Statesmen at Dulles funeral attend rites abroad and at Arlington
Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery after services at Washington Cathedral. President Eisenhower and world leaders attended as tributes from many nations underscored a hoped thaw in Cold War tensions.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Arlington National Cemetery
Eisenhower
Conrad Adenauer
West Germany
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Atlantic
Pacific
Gromyko
Dulles
Washington Cathedral
Arlington
Montana Power Buys Vast Coal Deposits Near Colstrip
Montana Power Co announced a 30 year lease with Northern Pacific Railway to acquire about 3,300 acres of Colstrip coal lands and the town itself near Colstrip. The deal, pending federal approval, aims to secure low cost power for Montana into the future.
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Colstrip
Billings
Montana Power Co
Northern Pacific Railway
J. E. Corette
Montana
St. Paul
Robert S. Macfarlane
French Forces In Tunisia Sparks Diplomatic Tension
French troops reportedly drove a mile into Tunisia in pursuit of Algerian rebels, killing 32, prompting a revision to remove references to entering Tunisian territory and right of pursuit. Officials warned the move could provoke a crisis with Habib Bourguiba. A UN rebel spokesman warned such cross border pursuit risks broader war in North Africa.
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Andrew Borowiec
Algiers
Tunisia
Habib Bourguiba
U.N
New York
Algeria
North Africa
Parakeet Quenches Crunching Washer Rescue in Ephrata
In Ephrata Pennsylvania a parakeet named Happy escaped the washer after a lid left open. Mrs. Roy Steinmetz stopped the machine and performed artificial respiration on the bird for an hour. A stiff dose of bitters revived Happy and he recovered.
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Ephrata
Roy Steinmetz
Anne
Nine Highway Contracts Are Awarded
Montana Highway Commission awarded nine highway construction contracts totaling 2,220,850 bringing the yearly total to 8,779,723. The projects cover 71 miles of road and three bridges including final top pavement for the Fred L. Robinson Bridge over the Missouri near Roy Fergus County linking Malta and Lewistown. Firms include Kieley Construction Co. Butte Nilson Smith Construction Co. Great Falls and others with bids ranging from 605,418 to 762,810.
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Arlee-Ravalli
Ravalli-St. Ignatius
Ravalli West
St. Ignatius-Pablo
Kieley Construction Co
Butte
U.S. 93
Ravalli
Fergus and
Phillips
Montana
Fred L. Robinson
Bridge
Carded Graduation Talk Emphasizes Catholic Life Map
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond Hunthausen told 102 Boys Central graduates that their Catholic education provides a life map for a world of uncertainty. He spoke at Columbia Gardens pavilion as the largest class in Christian Brothers School history received diplomas.
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Raymond Hunthausen
Carroll College
Boys Central High School
Hunthausen
Columbia Gardens Pavilion
The
Christian Brothers School
C. A. O'Donnell
D. P. Meade
Missoula
Helena
Anthony Sutey
Antone Grosso
Sutey
Grosso
Monsignor Huntausen
Christian Brothers
Christ
Honors Presented Students of Mining College
Academic honors were given at Montana School of Mines during the second annual honors convocation. Scholarships and medals were announced by department heads, with $500 metallurgical and mining scholarships awarded to George A. Grandy, William R. Byrne, Kenneth H. Erickson, and a $600 Gardner Denver scholarship to Robert R. Utter.
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Montana School of Mines
Edwin G. Koch
Koch
American Smelting and Refining Co
Salt Lake City
George A. Grandy
Iron Street
Grandy
Arthur Grandy
Butte
Butte High School
William R. Bryne
Butte Central High School
American Society For Metals
Bryne
Ann Byrne
Minah St
Byrne
Charles W. Haynes
Kenneth H. Erickson
William A. Vine
Erickson
Grand Rapids
Robert R. Utter
Eureka
Mont
Gardner- Denver
Vine
Anaconda Company Shifts Mines to Daylight Time
The Anaconda Company announces a time change at its Butte mines and plants to daylight saving time. On Monday, June 1, 1959, operations switch from 6 a.m. standard time to 7 a.m. daylight saving time.
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Anaconda Company
Butte
Raul Castro Survives Plane Crash in Cuban Swamps
In Cuba Raul Castro and three companions survived a light plane crash during an aerial search mission. They wandered through desolate swamps for hours before rescue by navy helicopters, ending at a sugar mill in Matanzas province.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Raul
Zapata
Cuba
Hatiguanico
Matanzas
Fidel
Khrushchev Visits Albania as Peng Teh-huai Heads There
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Tirana for a 12 day stay accompanied by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. Tirana radio announced Red China defense minister Peng Teh-huai would visit for six days, signaling expanded Communist ties amid Berlin deadline tensions.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Albania
Red China
Khrushchev
Tirana
Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
Otto Grotewohl
Tirana Radio
Peng Teh-huai
Peng
Peiping
Berlin
Enver Hoxha
Communist Party
Helena bootlegging ring linked to youths and liquor theft
Helena police broke a juvenile bootlegging ring involving three 14 year old ringleaders and 18 teenage accomplices. Liquor valued at 195 dollars was stolen from the Montana Liquor warehouse, with cases of gin brandy and muscatel taken and partly recovered.
