Anaconda Plans Landmark Parochial Aid Levy
Anaconda voters will decide May 27 on a 65 162 dollar levy to hire eight teachers for Anaconda Central High School under a public aid to parochial students plan. If approved, the district would teach the same curriculum and view the funding as aid to students, not to churches.
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Helena
Anaconda
Anaconda Central High School
John L
Luke” McKeon
State Bureau
Anaconda Central
Butte
McKeon
Deer Lodge County
Anaconda High School
Too many dogs and not enough boy
A litter of nine puppies born to Tulip on the Callaghan family yard near Rocker prompts new homes for two male pups as seven siblings already find families in Butte. The story shifts to Washington where the Nixon administration guards confidential Job Corps files on crime and vice amid plans to shutter 57 centers, amid congressional opposition and debate.
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Mike Callaghan
Tulip
Mike
Tom Callaghan
Rocker
Aban
Doned
Callaghan
Butte
Callaghans
Sam Donnell
Washington
Walkerville Boy Killed in Fatal One Car Wreck
Gary Allen Boogal, 16, of Walkerville was killed in a single vehicle crash on Highway 91 near Mercury Street. Three other youths were uninjured as the car skidded on a rain slick curve, rolled into a 40 foot embankment and rested upright in a drainage ditch. Coroner reports cite head and other injuries as the cause of death.
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Gary Allen Boogal
Third
Walkerville
Berkeley Pit
Highway 91
Mercury Street
Howard Lemm
State Patrol
Leo Jacobsen
Boogail
Abernathy freed from jail on bond in Charleston
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, head of the SCLC, was released from a Charleston jail on a $500 bond after appeals to President Nixon for intervention. He and others faced contempt charges for picketing at two hospitals as court hearings continued. Nixon declined to send a representative. local citizen efforts were described as progressing.
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Charleston
S. C
Ralph David Abernathy
Nixon
Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jack Greenberg
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Greenberg
United States
Ron
Ald L. Zeigler
Washington
Citizens Committee
Clarence E. Singletary
Singletary
Wily weather Partly cloudy showers and warmth
Partly cloudy with showers described for today. Forecast shows temperatures in the 60s to 80s with warm, variable conditions across the region. Weather map reference notes page 2 for details.
Retail clerks hold two day Montana conclave in Butte
About 50 Montana labor figures and delegates attend a two day convention of the Montana State Council of Retail Clerks. Sessions are at the Finlen Hotel with union matters on the first day and a banquet at 6 30 p m. Mayor Tom Powers will welcome guests at the Copper Bowl. James Murray of Helena AFL CIO will be the main speaker. Sunday includes a Clark Mansion tour and officer elections. Joe Meyer of Great Falls is council president.
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Montana
Montana State Council of Retail Clerks
Finlen
Tom Powers
Copper Bowl
James Murry
Helena
Afl-Cio
Clark Mansion
Joe Meyer
Great Falls
Council
Tom Adams
Plastic bag suffocates 3 year old Butte girl
A 3 year old girl, Helen Marcades Attletweedt, died after a plastic bag was placed over her head in Butte. Police say the incident occurred while a babysitter watched the children. The coroner will conduct an autopsy and investigators continue to study details.
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Butte
Gene Hall
Standard
St. James Community Hospital
Helen Marcedes
Glen Attletweedt
W. Mercury
Leo Jacobsen
Attletweedt
Jacobsen
QE2 Embarks On Maiden Voyage To New York
Queen Elizabeth 2 sails from Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York amid cheers and a bomb scare later ruled a hoax. Thousands cheer as Fleet Air Arm planes salute the 72 million liner and six tugs push her away from Ocean Terminal.
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Southampton
England
Britain
New York
Fleet Air Arm
Stern
Ocean Terminal
Montana students vie for Treasure State Spelling Bee crown
Montana students compete for top spelling honors with 64 finalists in the fourth annual Treasure State Spelling Bee at Lincoln Junior High School Auditorium. Finalists will spell a designated winning word, following the 1968 contest pattern.
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Billings
Lincoln Junior High School
Griffiths appointment to Montana federal state coordinator
Gov. Forrest H. Anderson announced Vern Griffith 4 former Butte mayor will serve as federal state coordinator for Montana effective June 1 with an $18 000 annual salary. Griffith, an economic development specialist with the FEDA since 1964, previously directed private business and holds four children.
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Helena
Vern Griffith
Butte
Montana
Forrest H. Anderson
Griffith
Federal Economic Development Administration
Celeste
Tim Babcock
John R. Hallowell
Centennial Train veterans hold fifth Butte reunion
The Montana Centennial Train Association begins a fifth annual reunion in Butte with social activities at Finlen Hotel. About 100 members of 500 are expected for a luncheon and officer elections, plus new directors. Otto Sassman will show historical trip slides at 4 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. A banquet follows at 7:30 without formal speeches.
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Centennial Train
Veterans
Butte
Montana Centennial Train Association
Finlen Hotel
Harold McGrath
Norma Ashby
Great Falls
D’arline Olson
Glendive
E. E. MacGilvra
Pauline Hacker
Ennis
J. Larry Parker
Ada Gould
Ronan
Lloyd Dionne
Malta
Carl Smith
Olive
Otto Sassman
Campus unrest erupts across East and Southwest
AP reports student disorders surge with Black students seizing SMU president’s office in Dallas and Negro students marching at Queens College forcing closure for a second day. Brooklyn College clashes include fights, smoke bombs, library fires, and SDS-led protests. Ford warns taxpayers may revolt over higher education spending.
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Associated Press
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Queens College
New York
Queens
Joseph McMurray
Brooklyn College
la Guardia Hall
House
Gerald R. Ford
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N.J
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