Tornado Alerts Keep Missouri Kansas Residents On Edge
Following two days of deadly twisters that killed 51 in Missouri and Kansas, residents faced ongoing tornado alerts. Severe weather with heavy rain and power outages disrupted life as the Weather Bureau warned across Missouri and Arkansas. A Desloge family tragedy and other destruction highlighted the toll while agencies tracked the slow moving storms.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Steelville
Illinois
Desloge
State Stockmen To Convene In Butte Today
Delegates arrive in Butte for the Montana Stock growers Assn annual convention opening today. More than 400 delegates and guests are expected as the Montana Cowbelles auxiliary also meets. Gov. J Hugo Aronson will speak Friday. The three day program runs Thursday through Saturday in Butte with events at the Finlen Hotel and Silver Bow Ballroom.
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Butte
Montana Stockgrowers Assn
Montana Cowbelles Assn
Stockmen’s
Finlen
Silver Bow
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Montana
Jack Brenner
Grant
Gene Etchart
Glasgow
Wayne Bratten
Winnett
Chauncey Flynn
Chinook
Ford Garfield
Ryegate
William Mackay
Roscoe
Dale
Miller's Office Is Reorganized
Helena public instruction superintendent Harriet Miller unveils a department reorganization effective June 17. New posts include chief accountant and deputy superintendent with Paul O'Hare, Barbara Longmaid as executive assistant, Edwin W. Nelson as chief accountant, and William L. Erickson as state high school supervisor.
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Helena
Public Instruction
Harriet Miller
Miss Miller
Paul T. O'Hare
Helena High School
Barbara Longmaid
Vocational School For Girls
Edwin W. Nelson
Missoula Bank
William L. Erickson
Belgrade
William I. King
Shirley M. Kelson
Sunburst
Parliament calls on US Britain and USSR to halt nuclear tests
New Delhi India’s Parliament on Wednesday night urged the United States Britain and the Soviet Union to suspend nuclear testing. The resolution led by Defense Minister V K Krishna Menon urged a halt while disarmament talks and a broader agreement on disarmament and stockpiling are pursued.
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New Delhi
India
United States
Britain
Viet Union
Defense
V. K. Krishnaenon
Major Parley On Arms Set for Today
Washington White House said a high level decision on East West disarmament may be reached at a National Security Council meeting Thursday. President Eisenhower, Harold Stassen and Adm. Radford were discussed as key participants with Stassen optimistic about possible arms accord with Russia.
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Washington
White House
Russia
National Security Council
James C. Hagerty
Eisenhower
Council
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
United States
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
Boys Central High to graduate largest class tonight
Boys Central High School will graduate eighty six seniors at 8 p m in Bow Theater. Dr C P Brooke Missoula physician and surgeon and 1932 honor graduate will deliver the commencement address. The Rt Rev M M English will preside. Salutatory by Michael Buckley and valedictorian Leonard Vainio. Diplomas and special awards to be presented by Monsignor English.
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Boys Central High School
Christian Brothers School
Bow
C. P. Brooke
Missoula
Boys Central
M. M. English
Butte
Brooke
Montana
Pony
St. Patrick
Carroll College
Helena
St. Louis University Medical School
Michael Buckley
Emmett Buckley
Caledonia
Leonard Vainio
Grand Ave
Martin Cesare
T. P. Roland
Stars and Stripes Forever
Prudence
Muskrat Rambler
William A. McBride
Leo J. McCarthy
Patrick E. McCarthy
Ralph McCaughey
Robert M. McDonough
Terence M. McGurk
Edward J. Meade
Albert J. Molignani
John A. Monahan
John R. Moriarty
Robert J. Murray
William D. Murray Jr
Charles A. Nakwas
James G. Noctor
John T. O'Connor
Joseph D
Scouts to Open Camporee at Willow Creek
About 500 Boy Scouts and leaders gather for a three day Pioneer Council Camporee at a mountain camp near Dillon. The event, starting Friday, leverages wall tents tepees and pup tents for patrols and individuals in a forest clearing 25 road miles northwest of Dillon.