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Helena
Montana
Mines Graduation Tickets Available
The Montana School of Mines announces its commencement on Monday evening June 8 at 8 p.m. Speaker will be Clyde Weed, chairman of the board of The Anaconda Company. Admission by ticket only. obtain via the President’s office or by calling 9476 in Butte.
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Montana School of Mines
Clyde Weed
Anaconda Company
Butte
Yale Coach Invented Daily Dozen Exercises
Walter Camp, Yale's football coach, first devised and popularized twelve daily exercises to keep in good physical condition. The ad copy then pivots to encouraging readers to place want ads to turn unused items into cash by calling 5451 for an ad writer.
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Walter Camp
Yale
Butte High School Names Valedictorian And Salutatorian
Sally Riedel Sievers and William Frederick Saam lead Butte High School as valedictorian and salutatorian. Their near tie reflects their top scholastic records. Commencement takes place at the Civic Center at 8 o clock tonight.
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Butte High School
Sally Riedel Sievers
A. R. Sievers
W. Galena
William Frederick Saam
Thomas W. Saam
N. Emmet Ave
Sievers
Saam
Butte High
Civic Center
Butte High to graduate 389 tonight at Civic Center
Butte High School seniors will receive diplomas at 8 pm in the Civic Center. 195 boys and 194 girls comprise the class, with John E. Corette delivering the commencement address. The Butte High Band will perform Pomp and Circumstance and the recessional, with various school officials presenting diplomas and awards. A reception will follow the exercises.
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Butte High School
Civic Center
John E. Corette
Montana Power Co
Ray Sims
Luckhardt
Ole Aarvold
Ray Correia
Charles C. Davis
Board of
Newell Evans
Davis
Richard F. Vick
Lian
Bomarc Missile Maiden Flight at Cape Canaveral
The Air Force launched the Bomarc interceptor for its maiden flight at Cape Canaveral. The test aimed to study flight dynamics and the solid-fuel booster performance. An accompanying Snark missile, fired hours earlier, was redirected and landed in waters off the Cape with no explanation given.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Cape
FBI Identifies Men in Parker Lynching Case
FBI identifies men involved in the Mack Charles Parker lynching case in Poplarville Mississippi. The report to Mississippi Governor Coleman notes masked assailants abducted Parker from his jail cell before dawn on April 25 and his body was later found in the Pearl River. The Justice Department withdrew from the case, saying no federal crime was found. Coleman plans to present the FBI findings to the Pearl River County grand jury in November.
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Washington
FBI
Mississippi
J. P. Coleman
Mack Charles Parker
Justice Department
Coleman
Chicago Tribune
New Orleans
Wdsu-Tv
Poplarville
Miss
Parker
Pearl River
Bogalusa
Pearl River County
Tornado Wrecks Gillette Hangar and Planes
A tornado tore through outskirts of Gillette Wyoming demolishing an airport hangar and four planes. Farm buildings on the Bruce McKenzie ranch were destroyed with no injuries reported. The funnel cloud struck around noon as weather worsened across the region.
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Associated Press
Gillette
Wyo
Jim Fulkerson
Deepwater
Cadiz
Ohio
George Glenn McFadden
Boston
Pikeville
Caribou
Maine
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Wyoming
Bruce McKenzie
Eisenhower to push Geneva talks deadlock reset
President Eisenhower plans direct involvement to break the East West foreign ministers stalemate in Geneva. He will join Christian Herter Andrei Gromyko Selwyn Lloyd and Maurice Couve de Murville for a 10 30 a m White House session to steer the discussions.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
Eisenhower
U.S
Geneva
White House
Ference
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Selwyn Lloyd
Britain
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
John Foster Dulles
Berlin
Europe
Dulles
United States
West Berlin
Dour Gromyko
Soviet Berlin Deadline Passes Uneventfully as Allies Move
Khrushchev’s Berlin deadline expired with no change in control as American British convoys flowed into West Berlin and East German authorities kept hands off Allied lifelines. Khrushchev postponed the deadline amid Geneva talks and then departed for Albania, while West Berlin mourned John Foster Dulles’s funeral and watched Soviet demands.
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Seymour Topping
Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
John Foster Dulles
Washington
Geneva
Germany
Khrushchev
Albania
Dulles
U.S
East Berlin
Sif
Montana Weather Outlook for Thursday and Friday
Montana east region stays mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Some clearing and local frost possible Thursday night with highs 45 to 55 and lows 30 to 40. West area sees mostly showers and thunderstorms with highs 50 to 60 and similar frost risk at night.
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Montana
Two Young Men Hold Up Bank in Advance Missouri
Two young men described as a short fat man and a tall thin man used a Tommy gun and a pistol to rob the Advance bank at about 1:30 p.m. They escaped with about $20,000 after forcing five employees to the vault. A car linked to the crime was found in Cairo Illinois and a suspect held for FBI questioning.
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Advance
Missouri
Cairo
Ill
FBI
Claudine Lorch
Casey Holds Own in Battle to Survive Wound
Prayers and medical skill aid 24 year old Dan Casey as he fights for life after a .22 caliber gun discharge at his parents home. He underwent nearly four hours of surgery Tuesday night to repair damage to the liver and both intestines amid critical condition in St. James Hospital. His wife M Jorie arrived to be at his bedside.
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Dan Casey
St. James Hospital
Casey
Emmett Casey
Colorado
M. Jorie
Denver
Virginia
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