Mansfield urges rapid cut in foreign aid to loans only
Sen. Mike Mansfield proposed in Washington to halt all foreign economic aid as gifts within three years and shift to loans, cut military aid, and remove secrecy labels from aid totals. He urged a detailed plan beginning next fiscal year and would move military aid into the Defense Department budget with State Department oversight.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro Washington
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Mansfield
Senate
Congress
Eisenhower
U. S. Defense Department
Despondent motorist shoots self causing fatalities in St Petersburg
Vernon Donald Kelly 22 of St Petersburg shot himself while driving in downtown St Petersburg. His car struck pedestrians crossing with a green light. Pedestrian Percy Lonsdale 70 died after being pinned under the car. The three deaths by own action notes were found in Kellys car. The injured Thelma Mitchell 37 Emily Fitchman 37 were in fair and satisfactory condition respectively.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Vernon Donald Kelly
Percy Lonsdale
Kelly
Thelma Mitchell
Emily Fitchman
Jack Parten
Miami
Grateful Godfrey Leaves Hospital After Cancer Fight
Arthur Godfrey, 55, left Columbia-Presbyterian in a weak but grateful mood after a five hour operation to remove part of his cancerous left lung. He said the tumor wrapped around the aorta and thanked the surgical team for a life saved. He faces periodic X rays and possible rest at home as doctors monitor for spread or recurrence.
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New York
Arthur Godfrey
Godfrey
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
American Cancer Society
Deadline Extended for 1960 Wheat Quotas
Washington AP reports the deadline to announce 1960 wheat allotments and marketing quotas was extended two weeks to June 1 by a congressional resolution signed by President Eisenhower. He urged Congress to pass realistic wheat legislation rather than stopgap measures, aiming at a program aligned with administration goals.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Two-Day Rotana Convention Opens Tonight
About 110 delegates from Montana and Cody Wyoming will meet in Butte for the Rotana district convention. Activities include a 7 30 banquet at the Finlen Hotel with speeches by Veronica O Sullivan Kathleen Brogan Evelyn Sullivan and Winifred Torgerson. Business sessions Sunday plan a new district governor election and next year site selection.
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Montana
Cody
Wyo
Butte
Rotana
Finlen
Veronica O’sullivan
Treasure State Room
Kathleen Brogan
Butte Rotana
Great Falls
Anaconda
Bozeman
Billings
Helena
Laurel
Butte and
Negro Coed Wins Beauty Contest at Indiana University
Nancy Streets a 19 year old South Bend sophomore won Miss Indiana University beating 14 white coeds in a panel judged pageant. The major in speech and theater said she prayed for the win and plans to compete for Miss Indiana in the Miss America contest.
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Bloomington
Ind
Indiana University
Nancy Streets
South Bend
Miss Streets
House Group Slashes Farm Funds In Budget Battle
The House Appropriations Committee trimmed $142 million from new farm funds for the coming fiscal year and reduced some Executive Office of the President allocations by $270,000. It left intact $10.26 million for the President’s office including a $1 million emergency fund, urging restraint. The panel criticized the Agriculture Department’s handling of soil bank programs and faulted the Commodity Credit Corporation for not selling surplus cotton competitively, warning of legal and economic harm to farmers and taxpayers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
House
Ezra Taft Benson
Commodity Credit Corporation
U. S
Treasury
Phone Company Seeks Fair Rate Review in Montana
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. asks the Montana Public Service Commission for a hearing to establish a fair rate of return on Montana earnings. Current returns are under 4 percent with costs rising, and valuation of Montana properties would guide new rates. The filing cites inadequacies of rates in effect since Sept. 1, 1953, and notes dismissal of a Lewistown court action.
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PSC
Montana
Lewis and Clark County District Court
Bus and Auto Collision Near Harrington Kills Driver
A Greyhound bus from Seattle to Spokane struck a car near Harrington Washington, then overturned injuring 25 of 26 passengers. William F. Moeller 65 of Harrington was killed. Ambulances rushed the injured to Spokane area hospitals. all were reported noncritical.
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Spokane
Hershel Haynes
Air Force
Cottonwood
Idaho
Seattle
Moeller
W. T. Jordan
Boy Drowns as Girl 4 Tries Bathing Him
In Richmond a 2 year old, Robert Brewster Jr., drowned in a bath while a 4 year old girl, playing mother, tried to bathe him. He died at a hospital after being found in a tub with four to five inches of water. The parents are divorced and the boy was boarded at Mrs. Perrin’s home.
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Richmond
Robert Brewster Jr
A. C. Davis
Chesterfield County Police Department
Woman Stricken, Auto Plunges Off Highway Near Warren Mont
Mrs. Mattie S. Noble 86 longtime Thermopolis resident died likely of a heart attack Friday before her car rolled over a 12 foot embankment two miles north of Warren Carbon County near the Wyoming border She was en route to Billings to visit a granddaughter Survivors include a son in Loveland Colo and Ralph W Noble county treasurer in Thermopolis Coroner Norman Gardner said death not counted as a traffic fatality.
