Snow Delivers Heavy Halloween Storm To Butte
Butte faced its first snow storm of the season with four inches by 5 p.m and nine inches by 9 p.m as Halloween trick or treaters dwindled due to slick roads and freezing temps. FAA reported no afternoon flights at the city airport and several mountain passes required chains as visibility dropped. Public Works prepared with sand-salt and plowing crews to clear streets by morning.
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Butte
Mother Nature
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Montana Highway Department
Elk Park
Public Works
Dot Peoples
Mideast peace talks speed up as Kissinger reports progress
The United States presses Israeli Arab talks with Kissinger signaling progress. President Nixon plans White House talks with Egypt's Fahmy as Golda Meir heads to Washington. Sadat demands Israeli pullback before any peace steps and rejects direct talks, while UN aided resupply reaches the Suez frontline.
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Washington
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Nixon
White House
Egypt
Ismail Fahmy
Golda Meir
Atlantic
Tel Aviv
Moshe Dayan
Sadat
Kissinger
Fahmy
Cairo
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Military alert ends as 350000 return to duties
The Pentagon ended its worldwide alert on Wednesday as about 350,000 service members returned to normal duties. Most of the 2.2 million U.S. forces were placed on heightened readiness last week amid fears of Soviet troop movements to Egypt.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Soviet Union
Egypt
Defense Department
Jerry W. Friedheim
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Mediterranean Sea
Middle East
Friedheim
Russia
Europe
Jaworski Named New Watergate Special Prosecutor
Report says the Nixon administration selected Leon Jaworski of Houston Texas as Watergate special prosecutor and expected to announce Jaworski and Sen. William Saxbe as attorney general on Thursday. Jaworski is a Democrat tied to Texas political figures and once headed the American Bar Association.
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Washington
Nixon
Leon Jaworski
Houston
Tex
American Bar Association
Jaworski
William B. Saxbe
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
John Connally
White House tapes missing may alter Watergate record
White House lawyers disclosed two recordings do not exist. They said Mitchell spoke to Nixon on June 20 1972 on a telephone without a recorder and a Dean April 15 1973 meeting was not recorded due to a malfunction. The disclosure came as the court pressed for nine tapes in the Watergate case.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Atty
John N. Mitchell
John W. Dean III
Dean
Mitchell
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
Gerald L. Warren
Warren
Watergate tapes missing raise mixed reaction in Washington
Reaction to the White House claim that two key Watergate tapes are missing varied from skepticism to caution. Sen. Sam J. Ervin said he was assured on Oct 19 that all nine tapes were complete. Republican responses stressed the burden of proof shifts to the White House.
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Washington
White House
Capitol Hill
Sam J. Ervin
Senate
Hamlet seeks Great Pumpkin thief after Halloween theft
Hamlet Police investigate the theft of a 96 pound pumpkin from the front yard of Charles Brown. The incident occurred Tuesday night in Rockingham County as officers pursue the suspect behind the Great Pumpkin caper.
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Rockingham
N.C
Hamlet
Charles Brown
Ford probe raises questions before Ford confirmation hearings
Senate Rules Committee Chairman Howard Cannon said the FBI review of Vice President-designate Gerald Ford reveals items that will raise questions. He cautioned he has found nothing in the files likely to block Ford’s Senate approval as Spiro Agnew's successor. Cannon and ranking Republican Marlow Cook spoke after a closed session. Cannon noted questions include campaign fund laundering and other issues. he declined to judge Ford’s potential embarrassment.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
FBI
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Spiro T. Agnew
Howard W. Cannon
Dev
Marlow Cook
R-ey
Cannon
Hilton charged with Maney murder in Montana case
Thomas Craig Hilton 24 of Spokane was arraigned in Deer Lodge County on first degree murder and robbery related counts for Elwood P. Maney's Oct 12 shotgun killing. The information lists 32 witnesses, notes Hilton's Burns Oregon arrest with Maney's car, and the search leading to the body near Warm Springs Road.
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Thomas Craig Hilton
Deer Lodge
Elwood P. Maney
Robert Boyd
Joseph C. Connors
Anaconda
Jack M. Scanlon
Hilton
Edward Yelsa
Manacles
Maney
Montana
Oregon
FBI
Burns
Ore
Peared
East Commercial
Highway 48
Warm Springs
Rex Lewis
Page
Postage hike will cost Montana thousands in state mailings
Montana officials warn a two cent postal rise next January will push annual costs higher for state government. Auditing chief E V Sonny Omholt cites about ten thousand dollars yearly for the rate increase plus fifteen thousand for the 1975 biennium. Departments across the state anticipate cuts or budget requests to cover mailings of tax forms, notices, and salaries.
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Helena
Montana
Associated Press
Omholt
U.S. Postal Service
Department of Revenue
Revenue Department
Secretary of State
Butte Weather Outlook Snow Today Across Area
Snow is expected in Butte today with clearing by tonight and by Friday. The temperature outlook shows highs near 30 degrees and lows around 15 degrees with a weather roundup on page 14.
Forced sterilization practices questioned by health group
The Health Research Group after studying hospitals accuses doctors of cavalierly subjecting poor and black women to sterilization without informed consent. The report cites cases in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago and more, including permits signed minutes before cesareans, often when labor was underway and without prior interest by the women.
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Washington
Health Research Group
Ralph Nader
Public Citizen, Inc
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Los Angeles
Baltimore
Boston
New Orleans
Nashville
Chicago
Louisville
Baltimore City Hospital
Anaconda opens Continental East pit adds ore to MT output
The Continental East open pit mine in the Columbia Gardens area will ship ore starting Monday at about 8,000 tons daily, rising to 14,000 tons by mid November. The project expands Anaconda Copper's Montana capacity, boosting activity on the Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railway with a 100 car daily train addition.
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Anaconda Co
Columbia Gardens
Anaconda
Frank Monninger
Butte
Montana
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway
Emil Kramlick
Anaconda Reduction Department
Leo Kelly
BA &P
State Land Board
Menninger
Berkeley Pit
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Israel
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U.N
Suez
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Sonny” Omholt
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