Senate votes 77 to 19 for landmark voting rights bill
The Senate passes Johnson voting rights legislation 77 to 19 after five weeks of debate, routing Southern opposition via cloture. The bill would federalize Negro voter registration and voting in the South if literacy tests or similar barriers show discrimination, ending English language requirements for New York voters and boosting civil rights protections.
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UPI
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House
Senate
Judiciary Committee
John G. Tower
Texas
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Tower
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
New York
Legis
Johnson seeks laws banning billboards and junkyards nationwide
President Johnson asked Congress to pass four bills to force states to remove outdoor advertising within 1000 feet of roadways and to ban new auto junkyards near interstates. The plan ties federal highway funds to compliance, with penalties and potential federal cost sharing.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
States
White House
Only One Year Silver Bow Receives Welfare Grant
Montana welfare board approves a 180000 grant to Silver Bow County the sole aid for the current fiscal year ending June 31. Officials say no further grants are likely next year, as county mill levies total 16.5 as a maximum. This marks the first year since 1937 without a state grant if the pattern holds.
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Silver Bow
State Board of Public Welfare
Silver Bow County
State Department of Public Welfare
Cascade
Food prices climb but set to ease for potatoes
Government cost watchers say consumer food costs rose over the past year and will continue upward into the year, with potato prices expected to drop once this year's production hits retail. Farmers received $4.68 per hundredweight for potatoes in April, up from $2.44 in April 1964, while fruit and vegetable prices stay high due to poor yields acreage and weather.
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Washington
UPS
Agriculture Department
Department
California
Arizona
Montana School of Mines Convocation Announces Awards
The Montana School of Mines holds a convocation in the Library Museum Bidg this morning with 65th commencement set for June 6 at 3 30 p m. Dr E G Koch MSM president presides as scholarships academic and athletic awards and loan funds are named.
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Montana School of Mines
Butte College
Montana Tech
E. G. Koch
MSM
Parade of Silent Witnesses Marks Stormy HUAC Session
In Chicago witnesses refused to answer, invoking multiple amendments as federal marshals ejected 12 people for impeding the committee. Pickets, including Nazi-armbanded demonstrators, clashed with supporters amid rain as HUAC heard testimony on alleged un American activities. Lucius Armstrong recalled joining the Communist party in 1931 and rejoining in 1963 at the FBI’s request.
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House Committee On Un-American Activities
7Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
North Lake Shore Drive
HUAC
House UN- American Activities Committee
Joseph Tierney
U.S
Committee of Congress
Lucius Armstrong
Communist Party
FBI
Beirut man travels Miles to attend Montana School of Mines graduation
Michael Zacca 62 of Beirut Lebanon travels across continents to attend his son Raif Zacca s Montana School of Mines graduation in Butte June 6. He tours the Berkeley Pit Butte Hill and the Anaconda smelter observing Lebanon s iron industry oil wine and textile parallels.
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Frank Quinn
Standard-Post
Mediterranean Sea
Butte
Montana School of Mines
Michael Zacca
Beirut
Lebanon
Raif
T. J. Cutter
S. Gaylord, Zacca
Rocky Mountain
Lebanon Mountains
Labib Zacca
Beirut Iron and Steel Co
Zacca
Berkeley Pit
Butte Hill
Anaconda
Montana School
Mines
United States
Jim Qoset
Soviet Install New SAM Site Near Hanoi Reported
Secretary of State Rusk said a second surface-to-air missile site may exist near Hanoi. Officials noted missile associated equipment at one site and possible others in the Hanoi region, while denying any missiles ready to fire. He warned Moscow and Beijing against widening the Vietnam conflict.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Moscow
Peking
Southeast Asia
Rusk
Hanoi
Viet Nam
State Department
Boys Central Graduates Told What They Are Most Vital
The Rev. Sarsfield O Sullivan urged 93 Boys Central High School graduates to view the world as the city man sees it and to seek steady character amid change. He noted the 40th anniversary of Irish Christian Brothers arrival in Butte as part of the ceremony with prayers and diplomas.
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Sarsfield O Sullivan
Butte
Boys Central High School
Father O-Sullivan
St William Parish
Thompson Falls
Christian Brothers School
Fox Theater
E. D. O-Sullivan
Whitehall
Sean O-Sullivan
Wyoming
Irish Christian Brothers
F. L. Frick
Raymond G. Hunthausen
Helena
Weather Summary for Butte Anaconda and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy today through Friday with afternoon showers. High around 60, low near 33. East of Divide expect partly cloudy and warmer with some showers Thursday into Friday, highs 55 to 65 and lows 32 to 42. West of Divide sees partly cloudy weather with Thursday highs 60 to 70 and lows 35 to 45.
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Butte
Divide
H City
Anaconda
Billings
Belgrade
Tornadoes Batter Chicago Area
Tornadoes and high winds battered the Chicago area with extensive property damage and several injuries. At O'Hare winds shattered windows. Midway lost one plane and damaged two others. Affects included Addison Lakeside Grill, Rosemont Our Lady of Hope School and Sauk Village bus damage.
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Cheago
O'Hare International
Midway Airport
Lakeside Grill
Addison
Our Lady of Hope
Rosemont
Chicago Heights
Sauk Village
O'Hare
Fulton
Mississippi River
F. H. Day Named Anaconda Reduction Plant Manager
Frank H. Day promoted from general superintendent to manager of the Anaconda Reduction Department. Renouard announced the move, noting Day’s long career with Anaconda since 1928 and his prior posts at Cananea and Daly Bark. Day is active in multiple engineering groups and local chambers. He and his wife Helen Howe Day live in Anaconda with three children.
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Frank H. Day
Anaconda Reduction Department
Edward I. Renouard
Anaconda Co
Day
W. A. Emanuel
Philadelphia
East Orange
N.J
California
Covina
Stanford University
Greene Cananea Copper Co
Cananea
Sonora
Mexico
Anaconda
Cananea Smelting
The
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
American Zinc Institute
Northwest Mining Associa
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