Catholic parochial schools report 299? students enrolled
Butte area Catholic schools including Boys Central and Girls Central welcomed 2,992 students for the 1967 68 term. Principal L J Mooney and Mary Palmer noted anticipated totals near 420 for Girls and Boys Central, while St Ann School led with 570 on opening day, a decline from last year.
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John McCoy
Helena
Helne Argent
Father McCoy
L. J. Mooney
Boys Central High
Mary Pal
Girls Central School
St. Ann
St. Patrick
Last-ditch effort to avert Ford UAW walkout gains pace
Detroit AP report says Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers recess negotiations late Tuesday with gloom rising over chances of a contract that would avert a work stoppage. Talks resume Wednesday at 10 am as 159,000 Ford workers in 25 states face potential idling.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
Ford
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Malcolm L. Denise
Records fall as Montana bakes with 98 in Great Falls
Heat waves push Montana temps 10-20 degrees above normal with 98 at Great Falls and readings of 101 at Havre and 99 in Helena the latter the latest September record. A Pacific front from eastern Washington to Montana is set to bring isolated thundershowers with limited precipitation next few days as five day forecasts call for continued above normal highs.
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Associated Press
Ued
Montana
Great Falls
Havre
Lewistown
Helena
Washington
Bureau
Continental Divide
Divide
Public school students return to class today in Butte
Butte's School Dist 1 reopens with seven classes for elementary, junior high, and high school. Charles Davis, city superintendent, estimates enrollment at 8350. Tuesday focused on teacher meetings and first grade orientation. New students and parents campus visits occurred in the afternoon. Rural district students in Melrose Ramsay Rocker and Divide also started classes.
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Butte
Herb Slodounik
Ae Maidable
Butte High School
Charles Davis
Silver Bow County
Melrose
Ramsay
Rocker
Divide
Five Die In State Holiday Traffic Toll Rises
Five people died in Montana over Labor Day weekend bringing the state highway toll to 173 for 1967, up from 192 last year. Victims included Mrs. Alice Crankleton 24 of Great Falls Betty Laforge James Holbrook 35 of Whitefish Joan Gagnon 31 of Calgary and Morris Ozubko of Edmonton. Police say Crankleton ran a stop sign at a junction in the Arthur area. Laforge’s car rolled on a county road southwest of Catron. Holbrook was northbound when his vehicle collided with a southbound Canadian car. the crash under investigation. the Canadian car’s frame separated from its body.
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Montana
John
Alice) D. Crankleton
Great Falls
Betty Laforge
James L. Holbrook
Whitefish
Joan M. Gagnon
Calgary
Alta
Morris Ozubko
Edmonton Bay
Crankleton
Arthur
Laforge
Catron
Holbrook
Whitefish Lake Golf Club
National traffic deaths dip from holiday record
AP reports Labor Day weekend traffic fatalities totaled 533 from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday, falling short of the 636 highway deaths set during the holiday period. The toll marks a near record for national road fatalities across the long weekend.
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Chicago
Pollution board pushes closure of Garrison phosphate plant
Montana officials urged the State Board of Health to shut down the Rocky Mountain Phosphate plant in Garrison at once and keep it closed until it meets federal cleanup standards. The Montana Air Pollution Control Advisory Council backed the move after a Deer Lodge conference blamed fluoride pollution and called for plant closure pending cleanup progress. If state efforts fail, federal action may follow. officials prefer state resolution to the federal path.
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Helena
Rocky Mountain
Garrison
Montana Air Pollution Control Advisory Council
State Board of Health
Deer Lodge
Board of Health
Montana
State weighs options to close phosphate plant
Report lation control director says exact method to close the plant is uncertain. Potential uses include the 1967 act emergency clause, injunctive relief, or other sections, but pollution program only began last July and research is still underway. Anderson cautions against relying on voluntary compliance, while Wesley D Ewart warns of public distrust if authorities fail to act.
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Wake
Anderson
Wesley D’ewart. Wilsall
Council
Clark Fork
D’ewart
U S aims at pure fusion weapons in frank AEC briefing
The United States backs development of pure fusion weapons that would function without a traditional warhead. An Atomic Energy Commission briefing with Defense Department input reveals a large, diverse stockpile of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, including antisubmarine rockets, torpedoes, and depth charges. The briefing shows U S leads the Soviet Union in overall nuclear capability, while noting China is organized.
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Washington
United States
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Associated Press
Defense Department
AEC
Soviet Union
Red China
Nuclear weapons stockpile and varieties discussed
A historical briefing describes a clean bomb program with potential launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile test vehicle later this year. It confirms a stockpile of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and yields ranging from sub kilotons to megatons, with atomic projectiles and various nuclear munitions including rockets and missiles.
Marines clash with North Vietnamese in northern South Vietnam
U S Marines hunted a large North Vietnamese force in the northern South Vietnam theater after a two day battle that ended Tuesday. U S Marine casualties were 54 killed and 104 wounded with 180 enemy soldiers killed. In other actions 102 more enemy troops were reported killed. Communist mortarmen shelled the provincial capital Tam Ky. Initial reports indicate an artillery and ground clash with multiple fatalities on both sides.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Leathernecks
Tam Ky
Weather and war updates from Butte Anaconda area to Haiphong
Partly cloudy weather through Thursday with scattered showers and a 30 percent rain chance. In the war note, a government spokesman reports no civilian casualties but homes burned, while U.S. raids near Haiphong claim to have damaged a 490 foot bridge and downed three planes, with one Phantom and two crew missing in the panhandle. U.S. command disputes the Hanoi claim of shot-down planes.
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Butte - Anaconda
U.S
Haiphong
Hanoi
Panhandle
Plane crash near Gander kills 34 on Ilyushin 18
A Soviet built Ilyushin 18 bound for Havana climbed 200 feet after take off from Gander Tuesday then plunged into a field, killing 34 of 62 aboard. The wreckage scorched a half mile of mud while 35 survivors, including Poles, Czechs and Cubans, were treated. Ninety emergency blood supplies were flown from Argentia and Halifax sent patients for kidney treatment. The eight crew members included a captain who died. the engineer and two stewards survived.
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Gander
Mid
Cuba
Mao Tse-tung
Sma
Halifax
U.S. Navy
Atlantic
Argentia
Bucovsky
Ilyushin
Havana
Prague
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Jordan
Butte High Bulldogs
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