Anaconda to elect five member commission manager
Voters in Anaconda chose a five member commission and an appointed manager to tighten taxpayer control while Butte kept elected officials and adopted a chief executive with a 12 member council. Sheriff Hagel and his staff may purchase 10 new patrol cars as they work from the same building.
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Anacondans
Butte
Council of Commissioners
Butte-Silver Bow
Mike Micone
Anaconda
Unification tensions shape Montana city government plans
The Montana Standard notes grants for Hagel to equip police cars with common radios and uniforms unbid at $20,000. It contrasts Butte's rapid unification drive with Anaconda's cautious, staged merger plan delaying key hires until fall, keeping city and county offices separate for a year.
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Anaconda
Anaconda Group
Area vital statistics and obituaries highlight pace
A compact local page lists vital statistics and obituaries with brief notes on notable figures. Dolly Parten image changes are noted, alongside tax charges tied to land deals and college rooms for rent as cash strategies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly Parten
Con
FBI
Carter and world leaders wrap up London summit
President Carter and six other non Communist industrial nations concluded the Downing Street summit with a focus on creating jobs and fighting inflation. The leaders pledged to sustain growth, expand trade, study nuclear energy use, and curb illegal trade practices. Carter cited rising oil prices as a key cause of economic woes and stressed U.S. commitments to uphold promises made.
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London
Carter
Downing Street
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Japan
Italy
Netherlands
U.S. Treasury
Michael Blumenthal
No. 10
Downing St
Britain
Jimmy Carter
Six Nations
Giscard
Carter in London Sermon and Summit Prayers
President Carter attends a Westminster Abbey communion with aides and reporters, tours the sanctuary with Archdeacon Knapp-Fisher, and later speaks at Whitehall about cautious decisions. He enjoys British pomp, recalls Charles I, and notes Dylan Thomas admiration in the poets corner.
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Buckingham Palace
Carter
Westminster Abbey
Knapp-Fisher
London
Elizabeth II
Dylan Thomas
Thomas
Cattle feedlot scandal spurs federal inquiry
Washington agents investigate possible fraud in drought aid to livestock producers. About ten investigators probe alleged ineligible feed lots claiming emergency benefits while feed dealers and truckers allegedly shuffled transportation charges and hay, potentially costing up to 20 million dollars in the past year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Office of Investigation
Minnesota
Bob Bergland
South
Dakota
Stabilization and Conservation Service
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
100 Babies owe life to granny
Mary Dow a 65 year old grandmother donates blood weekly to help pregnant Rh negative women. Her antibodies may have saved over 100 babies despite earlier losses, as scientists later linked the Rh Ah factor to fetal survival. She uses a process that replaces her blood after antibodies are removed.
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Billings
Mont
Mary Dow
Mary
Mrs. Dow
Dillon girl Valarie Briggs slain in Salt Lake City
Valarie Briggs 18 of Dillon was found murdered Friday in Lambs Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Autopsy reports strangulation. body nude and bound with a green bag. Her funeral is set for Wednesday in Lima with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Salt Lake City
Valarie Briggs
Dillon
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lima
William Palmer
Mountain View Cemetery
Miss Briggs
Jack
Allowee Briggs
Dell
LDS
Salt Lake
Lambs Canyon
Nudity and disruptions rise at Boiling Springs area park
Mammoth Wyoming AP reports public nudity and acts of sexual intercourse near Boiling Springs in Yellowstone’s popular area. Park officials hire extra rangers to patrol near the hot springs after complaints of litter theft parking and peeping toms.
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Mammoth
Wyo
Yellowstone National Park
Park Service
Boiling Springs
Yellowstone
Jerry Phillips
Gardiner
The
Phillips
Hot Springs
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Standard
Anaconda- Deer Lodge County
Pat Hagel
Hagel
Montana Standard
State Crime Control Commission
Blazers
76Ers
d’Estaing
U.S
Unifax
New York Times
Edward Knapp-Fisher
Mary Queen of Scots
Elizabeth I
Whitehall
Charles I
Sunday Times of London
Georgia
Regents Park
Pete Hayward
Hayward
Ben Forbes
Dillon Bicentenial
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