Stocks Plunge as Market Hits 1929-Style Decline
New York stocks saw their sharpest drop since 1929 as trading ran 69 minutes late. The Dow fell 34.9 to 576.93 with 1,212 of 1,375 issues down, and total listed values shrank from 387.8 to about 288 billion amid broad losses including American Telephone, Du Pont, and IBM.
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Havre Regents Probe NMC Split Over Budgets
The State Board of Regents opened a probe into the Northern Montana College split between the Vocational Education Department and the teacher training and general education division. A plan for separate budgets to end the factional dispute emerged as a likely policy statement. Governor Babcock and Attorney General Anderson led a tense session as professors faced hearings on demotions and nonrenewed contracts.
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Sales Tax Issue Dies Quietly As Board Meets
HAVRE Montana The State Board of Education moved to table a resolution proposed by Dr Gordon L Doering to place a public initiative on a Montana sales tax with revenue for education The May meeting followed an April confrontation between Doering and Attorney General Forrest H Anderson with Anderson prevailing and the measure dying for now
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Montana
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Anderson
Lavelle, Butte grocer Anthony Lavelle dies at 81
Anthony Lavelle 81 longtime Butte grocer of Lavelle Grocery at 6 E Second died Monday in a local hospital. Born in County Mayo Ireland he lived in Butte 60 years and married Mary Cannon in 1914. He worked at Montana Power Co until 1921 then opened a South Main shop later moved to its present address. Survived by wife two sons Eugene and John and daughter-in law. grandchildren. sisters preceded him in death. Rosary Thursday at Daly Shea Mortuary. solemn mass Friday at St Joseph Church. burial Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Marsha
Pamela Lavelle
Michael
Leslie
Dana
Debbie
Mark Lavelle
Augusta
Daly-Shea
St. Joseph Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Quake Lake Road Opens After Repair in Madison County
The Bureau of Public Roads and the Montana Highway Department announced the Quake Lake Road through Madison County is officially opened. Travel is limited due to road softening from recent rains and incomplete contractor work, with a steep temporary connector toward Ennis challenging for trailers and heavy units.
Kennedy 45th birthday quietly marked at Glen Ora estate
President Kennedy turns 45 amid health and policy battles. He plans a quiet Memorial Day weekend with family at Glen Ora Virginia, then return to Washington. He will gain control of about half of a roughly ten million dollar estate from the Kennedy trust, with prior holdings mostly in government bonds.
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Anaconda Graduation Set For Memorial Gym
Anaconda high school will graduate 139 students at 8 p m Tuesday in Memorial gym. The program features the band trumpet trio Sylvia McKinley piano senior girls ensemble and readings by Mary Joe Oreskovich and Robert Gutcheck. Clyde Eccleston school board chairman will present diplomas. Principal M F O Leary will announce awards and scholarships.
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Clyde Eccleston
Customary Union Procedure Sets Strike Vote for June 4
Craft unions allied with metal trades met at Carpenters Hall to hear that a strike vote is planned for June 4 as negotiations with Anaconda Co remain unsettled. George Blair said the move follows customary procedure and does not guarantee a work stoppage. Negotiations resume June 6 with Mine Mill and Smelter Workers locals, engineers, teamsters, and electrical workers, plus the United Steelworkers bargaining agent for Anaconda Smelter Workers.
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Butte Memorial Day Parade Line Set By Chairman
William Daley, chairman for Butte Memorial Day observance, announced the parade line of march. Units form at 9 a.m. on West Granite between Hamilton and Montana, facing west, with the procession starting at 9:30. Route goes West Granite, Washington, Park, Wyoming to the Veterans Monument. Memorial services occur at the monument and capstan of USS Maine in the courthouse lobby.
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Berlin Talks Possible This Week With Soviet Ambassador
Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans another Berlin briefing with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin later this week, according to informed sources.
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Mansfield Denies Retirement Rumor About Senate Career
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield rejected reports he will retire when his term ends January 3, 1965. He said no plans to retire or return to teaching, and questioned the source of the Billings Gazette story. Mansfield noted a shoulder ailment but said health has improved and he remains focused on serving Montana.
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Butte High Graduates Told To Keep Abreast of Times
Butte High School issued diplomas to 361 graduates in 1962 as Dr. Frank C. Abbott of Montana State University warned that population growth automation and atomic energy will reshape life. He cited an 80 million population rise in 20 years and noted housing employment and schools will be pressured.
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Barbara McLeod
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Laos Rebels Halt Northwest Laos Offensive After Capture
Pro Communist Pathet Lao rebels stopped a new attack in northwest Laos after seizing a Royal Army outpost nine miles from the Thai border. U S advisers reported from Houei Sai as King Savang Vathana set June 4 for a royal audience with Prince Souvanna Phouma to form a neutral coalition government. Maj. Gen. R H Tucker flew to Houei Sai to assess reports of renewed rebel activity in the area 200 miles northwest of Vientiane. President Kennedy had previously sent 5000 American troops to Thailand to defend against Communist threats.
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Wreck Is Fatal To State Woman
A Hill County fatal crash on U S Highway 87 killed Eva Nicola of Hays near Havre shortly before midnight Sunday. Her husband Donald Blaine Nicola, 44, survived with injuries and was hospitalized at Deaconess Hospital. The death raised Montana’s 1962 highway toll to 71, compared with 91 a year earlier.
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Weather outlook for Butte and Divide regions
Partly cloudy through Wednesday night with scattered showers or thundershowers in the Butte area. Highs 60 to 70, lows 35 to 45, with 62 expected today and 38 tonight. East of Divide sees similar conditions with warmer extreme east Tuesday. West of Divide remains mostly cloudy with afternoon showers and similar temperature ranges.
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