Montana Highway Commission to Open Bids March 22 Beaverhead County
Bids will be opened in Helena March 22 by the Montana Highway Commission for 13 projects totaling about 60 miles of paving and light surfacing. The list includes grading, surfacing, drainage, fencing and four prestressed concrete beam structures along roads in Beaverhead Cascade Fergus Lake Flathead Hill Jefferson Lewis and Clark and other counties.
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Beaverhead County
Helena
Montana Highway Commission
Idaho Line
Silver Bow
Cascade County
Cascade
Fergus County
Lewistown-Boy
Lake County
Pablo- Kalispell
Judith Basin
Armingtontown
Grass Range
Malta
Flathead County
Kalispell
Half Moon
Hill County
Jefferson and
Lewis and Clark Counties
East Helena
Nixon rules out California governorship bid
Ex Vice President Richard M. Nixon, California’s leading Republican, announced he will not seek the governorship in 1962. He told legislators and friends he has no intention to be a candidate or to draft himself for the job. Democratic officials viewed the move as preserving his national presidential chances.
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California
Sacramento
Calif
Richard M. Nixon
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San Francisco
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Democratic State Central Committee
Miami Beach
Fla
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
GOP
Republican
Butte St Patrick Banquet Thursday Night Draws Visitors
The Friendly Sons of St Patrick of Butte host a St Patrick Eve banquet at the Finlen Hotel drawing guests from Billings Helena Dillon Missoula Deer Lodge Anaconda Great Falls with speakers Rev Joseph Mackin Carroll College and John C Sheehy. Dan O Neill Jr to toast. Tickets on sale at local outlets or through Joseph Sullivan.
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Missoula
Helena
Dillon
Deer Lodge
Anaconda
Great Falls
Cork
Athlone
Sons of St. Patrick
St. Patrick
Finlen Hotel
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Armagh
New York
Boston
San Francisco
Friendly Sons of
St. Patrick of
Joseph Mackin
Carroll College
John C. Sheehy
Dan O'Neill Jr
Butte
Toggery
Knights of Columbus
Sullivan
Montana Power Co
Strah Wins $1000 Elks Scholarship in Butte Contest
David Allen Strah son of Adolph J Strah 107 Bell tops the annual Butte Elks Lodge scholarship contest winning 1000 dollars the grand prize in boys division. Mary Ellen McCarthy daughter of Joseph McCarthy 1137 W Woolman top girl winner receives 250 dollars and state competition. Wilma Platt 949 Empire claims second in girls division with 150 dollars while Robert Dussault 613 W Mercury earns 250 dollars second in boys division.
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Adolph J. Strah
Bell
Butte Elks Lodge
Young Strah
Mary ‘Ellen McCarthy
Girls Central
Miss McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
W. Woolman
Montana Weather Outlook East and West
Montana forecast shows mostly cloudy skies in the east with occasional snow showers across mountains and some snow at lower elevations. Temperatures hold with highs 40 to 50 and lows 15 to 30 Sunday night. In the west, continued clouds with mountain snow flurries and light lower elevations snow, little temperature change. highs 35 to 40 and lows 15 to 25.
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Montana
Missoula Spartans Capture Sixth Class AA Title
Missoula Spartans defeat Park of Livingston Rangers 79 64 to claim the Montana Class AA basketball championship. It marks Missoula’s sixth state title and the second for coach Lou Rocheleau, with the Rangers earning a runner up spot after an unlikely tournament run.
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Missoula
Spartans
Livingston Rangers
Rangers
Lou Rocheleau
Spartan Cagers
Billings Broncs
Park Rangers
Two Bandit Gang Members Captured in Missouri Shootout
In Cape Girardeau Missouri two members of a cross country supermarket bandit trio were captured after a chase that killed auxiliary officer Herbert Goss and wounded two others. A manhunt with about 250 officers and volunteers spanned several southeast Missouri counties. Captain Tucker, 26, of Fresno California, and Thompson, 27, of Bakersfield California, were arrested miles apart three hours after the shooting. Tucker said Thompson took all the weapons and split from the group.
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Herbert Goss
Missouri
Anero
Uni
Sammy A. Tucker
Fresno
Calif
Douglas Wayne
Thompson
Butte High’s La Rae Reynolds Crowned Class AA Queen
La Rae Reynolds of Butte High School was named queen of the Montana Class AA basketball tourney at Missoula Saturday night.