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Warren
Carbon County
Wyoming Line
Otho S. Ford
Littleton
Colo
Ralph W. Noble
Thermopolis
Helena
Alex Stephenson
Dulles' Condition Has Worsened
Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 71, has a declining condition due to cancer and a mild pneumonia last weekend. State Department spokesman Lincoln White said pneumonia remains unresolved with further general decline. Dulles is hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Dulles
Lincoln White
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Armed Forces Day Event to Welcome Public in Butte
Military units from Army Navy Marine Corps and Air Force join for Armed Forces Day displays at the Navy Marine Corps Reserve Training Center in Clark Park Butte. Visitors can view two National Guard tanks a bazooka weapons and standard service equipment. Flights by eight F89 fighters and a B47 bomber are scheduled with flyovers around 11:30 to 11:34 a.m. and 1:30 to 1:39 p.m. Lt Cmdr C E Davis chairs the event with continuous movies guided tours and a Saturday afternoon talent show. Mayor Vern Griffith urges residents to attend.
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U. S
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Butte
Navy- Marine Corps Reserve Training Center
Clark Park
Wall Street
Florence
George
Cmdr
C. E. Davis
Armed Forces Day
Vern Griffith
National Guard
Montana State Penitentiary
Deer Lodge
U. S. Army
Air National Guard
Federal Aviation Authority
Anaconda
Great Falls Afb
Pass Butte
FAA
Memorizing a Page of Want Ads by Thomas Hook
A London resident in the early 1800s, Thomas Hook, reportedly could read a page of want ads in the London Times and recite them from memory. The note urges daily reading of Want Ad sections for quick action, and provides a dialing tip: 5451.
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Thomas Hook
London
London Times
Dial
Ike urged to push for atomic powered plane
Lt Gen Roscoe C Wilson said final technical barrier shielding crew and equipment from radiation has been overcome. He noted President Eisenhower had not yet approved action to authorize expedited nuclear aircraft development and that Quarles’ last move was to seek approval from the President. The nuclear plane could be in the air in years if funded.
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Vern Haugland
Washington
Donald A. Quarles
Eisenhower
Roscoe C. Wilson
Air Force
Wilson
Aviation Writers Assn
Quarles
Soviet Union
Ike Leaves for Colorado Today
President Eisenhower will depart Washington early Saturday in Columbine III for a brief trip to Colorado Springs arriving at 11 00 a m MST. He will tour the new Air Force Academy and then fly to Denver to rejoin Mrs. Eisenhower, who has been with her ailing mother. The journey includes Secretary James H. Douglas and Gen Thomas D White aboard outward flight.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Colorado
White House
Columbine III
Colorado Springs
Air Force Academy
Denver
John S. Doud
Air Force
James H. Douglas
Thomas D. White
Japan rejects Soviet neutrality demand in defense stance
Tokyo reports Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's government will not pursue neutrality and asks Moscow to stay out of Japan's defense affairs. Foreign Office denies bringing nuclear arms and reiterates that Japan's U S alliance is purely defensive. The reply responds to a May 4 Soviet note seeking removal of U S troops and bases and neutrality.
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Tokyo
Nobusuke Kishi
Soviet Union
Foreign Office
Japan
United States
U. S
Butte records warm temp as heat hits 72 degrees
Butte marked its warmest day since October 18, 1958, with a Friday high of 72. The previous warmer day was 73 degrees on Oct. 18, 1958.
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Butte
Mayor Wagner Involved In World Trade Fair Safe Hold
Police officer warned a man near President Eisenhower at the World Trade Fair. The man was Mayor Robert F. Wagner, and the confrontation ended without incident as authorities clarified the moment.
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New York
UPI
Bud
Eisenhower
Robert F. Wagner
Soviet Push for Rapid German Peace Treaty and Berlin Crisis
In Geneva Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko urged swift signing of a German peace treaty with both German states, opposing the Western phased reunification plan. He warned that handling the Berlin and European security issues together could derail talks, insisting a peace treaty with both German states is the only path. The U S and Britain criticized the Soviet stance while outlining a Western package that envisions a unified Berlin and security guarantees pending a broader settlement.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Germany
Gromyko
United States
Moscow
Selwyn Lloyd
Lloyd
U.S
Bonn Republic
East Germany
Poland
Soviet Union
Oder-Neisse Line
West
West Berlin
National Rivers Congress Urges New Water Projects
The National Rivers and Harbors Congress calls to end the administration ban on new water projects and endorses a list of 27 projects with total costs exceeding 291 million. Secretary Seaton warns against overextension of reclamation and urges careful funding and faster engineering studies.
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Washington
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Congress
Budget Bureau
Fred A. Seaton
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau
Montana Weather Forecast East And West Regions
Montana forecast shows east region fair to partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms, highs 70 to 80 east and north and 55 to 65 southwest, cooler nights. West region mostly cloudy with showers and a few thunderstorms, highs 50 to 65, lows 35 to 45.
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Montana
U.S. Industrial Output Reaches Post Recession Peak
The Federal Reserve reports April industrial production at 149, surpassing the pre-recession high of 147. Durable goods rise, steel hits a post-recession high, soft goods up slightly, and minerals steady. Employment gains broad with unemployment falling more than seasonal. Consumer income and buying at record levels.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Reserve Board
Anaconda Official Stricken Ill Hospitalized at Local Hospital
Chester H. Steele vice president in charge of Western Operations of The Anaconda Company was stricken ill Wednesday evening and hospitalized. Reports Friday said he was resting easily with some improvement but condition remained serious. He was admitted after falling ill at home.
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Chester H. Steele
Anaconda Company
Community Memorial Hospital
Mr. Steele
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