocating 8,388,111.78 to operation, transportation, retirement and debt service for elementary schools. It outlines admin cuts, salary changes for top administrators, and a total district top-administrator cost of 109,284. The district cites wage increases, capital improvements, and higher instructional costs as the main drivers of the roughly 900,000 year-over-year budget rise.
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Butte
Buttero-Tech Center
Koch
Forrest Wilson
Wilson
Bill Kambic
Dale Dart
Bill Milligan
Leroy Casagranda
Jack Schara
Alex Christie
Bob Vivian
Milligan
State panel weighs move to local control of vo tech centers
The Montana Commission on Post Secondary Education debated shifting administration of vocational technical centers to local districts and planned two public hearings in Helena between Sept 10 and Sept 28. The session also considered closing Western Montana College and affected funding for community colleges and Indian student programs.
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Helena
State Commission On Post- Secondary Education
Montana
WMC
Ted James
T Wmc
Montana Tech
Butte
Missoula
Billing
Great Falls
Clerks Union Strikes Eight Uptown Butte Stores
The Butte Clerks Union Local 4 has begun a strike against eight uptown stores after rejecting a wage offer from the Silver Bow Employers Association. Picket lines were set Friday at J C Penney Osselle s Maggie Anns and other shops while Hennessy and Sears avoid picketing due to separate contracts.
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Uptown
Butte Clerks Union
Butte
Silver Bow Employers Association
Bill Smyers
Butte Plaza
Smyers
J.C. Penney
Osselle’s
Weins Men’s
Maggie Ann's
Gamers Shoe
Diana Shop
Genes
Christie’s Furniture
Association
Omens
Smyers Hennessy’s
Sears
Hennessy
Employers Association
Don Robinson
Blinding Flame From Exploding Fireworks Book Matches
Mrs. Rusty Crane of Great Falls sustained an eye injury after a book of matches at a fireworks stand exploded as she attempted to light a cigarette. The ad style resembled a book of matches advertising a nightclub and warned danger but could be concealed when closed. It is unclear if her sight will be permanently affected.
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Great Falls
Rusty Crane
Childr
Copper talks in Phoenix to decide Anaconda pact fate
In Butte unions and Anaconda Co negotiations, the tentative agreement faces review by the National Nonferrous Conference in Phoenix. If approved, ratification votes by local unions will follow, with potential effects on steelworkers and related trades amid ongoing copper industry talks.
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Pheonicester
Anaconda Co
Butte
Barney Rask
Steelworkers Union
Phoenix
Montana Standard
Anaconda
Associated Press
Kennecott Copper Corp
Ps Dod Corp
Mama Copper Corp
United Steelworkers of America
Kennecott
Alvin
Rask
Metal trades settle pact with The Anaconda Company unions
Spokesmen for The Anaconda Company and Montana AFL CIO Friday announced a new labor contract replacing the expiring agreement. Ratification meetings will be held in Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls early next week with unions including Metal Trades AFL CIO, Sheet Metal Workers, Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders, Carpenters, Joiners and others.
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Anaconda Company
Montana Aarade
Afl-Ci
Anaconda
Burlingame
Calif
Butte
Great Falls
Metal Trades Department
Afl-Cio
International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamenal Ironworkers
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Shipbuilders
International Association of Sheet Metal Workers
International Molders and Allied Workers Union
Pattern Makers League of North America
United Association of Journeymen Plumbers and Steamfitters
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Mind reading computer shown in Stanford project
In Menlo Park a woman uses a modified white helmet with electrodes while a screen shows a moving dot as a computer reads thoughts via brain wave patterns. Researchers note spoken words are detected more accurately than silent thoughts, with implications from communication aids to potential military use.
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Menlo Park
Calif
Lawrence Pinneo
Stanford Research Center
Ane
Prince
Rebecca Mahoney
Pinneo
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