Draft policy change at Montana Tech sparks student concerns
Montana Tech alters reporting policy so only students who flunk out or drop out will be reported to draft boards. Students say they learned of the shift late, citing a broader adminstration communication gap with undergraduates and confusion over the term satisfactory in earlier directives.
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Tony Fuller
Montana Tech
Tech
Edwin G. Koch
Koch
National Selective Service System
Butte
Robin Peterson
Peterson
Robert Wilson
Wilson
Self-styled savior charged with murder in blind man beating
Carey F. Maxwell, 28, was charged with murder after police say he beat 62-year-old Fred Grier to death in an effort to make him see. Maxwell's hearing was postponed as he acted "pretty wild" and was held in a jail with facilities for mental cases after Grier, blinded 37 years earlier, became the victim.
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Charlotte
N.C
UPI
Carey F. Maxwell
Maxwell
Fred Grier
Fanaticism and Delusions Spark Violent Outburst
Mrs Grier, visiting a neighbor, saw a car outside her apartment then found her husband Maxwell groaning inside. He attacked with water and a rock before entering and splashing water on his own wife. Police found Grier in a yard nearby as physicians note Maxwell's delusions and grandiose religious fanaticism calling himself the savior.
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Grier
Maxwell
Survivors recount massacre by North Vietnamese in jungle
In the central highlands a platoon of 30 men was cut to 8 survivors as North Vietnamese soldiers moved among the fallen and plundered the bodies. Pfc Clifford Roundtree and Specialist Melvin Schultz describe being kicked and robbed and misbelieved to be dead before rescue.
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Ducco
Vietnam
Tree
Roundtree
Anderson
Calif
Schultz
Culver City
Someone Funng
Kenneth N. Barker
Brownstown
Ill
Banquet Welcomes Ireland's Ambassador to Butte
U S District Judge W D Murray toasted William Patrick Fay the Irish ambassador at a 300 guest Butte Country Club banquet. Fay praised Butte as an Irish center and recalled Montana’s ties to Ireland including Gen. Thomas F Meagher. He thanked Butte and Montana for spiritual and financial support of Ireland's independence.
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Butte
Boston
New York
San Francisco
William Patrick Fay
United States
Sligo
Cork
Limerick
The
Emerald Isle
U.S
W. D. Murray
Bassador
Fay
Butte Country Club
Judge Murray
Anaconda
Helena
Missoula
Montana
Thomas F. Powers
America
Ireland
Hibernian
Patrick Murphy
Pete
Egyptian Troops Seize UN Posts on Gaza Front
Egyptian President Nasser and U Thant agreed UNEF would withdraw after flag removal. Egyptian soldiers occupied UNEF posts in the Gaza Strip on Israel's southern frontier as the UN force ceased operations and tensions rose across Syria Egypt and Israel. Israel prepared to defend itself, denying planned aggression but ready to act if Egypt crosses the border.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Mideast
Gamal Abdel Nasser
U.N
U Thant
United Nations
UNEF
Gaza Strip
Israel
Damascus
Syria
Egypt
Citizens urged to march Loyalty parade today
Five men inspired a large community event in 1967 with a noon parade formation at Granite and Montana. The route extends to Front as conditions allow. citizens are urged to participate, carry flags, and display patriotism in a nonpartisan, nonpolitical demonstration unique to Montana and perhaps the West.
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Butte
Board of County Commissioners
Granite
Montana
Park
Wyoming
Broadway
West
Hanoi fighters push in as US jets strike Hanoi power plant
About 15,000 American Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers enter the buffer zone between Vietnam and its capital as air raids target Hanoi power facilities. U S jet bombers hit a power plant while losing five planes, raising recorded U S losses to 549. South Vietnamese forces close in toward the North Vietnam border as DMZ fighting concentrates near Hanoi.
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Saigon
API
Vienams
Demilitarized Zone
U. S
Hanoi
U.S
North Vietnam
Uss
Bon Homme Richard
7Th Fleet
South China Sea
Fair and warmer through Sunday in Butte Anaconda
The forecast calls for sunny and warmer weather through Sunday. Saturday’s high reaches 71 degrees with a low tonight around 40. Rain is not expected. The day’s high and low compare to 76 and 32 degrees last year.
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Butte - Anaconda
Sonic boom rattles Northern California in early dawn exercise
A sonic boom at 1 56 am rattled northern California as three jet bombers broke the sonic barrier during a Hamilton Air Force Base exercise. Burglar alarms rang in five cities and crockery and windows shattered up to 100 miles apart. In San Francisco 500 residents called police within 25 minutes amid earthquake fears.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Hamilton Air Force Base
Air Force
Butte High seniors stack beer cans in Civic Center wall
A group of Butte High seniors built a 30 foot seven inch stack of beer cans Friday as a playful cleanup stunt. They toppled the bottom row causing a loud cascade of about 15 000 cans and hauled the debris to the dump with help from the Butte Fire Dept using supplied ladders.
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Butte
Butte High
Tony Bracco
Rich Dunstan
Civic Center
Butte Fire Dept
Jim Oset
Butte cleanup effort praised as residents aid citywide effort
Butte and Silver Bow County residents received praise from cleanup coordinators for a community wide effort to clean streets yards vacant lots and alleys. City and county crews will pick up debris at designated sites Monday and Tuesday with residents urged to box or tie debris to prevent scattering.
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Butte
Silver Bow County
Bill Pesanti
Anaconda Woman Receives Record Montana Reward for Cattle Theft
Mrs. Ramona King of Anaconda has received what is believed to be Montana's largest reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction in cattle theft. The $2500 check was presented by Bob James, Beaverhead County rancher and Western district executive for the Montana Stockgrowers Association, and came from MSGA along with Wise River Stockmen's Association and Southwestern Montana Stockmen's Association.
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Ramona King
Anaconda
Montana
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Bob James
Beaverhead
Western District
MSGA
Wise River Stockmen’s Association
Southwestern Montana Stockmen’s Association
Tax protest hearings urged for reappraised property
County officials invite taxpayers to protest reappraisal and reclassification notices before the board. Commissioner Si Holman, Chairman Hubert J. Johnson, and Commissioner Bob Sparks say about 50 taxpayers are protesting weekly. Taxpayers have 30 days to appear. after that, protests are presumed resolved.
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Si Holman
County Board
Holman
Hubert J. Johnson
Bob Sparks
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