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la Rae Reynolds
Butte High School
Montana
Missoula
Congo Chiefs Forge Loose Confederation Plan
Congolese delegates at a round table in Tananarive announced a plan to organize eight states into a loose confederation aimed at restoring stability. They reported complete accord on major points and scheduled a brief Sunday session to finalize details and sign the agreements. A new leader, Sylvere Bondekiwe, was named for Gizenga's Oriental Province as Moscow-backed Gizenga factions were sidelined.
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Tananarive
Malagasy Republic
Congo
Antoine Gizenga
Stanleyville
Gizenga
Oriental
Sylvere Bondekiwe
Orien
Cuban Ex-GI William Morgan Executed by Firing Squad
In Havana, former American GI William A. Morgan was executed by firing squad at La Cabana after a military court upheld a death sentence for conspiring against the Castro regime. His aide Maj. Jesus Carreras was executed afterward as officials noted the 508th firing squad execution under Fidel Castro’s rule.
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William A. Morgan
Castro
la Cabana
Morgan
Maj
Jesus Carreras
Carreras
Osvaldo
Dorticos
Fidel Castro
Federal Processing of Butte Manganese Stockpile Urged
Frank Quinn reports civil defense official Cole Sullivan urges processing the Butte manganese stockpile rather than sale. Sullivan notes Montana supplied most of U S manganese and proposes $4 million processing to create a usable national stockpile asset benefiting Butte and government investment. He spoke at a Washington Midwinter Conference and seeks OCDM policy adoption.
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Butte
Cole Sullivan
Civil Defense
Silver Bow County
Civil Defense Mobilization
Sullivan
Civil Defense Council
Washington, D. C
Defense Council
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
OCDM
United States
Montana
Man
Texas
Unemployed janitor returns Brink's bag with 240000 dollars
In Los Angeles Doug Johnson, a 50 year old janitor, found a canvas bag containing 240000 in unmarked tens and twenties after it fell from an armored truck. Brink's offered him a $90 weekly guard job and funding for his son’s college tuition, while authorities noted he shouldered no crime and chose to return the money.
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Los Angeles
Brink's, Inc
Brink's Saturday
Douglas William Johnson
Johnson
Richard
Johnsons
Mexico
United States
Helen
FBI
Kennedy appoints envoy to Denmark
President Kennedy selected William McCormick Blair Jr. of Chicago to be the United States ambassador to Denmark. Blair, a law partner of Adlai E. Stevenson, previously worked with him as executive secretary in 1950 and has remained closely associated since. He will succeed Val Peterson.
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Washington
Kennedy
William McCormick Blair Jr
Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
U.S
Denmark
Blair
Stevenson
Val Peterson
May Be Reigning Beauty Crowned National Guard Queen Candidate
A Butte resident may be named the Armed Forces Day National Guard queen candidate. The article hints at additional queen candidates featured in WOMEN'S WORLD with photos and captions.
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National Guard
Armed Forces
Butte
Two Youths Hurt In Separate Auto Accidents
Two youths from Butte and Dillon were hospitalized after separate late night crashes on old Rocker Road near Waite Oil Co. Joseph Rajacich 22 of 2 W LaPlatte was treated for X rays after a 1939 auto driven by Val Tibbetts 2412 Princeton went off the road into an embankment. Tibbetts was treated for mouth lacerations and released. Police noted facial forehead and back pain for others involved and reported no further injuries.
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Joseph Rajacich
W. LaPlatte
St. James Silver Bow General Hospital
Rocker Road
Waite Oil Co
A. C. Vanek
Rajacich
Val Tibbetts
Princeton
Vanek
Tibbetts
Brown
Deans
Fort Harrison Bid Awarding Due in June
The Veterans Administration will award bids for the Fort Harrison renovation in June. Montana veterans will gain a 162 bed hospital, a $4,870,000 project described by Walter W. Barnard of Butte as a major advancement. Barnard, a Legion official, attended the National Commander's Conference in Washington with other Montanans who joined discussions on Legion program goals and VA legislation plans.
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Fort Harrison
Walter W. Barnard
Butte
Bernard
American Legion
Montana
Veterans’ Organization
Barnard
National Public Relations Commission of
The
Legion
Silver Bow No
John Gleason
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