Washboiler baby Linda Keranen now thirteen
Linda Lee Keranen once known as Butte’s wash boiler baby after a 1947 oxygen tent rescue travels today as a seventh grader in Mining City. The photo shows her in child and adult transport gear with her father Emil Keranen and airline staff in the scene.
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Linda Lee Keranen
Emil Keranen
Butte
Rochester
Minn
Linda Lee
Linda
Betty Engdal
Roman Justiss
Billings
Public Hearing Urged On Meaderville Road Abandonment
County officials Frank Gersh and George D. McCarthy urge a public hearing on abandoning the 2,200 foot Meaderville link to U S Highway 91 near Berkeley Pit. Anaconda Co plans a new road routing via Meaderville, increasing distance by nearly a mile. They call for safeguards on sewage, road standards, public safety, and local impact before any action.
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Frank Gersh
George D. McCarthy
Board of County Commissioners
Butte
Meaderville
Anaconda Co
Berkeley Pit
Gersh
McCarthy
Anasconda Co
Visit to Montana School of Mines Aims at Engineering Days
Montana residents are invited to attend Engineering Days at the Montana School of Mines on April 2 and 3 from 1 30 to 10 30 p m. Departments will display facilities equipment and education options with personnel to answer questions. A 1959 Hebgen Dam earthquake display, films, demonstrations, and refreshments are planned.
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Montana
Mines School
Montana 1 of Mines
School of Mines
Hebgen Dam
Petroleum
United front in talks on Geneva nuclear test ban
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrives in Washington for talks with President Eisenhower aimed at forging a united British American stance at Geneva on a limited nuclear test ban. A joint decision is sought on the Western move as talks cover Berlin, disarmament and a potential moratorium on underground explosions.
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Washington
Harold Macmillan
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Geneva
Macmillan
Camp David
Berlin
Christian A. Herter
State Department
Herter
Threatened Dam In Brazil Is Holding Firm
A large earth dam on the Jaguaribe River held firm as rain drove levels near the top. Officials said spillways opened and tributaries were lowering, while 50,000 evacuees were moved from nearby towns but Aracati merchants refused to leave, trusting the dam to hold.
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Fortaleza
Brazil
Jaguaribe
Oros
Josef Candido Pessoa
National Department
Limoeiro
Aracati
Itaicaba
Jaguaruana
South Africa Eases Passbook Rule Amid Crisis
South Africa announced police will not demand passbooks or arrest non possession as crowds march and violence flares. Pan Africanist Congress leader Mangaliso Sobukwe and 23 others face charges of incitement, with court appearances set for April 4 in Johannesburg.
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South Africa
National Police
Petoria
Pan Africanist Congress
Cape Peninsula
Vereeniging
Hendrik Verwoerd
Mangaliso Sobukwe
Johannesburg Magistrates
Sobukwe
Montanan Killed By Car While Walking on Road
John Little Plume, 61, of Browning was struck by a car on U S Highway 2 three miles east of Browning between 1 and 1 30 a m. The driver, John Minyard in his 40s a Browning tavern operator, was involved. An inquest was planned. Little Plume leaves a widow two sons and two daughters. Montana traffic deaths reach 28 for the year.
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Browning
John Little Plume
John Minyard
Little Plume
Montana
Montana Weather: East and West Regions Showers and Cooler Temps
The Montana forecast shows east region mostly cloudy with showers and snow in mountains, highs 45-55 northeast and 55-70 west, lows 20-35, Monday highs 35-45 northeast and 45-60 elsewhere. West region expects mostly showers and cooler conditions with highs 45-60, 40-50 Monday.
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Montana
Ronan Glendive Students Win Elks Scholarship
George M White Jr of Ronan High School and Patsy Ann Toy of Dawson County High School Glendive were named top winners in the Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student scholarship. The Montana State Elks Assn meeting in Helena announced the awards.
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George Matthew White Jr
Ronan High School
Patsy Ann Toy
Dawson County
Glendive
Elks National Foundation
Montana State Elks Assn
Finlen Hotel
Phil Johnson
Kalispell
George Wellcome
Anaconda
Emmett Carey
Stanley Snyder
Havre
Gil Lemelin
Joe McCarthy
Butte
Henry Zahn
Missoula
White
George M. White
Rowan
Miss Toy
William Toy
Noted Doctor in Butte Talks No Cure-All for Cancer Soon
Dr. David A. Karnofsky of Sloan Kettering, speaking in Butte, said there will be no universal cancer cure in the foreseeable future. He outlined a vast, ongoing program to find drugs that destroy or control cancer cells, with government and private funding expanding in the last 15 years.
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Butte
David A. Karnofsky
New York City
Karnofsky
Sloan- Kettering Institute
Mary E. Swift
American Cancer Society
Poll at City Hall In Favor of DST
A mail poll initiated by Mayor Vern Griffith drew 629 votes for and 60 against Daylight Saving Time. Most responses favored shifting to a school-year aligned schedule, with concerns about two time zones for railroad workers and local shopping hours.
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Vern Griffith
U N Delays Race Troubles Meeting At Africa Asia Push
South Africa won a 24 hour postponement of a U N Security Council session on the race troubles after H P Martin asked for time to present South Africa’s case. Bernardus Fourie travels back from Cape Town following his wife’s death in an auto crash to prepare for the debate.
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N. Y
South Africa
U. N. Security Council
Africa
Asia
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
H. P. Martin
U. N
Martin
Lodge
Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie
Cape Town
U.N
Fourie
Council
Hester Nave 95 dies in Butte after long life
Hester Isabel Nave aged 98 died Saturday in the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Ernest Rider 1812 Massachusetts. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 pm at Connors Mortuary with burial in the Aoslersburg Cemetery. She was born in Maungakaranea New Zealand in 1864 and lived with the Rider family in Butte for 16 years.
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Hester Isabel Nave
Ernest P. Rider
Massachusetts
Wayrynen
Townsend
Connor’s
Aodersburg
Nave
Maungakaranea
New Zealand
Jonathan
Ann Purcell Sherlock
Cork
Ireland
San Francisco
Crow Creek Valley
Enandel Nave
Great Falls
Radersburg
Seattle
William Sherlock
B. F. Badham
Puyallup, Wash
Lauren Olsen
William F. Allen
Butte
Kenneth Cowgill
Albany
Ore
Kenneth Nave
Alana Cordy
Los Angeles
James Nave
Four Children Die in Rankin Fire Tragedy
Four young children died in a Rankin suburb fire that trapped them as flames engulfed two houses. The victims were John White 3, Kenneth 2, Dennis 10 months, and David Howes, all members of the White and Howes families.
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Pittsburgh
Rankin
John White
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