Montana centers seek 66.5 million for five vocational schools
The five Montana postsecondary vocational centers project a 66.5 million budget for 1977 through 1989 covering operations and construction. The plan includes 13.9 million for 1977 79 and 17.3 million for 1979 81 plus 19 million for a long range building program with site specific requests for Billings Butte Missoula Great Falls Helena and associated facilities.
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Helena
Ous
Missoula
Ask
Ford vetoes four billion foreign aid bill in clash with Congress
President Ford blocked a 4 billion foreign aid authorization citing unprecedented restrictions on presidential power. The bill would fund fiscal 1977 with 3 billion for foreign military aid and credits including 2.2 billion for Israel and 750 million for Egypt. Ford called Congress a co administrator in foreign policy and warned of constitutional overreach. The veto followed votes of 250 185 in the House and 51 35 in the Senate, lacking two thirds to override.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
House
Senate
Israel
Egypt
U.S
North
South Vietnam
Jobless rate holds steady as April adds workers
U S April unemployment remains at 7.5 percent after five straight declines, with employment up 707000 to a record 87,399,000. Ford team notes the gain mostly in cyclical manufacturing while Meany questions the true jobless rate and discouraged workers.
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Washington
Labor Department
Herman I. Liebling
T’s Office of Financial Analysis
Five die in ambulance crash near Largo Florida
In Largo Florida an ambulance carrying Frank Umage and four rescue workers crashed into a tree after failing to navigate a curve. Umage, 65, and four rescue workers died. Bob LaDisa’s father-in-law was among the deceased. Evelyn Umage, in LaDisa’s car, cried out for help as bystanders and doctors treated shock victims.
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LaDisa
Frank Umage
Evelyn Umage
Robert Pettyjohn
Pettyjohn
Umage
Largo
Clearwater
Florida
Regents can keep money in Montana University System funds
Montana Atty. Gen. Woodahl ruled that the Board of Regents may spend a disputed 2.2 million through approved budget amendments and need not deposit it in the general fund. Funds from 1973-75 must carry over to 1975-77. shifting to the general fund would infringe on the regents' constitutional control of the university system.
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Legislative
John D. LaFaver
Evel Knievel to star in $4 million Viva Knievel film
Evel Knievel will headline a $4 million Warner Bros. movie Viva Knievel set to begin filming June 2, with Gordon Douglas directing and Irwin Allen producing. Shot in Mexico and the United States, the plot involves narcotics smuggling and an attempted hit on Knievel, with a PG rating and charity premiere planned in Butte.
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Butte
Evel Knievel
Viva Knievel
Warner Bros
Sherrill C. Corwin
Corwin
Knievel
Mexico
United States
Frank Wells
Prairie house offers low cost energy efficient Montana option
Montana State University architects detail the prairie house as a low cost, energy efficient housing alternative designed to fit rural land and ecology. The 850 square foot plan, costing about 7080 dollars with self build, emphasizes earth sheltering, reused materials, local sourcing, and simple interiors, with a mobile home modification also proposed.
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Montana
Ilmar Reinwald
Montana State University School of Architecture
John Schwechten
Europe
Africa
Asia
United States
Reinwald
U. S
Dawson County
Glendive
School of Architarture
Raromar
Ennis Iron Mine Rumor Denied by Officials
Officials from the Bureau of Land Management and U S Steel deny an Associated Press report that an iron mine in the Standard Creek area south of Ennis is moving ahead. M D Okerland says there are no plans on the drawing boards.
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Ennis
Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Steel Corp
Associated Press
Black Butte
Madison River
U.S. Steel
BLM
M. D. Okerland
Don Worth
Billings
Bozeman Worlh
Okerland
Montana Standard
Orem
Utah
Standard Creek
Mesabi Range
Minnesota
Carter Creek
Dillon
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Polly Prchal
B. Dell
Polly” Prehal
Hell Roarin
Guich
World Museum of Mining
St. Patrick
Brown's Gulch
Batt Pesanti
Butte Community Development
Afl-Cio
George Meany
LaFaver
Woodahl
Woodah
Evel
Gordon Douglas
Irwin Allen
MSU
New Prairie
Yellowstone
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