Irish Have Their Day At Friendly Sons Banquet In Butte
About 300 guests gathered at the Finlen Hotel Silver Bow Ballroom for the annual Friendly Sons of St Patrick banquet. Kevin Shannon presided as toast master and Dale Crowley spoke on Butte heritage. The event celebrated St Patrick with music wit and Irish hospitality while noting emigration and long-standing Gael links.
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Donegal
Tipperary
Derry
Tyrone
Butte
St. Patrick Day
Cale Crowley
Billings
Caleb J. Crowley
Seattle
Cale
Montana
Saol Agath
Sons of St. Patrick
Silver Bow
Finlen Hotel
Kevin Shannon
Butte Insuranceman
Dale Crowley
Montana Bar Association
M. M. English
St. Patrick
Ireland
J. J. Lynch
St Patricks Day Shamrock Heads Both Sides
A green shamrock coin worn in Butte honors the Apostle of the Gael. The piece may originate from an island far away and is linked in rumor to makers in O Kayama O Saka or O Muta or O Taru or O Kinawa.
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Butte
Beccnee
Absentee Ballot Procedure for City Primary
City Clerk Neal E. Shea announced that absentee ballots will be counted next Monday in the city primary. Hall closures over the weekend limit in person handling. only mailed ballots delivered Monday morning will be relayed to precincts. Voters at home or in hospitals must reach Shea by 5 p.m. Friday. 159 absentee applications filed, 125 returns received.
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Neal E. Shea
Shea
Selma Montgomery Pilgrimage Cleared by Court
U S District Judge Frank M Johnson Jr ruled they may march from Selma to Montgomery. Civil rights leaders won the right to a five day, three mile pilgrimage beginning Friday, with state troopers and local authorities barred from interfering. The decision targeted Gov Wallace Col Albert and Sheriff Clark as enforcees of the order.
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Montgomery
Ala
Selma
Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr
U.S
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Johnson
George C. Wallace
Col. Albert
James G Clark
Dallas County
Mohammed Ali
Mohamed Naguib
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Fouad
Egypt
United Arab Republi
Nasser
Farouk
Farida
Daughers
Ferial
Fawzia
Fadia
Johnson Submits Voting Rights Bill to Congress
President Johnson sent Congress his top priority voting rights bill seeking to erase literacy tests and similar barriers in states and units with low registration and turnout. The measure would deploy voting examiners to register voters for federal state and local elections and would bar tests or required educational or moral character proofs. A nationwide push followed a carrry of civil rights protests and remarks by leaders including Emmanuel Celler and Rev Ralph Abernathy.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
House
Senate
Guayer
Alaska
Emmanuel Celler
Court weighs appeal to halt Butte reapportionment
Montana Supreme Court heard a three‑hour plea to overturn a US district court reapportionment order in Butte. The case seeks to stop aldermen from being elected at large for March 22 primary and April 5 election, amid claims of attorney collusion and procedural violations.
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Helena
UPI
Montana
Maurie Feuer
Laurice F. Hennessey
LL. Libra
Libra
Phoebe R. Herweg
Butte
Monaghan
Supreme Court
Atwards
Silver Bow County District Court
Congress
Jasper Dawson
Murray
States urged constitutional amendment on reapportionment
Washington AP report on Senate subcommittee testimony urging a constitutional amendment to let states apportion one house by factors other than population. Edwin C. Johnson cites Supreme Court rulings as a cause for bewilderment and calls for protecting local government, with support from Montana lawmakers and business groups.
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Supreme Court
Colorado
U.S
Edwin C. Johnson
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Montana
Florida Senate
Johnson
Ohnson
House
Senate
Ray J. Wayrynen
Montana House
David F. James
Montana Senate
Wayrynen
James
State Class A Basketball Finale Opens in Bozeman
Bozeman hosts the Montana State College fieldhouse for the state Class A Tournament opening round. Four games set today include Great Falls vs Hamilton at 2 p.m and Billings West vs Missoula Sentinel at 3 30 p.m. The eight-team field emerged from four divisional playoffs two weeks earlier.
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Bozeman
UPI
Montana
Montana State College
Great Falls
Hamilton
Billings West
Missoula Sentinel
Billings Central
Columbia Falls
Billings
Blizzard Rages Across Midwest With Tornadoes in South
A powerful St Patrick's Day blizzard shut over 200 Minnesota schools and disrupted Midwest travel. Tornadoes tore through the South causing heavy property damage. Roads closed in Minnesota and Iowa as a cold snap followed, bringing subzero to below zero temperatures in North Dakota and western Minnesota.
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Associated Press
St. Patrick's Day
Minnesota
Midwest
Iowa
St. Cloud
Minn
National Guard
Bee - Minnesota
Willmar
Dakotas
North Dakota
Gilans Wate
Saees de
Ex King Farouk of Egypt Dies in Rome Restaurant
Former King Farouk collapsed at a Rome restaurant with a woman companion and died before reaching San Camillo Hospital. The 45 year old ex monarch, famed for exile wealth and a Dolce Vita lifestyle, left an estimated $2 million cash in hand and a monthly income of about $3,500.
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Farouk
Egypt
Rome
San Camillo Hospital
France
Italy
Lausanne
Farida
Narriman
Mediterranean
Cairo
Omaha Woman Drowns When Auto Goes Into River Near Drummond
A 68 year old Omaha woman, Mrs. Robert McBride, drowned after her car slid off U S Highway 10 into the Clark Fork River near Drummond Montana. Her husband survived and was treated for shock at a Missoula hospital. Coroner Woodrow Wilson said the car struck a rock and plunged down a 25 foot bank into icy water. The top of the car was under slush. This marked Montana's 39th traffic fatality of the year and Granite County's first in 1966.
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Drummond
Clark Fork
Robert McBride
Omaha
Wilson
Montana
Granite County
Weather Summary for Butte and Northwest Regions
Weather forecast calls for fair and cold conditions tonight with cloudiness and a slight warming trend Friday. Highs near 10, with night lows around minus 14, continuing very cold conditions in the northwest Thursday night and Friday. Northwest highs 5 to 20 above zero. Thursday night lows from zero to 20 below. West of Divide remains fair but very cold Thursday and Thursday night. Mountains show partly cloudy skies with light snow showers and frigid temperatures Friday. Highs 5 to 25. Thursday night lows from 5 below to 29 below zero.
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Butte-Anaconea
Butte
Divide
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