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Dillon
Willow Creek
Pioneer Council
Eisenhower vows to push budget cut amid defense fear
President Eisenhower declared he will fight to the end for his 71.8 billion budget as the House Appropriations Committee voted a 2.5 billion cut he says will hit defense. He warned he will seek support from sympathetic lawmakers beyond GOP leadership while keeping leaders informed. He emphasized the open mind on disarmament talks and noted a $1.3 billion portion of the cut is a bookkeeping maneuver.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House Appropriations Committee
GOP
Congress
White House
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Administration Gains Fresh Foreign Aid Support
The Eisenhower administration appears to have won renewed backing for its 3.965 billion foreign aid program as Secretary Dulles argues the case before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Capehart praised the persuasive presentation and public sentiment for mutual security policies grows more favorable, despite ongoing calls for cuts and questions about unexpended balances.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen
Capehart
R-Ind
White House
Congress
Byrd
Dva
Senate Finance Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
Dulles
Slain Wife Found In Refrigerator
In Denver a 26 year old woman Mrs Mary Martinez Mills was found murdered with her throat slashed packed in a refrigerator in the couple’s small apartment. Police identified the missing husband Ernest Mills 33 who had a manslaughter conviction in Missouri. The body was found by the Yeagers apartment caretakers. Autopsy to be scheduled next day.
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Denver
Mary Martinez Mills
Ed McCune
Ernest J. Mills
Mayti
Mills
Missouri State Reformatory
William E. Yeager
East Denver
Ukulele roots noted with colonial design link
The piece asserts that a white man, not Hawaiians, created the first ukulele by adapting the Portuguese guitar in the late 1700s. It also mentions a Want Act as a quick way to reach potential buyers for guitars, ukuleles, and island-related items, with a contact number 5451.
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Islands
Boy 14 Kills His Mother And Sister
In Rye New York a 14 year old boy enraged by a homework dispute shot and killed his mother and sister with a .22 caliber rifle police said. The father Eugene Casey a public relations man phoned police and later suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized.
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Rye
N. Y
Eugene Casey
Boy 7 Survives Train Runover in Illinois
Terry Hunt, seven, was run over by a train after his pony bolted at a whistle. He crawled from between the rails with only a scratch on his forehead as the locomotive and five freight cars passed over him before the engineer halted the train.
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Dale
Ill
Terry Hunt
Terry
Senate Approves Slashed Measure For White House Funds
The Senate passed a reduced appropriations bill for White House operations and top executive agencies totaling 16.01 million dollars, undercuts President Eisenhower’s request by about 4.9 million, and returns the measure to the House. The House also approved a larger 78.3 million dollar bill for House operations and legislative programs, with a 2.2 percent cut. Senators Magnuson Douglas and Gore criticized budget excesses, while Dirksen defended presidential luxuries.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Eisenhower
House
Dirksen
Magnuson
Congress
Woman kills famed Fort Worth gangster Nesbit in duplex
Lois Stripling, 31, a trim red haired widow, shot George Nesbit 52, a noted nitro and dynamite expert tied to four north Texas gangland slayings. Police held her without charge and said Nesbit faced rivals in a bloody struggle for underworld domination.
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Fort Worth
Tex
George
Jack) Nesbit
Texas
Lois Stripling
Nesbit
A. C. Howerton
Jack
Howerton
Herbert
the Cat) Noble
Grapevine
Nelson Harris
Harris
Noble
Gene Paul Norris
Oklahoma
Tracy Eggleston
Eggleston
Saginaw
Norris
Carswell Air Frce
Montana Weather Forecast Summary
Montana east expects partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers in the southwest on Thursday and a rise in temperatures. Highs 55 to 65 Thursday, 60 to 70 Friday, with lows around 30 to 40. Montana west shows partly cloudy north and showers south Thursday, then partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday with highs 60 to 65 and lows 35 to 45.
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Montana
Gerber sentenced to five years for embezzling school funds
Raymond A. Gerber pleaded guilty to grand larceny for embezzling an estimated 8000 to 9000 dollars from the Sidney public school system he headed for 25 years. Judge F S P Foss sentenced him to five years in Deer Lodge State Prison.
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Sidney
Raymond A. Gerber
F. S. P. Foss
Richland County
Gerber
Foss
Deer Lodge
Raymond Hildebrand
Glendive
Victor G. Koch
Richland County School Dist. No. 5
Koch
S. W. Childers
Childers
Montana Traffic Death Toll Reaches 70 for Year
Montana's traffic death toll rose to 70 as the State Highway Patrol added 74 year old Henry J. Schuler of Gladstone North Dakota to the 1957 list. Schuler died in Glendive hospital April 27 from injuries from March 30 when his car left Montana Highway 18 south of Circle. The previous year’s toll was 77.
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Helena
Montana
State Highway Patrol
Henry J. Schuler
Gladstone
N. D
Schuler
Glendive
Montana Highway 18
Circle
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